Metamorphosis
- Thread starter Hiver
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- Argentina
Advisory Rubber Duck.
tehcrash
Apprentice Supervillain
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- Seattle-ish
And that whelplings is how we lost the second Wyrmrest Temple.
The second was the one that latest the shortest, as all the following temples were built with Atregos-resistance as a primary design goal.
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- Argentina
The spell still breaks if you hit with another spell and (probably) a strong enough hit.
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- Oblivion
Which is how we know it's not a proper enchantment.
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- Argentina
Is a spell, spells are by design, not made to last forever.
Some types of magic can last a long time, like curses and enchantments.
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- Oblivion
Yes, but enchantments don't break if you hit them with other spells.
Or hit them in general.
In fact, it's really really annoyingly hard to actually destroy enchantments.
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- Argentina
If you break something that's enchanted you usually break the enchantment too.
So for practical purposes this mix of spell and enchantment is good enough.
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"Have a look at this?" I said and handed a dagger over to Dracien, one of the dragon-kin that worked as a research assistant.
The large dragon-kin took it as he looked down at me before examining it, "Iron dagger, enchanted with… unbreakable blade and extra sharp as well as increasing the dexterity of the wielder. Wooden handle, simple craftsmanship. Possibly procured from one of the local mortals and then enchanted."
I nodded and leaned against my workbench, "Hit it with a magic spell."
He blinked and then cast a dispel at it. The dagger instantly dissolved into sparkles.
Darcian startled in surprise, "What?"
"A magic suspended enchantment matrix," I said, "I solved it."
"You really solved it, World Walker?" He asked, sounding a bit stunned, "Magic cannot support an enchantment matrix, it is not possible."
Half closing my eyes in focus, I channeled blue mana into the modified enchantment spell propped up by the illusionary spell wrapped around it before I tossed the new knife over to him.
Dracien caught it easily and stared down at it before he moved over to the 'test dangerous shit here' corner of my workshop and stabbed it into the wooden boards there.
I left him to his testing as I raised my hand, "How're those calculation checks going, Library?"
"Well, master," the construct answered, "But they are quite complex, especially with the cross checking I have to do."
"Excellent," I said and then left him to it and turned back to Dracien, "How's it going?"
"It seems… real…" he admitted as he returned, holding the dagger in one hand, "I can feel the cold and the wood. And still…" he continued and hit it with a small spell and it dissolved into nothing.
"Enchantment matrix held by a mana structure," I agreed and cast another one, this time leaving the materials out and just keeping the structure, leaving me holding a dagger made from sparkly blue glowing magic.
Having left any materials out of it, the massless magic construct floated over to him to examine and analyze as I turned back to my workbench for a second before I sighed.
I had promised Alexstrasza to focus on my spell casting. Okay, magic was involved in this, but regular enchanting didn't involve that.
So working on improving my weapon was right out and my idea was way too big to try before Library had double checked my theories and calculations. It was just way too complicated to wing it for that one.
Which means…
No putting it off anymore. Sheila had more or less chased me out to get me to stop fussing over her and Zrazta backed her up on it.
So I had no actual excuse not to go practicing.
Still, I might as well go hunting while I did it, so…
Walking out to one of the outer tunnels, I blinked towards the bright sunlight and started to turn into my real form only to be interrupted by a large black bird smacking me in the face.
Cursing in surprise, I stumbled back, gracefully tripping over my own feet and landing on my arse, cursing as I batted the large black bird away.
"What the fuck!? Shoo!!"
Then I recognized it. That black bird was Alexis' summon.
It wasn't carrying anything, but why would she use one of her tracking summons to find me rather than just portal to the portal room. She had a key to it.
Something was wrong.
Hitting the bird with an unsummon, I struggled back onto my feet. I wasn't wearing my armour either, it was back in the workshop. Just some pants and a shirt.
Fuck it.
Casting the tracking spell for the tracker built into the enchantment for her sword.
Nothing.
That was bad. I couldn't conceive of her ever being without her sword without a very good reason. Casting the spell again, this time seeking the enchantment of her necklace, I was relieved to find that I found it.
It was pretty far away, across the sea.
I hesitated for a second.
But no. No time to go running for my armour or anything, if things seemed as bad as they seemed, there wasn't much time to lose.
She was still alive, the fact that the summon had still existed was proof of that, but…
Something was definitely wrong.
My first instinct was to portal to the closest portal key stone in her direction and then fly towards the signal, but…
Taking a deep and slow breath, I turned and ran into the tunnel again. I needed my armour and I needed backup.
Just in case.
The large dragon-kin took it as he looked down at me before examining it, "Iron dagger, enchanted with… unbreakable blade and extra sharp as well as increasing the dexterity of the wielder. Wooden handle, simple craftsmanship. Possibly procured from one of the local mortals and then enchanted."
I nodded and leaned against my workbench, "Hit it with a magic spell."
He blinked and then cast a dispel at it. The dagger instantly dissolved into sparkles.
Darcian startled in surprise, "What?"
"A magic suspended enchantment matrix," I said, "I solved it."
"You really solved it, World Walker?" He asked, sounding a bit stunned, "Magic cannot support an enchantment matrix, it is not possible."
Half closing my eyes in focus, I channeled blue mana into the modified enchantment spell propped up by the illusionary spell wrapped around it before I tossed the new knife over to him.
Dracien caught it easily and stared down at it before he moved over to the 'test dangerous shit here' corner of my workshop and stabbed it into the wooden boards there.
I left him to his testing as I raised my hand, "How're those calculation checks going, Library?"
"Well, master," the construct answered, "But they are quite complex, especially with the cross checking I have to do."
"Excellent," I said and then left him to it and turned back to Dracien, "How's it going?"
"It seems… real…" he admitted as he returned, holding the dagger in one hand, "I can feel the cold and the wood. And still…" he continued and hit it with a small spell and it dissolved into nothing.
"Enchantment matrix held by a mana structure," I agreed and cast another one, this time leaving the materials out and just keeping the structure, leaving me holding a dagger made from sparkly blue glowing magic.
Having left any materials out of it, the massless magic construct floated over to him to examine and analyze as I turned back to my workbench for a second before I sighed.
I had promised Alexstrasza to focus on my spell casting. Okay, magic was involved in this, but regular enchanting didn't involve that.
So working on improving my weapon was right out and my idea was way too big to try before Library had double checked my theories and calculations. It was just way too complicated to wing it for that one.
Which means…
No putting it off anymore. Sheila had more or less chased me out to get me to stop fussing over her and Zrazta backed her up on it.
So I had no actual excuse not to go practicing.
Still, I might as well go hunting while I did it, so…
Walking out to one of the outer tunnels, I blinked towards the bright sunlight and started to turn into my real form only to be interrupted by a large black bird smacking me in the face.
Cursing in surprise, I stumbled back, gracefully tripping over my own feet and landing on my arse, cursing as I batted the large black bird away.
"What the fuck!? Shoo!!"
Then I recognized it. That black bird was Alexis' summon.
It wasn't carrying anything, but why would she use one of her tracking summons to find me rather than just portal to the portal room. She had a key to it.
Something was wrong.
Hitting the bird with an unsummon, I struggled back onto my feet. I wasn't wearing my armour either, it was back in the workshop. Just some pants and a shirt.
Fuck it.
Casting the tracking spell for the tracker built into the enchantment for her sword.
Nothing.
That was bad. I couldn't conceive of her ever being without her sword without a very good reason. Casting the spell again, this time seeking the enchantment of her necklace, I was relieved to find that I found it.
It was pretty far away, across the sea.
I hesitated for a second.
But no. No time to go running for my armour or anything, if things seemed as bad as they seemed, there wasn't much time to lose.
She was still alive, the fact that the summon had still existed was proof of that, but…
Something was definitely wrong.
My first instinct was to portal to the closest portal key stone in her direction and then fly towards the signal, but…
Taking a deep and slow breath, I turned and ran into the tunnel again. I needed my armour and I needed backup.
Just in case.
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- Oblivion
She's a properly trained planeswalker.
She probably sold the original and just summons up a new one whenever she needs it.
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- Belgium
Since Planewalker can copy/summmon thing like magic sword and they stay enchanted i think a permanent tracking spell on her sword would also appear in one of her summoned one.
Hiver has previously established that that's not how artifacts work in this series. Summoned copies of artifacts are not a thing.
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- Oblivion
No, he established that it wasn't a thing his SI knew how to do.
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- Argentina
FINALLY! HE HAS LEARNED!
Hestia&theCourt
Turns out we're plural too.
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- In transition
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- She/Her
Hi, I'm Vaermina, and my opinion is more Important than the author's
While I'll freely admit Vaermina's posting history does him no favors here, in his defense nobody's produced any actual evidence yet for either position. It's entirely possible that whatever the author said was open to interpretation or just straight-up misremembered by one or both parties. Therefore, I propose we head off this argument before it starts by not talking about it until somebody finds the Word of God in question.
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"How much further?" Zrazta called across the wind from next to me, beating her wings hard as we flew hard towards the setting sun.
We had portaled as close as possible and then flown the rest of the way.
Quickly casting the spell again, I looked to her, "Another few kilometers, not long," I answered before looking to my other side.
Wrathion rested on his wings for a second before going back to flying hard. He had volunteered to help. Not that I was actually sure anything was going on, I was just… highly suspicious.
But I could also have seen two and two and gotten twentytwo.
Scanning the rocky and sandy ground beneath, I rested on my wings for a moment, casting the spell again.
She should be here somewhe- there!
I folded my wings and dove hard, picking up speed before spreading my wings wide and banking hard in S curves to bleed it off quickly before I landed hard in a run, sliding to a stop in the sand, "Alexis!"
She was laying on the sand, her right arm seeming misshapen, mangled and her face was a giant bruise. Her sword was missing and there was a rip in her leather chest armour, revealing cloth beneath it soaked in blood.
The sand around here was soaked too.
"Alexis!" I yelled and started to charge a healing spell. Don't be dead, don't be dead!
"Out of my way!" Zrazta snarled, already in her mortal form as she pushed my head away, practiced hands quickly checking lifesigns even as she cast a healing spell at Alexis' side.
Stepping back, I dropped my mana and instead started to focus it again, this time for a summon to pull out Paladin.
The summon appeared in a flash of light. She looked around and quickly saw what was going on. Putting her shield and mace down, she moved down to kneel and assist Zrazta.
What happened here? How did she… did she Walk here like that!? Why didn't her angel summon heal her? It was as good or maybe even better at it than Zrazta.
As a matter of fact, why didn't Alexis heal it herself! She was almost as good as that herself!
Wrathion moved up next to me, looking at Alexis, "What happened?"
"I don't know," I answered with a small growl, "But I'm going to find out."
Whomever hurt my friend is going to regret even having been hatched.
Zrazta poured a potion down Alexis' throat and then glanced back at me, "She's alive, but she's badly hurt, dehydrated and she has lost a lot of blood. More than I can heal, but I can keep her from getting worse. We need to get her back to the Tower and to an actual healer as quickly as we can. Make yourself useful and open a portal."
I quickly nodded and took a few more steps back, turning to focus on the portal stone built into my armour, pouring mana into it as quickly as I felt I could risk it.
The blue whirling disk of magic appeared and slowly spread into a circle, revealing the inside of the Tower's portal chamber. Wrathion quickly moved through, "I'll alert the healers," he said on the way past.
I just nodded and focused on holding the portal open as Paladin walked after him a few moments later, carrying Alexis carefully as Zrazta walked with her, keeping an eye on the other Planeswalker.
Letting them through the portal, I then quickly moved to follow, letting the portal collapse behind me before I focused and turned to mortal form and hurried after them to the medical wing.
Alexis was good… whatever could possibly have hurt her that badly? I would not like to fight her for real for one thing.
I wanted to check on her, but I knew way better than to get in the way of the healers as they worked and as such, I stood back, my back against the wall as I crossed my arms with a frown.
"Paladin," I said as my summon returned to me, "How bad?"
"Lady Alexis is heavily injured," she answered and glanced back towards the group of dragons around her in mortal form, "She has internal bleeding, her jaw is broken and I think her cheek bone may be crushed. Every bone in her right arm and hand is broken and so are four ribs on the same side. She has lost a lot of blood and is heavily dehydrated. How long ago, it's hard to say, but the wound in her side shows signs of having been way worse before, it shows signs of healing magic, but there is some sort of magic in it that's fighting healing spells."
I nodded. "Thank you," before I dismissed the summon.
She was in worse shape than I had been when I lost my arm. I took a slow, deep breath and shook my head before leaving the chamber.
Best let the ones actually good at healing work. Me hovering behind their shoulders wouldn't help anyone, least of it, Alexis.
"How is she?" Sheila asked, meeting me just outside the door.
I sighed and shook my head, "...bad…" I answered and slipped an arm around her neck and rested my forehead against the side of her head, "Bleeding, broken bones… some sort of curse I think. Something almost killed her. May still kill her."
Sheila nodded and nuzzled gently, "She's strong, I know she is. She'll make it through this."
"I know," I said and growled softly, "And then I'm going to find whoever did this and eat them."
We had portaled as close as possible and then flown the rest of the way.
Quickly casting the spell again, I looked to her, "Another few kilometers, not long," I answered before looking to my other side.
Wrathion rested on his wings for a second before going back to flying hard. He had volunteered to help. Not that I was actually sure anything was going on, I was just… highly suspicious.
But I could also have seen two and two and gotten twentytwo.
Scanning the rocky and sandy ground beneath, I rested on my wings for a moment, casting the spell again.
She should be here somewhe- there!
I folded my wings and dove hard, picking up speed before spreading my wings wide and banking hard in S curves to bleed it off quickly before I landed hard in a run, sliding to a stop in the sand, "Alexis!"
She was laying on the sand, her right arm seeming misshapen, mangled and her face was a giant bruise. Her sword was missing and there was a rip in her leather chest armour, revealing cloth beneath it soaked in blood.
The sand around here was soaked too.
"Alexis!" I yelled and started to charge a healing spell. Don't be dead, don't be dead!
"Out of my way!" Zrazta snarled, already in her mortal form as she pushed my head away, practiced hands quickly checking lifesigns even as she cast a healing spell at Alexis' side.
Stepping back, I dropped my mana and instead started to focus it again, this time for a summon to pull out Paladin.
The summon appeared in a flash of light. She looked around and quickly saw what was going on. Putting her shield and mace down, she moved down to kneel and assist Zrazta.
What happened here? How did she… did she Walk here like that!? Why didn't her angel summon heal her? It was as good or maybe even better at it than Zrazta.
As a matter of fact, why didn't Alexis heal it herself! She was almost as good as that herself!
Wrathion moved up next to me, looking at Alexis, "What happened?"
"I don't know," I answered with a small growl, "But I'm going to find out."
Whomever hurt my friend is going to regret even having been hatched.
Zrazta poured a potion down Alexis' throat and then glanced back at me, "She's alive, but she's badly hurt, dehydrated and she has lost a lot of blood. More than I can heal, but I can keep her from getting worse. We need to get her back to the Tower and to an actual healer as quickly as we can. Make yourself useful and open a portal."
I quickly nodded and took a few more steps back, turning to focus on the portal stone built into my armour, pouring mana into it as quickly as I felt I could risk it.
The blue whirling disk of magic appeared and slowly spread into a circle, revealing the inside of the Tower's portal chamber. Wrathion quickly moved through, "I'll alert the healers," he said on the way past.
I just nodded and focused on holding the portal open as Paladin walked after him a few moments later, carrying Alexis carefully as Zrazta walked with her, keeping an eye on the other Planeswalker.
Letting them through the portal, I then quickly moved to follow, letting the portal collapse behind me before I focused and turned to mortal form and hurried after them to the medical wing.
Alexis was good… whatever could possibly have hurt her that badly? I would not like to fight her for real for one thing.
I wanted to check on her, but I knew way better than to get in the way of the healers as they worked and as such, I stood back, my back against the wall as I crossed my arms with a frown.
"Paladin," I said as my summon returned to me, "How bad?"
"Lady Alexis is heavily injured," she answered and glanced back towards the group of dragons around her in mortal form, "She has internal bleeding, her jaw is broken and I think her cheek bone may be crushed. Every bone in her right arm and hand is broken and so are four ribs on the same side. She has lost a lot of blood and is heavily dehydrated. How long ago, it's hard to say, but the wound in her side shows signs of having been way worse before, it shows signs of healing magic, but there is some sort of magic in it that's fighting healing spells."
I nodded. "Thank you," before I dismissed the summon.
She was in worse shape than I had been when I lost my arm. I took a slow, deep breath and shook my head before leaving the chamber.
Best let the ones actually good at healing work. Me hovering behind their shoulders wouldn't help anyone, least of it, Alexis.
"How is she?" Sheila asked, meeting me just outside the door.
I sighed and shook my head, "...bad…" I answered and slipped an arm around her neck and rested my forehead against the side of her head, "Bleeding, broken bones… some sort of curse I think. Something almost killed her. May still kill her."
Sheila nodded and nuzzled gently, "She's strong, I know she is. She'll make it through this."
"I know," I said and growled softly, "And then I'm going to find whoever did this and eat them."
Enthusiast#117
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"What could possibly go wrong? This plan is flawless!"
... It's been nice knowing you Atregos.
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- Oblivion
There are very few things that can both stop lifegain and take down a trained planeswalker.
In fact, it's pretty much just Erebos and Tibalt.
Both of which are quite easily capable of curbstomping you.
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- Oblivion
Easier said then done given I don't think she ever learned to walk without a ritual.
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- Australia
"Plan 1: find strange critter, stick it in ma mouth" Brilliant as always Atregos.
There's also potential unknowns like that murderhobo-ville elf chick, but yeah, chances are anything capable of cursing a planeswalker in a fight like that and making it stick would be on about their level if not worse. Eldrazi come to mind as well.
Isn't there a plot about Garrus (Edit: Garruk) going insane and hunting other planeswalkers in and around this period? I'm reasonably sure that a skilled planeswalker is another possible alternative to a scary beastie in terms of what could have done this to Alexis.
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