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[personal profile] battling 2022-06-30 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Unfortunately this is very familiar to him, but it's not like he can peace out of this situation the way he normally would. He attempts (5) to hit the malice with the butt of his gun, but with the way he's being manhandled by the malice, the attack goes wide.]
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[personal profile] cuedoves 2022-06-30 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ zuko's suspended over the pit by his spear -- but he can see in the corner of his eye that everyone else is, well, fucked ]

[ he tries the magnet again, to bring up that bit of a pipe to come up under sheila as sebastian reaches out for her, hopefully helping her get back on the platform. hell yeah 18. ]

[ in quick succession, he tries to rip himself away from the malice about to drop him, spear and all. he rolls a 15 for that, then throws himself towards the malice overwhelming bradley, spear out. 12! ]

[ final roll is 20, which just means zuko himself doesn't land horribly. unless you want to reverse it and say 20 helps brad, 12 for landing. i leave it in ur hands nick ]
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[personal profile] perceivedrevalry 2022-06-30 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Sheila would have fallen in. Her powerful guardian sword swings, missing the skulls, and that's all she got to do before losing her footing, falling backwards. Below the malice seems to roar, victorious, that woman was the one who had dared to shoot at it with electricity, it would get its comeuppance--

--or that was how it would have been, if Zuko hadn't made a pipe float and catch Sheila. That move is enough to push her back, and Sebastian's help saves her balance -- although he did grab the rod instead of her. Better move from the edge, you two! The skulls, not satisfied with the lack of success at throwing her into the pit, decide to attack them directly, to bite them, one for Sebastian and one for Sheila!

Not done trying to save people, Zuko lands on the one holding Bradley just when it had grabbed and lifted him in the air, the butt of the rifle missing completely. Under Zuko's feet the malice ripples, Zuko's weight making him sink a little into it, with some very unpleasant noises. An eye pops up from it to look at him right when Zuko attempts to stab the malice, it all slithering away from Bradley, leaving him on the platform feeling exhausted due to the contact with evil magic. This bunch of malice, with Zuko on top of it, whips around attempting to throw him off [13] right onto the edge of the platform.

Look down, though, everyone: the water level is beginning to rise. The pumps inside the pillar with the platform are working overtime, the vibrations of the platform feel a little stronger now, but it's too much water to deal with, it's beginning to fill the pit and lift the malice upwards. It will get up to everyone's level in two turns!

Four turns before critical pressure is reached
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[personal profile] toesies 2022-06-30 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Because she rolled an 8, Sebastian grabs Sheila's staff instead of her! Oh, no. Looks like mom is going to fall anyway— except Zuko rolled an 18 so she is saved. Boo. She steadies herself again, just in time for one of the skulls to chomp down on her arm after she rolls a 2.

Sheila doesn't look so much like she's in pain, so much as she is deeply offended by this.]


Oh, motherfucker!

[She tries to punch the skull off to yeet it back to the goop monster, but she rolled a 7, so.]
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[personal profile] battling 2022-06-30 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Fuck- water's rising!

[ He tries to catch Zuko with a roll of 11.

They don't have much time left. ]
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[personal profile] cuedoves 2022-06-30 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ zuko tries to reach out to grab bradley's hand, but he rolls a 5, so get fucked zuko. ]

[ looks like team rocket's blasting off agaaaaaaiiiin ]

[ at least, he hits the edge of the platform hard, right on his bloodied back. ouchies. probably leaves an imprint of blood where he lands ]


Ugh...

[ he tries to get up, get to his feet, try to get away from the edge, but he rolled a 1, so his vision swims with the pain and he's falling right over the edge ]
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[personal profile] unbested 2022-06-30 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ well i rolled a fucking 1 for the skull bite so i guess this skull is just latching onto his neck like the skeletal vampire of his nightmares and it hurts like heck!!!!

he will make an attempt to grab zuko as he's falling, but i rolled a 10 so i feel like that could go either way and will probably go the worse way when he's got a fucking skull clamped to his neck. ]
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[personal profile] perceivedrevalry 2022-06-30 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
We're all doing excellent, aren't we.

Sheila's punch connects! The skull glares at her and bites further, leaving some ghastly bite marks! It doesn't manage to chew through bone yet, though. [7] Still, the skull does seem vaguely disappointed Sheila is not writhing in pain or panicking. Oh well. May as well do as much damage as possible anyway, at the very least sever through flesh, it figures, but that's taking a bit! .

Zuko falling is a very messy situation. He crashes against the edge of the platform and begins to fall, Bradley and Sebastian trying to help! Both of them with average rolls, it seems. If it were one person, especially the one with the skull around the neck, his weight would have dragged them along, but given it's two, they together manage to reach Zuko and catch him, but not before he pulls from them, leaving them lying down on the floor with half their bodies over the edge, Zuko hanging over an abyss of evil that's looking straight at them...

...[2] and does nothing else even though it has a prime chance to pull from them to drag them into the water. Wow.

Speaking of the water, it keeps rising. It's just four feet under Zuko, and rising. The malice begins to gather in preparation to receive him if he falls!

Three turns before critical pressure is reached
One turn before the water level reaches the platform
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[personal profile] toesies 2022-06-30 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sheila continues to look annoyed by this skull situation. But, hey, fun fact! No blood comes out no matter how much the skull bites down. It might not be biting down for much longer, too, because with a roll of 18, Sheila will attempt to dislodge it to toss it towards the malice.

Speaking of the malice, regardless of how the skull thing goes— Sheila will use her rune on one of the bomb arrows, smacking it, using lightning magic, and even using the sword like a bat to fucking yeet it at the malice, where it seems to be getting ready to grab Zuko. She rolled a 16 for this.]


Bradley, can't you make a boat?! Or, I don't know, a staircase or something?
Edited 2022-06-30 21:25 (UTC)
battling: ([G] Annoyed 5)

[personal profile] battling 2022-06-30 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It's just pillars!

[With a roll of 15, he will make a pillar to cut the malice off from Zuko. If he falls, he'll fall into the pillar and not into the many mouths of the malice.

It DOES float, but it's much less flexible than the magic that he usually has access to. It'd be great if he could make a staircase and get them out of here.

The ice arrow he tries to fire (3) doesn't go anywhere.]
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1/2

[personal profile] cuedoves 2022-06-30 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ thanks to the combined efforts of everyone, zuko doesn't quite fall onto the malice! he isn't able to get up and away from the edge (2), but he does fall straight onto the pillar. ]

[ unfortunately, he slides right the fuck off it and into the malice with a scream (2) ]

[ rest in pieces zuko ]
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[personal profile] cuedoves 2022-06-30 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ looks like he's.... gone... forever... oh no... how sad..... they lost him. ]

[ after an appropriately dramatique pause (in which people may or may not be yelling his name, anime-style), suddenly, a sword stabs into the side of the ice pillar (12)! zuko pulls himself up through sheer grit and determination, his head above water and above malice, and then he's going to go for a stab at it ]

[ with 20 ]
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[personal profile] unbested 2022-06-30 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ sebastian definitely did yell his name there, and now once again he's just like "whoa he's so cool" when he comes back!!!

unfortunately he is much less cool himself because he rolled 8s for both beating the skull monster off of his neck and bombing the malice so rip ]
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[personal profile] perceivedrevalry 2022-06-30 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
The arrows Bradley and Sebastian use miss, hitting the wall. The bomb would have been a little more effective, if it hadn't been for the goop moving away.

Not that there was much moving away left. The water level reaches the platform, the surface being just a foot away from it! Zuko's ice pillar, floating in the water, bobs closer to the platform itself, and his sword and Sheila's bomb arrow get buried into the malice, making it writhe, roar, it backs off! A huge mass of it turned slowly around Zuko, as if trying to figure out the best angle to approach and try to drag him into a watery doom, but...

Instead, it changes tactics. Now that it reached a high spot, all of it goes upwards, forming a thin dome of sorts above them, around nine feet above. Not only that, after that, it forms a tendril, reaching for Sebastian, trying to grab him! The skull still on his neck, to this evil it signals he's vulnerable and can be caught. The weakest link in this group, it figures! So it attempts to reach him before others can react and are recovering from their own problems, trying to capture Sebastian. The plan is to get drag him into the web-like strands above, and dispose of him to its leisure!

Two turns before critical pressure is reached.
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[personal profile] toesies 2022-06-30 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sheila fires another bomb arrow with a roll of 18, aimed at the center of the dome.

Unfortunately, she rolled a 5 for trying to grab Sebastian in time to pull him to safety and a 3 for slashing through the tendril reaching for him? Good luck, Sebastian. Mom tried.]
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[personal profile] battling 2022-06-30 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's times like these where he really wishes he had his magic in these places. It'd be so much easier if he could just grab the group and fly them out of here.

Alas.

He makes a grab for Sebastian (5) and then smacks (8) the tendrils of malice with the bow.]
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[personal profile] cuedoves 2022-06-30 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ zuko also scrambles on top of the pillar to make a dash for sebastian, but rolls a 2 again and eats shit. ]

[ time to change tactics. he slowly gets up to his feet, using sword and spear to brace himself, finds the most obvious cluster of eyes -- ]

[ and throws the spear, with a 20. he's also aiming to cut sebastian loose at the same time, but i want sebastian to be cool and save himself so pls only count the 20 as an assist if that ]
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[personal profile] unbested 2022-06-30 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ sebastian is not being cool at all and not saving anything because he just rolled his favorite number, a big fucking 1, and presumably fell backwards and dropped everything he was holding while mentally punching himself for jinxing everything with those comments about his good luck earlier!!

bye guys this went great ]
Edited (i needed that screenshot in here) 2022-06-30 22:33 (UTC)
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[personal profile] perceivedrevalry 2022-06-30 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems few things unite people such as Sebastian getting stolen by literal evil. A moment of teamwork and friendship that didn't gel out, it's unfortunate.

Not that their actions were futile. The bomb explodes, opening a large hole in the middle of the dome, and given how little time is left, the malice won't be able to fill it up again. Zuko's spear prevented a second tendril to come and try to do something like snapping Sebastian or anything similar, slicing through it, destroying it. Bradley manages to defend himself from the malice trying to catch him, smacking it with his bow. And Sebastian...

Sebastian is dragged upwards, into the net, and it all surrounds him, it envelops him into a cocoon of truly disgusting appearance, beginning to squeeze him, holding him tight and up in the air above the platform, away from the rest, just when things begin getting dire:

The platform vibrates strongly, like an earthquake. It shakes, trembles and begins to visibly move. Anyone off the platform or near its edges would be able to feel wind begin to escape between the surface of the platform and its junction with the pillar, the pressure inside having become overwhelming. Even the malice itself seems to realize the danger, because it retreats a little, enough to give a moment of respite while it tries to come up with a plan of action, a way to stop it since Sheila broke the dome.

Be ready. Things are about to blow up in here.

One turn before critical pressure is reached.
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[personal profile] toesies 2022-06-30 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Sebastian—!

[Apparently, seeing teens in danger makes her really good with a bow, because she takes aim with one of the regular arrows and fires a shot at whatever is keeping Sebastian's goo tethered to the rest of the monster.

Then, with a roll of 10, she slashes at whatever eye or mouth she can reach with her sword. But, uh. Maybe, uh, not very well considering the platform is about to blow.]


Fuck, it's about to blow! What do we do?!

[Are there any convenient pieces of metal or something they can use as shields... Help. Also, she's freezing the platform to give them more time which may be a horrible idea actually but they are fucked anyway? But the intent will be to hopefully yeet them up [11].]
Edited 2022-06-30 22:54 (UTC)
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[personal profile] battling 2022-06-30 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Fuck! Hold on tight!

[He's putting an ice pillar below their platform (1). At least they can be a little closer to the opening. Or so he thinks. With a one, the pillar shatters upon the impact. They have not gone anywhere.]

Hey, can ya move the metal?!

[Zuko had some sort of metal bending ability here, right?]
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[personal profile] cuedoves 2022-06-30 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ zuko fares a little better -- he uses his magnets (11) to rip off the section of the platform sheila's focusing on and lifting them up!! ]

[ then, he'll grab the spear he yeeted earlier - fumbling a little but grabbing it thanks to that 13. he makes some desperate slashes to free sebastian and cutting as much of the malice he can reach -- 19! ]
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[personal profile] unbested 2022-06-30 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ aaand he gets a 5 on his ability to escape malice cocoons so WE'LL SEE IF THAT 19 CAN DO IT ON ITS OWN IG, LET'S GO ]
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[personal profile] perceivedrevalry 2022-06-30 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
There's something said about the best laid plans not happening. In some way, this is an example of it.

The pressure has increased so much they can hear hissing coming right from under the platform, which has begun to shake like a pot lid over steam. Sheila freezes it, stopping the shaking, chains holding the platform in place...but it won't do anything with the pressure beneath. Instead it's as if it's gathering strength, it bestowing into the platform strength for something, like Sheila has done a few times during the adventure.

Bradley's ice shattered, that part of this sudden plan didn't work. Zuko's magnesis captures the platform, enveloping it with its orange light, and...the stasis is strong! It's holding it a little too well in place, Zuko adding even more strength onto it, but before that it just moves an inch or two.

At this point Sebastian will feel the cocoon loosening up thanks to Zuko's slashing -- still not letting go, but if he could see what's going outside, he would understand why the malice isn't patching up all Zuko just did: the malice is shrinking, gathering as deep as possible in the pit. It's impossible to read any expressions, given it's...what it is, but these are quite obviously cautious moves. It knows things have gotten really dangerous here.

Sheila's stasis and Zuko's magnetism may have been what saved their lives. Instead of the platform blowing up and slamming against a wall or something...

...once the magnesis wore off, the entire platform flew up in the air upwards, in direction of the opening high in the ceiling.

It happens so fast perhaps nobody will know for sure what happened. One moment they're panicking about what may happen, the next the stasis breaks, almost immediately afterwards there's a truly deafening noise like a hurricane, and the platform moves upwards. Sebastian may be the one to realize something happened...because a whole, hard platform just smacked him as if it was a runaway train. It doesn't kill him but still, that was not a pleasant moment in the slightest. Nothing broken, but that's going to leave him aching for hours.

The platform doesn't fit entirely well with the opening in the ceiling. The platform crashes against the ceiling, and the pressure inside the chamber continues, air gushes out, the platform stays in place. Everybody, all four, are thrown in the air by the sudden stop, flying several meters upwards in the air and falling down on grass that exists on top of Van Medoh.

Beneath them, they can feel some very strong rumbling. It's the pressure, not having anywhere to escape through, wreaking havoc inside the chamber. The malice is the only thing inside there right now. Imagining how enough pressure to obliterate a place can do to such a thing...ugh. But there's no doubt that thing isn't getting out of there.

Some of the evil that infests Van Medoh has been vanquished, and not in a very traditional way. Well, what matters is that it has been vanquished.

What matters is that they're outside. It's still cold, but there's fresh air, and not too far away, they can see Rito Village -- a village set on the walls of a mountain cliff, surrounded by a lake. A safe place! Van Medoh is currently flying in circles around it. Now, you must get off this place.

You can see three different ways to do so.

Perhaps you will glide at it. There are a few gliders there, meant for you to hold on and fly. There even are ropes which you can use to secure yourself first.

Perhaps you will choose that...very large wooden crate. Many, many balloon-like objects are tied onto it. All you would have to do is get into the box, and it would carry you, forming a very bizarre way to leave the divine beast.

Or perhaps you will choose that minecart over there. Curious thing -- it has the same chains of the stasis rune Sheila uses. Looks like it has been held in stasis for a while, and judging by the chains' opacity, it's about to run out. The cart will fly in direction of Rito Village, propelled by inertia.

How you leave Van Medoh...is up to you. What will your entrance back to the hotel be like?
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[personal profile] toesies 2022-06-30 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[...]

So, that just happened! Is everyone in one piece?

[She asks, but.

Considering she is somehow the least injured person here

Sheila promptly grabs as many of these boys as she can and starts assisting their asses so they can board the crate. Meanwhile, Sebastian is getting fed all their leftover food to numb his booboos.]
Edited 2022-06-30 23:30 (UTC)

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