shard

21:06	Rainglove	Whatever would have happened, this is an incredibly powerful magical artifact.
21:06	Rainglove	If you could figure out how to use it, that is
21:06	Rainglove	as it is it's just going to turn the surrounding woods all weird and probably get the nearby town swamped with aberrations
21:06	Viejo	"You are very close to it Ceth. Do not become one of them if you can."
21:07	Nachtimus	"Jeeeeez. This /reeks/ of chaos magic. Way powerful. We can't leave this here, it's gonna corrupt the entire forest. It's only recently been put here, and look at what it's done. Help me work this out, but dooon't touch it!"
21:07	Nachtimus	"Even if you reeally want to!"
21:08	Hippocratesi	"How are we gonna move something like this?"
21:08	Viejo	"Destroy it. Not move."
21:08	Nachtimus	"I was thinking more along the lines of turning it off. Or pumping myself full of this arcane power. But I'd probably do the former first."
21:08	Viejo	"Magic is your area. Please advise."
21:09	Rainglove	K arcana anyone who has it
21:09	Nachtimus	spellcraft or k arcana or something?
21:09	Rainglove	eat a dick slowpoke
21:09	Nachtimus	1d20+10 ayy lmao
21:09	Beige	Nachtimus: ayy lmao: 29 (1d20+10=19)
21:09	Hippocratesi	1d20+10 ARCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANA
21:09	Beige	Hippocratesi: ARCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANA: 13 (1d20+10=3)
21:09	Hippocratesi	this is so fucking dumb
21:09	Nachtimus	you have to say ayy lmao
21:11	Viejo	1d20+2 ay arcana
21:11	Beige	Viejo: ay arcana: 16 (1d20+2=14)
21:11	Hippocratesi	re-tarded
21:12	Rainglove	Halia, it's probably impossible to just turn this thing off. It'd have to be channeled into something/someone. Ceth, it miiiiiiiiiight be possible to just turn it off, but that would take an extremely powerful abjuration wizard (OOC we're talking level 18+). Channeling is something you could probably do with help, but shutting it off is near impossible.
21:12	Nachtimus	Ceth sighs. "I don
21:12	Rainglove	hi don i'm rain
21:13	Nachtimus	't have enough power to turn this off. We'd need someone like the archmage to handle this."
21:13	Nachtimus	"But he's not here, so we'd have to channel it into something, but even then we'd need help."
21:13	Rainglove	"Help" meaning maybe 2-4 people
21:14	Nachtimus	people or mages
21:14	Hippocratesi	peasants
21:14	Rainglove	mages would be preferable, but in a pinch people will work
21:14	Benedict	"No other way to just brute force destroy it?"
21:14	Rainglove	you need at least one caster to do the directing
21:14	Viejo	"Fetch the archmage. I will keep watch."
21:14	Rainglove	there ain't no archmage here bruh
21:15	Hippocratesi	"An archmage is not someone you can simply fetch."
21:15	Viejo	"This is a problem for an archmage but there are no archmages who would come to deal with a problem fit for them? That is silly."
21:15	Nachtimus	"Sadly not. He's very busy. But! Even if you guys aren't all mages, I can still make this work!"
21:16	Benedict	"Make this work... without killing one of us?"
21:16	Rainglove	definitely probably
21:16	Nachtimus	"Hopefully! If you're worried about it, I could teach you magic. No, no, not enough time!"
21:17	Hippocratesi	"What's your plan then?"
21:17	Rainglove	crashing this shard
21:17	Rainglove	with no survivors
21:17	Nachtimus	"We have to make a friendship circle, and I'll lead this thing into channeling its power to where it stops!"
21:18	Hippocratesi	"/Friendship/ circle?"
21:18	Rainglove	you might know them as covens, halia
21:18	Hippocratesi	those basically are friendship circles actually
21:19	Hippocratesi	well
21:19	Nachtimus	"Something like that! Follow my lead!" He preps the channeling ritual.
21:19	Nachtimus	(i dunno how this works so)
21:19	Rainglove	CL checks from ceth and halia
21:19	Rainglove	fort saves from gruk and cha-kak
21:19	Nachtimus	1d20+3 help
21:19	Beige	Nachtimus: help: 12 (1d20+3=9)
21:19	Hippocratesi	wut checks
21:19	Rainglove	caster level
21:19	Hippocratesi	o
21:19	Rainglove	just 1d20+level
21:19	Hippocratesi	1d20+3
21:19	Beige	Hippocratesi: 13 (1d20+3=10)
21:19	Hippocratesi	dayum
21:20	Rainglove	well
21:20	Rainglove	FORT SAVES GRUK AND CHA-KAK
21:20	Benedict	Just in case of failure, Gruk uses his RESOLVE so that he can make two rolls (in case of failure) and take the better result.
21:20	Benedict	1d20+3
21:20	Beige	Benedict: 18 (1d20+3=15)
21:20	Rainglove	you succeed
21:20	Benedict	BANZAI
21:20	Rainglove	viejo
21:21	Rainglove	pls
21:21	Hippocratesi	i can use inspired and reroll
21:21	Hippocratesi	but i feel it'd be a waste
21:21	Hippocratesi	unless we'll die if we fail this
21:21	Rainglove	well failure will be very bad
21:21	Benedict	If he fails that roll, will he die?
21:21	Rainglove	it will be extremely painful
21:21	Benedict	He's a big guy!
21:22	Hippocratesi	1d20+3 I use INSPIRED! pls be better
21:22	Beige	Hippocratesi: I use INSPIRED! pls be better: 14 (1d20+3=11)
21:22	Rainglove	for halia
21:22	Rainglove	ay
21:22	Hippocratesi	one better
21:22	Rainglove	it's better
21:22	Hippocratesi	pain
21:24	Viejo	what am I doing?
21:24	Viejo	1d20+5 FORT
21:24	Beige	Viejo: FORT: 12 (1d20+5=7)
21:24	Viejo	nope
21:24	Rainglove	did you miss the friendship circle
21:24	Rainglove	why
21:24	Hippocratesi	guess we better roll out new sheets
21:24	Hippocratesi	we blew it
21:24	Hippocratesi	it's ovah
21:25	Rainglove	rocks explode
21:25	Rainglove	everyone dies
21:25	Benedict	Could he use my unused RESOLVE?
21:26	Rainglove	can he?
21:26	Benedict	Well, no.
21:26	Benedict	I just want to save Cha-Kak.
21:27	Viejo	ded
21:28	Viejo	wait when did Cha-Kak agree to this shitty friendship circle
21:28	Viejo	THANKS CETH
21:28	Rainglove	when you were gone you loser
21:28	Benedict	Wait. Would  +3 save Cha-Kak? Can Gruk attempt to AID ANOTHER?
21:28	Rainglove	you can definitely try
21:28	Rainglove	it makes no sense but if you want to try it then sure
21:29	Viejo	he gives cha-kak a reassuring pat on the back
21:29	Viejo	suddenly fortitude
21:29	Rainglove	of course
21:29	Benedict	1d20+6 A pat on the back for Cha-Kak.
21:29	Beige	Benedict: A pat on the back for Cha-Kak.: 13 (1d20+6=7)
21:29	Rainglove	well you beat a 10
21:29	Viejo	cha-kak is patted
21:29	Viejo	that's the second time today
21:29	Rainglove	success
21:29	Viejo	"Even Gruk thinks I am now a human or non-human. It is a good day."
21:30	Rainglove	The power of friendship is not quite strong enough to cover for Ceth having no fucking idea what he's doing. Blasts of magic arc off from the shard, slamming into gruk and cha-kak. Energy surges through both of you, threatening to blow you to pieces. Cha-kak, everything flashes white and you nearly lose consciousness before a pat from Gruk brings you back.
21:31	Rainglove	Gimme one more CL check Ceth
21:31	Nachtimus	1d20+3 AYY LMAO
21:31	Beige	Nachtimus: AYY LMAO: 18 (1d20+3=15)
21:31	Hippocratesi	oh wait did i actually pass?
21:31	Nachtimus	HRRRRRK
21:32	Viejo	"I do not like this sensation at all! Why did I agree to this... friendship circle?! What nonsense! The stuff of fairytales!"
21:33	Viejo	"I hope my children and their children and even their children never remember this moment."
21:33	Rainglove	Ceth AYY's with all his heart, and with a blinding, deafening crash the shard explodes downward into the earth. The ground ripples, flashing from forest to sand and briefly leaving you all standing on water before returning to the forest it was before.
21:33	Benedict	Gruk uses sheer willpower and resolve to withstand the surges of energy going through him from the evil, Chaotic shards.
21:34	Rainglove	ceth you may have been wrong about how easy that would be
21:34	Rainglove	also you are all literally blind and deaf for about 30 seconds after the explosion
21:34	Benedict	Good job, CETH.
21:34	Nachtimus	Ceth sits down and waits it out. He's been blinded and deafened before.
21:35	Viejo	"I am dead."
21:35	Benedict	Gruk also sits, but only because he feels that is the only safe thing to do. Oh gods, he cannot see his beautiful sword. He cannot even hear his own thoughts!
21:35	Viejo	"And there is no food."
21:35	Viejo	Cha-Kak instinctively leaps.
21:35	Viejo	1d20+13
21:35	Beige	Viejo: 23 (1d20+13=10)
21:35	Rainglove	.ch ceth, gruk, halia
21:35	Beige	Rainglove: ceth
21:35	Rainglove	he lands on ceth
21:36	Viejo	"Food after all?" Cha-Kak grabs Ceth blindly.
21:36	Hippocratesi	Halia simply falls to her knees and waits out the blinded deafness. "Ceth. Let's not do that again."
21:36	Nachtimus	"Hey, hey, now!"
21:36	Hippocratesi	She cannot hear herself speak so it probably comes out strangely.
21:36	Nachtimus	Ooohoo hisses aggressively.
21:36	Viejo	too bad he probably exploded
21:36	Viejo	fort sae
21:36	Viejo	save*
21:36	Rainglove	suddenly the ground erupts again and cha-kak explodes
21:36	Rainglove	bam
21:36	Rainglove	dead
21:36	Viejo	Cha-Kak licks the weird fleshy object. How does it taste?
21:37	Nachtimus	Human, with a tinge of magic.
21:37	Rainglove	no you're dead cha-kak
21:37	Viejo	o
21:37	Nachtimus	And by a tinge, I mean wow that's a lot of magic.
21:37	Viejo	Cha-Kak does not taste the magic.
21:37	Viejo	But he tastes the human.
21:37	Rainglove	you do, in fact, taste the magic
21:37	Viejo	MMMM
21:37	Viejo	o
21:38	Rainglove	you feel it too, which is a weird and new experience for you. The woods are settling back down around you, but you feel... very different.
21:39	Rainglove	Anyway, you've done your job, probably.
21:39	Nachtimus	Ceth's sight and hearing presumably return by now, as does everyone else's. "Friendship circles!"
21:39	Rainglove	everyone feels that by the way, not just cha-kak
21:40	Benedict	"...I'm not going crazy, am I?"
21:40	Viejo	Cha-Kak looks at Ceth with his bulging eyes.
21:40	Hippocratesi	"I don't...I don't feel right. Ceth, what's happened?"
21:40	Viejo	"If I am dead then I should not feel bad about eating Ceth because this is not Ceth."
21:40	Viejo	He leans in.
21:40	Nachtimus	"You're not dead, Cha-Kak! None of us are! What a surprise!"
21:41	Viejo	He pauses.
21:41	Rainglove	Whenever you stand from sitting, since everyone is sitting, small bolts of magic arc between you and the ground.
21:41	Viejo	"I should eat you anyway."
21:41	Rainglove	Shit's a little weird.
21:41	Benedict	Gruk licks the air. Is he really tasting magic? Why does it taste so awful?
21:41	Hippocratesi	Shit's goin' BONKERS.
21:41	Viejo	I read that as Gruk licks his anus
21:41	Benedict	Only in the privacy of his bedroom, Cha-Kak.
21:41	Viejo	Cha-Kak gets off Ceth and stands up. "What is this... Weird sensation?"
21:41	Nachtimus	"You shouldn't. Because we did it! This is the magic! The bad magic is gone now!"
21:42	Hippocratesi	"What the hell do you mean?"
21:43	Nachtimus	"Look before you! The thing warping the woods and probably bringing those bad things is gone."
21:43	Viejo	"It's in us, isn't it?"
21:43	Benedict	"We're going to slowly die, aren't we?"
21:43	Viejo	"I did say to be doers so... I guess that was doing it."
21:44	Nachtimus	"Uuuh... I wanna say maybe! I'll be completely honest, I had no idea what I was doing!"
21:44	Nachtimus	could i roll to tell what just happened
21:44	Rainglove	you can certainly try
21:44	Rainglove	but this is pretty out there
21:44	Nachtimus	wot to roll
21:45	Rainglove	K arcana or K planes
21:45	Rainglove	whichever you prefer
21:45	Rainglove	halia can also roll too but again
21:45	Rainglove	pretty out there
21:45	Viejo	"I am not trusting you again Ceth."
21:46	Nachtimus	1d20+10 aylmao?
21:46	Beige	Nachtimus: aylmao?: 13 (1d20+10=3)
21:46	Hippocratesi	1d20+10 muh arcana
21:46	Beige	Hippocratesi: muh arcana: 12 (1d20+10=2)
21:46	Hippocratesi	we just don't know
21:46	Nachtimus	c-can i take ten since we're in no rush?
21:46	Viejo	so is this the "you get affected by radiation and slowly mutate and die horribly" type or the "you get hit by radiation and gain super powers!"
21:47	Nachtimus	"Hey, it worked! I'm not sure what it was, but it worked!"
21:47	Benedict	"But what did it do to -us-?"
21:48	Viejo	"I am surprised everyone agreed to that."
21:48	Viejo	"Are we to die slow and painful deaths or gain new powers?"
21:48	Rainglove	you're all probably going to turn into mutant ninja turtles of various ages
21:49	Nachtimus	"I wanna say turtles. That's the first thing that pops into my head."
21:49	Benedict	"Maybe there is a powerful mage in that town that can tell us what's happening."
21:50	Nachtimus	"Maybe. Let's go now! Or at least when I stop feeling dizzy!"
21:50	Benedict	"Take your time, breath easy. This isn't a race, after all."
21:50	Viejo	"The mysterious man has missed out on... sharing this delight."
21:50	Benedict	"Lucky for him."
21:51	Viejo	Is there any kind of power Cha-Kak can summon with this energy?
21:51	Rainglove	not at the moment, no
21:51	Viejo	1d20 Cha-Kak tries, like Peter Parker trying with his hand to make the web come out
21:51	Beige	Viejo: Cha-Kak tries, like Peter Parker trying with his hand to make the web come out: 13 (1d20=13)
21:51	Rainglove	cha-kak waves his hand around
21:51	Rainglove	he sparks a bit but otherwise nothing happens
21:52	Nachtimus	"It might be. We could be slowly dying! Hopefully not, but hey! The possibilities are endless!" Ceth gets up with a stumble as he brushes himself off. "I may not be strong, but I've always had terrible things happening to me! 'Tis the life of a scholarly mage, after all!"
21:52	Hippocratesi	"We probably shouldn't stay long. The others may have found something as well." Halia sits stays on the ground however. Not quite ready yet.
21:52	Rainglove	The forest is actually pretty chill now that the shard is gone.
21:52	Rainglove	The trees are looking a little more sideways than is normal
21:52	Rainglove	since, y'know, explosions
21:52	Rainglove	but pretty chill
21:53	Viejo	1d20+9 any more tracks?
21:53	Beige	Viejo: any more tracks?: 16 (1d20+9=7)
21:54	Benedict	Gruk picks himself up, then offers a hand to Halia to help her up. "I'd rather not wait. We need to report the crystal and the caves to the dwarf, and find a far more powerful mage to help us."
21:54	Benedict	"At least now the side-trip isn't because of me."
21:54	Nachtimus	"Maybe there could be a college in this town!"
21:54	Viejo	"What if they take us in for studying?"
21:55	Rainglove	You spot tracks leading back towards that cave you originally came up out of Cha-kak, but other than that nothing out of the ordinary