The Misadventures of the Missed Adventurers

[narf poit chez BOOM]

ooc:[ok, running with this. animation...hmm.]
mage "YOU'VE DESTROYED IT! I WORKED MORE YEARS THAN ALL OF YOU HAVE BEEN ALIVE, AND YOU DESTROYED IT! YOU WILL ALL PAY DEARLY FOR THIS!"

"ANIMANTRIX GEOLOGIX EMPOWERERST"
the rock underneath their feet rumbles, then shifts. a mound raises up in front of the mage, then spears upwords eight feet and forms into a vagly humanoid shape three feet across. roots and bits of rock stick out here and there. drawing his sword, narp charges toword the golem and swings. a dispel spell from D flashes over his head. a glowing sphere from jack pops up around the golem. narps sword and D's dispel bounce off, and the golem bashes through jack's sphere with one punch.
narp says "uh-oh"...

ooc:[ok, you get this one and i defeat number two. it was either another golem or tenticles coming out of the floor, and i didn't want to do tenticles. david, i was just thinking D. could use a few more spells. anyway, i've arbitrarily just given him scrying, as it's a wise and mysterious kind of spell. if you think of any others he wouldn't have used yet, load our stuffed dummy up, jack.]

[ June 17, 2003, 01:54: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Jack Simth]

ooc:[Remember that book on time bending? Despite the lifespan, Jack is a very fast learner.]
Jack "Langsame Zeit"
With that, a thin green web stretches over the golem, and it slows down to the point where its motion cannot be seen at all. After a moment, the web fades, but the golem is still quite stuck.

Mage "I won't be thwarted so easily!"

"ANIMANTRIX GEOLOGIX EMPOWERERST"

Another golem rises up to do battle, this one a bit larger, as the mage is throwing more energy into it.

ooc:[Sorry narf, but I can't really see him making a weaker golem after the first goes down...]

Jack (whispering) "Come on, just once more and I think I will have it down."

Jack "Hey, Narp, would you like to try out the speed and strength spell I mentioned earlier?"

ooc:[The magic words: Vitesse et force - If you accept, just remember: after combat's done, you'll have quite the hangover from it. Till then, however, you will be a very hard target to hit, and your sword should rend stone (although the sword may suffer for it).]

ooc:[Do you think all the noise will wake the minotaur? If so, which side do you think he'll attack first? I suspect the mage, as he is closer to the door....]

ooc:[D is probably a good candidate for stealthy spells too. He should probably have invisibility. Perhaps he should also have a silence spell for stopping mages that still require speech for their spells.]

[ June 17, 2003, 05:28: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

ooc:[i got a headache - have to postpone my post. feeling better, post coming.]

narp "it would make things a bit better, yes."
jack "Vitesse et force"
narp moves forword in a blur and hacks off one of the golems arms, then the other. the golem swings, but narp dodges it easily. narp lunges forword and his sword peirces the center of the golem's chest. running sideways, he wrenches it out. D. puts a dispel in the hole and the golem goes down.

narp dashes at the mage and swings, cutting the mage in half. dirt and debris rain down. not the mage. the door swings open again, and the mage can be seen. in one corner the minataur can be seen, hacking at the glowing bars of a rocky cage with his axe. the mage, if it is him, says "GLOBULEX ENERGIST ABSORBIX SEEKEIX". foot high spheres mound up and take form from the earth, then roll sedatly at the heroes. narp swings his sword at one, but the blow just stops on contact. the sphere charges at him, taking him by suprise and hitting him in the ankles. narp goes flying head over heels and slams against the wall. picking himself up warily, narp readies for another assault, but the sphere is going as slow as the other spheres again.

ooc:[standard energy absorbing spheres. they use ambient energy to run and suck up energy on prolonged contact. energy aimed at them is sucked up as it enters. there's ten of them, so they can't really be ignored. the minotaur will probably get out once the wizard is sufficiently distracted. makes sense. now, if he decided what he really wants is a vacation, that would wrap things up.]

[ June 17, 2003, 08:20: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Jack Simth]

"Privez de l'énergie"
With that, glowing green force encompasses the absorbtion spheres.

After a few moments, the green force dissapears, and the absorbtion spheres are nowhere be seen.

Jack "Silly mage - that's basic meta-magic: energy absorbers require outside energy to function. Deprive them of that and they dissapate in very little time; it's just like making a controlled burn to stop a forest fire. Come on, even an apprentice can deal with those. Oh, wait, I did, didn't I? I'm sure you can do better than that. Come on, even those toy golems were harder to deal with than those spheres."

Mage "Toys? You think those were TOYS?! I'LL SHOW YOU TOYS!!!"
"ANIMANTRIX GEOLOGIX EMPOWERERST"

Yet another golem forms, this one considerably larger. Oddly Jack smiles and rubs his hands.
Jack "Thanks, I just needed to watch it one more time."
"Animantrix Geologix Empowererst"
With that, Jack forms a golem so large its head scrapes the cieling, which promptly crushes the mage's golem.

The mage turns very white at that. Through the door, the glowing bars containing the minotaur can be seen to fade out.

Jack "Oh, and Narp:"
"Guérissez Les Blessures"
With that, Narp feels his injuries vanish.
ooc:[However, it won't do anything about the hangover - different type of problem.]

[ June 17, 2003, 08:58: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

ooc:[library night. and there was much reading. i really must come up with better spells. oh well, time for the wack-until-it's-over part of the fight.]

the minataur roared and swung his axe. as the axe swung down, the mage yelled some words that no-one, minataur, fighter-scholar or mages recognized. as the Last word left his mouth, the axe hit his shoulder. before it was halfway through, various items teleported onto his body as dirt, rocks and roots bLasted out of the ground, knocking the minataur's axe, the minataur and to a lesser degree because they where in another room, the figher and the wizards away. within seconds, debris covered the mage from head to foot, and grew into a large and awkword covering of armor. within those seconds, the debris glowed, melted together, and shrunk. the glow faded and narp swung his sword as hard as possible.
the cut it made was only a deep scratch. before the sound of the impact had died away, he had swung ten more times, althogh not as hard as the first. the shape swung hard at him, and he dodged. the true attack was a kick, which clipped him, sending him staggering. the minataur, recovering, charged and swung, leaving a crease in the armor. abviously, the axe was enchanted. the mage shot a fist towards the minataurs chest, but a blue glow spread accross the minataur as it uttered an ancient word, then the glow faded. the blow only jolted the minataur back. moving in more warily, narp rained blows upon the armored mage, focusing on the already weakend arm, dodging and spinning away from the blows and sometimes being clipped, while the minataur exchanged blows with a more equal level of toughness and D. cast repeated dispels and the two large golems bashed at each other. at that moment, the frozen golem speeded up again and moved to assist it's partner. while this was going on, jack...

ooc:[ok, i got this idea from sience fiction. powered armor basically, with a tactical display, otherwise narp wouldn't have trouble with a wizard in single combat, translated to fantasy. it's also resistent to magic. he also has the use of his emergency Cache of magical artifacts. it was either this, or have him vanish and leave something that spewed fireballs, and that would probably kill or severly wound us before you got a sphere up.]

[ June 18, 2003, 08:38: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Jack Simth]

ooc:[Let's see - the mage's two smaller golems are pounding on Jack's big golem; Narp and the minotaur are pounding away on the mage - that means D and Jack are currently being ignored, while all potential opponents are busy - this has potential.]

... was mumbling to himself while writing some odd runes in the ground.
Jack "Let's see ... the control sturcture is there ... the power structure there ... and the motion structure is there ... All I need to do is replace the control structure...."
After a few moments, the runes pack themselves into two small green darts, which fly at the mage's golems. Upon impact, the runes controlling the mage's golems flare red, while the darts flare bright green. The darts quickly dissapate, but they leave a bright green stain on the mage's golems. The red runes touching the stain turn green, and the green quickly infects all of the runes on the two golems. Once all the runes are green, the golems stop fighting each other, and turn towards the mage. Unfortunately, only the smallest of the three can fit through the door. It grabs the mage from behind, temporarily immobilizing him.

Jack "That golem can't beat the enchanted armor, but it should be able to hold him for a few moments. Meanwhile, focus your efforts on his head - that is where the control runes are located."

Meanwhile, D quietly casts silence on the mage.

The minotaur hears Jack, and swings his axe at the armored mage's head...

ooc:[Oh, and Jack could probably arrange for the party to avoid damage from an explosion - remember, his master has been trying unsuccessfully to kill Jack for around 300 years....]

[ June 18, 2003, 10:40: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

ooc:[fireballs could be his death spell. ok, he's still got his magic items. although he's going to have to go with movements and automatic.]
narp begins wacking the mage about the head. the minataur deliver's another solid whack. and the mage makes a serious of hand getures. a blue light washes out from the mage as an artifact uses all it's energy. all the golems collapse and the blue light settles over the rooms, preventing any further golems. however, damage has been done and the mages movements are slow and jerky. as the mage punches in his direction, narp grabs the weakend arm and holds on. the minataur chops downword hard, and the armor on the arm develops cracks. a crack is heard as the arm breaks. lightning shoots out of the wounded arm and another item becomes useless. a third item activates and the mage no longer feels the pain.

ooc:[so, three items used up, the mage is badly damaged although it doesn't hurt and there's no golems - me and the minataur would have to have run through the big ones anyway to get out of the way of the fireballs when he dies. and there's some miner lightning bolts flying out randomly.]

[ June 19, 2003, 03:52: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Jack Simth]

ooc:[Let's see - D was always the well-supplied one, he would likely have a canteen handy.]
Thinking quickly, D opens his canteen and throws it at a flying lightning bolt. They collide, and the water vaporises, sending the canteen flying. However, the resulting water vapor in the air grounds out the remaining lightning.
ooc:[I'd have him use a snowball, but one wasn't handy....]

Jack "Langsame Zeit"
With that, a thin green web stretches over the mage, and he slows down considerably. After a moment, the web fades, but the mage is still moving slowly.

Meanwhile, the Last of the energy leaves the spheres, and a rumble can be heard.

D "It seems that the engeneers took shortcuts relying on the stabilizing effect of the spheres to take up the slack. We really must be going."

Jack "Agreed."

With that, D and Jack start heading towards the exit with great haste.

ooc:[The mage won't be able to react in any reasonable amount of time, so it will probably be much safer to leave him and run than to continue fighting in a collapsing cave. Which way will the minotaur go, do you think?]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

ooc:[i tried posting something, but it came out bad. i'll post something good later. later:]
the minataur took off running. minataur's, apparently, can run fast when motivated. the grate, no longer backed by runes, barely even slows him down. narp scoops up the two wizards and takes off, keeping behind the minataur to let him take care of any doors. peices of ceiling start to rain down all around them and the floor begins to shakes.
as they head through the rooms, peices of ceiling pumel them, although narp manages to aviod the larger ones. as the minataur crashes through the snake head room, narp notices that the snake heads in the snake head room have regrown and makes a note never to get in the way of a minataur in a hurry.
after a time that seems longer than it probably was, they emerge into sunlight. the minataur streches and says "sorry about being rude, but the only thing that cell produced was dwarven journeybread." with that, he adjusts his pants, ooc:[thus perserving the pg rating] and heads off.

ooc:[still not entirely satisfieed with it.]

[ June 19, 2003, 21:05: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Jack Simth]

ooc:[It works.]

Narp, D and Jack find themselves in a small clearing in the middle of a dense jungle. Oddly, the wildlife doesn't quite match the plants. You would expect to see monkeys or parrots in a jungle like this; instead, the wildlife consists of squirrls, rabits, deer, wolves and the like - creatures you would find in a forest, not a jungle. There is not a speck of fog to be seen.

Jack "As usually happens in cases like this, the plant life soaked up most of the energy. Things will even out over time as the animals eat the plants and distribute the energy, but for now, things will be a bit odd. The local fauna will likely have a large population boost come spring, but that shouldn't hurt anything. On the plus side, the area for many many miles should be stable now."

ooc:[Not that we have said what it is - we can still declare mountains in the distance or whatever if need be.]

Jack "Narp, you should be coming down off of that spell I put on you soon, so we probably ought to set up camp here until you start to feel better."

That said, Jack unrolls his cot so Narp will have something comfortable to rest on while he gets over the hangover from Jack's spell.

Jack "Oh, and I suppose we will need something to eat, won't we?"
"animantrix geologix empowererst"

With that, a small golem forms,
Jack (to golem) "Catch a rabbit and bring it back here."
Hearing that, the golem runs off into the jungle at a remarkable pace.

Jack "Don't worry - the golem will be back in a few minutes with something for us to cook up; I included a small haste spell in its matrix. Meanwhile, we need to start a fire. Anyone have some flint?"

D "I'll take care of the fire."

A few minutes later, camp is set up and D has a fire cheerily blazing away, with a spit prepared for when the golem returns.

After a few minutes, the golem returns with a rabbit, which had apparently been run down. D skins it, dresses it, and puts it on the spit to cook.

Jack (to golem) "I suppose I ought to do something about you, shouldn't I?"
"Dissolvez"

Hearing that, the golem dissolves into powder, its purpose complete.

ooc:[It has been a while since we've done any camping or eaten anything, I suspect it's about time.]

[ June 20, 2003, 01:45: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]