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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 3, 2023 3:18:42 GMT -5
Javal Zarrias was walking hurriedly through Frost Gale's cold and frigid environment on a specific mission. He and his crew had been hired to help out a local library in Pale City be overthrown by a troll tyrant who had taken control of the books and was using them as weapons of mass destruction. He was in a rush not wanting to see precious and important books get used for evil purposes. He had sent his crew up there with his galleon wanting to enjoy some sightseeing of the tundra for himself, and it would make good physical training. He remembered back when he was a child his mentor used to make him train in a snowy forest to learn how to deal with the cold.
As he made his way through a beautiful icy garden area filled with amazing frozen-over trees and bushes he stood for a second to observe their beauty, especially under the warm sun as it began to rise and begin the day proper.
The second he stood around looking he suddenly felt the ground from under him start to sink he tried jumping out landing a couple of feet in front of him but the result was still the same even worse now as he sank quicker before suddenly the nice serene frozen garden area was suddenly swallowed and sank it the dark abyss below.
Quest Name: Stone Cold
Participants: Two or more
Location: Frostgale
Post Requirements: 6 posts per person, 200 words per post
Reward: +1 Renown, +1 Stone, +1 Crystal Eye
Description: Traveling through Frost Gale for your own business has led you across a field of ice. The ice however has unknowingly begun to melt, most likely due to the increase in temperature as a result of Mt. Drakolt. As you travel, the ice beneath you gives way, sending you falling into a dark, frozen chamber beneath the earth. This chamber is not empty however, and is home to three, large, very old Basilisk. The job is simply, survive the Basilisk and escape from your frozen prison.
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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Oct 5, 2023 17:56:04 GMT -5
The sun's rise casts a brilliant shimmer across the field of ice. For all its glory and beauty, it does well to hide cracks and crevices. Only a thin sheet of ice makes a window to the dark secrets below: a deep cavern. Javal's fall casts shards into the abyss, falling like broken glass and glimmering like a night sky until the sun no longer reaches them.
Everything lands with a rumble that echoes throughout the hidden caverns, piles of snow meeting the ground first as the only cushion for a fall so high. These sheets of white quickly begin to shift and slide down the smooth icy floor, dragging everything with them in a miniature avalanche. Were this a hot summer day, it might be a fun activity, a natural slide for an adventurous child. But it isn't.
Deeper into the caves the snow travels until finally dumping out into a nearly pitch black opening. When the mist of cold settles in the cavern, it quickly becomes apparent that the walls are slick and impossible to climb without the proper tools. Offshoot caverns exit this one, and underneath the fresh pile of snow, two red horns poke out. Something must be underneath!
Astrid's under Javal's ass
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 7, 2023 1:56:58 GMT -5
The space around Javal disappears and falls into the abyss with him as he holds his hands out to the air above him as he looks around panicked feeling himself sink into the abyss below worried about his tough landing. He landed with a fairly good fall; his back and bottom didn’t feel very injured save for the sharp feeling under himself; he just assumed the shards of ice that probably fell before him. He quickly realizes as he taps under him that two spiky objects don’t feel very shard-like, he quickly wraps his arms over his legs and rolls away from the medium-sized snow pile where he landed before. He rolls to the left and straightens himself out standing at his full height with wide curious eyes as he looks over what he thought he felt.
“Two Red horns? Is that some sort of powerful magical snow that I haven't seen before? The only snow that I have seen has been white and brown the brown being the snow of the desert or at least that’s what Ronrik says”, he ponders out loud before squinting and walking closer to them, “Oh goodness no, those are horns of a person what have I done?”.
He begins trying to free whatever person must’ve fallen on top of digging out the snow from its pile and throwing it to the floor next to him.
“Hello there? Are you alive? Do you need help?”, the fellblood exclaims as he continues to dig with his hands not worrying about the cold, cold feeling he has in his arms and body.
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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Oct 7, 2023 20:20:09 GMT -5
Underneath the snow, Astrid has lost most of the feeling in her extremities. Honestly, in the time she spent buried under the snow, she was too dazed to think about ways to escape, so she fell asleep. But there’s movement, and finally, she feels the pressure of the icy coffin release, and she shakes residual snow off her face to see that her rescuer is a fellblood.
“Oh, th-thanks m-m-mister,” she says through chattering teeth, her voice quiet as a mouse. “Bit cold in Frost Gale, ain’t it?” Somehow, she manages to keep a cheerful demeanor regardless. With a few more scoops, she’s free and drags herself out of the snow bank and lays facedown on the cold floor in the pitch-black cavern. “Nice ta stretch out…” she mumbles.
With so little energy to move her limbs, she can only muster up enough magic to summon an item from her pouch into her hand which she slowly drags up to her face. Some smacking and munching later, the air around Astrid starts getting hotter, and things really warm up. She feels movement return to her extremities, and Astrid carefully sits up while still smacking on the chocolate and summons her war hammer into her hands. A burst of healing energy clears her fingers and toes of frostbite, and overall, she’s feeling much better.
Finally, she looks at Javal, her eyes glimmering a color shift of green and gold in the darkness. “Thanks fer the help, mister,” Astrid says cheerily. “Bit dark down here ain’t it? Can ya see alright? I’m Astrid!”
Summon Possession - Dragon’s Chocolate - heat wave Spellblade - Always There + Sharing Essence (1/2 per topic) Night Vision
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 9, 2023 1:28:17 GMT -5
Javal smiles widely as he sees that the trapped person now revealed as a child has been saved from her pile of ice tomb.
“No problem at all my stranger and yes it is quite chilly here why even in my long coat and sandals I am quite cold. I planned to train a little bit in the cold to strengthen my resistance to it but alas it appears my foolhardiness has proven to be my downfall”.
“Are you alright there friend? Would you like me to give you some jerky I took with me for the road? It’s just some Ashlands Jerky. Some fair warning it may be a little spicy but I like to carry it around if I need to make a sandwich. It adds a little extra flavor to it that I enjoy".
His worry quickly dissipates as he hears the sound of chewing on something, “Never mind then my friend it appears you have that covered”.
He looked deep into the darkness not seeing a single thing in front of him although he knew that a young girl was in front of him because of Astrid’s voice.
“I cannot see very well everything appears to be pitch black, nice to meet you, Astrid, my name is Javal Zarrias, president of the Drakon Security Company, a former member of the Black Dragon Pirates, and pupil of Sir. Ronrik Emeraldcutter. Would you like to be my friend?”, he then bows forward before standing back up at his usual six foot two self.
“So now what do we do my friend?”, the fellblood questions a bit curious about how they’d escape this perilous situation.
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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Oct 9, 2023 16:51:39 GMT -5
As she sits up and gets a feel for her whole body again, Astrid looks at Javal while he explains his situation. “Nah, ain’t all that foolhardy,” she says. “Ain’t a bad idea ta get used ta the cold. This place just uh… Well, Frost Gale’s one of them places that likes ta hide its secrets, ya know?” It’s some attempt to joke and make light of the situation. Luckily, he doesn’t seem to be injured.
“If yer offerin’ a snack, I’ll never turn one down,” she says with a smile. “I like the spice a’ that jerky. Tastes real good, ‘specially on the road. Me dog likes it too.”
It’s about then she realizes he can’t see, something she didn’t consider because she’s never much had a problem seeing in the dark. She really should carry a torch. Scratching at her ear with a specially made earring dangling from it, she tries to think about what magic Cantio has that might be able to help the fellblood see better.
“Wow, ya have a lotta monikers!” Astrid says, standing up. “Right, I’m officially Lady Astrid Stormstone a’ Sky Peak Village, engineer fer Platinum Corp, member a’ some guilds an’ stuff, an’... I dunno, I fought a couple a’ gods.” While she offers her hand to him to shake, not considering that he can't actually see that, she realizes that something about Javal is familiar, but she’s sure she hasn’t seen him face to face before. “Ya wouldn’t happen ta have been in Darkveil when the volcano exploded, were ya?”
“Far as what we do…” With her hands on her hips, Astrid looks around. “We need a way fer ya ta see. Flyin’ outta here won’t be all that easy… Don’t s’pose ya can phase through solid objects can ya?” Sure, it’s a very specific question, but ever since she’s gotten really in tune with her electrical abilities, she’s found that to be a very useful skill to have.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 10, 2023 1:57:32 GMT -5
“Thank you friend for understanding my intentions, and yes of course Frost Gale is filled with secrets and areas unexplored like this, I think. I don’t know where we are, to be honest, the only thing I know was that this place was a beautiful snow garden that fell here into this ravenous area”.
Javal smiles as the young voice accepts his offer of Ashlands Jerky, he reaches into his backpack and pulls it out from the first pocket. He quickly realizes he cannot see as he holds it in his hand and tries to hand it over to Astrid but to no avail.
“I still cannot see you, stranger, wherever you are, just take the delicious jerky from my hand if you can see me. I have a handful more in my backpack so don’t worry, oh and you said you had a dog?”.
He then holds out the Ashlands Jerky in front of him for Astrid to take.
After waiting for her to take it he responds in awe, “Oh goodness you’re Lady Astrid Stormstone the god slayer? I’ve heard of your epic deeds in some taverns I frequent on my adventures. It is truly even more of a pleasure meeting you Lady Astrid”, he bows once more clumsily in the dark.
He has a fond smile on his face as Darkveil was mentioned, “Yes indeed. I was a part of the many adventurers who worked together to slay Vulcadreus, I believe I saw you there during the fight”.
He places his finger on his chin as he thinks of Astrid’s specific question, “I cannot remember phasing but if needed I could close my eyes and try my hardest to believe I could. I have access to wings and flight, yes but like you said that wouldn’t be the best choice out of here”.
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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Oct 10, 2023 15:15:56 GMT -5
“Ah, right, sorry,” Astrid says as Javal clumsily offers her the jerky. "Thanks!" She takes it carefully from his hand then munches on it. It’s brittle in the cold and crunches more than it is chewy. Nonetheless, it’s tasty. “Ya’ve heard a’ me?” she says through a crunch, surprised to hear that. Sometimes she forgets that the things she’s managed to accomplish could be considered pretty impressive. She still largely just feels like a kid who likes swinging a hammer and fighting monsters. She wishes she could say the same about him, but now that she’s met him, she’s going to keep an ear out for his deeds. Even though Javal can’t see it, she grins at him upon hearing that she does recognize him from the fight with Vulcadreaus. “Oh, shoot! That fight was tough, but everyone did a great job! I’m glad ta see yer alright!” In her excitement, she raises her hand to give him a high five… only to realize he can’t see her. “Erm…” Awkwardly, she tries to take his wrist and give him a light high five. “Well, that ain’t no matter,” she says. “I got some ropes an’ climbin’ gear.” Looking around, she sees the tunnels are kind of tight. It’s probably not going to work out to fly out of here. Her eyes light up when she remembers she has a tool perfect for this! Whipping up a bit of magic, Astrid summons forth a very large mechanical drill with a crank on the side. “We’ll drill outta here so we can get out easily!” She rotates the crank, and the gears clatter as they spin the drill head. When she stops spinning it, she realizes there is another chittering echoing around the cavern. She looks around but doesn’t see anything, and Javal definitely didn’t make that sound. There’s an odd clacking coming from one of the offshoot cavern. The chittering echoes through the caves again, this time from more sources, and they sound closer. Suddenly, a group of three reptilian creatures with spiny backs and eight legs, rows of jagged teeth and huge nostrils and eyes burst forth from the caves! “Watch out!”
Summon possession - The Drill That Pierces Stone Hearts Creature details: Basilisk Ash Lands, Dragon's Cradle, Frost Gale Power Level | Alignment | Medium-High | Hostile |
Description | A basilisk is a multilegged, reptilian horror whose deadly gaze transforms victims into porous stone. With its strong jaws, the creature consumes this stone, which returns to organic form in its gullet.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 11, 2023 2:37:02 GMT -5
Javal smiled happily in the darkness as he heard Astrid munch on his Ashlands Jerky, “That should at least keep her fed for now hopefully we won't be here for too long as to start rationing food”, he thinks to himself.
He takes a look at his backpack, noticing he does not have much food if they need it, a cookie, four more Ashlands Jerky, three slices of bread, lettuce, and a half-eaten cut of mutton.
He shakes his head as he shuts his backpack back up, “It should be fine, I’ll make sure of it, we’ll both escape out of here without delay”, he declares in his head.
“Yes indeed friend Astrid, everybody worked their hardest and gave it everything they had to stop the Vulcadreus”, he looked around in confusion as he felt his wrist taken and high-fived.
“Hello there?”, the fellblood exclaims confused, “Is there a high-five ghost around here?”, he says with a slight tone of wonder.
After waiting for a response and then realizing it was most likely Astrid he lowers his excitement whoever he now has the idea of a high-five ghost being out there somewhere in the world.
“Alright, with ropes and climbing gear we should be able to get out of here”, he is then shocked to hear suddenly the sounds of gears turning and cranking coming from where he assumed Astrid was.
“Drill out of here?”, He questions out loud before suddenly being alerted to a faint chittering echo. He couldn’t tell if that was Astrid’s drill doing or not but something about it was making him anxious.
He looked around trying to gauge its location before suddenly three giant monsters broke through and chitter loudly around them.
He quickly taps the tattoo on his abdomen summoning another pair of arms (1. Extra Arms Tattoo) to his side, he takes out a shiny gold bow from his back and holds it with his upper hand while pulling out his katana from his sheath with his bottom right hand quickly raising it forward.
He holds the ray bow with the bow of his upper hands grasping the string, summoning an arrow of light pulling back, and firing (2. Ray Bow)at one of the chittering beasts hoping to at least gain some light here.
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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Oct 11, 2023 20:21:24 GMT -5
“That god got what he deserved, ruinin’ our barbecue an’ all,” Astrid says through a chuckle. In actuality, she’s really mad the barbecue got canceled because the volcano exploded, but what can you do about something like that other than kill the creature responsible? There will probably be no huge repercussions from that.
She giggles when Javal seems confused about the high five. “Nah, that was just me,” she says, releasing his wrist.
When the creatures emerge from the caves, Astrid holds her drill up with the intent to kill. They won’t be the first creatures she’s killed with a drill! Glancing over, she sees that Javal has manifested an extra pair of arms and pulled out a glowing bow. An arrow that was certainly aimed in the general direction of the creatures strikes the wall but illuminates the cavern. That’ll make it easier for him to see to fight these creatures!
“I think ya need some light,” Astrid says. “That’ll help, maybe I can too!” Letting lightning wreath her form, Astrid embodies her favored element. Bright blue light flashes through the cavern. It’s almost blinding for the darkness to be shattered by flashing lights. Then, she charges forward to the nearest basilisk in some attempt to spear it on the spinning drill. It whips around, and her drill gets stuck between the spikes on its back, then another one scurries over to take a bite out of her, getting a mouth full of metal from her greaves.
Trying to push it off, she looks over to see that the third one is looking at Javal with its eyes glowing a brilliant gold in the dark. That’s when it occurs to her what these are, something she’s read about in the WEF books! “They’re basilisks! Don’t look ‘em in the eye!”
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 12, 2023 2:55:36 GMT -5
Javal nodded at Astrid’s comment, “Yes I would light would be useful here, I can barely make out these beast’s visages right now”.
Javal then holds his hands over his face covering his eyes as Astrid enters her elemental form. He then opens them once more to see the cave completely lit up and glances over the truly horrendous-looking monsters looming over them jaws open showing their rows of teeth and mouths watering for food.
Javal stood his ground feet apart and held his ray bow in his upper arms firing a light arrow (1. Ray Bow) at the basilisk that lunged for him before quickly rolling out of the way from the monster’s efforts to crush him.
He looks over to Astrid as she warns him, “Basilisks? Aren't those the ones that petrify you if you look them in the eye?”.
He then waits to hear Astrid’s response before charging forth at the Basilisk that attacked him earlier. As he nears its head he smashes his feet into the ground summoning all magical energy into them as he jumps forward in the air feeling the effects of his spell immediately as his increased jump power (2. Long Stride) lands him a couple of feet in the air right next to the beast’s back.
He quickly throws himself on the beast’s back and holds on for dear life as he tries to climb to the beast’s head to do some real damage. The beast does not take the presence of a stranger on its back lightly and it begins thrashing around trying to drive Javal off of it even bumping into its brethren.
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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Oct 17, 2023 14:47:09 GMT -5
With one basilisk chomping down on her gauntlet, Astrid ignites them. With lightning coursing through and around her body, now combined with the fire from her gauntlets, the girl delivers a powerful punch to the creature’s jaw, knocking it loose and pushing it back. It gives her the opportunity to wrench her drill free from the other one’s back and get some space to think.
Recalling as much information as she can about the basilisks in the heat of battle, Astrid shouts back to Javal, “Aye! Don’t look ‘em in the eye, an’ ya should be alright!” The problem is that their eyes are glowing in the darkness, so this makes the situation particularly challenging. They can’t fight with their eyes closed! She looks up. It sure would be easy to get out of here by just phasing through the ice above, but she won’t leave Javal behind even if it means risking her own life and safety. That’s par for the course in the life of an adventurer.
Then something unexpected happens: one of the basilisks takes in a deep breath and releases a cloud of gas that fills the chamber, refracting all light that enters it and making it difficult to see. This is something Astrid sees as a win. That is… until she sees a tiny frost slug enter the fog and be turned to stone.
“DON’T BREATHE THE GAS!” she cries desperately before taking a breath and backing off.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 18, 2023 2:40:13 GMT -5
Javal lands on the spiky back of the beast and gets his leg impaled by its spikes he grits his teeth.
“Darn it, I couldn’t see it. I thought this thing had a smooth back or something like a vorrapede'', he looked down to see his leg bleeding from where he landed on the beast's back.
He shakes off the pain and places his hand on the beast’s back before collecting Ice magic into the soles of his sandals suddenly coming from under his feet the back of the basilisk is covered by a long expanse of ice (1) over it. He then holds himself still grabbing onto one of the spikes on its back as he smiles at his plan as the basilisk shrieks in surprise of feeling the terrible ice on its back.
Javal was about to open his mouth to spew out the fire he was gathering in his chest before he smelt a foul odor emerge, he barely had time to look around before hearing Asrid’s warning and quickly closing his mouth. He then holds his hand out gathering water from the air to form a bubble (2), he then throws it at a nearby Basilisk hitting its face with water before bouncing to the other one that Astrid was facing before finally hitting the one he was riding on popping and hitting its face with water.
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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Oct 20, 2023 22:43:41 GMT -5
“Nothin’ like a vorrapede!” Astrid shouts. Admittedly, she’d probably be more upset at seeing one of those in here rather than the basilisks. She’s had far too many run ins with arthropods, and if she never saw another one, it would be too soon. “More likely ta run into a remorhaz up here. They like the cold.”
SLAM! She throws her war hammer clear across the cavern and smashes a basilisk in the side, sending it into the wall. Glancing over, she sees Javal in a bad way, but it isn’t soon before long that the cloud of petrifying gas pours into the cavern. She takes a deep breath and watches as Javal’s quick thinking with water magic helps quell some of the gas as the bubble bursts. Rain or wind would be perfect to take the gas out of the air so they can finish things here!
They’re in a cavern full of ice! Remembering some of her new training through the Consortium, Astrid bounds into the air and touches the roof of the cavern, pulsing magical energy through it to turn the icy stone above into water that rains down on the gases filling the cavern below and covering the ground in one area with water.
Full elemental manifestation Step of the wind Transmuter - Hands of the transmuter - turn 6ft section of stone to water
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 22, 2023 2:51:45 GMT -5
Javal wanted to open his mouth to respond to Astrid’s remarks so badly but held himself back as he stared at the wafting gas around the chamber.
“What’s a remorhaz?”, Javal thought in his head, “Is that food? Is it like an animal”, he pondered before realizing she was talking about the terrifying insect-like ice predators, he remembered running into one on the cliffs of Dragon’s Cradle when he was younger during master Ronrik’s training, what a time.
Javal then throws his katana in the air before catching it and flipping his grip on it so he is holding its hilt downwards (1). He then holds it with his hands raising it over his head and quickly brings it down into the beast’s ice-covered back, piercing through the ice he conjured and into its skin. The monster shrieks in pain and tries once more to shake off Javal however this time with Javal not holding anything the beasts are successful and send Javal crashing into the nearby wall. He looked up expecting to see the bottom of the basilisk’s feet coming towards him but was surprised to see a large pouring of water coming from above that rained down and filled the cavern floor with water.
He smirks as he looks at the basilisk and says, “Thank you for the change of scenery Astrid, hydromancy is my specialty”, he then placed his katana in his mouth as he holds his left and right hands up and two large tendrils of water (2) rise from below and grabs two of the basilisks by the neck and binds them in place he then yells, “Astrid there's your chance to do some damage”.
1. Katana Impale (Passives: Bulls Strength, Angelic Light, Double Strike, Water Rune) 2. Sea Tendrils
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