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Post by SuperBassX84 on Sept 14, 2005 21:54:38 GMT -5
-=Bass stumbles back into the room looking extremely confused and mildly nauseous=-
Bass: When you vomit, is the food supposed to scream obscenities when you flush?
Elfie: No...
Bass: Thought not. I'd have stayed to investigate, but the large Praying Mantis outside the window made me a little self-conscious. I suppose the next question is obvious - WHAT IN THE NINE BURNING HELLS IS GOING ON HERE?!
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Post by Belgarath on Sept 14, 2005 22:39:02 GMT -5
(OOC: Yes! I officially read through the entire adventure! I'm up to speed. ;D)
Belgarath and Belgeroth, both completely drunk, seem oblivious to all the comotion occuring around them.
DA: You know what Belly... I... I love you man.
Belgarath: I love me too man...
DA: Hey man...
Belgarath: What man?
DA: Why are we talking like Cheech and Chong?
Belgarath: I really don't care. I'm starving! *reaches over and takes a steak from someone's plate.*
Steak: Fool! Don't try to eat me!
Belgarath: The hell...?
DA: What man?
Belgarath: Knock it off Geroth... Did you just hear that steak talk?
DA: Whoa man... you had way too much to drink...
Belgarath: *thinks for a minute* Yea... you're probably right... *cuts a piece of the steak, and eats it*
Steak: No! You foo--- *gets eaten*
Belgarath: *raising his mug* Compliments to the cook!
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Post by Belgarath on Sept 18, 2005 19:03:13 GMT -5
*DA scratches his head, then lets out a loud yawn*
Aidene: We are still pissed about those implants you know.
DA: Yea... come to think of it, that probably wasn't a smart move... I'll find a way to remove them once this is all over.
Aidene: You better... Are you sensing something off here too?
DA: Yea, people are kind of acting weird and --
*Elfie comes barging into the room, followed by Pinny*
DA: Elfie, what's the matter with you?
Elfie: Big bug...
Soul: Ew! Bugs are icky!
Bass: *looks out the window* Holy shit, that is a big bug...
Pinata: Hold on... do those mountains seem bigger to you?
Belgarath: *hic* Yea... they do, I thought that was just the ale talking though.
DA: What the hell is going on here?
Pinata: Medwyn or Enalya, do you have anything to do with this?
*both Medwyn and Enalya shake their heads*
DA: Alright, I'm assuming that the Grapes or Zeles is up to this... either way, we can't keep sitting here.
*the group nods their head in agreement*
Pinata: Okay, everyone hurry and gather whatever you need. We are leaving as soon as possible.
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Post by piñata on Sept 19, 2005 7:19:26 GMT -5
Piñata looks around the room worriedly. The table seems bigger now, too -- it looks like he could walk right under it if he wanted to.
Piñata: Damn. I hate shrinking.
Freyalise: Just so long as everything stays proportionate.
Piñata (surprised): Did you just make a joke about penis size?
Freyalise: Yes, I suppose I did. Although you have to admit, yours is easy to make fun of.
Piñata (shaking his head): Women. Can't live with them, can't stab them.
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Post by Elfie on Sept 19, 2005 17:04:59 GMT -5
Elfie: Well Candy-Bag cast Tranquility earlier, so it can't be an enchantment, unless...Medwyn! How much do you know about the House Of Lore?
Medwyn: Everything there is to know.
Elfie: Did you build it?
Medwyn: Mostly...
Elfie: Mostly?!
Medwyn: I had help from another.
Elfie: And this other was?
Medwyn: I don't know. He was always fully cloaked in dark robes.
Elfie: That could be anyone!
Medwyn: He was helping me build a house. Never look a gift horse in the mouth!
Elfie: There's no such thing as a free lunch.
*meanwhile in Anima's subplot, the toast has begun demanding equal rights*
Anima *to himself*: Yeah, but it's looking more and more like breakfast is tired of being oppressed.
Medwyn: What are you getting at, Elfie?
Elfie: The House itself is an artifact.
Medwyn: So?
Elfie: So this is probably a triggered ability that takes effect when enough members of the prophecy are inside. Whoever helped you with this House must have known it would house the members of the prophecy at some point.
Medwyn: That's some clairvoyance he's got going on there.
Elfie: Not necessarily. He could have planned for you to House us all here in the first place, but that's getting ahead of ourselves. The point is that this House and all its contents have started shifting in size in random proportions. That's why the table is still big, for example. If this House starts shrinking faster than us, however, it could crush us, and even if it doesn't, staying here much longer will reduce us to molecular levels!
Belgarath: What's a molecule?
Elfie: ... *stares blankly at Belgarath* Suffice it to say we really need to get out of here and figure out how to return to our original sizes, and sooner rather than later, okay?
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Post by SuperBassX84 on Sept 19, 2005 19:18:00 GMT -5
Bass: As much as I'd love to just walk right out the front door, you're forgetting the proportionately FUCKING ENORMOUS bugs outside. How do you propose we get past them? Ask nicely and continue on our way?
-=Without waiting for an answer, Bass summons Balkasior, hoping for some good news. When he appears, Balkasior is no larger than a puppy=-
Bass: Well, that su--
-=Without warning, Balkasior shoots up to almost twice his normal size=-
Bass: Um...
-=Just as suddenly, he shrinks down to human sized. He is then quickly unsummoned by Bass=-
Bass: So apparently he won't be of help. Any other ideas?
-=Bass goes over to the window, having to pull himself up to see out of it, to find that they have grown to a size where the bugs are only as large as they are=-
Bass: Guys, either we grew again or now the bugs are shrinking, too. Somebody figure out why this is happening, and fast.
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Post by Belgarath on Sept 19, 2005 21:02:31 GMT -5
Belgarath: Well, it's simple. We simply have to time it that we fight the bugs when they are smaller than us.
DA: What if they turn back before we kill them?
Belgarath: Uhhh... anyone got any Raid?
Bass: Real funny.
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Post by Elfie on Sept 20, 2005 8:15:09 GMT -5
Elfie: That poses a risk in and of itself. As you've noticed, we're all still shrinking inside the building, just at different speeds, which is what is making other things look as big. If we can get whatever we want to fight inside it will become targetted by the ability as well, but there's no guarantee it will start shrinking faster than us. The real question right now is if this ability is taking effect on us in the form of until end of turn of in the form of counters. If it's and end of turn effect, we could just destroy the House and wait, but if it's counters, removing the source won't do any good.
Medwyn: Not to mention that you're talking about destroying my House.
Elfie: Your House? Did you build it?
Medwyn: ... How do we figure out if it will wear off by removing the source?
Elfie: We don't. We can destroy the House as a Last Ditch Effort, but if the House is shrinking us in counter form, it has to be storing what it has removed from us somewhere, and that somewhere has to be within the House.
Medwyn: So what are we looking for?
Elfie: I have no idea.
Candy-Bag: I like the sound of this.
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Post by AnimaStone on Sept 23, 2005 14:19:18 GMT -5
Meanwhile, in the courtyard...
Anima is running through the courtyard as fast as he can, trying to escape from a wasp that is bigger than him. Dave is flying alongside him, demonstrating unknown powers of levitation.
ANIMA: What the fork did you do? You know that you caused this. When you started talking, everything suddenly started going crazy.
DAVE: I didn't do anything.
ANIMA: Then why the fork are you flying?
DAVE: I told you, I'm an incarnated god.
ANIMA: So you chose to take the form of toast?
DAVE: Well... it was more of a "got practically joked" than "chose" thing.
ANIMA: Ah. I see. But that still doesn't explain why the wasp is a foot taller than me.
Anima turns a corner, only to come to a dead end. He turns to face the wasp, which is flying at him at full speed. Anima curses, then grips his left arm just below the wrist with his right hand. He raises his left hand above his head, then jerks it down sharply. His eyes blaze red, and a jet of light red light erupts from his left palm. It strikes one of the wasp's wings. The wing seems to completely disentigrate. The wasp spins out of control and crashes full force into a wall.
ANIMA: Eew.
DAVE: ...what was that?
ANIMA: A beam of high-powered chaos. Anything it hits at that proximity has no chance of survival. Chemical bonds form too structuredly to exist in a state of concentrated randomness.
Anima shakes his head.
ANIMA: I didn't want to do that. It saps my red mana too much. I need food.
Anima turns to look at Dave.
DAVE: Don't even think about it.
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Post by Elfie on Sept 29, 2005 22:38:10 GMT -5
*as a giant house fly blocks his path, Elfie tests out his new bow, whose arrow promptly shrink into nothingness once it has been released from the bow*
Elfie: Great...
*notching another arrow, Elfie fires again, only to have it become comicly large after leaving the bow and practically crushing the fly*
Elfie: Whoever designed this event must have created an area that would be unaffected by it so that he could guarantee the device wouldn't be crushed by other things growing or exposed if it began to grow.
Candy-Bag: So what are we looking for?
Elfie: Something that isn't changing.
Candy-Bag: Oddveig! We could use some help!
Oddveig: Of course sir!
Medywn: Did you plan to just enjoy your meal through this whole ordeal?
Oddveig: The thought had crossed -
Elfie: Wait!
Bass: What now?
Elfie: What do you notice about Oddveig?
Bass: He looks totally normal to me.
Elfie: Exactly.
Candy-Bag: He's still in proportion to everything around him!
Elfie: Which means that he's within the protected area. in fact, it seems the whole table is.
Medwyn: Well how would someone hide a crystal or whatever we're looking for in the table.
Elfie: I doubt they would. *notches and arrow* The chandelier is another matter.
*Elfie looses an arrow at the chain holding the chandelier which breaks and sends the chandelier crashing to the ground*
Bass: Why isn't anything happening?
Medwyn: Because I put that chandelier in myself.
Elfie: ...
Medwyn: Satisfied?
Elfie: No. *looses another arrow to destroy the item that had fastened the chandelier to the ceiling, a blue glowing crystal* Now I'm satisified.
Candy-Bag: So how long do we have to wait until the effects wear off?
Elfie: Until end of turn.
Bass: And what do we do about this Dire Rat that hasn't changed back?
Candy-Bag: We fight it.
*cue random encounter music*
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Post by piñata on Oct 6, 2005 10:32:41 GMT -5
Piñata: Actually, we use magic on it. Stalin, I'm going to turn that rat green. When I do, I want you to cast Dark Banishing on it.
Stalin: Gotcha.
Piñata casts Lifelace, altering the rat's mana essence enough that it is no longer black. After that, Stalin hits it with his spell. The rat vanishes in a cloud of black smoke, but when the smoke clears the rat's agonized, tormented shriek still hangs in the air.
Piñata: I hate having to kill animals.
Stalin: That's because you're a green mage. I actually found it quite fulfilling.
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Post by AnimaStone on Dec 12, 2005 21:36:31 GMT -5
Anima walks in, munching a piece of toast.
ANIMA: So, where to now?
PINATA: Uh... where's your friend?
ANIMA: Packing. But he did sell out his buddy here.
Anima raises the piece of toast, then takes another bite.
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Post by piñata on Dec 13, 2005 9:11:03 GMT -5
Piñata: Enelya says we have to go to Olwe. Since I used to be ruler there, and Aurora was born there, we have the advantage of knowing the territory a lot better than some of the other places we've been. But apparently, there's an evil dictator ruling in my place and the prophecy might have something to do with him, so we can't just kill him outright without finding out what his deal is first. Also... nonhumans aren't allowed outside the wilderness anymore, so we have to select our away party carefully. (mischievous smile) I'm thinking Elfie, Qrel, Sienn, Kyliki, Ereinion and Warwick will do nicely.
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Post by AnimaStone on Dec 20, 2005 11:09:14 GMT -5
Elapse time and space.
ANIMA: So... nice place here. I wouldn't mind staying for a little-
PINATA: I said, get on the ship, or you die.
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Post by piñata on Jan 4, 2006 9:26:25 GMT -5
Piñata (turning to Medwyn): You might want to beef up security here. The Boxes of Orden are in play, and if the blithering idiot that has them finds out the only known remaining copy of the Book of Counted Shadows is here, then you'll have an attack coming.
Medwyn: Right. I'll get Amidamaru's ninja clan on it.
Piñata: Good. They can handle most anything. Good luck, old friend.
Medwyn: Same to you.
*elapse time and space*
The ship comes in over Western Olwe. None of the towns are recognizable... in fact, most of them are less towns and more factories. As the ship continues, the industrialized area gives way to wilderness. The beauty of nature after so much "civilization" is breathtaking.
Sienn: Pretty. What do we blow up first?
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