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The Last Hurrah; {Tourney Round #3 - Aeyliea vs. Linesi}
Topic Started: Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:20 pm (263 Views)
Aeyliea
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She stood uneasily in the massive chamber, shadows painting the wall in crazed angles, where there were shadows. From outside the incomplete tower, limelights - she chose to believe they were limelights as the alternative was yet again another use of magic, for which she was growing increasingly loathe. All about her, rusted supports to half-rotten scaffolding high overhead obscured the distances across the great central room, with its high vaulted ceiling equally hidden from view by rotten planks and half collapsed steel. The air had the musty smell of disuse, either that or the smell acquired after long months or years being occupied by unclean bodies. It was an interesting place to hold the final match of the tournament.

And she still didn't understand the exact mechanics of the tournament, either. Her first match she had clearly been beaten with almost casual indifference by her opponent, and nevertheless had advanced to the second tier of the event. Her second round had pitted her against another powerul magician, but this time she had deliberately kept their distance close, and had managed to technically knock her out of the fight. And lost the round despite that.

And now, for the third round, she would undoubtedly fight yet another mage. She did not know her opponent, nor could she even see her in the mass of iron pips and rotten platforms, but she could feel it in her gut. It had been the biggest mistake of her life to enter into this competition. She didn't understand the rules, and her opponents were - one and all - vastly more powerful than she was.

That did not mean that she would give up, of course. She had begun the trek into the unknown, and by the Gods she would finish it.

Resolutely, she began to make her way through the maze of forgotten towers, searching for her prey and praying not to come across fire, ice, lightning, or death in sudden fashion. It would be just her luck.
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Linesi was being led to the arena for her next tournament fight, but she wasn't quite sure why. She had been defeated in her previous fight, and her opponent declared the winner, yet she was expected to fight in yet another round. It was all confusing. Lin didn't know how tournaments were supposed to work, and she'd made no effort to figure out the rules of this tournament. All she knew was that she was supposed to engage in combat against her opponent and do her best to win.

She was brought back to the present when she was told that she was entering the arena. She was given directions to her starting location, at which point she was expected to find and attack her opponent. She found herself in a huge chamber which looked much like an incomplete tower. As she noted, the ceiling was intact in this area, meaning that access to her Storm Kindler abilities might be difficult here.

Linesi was dressed in a lightweight tunic, as she had been for the previous tournament rounds. Once again, she was wearing her wand and holding her staff that would enhance her wind related spells. Her sprite was with her, and it quickly flew away, searching for her opponent. It was able to attack on its own, but more importantly, Lin and the creature had shared sight, meaning that it would be able to reveal to her where her opponent was[1].

Linesi also walked out of the main hall and into a passage that was open to the sky, its ceiling having never been built. From here, Lin reached into the sky and created a powerful storm front[2]. As the storm front formed, it began to produce rain, and within moments, it was raining fairly heavily. Many parts of the structure were sheltered from the rain, but many of the ceilings and roofs were missing, collapsed, or leaky.

Once she finished creating the storm overhead, her fairy companion was telling her that it had found Lin's opponent. Through the fairy's eyes, her opponent looked like a warrior of some kind, though she didn't look all that strong. Regardless, this looked like the type of opponent that Lin would want to keep at a safe distance from herself.

Deeming that flight, particularly landing, would be dangerous in this environment, Lin walked through the passageways until she spotted her opponent. At her current position, she didn't have a clear line through which to send a lightning bolt, but she could send a spell into the nearby area. Lin's fairy was not attacking or drawing attention to itself, but just staying near the warrior, giving Lin a better view of her than she had with her own eyes.

Lin began casting a spell, reaching for the rain to come to her hand and begin freezing into a sphere. She raised an arm, gathering more frozen rain, and then extended the arm in the direction of her opponent. She released the icy orb, calling on the winds to propel it forward and into a wall near her opponent, where it shattered into hundreds of icy shards[3]. Lin didn't know whether her opponent had seen her earlier, but she had just made her presence very obvious.
[1] Pet: Twinkling (with Shared Sight and White Bolt spell)
[2] Ability: Tempest (Storm Kindler)
[3] Spell: Orb of Frost
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She saw the woman through the crazed web of iron and wood that filled the central chamber but did not think much of it. She quickly vanished into the old workings, behind some corner or jumble of collapsed scaffolding. The view was short, and distant as well. Aey saw what she needed to see, stifling an inward groan.

She did not need to see the clouds boiling to life over the roof she stood under, nor the charged feel to the air, to tell she faced another. She had seen nothing in the way of weapons in the woman's hand aside from the slender length of finely crafted wood. Even at this distance she knew it was not the thick length of a quarterstaff, and even lacking the distinctive weapon her gut instinct warned her of the nature of this particular beast. It warned her more acutely than with every previous opponent.

She was going to die, here. Every fiber in her body resonated the unspoken fear. And yet...she was not afraid. Everyone dies, some day. She had risked it almost every day of her life, but she would be damned if she would cower and accept fate such as it was.

The pale haired woman began a methodical search, blade still sheathed. She could convince herself that the length of wood constituted a weapon. Which meant that, once they had formally introduced themselves and started the fight she would be more than willing-

Ice slashed into the flesh in the back of her arms and legs, leaving superficial lacerations that nevertheless began to bleed immediately. Metal rang as shards struck it with force, and a nimbus of particles too small to cause harm hung in the air. Aeyliea spun around, surprise plain on her face. And anger.

The people....well, honor was something principled people had, and most of the combatants seemed to be uncultured ruffians wanting a cheap shot and an easy victory. The woman was just retracting her hand, tendrils of wispy fog drifting apart where the ice had traveled, but before her arm came completely to rest the blade master had her sword out of the sheath on her back, three and a half feet of gleaming, slightly curving blade held at the ready.

She pushed anger aside with difficulty, thinking furiously. Her in sporting quarry was a good twenty or thirty feet away - far too distant to rush at and expect to get more than ten paces without being flayed alive with electric death, among other endless possibilities. Thunder growled outside. Maybe electric death was exactly what was on the menu.

She cast around, and spied loose stones laying on the ground all around the towering hodgepodge of scaffolding. The scaffolds themselves gave her a few delicious ideas, but the rocks were what she need right now. Blood leaving thing trails down her legs and dripping slowly from her arms, she dipped down swiftly and came back up with three or four loose stones, each about half the size of her fist. Moving suddenly and violently, she hurled three of the four of them in rapid succession, not really expecting to hit anything but certainly expecting the distraction to take her opponents eyes away from her. She darted sideways I to the forest of corroded iron and steel, intent on circling around. Not to get close, but to get close enough. The last stone she held onto, gripping her blade with one hand for now.

The trollop had drawn first blood and done so within seconds of sighting her. Aeyliea intended to draw last blood, and teach the wench a lesson she wouldn't soon forget.

Still, her instinct and intuition warned her...
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The icy spell did not cause serious harm to Lin's opponent, but then again that particular spell tended not to do serious damage. Linesi could see that although no serious injury had been done, she had dealt some damage, and her opponent was bleeding. This was a good sign, as far as Lin was concerned, but the battle was far from over.

Now that Lin had literally made her presence painfully obvious to her opponent, she expected the warrior to rush directly at her. With that in mind, she began casting a new spell. She raised her staff into the air to gather energy, the beginning of the gestures she used for this spell. With the staff raised, she used her other hand to shape the energy she was gathering.

As she was casting, she saw that her opponent, rather than rushing her, was gathering stones. The first two stones came at her as she was casting the spell, but Lin had the presence of mind and sufficient arcane mastery to finish casting her spell and dodge the stones coming at her simultaneously[1]. Fortunately for her, the stones were not cast with a lot of skill, unlike the arrows her previous opponent had used.

The stone-throwing warrior was letting loose her third stone at the same time that Lin was completing her spell, lowering her staff and aiming it at her opponent. As she lowered and aimed the magical device, its tip crackled with the electrical energy that was about to be unleashed. Lin knew that she still didn't have a clear shot at the warrior, but she released the spell anyways, aiming the blast of lightning for any part of her opponent's body that she could[2].

Shortly after Lin completed her spell, she heard the discharge of a second spell. She immediately recognized this spell to be the work of her tiny fairy companion. It had unleashed a tiny sphere of holy energy toward the warrior, aiming for her back as she moved away from the fairy[3].
[1] Combat Casting, Concentration, and Knowledge: Arcana (Expert) to maintain casting while dodging rocks
[2] Spell cast: Call Lightning (enhanced by Wind Staff, Storm-Blessed, and Silent Spell)
[3] Twinkling: casts White Bolt
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She only just managed to get around a stack of corroded pipes and support beams when the lightning came. As she knew it would, somewhere deep down inside - she had faced many sorcerous foes in this whole ordeal, but it was somewhat of a relief to find one that used the trademark retort of a wizard in any land.

Steel and iron blocked the incoming thread of white-hot electricity, scattering and grounding all of it before it came within even inches of the fleeing warrior. Still, it was close enough to raise the hairs on her arms and the top of her head, and if not for the fact that her hair was tightly tied she might well have had a halo of white surrounding her head, wispy and unruly. Instead, there was the charged feel, and intense heat. Metal glowed white hot where it did not slump or sage; channeling that much raw voltage had warped and bent, if not outright melted many of the heavy gauge poles supporting aerial platforms above. Several of them lurched sideways, teetering on the edge of collapsing.

Aeyl paid it no mind. For one, she was dealing with someone far, far more powerful than she was, and for two, she had spotted another creature at the very moment it cast another spell, almost the same moment the thunder-goddess had released her thunderbolt.

Instinct and reflex took over, overriding her conscious inclination to run. She dropped to the ground and skidded a few paces before popping back to her feet again, and a little ball of gleaming white light zipped through the space she would have been had she not dropped. It struck the stone floor and sent chips flying in every direction, some of which added to the grazing of her palms and knees from the impromptu slide.

All in all, things were getting too serious too quickly. The goatkisser hadn't even bothered to say boo, before launching into a wave of attacks that would no doubt have crushed any other opponent similar to herself. All she had going for her was her mind. Which she used, now.

The veritable forest of poles and pipes, all of rusted metal, spanned a space about ten feet by twenty between her and her opponent. Some of them had been melted by lightning, but the majority remained intact. A swift, calculating look, all done while moving, always moving, located a place where the pipes looked a little weaker than the rest, and situated in a place that was advantageous to Aeyliea. And not to Lin.

She dove into the twisted pile of steel, grunting as sharp ends dug into flesh already scored by ice and stone. The place she sought was close to the outside of the maze of scaffolding supports, but it was on the side Linesi stood, for the moment. Exposed, but with every gamble there was a risk. Still able to maintain the majority of her impetus, Aeyl threw the remaining rock in her hand at the casters' body, took both hands onto the hilt, and used the blade like a bulldozer, smashing into degraded support beams. Some held, but the targeted group either bent, split, or crumbled away into piles of rust as she struck. She kept moving forward, thrice as fast before, for the entire structure above her shifted, groaned, and then began to fall.

Towards the weather witch. Aeyl did not stick around to watch - she ran full tilt towards another stand of scaffolding poles and various other construction materials, hell bent on nipping at the wenches heels and then fleeing, and doing so as often and hard as possible.

If she was hurling lightning at her, there was no chance of a frontal assault. Fortunately, there were always other options.

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Edited by Aeyliea, Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:09 am.
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Linesi's lightning bolt narrowly missed her opponent, slamming into a nearby wall instead. She'd been hoping for a hit, but she'd been aware of the likelihood of missing and had cast the spell anyways. The real disappointment was that her opponent had somehow spotted the tiny sprite at the last minute and dodged its magical attack. This annoyed Linesi. Magical attacks were not supposed to miss like that. The warrior didn't try to go after the tiny sprite though, which meant that it could continue to follow her.

The warrior's route seemed like one in which she was trying to run around and hit Lin from behind. However, Lin's opponent didn't seem to understand that Lin could see everything that her sprite could see. Lin turned and was about to cast a spell in an attempt to intercept the warrior as she came into view, but then she realized that her opponent was attacking the building. For a second Lin thought this was a bad idea. She then realized what her opponent was up to. She intended to let part of the building fall on Lin!

Realizing what was going on, Lin reached for the sky, directing her storm cloud. After taking a few seconds to choose her destination position, Lin let the ability take effect. A powerful lightning bolt came from the sky and forked into two branches. One of the branches hit Lin, and the other her destination. At the moment of impact, Lin was carried through the lightning bolt to her destination position[1]. Just as the ability took effect, Lin felt something hit her. It was a glancing hit, not hard enough to do more than cause pain for a few minutes, but because of the timing of the hit and Lin's teleport, she did not realize that she'd just been hit by a stone.

This destination location had two major advantages over her previous position. First, the building wasn't about to fall on her here, and second, after taking just a few steps, she had a clear shot at her opponent, who was running away from her at this point. Lin decided not to take the time to cast a spell, realizing that she probably had very little time before her opponent realized that she'd teleported herself out of the way of the collapsing structure.

Lin transferred her staff to her left hand and whipped out her wand, with which she took aim and fired twice in rapid succession. With any luck, the blasts of wind, each of which was about as powerful as a strong punch, would hit the fleeing warrior. The first blast was aimed at chest level, but the second one was aimed lower, just below waist level, either to make it harder to dodge, or to make sure it connected if her opponent was knocked off balance by the first one[2].
[1] Ability: Bolt-Rider (Storm Kindler)
[2] Item: Storm Lady Wand (modified/fused Kinetic Wand; in this case the ability used is just a flavor modification of the Kinetic Wand), dual blast available at Expert rank in Knowledge: Arcana
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Lightning slashed through the ceiling, vaporizing stone with its passing. Aeyliea was aware, if not directly, of the bolts striking in two place, but was not aware of its purpose. Water leaked through the arm-thick hole where the lightning had gone before, and the air smelled strongly of ozone, the clean scent of rain on dry stonework wiped away as if it had never been.

In the same instant the lightning struck, a thunder of iron and wooden boards hitting the floor behind her shook the entire chamber, sending other stands of scaffolding to swaying. A breeze laden with dust and particles of rust billowed out from where the collapsed scaffold had fallen, but aside from coughing once or twice as she breathed the thick cloud in.

She didn't see the attack coming, and in any case would never have expected it to come from behind, though she was certain the sorceress would have evaded the majority of her previous attack. The first blow connected with her back between the shoulder blades, and while the majority of it was absorbed by somewhat stiff leather, she knew she'd have a bruise there as she stumbled. The second blow hit her in her backside, knotting her butt qith pain, and she went down in a skidding heap, adding more abrasions to her hands and this time her face. She didn't stay down long, though, popping back onto her feet and spinning around.

Her attacker stood twenty or thirty paces away, the wand that had done the deed still in hand. Aeyliea snarled. You thrice damned coward. I've met thieves that had more morals and virtues than you...but I won't stoop to your beetle-scuttling level, trollop. Face a rictus of anger and the aching pain of multiple tiny wounds, she rushed forward. Fast. Far faster than most any person would or could possibly expect, leaping over fallen scaffold poles and boards adroitly.

She raised the blade in her hands, prepared to attack with the full level of her skill against the back-stabbing cur as the distance closed rapidly.

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