New OOTS products from CafePress
New OOTS t-shirts, ornaments, mugs, bags, and more
Page 30 of 50 FirstFirst ... 5202122232425262728293031323334353637383940 ... LastLast
Results 871 to 900 of 1481
  1. - Top - End - #871
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Recaiden's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Fever dreams
    Gender
    Male

    Default [Summer Tour]

    "We camp here, resting and swimming. Then we go up the coast to -R-K- Crater, then along the Syde to the city. From there we take the rail to Skyside, and then head that-a-way to the Frozen Forest for winter hiking. Then down to the League, and then in towards the city and the rest of the ocean." Alexis doesn't get up or even open her eyes, even when indicating a direction.
    ~Inner Circle~
    Quote Originally Posted by Raz_Fox View Post
    He takes normality and reason and turns them UP TO 11!
    Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
    Recaiden, stop using your mastery of the English language to confuse the issue.
    Echidna by Serpentine

  2. - Top - End - #872
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Deathkeeper's Avatar

    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Definitely lost
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    Summer Tour

    "The what-now crater? And which Side to the city? I haven't heard of those. Also I don't know how to swim." Sarina admits, sitting down next to Alexis. At the very least the priestess has an elaborate game plan set up. One of them has to.
    Spako Highclaws by Ceika.

    [Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]

  3. - Top - End - #873
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Recaiden's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Fever dreams
    Gender
    Male

    Default [Summer Tour]

    "We collect angels of other faiths when they fall from heaven. That's where the first one landed."
    Alexis laughs and half-sits up, resting on her elbows.
    "The name of the river is 'Syde'."
    "You don't know how to swim? Oh no, I had no idea! Aww, we shouldn't have come here at all."

    Now she is sitting upright, distressed.
    ~Inner Circle~
    Quote Originally Posted by Raz_Fox View Post
    He takes normality and reason and turns them UP TO 11!
    Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
    Recaiden, stop using your mastery of the English language to confuse the issue.
    Echidna by Serpentine

  4. - Top - End - #874
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Deathkeeper's Avatar

    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Definitely lost
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    Summer Tour

    Sarina blushes.
    "Well, I did. Years ago. But I haven't learned as a spider. Don't spiders float? I'm sure you could find a spell to make me float." the sorceress suggests.
    Spako Highclaws by Ceika.

    [Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]

  5. - Top - End - #875
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Recaiden's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Fever dreams
    Gender
    Male

    Default [Summer Tour]

    "Well, why don't you wade out and see? I'll be right there if it turns out you don't float or swim." Alexis suggests, getting to her feet.
    ~Inner Circle~
    Quote Originally Posted by Raz_Fox View Post
    He takes normality and reason and turns them UP TO 11!
    Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
    Recaiden, stop using your mastery of the English language to confuse the issue.
    Echidna by Serpentine

  6. - Top - End - #876
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Deathkeeper's Avatar

    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Definitely lost
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    Summer Tour

    Sarina smiles nervously and wades over to the water.
    Her enormous abdomen is much too heavy to float, and spider legs are far too thin to displace enough water for paddling. So soon she is flailing about in the water rather pathetically.
    Spako Highclaws by Ceika.

    [Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]

  7. - Top - End - #877
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Recaiden's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Fever dreams
    Gender
    Male

    Default [Summer Tour]

    Alexis does her best to pull Sarina back up ashore.
    "Okay, maybe no swimming for you."
    ~Inner Circle~
    Quote Originally Posted by Raz_Fox View Post
    He takes normality and reason and turns them UP TO 11!
    Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
    Recaiden, stop using your mastery of the English language to confuse the issue.
    Echidna by Serpentine

  8. - Top - End - #878
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Deathkeeper's Avatar

    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Definitely lost
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Summer Tour]

    Sarina is pulled onto the sand, sticking to her abdomen. She certainly looks disappointed.
    "Aw, but you got this swimsuit for me. I guess driders just aren't built for this. We can climb, ducks and subs swim." she says with a shrug, trying to joke.
    Spako Highclaws by Ceika.

    [Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]

  9. - Top - End - #879
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Recaiden's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Fever dreams
    Gender
    Male

    Default [Summer Tour]

    "I guess you...'ll have to do without it."
    Alexis suggests, brushing bits of sand off of the spider.
    "Or stop somewhere you can show off your climbing skills."
    ~Inner Circle~
    Quote Originally Posted by Raz_Fox View Post
    He takes normality and reason and turns them UP TO 11!
    Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
    Recaiden, stop using your mastery of the English language to confuse the issue.
    Echidna by Serpentine

  10. - Top - End - #880
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Deathkeeper's Avatar

    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Definitely lost
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    Summer Tour

    Alexis has a lot of abdomen to brush if she wants the drider clean.
    "Well we can camp out for tonight and then move on. And you can swim, I'll be here. Don't hold back on my account." Sarina insists.
    Spako Highclaws by Ceika.

    [Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]

  11. - Top - End - #881
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Recaiden's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Fever dreams
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    Quote Originally Posted by LordDeathkeeper View Post
    Summer Tour

    Alexis has a lot of abdomen to brush if she wants the drider clean.
    "Well we can camp out for tonight and then move on. And you can swim, I'll be here. Don't hold back on my account." Sarina insists.
    Just a little, for sentiment's sake.
    Alexis considers the offer of swimming. Surely scripture has something to say about this. Ah, yes, the parable of the bread and the batteries. Sarina is in the right.
    "If you insist."
    She straightens up, and all the snakes slick back, kicks off her shoes, and wades into the ocean. So nice here, no way to fall with the water all around. Maybe not so good for her hair, admittedly...

    Quote Originally Posted by Morty View Post
    [Rescue Mission - Underground]

    Fayyaad dives for the nearest cover, trying to stay out of the arc of the fire. If he manages to get to some measure of safety, he fires a narrow, intense blast of fire at the gun closer to him.
    A nearby doorway into what seems like a storage room (full of boxes) allows one to put a lot of moderately solid wall between Fayyaad and the bullets, while still letting you shoot flames around the doorframe.

    The blast of fire doesn't seem to have been great for the gun; there's a crackling sound from it and it stops firing.
    How lucky for the guard robot that its other arm is also made of guns.
    It twists its torso around and resumes firing, getting more accurate as some of its sensors recover.
    ~Inner Circle~
    Quote Originally Posted by Raz_Fox View Post
    He takes normality and reason and turns them UP TO 11!
    Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
    Recaiden, stop using your mastery of the English language to confuse the issue.
    Echidna by Serpentine

  12. - Top - End - #882
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Ashen Lilies's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    Boston, MA
    Gender
    Female

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Rescue Mission - Underground]

    Cassandra drops to the ground, falling straight prone as she uses the briefest of respites granted by Fayyaad to weave her next spell. Planting a hand on the floor, a thin creeper of ice stretches out across the floor and blossoms out into a slippery frozen slick underneath the robot's feet, hopefully causing it to lose balance as it advances and fall over.
    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Magtok
    She’s graduated from child soldier to unstable teen sorceress, way to go.

  13. - Top - End - #883
    Titan in the Playground
     
    Morty's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jun 2006
    Location
    Poland
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Rescue Mission - Underground]

    Fayyaad huddles behind the door, as bullets slam into it. He keeps sending fire blasts around the corner, but they're weaker. He can't muster another intense flame so soon.
    My FFRP characters. Avatar by Ashen Lilies. Sigatars by Ashen Lilies, Gullara and Purple Eagle.
    Interested in the Nexus FFRP setting? See our Discord server.

  14. - Top - End - #884
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Deathkeeper's Avatar

    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Definitely lost
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Summer Tour]

    Sarina watches Alexis wistfully. On one hand, she's happy for her, but on another she is sad that she can't participate in this sort of thing ever again and missing out on some girlfriend time. She's been banished to the kiddy pool forever. Still, she's patient enough to wait, a half-hearted smile on her face the whole time.
    Spako Highclaws by Ceika.

    [Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]

  15. - Top - End - #885
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Recaiden's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Fever dreams
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Rescue Mission - Underground]

    The robot steps out onto the ice and immediately starts to slide. It falls, and falls hard, bullets flying wildly into the ceiling as it crashes down. You can hear some of the more fragile parts inside break. But it's not completely out of commission. Still, I think Fayyaad could probably come out of cover.

    [Summer Tour]

    The whole ocean.
    Alexis is overjoyed to be out here, though she isn't a very good swimmer, it feels so much more free than being on land. Even with the ocean pushing and pulling and singing.
    Hmm. She hasn't come up for air recently, has she?
    ~Inner Circle~
    Quote Originally Posted by Raz_Fox View Post
    He takes normality and reason and turns them UP TO 11!
    Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
    Recaiden, stop using your mastery of the English language to confuse the issue.
    Echidna by Serpentine

  16. - Top - End - #886
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Deathkeeper's Avatar

    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Definitely lost
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Summer Tour]

    Alexis has been a long time down there. Sarina scuttles down to the surf, as far as she can get before her legs start having trouble into the water. She waits, worrying, calling Alexis' name.
    Spako Highclaws by Ceika.

    [Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]

  17. - Top - End - #887
    Titan in the Playground
     
    Morty's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jun 2006
    Location
    Poland
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Rescue Mission - Underground]

    Fayyaad steps out of cover cautiously, and sends a jet of flame towards any cracks or dents in the robot he can see. He wants to fry its internal systems quickly.
    My FFRP characters. Avatar by Ashen Lilies. Sigatars by Ashen Lilies, Gullara and Purple Eagle.
    Interested in the Nexus FFRP setting? See our Discord server.

  18. - Top - End - #888
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Recaiden's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Fever dreams
    Gender
    Male

    Default [Summer Tour]

    Alexis does not answer. But one can hear a sort of ringing, singing sound, as from a voice echoing up from underwater, barely audible over the crashing surf.
    ~Inner Circle~
    Quote Originally Posted by Raz_Fox View Post
    He takes normality and reason and turns them UP TO 11!
    Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
    Recaiden, stop using your mastery of the English language to confuse the issue.
    Echidna by Serpentine

  19. - Top - End - #889
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Deathkeeper's Avatar

    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Definitely lost
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    Summer Tour

    Sarina doesn't know what to do! She sticks her head in the water, trying her best to see Alexis through the surf.
    Spako Highclaws by Ceika.

    [Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]

  20. - Top - End - #890
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Recaiden's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Fever dreams
    Gender
    Male

    Default [Summer Tour]

    Sarina drowned in confusion! Oh, no, that's not what happened.

    Beneath the water's surface, she sees the outline of a city, towers of coral and shell. And there's Alexis, swimming down a road with some shark-people. A little ways away, already.
    ~Inner Circle~
    Quote Originally Posted by Raz_Fox View Post
    He takes normality and reason and turns them UP TO 11!
    Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
    Recaiden, stop using your mastery of the English language to confuse the issue.
    Echidna by Serpentine

  21. - Top - End - #891
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Deathkeeper's Avatar

    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Definitely lost
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    Summer Tour

    Oh no! Sarina can't save Alexis from shark-people with her unswimmable spider-self. She hold up her hand, shining a little beam of light to Alexis. Hopefully she can see it and give Sarina a signal if she needs rescuing or just going for a joy ride.
    If Alexis is being kidnapped her only hope is to pray to Message or trying to use her time-magic. But she already did that today and using past-time-magic multiple times per day can have pretty horrible side effects.
    Spako Highclaws by Ceika.

    [Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]

  22. - Top - End - #892
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Ashen Lilies's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    Boston, MA
    Gender
    Female

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    Quote Originally Posted by Recaiden View Post
    [Rescue Mission - Underground]

    The robot steps out onto the ice and immediately starts to slide. It falls, and falls hard, bullets flying wildly into the ceiling as it crashes down. You can hear some of the more fragile parts inside break. But it's not completely out of commission. Still, I think Fayyaad could probably come out of cover.

    [Summer Tour]

    The whole ocean.
    Alexis is overjoyed to be out here, though she isn't a very good swimmer, it feels so much more free than being on land. Even with the ocean pushing and pulling and singing.
    Hmm. She hasn't come up for air recently, has she?
    Quote Originally Posted by Morty View Post
    [Rescue Mission - Underground]

    Fayyaad steps out of cover cautiously, and sends a jet of flame towards any cracks or dents in the robot he can see. He wants to fry its internal systems quickly.
    [Rescue Mission - Underground]

    Cassandra stands cautiously as well, readying a spell of her own as she approaches the downed robot. If it starts to act dangerous again, a sweep of the arm summons a slicing spirit blade which will sever the remaining gun arm at the elbow.
    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Magtok
    She’s graduated from child soldier to unstable teen sorceress, way to go.

  23. - Top - End - #893
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Recaiden's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Fever dreams
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Summer Tour]

    A snake sees the blooming night, and Alexis looks back at Sarina and smiles. But she keeps going the way she's going, and eventually vanishes from sight in the depth of the ocean.

    What is there to do but wait?
    Plenty, actually.

    [Rescue Mission - Underground]

    Heat pours into the robot at the cracked join between its upper and lower half, and soon enough the lights go off and power stops flowing to the musculature and it's shut down. Fayyaad should probably keep up the pyromancy lest it cool down and recover, but the temptation to think that it's already dead is there. And it wouldn't be a bad idea for Cassandra to take its arm off anyway, despite the fact that it's not doing anything threatening (or anything at all).
    If you leave it there, there's always the worry that some little repair droid comes out and fixes it up so that you have to fight it again on the way out.

    The half-demon jumps excitedly at the robot's defeat and hurries down the hall, remembering the way from here. Through this door, past these racks and racks of suspended guard robots in for repair...
    ~Inner Circle~
    Quote Originally Posted by Raz_Fox View Post
    He takes normality and reason and turns them UP TO 11!
    Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
    Recaiden, stop using your mastery of the English language to confuse the issue.
    Echidna by Serpentine

  24. - Top - End - #894
    Titan in the Playground
     
    Morty's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jun 2006
    Location
    Poland
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Rescue Mission - Underground]

    Fayyaad can't keep up the pyromancy too long, unfortunately. It exerts him to do so, and he's already thrown some fire around. He can just hope that the robot won't get up, or that the arm removal will slow it down if it does. Then he follows the half-demon, glancing worriedly at all the robots that might come to life and attack.
    My FFRP characters. Avatar by Ashen Lilies. Sigatars by Ashen Lilies, Gullara and Purple Eagle.
    Interested in the Nexus FFRP setting? See our Discord server.

  25. - Top - End - #895
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Deathkeeper's Avatar

    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Definitely lost
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Summer Tour]

    Plenty of things to do, but Sarina doesn't want to try a crazy rescue mission when Alexis isn't actually in danger. She might take things the wrong way!
    So instead she passes the time by tricking out their campsite with a nice big warm fire and webs. Lots of webs. Really detailed, ornate ones over their tent until she's built one large enough to hold herself, and then makes it even more intricate because her girlfriend is absent and she doesn't know what's going on and Message only knows if she should be doing something else right now...
    She'll probably be at this for a while.
    Spako Highclaws by Ceika.

    [Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]

  26. - Top - End - #896
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Ashen Lilies's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    Boston, MA
    Gender
    Female

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Rescue Mission - Underground]

    Cassandra follows, her expression growing increasingly grim. That had been way too close. If either of them had been a hair slower...
    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Magtok
    She’s graduated from child soldier to unstable teen sorceress, way to go.

  27. - Top - End - #897
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Recaiden's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Fever dreams
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Summer Tour]

    The first thing about spiderwebs is how they're often designed for catching bugs. Is that what Sarina is up to? Or is she just decorating?

    Eventually Alexis pops up out of the water and wades to shore. She looks completely dry, the ocean knowing better than to fall on her when it's not wanted, and has added a necklace of sharks' teeth to her beach outfit since submerging.

    "Oh...."
    She stares then at the webs, awestruck.

    [Rescue Mission]

    I'm sure it will be fine. Just don't touch the robots, or that computer console over there, or really anything if you can avoid it, and the machines in here will have no reason to go on a rampage.
    Another keypad locked-door, leading towards the center of this place. And this one even has power! Cassandra's 'last person to touch this' image spell should make short work of this obstacle like it did before.

    Spoiler: Upon Opening
    Show
    The door has no affordance for being opened from the other side. Don't get locked in like, well, like the ones you came to rescue.
    The space beyond the door is a sort of mine sub-shaft, with wheels and cables and derelict digging machines gathered around a pit deep enough that the bottom can't be seen.

    Also occupying the space are two horrific monsters with giant claws and burning red eyes: a sort of cross between a gila monster, a rabbit, and a cuttlefish. One seems to have been (until recently) trying to claw through the door (they are not good at this, it's quite embarrassing actually), the other is occupied with staring into the pit. The half-demon gives the nearest one a hug with three of her arms, the fourth showing a thumbs-up to Fayyaad. They have rescued the hounds from the lockup; mission accomplished! Surely getting out of here will be easy, straightforward, and non-dangerous!

    The presence of another invisible half-demon somewhere around here goes without saying. Was that someone passing by just now? No, must have been the wind (well, the circulating air originally disturbed by that conjured flame and gunfire).
    ~Inner Circle~
    Quote Originally Posted by Raz_Fox View Post
    He takes normality and reason and turns them UP TO 11!
    Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
    Recaiden, stop using your mastery of the English language to confuse the issue.
    Echidna by Serpentine

  28. - Top - End - #898
    Titan in the Playground
     
    Morty's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jun 2006
    Location
    Poland
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Rescue Mission]

    "Is there... someone here with us?" Fayyaad asks, gripping his staff tighter. This entire situation is making him uneasy. "We got who we came here for, so it's probably time to vacate this place."
    My FFRP characters. Avatar by Ashen Lilies. Sigatars by Ashen Lilies, Gullara and Purple Eagle.
    Interested in the Nexus FFRP setting? See our Discord server.

  29. - Top - End - #899
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Deathkeeper's Avatar

    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Definitely lost
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Summer Tour]

    Sarina still hasn't quite been convinced to eat bugs yet. Despite having spider-fangs. Though keeping mosquitoes away from the tent would be nice.
    "There you are!" she exclaims, skittering up to embrace Alexis even if the gorgon is wet and salty.
    "You can't just go out to a strange underwater city without saying anything! I worried so much I worked my spinnerets into numbness. I was considering asking Message for a rescue you know!" she pouts.
    Spako Highclaws by Ceika.

    [Sorry Boss, but as always, I get the last word.]

  30. - Top - End - #900
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Ashen Lilies's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    Boston, MA
    Gender
    Female

    Default Re: Silly Plots 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Rescue Mission]

    "I think..." Cassandra trails off, focusing. She crosses to the center of the room, then stands perfectly still, head tilted as if listening. Which is exactly what she's doing, of course. Using her ears, to start with - listening for wind, footsteps, subtle noises caused by movement, but then paying attention to other senses beyond the physical.

    A quick pulse of magic should reveal any invisible lurkers, followed by a fast-flying set of glimmering golden shackles that she slings soon afterwards, looking to bind up the sly skulker.
    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Magtok
    She’s graduated from child soldier to unstable teen sorceress, way to go.

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •