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[LPF] Bats in the Belfry
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Guess that's truly not Izzik's job then.sunshadow21
Explorer
"I can't heal, but I can guard; I don't plan on going far, just far enough to serve as a blockade if needed." Ausk will go back up the the height he was when the fray began and prep his crossbow once more, ready to attack any threat.
Meanwhile...elsewhere...
Maia was a candle in the vast empty. A tiny shout of light against the infinite silence and dark. But even here, she was not alone. The Song hummed its faint threnodies, though she was no longer among the choirs. They echoed to the world she found herself on, and its strains reverberated even in the corners of her mind that her awareness retreated to as her body's senses failed her.
And in the Song was a voice. A voice she knew, because it had once been her own.
what has happened?
Feeling abashed, she answered it, a big bat bit me badly in the belfry. She hesitated, then asked, am i dead so soon?
not yet, but your body has been damaged. human flesh is frail. you need to be more careful
Maia hung her head. i am sorry. i didn't know bats were so dangerous. everyone seemed confident, so...
i understand. i knew there would be risks. even so, do try to reduce those risks when you can without detracting from the experiences.
i will.
do you still have any of the heavy metals that were sent with you?
Maia's light brightened, happy to at last provide what she assumed would be a good answer. i do! i haven't traded it all yet. in fact...
The other presence, inexpressibly huge despite the quiet of its voice, calmly cut her off. i will need to burn some of it. it was created with my light, and can be turned back if need be. it is the only way i can help right now. remember the gifts you have been given though. i gave you the Fire so that you could act on your own.
The pinspeck of light that was Maia bobbed in acquiescence. i will remember.
good. now...AWAKEN...
White light flooded the darkness, and the Song became a symphony of pain as Maia's mind exploded back upwards through the deep layers, into the shallows of consciousness where nerve endings could again be felt.
In the Belfry...
As the last bat fell to the wrath of the adventurers their eyes fell as one to the only casualty of the battle. The strange girl who had tried gallantly to shoot her crossbow, but in the end was laid low by a single bite. She seemed out of place on the field of battle. No armor. No spells. Barely able to hold a weapon. And with an innocence that was all too fragile. Like she herself.
Although her bleeding had been staunched, her wounds were still terrible...far beyond what anyone in the group could heal themselves. She needed a priest, a temple...she needed it yesterday.
As if as a final insult, the flap of her belt pouch chose that moment to unfurl, and gold coins spilled out onto the wooden planks of the stairs. They were strange coins...the startling yellow of pure gold, formed into perfect circular shapes with no embossing or minting. Just blank discs of gold, each one precisely the same shape and thickness as the others.
Before the astonished eyes of the onlookers, a handful of those coins rise into the air over Maia's unconscious body and seem to catch fire with an unearthly white blaze. In seconds the coins are consumed, leaving only a sheet of white flame hovering over Maia and spreading out over her. She becomes a thing of flame and light, human-shaped but otherwise elemental in nature.
Abruptly Maia sits up and the cocoon of white fire puffs away into nonexistence. Her eyes are wide and her breathing fast, as if awakening from a frightening dream. The bat bite on her shoulder is looking much better...at least from what can be told, since her clothing has been repaired.
It takes Maia a moment to realize where she is and what's been going on. Then she squeaks in alarm and scrambles to her feet.
"The bat! It's...it's..." She looks up, then around, and spies the large dead furry bodies below on the tower floor and draped over the stairs. "You got them."
Abruptly she bows at the waist and cries, "I'm sorry!"
Maia was a candle in the vast empty. A tiny shout of light against the infinite silence and dark. But even here, she was not alone. The Song hummed its faint threnodies, though she was no longer among the choirs. They echoed to the world she found herself on, and its strains reverberated even in the corners of her mind that her awareness retreated to as her body's senses failed her.
And in the Song was a voice. A voice she knew, because it had once been her own.
what has happened?
Feeling abashed, she answered it, a big bat bit me badly in the belfry. She hesitated, then asked, am i dead so soon?
not yet, but your body has been damaged. human flesh is frail. you need to be more careful
Maia hung her head. i am sorry. i didn't know bats were so dangerous. everyone seemed confident, so...
i understand. i knew there would be risks. even so, do try to reduce those risks when you can without detracting from the experiences.
i will.
do you still have any of the heavy metals that were sent with you?
Maia's light brightened, happy to at last provide what she assumed would be a good answer. i do! i haven't traded it all yet. in fact...
The other presence, inexpressibly huge despite the quiet of its voice, calmly cut her off. i will need to burn some of it. it was created with my light, and can be turned back if need be. it is the only way i can help right now. remember the gifts you have been given though. i gave you the Fire so that you could act on your own.
The pinspeck of light that was Maia bobbed in acquiescence. i will remember.
good. now...AWAKEN...
White light flooded the darkness, and the Song became a symphony of pain as Maia's mind exploded back upwards through the deep layers, into the shallows of consciousness where nerve endings could again be felt.
In the Belfry...
As the last bat fell to the wrath of the adventurers their eyes fell as one to the only casualty of the battle. The strange girl who had tried gallantly to shoot her crossbow, but in the end was laid low by a single bite. She seemed out of place on the field of battle. No armor. No spells. Barely able to hold a weapon. And with an innocence that was all too fragile. Like she herself.
Although her bleeding had been staunched, her wounds were still terrible...far beyond what anyone in the group could heal themselves. She needed a priest, a temple...she needed it yesterday.
As if as a final insult, the flap of her belt pouch chose that moment to unfurl, and gold coins spilled out onto the wooden planks of the stairs. They were strange coins...the startling yellow of pure gold, formed into perfect circular shapes with no embossing or minting. Just blank discs of gold, each one precisely the same shape and thickness as the others.
Before the astonished eyes of the onlookers, a handful of those coins rise into the air over Maia's unconscious body and seem to catch fire with an unearthly white blaze. In seconds the coins are consumed, leaving only a sheet of white flame hovering over Maia and spreading out over her. She becomes a thing of flame and light, human-shaped but otherwise elemental in nature.
Abruptly Maia sits up and the cocoon of white fire puffs away into nonexistence. Her eyes are wide and her breathing fast, as if awakening from a frightening dream. The bat bite on her shoulder is looking much better...at least from what can be told, since her clothing has been repaired.
It takes Maia a moment to realize where she is and what's been going on. Then she squeaks in alarm and scrambles to her feet.
"The bat! It's...it's..." She looks up, then around, and spies the large dead furry bodies below on the tower floor and draped over the stairs. "You got them."
Abruptly she bows at the waist and cries, "I'm sorry!"
sunshadow21
Explorer
"Don't feel too badly; most would have flat out died from that bite, so you are already a step ahead of the majority. Injury, even near fatal injury, is just part of battle. I can still recall the time I almost died, and was seemingly pulled back by strange voices; those voices are the only reason I am here today, though I am still baffled at what they want with a fighter who couldn't even defend himself properly."
HolyMan
Thy wounds are healed!
[sblock=Experience]
Tiny Bats = 50 XP each x4 = 200 XP
Dire Bats = 600 XP each x2 = 1,200 XP
Total = CR 4.5
= 1,400 XP
Divided by 5 players = 280 XP each [/sblock]
[sblock=OOC] Everyone please RP a little and make some perception checks for the area above you thanks.[/sblock]
[sblock=Shayuri]
Purchases during adventure:
Cure light wounds CL3 = 30gp
Mending CL3 = 15gp
Total spent = 45gp
You may subtract this from your current gp please make a note of it in your above post and on your adventure tracking block on your sheet on the wiki (maybe a link to the above post for further character development). Great post btw I wish I could XP you
[/sblock]
Tiny Bats = 50 XP each x4 = 200 XP
Dire Bats = 600 XP each x2 = 1,200 XP
Total = CR 4.5
= 1,400 XPDivided by 5 players = 280 XP each [/sblock]
[sblock=OOC] Everyone please RP a little and make some perception checks for the area above you thanks.[/sblock]
[sblock=Shayuri]
Purchases during adventure:
Cure light wounds CL3 = 30gp
Mending CL3 = 15gp
Total spent = 45gp
You may subtract this from your current gp please make a note of it in your above post and on your adventure tracking block on your sheet on the wiki (maybe a link to the above post for further character development). Great post btw I wish I could XP you
[/sblock]
Aldern Foxglove
First Post
"Hey, it goes with the territory for us heroic types being maimed by giant flying rodents, you have to shrug it off. I can't count the number of giant winged horrors that have tried to take a bite out of me. Well I can, but I don't because you know who cares? I am alive." Izzik says cheerfully, "Plus you don't get to see a girl turn into a sparkly bonfire everyday."
He glances up through the trapdoor, "Right I am going to send an eagle up there, if nothing else it ought to distract any nasties while we climb. Everyone ready to roll?"
He glances up through the trapdoor, "Right I am going to send an eagle up there, if nothing else it ought to distract any nasties while we climb. Everyone ready to roll?"
Maia regards Izzik wide-eyed and looks down at her feet, then back up.
"I...will walk. And I'm sorry about the...the 'sparkly bonfire.' None of this has gone according to my plan."
Her face grew anxious suddenly. "You won't tell them, will you?" She quickly looked around, including everyone in her nervous confidence. "Any of you?"
"I...will walk. And I'm sorry about the...the 'sparkly bonfire.' None of this has gone according to my plan."
Her face grew anxious suddenly. "You won't tell them, will you?" She quickly looked around, including everyone in her nervous confidence. "Any of you?"
Syldar looks confused by Maia's recent statements. "If you don't want us to, we won't tell them. But I'm not certain who 'they' are."
As she waits for Maia's answer, she gestures with her hand and the lights fly to the top of the tower.
[sblock="Dancing Lights"]I'm not sure how many rounds are left on the duration. It's probably running low, in which case she'll recast before the party starts to investigate. It'd be annoying to have the lights go out in the middle of something important.[/sblock]
As she waits for Maia's answer, she gestures with her hand and the lights fly to the top of the tower.
[sblock="Dancing Lights"]I'm not sure how many rounds are left on the duration. It's probably running low, in which case she'll recast before the party starts to investigate. It'd be annoying to have the lights go out in the middle of something important.[/sblock]
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"The gods," Maia clarifies. "They'd be upset with me if they knew I was here, and that I'd brought some of the *Ignis Divinis with me. They're very...careful...about mortalkind using it. But I'll be careful, and it's really only a tiny speck of it compared to how much I'm meant to guard..."
She trails off, seeing the faces of the others.
"You...have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?"
She trails off, seeing the faces of the others.
"You...have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?"
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sunshadow21
Explorer
"I understand far more than I care to, little one. Be very careful with your gift, as there are many in this world who would seek to capture and abuse it. Still, sometimes to effectively guard something, one must understand who they are guarding it from and what the implications of failure truly are, so your presence here is as potentially helpful as it is is potentially harmful. Take strength in that, and you should do fine." Ausk ponders his own destiny as he shares his hard earned wisdom in hopes that Maia would not have to learn the hard way as well, with almost a sad look on his face. "As for not going to plan, welcome to reality; very few things go as planned; my owners planned to kill me, yet I am still here, I had planned to go the Dunn Wright Inn, but clearly that plan also did not see fruition."
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