The Last Oddetsey

[alex_holt]

AURELIA

After reviewing the recruits, your team makes the following observations:

Shandra is a supremely skilled fighter, capable of dispatching opponents with ease, as well as an accomplished field leader.
Voxel is a decent fighter, but seems to be better suited to espionage.
The Vlobleths are strong fighters, but rubbish tacticians, and need a strong leader.
Mr Rayner has no fighting or tactical skills at all, but his music is so amazing he is capable of inspiring friends or scaring foes.

[majinb]

"Anjushree! This Donkey called Meander is the librarian of the Library of Arcane, Thaumatological and Mystic Studies in Melded, and recently he had 3 of his books stolen, amongst them your A Study of Rift Energy.

How dire is this? And is there any chance you have a copy yourself?"

[alex_holt]

Anjushree eyes up Meander, and the Donkey backs away a little... Griffons are known for eating horses, and donkeys are much of the same stock, however after a bit of consideration.

"I'm afraid the story behind that book is not the normal publishing method - only five were ever made, and Doomforall took them all, and in exchange I was to voluntarily accept a mind wipe of all that I had learnt and even that I had written a book in the first place"

She pauses dramatically, and then a griffonic smile crosses her face.

"Fortunatly, I am not the greatest master of counter-magic across several universes for nothing, and I managed to install some delayed recall spells in my mind to hide the general gist of what I'd done. I do recall the outline if not the specifics of what I discovered - essentially I was hired to learn the capabilities of the rift and if anything could counter it. I do recall that I did find *something* that was effective, but exactly what was too big a secret to conceal from a spell even for me, and besides, as much as he could be pretentious, brooding and a bit of a ham, I trusted him with that power more than I would with most people.

Anyway, I assume that whoever took that book somehow knew to look for it in this secret library of yours, and that means resources and connections..."

[Badnik96]

Phantasmic Slammer eyes the three options and decides on the electromagnetic lifter.

"This seems interesting. Electromagnets? I know they're banned from ARC, so if they're that powerful that should be the best choice."

Thinking to himself, he adds: The other two look interesting though, I think I'll grab the really hefty looking one too (OOC: the one that can lift 200 tons) and see if anyone else can make use of it.

[alex_holt]

Tench initially seems very suspicious, but after a bit of blagging on the Demon's part, Gaunt is invited in. Eventually he gets talking properly, and finds a number of facts about Ms Triablos - she goes outside to smoke a cigar at 6pm every day after finishing work, she doesn't hold with the traditional Demon = evil stereotype and has funded several television campaigns with the slogan "You CAN spell Devil without Evil", she loves her pet affenpinscher - a remarkable animal in that it is 100% an entirely normal affenpinscher, likes Thai food, candelit dinners, foreign language films, complicated legal documents and growing bonsai triffids, dislikes theatre, limes, the colour pink and basketball. She recently broke up with her boyfriend, after finding him at home with some highly illegal Emmerdale DVDs. She is a shrewd businesswoman and Triablos Industries have done well under her supervision, expanding into the lucrative home-necromancy business.

EVERYONE

George messages everyone to say that upon the defeat of the Death of VHS, a new system unlocked back at the castle:

You may each place any ONE item of your choice that wasn't aquired from the item library system into this machine and select option S, T or P and it will upgrade that item accordingly. Unfortunatly the system seems to have been built on the assumption that the user knew what that system did, so what S, T and P mean is unknown.

PHANTASMIC SLAMMER

Somehow, the electromagnetic system is able to be automatically installed, and PS finds itself able to hover a little way off the ground when needed. It would seem the castle has calibrated systems to be able to install things remotely using the teleporters.

[NWOWWE]

"Well thank you very much Mr. Tench, you've been most helpful. I hope we have a chat again another time but I really must be going. A busy day ahead of me."

All too true Gaunt thought darkly, but kept his pleasant smile fixed on his face nonetheless. He left the house and noticed the message from George. Well, the others seemed to be keeping plenty busy themselves. Good. Let them deal with that kind of heavy lifting. But there was something new at the castle so it was time to make another trip there before heading to Ms. Triablos's company.

"I'd like to return to the castle."

[kodster]

(summary post)

*Eudial goes to a weapons store near the area and buys:

- a vintage dragon gun - like an elephant gun but bigger and with some minor magic busting enchantments
- a Hyperion class bolt launcher made from superlight alloys, never needs reloading and very accurate, but way less stopping power against heavier foes
- a rifle snipe - basically it is a common snipe, that has SAS training as a sniper, and has a small but powerful gun he will follow orders of whoever purchased the contract to the letter, and is a veteran of numerous armed conflicts with an impressive/scary killcount

all for 55,000*

*she also expresses her desire to return to the castle post-haste*

[alex_holt]

EUDIAL:

There is no obvious change in physical appearance to thew sniper rifle after an energy pulse fills the capsule with light, however, when Eudial picks it up again, she feels a change in herself. As she holds it in her hands, her normal skin begins to scale over slowly, inching up her arms and then through the rest of her body. It would seem while holding this rifle, it gives the wielder some of the properties of dragonsflesh - immunity to fire, resistance to just about everything else, including magic. Once it leaves the wielders hands the scaling recedes back down to the fingertips before vanishing.

[alex_holt]

Eudial is teleported to the castle.

The Snipe introduces itself as Fletcher - the intonation is that of a gruff badass, but reality is high pitched and piping in sound.

"Do you have any standing order ma'm?"

[kodster]

Eudial went to the new machine and placed the dragon rifle into it, and selected option T.