Arc 14 Interlude 7: That Fortune Might Favor the Bold
That Fortune Might Favor the Bold
18th of February 2007 A.D.
Faint blue light flickered in the hands of the seekers of wisdom at least as those-who-dwell-Beyond would see. To eyes threaded with silver wire and set with flawless quartz it was as if they held in their hands spark of the great Ring. This they saw, this they knew. As thinking minds were to the guises five and living things to the humors of the world so too did even stone and metal transform under the power of the wheel and the name of that power that moved even mountains and transmuted more surely than vitriol and flame was radioactive decay.
Sigh of the Endless Journey watched with interest as one of bizarre skeletal creatures was reduced to dust under his hand, as another suffered the dissolution of half its face and he watched with horror as the thing monster, the one who had not addressed the fallen water master moved with the speed of the poisoned wind, the fury of an avalanche of black ice. Brass screamed and tore, servomotors whined and tied as onto the monster the Soul of Resplendent Jade was like onto a toy in the hand of a spiteful child, ripping off one arm, narrowly missing the other and then kicking her into the back wall.
"Ally in Critical Condition," the squad sight alert flashed though his optic nerve, bypassing the need to turn his head and look... and he breathed a sigh of relief. She hadn't passed. All of them had taken the risk that they may lose their way Beyond and never find the Wheel, but he did not wish that for she who had been his sister three circles past, his teacher before that.
Without the luck they had woven together she would have been torn apart, without the strength of her armor she would have been crushed against the stone.
Revenant One ('Creeper') takes 9 Aggravated Damage -> Destroyed
Revenant Three ('Void Shadow') Takes 5 Damage -> Now at 2/7
Soul of Resplendent Jade Takes 6 Damage -> Now at 1/7 Unconcious
"Radiation?" The enemy leader asked with an edge of strange disdain to it. "Is that what the Council is allying with these days? Maybe I should have listened to the Fallen One when he said the weapons of mass death were the answer. You certainly don't seem to hesitate do you Donald? And you Dresden if you want to kill do it properly."
Sigh of the Endless Journey could hear the skittering command behind those words just before he felt the tide of elemental power rising, but he was too slow, out of position. He just had a chance to see the look of betrayal in the eye of the foe Wizard-Dresden had been compelled to burn.
"Fuego!"
But another did move. The silver haired End-Singer hurled herself into the path of the flames, skin turning to stone even as the fire touched her.
Lydia takes 2 Damage -> Now at 10/12
"Is that all thine malice can conjure oath-breaker?" She asked, her voice thick with some emotion Sigh of the Endless Journey could not desciphre save to say that it was not pain of the flesh.
Together the End Singer and the Dragon of the Maker...
[] Turned their attention to the lesser living foes
[] Tried to take the enemy leader captive for interrogation
[] Destroyed the last of the dead things
[] Write in
OOC: That sorceress was lucky as only someone with 5 Dots in fortune can be. Trouble is the other two undead move after Lydia and Sophia odds are good they are going to kill someone. On the other hand as Peabody just proved with Lawbreaker's Lure Warlocks are also dangerous.
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