Metropolis - The Weight of the World (and Found Wanting)

[GlassEye]

Jasmine looked at Ymris, "So, mom, who is this Jovik? It looks like something is taking us somewhere."

She examines the strange apparation, how far off is it? How large does it look?

Watching the approaching black line, Ymris answers somewhat distractedly. "Jovik is the god of death. He escorted me to the afterlife." She falls silent as she gazes toward the black line. As an experiment she tries to slow her advance towards it by willing herself to slow. If that doesn't work she'll see if walking away from it has any effect or if she is still being drawn towards it.

 

[Phoenix]

The wound burned, but Alexi shrugged it off with the ferocity of combat. Taking another swing of his sword he invokes the Power of Metropolis to bring destruction to this vile creature.

Phoenix: [sblock] Smite attempt [/sblock]

[sblock=Combat Round 2]Alexi - 23/42hp
Dragon - 48/48hp
Void Demon - 12pts/12pts (Whale) 12pts (Alexi) 9pts/9pts(Boar)
Whale - 33/67hp
Boar - 35/35hp
Bless active.
Dragon has Divine Favour active.

Alexi smite roll (Void Demon AC hidden) +22 - Hit
Alexi damage roll - 11pts
Dragon casts divine power.
Void Demon attack roll (Alexi AC 22) +19 - Miss
Void Demon attack roll (Whale AC 21) +23 - Hit
Void Demon damage roll - 11pts
Void Demon attack roll (Alexi AC 22) +22 – Hit
Void Demon damage roll – 9pts
Void Demon attack roll (Whale AC 21) +25 – Hit
Void Demon damage roll – 10pts
Whale attack roll (Power Attack: 5 - Void Demon AC hidden) +17 – Hit
Whale damage roll - 13pts
Whale cleave roll (Power Attack: 5 - Void Demon AC hidden) +19 – Hit
Whale damage roll - 14pts
Boar arcane failure check (Target 35%) +42% - Success
Void Demon reflex save (DC 15) +17 - Success
Boar damage roll – 9pts fire[/sblock]

With the power of the divine surging through him, Alexi brought his sword down heavily onto the tentacle that assaulted him. Glorious divine fire sprung to life on his blade as it severed the thing, sending the severed mouth rolling into the darkness and spraying black bile across his greaves.

The tentacles seemed to react to this, pulling back from Boar and Dragon to assault Alexi and Whale, snapping at both of the front line knights, bashing at their armour and biting at their visored faces. There was more pain, but now Alexi could barely feel it, for if he failed he may feel nothing again.

There was a burst of fire as Boar unleashed a ball of flame into the writhing mass of darkness, causing it to squirm and shriek. In the brief moment of light Alexi saw Whale hook a tentacle with the point of his hammer and tear it free, then swiftly followed up his assult by laying one foot heavily on a second and bashing the point in a second time, rending whatever vitals the creature had and tossing the maw into the darkess.

Before them the creature had only two maws remaining, but only for a moment. Where the three heads were severed, six more grew to take their place. Now eight of the savage, wailing tentacles lashed out at the knights, kreening for their souls.

 

[Phoenix]

Watching the approaching black line, Ymris answers somewhat distractedly. "Jovik is the god of death. He escorted me to the afterlife." She falls silent as she gazes toward the black line. As an experiment she tries to slow her advance towards it by willing herself to slow. If that doesn't work she'll see if walking away from it has any effect or if she is still being drawn towards it.

[sblock=Ymris]Ymris concentrated, willing her self to stop in the ether, attempting to resist the currents. She'd heard that when you were lost in your own dreams sometimes you could control its path, unfortunately this was not a dream. Walking away didn't help either, there was no ground, only the ether in which she floated, it seemed that what ever drew her to the dark horizon was determined to keep her.[/sblock]

 

[Bront]

Watching the approaching black line, Ymris answers somewhat distractedly. "Jovik is the god of death. He escorted me to the afterlife." She falls silent as she gazes toward the black line. As an experiment she tries to slow her advance towards it by willing herself to slow. If that doesn't work she'll see if walking away from it has any effect or if she is still being drawn towards it.

"So, if you're dead then, maybe if you touch the sceptre, you can come back?"

"So, if you realy are my mother, why did you abandon me? And how did you not die of the disease?"

 

[GlassEye]

"So, if you're dead then, maybe if you touch the sceptre, you can come back?"

"So, if you realy are my mother, why did you abandon me? And how did you not die of the disease?"

Ymris looks squarely at Jasmine. "The truth is: I am afraid of what might happen." She gazes off into the distance at the approaching black line. "Perhaps after we discover where we are being drawn."

"I don't know that I'm your mother; everything that I believe that leads to that conclusion could just as easily be explained some other way. It's just...you appeared to me out of all the dead." Ymris is quiet a moment, marshalling her thoughts before she continues, "I was, believe it or not, a skilled warrior in my community. At that time, that's all I ever wanted to be. But by the laws of my community after a woman bears a child she must leave behind the warrior-way and enter a new life. I thought you destroyed my life so I gave you to the Elders and told them to find a woman who could care for you better than I could. I'm sorry."

Ymris looks distinctly uncomfortable and begins to stretch but breaks off with a wry laugh. My body, wherever it is, is beyond the need for stretching. She waves off at the distance. "Perhaps we should get ready for that."

 

[Bront]

"Well, Mom, I sure hope you're proud of what I've become. My parents... the ones who raised me, died of an illness when I was young. After that, I was but a plaything, a sex toy for men and even women with spare change. That is, till I killed Devries."

Jasmine shakes her head. "I don't know why I'm telling you this. If you are my mother, you cared more for yourself than you did for me. I guess I can't blame you, I'd probably not carried to term myself."

"If things go wrong, I'm going to trouch you with the Sceptre. If you realy are my mother, then perhaps you can actualy act like one and find a way out of here for me then."

She motions forward, dagger in hand, "Here it comes..."

OOC: I almost gave "Mom" an image of her child's life, but that would be a little to cruel.

 

[Fenris]

Alexi shifts his stance, bringing his shield to the fore and he swings at the beast again as he calls out to Dragon and Boar
"How do we destroy the abomination? It regrows these blasted mouths as soon as we cut them off! Not even fire will tame it. Surely there is something we can do?!"

Phoenix:[sblock] Combat Expertise 3 points to AC, Power Attack 3 points to Damage, so -6 to hit, +3 Damage, +3 AC this round. Boy at this rate, you'll have an entire party of dead characters [/sblock]

 

[GlassEye]

"Well, Mom, I sure hope you're proud of what I've become. My parents... the ones who raised me, died of an illness when I was young. After that, I was but a plaything, a sex toy for men and even women with spare change. That is, till I killed Devries."

Jasmine shakes her head. "I don't know why I'm telling you this. If you are my mother, you cared more for yourself than you did for me. I guess I can't blame you, I'd probably not carried to term myself."

"If things go wrong, I'm going to trouch you with the Sceptre. If you realy are my mother, then perhaps you can actualy act like one and find a way out of here for me then."

She motions forward, dagger in hand, "Here it comes..."

OOC: I almost gave "Mom" an image of her child's life, but that would be a little to cruel.

Ymris flinches away from Jasmine's words, pained by the image of Jasmine's harsh existance and the truth of her words. However, she visibly gains control of herself and says, "If it comes to that, I'll need to know where this 'Eternal Well' is that you fell into."

 

[Phoenix]

The ethereal current carried Jen and Ymris’ closer to the black horizon, where they could feel the malevolence oozing off it. The ether seemed to avoid it, passing on each side of it. At the far left of what they could see of the pulsing corruption, it was easily as thick as a tavern (or two), but it got thinner as it stretched to the right of their vision until it was only as thick as a corridor.

The ether currents seemed to release its two travellers several hundred yards from the cable, and now Jen and Ymris found themselves being drawn to the smaller end of the darkness. There, through the ether, they could barely see what looked like a small marble platform that was supported by nothing and seemed to lead nowhere. The dark cable stopped here also though, just above the platform, and as the two got closer they could barely see four pinpoints of light through its terminus.

 

[Tonks]

If the Dark Tower would steal the life of those inside it, Azot knew he would need to leave the place to call upon Sebek and regain their strength.

"Then we will leave the place to the animals until we regain our strength. Then we will seek the center of this foul place.