Tales of Aequar: Runite's Rise IC III

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Nedivax remains silent and unmoving behind the wall, his status unknown, and the turned skeleton dogs attempt to flee Sora. But the fire still spreads, incinerating the webs and burning everyone in their path.

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Screwed up and posted in the other thread since I'm tired.
SD1 strength check:
(d20+2)[6]

SD2 strength check:
(d20+2)[13]

Artorias fire damage: (4d4)[10]

Sora fire damage: (d4)[1]

Kheel fire damage: (2d4)[5]

Elsee fire damage: (2d4)[4]

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Jadeite watches Bella's movements, even as he flails and struggles to escape the approaching flames.

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sense motive: (d20)[10]
Escape artist: (d20+2)[21]

Jadeite can't understand Bella's desperate signing, but he manages to push through the webs and very nearly escapes.

[Silverraptor]

As the webs burned around her, Sora found the tension release. Pulling sharply on the strands, she rolled through the fiery web into the heart of where the fire originated, where there was nothing but soot and ash (5ft step). She then gets on all fours slowly, bits of spider web dangling down still from her, especially her wrists and ankles.
"If you'd think that I am a bondage type of girl..."
She puts one foot under her and starts getting up.
"...then you would actually be right."
She then stood up and looked at the hobgoblin above.
"But if you'd think I would enjoy trying to be burned alive while in said bondage..."
She reached down the from of her shirt and grabbed for something.
"...then allow me to give you my appropriate response."
She then flicked her hand out, palm up, to reveal the amber beetle necklace. At the moment her arm stopped at full length, the beetle flew out of the amber at same speed. The beetle began to buzz and fly through the air angrily, growing slightly at the same time, and charged straight at the hobgoblin who casted the fire.

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I just want to say that if Jadeite had casted a fire spell, Sora would've behaved in quite a similar fashion, though probably not as extreme. She would've probably hit him a few times, which with her strength wouldn't account for much.

I also forgot the HP of everyone, so I just had Sora react how she would normally in this situation with no context.

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Following Sora's mental orders, the summoned beetle flies right at the unconscious, dead or dying Nedivax. Where it bounces off the top of the wall, spiraling backwards in midair. Instead, it flies straight at the nearest humanoid target--Belladonna.

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nedivax is unconscious and behind a wall. You can't actually see him. So the beetle is going after Bella instead.

Otherwise, nice post!

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Seeing the enormous stab beetle head her way, Belladonna immediately summons a floating image before her. It's not an illusion of a monster. It's not an illusion of Nedivax. It's not an illusion of a spell.

The illusion consists of two words, bright red and floating in the air. They read: I SURRENDER.

[Draconi Redfir]

Elsee hisses as the flames wash over her and Kheel, singing their skin and blinding their eyes temporairily as they pass. Fourtionately they tke the webbing with them, freeing the both of them from their entangelent. Coughing loudly from the smoke and heat, Elsee taps the underside of Kheels chin a few times as she climbs onto is back, leaning to the left a bit as she attempted to guide him up and to the left to escape the flames and smoke.

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As Elsee and Kheel fly above the smoke and flame, the goblin sees Bella desperately waving around the illusion that says I SURRENDER, and she hears jadeite shout, "Bella is surrendering!"

[Silverraptor]

Sora stops, frozen where she was for a moment, before turning to Jadeite.
"WHAT?! NOW SHE SURRENDERS?!"
Sora gestures around.
"Badger and Kheel are blind. Artorias is almost the size of a house. Her Hobgoblin friend is unconscious over the wall. She can't speak. And for me..."
She holds her arms out.
"I have bits of spider web dangling from me from all places, especially my hair. Parts of me are soaked wet while the other part is bone dry after the fire swept through trying to burn me alive. And not to mention all this dirt we've accumulated."
She drops her arms at her side in disbelief and disgust.
"Why couldn't she have just surrendered earlier so that NONE OF THIS COULD HAVE HAPPENED AT ALL?!"

[Dusk Eclipse]

"I can still hear you"

[super dark33]

She surrendered because she saw what happens to those that dont, like Naeddae over there.

At least i calmed down before i killed him or somthing.

Surdrak rubs the areas that burn on him.

Where did Badger go?

[Athedia]

As Badger heard the fire die down she tried to calm down, her face still buried in Naga's fur. She could hear her friends voices from the other room, they were still alive. And Bella wanted to... surrender? Elsee echoed her sentiments.

Taking deep breathes she scrubbed the tears away from her face and shakily stood up. She was still blind and could not see her friends but spoke softly. "I am out here."

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Jadeite dismisses the silence spell as everyone else except Badger crowds in the middle of the burnt-out webs, waiting for the rest of the web to burn to ash as well.

"The spell should wear off in a few seconds! Just let me get to my brother!" Bella shouts, running to him as the two remaining skeleton dogs whimper and flee from Sora, racing to a desk and hiding under it.

The group can suddenly hear her shout behind the wall, "Nedivax! Nedivax, are you a-alive? Please tell me you're alive!"

[Draconi Redfir]

Elsee lept off of Kheel's back and floated down to the opposite end of the wall to examine the hobgoblin herself, calling out to the rest of the group as she slowly fell and approached the fallen hobgoblin.

"Either way i'm totlly voting we kick the warlock out of the guild for this. No way in hell is he getting away scott free for doing ten times worse what i got stuck with toilet duty for!"

(( Any checks i should make to see if the guy is still alive?))

[super dark33]

Surdrak turns his back and folds his arms.

Emane citsinohcrana na htiw namow a dna recnamorcen a yb ta detaolg dna snoteleks yb netae, bew a ni dnilb eb dluow uoy em tuohtiw, pleh ym rof uoy knaht yas, doog.

He starts walking towards the end of the room, to see if he can spot anything.

Enod eb ot dah tahw did i.

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Nedivax is alive, but barely. The pool of blood beneath him is growing by the moment.

"Surdrak does seem to be more unhinged than before, though I cannot say it was entirely unjustified in this case. Regardless, I agree, that he might need some sort of restraint in the future," jadeite says.

Bella shoves a potion down Nedivax's throat, and the hobgoblin wakes with a choked gasp.

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Nedivax's eyes grow huge as he takes in the complete chaos before him. Badger, Artorias, and Kheel rub glitter out of their eyes as the two skeleton dogs run away from Sora, who is all but shoving her holy symbol in their faces, and scrabble under his bed in a fit to get away. Artorias is nearly as large as a horse, sora is sopping wet, everyone is covered in webs, and half of them are burnt. And the goblin is on top of an angry young wyvern.

"Bella," he says quickly and quietly, "Get out of here." He then steps between Bella and the group, one badly wounded hobgoblin wizard against six angry guild members and a wyvern, and shouts, "Take me, but leave my sister be!"

[Athedia]

It was temporary Badger was relieved that she could see again. But she didn't let it show as she walked into the room with the others. "Family loyalty is nice an' all. But you tried to kill us. I am sorry but if she flees that I will track her down and I do not let people go."

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"T-Then I'll have to kill you first!" Nedivax says with a quavering voice as the little weasel hops onto his shoulder and buries herself into his hair.

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im going to need a sense motive, athedia.

[Athedia]

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With that stutter? (1d20+10)[21]

"I wouldn't do that. See, right now I am at least willing to talk to some people on your behalf. Be a little harder if I have to knock you out first."

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Badger:

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oh, he's totally lying. He probably doesn't have much useful magic left, if any.

"Who are you going to talk to? You brought a while force in here just for fighting us necromancers!" Nedivax looks terrified. Bella is edging towards the side of the room where the ceiling has crumbled in and been hastily patched, but she doesn't seem to be fleeing yet.

[Athedia]

"Them? A whole force?" At this Badger couldn't help but laugh. "Well it is good we all came or those chokers would have gotten us. But you, no. Even if you wanted to you couldn't hurt us right now. Bella, I would suggest you don't try to flee. Your brother here is out of spells, and trust me the law looks badly on those who run."

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Judging from the look on Nedivax's face, neither of them knew about the chokers. Bella freezes in place, and when she speaks it's much less confident and cruel than before. "Please, don't hurt my brother. Nedivax was...he was just..."

[Athedia]

"Trying to protect you?"

[Draconi Redfir]

(( How many times do i need to say that Elsee isn't on/got off of Kheel? :U))

Elsee slowly goose-steeped towards the Hobgoblin as he and Badger talked, her arms folded behind her back and her weapons sheathed. Upon getting within just a few feet of the hobgoblin, Elsee kneeld forward at the waist, squinting a bit as she examined the hobgoblin's tatoo just in time for Badger to begin talking to Bella.

"You a Seer?"

[super dark33]

They resisted arrest, which like using lethal force, is against the law. Therefore I have no right to say anything in that matter.

Surdrak frowns and examines his hands.

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Bella pauses, as if she's not quite sure about what to say next. "It's more than that. Nedivax and I, we--"

But she falls silent as Nedivax stares at Elsee, who is scratching Kheel's chin. Of rather, he's staring at her tattoo. "I didn't know there were still other goblin tribes who followed the ways," he says.

Jadeite mutters to Surdrak, "Then they will face arrest and criminal charges as well. There are rules." the last three words are said much harder than the others.

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sorry about that, Draconi. Oh, and do you guys want to search them for treasure?

[Draconi Redfir]

Elsee merely quirked an eyebrow, her smile fading as she crossed her arms under her chest.

"Didn't know it was somethin other tribes did. Guess that's whatcha get fer quittin early. mighta been told'a bout it more later on."

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"Why would you ever leave?" Nedivax asks in disbelief. "It is...it was...it is...the greatest honor of our tribe." The hobgoblin rubs the tattoo above his eyes, the blue swirl that evokes a sense of movement and travel.

"Why would you ever give it up?"

Elsee:

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Elsee can make a knowledge check to identify it.

EDIT: Nedivax's familiar runs up to the hobgoblin's face and places her paws on it. Upon closer inspection, the familiar is not a weasel, but a ferret, an odd ferret with a black-tipped tail and a black patch on her back and black paws.

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His familiar is a black-footed ferret.

[Draconi Redfir]

Elsee sneered and shrugged a bit as she kinda stared at the tatoo, racking her brain for anything simmiler she might have seen all those years ago.

"only got et cuz my mom's family line had it, was never able to do the whole magic shabeil, never even wanted to do it in the first place. they didn't listen, so eye left."

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knowledge (idunno,) (20-1)[15]

[super dark33]

The tattoo has qualities of some kind. Neither arcane or divine.

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Surdrak activates Detect magic to search for stuff in the room.