[ futaba unfortunately doesn't get to wake up early enough to hear his name and thus continues to be mr. npc. alas.
she on the other hand squints at the ceiling like it personally offended her while catching up to the conversation. talk about the least graceful exist ever, geez. eventually, an arm flops up vaguely to catch their attention ]
[It partially heals Rin's broken arm. Rin can try and fully heal it on his own, or he can ask for more assistance.
The first question, he can answer with no problems.]
It did fall. That's what the earthquake was, I think.
[The second, he considers a little longer.]
You can investigate it on official business. Considering everything that's happened tonight, this should count. The tower is a few hours by carriage, but if you flew there, it would only take an hour.
[When presented with a moonstone he looks extremely uneasy.]
Where did you find that? There are legends of moonstones like this transforming people into monsters, human and wizard alike.
[This might be a few days after the sage's wizards fought the moon, but if the moon is out and bright and full, there is every possibility that they could run into trouble.
Futaba, you have made a bag. Hard to say if it's secure or not, but as long as you don't eat them, or put them into your body, you won't transform into a monster.
He will give you the direction of where the tower fell. It should be obvious, because there will be a giant pile of rubble, larger than any home, almost as large as the castle.
[He tries to heal his arm some more (8), but it's not going so great. It doesn't hurt anymore but it's still kind of weird-looking. But that's a problem for future-Rin! They have a tower to investigate.]
It's fine. We kick the moon's ass all the time, yeah? So we'll just beat it up again.
[He sounds confident despite the fact that they nearly wiped to one enemy.
But yeah he's as ready as he'll be. Let's do this.]
[With Futaba’s healing spell, the whole party is free of injuries. Rin's arm looks as it should. However, they do retain faded scars of all the places they were injured.
Up here all you get is moonlight and starlight. It’s deep into the night, there’s no hint of the sunrise approaching as you travel towards the collapsed Central Tower. The cool night wind whipping at your faces however fast you wish to travel.
How high are you flying? Where are you looking? Are you paying attention to the ground beneath you? Only towards the rubble?]
[Asking Rin not to do anything foolheartedly is asking a lot, but he'll try.
He is watching the ground beneath them as they fly though. No need to get jumped by monsters as they fly towards the rubble! But he's also hoping there aren't more monsters and that everyone else is safe, if a little startled by the earthquake.]
thanks to futaba, shinobu is alert now that she's fully healed, so she is looking everywhere as they're flying, on the ground and around, as they get toward the rubble.
she thinks.... if it was a huge research facility that fell, there's got to be a lot of kickback and reactions and all that jazz. ]
[ futaba attenpts to spell her glasses to do something similar to her persona goggles for a map layout and enemy locations. alas the eight means the best she gets one of those maps that won't show up until she's physically standing upon it. very helpful. maybe later we can add cool updates to it.
for now she just hangs back, a few feet above and behind the two of them just to play her usual role of lookout. the dark skies get a dubious squint in between keeping sn eye behind them. no need to be spooked!!! ]
[There's nothing in the air besides them and the occasional insects. Above them, the moon and stars shine. They are the only things illuminating the night.
Around the castle they takeoff from, there are plenty of merchants shops, and housing. The further out they go, the less populated it is. In the direction they're flying off in, once they make it past the city, there's no buildings.
In this direction there is a cemetery that goes a fair ways out. In that cemetery it seems like the soil is beginning to be displaced, as if something is trying to crawl out. A bone skull pierces through the ground, followed by another, and another. Whatever magic research they were trying to do, when the tower fell, the effects spilled out.]
We should still take a closer look to see what's going on. They likely need to be stopped, but we can't know for sure.
[ innocent until proven guilty.... unless you're a demon (in shinobu's book). ]
You can try to destroy a couple to see if it'll work. I'll go down.
[ she drops down from the sky to close in on the cemetery but doesn't get too close to the ground, so if the younger teens want to harry potter or persona or everything it up, they can. ]
[Sweet Rin. Sweet Futaba. Do skeletons look like zombies to you?
Futaba succeeds in charring the skeleton (9), though it is still able to move.
Many more skeletons rising up from their graves, heads and hands breaching the soil. Some are armed with bows, others with swords and spears. Those with bows don't have arrows, they've long since rotted away. There are a lot of skeletons. Skeletons have long since lost their ability to feel pain. They break their own ribs and the ribs of their allies, taking aim and firing them at Rin (9), Shinobu (3), and Futaba (18).
Shinobu is closest to the ground, and a spear bearing skeleton stabs at her (3).]
[Rin rolled a 19 so he is doing some Sweet Broom Moves to avoid those ribs. Get rekt, 'zombies'!
But it looks like fire isn't working. Hmm...]
They're made of bones, maybe dogs can help with this?
[So yeah he's. going to use his magic to try and summon some super fierce doggos to chew up those skeletons! Though with an 8 he gets some fierce warriors in fun size.]
[ the good news is that shinobu manages to evade the skeleton attacks with relative ease. the bad news is that her attempt to telekinesis the spear out of the skeleton's hold does nothing.
she hopes those dogs can actually do something. she'd hate for them to get hurt.
but if magic won't work for her at the moment, she may as well do it the old-fashioned way. she's going to swan dive off the broom and try to disarm a skeleton for a sword (15). ]
[(Mira voice: And you all used your invocations to successfully pull of your magic.)
The five corgis look up at Rin, sitting patiently, tails wagging. They're hanging out, having a good, normal, not surrounded by undead time.
The skeletons don't bother punting any of the dogs. Yet. Their focus remains on the wizards.
Shinobu successfully (12) steals a skeleton's sword away. In reaction, it pulls off one of its arms to start using that as a makeshift weapon. While she's within the reach of several of the melee skeletons, one tries to stab her with a spear (16), the one using its own arm tries to hit her on the head (11), and a sword tries to slash at her (9).
Another rib arrow is headed towards Rin (7), one towards Futaba (16).
The skeletons that would be scattered away by Futaba's wind spell dig their skeleton heels in hard, successfully resisting being blown away (20).
More skeletons are converging on Shinbou's location.]
[I have decided that going to the comment where the spell name is written and copying it down every time I need to use it is Problematic and will now launch a twitter campaign against it.
Rin rolled a 20 so he's just going to duck his head to the side to avoid the rib-arrow while giving his doggos directions.]
Okay! Who's a good boy? Who's a good magical boy? Want a treat? Do you all want a treat???
[He is riling up these dogs as much as he can to get them excited. And then he's pointing to the skeletons.]
Go! Go get the bones! There's your treats!
[Off they go, wagging their little tail nubbins in excitement as they go to bite at the skeletons with an 11.]
[ the spear impales itself into her arm, and as she hisses in pain, it manages to hit her over the head, which itself lends aid in letting another skeleton slash at her back, soaking this very cute white wizard outfit with even more red.
as she tries to gather herself from the successive wounds, she stumbles over the invocation and whatever she was attempting straight up doesn't go through (an attempt at invoking and imitating her abilities from home), and all she can manage is trying to dart her way around the skeletons converging on her to give herself more room to defend herself. ]
[ futaba dodges for her life, but with her arrows in her it just does the damage she avoided. (16). fuckin ow...! her attempt to shout her spell and cast a protego shield goes horrifically poorly and instead of a shield....
well, there's a concussive blast at herself (1). ]
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she on the other hand squints at the ceiling like it personally offended her while catching up to the conversation. talk about the least graceful exist ever, geez. eventually, an arm flops up vaguely to catch their attention ]
...These stones?
[ present: one moonstone ]
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The first question, he can answer with no problems.]
It did fall. That's what the earthquake was, I think.
[The second, he considers a little longer.]
You can investigate it on official business. Considering everything that's happened tonight, this should count. The tower is a few hours by carriage, but if you flew there, it would only take an hour.
[When presented with a moonstone he looks extremely uneasy.]
Where did you find that? There are legends of moonstones like this transforming people into monsters, human and wizard alike.
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[Let's not talk about the fact that they totally killed that dude. RIP knight guy.]
That's why we're beat to hell and back, you know? But I guess we'll have to keep going, if there might be something at the tower.
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Who knows if there are more out there or not?
Are you two well enough to move?
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[ until the dice makes them eat shit again.
for now she just attempts to make a secure bag of holding for said stones (9). it uh. looks pretty? ]
I'm all rested up though, we should keep going!!
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[This might be a few days after the sage's wizards fought the moon, but if the moon is out and bright and full, there is every possibility that they could run into trouble.
Futaba, you have made a bag. Hard to say if it's secure or not, but as long as you don't eat them, or put them into your body, you won't transform into a monster.
He will give you the direction of where the tower fell. It should be obvious, because there will be a giant pile of rubble, larger than any home, almost as large as the castle.
Are you ready?]
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[He tries to heal his arm some more (8), but it's not going so great. It doesn't hurt anymore but it's still kind of weird-looking. But that's a problem for future-Rin! They have a tower to investigate.]
It's fine. We kick the moon's ass all the time, yeah? So we'll just beat it up again.
[He sounds confident despite the fact that they nearly wiped to one enemy.
But yeah he's as ready as he'll be. Let's do this.]
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Please be careful, you two. I would be distraught if anything happened to either of you.
[ don't be too foolhardy, is what she's trying to say.
But she's also as ready as she'll ever be. Her wounds are all shallow now, so it's fine.
Time to fly to this pile of rubble. ]
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I'm ready to kick ass!
[ and hopefully not eat shit again lmfsjhdsj ]
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Up here all you get is moonlight and starlight. It’s deep into the night, there’s no hint of the sunrise approaching as you travel towards the collapsed Central Tower. The cool night wind whipping at your faces however fast you wish to travel.
How high are you flying? Where are you looking? Are you paying attention to the ground beneath you? Only towards the rubble?]
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He is watching the ground beneath them as they fly though. No need to get jumped by monsters as they fly towards the rubble! But he's also hoping there aren't more monsters and that everyone else is safe, if a little startled by the earthquake.]
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thanks to futaba, shinobu is alert now that she's fully healed, so she is looking everywhere as they're flying, on the ground and around, as they get toward the rubble.
she thinks.... if it was a huge research facility that fell, there's got to be a lot of kickback and reactions and all that jazz. ]
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for now she just hangs back, a few feet above and behind the two of them just to play her usual role of lookout. the dark skies get a dubious squint in between keeping sn eye behind them. no need to be spooked!!! ]
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Around the castle they takeoff from, there are plenty of merchants shops, and housing. The further out they go, the less populated it is. In the direction they're flying off in, once they make it past the city, there's no buildings.
In this direction there is a cemetery that goes a fair ways out. In that cemetery it seems like the soil is beginning to be displaced, as if something is trying to crawl out. A bone skull pierces through the ground, followed by another, and another. Whatever magic research they were trying to do, when the tower fell, the effects spilled out.]
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[He says, sounding disgusted.]
Don't go down there to fight, they'll probably bite. Let's just blast 'em from up here.
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We should still take a closer look to see what's going on. They likely need to be stopped, but we can't know for sure.
[ innocent until proven guilty.... unless you're a demon (in shinobu's book). ]
You can try to destroy a couple to see if it'll work. I'll go down.
[ she drops down from the sky to close in on the cemetery but doesn't get too close to the ground, so if the younger teens want to harry potter or persona or everything it up, they can. ]
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[ it's mostly muttered to herself but she hangs where she is and does a lil magical version of agi and attempts to set one on fire (13) ] ]
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Futaba succeeds in charring the skeleton (9), though it is still able to move.
Many more skeletons rising up from their graves, heads and hands breaching the soil. Some are armed with bows, others with swords and spears. Those with bows don't have arrows, they've long since rotted away. There are a lot of skeletons. Skeletons have long since lost their ability to feel pain. They break their own ribs and the ribs of their allies, taking aim and firing them at Rin (9), Shinobu (3), and Futaba (18).
Shinobu is closest to the ground, and a spear bearing skeleton stabs at her (3).]
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But it looks like fire isn't working. Hmm...]
They're made of bones, maybe dogs can help with this?
[So yeah he's. going to use his magic to try and summon some super fierce doggos to chew up those skeletons! Though with an 8 he gets some fierce warriors in fun size.]
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she hopes those dogs can actually do something. she'd hate for them to get hurt.
but if magic won't work for her at the moment, she may as well do it the old-fashioned way. she's going to swan dive off the broom and try to disarm a skeleton for a sword (15). ]
I'm going for a sword!
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[ but since she rolled a 5 she gets completely distracted and with a yelp, she's got an arrow or three in her side now. it's fine as you do ]
Ow...!!
[ with an angry snap, she uses a garu wind esque spell for party wide damage (15). hell yeah, hell yeah ]
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The five corgis look up at Rin, sitting patiently, tails wagging. They're hanging out, having a good, normal, not surrounded by undead time.
The skeletons don't bother punting any of the dogs. Yet. Their focus remains on the wizards.
Shinobu successfully (12) steals a skeleton's sword away. In reaction, it pulls off one of its arms to start using that as a makeshift weapon. While she's within the reach of several of the melee skeletons, one tries to stab her with a spear (16), the one using its own arm tries to hit her on the head (11), and a sword tries to slash at her (9).
Another rib arrow is headed towards Rin (7), one towards Futaba (16).
The skeletons that would be scattered away by Futaba's wind spell dig their skeleton heels in hard, successfully resisting being blown away (20).
More skeletons are converging on Shinbou's location.]
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Rin rolled a 20 so he's just going to duck his head to the side to avoid the rib-arrow while giving his doggos directions.]
Okay! Who's a good boy? Who's a good magical boy? Want a treat? Do you all want a treat???
[He is riling up these dogs as much as he can to get them excited. And then he's pointing to the skeletons.]
Go! Go get the bones! There's your treats!
[Off they go, wagging their little tail nubbins in excitement as they go to bite at the skeletons with an 11.]
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as she tries to gather herself from the successive wounds, she stumbles over the invocation and whatever she was attempting straight up doesn't go through (an attempt at invoking and imitating her abilities from home), and all she can manage is trying to dart her way around the skeletons converging on her to give herself more room to defend herself. ]
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[ futaba dodges for her life, but with her arrows in her it just does the damage she avoided. (16). fuckin ow...! her attempt to shout her spell and cast a protego shield goes horrifically poorly and instead of a shield....
well, there's a concussive blast at herself (1). ]
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