Silvan Haven

The War of the Three

@thewizardguy@Gardevoiran@KoL

Saef Harken
Lenuria-Less Giant Monsters and Khaine

One gauntleted hand grabbed the vine rope as it swept through empty water, its target having once again vanished. Saef's original plan had been to whip the Demon on its end around like a flail the next time the teleporting pest appeared. He wasn't sure why one of the fell creatures was attacking its fellow nor did he particularly care. It just meant that many less to hunt down himself. The sphere of freezing portals appearing around him put a hold on that unfortunately.

Now moving towards an expanding wall of ice he acted quickly. Spells formed in his mind and rippled out ahead of with a flick of his reformed scepter. The almost invisible bolts of energy slammed into the portals freezing the water ahead of them. Icy gateways flickered and wavered, not completely negated but certainly strained and unable to convey their full chill.

Pouring on an extra burst of speed he crossed the remaining few meters in a flash. Flipping around at the last second to deliver a flying kick to the frigid barrier. Only feet thick instead of yards due to the disrupted portals, the ice shattered at the kinetic forces brought to bear upon it. Saef continued his spin as his momentum carried him out past the sphere. Hauling the Demon on the vine out behind him and hurling him at Khaine.

Karzani's great ugly mug that's a ####ing huge snake! And that noise came from...the #### is that?

Back down on the ground the 1st Mechanized troops had been busy sifting through the treasures of the dead crabs. Normally stuff like this would have waited for after the battle but what with the whole reason for this battle possibly lying within the hoards of glittering and magical items they had to step up the timetable a bit. It certainly didn't hurt that the sale of such treasures would help purchase the massive amount of raw materials the 1st Mechanized was using in their construction projects.

Further in-field resource gathering was cut short by the whine of laser fire from the outer pickets. Reports came in moments later as the pickets fell back towards the platoon. Some new force had showed up and there were a lot of them. Teeth, claws, aquatic looking. Pretty much everything one would expect from a deep sea horror movie.

Well at least they knew the genre for today's battle. Yay.

Wasting no time Saef's second in command pulled the platoon out of the exposed square and into a series of easily defendable buildings at its edge. With interlocking lines of fire and an open kill field they would be able to hold out until the Captain finished his fight overhead.

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I'll see if I can work up the energy for a post.

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@CoyoteLovely@Hekazu

Fionn Harken-KRS Wandering Guardian

"A very, very long time. Long enough to make some very good maps. If you tell me the name of your world we can probably find it on one of them."

He stopped in front of a particularly large door at the end of the long hallway. A scanner was set into the wall next to it, identical to the one back up at the bridge. Fionn once again placed his hand on the scanner and the door slid quietly open. With a grin at Nakreyya the armored mage led the way inside Main Engineering.

The room within followed the same design aesthetic as the rest of the ship. Silverwhite and smooth. Elegant but not fragile. It was a bit different here however. This was the main entrance to the guts of the ship and a definite workplace. Drones floated in and out of access hatches set into the walls and ceiling. Tool lockers clustered here and there and electronic screens were plastered onto just about every piece of machinery in sight. Of which there was a lot.

The most impressive spectacle took up the entire center of the large chamber. A massive sphere of white metal and blue crystal. It soared for dozens of meters overhead and the air around it shimmered faintly. The crystals pulsed brilliantly in time to an unheard rhythm. Pipes and crystalline conduits sprouted from it and vanished into the closest flat surface whether that be part of the floor, ceiling or walls. Off to deliver life giving power to the rest of the ship.

"This is Wandering Guardian's heart. Her main reactor is placed here, next to what would normally be dozens of skilled engineers to make sure everything runs smoothly. Unfortunately with the distinct lack of crew members those duties have fallen to the drones controlled by Guardian's AI. Enough to keep her running but I would rather not go into battle like this."

The Magical Planet - Ecetopia - Open

Figured people might want to know. Once I get off my but and actually get through this series of posts the party is going to move here. Since we have people showing up that weren't here when this all started I don't want to accidentally leave anyone behind.

Anyone up for dinosaur planet?

Dinosaurs are fine.

The Magical Planet - Ecetopia - Open

Well he did start Fantasy WWI. If that gives you an idea.

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That’s great to hear. Our current party is a bit under strength to take on an Elder Lich.

The War of the Three

@thewizardguy@Gardevoiran

Saef Harken
Lenuria-Giant Crabs and Khaine

It wasn't a half bad combo, if not one that was particularly effective against a warrior who had any idea how to fight teleporters. Especially when said opponent lacked the traditional blind spots. Saef's onboard computer chirped at him at each teleportation. First in front, then behind and finally, above and holding a weapon that radiated immense power.

Thankfully Saef had never actually stopped moving since leaving the trap. After the first teleportation he had simply upped his speed. Khaine's second teleportation had probably resulted in a face full of highly energetic quantum particles. So on the third teleportation the Demon was not in fact firing at a stationary target confused and unaware of his location.

Saef was in fact several feet away from the intended line of fire when the mighty godfall cannon was fired. It was a weakness of rapid teleportation like that. They only gave you a slideshow view of the world, making it difficult to adjust for unplanned variables. In this case it meant that the Captain got jostled by the turbulence of the shot but not much more.

Such a prime target could not go unexploited either. As Khaine was pulling the trigger he was met with a beam of holy light from the glowing shell around the Thaumaturge. The man had superhuman reflexes and the added time needed to fire the weapon provided an opportunity. The beam was purely nonphysical in nature. Water would have no effect on the lance of holy power as it crossed the less than ten feet between the two combatants.

Of course it was a snap shot fired using sensor data but Khaine was huge and the two were close. It might not hit anything vital but it should at least impact.

And of course the spikes were making their way towards the Demon once again.

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@hagroden

Well darn, sorry to hear that. Do you mind if we NPC Nicodemus for the rest of this mission at least?

The War of the Three

@thewizardguy@KoL

Saef Harken
Lenuria-Giant Crabs and Khaine

Ordinarily procedure would be to deal with every threat in an area before searching corpses. The battlefield has a way of messing with procedure however. Two squads moved in to search the downed crabs for the staff while the rest stayed on overwatch, keeping an eye on their surroundings. There were no significant forces nearby. Although a singular Demon was showing up on sensors, apparently watching. It was making no move to attack so they let Bonesword be. This was not a search and destroy mission after all.

In the waters above Saef was having only a mildly more difficult time. A flick of his wrist turned his scepter into a blade. The golden blade that sprang forth was ten feet long and easily sliced through the Demonic chains on one side of the trap. As he shot through the gap the Thaumaturge's attention was drawn to the portals from which the chains had sprung. His mind tracing out the patterns of magic holding them open.

Hmmmm. Not massively different from the portal back home. And these aren't being powered by an apocalyptic storm and human sacrifice. If I do this...

A countetspell shot from his shell of light and slammed into the nearest portal. It flickered and wavered for several seconds before resolidifying. A grin crept over his face beneath the helmet. That hadn't worked, but it had been close. A little longer and he would be able to dispel them with ease.

The spikes of light continued doing what they had formed to do. Homing in on Khaine once more. The swarm of significantly more than a dozen projectiles flew with essentially no water resistance. With very sharp tips and almost frictionless sides there wasn't a whole lot the water could do to slow them down.

OOC: The shields don't work on any strange, "Less is More" principles. If you take one strong hit and split into two strikes that each have half the power of the original strike it will still take the same amount of power from the shield to block them. What I said earlier is that there is a minimum amount of power needed to activate and block an attack. That means that you could do what Apia's bees did and put less energy into the attack than it takes to activate and block it.

Of course this is a comparatively long term form of attack. It might save you energy but it won't save you time.