pneumatik's WotBS 1 - The Scouring of Gate Pass

[pneumatik]

Down on the ground, Liiros has managed to collect a handful of young parents, mainly fathers, who pass their children to their spouses. Three men without any children underfoot have also stopped to help, making seven total. One of the men is carrying a large blanket-bundle of possessions. He dumps it out on the ground and starts shaking out the blanket. The others start looking at each other uncertainly. It's clear that none of them have any idea how to make a human pyramid.

Four stories up, the trapped mother looks over at Hollister and says, "Okay, okay! What do you need me to do?"

OOC: Call that the end of round seven.

 

[Rhun]

"My magic will allow you to float to the ground, as slow as a down feather." The wizard puts a stern look on his face and wags his finger at her. "But the magics do not last long. When I tell you to jump, you must jump. Otherwise you will burn. Can you do that?"

 

[pneumatik]

The woman looks down at the people milling about four stories below. "Uh, o-, okay." She tries to prepare herself to jump, but the window is small and the sill is too high for her to comfortably rest on foot on it. "Wait." She ducks back inside, then reappears a few seconds later better positioned. It looks like she moved a chair up to the window. She has one foot on the seat of the chair and the other on the windowsill. She's hunched over and starting to lean out the window, with one hand on the window frame to steady herself and the other on her screaming baby. Hot air rising up from out the windows of the lower burning floors blows her hair about.

[sblock=ooc]It's now round nine. The woman looks as prepared to jump as she's going to get.
Hollister's window is 20 feet to the woman's right in the adjacent building. It's similarly sized, so jumping out will be similarly difficult.
Korrin, if you want to have reached the room the woman's in by now, you can without needing to make any rolls. Or, you can have reached Hollister over in the adjacent building. (Hollister would have unlocked his building's skybridge door, and Korrin can unlock the skybridge door for his building.)[/sblock]

 

[Rhun]

Hollister quickly casts his spell, whispering the arcane words of power. "JUMP, NOW!" he yells across at the woman.


Cast Feather Fall on the woman AND her baby, just in cast she somehow drops the child. As soon as he sees her drifting to the ground, the wizard will rush back downstairs.

 

[pneumatik]

The woman starts to step out of the window, but stops suddenly and almost drops her child when she looks down at the ground. She looks back into the room, hugs her child closer, and closes her eyes.

She leaps out of the window.

Hollister sees the woman's face tight with worry and fear. His spellcasting carries over the roaring of the fire.

As the woman falls, and falls ... and falls ... Hollister sees surprise replace her worry.


By the time the people on the ground can see her face, her latent exhaustion is visible.


Standing with her feet on the ground, she hugs her child and cries. The residents of Gate Pass gathered around give the party a brief round of ragged applause.
[sblock=Feather Fall]I looked up Feather Fall. You can get both the woman and child separately. The spell only targets freefalling creatures, though, so you can't cast it in advance. Casting it is an immediate action, so you don't have to ready an action to cast it or anything.
More generally, the verbal component of a spell has to be spoken in a "strong voice" (my interpretation, anyway), so you can't really whisper it. It doesn't matter in this case, but I don't want the wrong precedent to be set.[/sblock]

 

[Rhun]

[sblock=Pneumatic]
No worries, since he can cast it as an immediate action after they jump.

Also, per RAW, all spells with a verebal component are supposed to be cast in a loud commanding voice I believe. I just hate Vancian spell casting.
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[renau1g]

Korrin will rush across the skybridge, seeing that Hollister appears to have convinced the woman to jump to safetly and trusting the wizard to have a plan.

 

[pneumatik]

Korrin meets up with Hollister right as he's casting Feather Fall. Looking out the window, Korrin and Hollister see the woman float to the ground. As you watch her, you can both feel the intense heat radiating from the neighboring building.

 

[concerro]

Plavin wishes he could do something so the party could move on, then feels remorse for such a selfish thought, realizing that the self-importance of others may have led to his current plight.

He looks around for an open path to use after the civilians are safe.

 

[Rhun]

Hollister waits a few seconds to make sure they hit the ground safely and then turns to head back down to the street. "Come on, Korrin. Let's get out of here before this building goes up too."