Heart of Artifice: Part I--Engineered Enigma

[Patlin]

(OOC: A life ring? You mean like that floating ring thing you toss to someone drowning in the water?)

ooc: I understand they look much the same, but I'm refering to the safety devices kept around on Eberron airships in case of a crash -- basically a one use feather fall item, I believe, that effects multiple targets.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: You can't make a life ring, but you can certainly make a one use feather fall item that effects multiple targets--it's mad science, you can make whatever you want as long as it isn't clearly divine However, there is no guarantee that there actually is anything down there if you jump, other than an infinite freefall )

 

[Patlin]

Anvuss will make a one use feather fall item. He'll reclaim his gear, pick up Kharas, run to the edge, and jump off. He won't trigger the feather fall item until he sees ground coming up from beneath him.

If it's a truly infinite freefall, that ought to give him time to figure something else out... while it's no guarantee, Anvuss figures that it's more likely that this plane bears at least a passing resemblance to the physical laws he's accustomed to than it is that his attackers have some understanding of justice or mercy. Capture is to be avoided unless the alternative is certain death.

It occurs to him that it might be safer to try and retreat back through the gate, but he acts decisively. (Hopefully, this won't turn out to be decisively hurling himself and Kharas to their doom!)

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Well there's good news and bad news. I'll just say that one of the newses is that doing this is likely to result in an identical final result to getting captured here (though that's partially due to my devious/nice GM nature, and it isn't a guarantee )

By the way, you have to describe what your device looks like--with Thelanium, if it doesn't look cool enough, it might not work--to save time, I'll give you this one for free: It's a disk-shaped object with three rings on the bottom that emit magical anti-gravity fields on command, causing all on the disk to float down gently until the device sputters, runs out of power, and explodes

EDIT: Actually, you can think of something else if you want because I forgot--I don't think Kharas told you what to do with the Thelanium. What is Anvuss going to do to activate it?)

 

[Patlin]

No, Anvuss didn't get a briefing as far as I recall. How about a small transparent sphere with air elemental symbology etched into it, which expands around the protected parties and causes the air around the sphere to adhere in a surface tension like effect, creating a vast cloudy parachute?

If Anvuss doesn't think the thelanium is responding, he'll stop and study it further before jumping.

He'll try not to use it until close enough to the ground to be effective.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: That works too. But what is he going to do with it to make it work? Methinks he may come across the same problem as he did in not getting the gate to open )

 

[Patlin]

(OOC: That works too. But what is he going to do with it to make it work? Methinks he may come across the same problem as he did in not getting the gate to open )

ooc: Oh no, I don't think Anvuss will have any touble with wanting to stop falling. His long term goals may be too abstract to open the gate, but that's pretty... down to earth?

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: No, I don't mean activating the eventual end result, I mean the Thelanium itself. Is he going to hammer on it with his Artificer's Tools, for instance?)

 

[Patlin]

(OOC: No, I don't mean activating the eventual end result, I mean the Thelanium itself. Is he going to hammer on it with his Artificer's Tools, for instance?)

He'll start by concentrating upon the thelanium, willing it to take on the shape and function he has mentally designed. I think Anvuss saw Kharas make his little 'calm emotion' trinket, if that helps.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: It's worth noting that the thelanium doesn't just warp--Anvuss saw Kharas moving at manic speed with tools and materials to make the device. If I didn't describe it well, it was my fault that it wasn't clear--I was mostly trying to progress the combat and I forgot that Anvuss had never seen a Spark at work before. And also, he doesn't have the advantage Kharas did, as Kharas ingested activated Thelanium. As for the visual image of the Spark at work, you read GG, so you can probably picture it from there.

So Anvuss is going to concentrate on the Thelanium and will it methodically towards the shape and function he designed?)

*When Anvuss holds the Thelanium and concentrates on it, he feels something far off, just out of his reach.*