Eudial screamed and jumped back at least a good 10 feet. "WHAT THE F***, WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?!?" she yelled.
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Eudial screamed and jumped back at least a good 10 feet. "WHAT THE F***, WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?!?" she yelled.
Jackpot!
Give me a little bit of everyone, with the full Maggie Smith and Christopher Lee. If I were a sadsack nerd on the Internet, I'd say that those two would be "OMG teh awsumzz LOLilops".
[NB: Seriously, Alex, they would've been amazing. :proud:]
Although memo to self: next plot for conquest must somehow involve Brian Blessed fighting Daleks. I'll figure out how later on.
Gaunt rubbed theatrically at his ear.Quote:
Originally Posted by kodster
"Always nice to see a familiar face. Since you asked I've just been at the PTT headquarters. The Sucker seemed to imply it was an important place in relation to what's going on after you left so suddenly. I'm currently getting ready to meet with what I hope is one if it's higher executives and see if I can figure out anything more."
Gaunt cleared his throat.
"With this rather chance encounter, can I ask if you've learned anything of major importance flying around with the rest of the group? Any more information before I go back could be very helpful."
Gaunt then looked around the room.
"Oh yes, and one other thing. Do you have any idea exactly how this contraption works?"
Eudial clutched her chest. Technically she did have a working heart, which was currently banging against her ribcage, but not spiritually... and she nearly had a heart attack. "Could... could I have at least SOME warning first?" she said weakly. "I'm really not fond of people just suddenly appearing next to me..."
Recovering, Eudial assumed her usual mood and recounted to Gaunt all that George and Anjushree had told them, and of the party's findings about Doomforall.
However, when it came to vice-versa, Gaunt's point about the executive at that PTT Headquarters got Eudial suspicious... surely that thing was another source of rift, or one of its... henchmen, maybe? It couldn't hurt to find out more... but that damn hostage situation... urrrgh...
"Uh, we're in an equipment room of some kind," muttered Eudial. "I guess it wants to know what we want. Er... I guess I'll go first." She cleared her throat and addressed the voice. "There's a huge figure in several layers of rift armour taking some people hostage in the town nearby. It's at a University in its Department of Interdminsional studies. Do you have any weapon or contraption that may prove advantageous against this rift figure?"
OOC: >tfw when rpg advances too quickly for you to think of a post :V [/ooc]
"ugh. movies. what are they good for? go away... strange.... creature????? and i dont know what victory your on about, im still in this dump. and ill never get out. i say we just let the multiverse or whatever die."
Playzooki gets so bored and fed up that he headdesks, and goes into some sort of semi conscious sleep. (OOC: you guys know what im on about, sort of when you shut your eyes but dont fully go to sleep :) )
EUDIAL
Yours search for "There's a huge figure in several layers of rift armour taking some people hostage in the town nearby. It's at a University in its Department of Interdminsional studies. Do you have any weapon or contraption that may prove advantageous against this rift figure?"
Due to the roundabout phrasing of this question rather than a concise search, the computer offers:
A BOOK WHICH CONTAINS REVIEWS OF PC GAMES STARTING 5 YEARS IN THE FUTURE ONWARDS
Eudial has: 6/7 searches remaining and 3/3 choices remaining.
There was no response.
Eudial coughed. "Uhh... how about a gravity rod or staff then? I'd love to have control of that..."
(OOC: The bolded part please. :P)
Playzooki was awaken from his sleep by the words 'PC games'
"Ooh, did someone say PC games?"
Your search for "gravity rod" found the following item:
An anti-gravity Rod Stewart Action Figure - hit an enemy with this doll and they will be removed from all effects of gravity, unless able to secure themselves somehow, they will drift off into space.
Eudial has: 5/7 searches remaining and 3/3 choices remaining.
"...how about anti-rift armour weaponry?"
( :P *smacks Josh*)
Your search for "anti-rift armour weaponry" found the following item:
A Silverine Lance - A powerful weapon developed during Doomforall's anti rift experiments - a long slender glowing silver spear that can fire a bolt of energy that can rip through rift and prevent it from restoring itself, as well as harming anything behind it. However it takes five minutes to recharge between shots is difficult to use at more than 20m if the target is moving.
Eudial stared at the weapon. Now that was something... she had 4 searches left though, so...
Her mind wandered to the bloody blade that made her arms itch. "Erm, you wouldn't happen to have any protective gauntlets, would you?"
Your search for protective gauntlets found the following item:
"Mother's Protective Gauntlets" Made for a Knight with a really concerned mother, in addition to projecting a field of armour around the body, these gauntlets speak constantly to the wearer, offering advice on any situation, such as when you need to wrap up warmly, apply sun lotion, how to clean stubborn stains and so on in that Knight's Mothers voice, as well as telling off any enemies"
Eudial has 3/7 searches left and 3/3 choices.
Eudial blinked. Seriously? Okay, time for another tack... "Anything useful regarding alchemy?"
Your search for alchemy found the following item:
My First Alchemy Set Learn the fascinating science of alchemy in 7 experiments! Turn oxygen to zinc! Alumnium to Iodine! Arsenic to Iron! Tin to Plutonium! Radon to Chlorine! Gold into nitrogen! Carbon to titanium!
"My First Alchemy Set"??? Eudial groaned. Why is this happening to me...?
"Okay fine, two more searches, right? Self-healing and power absorbing. Hit me."
(OOC: I'm leaving now and I'll be back on Monday, hopefully. Maybe back sooner if our internet gets installed on Sunday. :P)
(That is me, that is my life. :v)Quote:
Originally Posted by playzooki
Marisa plunked herself down and watched some of the stuff in the cinema with the others, but not too long in she started to feel restless.
Deciding to go check out what all information she might be able to find in the libary ('A place this big HAS to have a libary!') Marisa decided to go on a info hunt.
Definately not to snatch up any books she might find interesting.
Nope. Never.
Your search for self healing found the following result:
The Pan Omnianites Guide to Self Healing A book which is written in uch a way that reading through the entire book of 120 pages will completely heal and injury through focused chi energies subconsciously guided by the precise flow of the text.
Your search for power absorbing found the following result:
Electrovoric Fireflies A jar containing a number of small fireflies - they are of a special breed which will voraciously drain all electrical energy from the area, blacking out any systems temporarily. Possession of these is highly illegal due to their ability to attack cybernetic beings with devastating efficiency.
Eudial has 0/7 searches remaining and 3/3 choices.
MARISA
Finds the library and indeed it is a vast collection of books, any information required could be easily looked up.
"While my friend is away, I wondered if you would be able to tell me more about your relationship with Dr. Seben. What exactly is your role here? Tell me about the history between PTT Enterprises and the psy-corps..."
Aurelia came walking out of the cinema with her posse, discussing the great episode they had just seen. Laughter galore. When she saw the equipment system however, her face became stern, her voice confident.
"Angelic armour"
CLEO
The Hedgehog wheezes as it exhales some cigar smoke
"I am a senior Beaurocratocmancer here... As for Dr Seben? Never met the man personally, but he was a pain for our organization - the Psy-corps have long been trying to steal our secrets, and Seben himself was often the instigator of these crusades. They see themselves as havign the right to everyone elses knowledge - it took us a long time to develop the shield that protects the contents of this building from copyright infusion."
Your search for angelic armour found the following result:
Armour of the Word of Gods An elaborate set of armour fashioned from Angelic scriptures and containing some the essence of the Divine itself. While it provides no protection from physical attacks whatsoever, the wearer is utterly immune to any sort of magical attack up to 14th degree magic.
AURELIA has 6/7 searches and 3/3 choices remaining.
"Oh woooooowwwww~" Marisa sighed happily, "This is even better then I hoped, ze!"
She pondered momentarily, before deciding to see what she could find about rare/magical mushrooms of this world that she might be able to get in this worldy universe thing, anything that might involve those pesky rifts because why not, and because of the recent rescue, a bit of research on Gryphons wouldn't hurt either. It wouldn't do to piss off the birdybeast thing, after all.
Who knows, maybe she could find Doomforall's private journal or something, or something about new spells to play with, having fun researching isn't hard when you have a libary all to yourself!
Angel wing attachment
MARISA
The library appears to be substantially larger on the inside than outside, and containing vast sections on what in any other place would be fairly niche subjects. While perusing a section on mushrooms and fungi she spots a particularly thorough tome which is entitled COMPLETE GUIDE MUSHROOMS AND FUNGI OF EARTH ZERO. It is several thousand pages long and details a massive range of mushrooms things like the Dour Hobnobbler which is only found growing in the armpits of certain species of Orcs, the Avenging Catbutter, which is normally incredibly poisonous but is used in the production of Lion-milk cheese and the Stereotypical Mycanoid - a humanoid mushroom which does incredibly offensive impression of the stereotype of the sentient beings it lives near.
A number of bookmarks with annotation identify half a dozen magically interesting species which can be found on the castle and the rock it sits on, and could variously be used for producing a shower of blinding sparks, giving your hands acidic properties capable of cutting through stone for a few minutes, a barkskin spell, the ability to repel all molluscs, a noxious stink bomb that would knock lesser creatures unconcious and, for some reason, one that makes the caster automatically know MobyDick off by heart, word for word. They could also all be used more generally for energy blasts.
At least a few dozen other bookmarks suggest that further species can be found in the city below.
In terms of information on the Rift and Doomforall, the main thing she locates in the information that Vengeance had previously located (OOC: Which is major plot info, so it's good to repeat it) but nothing particularly new beyond an annotated version of a book of the "Legends of Doomforall" which has some rather hyperbolic stories with notes in the margins detailling inaccuracies, and on occasion where someone else's story has been ascribed to him.
However the section Vengeance found earlier and the documentation around it are certainly the most pertinent:
"All my research and study points to one indisputable fact: that taking the power of the Rift from the Marranach was the greatest mistake any being in the history of the multiverse has ever made. My mistake. He was a being who was outside the multiverse, outside any comprehension and I, in my ignorance and in my folly, thought that I had impressed such a creature with my audacity and I had somehow earned the right to that power. I was a child to think that. He rules in the space between Multiverses and longs to expand his domain further into their light - pouring his realms into them like cold water onto a fire to reclaim them. In my stupidity, I am the beach-head - by bringing the rift here in myself I have given him a way in...
I will retire from using the power of the Rift as much as I can, but with this power I cannot shirk responsibility. Worlds may die from both my action and inaction. Eventually, something will happen and he will break in. I have begun to look into ways to escape this cruel fate I have wrought on this universe and the others, but it is a long shot at best.
I have already acquired the item from the Botanist and I returned Vengeance to his home world again, though he will not remember it, he may be the key to all this. If all else fails, at least this Fortress of mine may finally get to live out it's intended function..."
As for Anjushree, Marisa is able to specifically identify the creature as a Himalayan Crag Griffon, a fairly rare but particularly intelligent species. Griffons in general have much more subtle gender roles and appear identical on the outside, and they know each other's gender by scent. To ask the gender of one, or assume it is a massive social faux pas. Griffons are obligate carnivores with Himalayan Crag Griffons mainly eating goat and yak, typically paid for by paying farmers with magic.
Interestingly, there is mention of Anjushree specifically in several places - a few academic books on shield magic, anti-magic and spell-breaking are credited to the Griffon, as well as seeming to playing a role in an account of an event entitled "A Bustle in Your Hedgerow" however most of the book is lost to the point where Marisa has no idea what the book is particularly about.
AURELIA
Your search for "angel wing attachment" yielded the following result:
A Box with 3 pairs of preserved Angel wings Although the source of these musty old dry wings is unknown, there is clearly some serious magic involved, when placed against the back of a sentient and good being, these wings will permanently bond to them, come fully to their resplendent original state and allowing the owner flight and healing them entirely of all but the most evil magical afflictions.
Just for neatness purposes:
EUDIAL:
- A BOOK WHICH CONTAINS REVIEWS OF PC GAMES STARTING 5 YEARS IN THE FUTURE ONWARDS
- An anti-gravity Rod Stewart Action Figure - hit an enemy with this doll and they will be removed from all effects of gravity, unless able to secure themselves somehow, they will drift off into space.
- A Silverine Lance - A powerful weapon developed during Doomforall's anti rift experiments - a long slender glowing silver spear that can fire a bolt of energy that can rip through rift and prevent it from restoring itself, as well as harming anything behind it. However it takes five minutes to recharge between shots is difficult to use at more than 20m if the target is moving.
- Mother's Protective Gauntlets - Made for a Knight with a really concerned mother, in addition to projecting a field of armour around the body, these gauntlets speak constantly to the wearer, offering advice on any situation, such as when you need to wrap up warmly, apply sun lotion, how to clean stubborn stains and so on in that Knight's Mothers voice, as well as telling off any enemies"
- My First Alchemy Set Learn the fascinating science of alchemy in 7 experiments! Turn oxygen to zinc! Alumnium to Iodine! Arsenic to Iron! Tin to Plutonium! Radon to Chlorine! Gold into nitrogen! Carbon to titanium!
- The Pan Omnianites Guide to Self Healing A book which is written in uch a way that reading through the entire book of 120 pages will completely heal and injury through focused chi energies subconsciously guided by the precise flow of the text.
- Electrovoric Fireflies A jar containing a number of small fireflies - they are of a special breed which will voraciously drain all electrical energy from the area, blacking out any systems temporarily. Possession of these is highly illegal due to their ability to attack cybernetic beings with devastating efficiency.
AURELIA
- Armour of the Word of Gods An elaborate set of armour fashioned from Angelic scriptures and containing some the essence of the Divine itself. While it provides no protection from physical attacks whatsoever, the wearer is utterly immune to any sort of magical attack up to 14th degree magic.
- A Box with 3 pairs of preserved Angel wings Although the source of these musty old dry wings is unknown, there is clearly some serious magic involved, when placed against the back of a sentient and good being, these wings will permanently bond to them, come fully to their resplendent original state and allowing the owner flight and healing them entirely of all but the most evil magical afflictions.
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"United we stand!"
Your search for "united we stand" found the following result:
Mecha-bracers of Unity Three pairs of red and gold armoured shoulder-length gauntlet which gives each of the wearers the combined strength, speed and agility of all of them.
Twitch had been flying through the halls of the great castle for some time. He had passed a great many artefacts such as urns, busts, expensive-looking paintings and the like, it even seemed to him like he had passed a number of them twice. Still, the castle was a nice place, though, especially those spiral staircases he had such fun flying up and down.
After a while, he heard what sounded like someone shouting. Taking off towards the course of the noise, he came across the room where Eudial, Leland and Aurelia were, along with some sort of computer with a conveyor belt underneath. He took a quick glance at the screen, and quickly deduced that the machine could supply them with a plethora of useful things for sorting out their current situation.
However, he was, and had always been, a small and mostly red avian. Quite a lot of this stuff, he probably wouldn't be able to carry, let alone use. His lack of hands meant blasters were probably out of the question either, so the macaw paced back and forth for a moment, thinking of what would be best for him. It was a little tricky to figure it out, all he'd really managed to do is get the spaceship...wait a second, that was it! A lightbulb came on in Twitch's head, and he flew up to the screen, looking a bit overexcited about something.
"Do you have anything that can turn me invisible?"
Your search for "Do you have anything that can turn me invisible?" found the following result:
Juruthmenarreyemuk's Greater Invisibility Request - A weathered scroll containing a rare spell. Juruthmenarreyemuk's Greater Invisibility Request allows the reader to carry out a ritual a few minutes long, after which the one who did the ritual gains a strange power. After completing the ritual, for the next five minutes (OOC: or 2 posts), anything, be it alive, dead or inanimate, to which the casters addresses the question "Do you want to be invisible?" will be utterly invisible for the next 12 hours. The ritual can be carried out twice a week.
As a side note, if anyone wants an item that someone else found but didn't select in their 3 choices (when they make them) they may retrieve that same item as one of their own options by making the same search (or just saying you want to retrieve that same item) - though this still counts as one of your seven choices.
EUDIAL:
- A BOOK WHICH CONTAINS REVIEWS OF PC GAMES STARTING 5 YEARS IN THE FUTURE ONWARDS
- An anti-gravity Rod Stewart Action Figure - hit an enemy with this doll and they will be removed from all effects of gravity, unless able to secure themselves somehow, they will drift off into space.
- A Silverine Lance - A powerful weapon developed during Doomforall's anti rift experiments - a long slender glowing silver spear that can fire a bolt of energy that can rip through rift and prevent it from restoring itself, as well as harming anything behind it. However it takes five minutes to recharge between shots is difficult to use at more than 20m if the target is moving.
- Mother's Protective Gauntlets - Made for a Knight with a really concerned mother, in addition to projecting a field of armour around the body, these gauntlets speak constantly to the wearer, offering advice on any situation, such as when you need to wrap up warmly, apply sun lotion, how to clean stubborn stains and so on in that Knight's Mothers voice, as well as telling off any enemies"
- My First Alchemy Set Learn the fascinating science of alchemy in 7 experiments! Turn oxygen to zinc! Alumnium to Iodine! Arsenic to Iron! Tin to Plutonium! Radon to Chlorine! Gold into nitrogen! Carbon to titanium!
- The Pan Omnianites Guide to Self Healing A book which is written in uch a way that reading through the entire book of 120 pages will completely heal and injury through focused chi energies subconsciously guided by the precise flow of the text.
- Electrovoric Fireflies A jar containing a number of small fireflies - they are of a special breed which will voraciously drain all electrical energy from the area, blacking out any systems temporarily. Possession of these is highly illegal due to their ability to attack cybernetic beings with devastating efficiency.
AURELIA
- Armour of the Word of Gods An elaborate set of armour fashioned from Angelic scriptures and containing some the essence of the Divine itself. While it provides no protection from physical attacks whatsoever, the wearer is utterly immune to any sort of magical attack up to 14th degree magic.
- A Box with 3 pairs of preserved Angel wings Although the source of these musty old dry wings is unknown, there is clearly some serious magic involved, when placed against the back of a sentient and good being, these wings will permanently bond to them, come fully to their resplendent original state and allowing the owner flight and healing them entirely of all but the most evil magical afflictions.
Mecha-bracers of Unity Three pairs of red and gold armoured shoulder-length gauntlet which gives each of the wearers the combined strength, speed and agility of all of them.
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Twitch
Juruthmenarreyemuk's Greater Invisibility Request - A weathered scroll containing a rare spell. Juruthmenarreyemuk's Greater Invisibility Request allows the reader to carry out a ritual a few minutes long, after which the one who did the ritual gains a strange power. After completing the ritual, for the next five minutes (OOC: or 2 posts), anything, be it alive, dead or inanimate, to which the casters addresses the question "Do you want to be invisible?" will be utterly invisible for the next 12 hours. The ritual can be carried out twice a week.
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Twitch cocked his head a little. It sounded needlessly complicated, looked a little fragile, and bore the name of a character he didn't have much chance of pronouncing. He would call him "Jurk", unless the ritual called for it. Still, it sounded like he could turn whatever he wanted invisible, and as many of them as he wanted within the five minute period. If there was a way to speed up the ritual, then that would be even better, but it was a good start. What could he team invisibility with, though? "Uh..." the parrot mumbled, as he tapped idly at the floor with one claw.
"...wing knives?" He asked uncertainly. "For a macaw?"
(OOC: internet installed Sunday?! who would have thought?! Case in point: I'm back)
Eudial raised her eyebrows. Those fireflies looked dangerous... perfect.
After a lengthy pause, she decided upon the lance, the alchemy set, and the fireflies.
"Assault Vest"
Your search for "wing knives for a macaw" found the following result:
A Tube of N-th Metal Feather Polymer - A special polymer designed to convert living feathers to a tough metaloid with the approximate properties of stainless steel - this tube has enough to apply to 6 large feathers such as found in the wing tips or tail. Originally developed in a group of obscure universes by some more hippy than usual Thanagarians, the metal blades produced also have the advantage of ignoring magical defences.
Your search for "assault vest" found the following result:
A NeoSoviet Assault Vest and Control Watch - This is one a small run of production produced on an earth with an accelerated timeline - the NeoSoviet Empire of the Year 2114 did research into how to maximize the efficiency of their army, they had large numbers of men but little training. This vest in addition to being an advanced piece of armour resistant to 98% of standard firearms, and capable of nullifying most energy weapons down a level (shrugs off stun blasts, turns kill blasts to stuns, and lets the body survive for identification for disintegrations) but it is primarily designed to override the soldier's own mental functions and replace them with an optimised one. A person wearing this vest will exactly follow all orders given to them without question, and function as a fully trained and adapted soldier immediately. Wearing the watch and the vest at once will result in brain damage.
"Ooh, i know" Playzooki said sarcastically. "Why not a way to get out of this place? or a better item providing machine."
(OOC: dont actually search for them, im not gonna use this machine anyway :P)
George answers Playzooki "Sir, you can go wherever you want, whenever you want, you are on the most powerful ship ever built in any universe, with teleporters, inter-stellar drives, inter-dimensional beaming technology and more. Going somewhere is not in any way a problem for you. As for the item machine, I assure you that this has the rarest and most powerful items of any machine ever built. "
Marisa hummed, and grabbed the mushroom book to --uh, borrow and help her locate the magic mushrooms around the castle, and returned the other two books to their original places before going on a mushroom hunt. She paused a moment, and pulling out her magic It's-Probably-A-Fish-Pants-Pocket bag, decided to reach in and see what she pulled out this time, before continuing on her merry way.
On her mushroom search, Marisa Finds:
8 Radiant Glowcaps (shower of blinding sparks)
5 Marshthings Fingers (acidic hands)
6 Oaken Protectors (barkskin)
9 Snail's Bane (the ability to repel all molluscs)
9 Pungent Destroyers (KO stink bomb)
4 Ishmael's Lament (know MobyDick off by heart)
"Assorted daggers"
Invisibility and turning his wings into steel. Slightly. They seemed like good choices for now, considering he was a macaw. Listening into Aurelia's choices, Twitch seemed to pick up on the way to go about asking for stuff, and getting the stuff he wanted. But not having hands seemed to limit his choices of what he could use, or at least use effectively.
"...flash bombs?" the parrot asked, slightly more clearly this time.