Re: The Savage Brawl [Round 3: Abandoned Park]
10-20-2010, 02:46 AM
Originally posted on MSPA by Dragon Fogel.
If Konka Rar had not lost his sweat glands long ago, they would be drenching him now. The amount of concentration needed to send away the wind and flames, while still holding himself aloft with a smaller pocket of wind, was immense.
Fortunately, once the act had been done, maintaining it was far simpler. The smaller tornado slowly drifted towards the ground, until the distance was small enough that the lich could safely cast a levitation spell to stay above the flames.
Rar surveyed the park again. Although every one of his opponents was weakened, there was only one who might be able to recover quickly once they arrived in the next arena. Ekelhaft.
Even now, the slime creature was resilient - Rar spotted its constituent blobs slowly oozing over nearby flames, smothering them. But he could not help but notice the masses of slime beginning to drip from the heat surrounding them. The flame was not magical in and of itself; it had merely been spread by magic. The ancient madgod could only fight back by dousing the fire manually.
Furthermore, Rar reasoned, an individual blob would be more vulnerable and possibly less intelligent than the creature would be if it reformed - a task it seemed to be finding difficult at the moment. A single flame spell on an isolated piece of Ekelhaft might prove extremely effective, especially with it already suffering from the ambient heat.
Rar soon noticed such an isolated piece. The other components were at least making some progress in moving towards each other, but one was having difficulty navigating around a fallen tree. Precisely what had made the tree fall was uncertain at this point; it could have been the tremor, the explosion, the winds, or even another contestant overcome with rage. In any case, the cause of its fall was irrelevant. What mattered was that it was an insurmountable obstacle to the now-barely intelligent blob, and Konka Rar had his best chance to strike back.
He floated rapidly towards the stray ooze, seeing no need for stealth against an opponent that could barely understand how to deal with an unmoving tree. As he neared it, he raised his staff to unleash his spell upon it.
"Inferno!"
If Konka Rar had not lost his sweat glands long ago, they would be drenching him now. The amount of concentration needed to send away the wind and flames, while still holding himself aloft with a smaller pocket of wind, was immense.
Fortunately, once the act had been done, maintaining it was far simpler. The smaller tornado slowly drifted towards the ground, until the distance was small enough that the lich could safely cast a levitation spell to stay above the flames.
Rar surveyed the park again. Although every one of his opponents was weakened, there was only one who might be able to recover quickly once they arrived in the next arena. Ekelhaft.
Even now, the slime creature was resilient - Rar spotted its constituent blobs slowly oozing over nearby flames, smothering them. But he could not help but notice the masses of slime beginning to drip from the heat surrounding them. The flame was not magical in and of itself; it had merely been spread by magic. The ancient madgod could only fight back by dousing the fire manually.
Furthermore, Rar reasoned, an individual blob would be more vulnerable and possibly less intelligent than the creature would be if it reformed - a task it seemed to be finding difficult at the moment. A single flame spell on an isolated piece of Ekelhaft might prove extremely effective, especially with it already suffering from the ambient heat.
Rar soon noticed such an isolated piece. The other components were at least making some progress in moving towards each other, but one was having difficulty navigating around a fallen tree. Precisely what had made the tree fall was uncertain at this point; it could have been the tremor, the explosion, the winds, or even another contestant overcome with rage. In any case, the cause of its fall was irrelevant. What mattered was that it was an insurmountable obstacle to the now-barely intelligent blob, and Konka Rar had his best chance to strike back.
He floated rapidly towards the stray ooze, seeing no need for stealth against an opponent that could barely understand how to deal with an unmoving tree. As he neared it, he raised his staff to unleash his spell upon it.
"Inferno!"
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