Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Though many students might prefer going to London, Maldon provides closer amenities for those without a car or unwilling to pay for a cab. Several pubs are available, though the Rose and Crown is notable for having been where Excalibur spent a good deal of their downtime. Also of note is the Plume Library, home to many rare books.

Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Narrator » Mon May 07, 2018 1:56 pm

Will Stanton wrote:With the moment's respite caused by Sam's mental juju, Will...

...Punched the creature in the face. Not all tactics need to be complex!


The creature shrieks as the 'bigger predator' punches it squarely. Will hears a crunching noise and the creature begins scuttling back, dripping some sort of purple-ish fluid.

Sean Hall wrote:Sean begins looking to see where the leak is coming from thinking it should give him an idea of how to dismantle the ritual circle. A weak point perhaps that should let him unravel it.


The weak point is where whoever created the circle was feeding power into it. Since that person seems to no longer be here, the flow has reversed and power's now leaking out. A way to unravel the circle *might* be to tug on that, pulling the power out of it and unraveling it like a loose thread in a sweater, but he'd have to find something to do with the power he pulls out of the circle.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Sean Hall » Mon May 07, 2018 4:07 pm

Narrator wrote:The weak point is where whoever created the circle was feeding power into it. Since that person seems to no longer be here, the flow has reversed and power's now leaking out. A way to unravel the circle *might* be to tug on that, pulling the power out of it and unraveling it like a loose thread in a sweater, but he'd have to find something to do with the power he pulls out of the circle.


Sean tugs on the thread he can feel the build up of energy as he does so. He knows he'll have to do something with the energy, but for the moment he focuses on unraveling the circle the runes inscribed into his skin glowing brighter and brighter as the energy builds.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Will Stanton » Mon May 07, 2018 6:20 pm

Will chased after the creature, looking to follow up on his attack and further drive whateveritwas back to wherever it came from.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Vivienne Chinnoir » Mon May 07, 2018 8:09 pm

Narrator wrote:The dead creature cracks into the live one, knocking it to the ground and loosening the tension on that line. The creature struggles to extricate itself from its dead companion, giving Vivienne a moment to breathe.


She adjusted her grip and closed the distance between herself and the prone creature, Cal point first.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Narrator » Mon May 07, 2018 11:01 pm

Sean Hall wrote:Sean tugs on the thread he can feel the build up of energy as he does so. He knows he'll have to do something with the energy, but for the moment he focuses on unraveling the circle the runes inscribed into his skin glowing brighter and brighter as the energy builds.


The energy definitely feels unwholesome as he draws on it. It pushes against his personal wards, trying to find a way out of the designs he's drawing it into.

Will Stanton wrote:Will chased after the creature, looking to follow up on his attack and further drive whateveritwas back to wherever it came from.


Will scores another blow and the thing spasms, rolling onto its back with its legs curled up. It might be dead, but it's hard to tell.

Vivienne Chinnoir wrote:She adjusted her grip and closed the distance between herself and the prone creature, Cal point first.


Cal stabs straight into the creature, the exoskeleton no match for the magic sword. The creature screeches and goes still.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon May 07, 2018 11:17 pm

"Alright, is that all of them?"

"And... did anyone bring an unusually large otter?"
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Will Stanton » Tue May 08, 2018 12:02 am

"That sounds like one of Sean's spells to me."
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Sean Hall » Tue May 08, 2018 3:19 pm

Narrator wrote:The energy definitely feels unwholesome as he draws on it. It pushes against his personal wards, trying to find a way out of the designs he's drawing it into.


Sean feels the shiver of unwholesome energy and yet for some reason it doesn't feel... wrong to be wielding it, it feels almost familiar, comforting even. He wrestles with the energy and wrestles to contain the energy as he dismantles the circle. He looks for a target to discharge the energy at, hoping that there's at least one spider left and thinking that the energy would struggle less against something that will rend something limb from limb. He constructs the spell and begins focusing the energy to create an orb of out of it. The runes inscribed on his skin crackle and groan as he works the unwholesome energy. If he finds a target he launches the orb at it, but if not this is going to be an interesting ride.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Narrator » Tue May 08, 2018 4:13 pm

There's the giant otter and his companions and Erica. The magic was originally designed to deal with Erica and it keeps drawing his gaze back to her. It'd be so easy to release it on her, the magic whispers to him. That's what it was meant for after all.

As he keeps searching for another target, he somehow becomes aware of all the pests in the abandoned building. Rats, various kinds of insects, all the sorts of vermin that infest a place like this. He could could keep the energy and they'd be his to command or he could snuff them all out with the same energy.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Sean Hall » Tue May 08, 2018 4:55 pm

Sean stares at Erica for an unhealthy amount of time as he considered his options. He considered using it on Erica, then considered ending the lives of all the vermin, or even using the energy on everyone else in the room or maybe just the otter...

What about Erica? This is all meant for her, isn't it? He thought to himself taking a step towards Erica then shook his head as he considered the vermin that lived in the building. He knew the energy felt wrong, but he still felt conflicted. Why shouldn't he keep it? It was simply energy to be manipulated by him and he could discharge it later if it proved dangerous, right?

He drained the energy from the orb he'd formed, as slowly as was possible given the situation, and began trying to funnel the energy back into himself. He knew he'd be better served by anchoring it permanently into a ring or some other object, but for now he simply tried to store it.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Shari » Tue May 08, 2018 5:01 pm

The otter sits on top of it's prey, but what little taste it got from biting into the thing's shell seems to displease it, so now it's sitting on it's back-legs and wiping at it's mouth and tongue with it's paws, trying to get the taste out of it's mouth, making faint squeaking noises of disapproval.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Will Stanton » Tue May 08, 2018 5:34 pm

Will walked over to Erica, to check on how she was doing.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Erica Carlisle » Tue May 08, 2018 5:45 pm

Erica's lost a lot of blood and is unconscious. She's still alive though, which is a miracle in and of itself or maybe just well-honed magic. She's not going to improve staked to the floor though.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Tue May 08, 2018 6:18 pm

Tereza peers at the note speared to one of the support columns. "Viv, do you have a brother you didn't tell us about?"
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Will Stanton » Tue May 08, 2018 6:41 pm

Will busied himself with removing the stakes and freeing Erica.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue May 08, 2018 7:04 pm

"...okay, so nobody's claiming the giant otter."

She crosses her arms, turning towards the creature.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Shari » Tue May 08, 2018 7:09 pm

The otter just kind of yips at her. Somehow it feels familiar.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Vivienne Chinnoir » Tue May 08, 2018 8:24 pm

"Not to my knowledge. The only individuals I would call "family" would be other water fey." She spoke as she picked up a discarded plank of shipping crate. She made her way to Sean and offered it to him.

"Bind it to something natural and...dead." She gave him a soft smile as the water that had been following her moved to "cleanse" the ritual site and Erica.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Sean Hall » Tue May 08, 2018 8:34 pm

Sean thanked Vivienne with a nod as he took the discarded plank she offered. Sean took a piece of chalk from a pocket and drew several runes before pushing the magic he'd pulled from the ritual into the enchantment. It was quick and dirty, but it he believed it would hold. Once he was finished he walked over to help Vivienne at the ritual site. He could at least help with first aid skills to stabilize Erica in the meantime.
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Postby Tereza Rozanov » Tue May 08, 2018 10:39 pm

Stabilizing Erica was easier than they expect it to be. It doesn't take much to get her at least stable enough to move.

Tereza moves over and looks over Sam's shoulder at the giant otter. "The otter's certainly adorable."
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue May 08, 2018 11:21 pm

"I don't think we can keep a giant otter in the dorms, Tereza."
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Shari » Wed May 09, 2018 7:30 am

The otter yips at the group. It almost seems like a question.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Vivienne Chinnoir » Wed May 09, 2018 11:33 am

Vivienne did what she could at the moment to stop the bleeding, tending to the more serious damage first from the inside out magically. Once satisfied with their work she left Sean and Will with Erica to examine the creatures closer.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Narrator » Wed May 09, 2018 2:14 pm

The creatures were largely unfamiliar to her, but they had some sort of inherent magic to themselves. It felt *like* fey magic, but not precisely like it. Now that she was opening herself a bit more, she could sense another presence in the room. It felt sort of like one of the "lost" and as she focused on that feeling, it drew her eyes to the otter than Sam and Tereza were inspecting.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Vivienne Chinnoir » Wed May 09, 2018 3:46 pm

She moved over to Sam and Tereza. "Not to close." She then addressed the otter.

"You have given us aid and for that I am grateful, but there is a touch of the twisted magic about you. I would suggest that if you are capable of speech, now is your time to speak." she moved Cal and placed it in front of herself blade point touching the ground.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Wed May 09, 2018 4:43 pm

"Easy, Viv," Tereza cautions, "But she's right. We don't speak otter. Unless you're picking up on something we're not, Sam?"
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Shari » Wed May 09, 2018 6:18 pm

The otter stares at them for a while, then seems to concentrate hard, dropping back down to all fours.

"Bit off leg. Ate some. No good. No good." it says, shaking it's head rapidly like it was shaking off water.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed May 09, 2018 6:25 pm

"It seems to be having trouble thinking. Maybe it wasn't always an otter?"
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Sean Hall » Wed May 09, 2018 7:34 pm

Sean heard something about a torn off leg and something about maybe being stuck as an otter and turned to look over at the group talking to the talking otter.

"Ripped off a leg? There's a severed leg in my workshop that somebody named Shari tore off of what might have been a Sluagh," Sean said looking over at the Otter.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Shari » Wed May 09, 2018 7:40 pm

The otter yips in the affirmative and bounces in place.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Vivienne Chinnoir » Wed May 09, 2018 8:27 pm

Vivienne quickly pieced together the information and had a theory or two as to why the otter would radiate magic, but that was biology and there was no time for the explanations.

"The Slugah, the collective of fallen fey, those who have been changed and gone mad. What did the leg look like exactly?"
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Shari » Wed May 09, 2018 8:46 pm

"Hidden. Old. Tasted like memories. Can't shake it. Have to..." The otter scrunches up it's face trying to communicate something complicated and it looks at Will and Sam as the most likely ones to get it. "...keep distance. Be different. Not human. Stay myself."
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Will Stanton » Wed May 09, 2018 8:58 pm

Will awkwardly looked at the floor, at Erica, at the darkness -- anywhere but at Shari.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed May 09, 2018 9:06 pm

"Shari, we can help you..."
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Shari » Wed May 09, 2018 9:26 pm

"Am fine. Good shape. Be better. What this?" she asks, pointing one webbed finger at Erica and the circle.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Sean Hall » Wed May 09, 2018 10:13 pm

"Magic, very messily constructed and dark," Sean said, "Intended to contain the power of the person inside it. And to cause that person a great deal of pain in the process."
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed May 09, 2018 10:18 pm

"Somehow she managed to call out to me. To summon me, before she passed out."

"A man in a suit did this to her, was all I could get. He said something about his mother."
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Vivienne Chinnoir » Wed May 09, 2018 10:19 pm

"And bad like the thing you...ate. I would take a moment to reconsider the offer of help, the...bad you feel may not pass when...it does."
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Tereza Rozanov » Fri May 11, 2018 5:23 pm

"We should probably get her back to the school for the infirmary to see to," Tereza says with a jerk of her head towards Erica.
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Re: Just Sittin' Here Restin' My Bones

Postby Shari » Fri May 11, 2018 5:40 pm

"Am fine. Gets worse? I come find." Shari stubbornly says.
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