Equivalent Exchange--Episode 1: Shattered Love

[Dire Lemming]

Except in the show it doesn't hurt!

"Rose, are you alright?" Al says as he struggles to his feet and starts to persue the woman. He stops short before he reaches the strange flower that she so deliberately placed between them before she fled. Given a moment to stop and think it only now dawns on him just how many strange things had happened in the last minute, he turns back to look at Rose. "Rose? Did you just transmute... without a circle?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: That's because in the show, he's in a suit of armour, so it hurts other people instead I'm thinking of the times Al saved Kimblee and Sloth, for instance Anyways, I wouldn't worry about it--two injuries aren't really a big deal (they each just give -1 to future Toughness saves until they heal), and Hero Points are pretty sweet (you can use them to do a special transmutation not on your list, to take two standard actions, to reroll a bad roll and get at least 11 no matter what, and more ) )

 

[unleashed]

“Yes, I’m fine Al, after all she didn’t even seem to notice me. Though you’re looking a little worse for wear,” Rose says, concern in her eyes as she looks at Al’s new wounds and watches him start to go after the woman. “I... did I? I guess, I did!” Rose says, smiling as she looks down at her hands in wonder, “I was just so frightened, I prayed for you, and my prayers were answered with Alchemy!"

 

[Dire Lemming]

Al can't help showing his disbelief on his face. "But...that doesn't make any sense..." Al stares at Rose for a good long moment before suddenly shaking it off; "We should follow her," he says, looking back down the hall, his eyes stopping for a moment on the strange flower "it sounded like she knows something about brother, and... it seemed like she was an alchemist... or something."

Al doesn't want to get too close to the flower so he'll try to make out anything about it from where he is (not much hope for that though) and then transmute a ten foot pole out of the surrounding area and try poking it, and then pushing it.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Al looks at the flower suspiciously and transmutes a ten-foot pole. Just then, before he pokes at it, the flower surges in growth from a tiny blossom to a giant monstrous thing with a huge gaping maw, and it snaps at Al. He twists away and easily avoids the attack, bringing the pole to bear like a bo staff and blocking the brunt of it as he moves to the side. The flower seems mindlessly oblivious of its failure.*

(OOC: Al and Rose's turns)

 

[Dire Lemming]

Al, by this time quite tired of being shocked finds himself begining to wonder just how much stranger this night can get. "Look out!" he yells as he dodges away from the creature's grasp. Realizing that neither his small blade or his pole will have much effect on a giant carnivorous plant...thing he suddenly remembers the light he'd seen earlier and looks around for it's source(hopefully something flameable).

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: It's a lantern on a nearby table)

 

[Dire Lemming]

Alright, can Al use it as an alchemical flamethrower?

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Absolutely--that's going to be a Full Round transmute though, so it'll finish just before his next action if Rose can keep Al from being interrupted. He could also use Extra Effort or a Hero Point to get an instant Flamethrower just this once, Roy Mustang style)

 

[Dire Lemming]

(OOC: Huh, how does extra effort work again?)