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Nevill

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...Wouldn't it be hilarious if the spells in the compound exist solely to keep something suppressed... or dreaming?
Erisss said:
"Without an anchor to my world we opened a gate to the space between worldsss and we let something in... and it killed, and it ate, and it killed, and it ate, until it had its fill and then it slept."
That would teach us not to dispel unknown enchantments all right. :lol:
 
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Fangshi

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Given the new options that have popped up I will give it another 24 hrs then close the votes. The update will come within twelve hours of the votes closing like usual.

Nevill:
1.B 2.A 3.B)i,ii,v 4.B 4/4/4 5.B 6.B 7.Derryth: Heal Thaïs: Greater Energy Bolt 8.C 9.B

Smashing Axe:
1.B 2.A 3.B)i,ii,iii,iv,v 4.B 4/4/4 5.B 6.B 7.Derryth: Heal Thaïs: Heal 8.C 9.B

Zero Credibility:
1.B 2.A 3.B)i,ii,v 4.B 4/4/4 5.B 6.B 7.Derryth: Heal Thaïs: Heal 8.C>A 9.A

Kz3r0:
1.A 2.- 3.B)i,ii,iii,iv,v 4.B 4/4/4 5.A 6.B 7.Derryth: Heal Thaïs: Heal 8.C 9.A

asxetos:
1.B 2.A 3.B)i,ii,iii,iv,v 4.B 4/4/4 5.B 6.B 7.Derryth: Heal Thaïs: Heal 8.A 9.x

Jester:
1.B 2.A 3.B)i,ii,iii,v 4.B 4/4/4 5.B 6.B 7.Derryth: Heal Thaïs: Heal 8.C 9.B

Grimgravy:
1.A 2.A 3.B)i,ii,iii,iv,v 4.B 6/4/2 5.B 6.B 7.Derryth: Heal Thaïs: Heal 8.A 9.B

1. 1st Wave
A) 2 votes
B) 5 votes

2. 2nd Wave
A) 6 votes
B)

3. Party Composition
A)
B) 7 votes:
i. 7 votes
ii. 7 votes
iii. 5 vote
iv. 4 vote
v. 7 votes

4. Energon Cube Distribution
A)
B) 7 votes (6 votes to split them evenly 4/4/4, 1 vote 6 to Derryth, 4 to Thaïs, and 2 to Lyssa 6/4/2 )

5. Spinner
A) 1 vote
B) 6 votes

6. Box
A)
B) 7 votes

7. Spell Rings
Derryth:
Heal 7 votes
Thaïs:
Heal 6 votes
Greater Energy Bolt 1 vote

8. Enemy Spells
A) 2 votes
B)
C) 5 votes

9. Anti Magic Grenade
A) 2 votes
B) 4 votes


Jester said:
I am at No to magic grenade, edited that some time ago.

Got it. Updating. :salute:
 
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Given the new options that have popped up I will give it another 24 hrs then close the votes. The update will come within twelve hours of the votes closing like usual.
I am at No to magic grenade, edited that some time ago.
 

Fangshi

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Votes are now closed.

You will unravel the spells enshrouding the compound while the Arrows attack. You will then enter with the reserves. You will take everyone. You will split up the energon cubes evenly. You will not destroy the spinner. You will wait to open the box, you will load both rings with a heal spell and you will not make a magic grenade.

The update will be out within 12 hours.
 
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Fangshi

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Chapter 23: Wolves at the Door

The Arrows do everything they can to ensure your safety. A team secures the doorway, another team sets up a protective screen and four more teams stand ready to breach the perimeter at Ceannard's orders.

Everything is waiting on his signal and he is waiting on yours.

"Derryth, don't do this," the Faceless Man has been trying to talk you out of attacking the compound's spells.

"Why not?" you whisper in response.

"It is reckless, that's why! You know nothing about the spells at play here! Hell, I know nothing about them! They could be anything!" you know all that of course. You know this is dangerous but you want to ensure the Arrows succeed and you are certain that this is the way to do it. It is precisely because the spells at the heart of the compound are so strange that you feel a need to remove them. You do not want the Arrows under their effects for too long.

"I am doing this," you answer, "Either help or stay out of the way."

"I refuse to help you do something this... this stupid!" the archmage sputters, "Think about all you could lose!" you are fairly certain he means all he could lose but you do not expect any more from him at this point. Ultimately you elect to ignore him, if he will not help then you have nothing more to say to the man.

The three of you stand in a small triangle. You take one another's hands, you close your eyes and you prepare to assault the enemies' spells.

You can not see the enemy mages, in fact you do not even know if there are enemy mages actually maintaining the spells. As a result you are left with a single option. Attack the spells directly and force your way to their heart.

It will not be easy but then what has been for you lately?

You nod to the mercenary captain, "We are ready when you are."

"Alright, I will give the order to advance," you hear the whistle of an arrow.

Explosions rock the night, satchel charges no doubt.

From the shouts and screams that follow you know that the Arrows have begun their attack and so you begin yours.

You begin with the easy stuff.

Alarm spells, sentry spells, warding spells of various types.

Nothing you can not handle.

The three of you know what you are doing even if you are only working from theory and not first hand experience. You and Thaïs are so used to working together at this point that you dodge and weave between each other's spells with a grace and elegance that is mesmerizing. Lyssa for her part does her best to keep up. Despite Mazzarin's low opinion of her skill you believe she demonstrates real talent and even knows a thing or two that surprises you.

All is going according to plan. Most of the enemy spells have been dealt with as you follow the magical currents back to their heart. Then you feel it, the spell you could not identify.

It manifests as a slight pull on your mind coming from the center of the compound.

You immediately halt your advance to properly investigate but it does little good. Something is pulling you further from your body. You try to shout a mental warning to your allies, you try to tell them to pull back but as you cast around with your mind you realize that they are trapped as well.

The three of you are pulled along the magical currents towards the heart of the compound. Your mind begins to grow weary, tired, and gradually you begin to drift off.

Faintly, you think you hear Ceannard calling your name but there is nothing to be done as you quietly drift off to sleep.

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Bravely the watchman strides into the woods.

He has walked this path hundreds of times before.

It is all he knows.

It is his purpose.

Once, he thought, he dreamed of another life.

In a city of glittering marble, he traded bits of metal in a great square.

But that could not be.

He has always been a watchman.

Such dreams are mere fancy, nothing more.

He walks on in silence as the night closes around him.

The scant light of his lantern barely pierces the oncoming gloom.

He wants to return to his bed, to the white brick fort, but he refuse to abandon this.

This is his duty.

So he pushes on.

The night comes on quickly now.

And with it come other things.

Enemies.

A branch snaps to his right.

It is on him in an instant.

A nightmare, part lizard, part housecat, with the tongue of a frog and the tail of a desert scorpion.

It is an elf, a fairy, a twisted little beast of the forest.

It will kill him, eat him.

He is ready though.

His blade fills his hand and all too quickly it cuts through to the very heart of the beast.

It gurgles as it dies, twisting, clawing its way down his blade towards him.

He drops the weapon and runs.

In a panic the watchman flees back to the fort.

He must stay on the path.

Should he take but one step off of it he will be lost forever.

Around him the forest springs to life.

Every tree reveals a score of red eyes staring back at him.

Every bush giggles, chuckles, whistles with the mischief and malice of the damned.

He does not look, to look would be to lose everything.

He runs.

Faster.

And faster still.

He is so close now.

Braches snap. Boughs break.

The entire forest screams at the watchman.

Perhaps that is why he fails to notice his death waiting just around the corner.

The wolf is a bolt of auburn against a black night.

Fire on oil.

Blood on the cool, dark earth.

It closes its jaws around his neck.

It sinks its teeth deep.

The watchman dies.

The forest cries in triumph.

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You howl.

In this eternal, dreaming forest. The hunt and the kill is everything.

You feel complete, whole, as you tear a strip off the dying watchman.

Daintily, you wipe the blood from your muzzle as your companions slink out of the shadows towards you. One black, one brown. Thaïs and Lyssa respectively.

Thaïs lets out a low series of yelps, "Nice kill Derryth," she eyes your prey hungrily but you made the kill and you get to have the first crack at it.

You carefully tear a chunk from the man. Lyssa edges closer to the corpse. Her presumption annoys you. You let out a slight growl of warning, "Don't either of you have something to do other than watch me eat?"

Lyssa whines in response, her ears plastered back, "Not really no. We all have to wait for the right moment to strike and there are only so many patrols."

You understand every noise either of them make.

For a second that strikes you as odd though you shrug it off after only a moment.

They are your pack and you serve the gods of the wild, dark forest. You will bring death to the men in their fort. Those that tried to tame it, to break it. You know you will succeed, eventually.

You exhale sharply. They are not going to leave, they want some of the kill as well. You decide to be charitable, you are their leader but you are not a tyrant. You will share, "Alright you two. Come over here but no fighting."

They fall on the corpse, tearing apart what little remains as you scan the trees in contemplation. They let out happy howls of appreciation as they devour the human.

They sing your praises but something bothers you.

You have the nagging suspicion that you had a greater purpose than this.

That once you were not as you are now.

It is very hazy but you could swear that there is more to your existence than hunting and killing.

The idea is slippery though.

Every time you reach to grab it, it slides away.

You huff in frustration.

That catches Thaïs' attention. She leaves the rest of the meat to Lyssa and sits down next to you, "Something the matter," she whispers.

"Yes," you growl, "I just do not know what..."

"Why not talk about it? That helps me," she pokes you with her muzzle trying to cheer you up.

"I... I don't think any of this is right. I think we were not always like this..." you shift to your left uncomfortably and raise a paw to your face, "Every now and then I catch a face or a place that does not fit," you whine in pain as you force yourself to remember.

Pain, suffering, misery arc through your mind. It would be so much easier to stop trying.

The forest provides all. It protects you and your pack. It will comfort you. It will feed you. And someday when you die it will hug your body to its chest and take you back to the gods.

What more could a wolf want after all?

You are about to tell Thaïs that it is nothing when a nearby tree begins to swell.

The forest screams.

It tells you to run.

You trust the forest and so you are about to do just that.

You don't have time.

The tree splits open as teal flames pour forth.

The two of you yelp and race back to Lyssa.

The three of you turn to run for the forest but the flames are faster.

They encircle you, trap you.

From the smouldering remains of the tree steps a man. Old, distinguished, dignified.

You and your pack growl at him.

He ignores you, instead he calls out to the forest, "You can not have them you know! They are mine and no second rate deity is going to fuck this up for me!"

The forest reacts, a gremlin of stone and wood leaps at the man. It dissolves in mid air, splattering a nearby rock.

He turns his gaze back to you as he clicks his tongue, "Oh Derryth. How do you get yourself into these situations?"

He grins as the fires die down, "Now don't run. I am trying to help you here."

He snaps a branch off a nearby tree and begins to focus on you and your pack.

They whimper but you order them to stand their ground. For some reason you believe this man.

The branch begins to glow.

The forest screams.

You close your eyes.

He hits you.

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"You know girls, it is a damn good thing you did not have those ridiculous gloves on when you decided to do this! Do you have any idea how long it took me to find you in this dream forest? Any clue at all of what could have happened! No, don't answer that!" the three of you sit in a line, restored to your proper condition though you remember very little of your time as a forest creature. The Faceless Man paces before you, lecturing you, "If I had been incapacitated! Why, you would be stuck as animals for the rest of your days!"

You do not really have time for this. You try to placate the mage, "Well thank you again for your help but we really must be-"

"What you 'must be doing' young lady is sit there and listen," another forest spirit leaps out at him, a twisted amalgam of a catfish, a canary and a weasel, and he snuffs it out without breaking stride.

By your count that makes forty two, not one of them has come close to threatening the Faceless Man.

He sighs dramatically, "You girls will be the death of me you know that!" while you are in fact grateful for his aid you also have had more than enough of his crap.

You ignore him and cast your mind out, looking for the source of the spell that dragged you down into this dream world. It is faint but you find it. The source of the Oneiroi spell is ahead of you, in that fort of white brick.

You stand and begin to walk past him towards the fort in the distance.

He steps in front of you, "Where are you going?"

"We have a job to do," you respond as you step around him, "I intend to finish it."

"Like hell you will," he grabs your arm, "You are coming back with me to where it is safe!"

You grin at the Faceless Man, "If you want to try and force me to then be my guest."

You think he might just do it to until Thaïs interrupts, "If you are concerned with our safety then why not come with us? You constantly tell us that we are your apprentices, well what better time to teach us something?"

"Exactly," you nod, "Show us what you have got... I mean unless you are scared..."

"I am not scared," he growls, but that cut him a little.

Thaïs seizes on the opening, "He is right Derryth. We can not say he is scared and we certainly can not say he is a coward-"

"Ladies," he tries to interrupt as you both ignore him.

You call on every little trick your friend has taught you, you feign surprise and actually do a decent job of it, "Oh no, I would not call him a coward at all! Why he is quite brave to come out here when he is so terrified!"

"Ladies," he tries again a little louder. Again you both ignore him.

Your friend nods enthusiastically, "Yes, it must be very difficult to choke down your fear like that. Why if I were that petrified, that fearful, that anxious, that-"

"Ladies!" he shouts at the top of his lungs.

You turn to him in unison, a look of surprise and concern fastened carefully to your faces, "Yes?" Thaïs responds innocently.

Your group stands in silence as he fumes.

The stillness of the night is only broken when another forest spirit launches itself at the Faceless Man, a bizarre mixture of a dog, a beetle and a lizard. He catches it by the throat and snaps its neck.

He sighs, "Let's just get this over with..." he turns and stalks off towards the fort with the three of you in pursuit.

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The Oneiroi compound in this dreamscape is far more impressive than it is in reality.

The walls are high and thick, dozens of guards stand watch, looking out into the forest, and you can feel something powerful radiating magical energy from the center of the compound.

"So what are our options?" you ask your group.

"Let me handle it?" the Faceless Man suggests with a smile, "I can bring down those gates with little effort."

That sounds too easy. There must be a catch and it seems Thaïs thinks the same thing as that is what she asks, "You have never been this free with your power before. What changed?"

He grins, "Smart girl. Here we are in a space outside of physical reality. A place that is not my home but one I am vaguely familiar with. Here I can steal a little power and make it my own. Of course to attack that fortress will require a little more power than I can currently draw on. I can take care of the fort but you will need to grant me just a little extra power to do so. Link your minds up to mine and I will have this fort levelled in no time at all."

"So this is yet another attempt to get into our heads," you grumble. Not angry, not surprised really, just a little disappointed.

"Well it would only be a little part of your minds. Just a single point of contact so that you can feed me the extra energy I need. Of course if you want to do this without my help be my guest," he gestures to the imposing fortress with a self satisfied smirk firmly fixed to his face.

That sounds like a challenge.

You turn to your allies, "If we were going to do it, how would we go about it?"

Thaïs begins, "Mental control spells? We compel one of the guards to open the gate and go from there?"

Lyssa speaks up, uncertain of herself, "There are other minds out there in the forest in the form of animals of various shapes and sizes, like we were. I could try to talk to them, try to convince them to help us. They could provide us with the numbers to take the fort by force if we cover them with illusions and mental manipulation spells."

Fairly good plans all things considered, "Perhaps we could do both. We get a guard to open the gates and then unleash the whole forest on them."

The three of you nod in unison as the Faceless Man frowns, "That is a horrible plan. It will never work," he snorts dismissively.

You are not so sure though. You think it might work and that, that is what annoys the archmage.

You are about to make your decision when another forest spirit materializes, it is a creature of spotted fur and living rock, feathers and greenwood.

It does not attack however, instead it bows lows.

It chatters at you and though you have trouble understanding it at first, gradually its words become intelligible, "You are enemies of the fort men? You help us and we help you! Open gates and we will take care of the rest!"

An interesting proposition but can you trust these creatures?

You remember very little from your time as a wolf and what you do remember is quite hazy. You do remember though that the forest spirits and their gods hate the fort and its guards more than anything. While the spirits are notoriously untrustworthy that hatred is something you can count on.

They could very well betray you but the Faceless Man can act as quite the deterrent and there is no way to stop them from involving themselves anyway should they desire or see an opportunity...


1. Unravelling the Spell: You need to get inside that fort to unravel the final Oneiroi spell, how do you want to do it?

A) You don't - You have taken out most of the Oneiroi spells, that will have to be good enough. You attempt to return to your bodies using the Faceless Man's help.

B) Archmage Assault - You want to see what a Fallen Lord can really do.

C) Assault Independently - You, Thaïs and Lyssa will use your own spells to assault the fort. You will compel one of the guards to open the doors then attack with every resource you can muster.

D) Diplomacy - You try to gain access to the fort by negotiating with the garrison. Perhaps you can convince them that you are watchmen that got lost in the forest though you are not confident.

E) freeform - Gain entry to the fort your own way.


2. The Forest Spirits: The strange forest spirits have offered to help you attack the fort. You do not really trust them but you think they may just attack anyway once the gate is down. Do you agree to work with them?

A) Yes

B) No
 
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Fangshi

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Not much this time around, the energon cubes were split up and you have gained a temporary party member.

Party/Organization Changes:

Party Changes:

Derryth:

Lost the Following Magical Items:

1. Lost Nine Energon Cubes: Eight given to party members, 1 used in spell.

Thaïs:

Gained the Following Magical Items:

1. Gained 4 Energon Cubes

Lost the Following Magical Items:

1. Lost 1 Energon Cube in spell

Lyssa:

Gained the Following Magical Items:

1. Gained 4 Energon Cubes

Lost the Following Magical Items:

1. Lost 1 Energon Cube in spell

The Faceless Man:

Joins party as Neutral Observer
 
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CA for me as well.

We are here so we might as well try to do some work. Faceless guy is useful, but of course he would try to use anything we gave him against us. Diplomacy option is silly here. As for the spirits, well it's quite possible they would attack the fort anyway, so we might as well work with them.
 

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The likely thing that is going on here is that the Oneiroi are channelling the power of one of the minor deities to work their magic. Those spirits are decidedly not people like the guard, because those are the watchmen, serving the Oneiroi in their deaths. It looks like the deity and its creatures bear the fort-dwellers some resentment, but I don't think hatred is something you can build a working relationship on. Most All of the gods in the setting are alien and cruel. If they want to interfere, so be it, but to work with them is a bit much for me.

Maybe I am making a mistake here. I don't know enough to decide.

CB.
 
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Well, what would working with the spirits actually involve? Besides not attacking them? And how would that be any different if they decide to attack the fort anyway when we open the door? Of course we shouldn't let our guard down around them, but I don't think there is any danger of them turning on us until the fort is fallen. It's possible they'll try it then, but is there a clear motive for them doing so? And by then they might have taken enough damage (the wording seems to imply they would do the actual fighting once the doors are open) to prevent them from doing this.

Hell, maybe voting B would have them attack both us and the fort once we do and take enough damage in the assault. I think it is better it is them in the first line and not us.
 

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Well, what would working with the spirits actually involve? Besides not attacking them?
Letting them into the fort, for one. We might be able to close the gate once we enter, separating ourselves both from their help and their betrayal (because, really, who are you kidding? they will turn on you). In 2A, we are allowing them inside freely, and there is no telling how many are there.

Hell, maybe voting B would have them attack both us and the fort once we do and take enough damage in the assault.
Maybe.
 
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Well, what would working with the spirits actually involve? Besides not attacking them?
Letting them into the fort, for one. We might be able to close the gate once we enter, separating ourselves both from their help and their betrayal (because, really, who are you kidding? they will turn on you). In 2A, we are allowing them inside freely, and there is no telling how many are there.
Ok, but what's their motive for doing that? And if they were dead set on attacking us they will not give us the opportunity to close the doors at all. The plan is to compel one of the guards to open the doors and charge in. But the spirits are likely to be right next to us when that happens, deal or no deal they want that place gone - what if they see the open door and charge in? Stop them first, then make the assault on our own? That's not very likely to work.
 

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But the spirits are likely to be right next to us when that happens, deal or no deal they want that place gone - what if they see the open door and charge in?
How many spirits are we talking? Five? Ten? A hundred?

Because of course some of them will charge in, but they are talking about an army here. You can close the gates letting some of them in, but only if you don't cooperate with them in the first place.

It is a difference of whether or not we are allowing them free reign inside the fortress.
 
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Well the choices tell us that they might just attack anyway once the gate is down, and I think that if they are moving in for an attack they would do so with enough force to ensure they succeed. I wouldn't be surprised if we were right now surrounded by a spirit army. So, probably quite a lot of them would reach the doors before us and attempting to close the doors while surrounded by them is not exactly going to be easy while being trampled to death, even if they are not actively trying to kill us (which they might be if we don't make a deal with them).

My reasoning here is - we have a willing army that will make an assault whether we work with them or not, so we might as well do so or we might have to fight them and the defenders once we make our move. And after that we'll see - yes, they might attack us, maybe they have only a dead human is a good human policy or something. But going with B is hardly a guarantee that's not going to happen, it might even make it more likely.
 

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My reasoning here is - we have a willing army that will make an assault whether we work with them or not, so we might as well do so or we might have to fight them and the defenders once we make our move. And after that we'll see - yes, they might attack us, maybe they have only a dead human is a good human policy or something. But going with B is hardly a guarantee that's not going to happen, it might even make it more likely.
For me it is more the principle of a thing. Sort of like establishing the policy whether to trust the Children or not.

You whine in pain as you force yourself to remember.

Pain, suffering, misery arc through your mind. It would be so much easier to stop trying.

The forest provides all. It protects you and your pack. It will comfort you. It will feed you. And someday when you die it will hug your body to its chest and take you back to the gods.

What more could a wolf want after all?
How can you ally with that thing? It reminds me of this one:
It is so sweet, so nurturing, so kind. It promises you wealth, and power, and knowledge. It promises you Tyrvard... it promises you Henry. You do not believe any of it for even a second.
[...]
It is so sour, so destructive, so cruel. It promises you poverty, and frailty, and folly. It vows to take everything and everyone from you.
Just don't ever try diplomacy with the gods. Ever.

Maybe the spirits are sleeping Arrows, just as the wolves were our trio of mages?
Maybe. Likely, even. But their minds do not belong to them anymore.
 
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Shrug. The problem is the alternative probably isn't no thanks, we do this alone. It's now we have to fight them as well.
 

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CA

The only alternative plan is returning to our bodies and fucking throwing that fucking anti-magic grenade at them.
 

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...Wouldn't it be hilarious if the spells in the compound exist solely to keep something suppressed... or dreaming?
Good guess, and was right.:salute:
Probably this minor deity is also the source of power for something.
 

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Fangshi, did the attempt to dispel the central enchantment warrant a saving throw that we've failed, or was it so powerful we weren't granted any?
 

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Nevill said:
Fangshi, did the attempt to dispel the central enchantment warrant a saving throw that we've failed, or was it so powerful we weren't granted any?

No saving throw to avoid that. You passed all your rolls to dispel the lesser AOEs, had you failed there you would have avoided this but the spell would have stayed up, once you contacted the central spell that was it. You would always have wound up here it was simply too strong (you need to be Fallen Lord levels of strength to shrug off the pull of this spell, it is why the Faceless Man can lead you back to your bodies in 1A).

Smashing Axe said:
I don't really understand what's going on here.

Neither does Derryth really. :lol:

She vaguely understands that she is currently in some sort of out of body experience in a dream-like place or plane and that the Faceless Man probably has a good idea of what is happening here (he won't say though, really he wants you to just come with him). She is also somewhat certain that the answers to what is going on here are to be found in that fort.

If you find someone important enough and take them alive you might be able to find out what is going on though.


Current Tally:
Grimgravy CA
Zero Credibility CA
Nevill CB
Azira CA
asxetos CA
Kz3r0 CA
Smashing Axe CA
Jester CA

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Jester

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CA grab magical knowledge we need and gtfo.
 

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