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The Age of Fire.

Posted by MentatFor group 0
Mentat
player, 1446 posts
Those who fear the dark
Have never seen the light
Mon 5 Sep 2016
at 15:18
  • msg #1

The Age of Fire

This is a placeholder for the new thread of Magnus, GMed by Mentat.  :)
Mentat
player, 1447 posts
Those who fear the dark
Have never seen the light
Mon 5 Sep 2016
at 16:51
  • msg #2

The Age of Fire

And just as quickly, the flash ends, and it is very hard to breathe suddenly.

You see fragments of what was once a spacecraft falling around you. You are still feeling weightless, but the rush of air past your face tells you it is because of the terminal velocity free fall you are in. You feel the temperature rising, and you realize you, and the other versers you sense are going to burn up very shortly.

The First, thankfully, is not present.
Magnus
player, 2024 posts
Mon 5 Sep 2016
at 18:23
  • msg #3

The Age of Fire

Oh great. I have to survive and save the other versers from atmospheric reentry. Although it is odd that others showed up with me.

I'll grap all the versers with telekinesis and draw them to me.

Then I'll form my chi based conical heat shield to get started on air braking us.

What do I sense about the mana on the planet below?

I'm going to do more but I need info.
Mentat
player, 1448 posts
Those who fear the dark
Have never seen the light
Mon 5 Sep 2016
at 19:50
  • msg #4

The Age of Fire

You cannot sense the mana lines from this range, although you get a vague sense of all types of magical power being in abundance.

The rest of the craft falls past you as the four of you descend. You notice that it is night, and that your landing zone appears to be some kind of ashen soil that makes your landing very smooth. Thirteen simply keeps repeating the word "Error" to himself once every five seconds. The other two are unconscious.

Amid the flaming wreckage and landscape around you, you catch a glimpse of a strange dark being with an oversized head picking through the remains of the ship. It is as large as you are, but it's strangely infantile body proportions and its hunched stance make it appear small. It has a chi signature that you lack a basis of comparison to, although traces of black self-interest flicker through it.

It pauses it's search to stare back at you, unaffected by the fire and heat. It's eyes flicker yellow, and its head turns sideways, like it is trying understand what you are.
Magnus
player, 2025 posts
Mon 5 Sep 2016
at 20:45
  • msg #5

The Age of Fire

I was going to cast another spell to fly down but then I realized that I could just float down with telekinesis.

I stare at the strange being with the weird chi. I guess I should try to communicate.

I'll connect to it's mind woth telepathy and send it a message.
Greetings. I am called Magnus. What is your name and what exactly are you?

I'll also feel out what the local mana is like.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:19, Mon 05 Sept 2016.
Mentat
player, 1449 posts
Those who fear the dark
Have never seen the light
Tue 6 Sep 2016
at 01:35
  • msg #6

The Age of Fire

While you can clearly sense your message got through, and was understood, it does not respond to your telepathy. It grabs a thin piece of metal and moves down to you, leaping down the wreckage.

It lands in front of you, and begins drawing an "X" into the ground, and it points your eyes to that. It carefully removes the center of that mark, leaving only four lines. One line it draws a sun at the end, the opposite shows a skull, to the left a stylized flame, and to the right it draws a dragon's head. In the center, it draws a spiral, and then points to it with one finger, than to itself, than to a cave in the side of the mountain.

Why it doesn't just use the telepathy eludes you.

The mana pulsates wildly. You sense burned out chi around you, strong but strange in its nature. Like the energies of Yomi Wan, but not quite as toxic. Just stale in the immediate area. You do sense a ley line of energy, and several of them get stronger in particular kinds of power that match the symbols being drawn: white, black, red, and oddly blue for the dragon. The only energy not in abundance in any of its directions is the power of the forest, and that seems to be going vaguely in the same direction as the dragon's head.
Magnus
player, 2026 posts
Wed 7 Sep 2016
at 07:09
  • msg #7

The Age of Fire

...What are you trying to tell me? Why didn't you use the Telepathy I set up?

Are you asking what kind of magic I use?

Mentat
player, 1450 posts
Those who fear the dark
Have never seen the light
Wed 7 Sep 2016
at 15:40
  • msg #8

The Age of Fire

It shakes its head in what you are fairly certain is 'no,' and then it starts. This creature stands up ramrod straight, looking out at the horizon, and then it runs to a cavern entrance. Even watching it, it seems to disappear into the darkness, merging with the shadows.

Thirteen flickers to activation finally. "Sys-tems crit-ic-al. Core im-paired. Large ob-ject...on col-lis-ion course."

Thirteen picks up the prone Anthony and begins moving to the cavern entrance as well, leaving Lucian behind him.
Magnus
player, 2031 posts
Wed 7 Sep 2016
at 19:35
  • msg #9

The Age of Fire

I'll pick up Lucien and follow Thirteen into the cave
Mentat
player, 1451 posts
Those who fear the dark
Have never seen the light
Wed 7 Sep 2016
at 22:54
  • msg #10

The Age of Fire

You hear the sound of a distinctly animalistic roar behind you as you go into the cave. Behind you amidst the wreckage is a large red carnivorous reptile with a distinctive scaly crest around its head. Based on its fifty foot height from all fours, and its long neck, you recognize it as a dragon.

It smashes through the remains of your crashed vessel, looking for anything alive, based on its movements. It sniffs the air, and immediately looks to the cavern you are in. It lowers its head, sniffing your direction.

Interestingly enough, it did not come from the direction indicated by a dragon head by the odd creature. It came from the direction labeled by a sun.
Magnus
player, 2036 posts
Thu 8 Sep 2016
at 01:16
  • msg #11

The Age of Fire

OOC: Well. My Mental Instability: Reckless Bravery caused me to do this. And I always wanted to fight a dragon. Besides the Dragon will probably try to kill us all by breathing fire down the cave.

I'll set Lucien down and do some preparation for fighting a dragon.
I'll perform the Iron shirt kata that Mentat showed me and set it to resist extreme heat.
Then I'll use my Iron Skin Technique to harden my skin against the dragons claws.
Then I'll draw my zweihander. Whispering into it's primitive mind.
Wake up. It is time for battle. Drink your fill

Then I'll come out of the cave and head towards the dragon.
I'll analyze it chi signature as I go. To hopefully figure out how strong it's magic is and what flavor it will use.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:17, Thu 08 Sept 2016.
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