Meeting Room: OOC Area
This room is a huge meeting area, a gigantic obsidian table surrounded by chairs occupying most of the area. The walls are plain stone, and at the head of the table is a slightly larger chair with a gavel attached.
Tom says, "Ok, Everyone shut up so we can get started ;)"
Skypti says, "Anyway, since we have a very severe lack of people showing up, I don't think we need a speech queue. Just pipe up when you have a thought/question."
Skypti says, "The first thing to mention when you're doing combat is how important your poses are, I'm just going to run over a few of the main points for great posing."
Heregul nods at Skypti's words. "Posing is probably the most important thing," he says, wiping the sweat from his brow with a towel, "in establishing your character's actions as realistic." Running Skypti's words over in his minds again, he nods a second time.
Andoxnr nods, taking the vast knowledge stored within the wiz
Skypti leans an elbow on the sleek black surface of the meeting room table, and sighs theatrically. "No, it isn't," she says, "Too bad, eh? However, this pose shows a couple of the points I want to make. Include objects around you in your descriptive poses, and interchance speech and action." She pauses to glare at Heregul.
Skypti says, "Interchange, rather."
Jerum stumbles out of a nearby archway, muttering about portals.
Skypti says, "It gives people around you a better idea of what exactly you're doing.. It may be easy to visualize your character's every action yourself, but reading someone else's poses off the screen is a different matter sometimes. :)"
Skypti says, "Which brings us in to the wonderfully fun part.. combat (and spells). Everybody likes a good round of violence now and again.. it's just a little bit more complicated on a consent-based MUSH such as here."
Andoxnr cheers at the wizzens' words
Heartchill grips his spear at the mention of violence, then buzzes slightly.
Andoxnr grabs his staff in it's center and a surge of electricity shoots down the ends, causing them to glow.
Heregul rolls his eyes slightly at the mention of violence, folds his arms tightly, and leans back in his chair, attempting to remain out of whatever 'violence' that these fiends have cooked up.
Skypti says, "Now, like I said, we are a consent MUSH, so technically, all your significant actions involving others have to be agreed upon. Now, there are a couple ways to approach this. If you know the person well beforehand, just page them, discuss what you want to do, and go to it. However.. sometimes the element of surprise is fun. A bit trickier, however."
Skypti says, "My favorite way to approach these things is start posing in a vaguely threatening way. If people don't want to get involved in a fight, it gives them a chance to back out. It lets people know your intentions, and gets the ball rolling, so to speak."
Skypti says, "Then, of course, you can start posing merrily away. The two main things to make sure you do when posing combat is to avoid 'powerposing' and to page each other if you're not sure if what you are doing is okay."
Skypti says, "Powerposing is, by the way, where you automatically give the other player's reaction, without allowing him to actually react."
Skypti cuts Heregul in two for a rather extreme example.
Heregul screams as he is slowly being cut in two.
As he is being split in two, he says, "Extreme? That's *routine* much of the time, especially when dealing with NPCs (Hardheads in particular)."
Skypti says, "Of course, sometimes you'll see something that /looks/ like a powerpose if you're watching combat. Say, for instance, "Neven punches the guard hard in the face, breaking his nose with a ugly little crunch." Sometimes, those have been pre-aranged by the players.. easier to fit into one pose than in two."
Skypti says, "Well, NPCs are a slightly different matter... but you should never speak for someone else's NPC. ;)"
Skypti says, "I've found that the best way (for me, at least) is to imitate a turn-based system. The attacker poses the manner in which he attacks.. the defender decides whether or not he gets hurt or defends, and if he returns with an attack, depending on how much time he has. Repeat the sequence until someone runs away, surrenders, or dies."
Skypti says, "Attacking is where you have to watch for powerposing.. but when you're on the side /being/ attacked, you have to realize that you have to take /some/ wounds. Nobody wins all the time.. and it would be pretty boring if everyone was invincible. :>"
Heregul looks around, and notices that a good number of people that aren't here
Skypti says, "Right now. ;) A couple volunteers, if y'all please.. and we'll start something off. I'll stay in the background.. and make comments on combat, good and bad. Don't worry, I'm not too rough. :)"
Andoxnr raises a hand
Heartchill volunteers.
Skypti says, "Okay. Heartchill, Andoxnr.. have at it!"
Andoxnr grabs his staff in it's center and a surge of electricity shoots down the ends, causing them to glow.
Heartchill buzzes at Andoxnr's eagerness, then holds his spear close to his chest and buzzes slightly.
Skypti stands waaaaaay back from the impending battle.
Andoxnr twirls his staff around the room, backing away from the chairs, and circling the table.
Heartchill says, "Heartchill's first action will be to attempt to swing around and trip Andoxnr with his tail."
Andoxnr says, "Okay.."
Skypti says, "Okay..."
Andoxnr says, "I'll fall.."
Skypti says, "Now see, you don't have to say it ooc."
Tom ehems, "You guys can use my Arena of Terror for practice fights, if you want."
Skypti says, "Pose what you're doing,, but let the other pose the resoloution of it."
Skypti says, "Like, say, "Heartchill whirls around in an attempt to blah blah blah.""
Heartchill suddenly twists his body to the right, dragging his huge tail along the ground and snapping it towards the lightning genasi's feet with an experienced "snap."
Andoxnr falls to the ground, but hops back up with amazing dexterity
Skypti says, "Oo, spiffy."
Trinity says, "You might of added some sign of discomfort though"
Andoxnr umphs
Andoxnr says, "Better?"
Trinity grins
Heartchill maddened that the genasi was able to so quickly regain his composure with hardly any sort of pain, Heartchill will move forward and attempt to drive his spear through the genasi's chest.
Skypti says, "Be descriptive, Andoxnr.. does he flip over backwards and right himself again? How does he get back to his feet?"
Skypti says, "Anyway.. that's just a thought for later. :)"
Clicking his mandibles together quickly, Heartchill the Gelugon moves his body forward with suprising speed. In his hands, he holds his icy spear as he drives himself quickly towards the lightning genasi's chest.
Andoxnr deflects the spear with a quick stroke with his staff, but stumbles back from the strength of the attack, almost falling again. He then sticks his staff onto the ground hard after a short run to the ice fiend, then swings around and attempts to kick Heartchill in the chest.
Skypti claps appreciatively from the corner.
Heartchill says, "Heartchill's going to fall back from your kick on purpose - he wants to position himself to use his 'wall of ice' ability."
Andoxnr says, "kay.."
Heartchill says, "Heartchill is going to create a wall of ice to surround the two combatants, giving Andoxnr less room to move in and forcing the fight towards a close combat, one on one thing."
Heartchill is just waiting for an 'okay' to paste his @emit.
Andoxnr says, "Go"
Andoxnr was working on his response
Hit by the blow of foot of the lightning genasi, Heartchill stumbles backwards - far more than it seems that he was actually forced back. Heartchill regains a defensive stance and begins to chant arcane words in some tongue of Baator. The air close to him suddenly turns frosty as a huge circular wall, about fifteen feet in diameter, surrounds the two within.
Heartchill probably should have described the wall as "of ice"
Skypti says, "Probably. ;)"
Heartchill says, "Andoxnr, what are you going to do to come back?"
Andoxnr is entrapped in the wall of ice, but sees an opportunity. He props his staff up against the wall quickly, and thrusts his arms close together into the air. He mutters some phrases, then brings his arms down infront of his, the open palms facing Heartchill as he shouts the last lines, "Power of storm, might of wind, I call on you now, release the fury within!". With that a seering bolt of electricity speeds towards Heartchill. If it doesn't hit him, atleast it'll shatter the ice dome.
Skypti nods approvingly. "Mm, tactics."
Andoxnr grins
Heartchill says, "Heartchill is hurt (baatezu take full damage from lightning)"
Andoxnr says, "go ahead, Heartchill"
Skypti says, "The one thing with this, as you may have noticed, is that it takes a while to do a good fight."
Andoxnr nods
Heregul says, "Heartchill will fall back a bit, hurt by the lightning, but will throw his spear towards Andoxnr with a good deal of force. Andoxnr should be vulnerable to such an attack because he's just finished casting a spell (or so Heartchill hopes)"
Andoxnr says, "okay"
Skypti says, "You worry too much about saying what you'll do before, Heregul. It's okay to pose yer own stuff, y'know. ;)"
Heregul wants to make sure everyone's okay with his actions.
Heartchill hissing, Heartchill falls backwards, his body still coursing with electricity. A knee falls to the ground, but Heartchill stops himself there. Heaving himself back up slightly, Heartchill grips his spear in his right hand, then with a might throw, drives it straight towards Andoxnr's chest.
Heregul says, "The ice spear will make whatever it hits *very* cold. Hypothermia..."
Andoxnr tries to duck the spear, but he is a little slow. The spear hits into Andoxnr's right shoulder, and scrapes it up real good. He falls to the floor, faking a fatal injury, waiting for Heartchill to stand over him to retrieve his spear.
Heregul says, "Heartchill won't be fooled by such cheap tricks, having fought in the Blood War for a good hundred centuries, at least."
Ego says, "There's always Advanced Illusion"
Skypti nods. Excellent example.. telling your opponent what the plans are.
Heregul notes that.
Heartchill buzzes to Andoxnr as he moves over towards him. "Get up, hot-blood," he buzzes in an arrogant tone of voice. "If you're going to die, at least make it look realistic." With that, he twirls his tail around again, moving it to strike the prone lightning genasi.
Andoxnr fights off the freezing cold of the spear, and rolls to the side, not wanting to be slapped with the scaly tail o' Heartchill's again. He struggles to stand up, and makes it, running towards Heartchill while he's turning back around from the swing.
Skypti is enjoying this. "You two really have the hang of it now. If a couple other people want to start up, too.. go ahead."
Thrown off balance from the swing, Heartchill can see Andoxnr coming in towards him. Laughing a strange, insectoid laugh, Heartchill turns and grabs Andoxnr by the shoulders and examines his neck carefully, clicking his mandibles together in anticipation of the kill...
Andoxnr grins as Heartchill grabs him. He rubs his hand together quickly and says, "CLEAR!". With that, he places his hands on Heartchill's chest and uses his "Shocking Grasp" spell like ability, hoping to initiate cardiac arrest.
Heartchill notices his 50 magic resistance.
Andoxnr notes it is natural
Skypti gives y'all a handy trick, by the way..
Ego says, "should a neutral party flip a coin?"
Heregul says, "Since the lightning bolt affected him earlier, this will be the one in two that does not work."
Godofred says, "Anyone want to place a bet?"
Skypti says, "say [rand(50)]"
Heregul says, "Oh, neato. What will that give?"
Skypti says, "A random number between.. er, 0 and 49. Whoops, pardon me.."
Ego says, "You have to precede it with "say""
Andoxnr notices that all he's doing is releasing some energy from his home plane
Andoxnr says, "It's not magical"
Heregul says, "In Sigil? "
Andoxnr shrugs
Skypti says, ""say [add([rand(99)],1)]" gives you a random number between 1 and 100. I'll give more intsruction on how to 'roll' later."
Andoxnr says, "It's not as if he opens a gate to his home plane.."
Skypti says, "And in cases where people can't agree like this.. you can allways call in someone to judge the situation."
Heregul calls on Skypti.
Andoxnr says, "Just energy stored within, like a fire genasi's "affect normal fires""
Heregul doesn't think that a "shocking grasp" should be able to cause cardiac arrest, even /*if* gelugons have hearts.
Andoxnr says, "Bah!"
Andoxnr grins
Skypti says, "I would say that it /is/ magical, but can happen."
Andoxnr grins
Andoxnr says, "Mabye not on Gelugons....too thick skin. Might work on a humanoid, though."
Heregul says, "Okay, I think that this is the one where the magic resistance *will* come in. Finishing RP."
The lightning energy of Andoxnr's grasp flows straight through Heartchill, obviously not harming him one bit. Heartchill buzzes highly, and moves his mandibles towards the genasi's neck, tearing off a rather large chunk of flesh. Heartchill pushes his prey to the ground, laughing in a high-pitched series of "buzzes".
Andoxnr writhes on the ground, then realizes this is OOC, and gets up, shaking Heartchill's hand, "Good battle, hope to fight with you again some time.". He smiles.
Andoxnr goes and sits back
Skypti beams broadly, showing off her (nonexistant) pearly whites.
Heartchill shakes hands with Andoxnr. "Sorry," he says, "but I'm never in Sigil."
You say, "You should of said ATTEMPTING to tear off the flesh, and allow Ando to determine the results"
Andoxnr says, "really? too bad."
Skypti says, "By the way, before we get carried away.. I presume you two agreed before on the ripping off of flesh, eh? :)"
Andoxnr says, "No...but it was kind of an automatic hit, so I let it go"
Skypti nods to Andox. If you object to something being posed, you can always tell the person ooc to stop that.
Heregul thought it rather obvious because Heartchill had him grabbed by the shoulders. He'll know better next time.
Skypti says, "Shall we start the second (and third?) battles, then?"
Trinity says "Umm, may I ask of something?"
Skypti says, "Go for it."
Shikina growls at Heartchill's abrupt departure.
Trinity says "How about we demonstrate a mass combat"
Fovoham says, "Yes! What does an old woman need to do to get a fight around here!"
Skypti says, "Aaah.. yes. a point."
Skypti ponders. Do three or four of you want to try a mass combat?
Skypti says, "Three, rather."
Skypti waves at the various.. beings.. gathered around. "Okay.. Who all is involved in this next one? Just say Aye."
Fovoham says, "Aye!"
Ego says, "Aye."
Andoxnr says, "Aye"
Andoxnr looks around for any humanoid involved in the fight
Skypti says, "Alrighty. Go to it."
Fovoham says, "Ok, I am going to begin a Death Spell."
Heregul says, "Getting *right* to the point, are we?"
Andoxnr says, "Does Ego have magic resistance?"
Andoxnr says, "N/M"
Andoxnr says, "I'll have to find that out myself..."
Ego says, "Who's fighting who?"
Skypti says, "Ego, Fovoham, Andoxnr."
Ego says, "An all-for-one brawl?"
Skypti says, "Yes."
Andoxnr'll cast a "hold person" on our fiendish friend here..
Andoxnr says, "Wait, even better..."
Fovoham says, "I have 60 MR"
Andoxnr'll cast "suggestion" on Ego, get her to help him fight Fovoham...
Skypti says, "Don't worry too much about the numbers.. see if it seems appropriate to take damage or not at the time."
Fovoham says, "Okalydokaly."
Skypti says, "RPed combat is as much about good drama as it is about winning (or losing)."
Ego says, "Suggestion won't affect Ego. It will only affect Id."
Ego says, "That's what mental effects do to devourers with captured souls."
Ego says, "'Course, Andoxnr probably won't know that."
Andoxnr says, "Okay..."
Fovoham says, "So what are you going to do Ego?"
Heregul notes. "Perhaps one of you should RP a violent action?"
Trinity says "Uhem, this is a problem I wish to adress with mass cambats"
Ego says, "Ego will attack the arcanoloth with two claws and energy drainl"
Skypti says, "Mass comabt is tough.. and easier in an appropriate situation."
Fovoham waves her hands in the air, muttering rather harsh words. Most celestials would probably cover their ears. Black smoke begins to coil around Fovoham in a dramatic fashion.
Andoxnr grabs his staff in it's center and a surge of electricity shoots down the ends, causing them to glow.
Ego opens her claws. They seem to emit a sucking negative pull.
Trinity says "another issue that should be adressed in mass caombat is who attacks in what order"
Ego says, "We could describe what everyone is going to do, than @emit it all at once."
Skypti says, "Okay. For the sake of ease, I'm going to say Andoxnr, Ego, Fovoham.. pose in that order."
Andoxnr says, "Yes...Ciphers first..."
Fovoham says, "Should I repose or just from now on go in that order?"
Andoxnr rushes at Fovoham, his staff preparing to sweep unders the fiend's feet.
Fovoham is rather distracted by casting her spell, and is completley tripped and falls on her back. The black smoke begins to dissipate.
Andoxnr says, "Okay, Ego's turn to bash the fiend"
Trinity says "I will comment several of us have found it convientent to choose a referee (DM) to run NPC enemies and decide game effects such as attacking order"
Ego starts toward Fovoham, but turns on Andoxnr when she notices how quickly the genasi goes down.
Andoxnr gasps
Ego 's left claw swings at the genasi's face.
Andoxnr feels his face ripped off.
Andoxnr says, "ow!"
Skypti says, "Hmm. Quick-pose combat, eh? ;)"
Andoxnr nods
Andoxnr shlomps around
Andoxnr says, "Well.."
Fovoham says, "Ok, Fovoham is going to Gate in 2 dhergoloths to help her out."
Ego says, "Ego will doubtless back away."
Fovoham crawls up upon her knees and concentrates quite hard. Two ovals appear on eihter side of her, and a Dergholoth steps out of each one.
Ego backs away rapidly, considering the situation. She attempts to kick one like an overgrown beachball.
Really overgrown.
Fovoham says, "Should I RP that or have someoneldse do so?"
Trinity grins
Skypti says, "I'd say you, since you sumoned them. :)"
While the fiend dosen't roll away, it is tipped on its side and is having a good amount of trouble righting itself.
Ego says, "The other one should have a chance to attack now, I think."
Trinity says, "Éust to disagree with Skypti ;), I would say you could do it yourself OR delegate authority over to another which agrees"
Ego says, "The other one should have a chance to attack now, I think."
Skypti says, "Well, yes. There is /always/ an "Or". :>"
The second fiend is a bit dazed due to being summoned so suddenly and does not attack.
Fovoham says, "Lazy Dergholoths!"
Ego takes advantage of the lag and embraces the rotund 'lot with both arms.
Mubodius says, "I have to go, sorry to break off combat."
Mubodius looks relieved as Fovoham leaves.
Everybody dies.
Trinity sighs
Skypti says, "Okay. Well, that was a bit confusing, but practice will set it aright. :)"
Skypti says, "This meeting is officially adjorned. See y'all around."
After everyone left, Trinity, Etzain and Andoxnr decided to continue the Combat Seminar, under the watch of Verdax...
Andoxnr grabs his staff in it's center and a surge of electricity shoots down the ends, causing them to glow.
You say, "Now, this demonstration is on Mass combat, where we left off at"
Andoxnr says, "C'mon..."
Andoxnr gets into a defense stance, turning around slowly, surveying his opponents.
You say, "I will emit the enemies"
Etzain says, "Okay"
Andoxnr holds his glowing staff
Calvin says, "Let's go..."
There is a group of ten Lumures surounding you two
Andoxnr twirls it around experienced
Trinity says "fighting order...."
Etzain forms two blades...
Etzain says, "Bring it, sludge boys..."
Trinity says "Etz, Ando, Lemures, Calvin...."
Trinity says "emit your attack, and the opponenet will react"
Etzain jumps up and comes down on one of the Lemures, trying to cleave it in thirds...
You say, "Go ahead now, you can prepare your attacks in advance to quicken the process"
The Lemure is easily cut down by Etzain's attack, but begins to slowly reform into a puddle on the ground
Andoxnr does a front flip over the nearest Lemure, keeping his glowing staff close to himself. He then turns around and attempts to hit a gooey Baatezu
Calvin breaks a bottle on the table edge and slashes at one of the things drunkenly...
Ando strikes the creature square in the head, causing it to splatter acrost the room, its body falling to the ground
Calvin jabs the bottle deep into the creature, bit it is seemingly unafected by the attack and swips it's dripping arm at Calvin, as two others aproch from each side and also mindlessly swipe at the modron
Two others slowly approach Ando from in front of him, each swinging and trying to overpower him
Meanwhile, three of the creatures swarm upon Etzain, two from the front and one from the flank, swiping with their gooy arms at him
Trinity says "react to their attacks"
Etzain lands, and while still crouching, sweeps with his arm-blades in a wide, circular motion, attempting to deal blows to both of the Lemures infront of him, and the one behind...
Trinity says "they highly outnumber you, remember that, though they cause little damage"
Etzain says, "Hows /that/ for a pose?"
Verdax applauds
Andoxnr grins evily as the Lemures approach. He sticks a hand in one of the Lemurs, and uses his "Shocking Grasp" ability. While he is distracted, the other one strikes him in the back.
Trinity says "one thing, they should recieve an attack from the first round upon you before that"
Etzain says, "Hmm?...I don't understand...clarify...."
Trinity says "they get their actions before you can make a second attack"
Etzain says, "So they hit me on the way down.."
Trinity says "yes, but you decide if the strike you and how"
Etzain says, "oh..."
Trinity says "make sense?"
Etzain says, "okay...let me redo that.."
Andoxnr says, "Well, one o' 'em hit me in the back..."
Trinity says "makes character consent alot easier"
Trinity says "besdies you most likely know you character better then anyone else"
Andoxnr says, "Right."
Trinity says "you did good with that Ando, but why did the one in front miss you?"
Andoxnr shrugs
Etzain flies down, and two of the Lemures hit his legs, their goo-stuff slightly mixing with his, as he lands, and while still crouching, sweeps with his arm-blades in a wide, circular motion, attempting to deal blows to both of the Lemures infront of him, and the one behind...
Etzain says, "Now /thats/ a pose..."
Andoxnr says, "I stuck my hand in his attacking fling..."
Etzain groans as their goo mixes with his
Verdax says, "Impressive posing, Etz. Someone was paying attention in class. (:"
Etzain cuts the two in front of him to ribbons, but only deal the one to his rear a glancing blow before it takes another swing at him
Andoxnr says, "And mine wasn't good?"
Verdax says, "Not saying it wasn't good, I'm just pleased that Etz got his really long. (:"
The lemure in front of Ando swings at him, but he ducks low, and sticks his hand into the creature, promptly frying it to a crisp.... However, Ando is caught unaware of the lemure to his side and it lands a heavy blow into his flanks, causing him to stagger back
Etzain springs up into one of their swings, as it hits his head he groans in pain again, and angrily shouts, "Quit doing that!" then he snarls and jabs at the one with both blades, twisting and slashing while inside...he is /very/ angry...
Andoxnr howls in pain as the Lemure hits him. He swings around to face the beast, but then realizes that it is still attached to his back. Grinning at the opportunity, he swings quickly around to face his back against the other Lemures, flinging their kinsman into them.
The mauled lemure simply melts into a puddle of goo at Etzain's feet, twitching from time to time
Calvin throws off all the gathered Lemure on top of him and starts to spin, with his arms splayed out from him. His hands have broken bottles in them. He apparently learned this move from Etzain...
The lemure flies into it's brethren that are attacking the modron, and they all colapse into a pile of goo covering Calvin
Goo is sprayed all over the combatants as the last of the lemures are dealt with
Trinity giggles
Andoxnr takes a bow, decharging his staff
Etzain helps the extras up.."Thanks...you'll be sent back to Baator as abishai.."
Etzain shakes the Lemures hands...
Trinity says "how did I do?"
Etzain says, "Good, good..."
Trinity smiles
Etzain says, "I mean...they were only Lemures..."
Andoxnr says, "Did you good..."
Etzain says, "I like the brainless part"
Etzain says, "It added something extra.."
Trinity says "I just wanted to demonstrate mass combat where the heroes where outnumbered"
Etzain says, "If you added hulking and shuffling it would a made it /perfect/..."
Etzain says, "And more emphasis on dripping and oozing..."
The audience (consisting of Verdax) stands up, and you're deafened by the applause. Bouquets of flowers and women's panties galore are tossed up, and some people way in back are shouting "Encore! Encore!" Either that or "We like Roy".
Andoxnr grins, and takes another bow.
Trinity smiles, "It was the first combat I ever performed"
Etzain says, "something like.."The Lemures swing at Etzain with there dripping, oozing arms, brainlessly attacking him with their hulking bodies...'"
Etzain says, "That's an extreme example..."
Etzain says, "Now /that/ brings to mind images..."
Etzain says, "But you did real good for a first time.."
Andoxnr says, "Yes, very good, Trinity"
Etzain says, "Rather, in that example replace 'hulking bodies' with 'hulking limbs'"
After this short fight, Verdax quit and Nexus arrived, just in time for a battle including magic. Etzain and Andoxnr leaves shortly after the beginning, but happily, Thanurel arrives, which makes a party of spell casters only.
Trinity giggles, "Strike a pose gentlemen :)
You say, "I need to know your guy's location and all before I can throw in monsters...."
Andoxnr grabs his staff in it's center and a surge of electricity shoots down the ends, causing them to glow.
Andoxnr grins
Trinity says "pose your stances and everything and I'll tell what the monsters are and where"
Etzain says, "ready"
Etzain looks around
Andoxnr pulls his glowing staff close to him, and looks on the guard for monsters.
Nexus hasn't really got a stance
Nexus is hiding between the twos
Andoxnr swings it defensively..
Etzain makes two arm-blades and protects Nexus
Thanurel has arrives from within a billowing cloud of noxious black smoke.
Nexus is relieved
Thanurel cracks his bony knuckles
Four silvery humanoid figures stand in front of you, they are incrusted with shards of ice and a laywer of frost, two quickly spread out and try to flank their opponents from each side while the other two approach from the front
Andoxnr twirls his glowing staff with amazing skill...
Etzain crouches, preparing one of his famous jump attacks...
Nexus wield his katana, Trixie, in a non-professional way
Thanurel readies his staff
Nexus wigles his fingers, ready for a spell
Trinity says "Um, where is Than in comparison to you three?"
Nexus says, "I'm in the middle, protected by all"
Andoxnr is directly infront of them.
Andoxnr says, "I'm facing them."
Nexus says, "We form a reversed T"
Nexus says, "Ando is in front, me in the middle, etzain to the right and Than to the left"
Nexus says, "ok?"
Etzain says, "Let's do it!"
Trinity says "combat order.... Etzain, Ando, Magens, Nex, Than"
Etzain jumps high from his crouched position, coming down fast and hard with his blades on one of the Magen's shoulders...
Trinity says "which one?"
Etzain says, "Hmm..."
Etzain says, "the Flank one closest to me"
Andoxnr centers his balance, as he faces the Magens.. He holds his glowing staff in one hand, and thrusts the other, opened palmed out towards the silvery beasts, using his wild talent, "Project Force".
As Etzain pounces upon the left flank magen it suddenly moves back, recieving glancing blows which slightly mars it's shiney surface, but quickly reacts, slaming it's two fists into Etzain's "chest".
Etzain flies back, and hits the wall, a little shaken...
Nexus says, "Mmm.. Trin? That's your new way to fight?"
You say, "I like it better that way"
Nexus says, "Okay, but Wasn't the Magens suposed to act later on?"
You say, "The player knows their character better then anyone else, they should decide what happens to themsleves"
Etzain says, "And I did..."
Etzain says, "I flew back on my own.."
Nexus says, "Oh, cool..."
You say, "You did good Etzain"
Etzain says, "Thanks"
Thanurel says, "guess it's the magen's turn now"
You say, "Do you see how I am doing this yet?"
Nexus says, "Yeah, I do Trin"
Andoxnr wonders what happened to his Magen
You say, "I still need to emit it"
You say, "It take s time to do it good"
Andoxnr nods
The magen on the right flank is tacken by surprise and struck by an unknown force, causeing to stagger backwards and fall....
Andoxnr grins and swings his staff into an attack position.
Thanurel says, "how are spells handled?"
Thanurel says, "does the wizard emit the results?"
One of the magen to the front quickly strides up to Nex and swings it's icy cold arm at him, while the second remains behind as little shards of ice and frost begin to colect within it's hands, it then suddenly motions towards Than and to balls of ice streak towards his chest
Trinity says "that is an example of a spell (it is similar to magic missile), I posed what it looked like, but the target gets to determine the results, understand?"
Thanurel is immune to cold, he's undead. Do I emit the results of it hitting me?
You say, "Yes"
Thanurel says, "so do I emit it now or wait my turn?"
You say, "Remember, opponents most likely don't know a PCs strengths and weaknesses, and vice versa"
Etzain says, "Emit it right after.."
Etzain says, "It'll move smoother"
Nexus says, "I got attacked too..."
Trinity says "both Than and Nex can react now that it is there turns"
Nexus says, "You should emit only one at the time..."
Thanurel says, "so who emits first?"
Nexus says, "What if they attacked Etzain?"
Nexus says, "He would have to wait his turn to get hit?"
You say, "Yes etzain, like how I emited their reactions to yours and Ando's attacks"
Thanurel says, "and if i'm immune to cold, does being hit disrupt my spell?"
Nexus says, "Your choice"
Trinity says "the reason I emmited both at once was that was when they where scheduled to attack"
Nexus says, "Now, both me and Than has to emit... no?"
Thanurel says, "so nexus emits first, then me"
You say, "Yes, Nex and Than emmit, poreferably Nex first, but it doesn't matter"
You say, "I will still need time to emit after each result"
Shards of ice hit Thanurel in the chest, leaving frost on his robes. The frost quickly melt's under the harsh light of his ankh, however and he seems unphased by the attack as he continues casting his spell.
Nexus got his shoulder scratched by the creature, making Nex loses his spell, but making his tiefling blood surrounds him by a cloud of darkness.
Nexus says, "okay?"
Thanurel says, "do i emit the results of my spell now or at my turn?"
Nexus lets go of a cry for help
You say, "Emit what the spell looks like"
Nexus raises his hand
Trinity says "Than's spell will end this turn"
Nexus says, "What if we cast a spell like charm or something unaparent?"
Thanurel completes the casting of his spell, and eight multicolored skulls fly at different opponents, striking each. As each skull hits, it emits a terribly loud screech which hurts the ears.
Thanurel says, "now this spell is called Thanurel's Prismatic Death... it's like prismatic wall but it automatically hits with a random color"
Thanurel says, "how do I emit that? do you emit the results or do I say which colors hit and how they affect the enemy?"
You say, "Okay Than, emit what the results would be"
You say, "Like...."
Thanurel says, "give me an example of how far I can go with my emit... because one of the possible effects is save vs. death or die.."
Trinity waves her arms in arcane gestures and mummbles in a long lost language, attempting to charm undead Than
Nexus says, "Mmm..."
Thanurel says, "alright, so I say what the effect WOULD be... you decide if it works?"
You say, "Does that clairify?"
Nexus says, "Nope..."
You say, "Yes"
Thanurel says, "since they're your monsters..."
Nexus says, "If a spell is suposed to be discret or something..."
Thanurel says, "alright then..."
Nexus says, "I guess you would just have to page the person with what you're trying to do... I'll try later"
A black skull slams into the being attacking Nexus making the being stagger back, holding it's chest where the skull hit. Where the skull struck, there are large black burn marks which are eating away at the very life essence of the being.
You say, "This has been a really good example anyways"
Thanurel says, "does it die?"
Etzain slices and dices with his blades...
You say, "It made its magic resistance roll, and is unaffected"
Thanurel says, "ok... there's still 6 more skulls..."
Thanurel says, "how many got affected?"
You say, "Emit them all at once preferably"
Nexus says, "Yeah..."
You say, "That one magin is unaffected by that particular spell"
Several different colors of skulls hit each of the beings, some damaging the beings others attempting to turn the monsters to stone or paralyze them. All of the beings that were hit are deafened and are holding their ears in pain
Thanurel says, "was that emit ok? can I say my spell deafened them? that's an automatic result from the screaming of the skulls"
You say, "Gentlemen, let us demonstrate other spell techniques in battle"
Thanurel says, "alright, show us this other technique..."
Trinity says "Than, you really shouldn't emit what a spell does do, merely what it is uposed to do"
Nexus says, "Can I propose something"
Thanurel says, "so.. I would emit that the skulls go flying and screaming... but how would YOU know the results?"
Thanurel says, "do I say what the spell is supposed to do after my emit?"
Nexus says, "When you do a spell, you page the target and tell him/her the supposed results"
Thanurel says, "OOC that is..."
You say, "For examples, the Magen would not be deafened because they have no ears, and some may not even be affected because of magic resistance"
Thanurel says, "but I didn't know that..."
Trinity says "yes, that is a good idea Nex"
Nexus says, "thanks"
Nexus says, "We should do this then"
You say, "Yes than, emit what skulls go where, and OOC the suposed results of each skull"
You say, "That would be a good demonstration, I think...."
Screaming, multicolored skulls fly from Thanurel's fingertips unerringly striking each of the silvery beings. The one by Nexus is struck by a black skull, while the one that attacked Thanurel is struck by a orange skull. The others are both struck with green skulls. The skulls explode in a loud shriek which pierces the ears...
Thanurel says, "the black skull causes death or 30 damage, the green one causes poison (death) or nothing, while the orange one causes 40 damage or nothing"
Thanurel says, "or something along those lines.. I can't remember the results of each and every color.. want me to look it up?"
You say, "That's good"
Thanurel says, "alright, so how many were affected? and which ones? I guess you emit that now..."
Thanurel says, "Orange Spell for Inflicts 40 points of damage"
The magens struck by the black orange skulls fall to the ground and shatter, spraying ice-cold shards within their vicinity. The two struck by the green skulls are appearently unnafected
You say, "Let us demonstrate some other spells now"
Nexus wants to do it
You say, "Go ahead Nex"
Nexus waves its hands toward Etzain, letting some little sparkles draws from them.
Nexus says, "This is where I'm supposed to page Etzain and tell him I casted 'Enlarge' on him"
Etzain suddently grows much larger than he usually is
Nexus says, "And that would be what he would say"
Trinity smiles, "Yes, very good"
The sound of bone striking bone rings out through the room...
You say, "May we demonstrate one last form of combat?"
Thanurel says, "of course"
Nexus says, "Sure"
You say, "I wish to demonstrate how autority of a character can be deligated to another."
Thanurel says, "ok.."
You say, "Instead of me poseing my own actions, I permit someone else to do it for me"
Thanurel says, "do you tell that person what to do, or do they decide on their own?"
You say, "This must be prearanged of course, but has its benefits"
You say, "I will demonstrate"
You say, "Nexus, remember my fights in the Leather Tiefling? I wish to demonstrate that here, alright?"
Nexus says, "Sure!"
Thanurel says, "no objections on my end"
Trinity jumps up on the table, then motions for a creature to change her
Trinity says "Nex, the rules please"
You say, "This will also demonstrate how rules can be set up and agreed upon before a combat, due to various conditions"
Nexus says, "1)No weapons"
Nexus says, "2)No flying"
Nexus says, "3)No magic, whatsoever"
Thanurel says, "break them you lose and get kicked out of the leather tiefling"
Thanurel if anyone notices that is... :)
You say, "I would than agree upon those rules, and the other combatant also"
Nexus says, "Yes"
Trinity says "one last rule, the combatants can agree otherwise upon the prestated rules"
Nexus says, "If both agrees to use weapons, it's cool"
You say, "But for this purpose I will agree upon the Three rules"
Trinity lays her staff aside and motions for another combatant
You say, "In this form of combat, I will page the "referee" my actions, but he decides the results of both my and the creature's actions"
You say, "Nex, go ahead"
Thanurel says, "basically a type of temporary Dungeon Master"
A leather fitted tiefling enters the stage, making some Kung-Fu poses
You say, "A short combat to demonstrate"
Trinity says "exactely"
Trinity grins, baring her fangs for all to see, again ;)
The tiefling grins and takes an offensive pose
Trinity will leap at her, trying to perform a roundhouse
You say, "That should be paged, to make the action seem quick paced and uncluttered"
Trin attacks first, for once, jumping at the tiefling with a roundhouse quick.
The tiefling catches her feet and makes a quick twist, making Trin falls on her face.
Thanurel says, "who emitted that part about grabbing the leg?"
You say, "The referee does all the emiting"
Thanurel says, "ok, I see"
Nexus says, "Then Trin page me again"
Trinity says "I twist and land on my hands, performing a backhand spring and trying to catch her chin with me heel"
Trin lands on her hands and pushes back, kicking succesfully the tiefling on her face.
The tiefling lets go of Trin's feet and does a break kick at Trin's stomach. She misses.
Trinity says "I will get back to my feet and cautiously back away, waiting for her to attack"
Trin gets back on her feet and steps back, taking a defensive pose.
The tiefling runs and make a jump kick at Trin, aiming her face.
Trinity will duck, then quickly reach up, grabbing for her head, to yank it sharply downwards
The tiefling passes over the dunking Trin. As soon as she lands, she get yanked down by Trin, letting a discusting *pop* announce the breaking of her neck.
Nexus says, "I wanted to end the fight, I think we got the idea now..." |
