The Psionicle, Part IV

[GnomeWorks]

OOC:

OOC: Just a quick reminder, Shardorn is still unconscious. You healed her, and she's not bleeding anymore, but she's still out cold. I'm sorry about putting a restriction on how long you can talk about this, but I think that it was somewhat necessary. It adds a touch of realism, although it is a little unfair considering that this is a PbP game and not in-person. However, 36 hours gives you until around 10:00pm CST on Sunday night. I hope that's enough time for you to discuss your dilemma and come up with a solution.

 

[Dalamar]

Osius pauses,"... unless it's mental combat! Can one of you beat him in a duel of minds?"

"Good idea. Unless he has some psionic training, which I highly doubt deeming from the fact that he uses magic, his mind can't stand it he will pass out for a moment.
If any of us psionics will fight him, I will hand over the powerstones I have collected. Some of them include combat powers, unfortunately some more powerful than our own power which makes them dangerous to use.
I _might_ also give my drilbu, but that won't propably be really useful."

 

[Jarval]

"If any of us are to face him in physical combat, I would suggest myself for it. As Osius says, if we pooled our resources we could perhaps give me enough of a boost to take Jirlai."

"Or we have the gun. A shot from it might be enough to kill Jirlai outright."

"I am reluctant to leave Keth and Shardorn with this mage, as he has already tried to kill Shardorn. But I don't think we can leave this mage with the crystal, and even if we were to abandon our friends we have no guarantees that Jirlai will not kill us anyway."

"A duel of minds might work, but do not forget that those lacking our mental talents are very resistant to our combat powers."

"Since I doubt this mage will stand by his rules I see no need for us to either. We have many lives at stake here, and I would be willing to break my word to save them. Since Nathan is invisible, perhaps we might use that to our advantage if one of us is to fight Jirlai. If we have secured his staff out of his reach, we might gain much with such a surprise attack."

[OOC Ohh, bit of tough choice you've given us here Gnome Might be an idea to extend the deadline to Monday though, as some people don't post much over the weekend.

 

[GnomeWorks]

[OOC Ohh, bit of tough choice you've given us here Gnome Might be an idea to extend the deadline to Monday though, as some people don't post much over the weekend.

OOC:

OOC: True, true. I made it a difficult choice on purpose. As for the deadline - I think I can allow that. I just put down the first number that came to my head, that seemed to be fair.

Okay - the deadline has been extended until Monday, 9:30pm CST. That is when I will post Jirlai's reaction to whatever you have decided. I agree with Jarval - the original was perhaps a little too strict. However, I want to portray the feeling of limited time to consider your actions. In a PbP game, that is hard to measure... especially with the boards being messed up.

 

[Jarval]

Okay - the deadline has been extended until Monday, 9:30pm CST. That is when I will post Jirlai's reaction to whatever you have decided. I agree with Jarval - the original was perhaps a little too strict. However, I want to portray the feeling of limited time to consider your actions. In a PbP game, that is hard to measure... especially with the boards being messed up.

Thanks Gnome Very tense situation we've got here! Good stuff!

 

[Hand of Vecna]

OOC: Does it appear to Nathan that anyone has seen him? If not, then Nathan is going to telepathically (Lesser Mindlink, free uses, see here) to ask the others if he should risk sneaking around behind Jirlai and making a first strike, either with a weapon or by grappling/pinning him... OOC: (( oh, I won't have 'net access tonight from around 7:30pm EST 'till tomorrow morning; hopefully I'll be able to enact my Cunning Plan before then... ))

 

[GnomeWorks]

Nathan, it doesn't appear that anyone has noticed you.

And don't worry about the time, I set it back to 9:30pm CST tomorrow, so there should be plenty of time for everyone to consider their options, and to take action, if they wish.

 

[Jarval]

OOC: Maybe Jansson should give Nathan the gun?

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[Sollir Furryfoot]

(I bumped the OOC page last night if you perfer to discuss it there...)

 

[Hand of Vecna]

(mentally to Jansson) "If you gave me the gun, I could try and sneak around behind him, put the barrel near Jirlai's ear, and when it fired, he'd probably be deafened... and much easier to handle..."