[Sorry for the long delay. Last week got away from me and then I was out on business this week. I completely lost track of the progress of time.] On Tuesday, November 11, 2025 4:13 PM Stuck Ey via Emerald Flame wrote:
Dax will go get the orbs (that is what Nia is referring to as seeds right?) and return back.
Acknowledged. There are two left, not counting the one currently in the assistant, and they are small enough to carry easily. You'll definitely want to keep this in mind for later. On Monday, November 10, 2025 10:08 PM Mike Bloy via Emerald Flame wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11 2025 at 01:47:40 AM -0000, via Emerald Flame <emerald-flame@lists.incorporeal.org> wrote:
If they arrive in a small group, she will try to convince them to back off with a warning shot with a normal arrow [Ooc: a la “I didn’t have to miss.”]
If they surge in in force, Nia will go “the hell with it” and aim for the center of their group with the Hellfire arrow while screaming an elvish curse.
See, here's the thing. Gegren *really* doesn't like these guys and really doesn't want to deal with being captured by them (it may be a trauma thing from turning into a demon and what he's heard of what these guys will do to him if they get hold of him). At the same time, he's not a murderer.
Gegren focuses his will on one of the stones at the lead intruder's feet, while the intruder is still reeling and blinded...
[Shatter on the stone floor near the lead intruder, cost 1 intellect point, +3 for easing with effort. Maybe another ease from Intimidation skill? beats a difficulty 2 task. (d20=7). So beats 3 or 4 depending...]
[Shatter does 1 point of damage in the immediate area even if I failed, it just depends on if my aim was good or not I think]
An explosion goes off nearby to the intruders, and one of the stone cobbles of the floor shatters into shrapnel that hits everything nearby.
Gegren will step forward, still stopping the automaton from moving forward, and do his best to look his most demonic. "LEAVE. NOW. THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING."
Chaos and panic dominate the group's reaction to the shattering stone and threat. Overlapping screams and yells to retreat back up top as they quickly flee (as quickly as they can while being blinded, anyway). If you were to follow them, you would see them hurriedly returning up the hole in the mud room, making no attempt to stop you or to hide their immediate fear. That said, you don't get the sense the whole company up top is packing up or anything, so you might have just bought yourselves some time, but you haven't accomplished a full retreat or anything like that. You do have a couple minutes still to device a strategy, esp. as Dax goes and comes back for the two orbs. -- bss (Brian S. Stephan) | https://bss.zone/ | GPG: 0x80895FCB