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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Oct 24, 2023 15:48:28 GMT -5
With the air clearer of petrifying gas, one basilisk with a mortal wound, and the last two held aloft by Javal’s water tendrils, Astrid has a good opportunity to take them out. She lands roughly on the ground and winces when she hears one of her greaves crunch more from the impact, already weakened from the basilisk’s attack earlier. It’s hard not to look them in the eyes, so she pulls her goggles over her eyes and shouts, “Close yer eyes!” to Javal, and then, assuming that he does, she claps her hands together.[1]
A bright flash of blinding light explodes from her hands, and the basilisks shriek, unable to avoid it. All of the basilisks clench their eyes closed, blinded and in pain from the flash. Then, Astrid lifts her hammer and aims it at the two basilisks held aloft by Javal. Lightning gathers at the end of her hammer then blasts out in two bolts fired off at the same time, one at each of the basilisks. With them both doused in water, the lightning is especially effective.[2,3] The blinded and shrieking creatures squirm, unable to escape the magic running through their bodies and go still.
Only one basilisk remains. “Finish ‘em!” Astrid calls.
[1] Blinding clasp [2] Dual Cast [3] Lightning Bolt +2 charges for elementalist
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 29, 2023 0:21:18 GMT -5
Javal holds his two hands out keeping the two basilisk steady binded by his sea tendrils as they squirm and try to wriggle out of the fellblood’s bind. He grits his teeth harder as he holds his katana in his mouth and he focuses his strength on making sure Astrid can do the next big blow. He hears Astrid call out to close his eyes and immediately does jerking his head forward, eyes closed and looking down.
Suddenly he feels a large warm feeling enveloping his body as he keeps his eyes closed only hearing the deafening shrieks of what he assumed were the basilisk before hearing even more blood-curdling screams before deafening silence. He felt the weight in his sea tendrils weaken before the two scaly monsters fell into the water with a splash causing his sea tendrils to return to their source. The only thing that he could hear now was the faint whining of a singular basilisk. He snapped open his eyes and jerked his head back as he unclenched his blade from his jaw and grabbed its hilt with his right hand returning it to his hand’s grasp as he heard Astrid’s call to action. He ran forward as fast as he could blade in hand headed straight towards the final croaking beast.
He jumps as he shouts, “Take this foul beast”, he twists his body to the right as he swings his sword using the increased range of motion to increase his slashing power. He grits his teeth as his metal connects towards the basilisk’s head, feeling it clash and struggle for a second against its tough hide before finally his katana cleaves through the monster’s head, the decapitated noggin ker-plunking into the water alongside its long body.
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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Oct 30, 2023 16:45:48 GMT -5
Taking a deep breath and looking around, Astrid listens out carefully for anything else coming their way, but the only thing she can hear is her own panting along with Javal’s. She lets the lightning wreathing her body fade away, and with it, the cavern falls into darkness again. Well, she still doesn’t have a torch. That’s not too helpful for Javal, now is it?
“Are ya doin’ alright over there?” she asks, walking over and checking him out for anything major. Clasping his shoulder, a healing warmth washes over Javal to heal any small scrapes or wounds.[1] “Bit ‘a me armor got damaged, but it’s fixable.” The cavern around them sure will be a pain to get Javal out of. Until Astrid realizes something.
“Oh, I’ve got a potion that’ll transport ya ta any city on the map!”[2] she exclaims. “That’ll get ya outta here, no problem. I’ll have one fer meself too!” With that, Astrid pulls a small dark potion from her bag and an empty bottle, then with some shuffling around in the darkness and some pulling on magical threads and formulas, the second vial is filled with the same potion.[3] “There!” she says, triumphantly holding both potions, one an exact copy of the other, in the air.
“I’ll probably head home ta Sky Peak an’ fix up me armor,” she says. “What about ya?”
[1] Comrade’s patch - minor healing [2] Elsewhere Juice [3] Transmuter - Alchemical Mastery
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 31, 2023 3:12:51 GMT -5
Javal takes a deep breath of relief and shakes his head still breathing deeply trying to calm down after the fight. “ It was intense and it was dangerous”, he said as he looked down at his foot, kind of mangled and bleeding but still walkable. He then walked over to where he heard he remembered the nearest beast that was slain and bowed his head in respect placing his hands together and saying, “ Thank you for the great battle evil fiends, although I can’t say I have anything good to say about you at all since you did try to kill me and that child you were still really strong and for that, I thank all of you”, he then rose and tried to look for Astrid but couldn't see her. A large looming light that enveloped the room coming from Astrid disappeared the area entering a state of shadowed abyss. Suddenly he heard sloshing as he heard something walk through the water and his heart raced and he shouted, “ IS THAT THE SPIRITS OF THE BASILISKS? YOU FOUL BEASTS JUST KEEP COMING BACK”, before immediately relaxing as he heard Astrid’s voice that followed. He then smiled as he said, “ I’m doing perfectly alright my friend, how about yourself? You okay?”, deliberately trying to ignore the obvious and painful wound on his leg in front of Astrid, “ You were incredible out there”, and he felt a touch on his shoulder giving him much-needed relief and felt his leg’s puncturing feel slightly better, at least not searing and painful like it was before. “ Thank you, Astrid, and yes of course if you have a way out of here you can take advantage of it as soon as you can. I’d be down to explore the caves a little more or try to climb up for training purposes however my foolish ideas are better left as though, foolish ideas”. Javal then tries to open his eyes wide as Astrid takes out her potion and shows it to him although he still can’t see anything just pitch black. He still tries to match her excitement-ness, throws his hands in the air, and says, “ Huzzah yes I can see that perfectly and it is indeed amazing. I could indeed use some relaxation, rest at least, my armor itself has seen way better days”, he says looking down at his mangled up greaves and fauls almost torn apart from his legs, “ Alright let us escape this frozen fright fest” and braces his body for the effects of the potion.
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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Nov 4, 2023 21:21:37 GMT -5
Astrid resists giggling when Javal reacts to the danger that has long since passed. Once she’s finally gotten a second potion created and offers it to Javal, she realizes that he can’t actually see it to grab it, so she takes his hand and presses the bottle into his hand. Then she takes his other hand and puts it on the cork.
“When yer ready ta get outta here, just open it up an’ drink it,” she says. “It’ll taste a bit like… berry? I think. An’ then ya just focus real hard on where ya wanna go, an’ it’ll take ya there!” Stepping back, Astrid looks up at Javal. “Like I said, I’m headin’ back ta Sky Peak, but if ya wanna go ta like The Pale City or somethin’ ya can.”
She takes a look around the cavern to make sure neither of them dropped anything then puts her hands on her hips. “I think we’re alright ta get right outta here,” she says. “If ya decide ta come ta Sky Peak, I live in a big place on the edge a’ town. Feel free ta drop by!” Taking one of Javal’s hands, Astrid shakes it with a smile. “It was nice ta meet ya, Javal. I’m glad we could help each other outta this situation.” Then she uncorks her potion and chugs it. In a burst of purple light, she disappears, presumably returning to Sky Peak.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Nov 5, 2023 3:16:00 GMT -5
Javal is taken again by surprise as he feels something grab his arm and then make his other arm open a mysterious case before chuckling and realizing it’s most likely Astrid, although he still can’t rule out the possibility of Basilisk spirits or a high-fiving ghost at the back of his head.
He nods his head as Astrid explains what about to happen, “Drink it then focus on where I’d like to be! Sound’s great, thank you so much. I guess this is where we say goodbye for now my friend. It was a pleasure and an honor fighting alongside you against such foul beasts. I hope to see more of you and fight alongside each other in the future. I’ll be sure to visit Skypeak one of these days, maybe you can take a look at my armor that's worse for wear. Farewell friend Astrid goodbye”, he says as she disappears in a flashing light seeing her in full view for a final time.
Javal stands alone in the darkness for a bit relieved that they were able to take the monsters down. He looks at his hand that contains the potion and thinks, “Where I’d want to go, huh?”.
His vision flashes back to the most eventful and warmest memory he has onboard the Black Dragon’s ship before letting out a nervous chuckle, “As if”, but half joking he places the image of the ship in his mind remembering every single little detail from the strange burn marks on the lower deck to the piles of rum on the corner upper hull”.
He then feels enveloped in a purple light as he teleports away landing in a dark room he looks around the only thing he could see is faint greystone bricks around him with a figure sitting down in the shadows chained up. He was about to say something before he was whisked away again and transported to his own ship, the Sword of Abaddon.
“Wh-what was that”, he stammers out as he looks around wildly at everything as normally as his shiphands hard at work this moment shocked him to his very core making him feel very cold as he went to his quarters to ponder what in the world he say.
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