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Kings & Killers: A Classic Fantasy Adventure (Chapter: 0) (COMPLETED)

And we just assume that Gwyn followed Cicero or should I write a one line post to confirm it?

Kings & Killers: A Classic Fantasy Adventure (Chapter: 0) (COMPLETED)

Fixed.

Kings & Killers: A Classic Fantasy Adventure (Chapter: 0) (COMPLETED)

OK, didn't see that part. I thought the king was still in the balcony. I'll fix what Gwyn does then.

Kings & Killers: A Classic Fantasy Adventure (Chapter: 0) (COMPLETED)

Thanks. And thanks for enjoying her attempts to do on the field alchemy.

And I understand that a rapier is nowhere close to a longsword, but Gwyn's trying to think fast here and it seems close enough to her.

Kings & Killers: A Classic Fantasy Adventure (Chapter: 0) (COMPLETED)

Gwyneira Elfreda

"Rats,Rats,Rats! went through Gwyn's mind as the chaos started. Whelp, at least she knew that the rainwater wasn't drugged, even if it meant she'd need a new waterskin soon. Right now, she and Cicero needed to get out of here alive. Cool heads were definitely not on display in thinking that Cicero could throw his sword that accurately from the arena.

The rainfall had stopped. Gwyn could see clearer now. There were guards waiting to attack her the moment she left her ice shelter and probably more would come below for Cicero or would come later as reinforcements. She was not at full energy and was separated from Cicero, which was not a great place to be. That would need to be remedied first.

She set her destination in mind, down in the arena. Then she closed her eyes, lit up her light as a flash bang, and teleported down. Rather major headache, but she could push a little farther with a few lights and illusions. Hopefully, any major heals could wait till later. She spun around and darted towards Cicero, glad to see no new major injuries. "We need to get out of here. Now!" She said as she reached him. Then she drew out her rapier and had her wand in her left hand for increased spell focus while looking for what to do next.

Kings & Killers: A Classic Fantasy Adventure (Chapter: 0) (COMPLETED)

@Spiritzer
Can Gwyneria now see where Cicero is or would be able to approximate his location?

Kings & Killers: A Classic Fantasy Adventure (Chapter: 0) (COMPLETED)

@Spiritzer Alright, I finished the post.

It's kind of funny how one never considers whether one can boil water without fire until there comes a situation when fire wouldn't be recommended and you need to boil water.

Kings & Killers: A Classic Fantasy Adventure (Chapter: 0) (COMPLETED)

Gwyneira Elfreda

There was one sure way that Gwyn knew to see what was in the rainwater. That way was to boil it. If whatever was in the water was something covered in her How to Identify and Treat Different Poisons class and that stupid required How to Identify and Avoid Drugs class (which had interesting info but was insanely anvilicious), she could figure what was in it after seperating the residue from the salt if that salt taste wasn't a natural aspect of the drug. However, in order to boil the water, she'd need something to boil it in, a way to keep a fire going once started, and a way to keep the fire and steam from melting her ice shelter.

While she didn't have any camping gear or a cooking pot with her, she did have a waterskin. She took a last sip, used some of the water to wipe the rainwater from her eyes so she could see better, then dumped the remaining water. She reached out with the waterskin to the extent that it collected water without her getting more wet until it was about half full then pulled it back in. Objective one completed. Now for the other two.

She did have a fire spell, but it would cost more energy than she had to keep it going until the water boiled. Then she had an idea. Ice was created simply by cooling water down until it became ice. Could she warm up water until it boiled without a fire? Or could she create heat without necessarily creating a fire? She held the waterskin out again so that any resulting steam wouldn't melt the ice and concentrated on heating up the water inside until it boiled through the creation of fireless heat. If she was successful, she would examine the residue to see if she could identify it for any known poison or drug. If she wasn't successful, she'd hunt around for trash scraps left in the seats to start a fire with, use a small fire spell to get it started, then see if she identify the residue once it boiled over.

Kings & Killers: A Classic Fantasy Adventure (Chapter: 0) (COMPLETED)

Whelp, glad that worked even with the spectacle it caused.

Kings & Killers: A Classic Fantasy Adventure (Chapter: 0) (COMPLETED)

Gwyneira Elfreda

This rain was way too sudden and unusually salty. It was the sort of saltiness that Gwyn connected with sea water, but the city was definitely landlocked and in the middle of meadows. If the city was closer to the ocean, Gwyn would have been on the look-out for falling fish as she'd read about happening in some areas. Instead, Gwyn kept an eye for anything new coming from the rain as well as keeping as much an eye on Cicero as possible and trying to figure out who'd caused the sudden rainstorm. Something like this would require a massive energy expenditure on the caster's part. The most likely person was Cicero's dark stranger, especially with the magical control he'd already shown. Even if it was nothing she currently knew about, it showed a great amount of magical prowess. His motives were completely unknown though. Another possibility was Joshua Frostmay seeking revenge on Cicero and the arena. Ice was definitely connected with water after all. Yet, Frostmay hadn't done anything big like this during his fight. However, something like this would have been an automatic red-flag that there was something screwy going on, so she couldn't discount the possibility that he could do something like this if he wanted to. A third possibility was the dwarf Cicero was currently fighting, Rhakkar. There were probably ways he could exploit a downpour like this against an armored opponent with a more limited range of view and wouldn't be the first fighter Cicero had come across that cheated magically. However, he was not exhausted enough though to have cast a spell of this magnitude and the runes on his axe did not show signs of use. Who else could have caused this storm.

She looked back at the dazed king. Being dazed could mean that the king himself had cast this storm and was now showing his fatigue. Why would he cause a storm though? It sounded like he wanted to be here, watching the fight. Could his dazed state actually have been induced by the rain? She frowned up at the sky. He was higher up and so theoretically, a drugged type of rain would affect him sooner than anyone down below. She would definitely need some protection from the rain in that case, but better than was available now for her from the crowd. She first tested if she could freeze the rain water. If she could, she would freeze the rain water in a canopy over herself that would guard against the rain while still allow her to exit if the rain was truly drugged and she needed to get Cicero out of here. If the water was freezable, it would take less energy from her and the ice structure could be left standing by itself when well-built, making it pretty cost-effective energy wise even if the ice had to be re-frozen after a time.

If not, she'd might just to find a place under one of the benches where she could still see the fight and keep from getting more wet but see little else. Nothing else she had memorized would be useful for making a rain-proof construct. Hard-light constructs were still harder for her to use and took up way more energy than she could afford at the moment.

After she was out of the immediate downpour, Gwyn would wrack her brains for a means to test what the water had in it and its cumulative effect on a person.