Equivalent Exchange--Episode 1: Shattered Love

[unleashed]

“Yes, I’m fine Al... the question is, are you alright?” Rose asks, standing and moving to look at Al’s arm. “You know, that woman sounded like she knew you, Al... from before. I wonder what you and Ed could have done, to cause such an angry response.”

 

[Rystil Arden]

*There is no response from the other side.*

*Rose hurries over to Al and sees that his arm is bleeding from a cut, but he should be fine with a quick bandage.*

*Also, since there is no response, Al transmutes the wall down to see if the woman has been injured.*

*She seems to have made it out alright, but numerous viny thorny tendrils are extending from her arms now and spreading against where the wall used to be as if she had been readying to burrow through and knock it down.*

"Die Edward Elric!--Murderer!" she cries, turning the tendrils against Al as they reach forward and slam into him, coiling around him and lifting him up into the ai, cutting him with the thorns as they do.

(OOC: Al takes another Injury, two in total now. Also, he is grappled and lifted up

Al and Rose's turns. Al will need to make an Escape Artist or Grapple check to get out before he can do any Alchemy, unless Rose does something first to help with that)

 

[Dire Lemming]

Er, how much of this can he take anyway?
To his horror, Al suddenly finds the life being squeezed (and poked) out of him by this mad woman's strange alchemy... well what else could it be? As he struggles to escape he yells; "Th-That's not true! My- *guh*- My brother is not a murderer! Stop this!"

If he cannot escape and the woman does not stop he will try to transmute his metal bracer into a blade and cut himself free from the strange plantlike "arm".

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Infinitely many until he fails one of these Toughness saves by too much Going to need to make a Grapple or Escape Artist check if he wants to break free enough to slap)

 

[Dire Lemming]

(OOC: Well yeah, uh, do you want me to do it myself?)

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Oh, I'll do it--just making sure you know )

*Alphonse somehow manages to wriggle free just enough to transmute the metal bracer into a blade, though he can't cut the vines just yet.*

"Brother? Then you're the armour? I was so sure..." the woman says, surprised.

(OOC: Rose goes next)

 

[unleashed]

“Put Al down, you monster!” Rose cries in panic as Al is lifted from the floor. Bringing her hands together quickly, as if in supplication for prayer, she then slaps a hand on the floor once again. This time though, instead of a wall, several fragments of the floor fly at the tendrils between Al and the woman, in an attempt to sever them.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*The sharp floor-piece spikes cut through the viny tendrils, leaving the vines around Al separate from the woman herself and probably easier to break now. Her arms twitch and knit back into normal human-looking arms with hands at the end.*

"Not Edward, are you? Then stay away and leave me be!" the woman exhorts, clapping her hands and slapping one of the flowers on the ground between them and then backing away into the hallway from whence she came.

 

[Dire Lemming]

Uh... did Rose just trasmute without a circle?

Al drops to the ground and starts trying to cut away the vines again. But when he notices the woman start to leave he calls out to her; "Wait! Who are you? What do you know about my brother?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Al drops to the floor and easily slices away the remaining vines, breaking free. The woman does not respond to his calls.*

(OOC: Yup, that she did--looks like her prayers were answered

DL, give yourself a Hero Point for an excellent portrayal of Al's naivete leading him into the face of danger (When you put down the wall to check to see if she was hurt, I was thinking "Wow, that's going to hurt--but that's exactly like what Al does in the show"

unleashed, you get a Hero Point as well for overall portrayal of Rose's faith and determination throughout and then particularly here.)