Re: Meido (Play Thread)

[eagle788]

(Dex+athletics)

[The_GM]

The member 'eagle788' has done the following action : Dice roll

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[AlaskanWyvern]

Flipper looked towards the racks and jumped out of the way, grabbing onto the railing above him as the racks went sailing down. "Keep moving!" he shouted, for Shadow's benefit.

Hanging from bamboo inside an airship was hardly an ideal environment for performing a kata, but anything would suffice. The motes flowed, and Flipper's anima flowed around him as a bubble of pure seawater. He centered himself and thrust outwards with the point of his claws, striking the surface of the water. The bubble fractured impossibly as cracks spread through it, spreading Flipper's image in a maze of chaotic reflections.

Out of harm's way for the moment, he looked around to see who might have tried to bring that down on him.

((-2e to attempts to hit me))

[CodexGigas]

The rack kept sliding down the wall, coming to rest at the end of a catwalk. A golden light started to stir inside of the glassy black shapes, like the sun shining through smoked quartz.

[AlaskanWyvern]

((int-lore on the glassy black shapes; no successes, using third int))

[The_GM]

The member 'AlaskanWyvern' has done the following action : Dice roll

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[CodexGigas]

The surface of the shapes appeared to be obsidian, relatively rare outside of the far West and South; a few islanders had used it for jewelry and weapons. It was brittle and expensive though, hardly suited for crafting anything as large as the almost human-sized shapes on the catwalk.

[AlaskanWyvern]

Flipper saw the glow from the shapes starting to intensify; that was a bad sign, whatever it was. Some kind of essence buildup, no doubt; if this was a loading cart of some sort, then those could have been headed for the town below. They probably weren't meant to go off next to them... if they were straight-up explosives, then that would damage the ship as well. If it was some sort of soul-ripping device, maybe less so, but that could still have its applications...

He dropped down off the wall and maneuvered over to the cart, looking for a likely fracture point in the orbs, and set about smashing three of them.

[CodexGigas]

Flipper's first blow rung against the lump of obsidian, sending echoes through the hull. Cracks spider-webbed across the surface.

And then, a limb erupted from the obsidian, the twisted black glass bending up as if sheared by volcanic force. Another, and another, and another as the lumps of molten rock twisted and flowed into four blank-masked humanoids.

The golden-red glow at the heart of each grew to dazzling brightness, flooding the hold like a totemic anima banner and revealing row after row of obsidian shapes in bamboo racks.

[Ji]

"Invasion of... what, exactly?" said Glass, tilting his head. Sure, he'd been taking a good long isolated nap, but he was hoping he'd be slightly more clued in. He knew about the balloon...whale...thing, but not its crew.

"Either way, Flipper would probably appreciate assistance. I'm not much good in a fight myself, but it couldn't hurt me to see what I can do to take it down. If you want to risk your life for it, I'd appreciate the lift. Flying in this armor is hellish." he said, hoping to use the last part as a joke, because things were probably going to get much tenser very soon, and something to defuse it would be helpful.

[LightOfDawn]

Builder met the Lunar’s gaze. “Well, that’s the question, isn’t it? What are these skyships doing here? What are they planning?”

The joke didn’t make him laugh, but the Sidereal cracked a smile. “Well, based on the kind of airship we’re dealing with, I imagine we’ll have a whale of a tale to tell soon enough…”

Cursing himself for even getting near a potential combat situation, Builder urged the cloud upward. The skyship wasn’t visible any more, but as long as it hadn’t changed course, that cloud was exactly where he would expect the Kireeki to be by now…

Sure enough, flying into the cloud proved that there was still a skyship. Builder began flying along the side of the ship, looking for the entrance the Lunar and Deathknight who had gone before had probably used.

[Ji]

"Huh. Didn't expect them to try the stealthy approach, not after you know, flying an airwhale this whole way anyway." said Glass, looking for structural defects that may have been exploited prior by his companions. They were probably inside by this point, and they had to have gotten inside through a repeatable manner, or they were probably out of luck getting out and this had become a rescue mission.

Noticing the beam of light, Glass made the simple observation that it was both there, and indicated an opening.

"Fly us closer to that beam, might be a way in we can squeeze through. Or at least, I can squeeze through, find a door to unlock for you or something." he said, pointing.

[LightOfDawn]

Builder nodded and urged the skiff closer, pulling up right next to the window so that Glass could easily hop to it and pull himself through.

“I’ll wait for your signal,” the Sidereal said, “and try to find another way to take it down, in the meanwhile.”

[eagle788]

"Flipper you might want to stop doing that!"

Shadow dives towards the crew compartment (and throws the door open, in an attempt to  distract the crew long enough to cause some damage.)

[CodexGigas]

The pod didn't appear to have any doors--it was solid jade-alloy.

[AlaskanWyvern]

"No really," Flipper grumbled. This was a wrinkle he hadn't expected, and it wasn't terribly welcome. He shrank back in his bubble, causing the cracks in it to refract a nearly-solid surface of gray and making it almost completely impossible to tell what he was doing or what his exact position was. He'd let the... thing, whatever that was, have the first shot, and then he'd hopefully end it at one blow.

((establishing surprise with +1s from excellency))

[The_GM]

The member 'AlaskanWyvern' has done the following action : Dice roll

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[AlaskanWyvern]

((stunt diiiiiiie))

[The_GM]

The member 'AlaskanWyvern' has done the following action : Dice roll

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[CodexGigas]

Featureless black faces looked up at Flipper and Shadow. The nearest figure drew back its arm, fingers splayed inhumanly wide until there was a sickening crack. Gouts of molten orichalcum erupted from between the knuckles, hissing as it hit the cool air. As the figure's arm snapped forward, the streams of metal twisted into the shape of a golden hatchet spiraling toward Flipper.

[CodexGigas]

((and then the lazy ST calculated the dice pool)

[The_GM]

The member 'CodexGigas' has done the following action : Dice roll

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[CodexGigas]

By the time the hatchet returned, the second figure was forming a goremaul, face turned toward Shadow. The third and fourth figures were spinning flows of raw orichalcum into a net and a lasso.

[CodexGigas]

From the Wok, Hider could see a cloud lit from within with red-gold light and drifting a thousand feet above the plains outside of Meido. Hysteria was spreading through the streets as citizens pointed and babbled. People with jewelry or weapons threw the buzzing pieces of metal to the flagstones, wailing with terror.

[AlaskanWyvern]

Flipper watched the hatchet impact the bubble of water, forming a new crack and a new reflection where it had hit.

They really weren't messing around with these things, he thought. He brandished his claws, forming extensions made of shimmering moonlight around them, the edges of his tail, and his teeth, If he was going to have to hold these things off, he was going to do it right.

((4m, 1wp on claws again, speed 4 action))

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