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Sorcery! Quest

Fun Quest, really fun. :3

[X] Oh, they come with their own manacles? How convenient.

[X] Why is Purple messing with that metal disc on the ground?
 
Into the Sewers​

Purple busies herself with unimportant matters as you take it upon yourself to rifle through the blue men's pockets. Items begin to make their way into your own pockets – shiny metal coins, two well-made leather satchels filled with green slips of paper, the odd wands both blue men had (now if only you knew the activation word), two cunningly made extendable clubs, two cylinders of unknown function, two sets of manacles…

You grin when you find the manacles, an expression that would send any student in the academy running for their dorms…

A moment later, the blue men are bound to each other, wrist to ankle. You're still deciding whether to steal their trousers, when Purple calls you over. You settle for stealing one of their hats and donning it in victory as the one you'd hit with a color spray begins to stir.

Purple in the meantime had managed to pry up a metal circle from the ground, revealing a perfectly rounded hole down into darkness. She gestures at you, then gestures at the dark tunnel.

You stare down the tunnel for a moment, then shrug. You think you can trust Purple. She hasn't screwed you over yet. A word and gesture brings into being a ball of lurid red light that hovers over your shoulder. You hear Purple gasp and shoot her a smile before lowering yourself into the opening and climbing down on a ladder of metal rings imbedded into the stone of the tunnel. You reach the bottom without slipping and look around.

A rather sizable tunnel extends in front and behind you. A stream of what you suspect is raw sewage flows steadily next to a raised ledge that is, thankfully, mostly dry. You can hear rats skitter away, fleeing the sudden intrusion of light into your domain.

You hear the sound of metal on stone and look up to Purple perched on the ladder, dragging the metal lid back over the entrance. She's wearing her hood and mask again, and the bag that had been hidden behind the dumpster is thrown over her shoulder.

She makes her way down the ladder with practiced ease. When she reaches the ledge she looks at you for a moment, then shakes her head and reaches out to snag your snazzy new hat and toss it into the sewage stream.

You glare at her. Not cool Purple. Not cool at all.

If she notices your vehemence, she gives no indication. Instead, she starts down the tunnel, gesturing for you to follow. You do, for lack of a better alternative.

You soon grow bored with walking. Not even the sway of Purple's hips can distract you anymore and you begin playing with the things you liberated from the blue men. You refrain from messing with the wands. Without further information you're as likely to shoot your eye out as discover anything productive, and you don't think eyes usually grow back. Instead focus on one of the strange cylinders.

After a few minutes of playing with the thing, you depress the top and get a face full of some strange spray that makes your skin and eyes tingle wondrously. You give yourself another experimental blast and the tingling intensifies. How delightful. Why would those blue ruffians carry such a thing?

As you contemplate this, you hear something, a half-silent footfall. Out of the corner of your eye you see a shadow shift unnaturally near where the tunnel branches off into another direction. Hmmm… You might be being followed.

[X] Try to alert Purple to your follower.
[X] Throw a flaming sphere the next time you see the shadows move.
[X] Call out for your follower to show himself. No, he won't understand you, but he'll probably get the message.
[X] You're probably just imagining things. Ignore it and get back to playing with your new toy.
[X] Write-in

Equipment Gained!
2x guns
2x cans of mace.
2x badges
2x wallets with money
2x nightsticks
 
[X] You're probably just imagining things. Ignore it and get back to playing with your new toy.

I would welcome a translation spell, right now.
 
[X] Throw a sphere of light next time we see the shadows move.

We obviously possess the ability to create them, and they won't be as obviously an attack as a ball of fire would be.
 
did we just mace ourselves in the face twice?

haha. awesome.

also, all these people talking about throwing fire do realize that its probably batman, right? trying to set fire to batman isn't going to end great for us.

I get that we are half-crazy demon girl, but why are people constantly voting to use fire in stupid ways and/or murder everyone we come across?


seriously, are you TRYING to sabotage this quest?

wait, would lighting a fire in the sewer lead to a massive explosion? I'm not sure how well methane burns.

[X] Try to alert Purple to your follower.
-[X] throw a ball of light at it if you have to.
 
As far as random sewer encounters goes, I'd wager more on Killer Croc than on the Batman.
 
nick012000 said:
[X] Throw a sphere of light next time we see the shadows move.

We obviously possess the ability to create them, and they won't be as obviously an attack as a ball of fire would be.
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That's dancing lights, we can direct in pretty much any way we want as long as it stays within 110 feet, e. g. make it turn corners. We can make four of those with a single spell at a time, though they need to stay within 10 feet of each other. (Or just cast the spell multiple times; we have infinite castings). Instead of that reddish light we could also make will-o wisps or glowing humanoid shapes.


[X] Turn around a corner, hide, and make the dancing light continue without us. Wait for whoever is following the light.
 
Liam-don said:
As far 1s random sewer encounters goes, I'd wager more on Killer Croc than on the Batman.
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considering that we fell into a gunfight, blew up a warehouse, stole a car, swerved all over the road, hid in an alleyway, and pwned a pair of cops, frankly i'd be more surprised if batman wasn't trailing us.
 
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With all that, if he waited until we were crawling through the sewers to find us, then he deserves a fireball. Besides Batman would dodge it no sweat.
 
Fight in the Sewers​

As you grew older and shed the simplicity of childhood, you learned a sad truth: fire does not, in fact, solve all problems. This is especially true when the problems are caused by fire in the first place, as your attempt at firefighting and the smoldering ruins of the southeast tower could plainly attest.

That said, you still firmly believe that it can solve most problems, and dissuading shadowy sewer stalkers is squarely in its purview. So the next time you hear a half-silenced footfall and see a shadow shift out of the corner of your eyes, you snarl a word of power, scoop a fistful of fire from the ether and hurl it at the shadows.

You have the brief impression a dark, sinuous creature with black wings folded about it like a cloak and sharp, straight horns. Maybe a shadow aspected gargoyle?

You dismiss those thoughts and set about the more pressing task of immolating the beast, or at least scaring it off. You conjure another sphere of sizzling, crimson fire and send it shoot toward the silhouette of the gargoyle. Again it moves in a fluid rush of black, avoiding the blast with inhuman ease. The sphere bursts uselessly against the damp tunnel wall, scorching stone and nothing else. You growl and ready another blast. It can't dodge forever.

You don't get the chance to use it. You hear something tear through the air, and then a set of bolas slams into you, knocking you on your ass and fixing your arms to your sides. Clever beast. Maybe a cambion instead of a gargoyle? Though that hardly improves your situation.

You begin to try to squirm out of bolas, only to hear a hissing sound as the weights at the end expel a grey mist. You breath it in without thinking and begin to cough as the world swims around you.

You see, dimly, as if from far away, Purple throwing herself between you and the shadowy gargoyle, brandishing a baton as she sinks into a fighting stance. Despite your vision darkening as you slowly lose the fight to stay conscious, you smile. You have someone willing to defend you. That hasn't happened in… ever.

… But she is wounded. She has no chance against that thing, not with the way it moved… The thought of your friend in peril gives you one last surge of strength, enough to do one thing.

[X] Speak! Tell Purple to Run for it.
[X] Lurch forward and tackle Purple into the sewage stream. Maybe you'll lose the creature as you float away.
[X] Attack! Draw deep on your hellfire and launch one last strike at the creature with everything you have.
[X] Fuck it. You're doomed. Nap time.
[X] Write-in.

Note: And you failed a con check for the knockout gas (which, at this point, I didn't think was possible for you). Eh, honestly, picking a fight with Batman was going to end this way regardless, barring some truly awesome rolls.
 
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[X] Attack! Throw all your power into a Color Spray. It's got shadow powers, so it'll probably be vulnerable to light-based attacks.
 
Color Spray probably does very little. He probably does count as lvl 5 or higher, so in the best case it would stun him for 6 seconds. Even that requires him to be in the area of effect and fail a will save, neither of which I would count on.

That said, we don't really have any better options either. If we could actually see his utility belt we could use mage hand to try and activate some random gadget I guess. We could use prestidigitation to change the color of his costume if he comes closer.
 
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[X] Attack! Draw deep on your hellfire and launch one last strike at the creature with everything you have.
 
[X] Speak! Tell Purple to Run for it.


you realize that "hellfire with everything you have" will kill us, right? hellfire explictly draws from our HP, "everything you have" implies that we die, yeah?

you also realize that this is batman?

i don't want to be too meta, but come on, killing ourselves right now is obviously the wrong option.

also, fire is still not the right answer.
 
I perhaps should tender an explanation to prevent too terribly much complaining at a later date.

Your arms are bound right now. You can't really cast spells. With the Attack! option, you're drawing on hellfire, giving it a brief impression of a thought to guide it and hoping for the best. With the Speak! option, you're doing something similar, save with a different thought.

In character, you recognize what you're doing. It's pretty much the same thing you did as a kid when you threw around magic and let it run wild.
 
Disminded said:
I perhaps should tender an explanation to prevent too terribly much complaining at a later date.

Your arms are bound right now. You can't really cast spells. With the Attack! option, you're drawing on hellfire, giving it a brief impression of a thought to guide it and hoping for the best. With the Speak! option, you're doing something similar, save with a different thought.

In character, you recognize what you're doing. It's pretty much the same thing you did as a kid when you threw around magic and let it run wild.
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Oh. That's not the same thing then.

Burning is only fun when we decide what to set on fire. If we're as likely to burn our clothes or our prospective friend as our target, then we'll have to fall back on another, lesser option.

[X] Speak! Tell Purple to Run for it.
 
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