The candlelight pathway of the autumnal equinox gives Camelot an unearthly beauty. The city is quiet and peaceful as lovers enjoy a stroll down the illuminated streets...until the inevitable disruption.
"HEY! COME BACK HERE THIS INSTANT YOU FEATHERBRAIN!"
The lovers' peace and quiet is broken as a goose runs by, wings flapping in a tizzy, a red gem set into a metal talisman clutched tightly in its beak. It rounds a corner just in time to be barely missed by a series of razor-sharp flower petals embedding themselves into the stonework of a nearby house. Following quickly behind is Lina Inverse, missing one of the Demon's Blood Amulets she bought off a reticent Trickster Priest a few years back and pissed off about it.
Tossing the now petal-less flower she'd been carrying aside, Lina reaches into the satchel she wears for something else; best investment she ever made now that she needs material components on hand to cast most of her spells. She withdraws a small gourd, closes her hand around it to charge it with magic and then lobs it as hard as she can towards the fleeing goose. The glowing gourd glows brightly as it arcs through the night air, towards the pavement...just as the goose passes underneath it before it his the ground and emits a small explosion. Enough to leave a small smoking crater in the road where the gourd bomb had landed, but alas, not big enough to catch the goose in its radius.
"Oh, come ON! I need that amulet back!" Lina whines in frustration, continuing to run. "AS SOON AS I CATCH UP TO YOU I AM TAKING MY AMULET BACK, THEN YOU ARE REALLY GOING TO BE COOKED, GOOSE!"
She means that literally. She is going to cook and eat the goose. Her final revenge. In the meantime, she's going to keep destroying small sections of Camelot until the goose is caught so maybe someone should help her before the damage gets...out of hand.
Triage-Stone Giant
That is...a very big giant. Of course Lina knew that, given they could see it all the way from Camelot but up close it is...wow. Yeah. It's very big. Probably bigger than anything else Lina has ever faced.
And that just makes her want to be part of the group that takes it down all the more. A guy made of that much stone must be hiding all manner of rare minerals and valuable gems inside. Time to crack them open and find out.
"YO, ROCKY!" She yells confidently, reaching into her satchel. "YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR PROBLEM IS? TOO MUCH IRON, NOT ENOUGH GREEN IN YOUR DIET! LEMME HELP YOU WITH THAT!"
She takes out another gourd bomb and tosses it as hard as she can at the Stone Giant's passing feet. It doesn't even clear the ankle, and the dent the explosion makes is...overall minimal.
"Damn it. We're gonna get nowhere fast as this rate. Hey, you!" She pulls the nearest other outworlder over by the arm, and shoves another glowing gourd into your hand.
"I got an idea. Take this and hurl it at Rocky as hard as you can." It has joints, right? Knees. Lina can't toss the bomb that high, but if someone else threw it for her, she could use Kinetic Magic to zoom it the rest of the distance. "Aim for its knee will ya? We gotta get this thing closer to our level if we're gonna fight it."
Triage-Aftermath
Well, that royally sucked. No defeated Stone Giant, no precious minerals or gems to be looted, just...one blown up city. Oh no wait, two. Two blown up cities. Needless to say, Lina is feeling her inadequacy pretty hard right now. And she doesn't like that. She needs something to do, some win she can score both to make herself feel better and to make sure that...that some good comes of all this.
One of the other beasties was a dragon, right? And it apparently flew off too. But dragons have treasure hoards, and this one left the one it guarded all alone. It's buried under a lot of rubble, but that won't stop determined looters, and Lina is determined to have first crack at it.
Well, at least the night is young.
She makes her way to where the dragon's cave was located. It's all pretty caved in now thanks to the Stone Giant. Using her Kinetic magic, Lina begins pulling the boulders and rubble away to make a passage. It takes hours, the rest of the night and well into the next day, since Lina has to stop for breaks to recharge, but in the end she creates a small enough passage for one person to get through into the now quite abandoned and quite abundant treasure hoard.
She doesn't take any pride in this, or her usual joy at finding such untapped riches. Instead she merely staggers forward, half sits down, half collapses at the edge of the pile, and starts sorting.
"Donate...donate...donate...donate...keep...donate...donate...donate...donate...keep...donate...donate..." The "donate" pile grows larger, much, much more quickly than the "keep" pile.
If you come investigating later, and find the tunnel Lina carved out, she looks up over her shoulder. "Yeah, figured someone else would be by before too long. This is my area, but go ahead and take another spot if you want. Not like there's not enough to go around.
There are two piles of treasure next to her. One is relatively small, tiny jewelry items, precious gems that can be easily stored. The other is larger and Lina hasn't quite...worked out how she's getting this all back to Camelot yet, but she will. She's Lina Inverse!
"Donate...donate...donate...donate...keep...donate...donate...donate..." There's gonna be a lot less treasure by the time she has a chance to get back here. She needs to get as much as she can now.
Lina Inverse | The Slayers | Green, Kinetic
The candlelight pathway of the autumnal equinox gives Camelot an unearthly beauty. The city is quiet and peaceful as lovers enjoy a stroll down the illuminated streets...until the inevitable disruption.
"HEY! COME BACK HERE THIS INSTANT YOU FEATHERBRAIN!"
The lovers' peace and quiet is broken as a goose runs by, wings flapping in a tizzy, a red gem set into a metal talisman clutched tightly in its beak. It rounds a corner just in time to be barely missed by a series of razor-sharp flower petals embedding themselves into the stonework of a nearby house. Following quickly behind is Lina Inverse, missing one of the Demon's Blood Amulets she bought off a reticent Trickster Priest a few years back and pissed off about it.
Tossing the now petal-less flower she'd been carrying aside, Lina reaches into the satchel she wears for something else; best investment she ever made now that she needs material components on hand to cast most of her spells. She withdraws a small gourd, closes her hand around it to charge it with magic and then lobs it as hard as she can towards the fleeing goose. The glowing gourd glows brightly as it arcs through the night air, towards the pavement...just as the goose passes underneath it before it his the ground and emits a small explosion. Enough to leave a small smoking crater in the road where the gourd bomb had landed, but alas, not big enough to catch the goose in its radius.
"Oh, come ON! I need that amulet back!" Lina whines in frustration, continuing to run. "AS SOON AS I CATCH UP TO YOU I AM TAKING MY AMULET BACK, THEN YOU ARE REALLY GOING TO BE COOKED, GOOSE!"
She means that literally. She is going to cook and eat the goose. Her final revenge. In the meantime, she's going to keep destroying small sections of Camelot until the goose is caught so maybe someone should help her before the damage gets...out of hand.
Triage-Stone Giant
That is...a very big giant. Of course Lina knew that, given they could see it all the way from Camelot but up close it is...wow. Yeah. It's very big. Probably bigger than anything else Lina has ever faced.
And that just makes her want to be part of the group that takes it down all the more. A guy made of that much stone must be hiding all manner of rare minerals and valuable gems inside. Time to crack them open and find out.
"YO, ROCKY!" She yells confidently, reaching into her satchel. "YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR PROBLEM IS? TOO MUCH IRON, NOT ENOUGH GREEN IN YOUR DIET! LEMME HELP YOU WITH THAT!"
She takes out another gourd bomb and tosses it as hard as she can at the Stone Giant's passing feet. It doesn't even clear the ankle, and the dent the explosion makes is...overall minimal.
"Damn it. We're gonna get nowhere fast as this rate. Hey, you!" She pulls the nearest other outworlder over by the arm, and shoves another glowing gourd into your hand.
"I got an idea. Take this and hurl it at Rocky as hard as you can." It has joints, right? Knees. Lina can't toss the bomb that high, but if someone else threw it for her, she could use Kinetic Magic to zoom it the rest of the distance. "Aim for its knee will ya? We gotta get this thing closer to our level if we're gonna fight it."
Triage-Aftermath
Well, that royally sucked. No defeated Stone Giant, no precious minerals or gems to be looted, just...one blown up city. Oh no wait, two. Two blown up cities. Needless to say, Lina is feeling her inadequacy pretty hard right now. And she doesn't like that. She needs something to do, some win she can score both to make herself feel better and to make sure that...that some good comes of all this.
One of the other beasties was a dragon, right? And it apparently flew off too. But dragons have treasure hoards, and this one left the one it guarded all alone. It's buried under a lot of rubble, but that won't stop determined looters, and Lina is determined to have first crack at it.
Well, at least the night is young.
She makes her way to where the dragon's cave was located. It's all pretty caved in now thanks to the Stone Giant. Using her Kinetic magic, Lina begins pulling the boulders and rubble away to make a passage. It takes hours, the rest of the night and well into the next day, since Lina has to stop for breaks to recharge, but in the end she creates a small enough passage for one person to get through into the now quite abandoned and quite abundant treasure hoard.
She doesn't take any pride in this, or her usual joy at finding such untapped riches. Instead she merely staggers forward, half sits down, half collapses at the edge of the pile, and starts sorting.
"Donate...donate...donate...donate...keep...donate...donate...donate...donate...keep...donate...donate..." The "donate" pile grows larger, much, much more quickly than the "keep" pile.
If you come investigating later, and find the tunnel Lina carved out, she looks up over her shoulder. "Yeah, figured someone else would be by before too long. This is my area, but go ahead and take another spot if you want. Not like there's not enough to go around.
There are two piles of treasure next to her. One is relatively small, tiny jewelry items, precious gems that can be easily stored. The other is larger and Lina hasn't quite...worked out how she's getting this all back to Camelot yet, but she will. She's Lina Inverse!
"Donate...donate...donate...donate...keep...donate...donate...donate..." There's gonna be a lot less treasure by the time she has a chance to get back here. She needs to get as much as she can now.