Black Zenith [Adventure RPG / Chapter Four: Fires of Heaven]

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Black Zenith [Adventure RPG / Chapter Four: Fires of Heaven]

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RE: Black Zenith [Adventure RPG / Chapter Three: Forgotten Whispers]

02-04-2014, 06:46 PM (This post was last modified: 02-04-2014, 10:22 PM by chimericWilder.)

(02-02-2014, 04:50 AM)Frolic Wrote: »"Guys," Myra calls out to her teammates while continuing her scrying, "I've found that Ziras-person! He looks SO amazing! He's flinging spells left and right to fight off the meteorites and the monsters, who are led by two flying-ones! Survivors are crawling out of the rubble, too, and aiding in the battle. We need to get to them, and quickly. If we fly over the city, we might be able to see the bright lights from the spells Ziras is casting. That's where he and the survivors should be. Look for the pretty lights, everyone! In the meantime, I'll be doing whatever I can with my spells through this divination."

Focusing on the divination, Myra casts a large, bright wave of healing energy upon Ziras and his allies.

"Ziras, Bohw asks that you create a lightshow of sorts so that we can quickly and easily spot you."

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SpoilerQuestion: Would Myra be able to cast a temporary teleportation portal for the cityfolk to evacuate through? Is so, would that require turns to channel the spell, or would it be a matter of getting a really good roll?

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As far as you know, the succesful translocation of living creatures is one of the most difficult magical procedures around. Theres a couple that are more difficult - such as bending time and the like - but generally, teleportation of any kind is hard. However, there are many types of teleportation, the easiest being a personal short-range spell, often called blink, which is used to move you around over shorter distances to avoid hazards and the like. Or by some people who are just downright lazy. Long range personal teleportation (or just called teleportation) is more difficult, takes more time, requires more focus, and so on, but has the benefit of being able to move you practically anywhere you are even vaguely familiar with, though there are a few rather gruesome reports of people who tried to teleport into an anti-magic zone - one of the bloodiest, but quickest ways to die, to put it simply. Anyhow, the point is that from then on it only gets more and more complicated. Moving others with you is harder still, moving others without you even more so, and opening a portal lasting more than a few seconds usually requires a whole team of wizards - the larger the portal, the more power required. But as if that is not enough, there are even more things that play into teleportations - moving and teleporting things at the same time puts even more stress on the caster, as apparently the magical force used in the spell will automatically recalculate your location from start to finish of the cast, which consumes unnecessary power and makes the entire thing all the more demanding. And teleporting things that are not in your immediate vicinity is also far more difficult than the norm, as apparently your magical energy must actually "reach" the object or person instead of just somehow being able to conjure up anyone from any place across the world, though admittedly that might not be as much a concern to you as it would others, as you seem able to pour your magic through your divination. To the point; you could probably try. But all of the magical theories you know of give you really, really bad odds of completing what would be more or less the most difficult type of teleportation you can think of. You could probably manage something simpler, though - anyone who approaches the invisible spot in the air from which your divination is centered might be a more reasonable target, but you havnt exactly tried this sort of thing before.

You heal a group of nearby soldiers who had been about to be bowled over by a large, brutish shadow creature, sort of like a hunched over hill-troll, sporting huge claws and a tail. You dont think you've ever seen one of those before. Regardless, some of the soldiers who had been flagging get back on their feet, charging the monster and raising their shields against other creatures which seem to spring out of the ground at a steadily increasing rate. Unfortunately, others still remain on the ground, and even those who can fight effectively are still overwhelmed gradually, particularly whenever one of the two shades draw, with their bloody blades hacking the defenders down. You think you saw a stableboy with a pitchwork get butchered just a moment before.

Regardless, you seem to finally get through to Ziras, and he reluctantly takes a seconds' break from the fighting to send a luminescent flare skywards, effectively raising a beacon over the fighters. You cant see it yourself from the airships' vantage, being locked to your divination, but you hear Savannah call something out and feel the airship changing direction.

(02-04-2014, 01:15 AM)Supernerd Wrote: »"We should be getting attacked aaaaany time now..."

Selphy casts Empowerment on herself, bolstering the strength of her next few spells.

You Empower yourself with an additional 37 power for 3 (4) turns!

(02-04-2014, 02:20 AM)ICantGiveCredit Wrote: »Watson grips his new blade in admiration and then speaks, "Ah, but we have yet to desce-"

before being interrupted by a mind-frightening sight.

"Oh dear"

Though Selphy valiantly tries maneuvrer the airship out of harms way, she must have seen it too late, for you watch with perfect clarity as another meteorite hurtles towards the airship. You leap out of the way as it strikes the deck behind you at an single, the fiery power of the impact knocking you and the others (except for Mayor) off their feet! By the time you've recovered, black things swarm up from this new crater at the center of the deck!

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