Shards of Memory-Prologue: Fractured Union

[Keia]

Yotsu Yuriko, Martial Artist

Rystil:[sblock]

"Yu...ri...ko" Shinoa gasps out, "I can't...keep...leave me behind...take the..."

"Get behind me, children," Yuriko said, but kept Rin in the corner of her eye. Yuriko looked to keep Shinoa away from the children and cut an escape of Shinoa from the wolf if that was possible.

OOC: Ready to strike if attacked by Shinoa . . . or Rin. Cool story! - definitely a Grimm tale
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[unleashed]

Zaeryn T'Erilan, Male Altanian Arcanist

Rystil

[SBLOCK]“I’d guess a lot of students have tried it, I know I did, but I don’t think anyone has ever managed to jump high enough without the aid of magic. Sadly I didn’t learn the jump spell, so I’ve never successfully done it myself.”[/SBLOCK]

 

[Rystil Arden]

Yuriko:
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*Her last energy expended, Shinoa stops shaking, no longer moving at all, lying facedown in the cold dirt.*

*Suddenly, with a low hiss, Shinoa's body springs upright as if a rag doll grabbed by an unseen puppet master, revealing her tainted and distorted body, long claws instead of soft, gentle fingers, and a twisted face with long fangs and red eyes. As Yuriko had feared, she had become a kyuuketsuki.*

*Yuriko waits with her sword, ready to strike if the creature that had once been Shinoa lunges forward, but it stares at her with those features that still bear some resemblance to Shinoa's and this time, unlike before she finds herself entranced, unable to move her sword as the kyuuketsuki advances forward.*

(OOC:

Cool story! - definitely a Grimm tale

Thanks! I was hoping it would be a fun little extra when I wrote it just now

Will Save 8 + 5* = 13, fails

*This includes a penalty to Will saves against Tainted effects for being mildly Tainted
)
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[Rystil Arden]

Zaeryn:
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"Hmm...ya, I'd imagine that Jump isn't really a spell that most of us rush to learn," Valyssa jokes, "Can't say I have it myself. It ranks up there with Animate Rope...Hmm, I wonder what happens if you go right in the middle--I wonder...do you get suspended in midair or do you get pulled back and forth until eventually you fall one of the ways?"
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[Keia]

Yotsu Yuriko, Martial Artist

Rystil[sblock] OOC: Was the 8 the roll or the 5 (will save +9, formerly)? Will still mind help with that at all?

"Back up children!" Yuriko called. "Shinoa! Fight it, remember who you are, remember your ancestors!"

*Yuriko tried to fight against the one once known as Shinoa, slipping into 'The Mountain does not Move', a defensive stance against her.*

OOC: Full defense (+6 to AC with 5 ranks of Tumble, if I can). AC: 25.[/sblock]

 

[unleashed]

Zaeryn T'Erilan, Male Altanian Arcanist

Rystil

[SBLOCK]“It’d have to be a pretty perfect jump, but I’d imaging if you got it just right you might, just might, hang there between the two gravity fields for a few seconds until you went too far into one field or the other.”[/SBLOCK]

 

[Rystil Arden]

Yuriko:
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*Yuriko tries to slip into her defensive stance, but she remains unable to act, gazing in morbid fascination as the kyuuketsuki advances hesitantly, slowed in its advance by Yuriko's words, as if fighting an internal battle, and thus unable to make an attack, though it eventually snaps out of it and hisses angrily, walking right next to Yuriko, who can feel the darkness of the Shadowtaint oozing from it and smell the scent of the dirt on the creature from when Shinoa had made her final fall.*

(OOC:

Forgot Still Mind--that's another +2, which makes her agonisingly close to succeeding (but still failed). The 8 is the roll--she receives a -4 to Will Saves versus Taint-based effects by virtue of being mildly tainted)
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[Rystil Arden]

Zaeryn:
[SBLOCK]
"Ah, so an unstable equilibrium," Valyssa nods, "That's what I guessed it might be too."
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[unleashed]

Zaeryn T'Erilan, Male Altanian Arcanist

Rystil

[SBLOCK]Grinning Zaeryn says, “Now we’ve covered the theory, perhaps we should try it in reality.”[/SBLOCK]

 

[Keia]

Yotsu Yuriko, Martial Artist

Rystil[sblock]*Yuriko struggled against the gaze of the creature.*

'Ancestors, hear my call,' Yuriko thought. 'I die . . . with honor . . . or . . . .'

"Shinoa, don't do this," Yuriko cautioned. "If you strike at me, you'll be defenseless against the great white wolf behind you!"

OOC: Bluff attempt (+8), trying to break the gaze. Strike with katana, if successful.[/sblock]