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Post by blackghoulmon on Dec 26, 2016 16:47:46 GMT -5
Pyoga looked sick upon learning what was in the urn, and it wobbled in her telekinetic grip. Urasina quickly stepped in and nuzzled her sister, nickering to her, and it seemed to calm her down a little. When Doe mentioned multiple vials, Urasina's brow furrowed. "This is making no sense," she said. "Rakt said that this tomb used to be just one room with the two urns in it, along with a bunch of other treasure. It turned into THIS mess when he stole the one urn. If only two urns were sealing away either this lich, or something else, then why are there suddenly multiple vials of blood scattered around? Where did they come from? What the heck is going on down here?" She shook her head. "I am NOT a thinking mare, and I'm no good at puzzles. This is really making my head spin."
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Post by Flutter (Frosty) on Dec 28, 2016 0:36:28 GMT -5
Doe tilted her head, thinking. "I think it's like Simi's sword- it was both here and not here before. The wraiths would have hidden it to protect their master. Maybe it was actually here the whole time and Rakt is just an idiot." Liin gasped, chiding her friend.
"He might be clueless, but that's not very nice! He couldn't even sense the magic in the amulets, Doe, what makes you think he could see past a bit of mirage magic?" The faerie mare sighed. "I got the feeling back there that he's pretty much exactly what he says he is. Just a relic hunter. They have an eye for things that glitter, not the magic behind the glitter. Most people would have seen the one room. If the three of us mages had gone in here before, we probably would have seen it for what it was."
Doe grunted. "He's still an idiot for pulling the urn. It's like he never read any books about exactly why that's a terrible idea. Look, Liin, I don't know the big fancy-shmancy words for why it is here and is not, but what we're seeing here is real." Simi gasped, having thought of something. "Sounds like you hurt yourself thinking up there, Peach Pit."
"You're a terrible mare, Doe. But you remember the gravity spell thingamagig? What if the urn thingies were holding one of those platforms up there, so it really only looked like one room? And that would mean that the urn Pyoga's carrying is a key and phylactery thinger- I know in the Dream World, everything was locked with two keys. I know this isn't my home and it doesn't work the same way, but people draw inspiration from their dreams- if the people who built this place saw one of those locks, they would have tried to replicate it, don't you think? To keep whatever they were protecting safe. But this time I don't think it was the lich they were keeping safe- it was probably everyone else. It's not a bunch of puzzles for the living, since we've been able to figure this out pretty easily. But a dead thing, it'd have a lot of difficulty getting through these traps that are really easy for us to see." Doe stopped, lifting an eyebrow and her head to look at the mare she held aloft. Aerlliin had also stopped, her mouth agape.
"That might actually be the smartest thing you've ever said." Doe's big, blue eyes were glowing in awe.
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Post by blackghoulmon on Dec 28, 2016 17:36:11 GMT -5
Urasina spent some time trying to piece together everything the other mares had said. Pyoga spoke up first. "So, what you're saying is that the urns didn't seal the lich and the wraiths away, but they held the illusion together," she said. "When Rakt took the one urn, the illusion broke. All this stuff we've been seeing was here all along. This probably means that finding a second urn and putting them together is not the solution here. We have to kill the lich. Which means, finding all those vials you've been detecting, Simi." "I guess that makes sense," Urasina sighed, shaking her head again. "You and your education, sis." Pyoga giggled. "Not my fault I was born into a life much different than you were." Urasina grunted, beating her wings a few times. "OK, we might as well get on with this. No telling how long it's going to take." She used her magic to seal the mouth of a Draik-like statue standing nearby, blocking the fire it was breathing so everyone could pass safely.
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Post by Flutter (Frosty) on Dec 28, 2016 18:28:46 GMT -5
Simi twirled in the air, pleased that Pyoga understood what she was saying. "Yes! That's it exactly. And then, when Rakt took the urn, it all dissolved- dreamlike- he said it shifted pretty much instantly when he pulled it, if I'm remembering correctly." She did a little somersault as though she were swimming through the air to express her glee. "So really, bringing all the phylacteries together would probably be a really bad idea."
Liin gasped, realizing the mare was right. "He could draw his power back from the phylacteries! Or we could use his power against him. But... if we bring all the phylacteries- plus the urn- together, we also face the risk of the Lich taking it all back." She was discomfited at the thought. Doe groaned.
"Look, we'll deal with that problem when we get there. I'm not destroying anything until I can completely assess the situation. I'll wrap each phylactery in my metal. I'm the only one that has any control over it, and since my magic isn't the kind you run into on Neopia, I think it'll be safe to say the Lich will be unable to totally overpower me and get them. I haven't been overpowered, yet." Liin squinted at the big mare and gave her a sidelong glance.
"Desk lamp, Doe." "Maybe it won't be a good idea to rely on my magic entirely can we please not bring that up again?!"
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Post by blackghoulmon on Dec 29, 2016 21:25:02 GMT -5
Urasina grunted again. All this technical stuff was not her cup of tea. But Liin's comment about bringing the vials together got her thinking. "In all honesty, it could go either way," she sighed, rounding a corner and dropping a protective barrier on a spike trap so it wouldn't go off. "From what I know about the supernatural, in a case like that, you're better off destroying the vials as you find them. Either it has no effect, or it weakens the creature. Either way, it won't make it stronger. And I have killed so-called immortal beings before. You just have to know how to do it... or have the right spell for the job." She turned and shot off a solar ray that sliced through a mono-filament wire and caused a big rock to fall and shatter in front of them. "This is almost too easy..."
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Post by Flutter (Frosty) on Dec 29, 2016 22:34:53 GMT -5
Doe lifted her own companions over the rock, and flew through as a dove to avoid being crushed by the bits of rock that continued to fall. Her normal, big form was just too wide a target. She landed on Aerlliin's back, as if taking a break. "Let's just hope that's the case, then." Liin shuddered, and not from Doe's tiny bird talons digging into her skin.
"If the vials have any paper encased in them with the blood, we don't break them at all. Those are sealing scrolls, often locking away a part of the Lich or Revenant's power, and that's the really big difference between the two- a Lich will just have phylacteries. Or just one phylactery. A Revenant, however, will have parts of his power sealed away from him in scrolls, encased in his own blood to bind the power away from him." Her face drew tight, as though there were something bitter stuck on her tongue.
"Liin... what happens if it's a Revenant and a vial breaks?" Simi quivered in fear as Dreamsever pulsed, the blade nearly screaming that they were close to the first vial. Even the other two mares in her cohort could sense the blade's cry for blood.
"If it's a Revenant, it didn't seal itself down here. It was forced down here and its powers stolen from it." The normally jovial mare was suddenly very serious, and very grim. Doe cooed on her back, trying to comfort her faerie friend. "If it's a Revenant and even a single vial breaks... well. I don't know if any of you have gods or goddesses, but you better pray to all of them. Because that's about the only thing you can do while you beat the ever-unliving crap out of it." Though her words might have been humorous in any other situation, even Doe didn't chuckle at the mare's words.
"But it still sort of bleeds. So we can kill it, yes?" the unicorn-turned-bird asked.
"Anybody happen to know any fire spells?" Liin asked the group at large.
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Post by blackghoulmon on Dec 30, 2016 17:14:53 GMT -5
"Lich, Revenant, all the same to me: prey," Urasina said grimly. "And if it's Fire spells you want, I have Holy Fire spells. Can't beat that around the undead, can you?" Another few turns, another few traps, and the group found a small silver vial set into an alcove in the wall. Urasina approached it first. "I want to give this a thorough examination," she said. "Nobody else touch it yet." She leaned in close, giving it a sniff, and getting no reaction out of it. She gently poked it with her horn, and it wobbled a little, but didn't fall over, and once more it didn't react. "/Kouren, we need to know, and we need to know NOW,/" she mentally contacted her guardian Light Faerie. "/What's in here?/" The reply came quickly and simply. "/Just blood,/" the Faerie responded. "/You're dealing with an earth Lich, not a Revenant./" The Uni grinned in a rather evil way. "Just blood in there," she said coolly. "One of my more powerful contacts just told me so." With that, she grabbed it in her mouth and flung it at the wall, whereupon it shattered. From far away came a screech that was equal parts pain and rage. Urasina's grin got broader. "Yep, no paper or anything else in there," she added, gesturing to the shattered vial and the blood stain. There was simply no place a piece of paper could still be hidden. "And by breaking this, we hurt the Lich. That was definitely a scream of pain we just heard. Simi, is your sword-thingy thirsty?"
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Post by Flutter (Frosty) on Dec 30, 2016 18:43:16 GMT -5
Doe lifted an eyebrow as Urasina seemed to weigh the options. She was even a little amused as her face seemed to go through several different expressions. "Must have been a heck of an examination, since even I couldn't see through the vial," she said with little suspicion. "Whatever it was, it worked. It's good enough for me. Even if your grin was... a little terrifying." The dove-unicorn looked up. "But not as terrifying as that."
Simi gasped as Dreamsever seemed to roar with approval. "Not only did you hurt it, you made it MAD." The blade grew several writhing tentacles, as though it sought out the source of the rage that threatened its mistress. She listened as the blade whispered. "Um. So I'm probably crazy- Liin don't say it- but Dreamsever says he's got fire. Since this is a Lich, he's not truly undead. Just a really, really powerful necromancer- I've dealt with a few of them before. They seek immortality, and this is their way of achieving it."
Liin snorted. "Because draining your own blood is preferable to other things necromancers do? I know- rather, knew- a few that were vampires. They could summon legions of undead at a whisper. This Lich has nothing on them if it can just summon wraiths." Liin felt Doe hesitate, then relax. She was curious, but didn't say anything.
"But not all vampires are undead, either. Our unreasonably scary friend back home is sort of a vampire, but also kind of not. If she hasn't died being caught in one of Xena's pyroclastic fits, we have to assume that not everything that burns is undead, and not everything that's undead burns." The dove cooed a few times, which sounded rather like she was humming. "But. If it's earth based like Liin feels he is, and happens to be undead, who's to say a bit of impromptu wind magic, plus the two of you having Paladinistic abilities, PLUS whatever Dreamsever is cooking up..." Liin shot her head around to look at Doe.
"Wind magic?! You want me to call my friends? But they could get hurt-" Simi interrupted Liin, who began to pout.
"And if we need them, the Freet will happily charge into battle for you, they're soldiers. That's why they signed the contract." Simi quickly looked to the other two mares. "Our darling Liin here has a contract with the Freet, a race of tiny fae ponies with some pretty powerful Wind and Shock magic that come from my homeland. They'll come automatically if they feel she's in danger, but she can also summon them before the danger actually happens. And since her Air abilities are currently shot..." Simi grimaced. "We're going to need every advantage we can get. Even if this is just a Lich." Doe and Liin stared at the usually air-headed young mare. "Just because I don't HAVE magic doesn't mean I don't know a lot about it. I do live with a bunch of mages, after all."
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Post by blackghoulmon on Jan 2, 2017 15:14:01 GMT -5
"That's what happens when you have a connection with one of the strongest Light Faeries in Neopia," Urasina said with a much more cheerful grin. "And you don't spend most of your life fighting evil without picking up some of evil's tricks. I've scared some two-bit crooks into surrendering just by grinning like that." She listened to the exchange between the other mares, nodding as Simi explained about the Freet. "So we've got a lot of firepower on hand and on standby," she said. "And now that we know that shattering these vials hurts the Lich, our mission is a bit clearer: find and break them all, then deal with the Lich itself. But be careful. Evil never fights fair, and you shouldn't either. I know I don't."
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Post by Flutter (Frosty) on Jan 2, 2017 18:48:18 GMT -5
Liin chuckled. "We don't really fight fair, either- our bladesmare doesn't even have a conscience."
Simi nodded. "I feel like I'd be awfully boring, or at least annoyed, having another voice in my head. Well, Dreamsever doesn't count, that's more intuition than an actual voice." She looked down at Doe when the bird sighed.
"It's not an actual voice, Simi. We've discussed this before. It's just a moral compass." Doe now explained the situation to Urasina and Pyoga. "For whatever reason, Simi was born without the ability to tell good choices from bad ones, underhanded tactics from honorable ones. We don't mind her underhanded tactics, but it's taken a bit of training to get her to make good choices."
Liin added to it. "If Simi were put in charge of a Doomsday Button, she'd hit it because she likes pressing buttons and doesn't think of the consequences." She said it without mirth, as it was just the way the cotton-candy colored mare was.
Simi swirled in the air again, partly for fun, but mostly to get a bead on the next vial. Dreamsever pointed south, through a wall. "I kind of want to just smash through the walls right now."
Doe reverted back to her normal form out of sheer shock. "What the heck?! No, don't do that. That is a bad thing to do, the whole ruin will come toppling down on top of our heads!" She lifted an eyebrow towards Urasina as if to say the Peophin mare had proven every point at once. "I get to smash the next vial, though. I want to get a feel for this thing's magic before we start throwing fireballs at its face."
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Post by blackghoulmon on Jan 3, 2017 16:11:37 GMT -5
"Now that is just weird," Urasina remarked. "She's said that she's not from Neopia. Is that a common thing in her world?" She turned to Liin. "Are YOU from Neopia, Liin? Or are you also from another realm? It's a bit unsettling to me that dimensions can be crossed so easily... given what happened last time two dimensions collided..." She beat her wings a few times again to emphasize this point. Pyoga gave her a look. "Sis, you're being a little too blunt here," the Peophin scolded the Uni. "You mean I'm being direct and facing the idea head-on," the Uni retorted. "But whatever." When Doe started at Simi's desire to smash the place, Urasina rolled her eyes. "If there's one thing you NEVER do in an old ruin, it's smash a structural support object," she also scolded the pink Peophin. "I don't know how many ruins you've been in, Simi, but that's a VERY bad idea indeed." She turned back to Doe. "You can smash all the remaining vials if you want. If it helps our cause, that's good. I didn't learn anything from that one, except what my Faerie friend told me."
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Post by Flutter (Frosty) on Jan 3, 2017 17:56:43 GMT -5
Liin shrugged. "She's the only one from her world I've ever met, and I can only PRAY she's the only one like this. I only cross to the dreamland when I'm supposed to- while I'm sleeping. But yeah, I'm originally from Faerieland. I didn't even know dimensions COULD be crossed until a few years ago, when my brother forced me into a different one- and then my husband brought me back here." She did smile when the two sisters spoke to each other- while they certainly weren't related by blood, there could be no doubt that they were sisters. "Simi is just... unique."
"But this is just a wall, and the vial is literally on the other side of it!" She whined a little, and was silenced when Doe trotted ahead, jumped over something and pulled the vial from its shelf and levitated it.
"We'll do the smashy thing at home, Peachpit. This is not a place you smash things." She trotted back to the group after audibly jumping over the thing again. "That area's a dead end, just had the vial. Little scary that they were so close to each other, but I guess the spike trap pit on the other side of the wall was meant to be a deterrent." The vial rattled a little when it felt the presence of more blood. "Feels like it's enchanted to coalesce when it comes close to another bit of blood. That explains how it'd get it's power back, at least." She had a hard time seeing past the silver, but it did eventually part for her, once she figured out how to manipulate it.
"That took longer than usual, Doe," Simi commented. "Something rotten in the state of the Lost Desert?"
"No, it's just... this silver. It's like a colloidal silver, affecting what's inside and changing it. Purifying it, because that's what silver does. Craaaaap." She let it draw out for longer than she intended, and let the vial fall after casting a few spells at it, letting some of the blood congeal into what looked like a facsimile of the Lich she'd seen earlier. "It's not truly undead. Liin's totally gonna have to call on the Freet. Even as powerful as the two of you are, Liin and Urasina, your holy spells won't have much of an effect on this magic." Liin looked offended, and ignored the cry of rage coming from the center of the labyrinth. They'd deal with it soon enough.
"Bull!" She cast a major repel spell at the facsimile, and it only seemed to anger the thing (though the mare did admit it was funny to see the tiny lich so angry and casting spells of its own back at her.) "Oh, wow. What do you know. It seems to just weaken it a little, and this is just forty percent of its blood." She was interrupted in her experiments on the thing when Simi slashed Dreamsever right through it.
"At least we know one of us is useful," she said, twirling the blade on the end of her hoof. "And we know that we can kill it."
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Post by blackghoulmon on Jan 4, 2017 18:01:06 GMT -5
Pyoga had been looking worried ever since the start of this adventure, and now she looked even more worried. Urasina, however, didn't seem bothered. "I've dealt with creatures that are resistant to Light magic many times before," she said casually. "I'm no one-trick Uni; if Light magic won't be effective, extra-dimensional dragon magic will no doubt be lethal. And since this lich is, apparently, a living creature, double the effectiveness right there. Besides, these muscles aren't just for show. I can deal out physical pain quite nicely." She didn't say this in an overly boastful manner, but more as if stating the facts. "And with you being immortal, simply outlasting it in a fight could be enough," Pyoga chimed in, looking a bit better. This got an annoyed grunt out of the Uni; she still didn't like being reminded of that fact.
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Post by Flutter (Frosty) on Jan 4, 2017 19:59:05 GMT -5
Liin nodded at the immortal comment, then tilted her head in thought. "My mother-in-law says to not rely on your immortality, though, because apparently you can still get hurt, especially in a battle of attrition. Thankfully, though, we have two big, physically strong mares that can pound the ever living crap out of the Lich, should everything else fail."
"Hopefully anything we throw at it in the first ten minutes will be enough to kill it." Doe's voice became serious. "Anything after that and it could start to get the upper hand. Especially with as strong as it is." She batted a floating Simi out of the way with her tail. "Keep an eye out for traps up there instead of dorking around, would you?"
"Sorry. But remember, between the five of us we should be able to take it down pretty quickly. I mean, you took down a Behemoth in five minutes last month, and that was with your metallurgy on the fritz. Really big rock trap in twenty five feet, ladies."
"It was not on the fritz, Simi, it was an Iron Lode Behemoth and I was stuck to it until I killed it and its poles inverted," the mare said, slightly embarrassed. "Fear can also be a great motivator when dealing with things that also want to kill you," she finished.
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Post by blackghoulmon on Jan 5, 2017 14:54:33 GMT -5
Urasina grumbled something under her breath, flicked her tail, and turned to continue on. Pyoga sighed and moved over to Liin, reaching up to whisper in the larger mare's ear. "As you can see, she's really struggling with her newfound immortality," she whispered. "She's not herself, not at all. Had this happened a week ago, you would see an entirely different Urasina." Whether the Uni overheard this or not, she didn't show it. She located the rock trap and set it off from a safe distance, then blasted the fallen rocks into dust before sealing the mouth of an Eyrie statue that was shooting poison darts. Pyoga had to admit, her slightly-older sister knew what she was doing, and the Peophin was glad that the Uni was involved in this mess. Hefting both her morning-star and the urn, she set off alongside the other three mares to catch up.
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Post by Flutter (Frosty) on Jan 5, 2017 16:50:09 GMT -5
Liin shifted, not realizing that the transformation had been so recent. She imagined she'd have the same trouble adjusting, too, but at least she had comfort that most of her family would be with her until, as Ance put it, the heat death of the universe. She now had some questions that would probably just set Urasina off, no matter how tactfully she put the inquiry (immortals, to her, were a testy lot,) but at least Pyoga seemed like she would answer them. But the other Peophin moved too quickly- it looked like her questions would have to wait.
Doe, who had probably heard the petite Peophin's whisper, did not care one way or the other about whether one was immortal or not. Just not dying and the ability to get things done was enough for her, and she was impressed by the other Uni's ability to counter both traps. "Good thing you're on the side of the righteous," Doe said. "You could be a brilliant wartime tactician, and I'd hate to be on the opposite side of any war you were involved in." She gave a half-grin, and got some of the rock dust off of Simitra. "Good eye on the rock trap, but you really should have seen the Eyrie, too."
"To be totally fair, I'm concentrating on funky tiles and going mostly off of intuition here. I'm not looking at the walls or adjacent traps, isn't that what you're for?" She grinned when she knew she'd caught Doe in what the other mare liked to call a verbal trap. "Thought so. I can't focus on the floor, finding vials, and making sure you don't walk into the boiling lava pit that's going to cause us some serious issues up here pretty quick."
"Of course there's a lava pit. Pyoga, how good is your levitation?" Liin asked the little mare. "I know Doe can levitate all of us without an issue, if you need help." She watched the big mare nod, and then stop suddenly. Liin felt why. "The magical pressure is insane here!" The Earth magic she felt earlier was incredibly strong- perhaps stronger than her brother had been, even. And that had taken twisted Faerie magic, her sister-in-law's rage, and her brother's own arrogance to end. Her eyes were drawn to Doe's metal armor, which seemed to vibrate and dance under the pressure.
"Huh. That's new."
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Post by blackghoulmon on Jan 6, 2017 15:18:46 GMT -5
"I'm honestly not a tactician," Urasina called back over her shoulder. "I'd much rather be a soldier than a general; I prefer to shoot first and ask no questions. The only reason I know what I'm doing out here is from my years of experience doing bodyguard work for my friend at the Royal Museum in Sahkmet when she goes on archaeological digs." Whether she had felt the magic pressure that Liin and Doe did, she didn't show it. She kept moving, a bit ahead of the others, and it seemed that she just didn't want company at the moment. Pyoga sighed and shook her head. "This is about all I can levitate at the moment," she replied, indicating the urn and her weapon. "I certainly can't levitate myself, or anything bigger than a watermelon, really. Urasina will port me across, though." The Uni had indeed found the lava pit, and was summoning a portal. The Peophin watched as her sister worked her magic, then turned back to Liin. "You looked like you have a question."
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Post by Flutter (Frosty) on Jan 7, 2017 17:30:42 GMT -5
Doe grinned, at the shooting comment, and was unoffended when the other mare walked on ahead. She'd met all types, and some just weren't conversationalists. She figured Urasina was either one of these types or she was just having a particularly bad week. Doe didn't know if she had any experience in ruins, but something did feel familiar about being here. Not this ruin, exactly- but ruins in general all had pretty much the same feel to them. Thinking too hard about that just gave her a headache, so she shook it off and followed the smaller mare in silence, admiring the portal creation. She really did have this down to an art, the unicorn admitted.
Liin's voice was quiet, not wanting to make Urasina mad by having the mare overhear her question. "I do, actually. How... how did her immortality come about? If it just happened, it means her destiny was altered. And that's nothing to be taken lightly." She worried her bottom lip a bit. "I mean, if it were genetic, she would have known it was coming for a while. The way she's acting when someone even says the word 'immortal'... I'm assuming she didn't. And now she's looking at the future- so far off for mortals, but for immortals, a few decades is nothing but fear and loss. And, if my experience with my mother-in-law is par for the course, it's also full of bitter resentment." She grinned mirthfully, even as she was lifted by her big Uni friend.
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Post by blackghoulmon on Jan 8, 2017 15:49:28 GMT -5
Urasina had already used her portal, so Pyoga hurried after her and also used it. The portal vanished as the two younger mares waited for the other three to also get across the lava pit. Pyoga gave Urasina a look, to which the Uni grunted and turned away, but the Peophin was certain she saw a tear in the corner of her sister's eye. Her heart fell; this was affecting the Uni much more than she had anticipated. "/I blame Titance,/" she thought grimly, grimacing at the thought. "/If he hadn't convinced her to become immortal, we wouldn't be having this problem./" But it was too late to do anything about it. Pyoga's feelings on stallions in general didn't help matters either. As Urasina moved on, Pyoga waited to answer Liin's question once she made it across.
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Post by Flutter (Frosty) on Jan 8, 2017 17:51:06 GMT -5
Doe lifted her companions across the lava pit, making sure neither was affected by the heat. She noted that Simi's strange blade seemed to want to touch the lava, its tentacles writhing before she called it back into blade form- but also supposed that the blade was much like its master. Partly ephemeral, mostly incredibly stupid. She watched beneath her as shadows leapt out from the lava, returning to where they came from in an instant. This brought her eyes to a solitary, tiny island in the midst of the lava. She sent her friends ahead to inspect it on her own. "Sneaky, sneaky little Lich lord." A red vial shimmered in the light of the lava floe. Doe thought it was odd that it specifically stood out that way. The other two vials didn't do that, so she figured this must be the Lich's magical resistance to fire, congealed into one tiny bottle. Dropping it into the flame would probably not have the effect she intended. She thought deeply. If she couldn't destroy it, she could block it off, perhaps manipulate it?
Simi and Liin hit the edge of the lava, and made landfall on their own. Liin flapped her wings a few times before hitting the ground, noting she didn't feel as heavy. She gained a little bit of lift, and while she normally would have been pleased at regaining her air magic and, with it, her flight, she was disconcerted. "It's probably gearing up for battle, if I can fly again." Her eyes darted to the red vial that Doe was inspecting, and she knew the big mare couldn't hear her even if she shouted a warning to not break that one in lava. She silently prayed she had enough sense to not do something really stupid.
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