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« Reply #135: September 29, 2011, 12:13:27 AM »
Two burly longshoreman stood in the way of the Inquisitor. Others began to converge on the man. Street urchins began to strip the armors of the dead Templars, searching for coin pouches. A few handy men picked up the Templar's swords.

Lucious was wounded and exhausted, but his training was excellent. As he looked upon the villagers, his face has the expression of someone you'd only mess with if your other option was being slowly roasted over coals, and even then only on second thought.

"The first one to lay hands on me will find out how the inquisition can make a man survive a fortnight of uninterrupted torture.", he said, softly but loud enough for everyone nearby to hear, "And you all know that taking a templars or a holy mans belongings leads to being cursed by the gods, don't you?", he added with a look towards those picking on the templars.

The peasants were frightened, confused, but not as willing to just submit as those in the south would have been. They didn't know just how many more templars and inquisitors the ship contained.

Their hesitation gave Lucious enough time to leave the scene. Tomorrow, he would put a hefty bounty on the head of the spellcaster who had wounded him. On the head only. He had no intention to have the villagers as enemies, the common people were usually afraid of magic and often good allies. He just had to make sure they knew their place. He would need a show of force in the morning, and a few friendly gestures.

And he would need prayers, in case the spellcaster attacked again.

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« Reply #136: September 29, 2011, 01:02:36 AM »
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"Hmm..."

As Astalos looked around him, he realized he was completely lost. Trees after trees, patches after patches of grass... He was checking his direction by reading stars and it had never failed him until now. Something was odd about this place. Something was preventing him from reaching the fortress.

Maybe the fortress was once a dungeon of an ancient spell caster? Something must be affecting his sense of direction. In order to go forward, he has to stop this phenomena from affecting his mind. He casted Shielded Mind.

Once the spell stopped the unknown influence, he could see an entrance to the fortress... and something right under the arch of the entrance. It was an empty suit of armour made from some kind of black materials.

Astalos slowly walked toward it. As he got closer to the standing armour, he felt his hairs standing. When he was about five meters away from the armour, he realized the helm of the armour moved a little bit as if it was watching him.

He unsheathed his sword just in case the armour attacks him. It sounded like a non-sense but he wanted to make sure.

And he was right.

As he was walking past the armour, it moved its arms and swung the giant sword it was carrying. He tried to block the sword by tilting his sword but he realized it was a mistake. As the giant sword hit his sword, he quickly casted Air Shield, The giant sword broke his sword like a twig and hit his magic shield. The shield deflected the sword and caused the armour to lose balance. But as the armour was about to hit the ground, runic symbols appeared on the surface of the armour and the armour quickly regained its balance.

Astalos watched this with shock. This armour was a guardian. And it was a powerful one. Powerful enough to use magic. It was nothing like what spellcasters use. The magic the armour just used was not refined or structured like those of spellcasters'. It was more primitive yet powerful and dangerous.

Astalos quickly took a few steps back to keep some distance from the armour. He realized this was not going to be an easy fight. Maybe even tougher than the battle with the templars. At least the templars were beatable.

The armour stared at him for about ten seconds then charged at him. As the armour charged toward him, he quickly used Wall of Flame and Ignite.
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« Reply #137: September 29, 2011, 04:27:34 AM »
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The armour-guardian stopped as the wall of flame surrounded Astalos. Instead of trying to go through the wall, it tried to cut the wall with its sword. As it swung the sword, the ignite spell hit the sword. It increased the temperature of the sword, causing it to turn red.

Astalos believed this was his chance. He casted Air Shield just in case the sword penetrates his fire walls, and sent Ignite and Lump to the guardian.

The giant sword slashed through the wall and hit the shield. The shield managed to deflect the attack once again but the guardian did not lose its balance like the last time. But the ignite spell hit it in the chest and the lump hit the same spot. The combo worked nicely and it managed to push the guardian a few meters. It even dented the chest plate of the guardian.

But the small victory was short lived as the runic words appeared around the chest plate of the guardian, it started to recover its original shape. Realizing it was impossible to beat this thing without a spell powerful enough to imprison the guardian, Astalos ran into the fortress while the guardian was healing.

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« Reply #138: September 29, 2011, 11:26:56 AM »
In the morning Saniel spent his last few coins on a small breakfast in the "Salty Mug" and it was clear that he had to earn some coin pretty soon.  Now,  you can't pin a letter on the city hall "Experienced spellcaster is looking for  decent work" ,  for even in the colonies there always could be some templers around and you don't want to do slave work in a high security prison in the south after all. Therefore the young mage had to become a bit more creative.

His first thought was with the local bank, but that wasn't a project he could handle on his own. Therefore Saniel took a stroll through the city, looking for possible targets.  First it was time for some preperation.  He stopped in a dark corner, took some loamy mud from the ground and casted Clay Mask. Now, he was no artist, but he did have swift fingers.  He altered his face just  little bit, but enough to make it impossible to be recognized by normal means.

Now where to get some gold? Saniel made his way through the harbor and first spent some thoughts about braking into the harbour master's office.  However,  his attention was drawn to the other side of the street, where a well dressed merchant was leaving the  carpenter's workshop, obviously looking satisfied. The merchants money bag was dangling at the right side of his belt, but the man always had his hand on it. While the target was walking down the street Saniel took a quick look around, approached the merchant from behind and casted Flea pact on the man's left hand.  As soon as the merchant took his right hand from the bag in order to scratch himself, Saniel closed in from behind and with a swift movement cut the bag from the belt.  After that the young spellcaster quickly turned away in order to vanish into one of the small  alleys, leading further into town.


 
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« Reply #139: September 29, 2011, 03:45:34 PM »
Esseron grumbles and sits up as he hears the commotion coming from the main entrance to the fortress. "Who's being fool enough to tangle with that guardian construct?" he mutters. Concentrating, he seeks a Bug's eye view of the scene below. When he gets only a view of stalks of grass, he curses and tries another Bug's eye view. This time he sees a wall of fire.

"Well, that's not terribly helpful," he growls. He stands and walks over to the ruined wall of the room he has been using as a bedroom. The wall has crumbled above about four feet, and the ceiling in this portion of the room is gone, though the rest of the room is reasonably intact.

Peering over the wall, Esseron looks down on the area in front of the fortress's main entrance. He folds his arms and watches the battle between the guardian construct and the brash young spellcaster for a short while. When the construct falls back, he raises an eyebrow. "Hm. Impressive," he murmurs. "That's the first one who's even been able to dent the thing."

As the young man darts toward the entrance, Esseron speaks some quiet words, and casts Flea pact at his right leg, then Flea pact at his left leg, and finally attempts to make him Stumble.

"Let's see if he can go another round with the guardian construct," Esseron muses, grinning. This is the best entertainment he's had in days.

Completing these actions has resulted in the following changes:
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4.67 energy expended
2 XP in Perceive gained
3 XP in Mind gained
4 XP in Harm gained
1 XP in Control gained
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« Reply #140: September 29, 2011, 05:16:52 PM »
Now that Saniel had some gold, it was time to get mobile.  There were several stables in the city, one of them at the outskirts. It was quite a way to get there and the stables where located on a hill, but some locals told him that this one had the best horses in all Mahrstadt.

That way the young spellcaster made his way up to the northern hill passing both the inner town and the residential quarter.  The hill was higher than he had imagined and when he finally arrived, he was breathing heavily. The large stables were easily found, but another thing drew Saniel's attention. Further in the north (OOC:?) there were some flashes of fire near a distant castle.  Was someone trying to create a signal fire?  Strucked by curiosity,  Saniel casted Hawk Eye in order to see more. He was again astonished by the effect of this spell as he was able to see the castle in great detail and ... yes ... there seemed to be  fight.  A  strange golem like creature was fighting  with a man. Saniel quickly ended the spell and went to the stables to buy a horse and some rope.

A few minutes later he was riding on a brown sprinter and closing in to the castle.  Saniel wasn't sure if the stranger was in need of any help, but he would find out soon enough.

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« Reply #141: September 30, 2011, 02:27:35 AM »
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[When Astalos was running toward the entrance, he felt something trying to breach his shield around his brain. Someone casted mind spells... and those spells were obviously not beneficial. Thankfully, spells were not strong enough to break his shielded mind. After running for a few meters, he managed to enter the fortress.]

The guardian did not enter the fortress. It was possible that the guardian was only there to stop intruders from entering the fortress. But why would it not chase him? The guardian was facing Astalos but was not doing anything. Maybe it was design to keep things coming out from the fortress?

Now that Astalos thought about the fight, the guardian did not go for his head. It was merely trying to disable him by cutting arms or legs off.

If the guardian is indeed trying to keep things coming out from the fortress, it will try to kill him if he tries to leave. He decided to test his theory. As he stepped outside, the guardian lifted its sword. It was very different from when he tried to enter the fortress. The guardian did not react until he walked past it but this time it reacted immediately. And there was one more thing. The guardian's sword was glowing this time. It was engulfed in flames and some lumps of earth.

The sword was using Astalos's spells. Of course it was more like the sword absorbed the essence of his spells. It was not actually using the spells themselves.

Now Astalos was trapped in the fortress. He had some food he bought from the markets and the inn but he was not sure if it was going to be enough to last him over four days. He had no choice for now but to go forward.

He took out a lamp from his beg and used Ignite to lit it up. Then he walked deeper into the fortress.
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« Reply #142: September 30, 2011, 02:46:07 AM »
He took out a lamp from his beg and used Ignite to lit it up. Then he walked deeper into the fortress.

Ah...did you not notice getting Flea Pact x2 and Stumble cast on Astalos?
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« Reply #143: September 30, 2011, 03:46:59 AM »
Still have my shielded mind spell on. It lasts for an entire day :) Gotta try harder to make that fool Astalos dance!

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« Reply #144: September 30, 2011, 04:15:34 AM »
Still have my shielded mind spell on. It lasts for an entire day :) Gotta try harder to make that fool Astalos dance!

Then should the RP not state the fact that the spells failed? It helps the flow if things don't just look like they are ignored and everyone is expected to realise why.
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« Reply #145: September 30, 2011, 04:23:12 AM »
Done. They are inside [ ].

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« Reply #146: September 30, 2011, 04:58:15 AM »
Ah...did you not notice getting Flea Pact x2 and Stumble cast on Astalos?

I believe it was said casting a spell against a PC should warrant stopping to allow them to react. I'm sure once the certamen engine is ready that will be a little more clear.

Also, is there any designation we could use for OOC chatter on a RP thread? Perhaps with a spoiler code/tag. I'd still rather it happen in a parallel thread and not interrupt the story, but if it has to be done, let's come up with a standard designation.

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« Reply #147: September 30, 2011, 05:03:15 AM »
You know the battlemaster chat server? I believe it is #battlemaster

We have one for this game as well. It's #spellmaster

http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=%23spellmaster

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« Reply #148: September 30, 2011, 10:05:44 AM »
When Saniel arrived at the castle, the was no fight going on anymore. However that golem-like creature ws still there. "Oh no!", he thought. "I'm too late. But still ... there is no body to be seen"

The young mage closed in  to the creature and stoped a few yards before him. The thing was standing still.  Hmmm ... perhaps somebody ws at home.

Sometimes the word was mightier then the sword, so he decided to be polite and yelled as loud as he could : "Good afternoon!  My name is Saniel Leavey.  May I humbly request to be received in audience?"

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« Reply #149: September 30, 2011, 04:14:29 PM »
Unfortunately there was no reply to the spellcasters call, so he had to change his tactics. Saniel turned away from the heavily guarded gate and made his way to the eastern wall of the castle. He started to breath deeply in order to get focused and touched the castle wall with his left hand.  Then he muttered one of his mantras of might and casted Miner's Touch to get a small hole, then Miner's Touch again to enlarge it. Keeping his focus he concentrated and kept chanting his mantra. After a few seconds he again casted Miner's Touch to finally get a passage large enough to crawl inside.  As soon as he made it through,  he casted Cloaking Shadows and took a good look around.

He obviously was at the ground floor of the castle just behind the entry hall and decided to make his way further into the fortress.  A place that well guarded simply had to have some gold inside. True, he came to this place in order to help the stranger, but if he would be able to make  some coin at the same time so be it.

That way Saniel moved deeper into the castle, trying to find both the stranger and some coin.

[OOC: Completing these actions has resulted in the following changes:
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