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> 4 Mana. 4 Speed, 2 Will, 2 Arcane.
Stretch. Activate healing lamp for 20 Mana's worth, use my Mage Stones.

"Thanks, Linna. Coming to deliver that document, agreeing to train with me, giving me a good fight, and even worrying when I got hurt. Seriously, thank you."

"Thanks, Linna. Coming to deliver that document, agreeing to train with me, giving me a good fight, and even worrying when I got hurt. Seriously, thank you."

Linna: "Worrying? Um, yeah. No problem."

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"Making good progress thankfully - I'm feeling a bit more confident about not immediately being shredded like paper. Being able to actually avoid being hit is a massive improvement for me, and it's all thanks to you two. I may even be ready to begin training with the Venari, much sooner than I thought. I just hope one day I can return the favor."

> Take the time to calm my mind and focus on my movements.

"Ah, well, maybe I'm getting a bit overly-sentimental here. Say Ettiin, maybe you don't have to hold back all the way this time, I'm sure Rudo's feeling a bit left out over there. I'm ready."

Rudo: "Eh? I don't wanna be wasting mana on any more suicide attempts, thank you very much."

Ettiin: "How hard do you want me to hit you? You're just practicing evading, right? Doesn't make sense to beat you up and slow your training."

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"Nothing at all. An enigma just swallowed itself in front of us.

Thank you for following me into this, Tabi. I can't act alone, I -
I need your expertise. Like bread and air.
Should we report back to the Spiral? Do you think we can give them a signal that we are going undercover, to do recon elsewhere? How short of a chain are we being kept on?

I have friends who are attempting to do some very interesting things in construct theory to help save innocents from a loose magic weapon. They call it Lucida. It burns most things it comes across because the Second put it in sensory deprivation. My biggest regret is trying to control it, once."

Tabi: "Lucida? The Chaos weapon? It's on the loose?"

She takes a moment to think.

Tabi: "If we can get in contact with Bayfri, we could tell him about the situation and he'd probably be able to allow us to work on stopping Lucida. It does sound like something the Spiral would be interested in helping with."

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>Get up, stretch.
"Horoma, you 'wake?"

Her eyes open as if she was awake the entire time.

Horoma: "Yeah."

She sits up and then scoots off the bed.

Horoma: "Hey. We're not too attached to Tuhota, right? No hard feelings if she got burnt to a crisp?"


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"Yes. This is a problem for all of us.

Shall we make our way back to a hideout?"


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"Alright, sappiness out of the way. Let's go see if the warden managed to get Emiel out on good behavior."
> Head back to the containment facility after healing.


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"Thinkin' she can't be trusted?"
"Did seem overly 'thusiastic t' come with us, but could just be a weirdo."


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> Remain prepared for her to move like a blur. Calm my mind and try to delay and evade as effectively as possible, to test my limits.

"Aha, alright. Perhaps I am getting a bit ahead of myself - I trust your judgements. Go for another hit, then."


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"Hmm..."
> Try and form artifacts of other shapes and sizes. Try leaving a working one on the ground and seeing what its limits are - how far can I go / how long does it last?


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"Let's just walk in, and tell me if any catches your eye."


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Roll 222



The world as the players know it:

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1. Kyeltziv
2. Kleigg, Vandolf
3. P’orihc, Ki’stha, John
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Time: Morning



Name: John Freemaneth (TorrentHKU)
Race: Human
____________________



Points distributed!

You heal yourself with the healing lamp, using 20 mana from two of your stones.

"Alright, sappiness out of the way. Let's go see if the warden managed to get Emiel out on good behavior."

The two of you walk back to the Containment Facility and enter. Walking up to the receptionist, she pulls up an envelope sealed with a wax stamp.

Receptionist: ”John Freemaneth?”

You nod, and she hands you the envelope, which has your name written on it.

Receptionist: ”The warden said that she won’t be able to meet you in person today, but she left that for you.”

Well, might as well see what’s inside. Taking a seat, you pop the seal and pull out the contents.

The first two pages are handwritten.

Addressing the representatives of Vranhal -
The situation with Matis Emiel is more complicated than I thought. While he was initially imprisoned for an accident in Teleiat, there is protocol in place that prevents him from being released even if he was to be pardoned for the accident.

The protocol in question is itself confidential in its exact nature, but I have pieced together enough bits and pieces. It entails a precise memory wipe and indefinite imprisonment of a subject that was involved in a secret, state-sanctioned experiment if the subject is suspected of leaking information or defect without permission. From what I can tell, this protocol was not initiated in response to the Teleiat incident.

There’s not a whole lot I can do to free Emiel, presenting your case to the state jurisdiction and even the council yielded no results. I’ll see if I can’t poke around a bit, see what’s going on.


Turning the handwritten pages over, you find a dark brown folder with a label on the front.

PROJECT HEARTSTONE
CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY CLEARANCE 5

PARTIAL DECLASSIFICATION FOR REVIEW
SECURITY CLEARANCE 3

Opening it up, you’re greeted with - black lines. Where you assume text would be, all you see are black rectangles, leaving only basic words like “and,” “the,” “to,” and so on remaining. Flipping through the pages, they’re all like that - no dates, no names, no places. Until as you’re flipping you see something red, and quickly turn back - Luttiim, circled in red ink. There are more circles on other pages - “north,” “field,” “trees,” “walls,” and others.

The last page in the folder is another handwritten sheet.

Emiel involved in Project Heartstone
Facility north of Luttiim

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Conditions:
Health: 27/57
Stamina: 5/5
Mana: 15/15
AP: 2/3
Melee AP: 2/2
Evasion AP: 2/2
Fortification AP: 1/1

Evasion Behavior: Auto Impulse Evasion when there is Evasion AP | Use Impulse Evasion to recover before actions if stumbled and have any Evasion AP or at least 2 regular AP

Trauma: 30
Evasion -15 => -8





Name: Kleigg (TheKebbit)
Race: Human
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"Yes. This is a problem for all of us.

Shall we make our way back to a hideout?"


Tabi: ”Yeah, let’s go.”

Exiting the former shoe store, you find a few people up and about in the area, now that it’s morning. Moving around the city is easier in your uniforms amongst the other students, blending in and avoiding the gaze of the larger number of sentries.

The two of you soon make it to a run-down building on the other edge of the city amongst other dilapidated structures. Tabi knocks on the door and delivers the password, and a number of locks are undone before opening. The two of you are greeted by Bayfri and step inside.

It looks almost like a shack, except made of stone. Just a single room, but at least there’s an upper level that you reach via rickety stairs that are just planks jutting out of the wall.

Bayfri: ”Good to see you two made it. Most of the targets were destroyed, and the Hastae are on the defensive - the number of attacks on our bases, as well as those on criminal syndicates, have dropped off severely.”

Tabi: ”Good thing you told me your preference of backup shelters. Not something the other group leaders do, bet they’re all scattered about.”

Bayfri: ”Aye. Safely scattered about, hopefully.”

Tabi: ”Anyways, Kleigg wanted to ask you about something.”

She waits for you to deliver your request.
____________________

Conditions:
Health: 50/50
Stamina: 8/8
Mana: 8/8
AP: 3/3

Evasion Behavior: Manual

Captured Spells (0/2)

Null Body (-0.2 Non-Negation Magic, +0.2 Magic Resistance)





Name: P’orihc (Asklar)
Race: Chirop
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"Let's just walk in, and tell me if any catches your eye."

The two of you head inside.

It’s an array of shelves and aisles, all stocked with figurines of an untold number of shapes and sizes and materials.

Only three chirop are in right now, but at least they’re all female. The staff worker, and two customers.

The staff member is uniformed and, while not fit like Miia or the Containment Facility guards, she’s definitely not chubby.

The other two, the customers, look a little, uh, not capable of flight, to put it politely.

Enjii: ”The worker is kinda cute, see her a lot. Don’t know what she’s like though, never really chatted.”
____________________

Conditions:
Health: 40/40
Stamina: 4/4
Mana: 12/12
AP: 2/2
Telepathic AP: 1/1
Evasion AP: 1/1

Evasion Behavior: Manual

Analyze (John): 1
Aim +1
Evasion +1




Name: Ki’stha (Roast Veg)
Race: Chirop
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"Hmm..."

You try to form electrical artifacts of other shapes and sizes - a halo and a flat plane are doable, but they don’t really have a functional difference to the ball. As for how far away they can be, it seems that you can project an artifact out over a long distance and pull it back quickly, but trying to maintain it at a distance for anything more than a second is too straining.

Placing an artifact on the ground doesn’t have any effect until you release control over it, which results in a miniature lightning bolt from the artifact to the ground, and the artifact vanishing.

Artifacts near you can remain indefinitely, it seems.
____________________

Conditions:
Health: 40/40
Stamina: 6/6
Mana: 10/10
AP: 2/2

Capacitance: 1/3
-Ball Lightning (10 Electrocution)

Evasion Behavior: Evade when possible





Name: Kyeltziv (Amazigh)
Race: Lupus
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"Thinkin' she can't be trusted?
Did seem overly 'thusiastic t' come with us, but could just be a weirdo."


Horoma: ”I don’t like her, just gives off the wrong feeling. Call it a hunch.”

A few knocks on the door.

Miimas: ”They’re cooking us up a free breakfast downstairs, better come down before T’ota eats it all.”

Footsteps walking away.

There’s a creaking sound as Horoma stretches her ball joints, sounding like a door hinge in need of oil.

Horoma: ”We’ll need the firepower for getting around the forest, but once we’re out I’d rather not have her tagging along anymore. Your call, though.”

The doll opens the door and leaves the room.
____________________

Conditions:
Health: 88/88
Stamina: 12/12
Mana: 16/16
AP: 3/3
Melee AP: 2/2
Evasion AP: 2/2

Evasion Behavior: Auto Evade when there is Evasion AP

Spirit’s Eye (Accuracy cannot fall below 50%)



Name: Vandolf (CrazyMLC)
Race: Lupus
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"Aha, alright. Perhaps I am getting a bit ahead of myself - I trust your judgements. Go for another hit, then."


___Fighter List___
Vandolf
Ettiin

___Speed Roll___
Vandolf: 1 Speed + 4 Roll = 5
Ettiin: 7 Speed + 6 Roll = 13

___Action Priority___
Ettiin: 13
Vandolf: 5

___Events___
Ettiin attacks Vandolf
Vandolf attempts to evade with Delay and Evade
Ettiin: 15 Aim + 4 Roll = 19 vs 22 = 4 Roll + 14 Aim + 4 Evasion :Vandolf
Attack misses


You manage to evade again, but you weren’t sure how to make it more effective. What exactly would you improve on?
____________________

Conditions:
Health: 80/80
Stamina: 17/17
Mana: 2/2
AP: 1/2
Melee AP: 2/2

Evasion Behavior: Default evasion - Delay and Evade, block if out of evasion AP




____________________________________________________________
_____ Followers

Name: Miimas
Race: Chirop
____________________


____________________

Conditions:
Health: 40/40
Stamina: 2/12
Mana: 10/10
AP: 2/2

Spirit’s Eye (Accuracy cannot fall below 50%)


Name: Grant
Race: Human Spirit
____________________


____________________

Conditions:
Health: 50/50
Stamina: -/-
Mana: 8/8
AP: 4/4

-Affixed to: Caelum Fire Token (+1 Basic AP)


Name: Horoma
Race: Human Spirit in a Doll
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____________________

Conditions:
Health: 30/30
Stamina: 4/4
Mana: 66/110
AP: 3/3



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> Grab a stick, begin applying artifacts to it and waving it like a sword in the air, then hitting something with it


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"This...
Tch.
♥♥♥♥."
> Head back out, out of earshot of the guards.
"Change of plans, Linna. This Emiel rabbit hole goes deep. They've got him wrapped up in some big state project, and whatever it is warrants this-"
> Wave one of the blacked out sheets for effect.
"So they're gonna hold on to him and this project tight. And getting answers ourselves, well... going there ourselves and snooping around would probably fall under espionage. Possibly sabotage, even. Legality aside, it's probably locked up even tighter than the containment facility here.
Ugh, heaven and earth I despise politics.
...
Alright. Linna, we need to return to Vranhal to report back, possibly get reinforcements. Should talk to Emiel first though. I doubt he can tell us much if anything about this, but it's worth a shot. Got a few questions about Constructs I'd like to ask too before we leave.
P’orihc and Ki'stha we'll have go scope it out. P’orihc's a telepath and they're both chirop, he's got the best chance of being unseen and they've the best excuse if caught.
Thoughts?"


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"Looks like I can't get much better at this right now. Any ideas for what else to work on? What do you think's important in a battle?"


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>Before we get in earshot of the others.
"Best t' keep an eye on her, see if she does anythin' unusual, make decision when it comes t' it."

>Transfer 8 mana into the totem.
>Head down and get some eats.


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Roast Veg wrote:
> Grab a stick, begin applying artifacts to it and waving it like a sword in the air, then hitting something with it

Grabbing a stick, you apply an artifact to it, the balled lightning becoming an electrical crackling over the surface. Smacking the stick into a rock results in the electricity releasing in a powerful flash, leaving a smoldering mark on the rock but the stick untouched.

TorrentHKU wrote:
"This...
Tch.
♥♥♥♥."
> Head back out, out of earshot of the guards.
"Change of plans, Linna. This Emiel rabbit hole goes deep. They've got him wrapped up in some big state project, and whatever it is warrants this-"
> Wave one of the blacked out sheets for effect.
"So they're gonna hold on to him and this project tight. And getting answers ourselves, well... going there ourselves and snooping around would probably fall under espionage. Possibly sabotage, even. Legality aside, it's probably locked up even tighter than the containment facility here.
Ugh, heaven and earth I despise politics.
...
Alright. Linna, we need to return to Vranhal to report back, possibly get reinforcements. Should talk to Emiel first though. I doubt he can tell us much if anything about this, but it's worth a shot. Got a few questions about Constructs I'd like to ask too before we leave.
P’orihc and Ki'stha we'll have go scope it out. P’orihc's a telepath and they're both chirop, he's got the best chance of being unseen and they've the best excuse if caught.
Thoughts?"

Linna: "Sounds like a mess. Talking to Emiel would help since he's involved, right? I can't imagine why he'd hold anything back if it means helping him get his freedom, unless if he's afraid of a death threat."

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"Looks like I can't get much better at this right now. Any ideas for what else to work on? What do you think's important in a battle?"

Ettiin: "Since you're a dual wield guy, should work on dodging or parrying and attacking at the same time. One weapon blocks, the other attacks."

Amazigh wrote:
>Before we get in earshot of the others.
"Best t' keep an eye on her, see if she does anythin' unusual, make decision when it comes t' it."

>Transfer 8 mana into the totem.
>Head down and get some eats.

You see Horoma give a slight nod of her head, and the two of you head downstairs.

The room that has both the exit/entrance and the stairs also serves as a dining room, it looks like, with a large table where Miimas, Tuhota, and the innkeepers are eating.

You and Horoma take a seat, and you start piling it up on your plate. Fried eggs, drake steak, mango slices, apples, and a clay cup of mineral water.

Miimas mostly has fruits on her plate, with a single sunny-side up egg that she takes small nibbles out of. Horoma doesn't seem to have much of an appetite, while Tuhota devours slabs of drake meat and plenty of eggs.

There are three innkeepers - an aged lupus male and female, and a younger female which you assume to be their daughter. While they appear to be eating normally, you can notice the subtle gazes towards Tuhota's ravenous eating and Horoma's clasped hands resting on the table, her ball-jointed wrists visible.


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"That... makes a lot of sense. Guess I haven't gotten used to thinking of them as two separate weapons yet. Alright, whenever you're ready."

> Try to attack in the same motion as my delay and evade, using one weapon for each task.
(don't follow through all the way on the blow)


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"Well, freedom would be nice, but with what we know now, Emiel would have to go through a hell of a lot of hassle to get released, and he doesn't seem too upset about the treatment he's receiving.
But more than that, I don't buy it for a second that we actually have true privacy in that room, talking to Emiel. Especially if he's on the level of knowing state secrets. I know I wouldn't allow it if I were in charge. And the punishment for letting that info out is a memory wipe and indefinite confinement."


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