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wilderlogs2018-03-23 10:35 pm
wildermods) wrote in wilderlogs2018-03-23 10:35 pm
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BEWARE THE WHEELERS [modplot] [event] [free-for-all]
BEWARE THE WHEELERS
The teleportation spell finally works out its very last kinks, placing them in an area of the city they've never been in before. Placing them here wasn't purposeful, the magic has just been trying its best to just gather them together and properly bind them.
But the area it puts them in is rather unfortunate. On a wall nearby, they can see words graffitied, a warning:
They're in Wheeler territory now, and that's why they suddenly hear whooping around them and cackling, maniacal laughter. The Wheelers start to roll out in force, making their situation go a little "Beyond Thunderdome" in the space of seconds. They're strange and terrible creatures, humanoid but with inhumanly long arms and legs that end in screechy wheels. Many of them wear terrifying masks over their heads that are lowered into place when their heads are down.
Because of their wheels, they can roll very fast, making it easier for them to hunt down their prey. Their wheels are bladed and made of a metal that never gets dulled or worn down, even with being rolled on, allowing them to slash at their victims as they roll by.
The Wheelers aren't working alone. Some of Oz's fairies are working with them, little unpleasant things. The fairies are very bitey, with pointy little teeth, and are able to cast magic. Mostly first-level spells: fire spells, ice spells, and disorientation spells.
The group will have to try to fight and run. The city is completely overrun with these creatures, so there's no way to defeat them all, but there's refuge beyond the city limits. The fairies are very territorial and don't like leaving their hunting grounds and while the Wheelers will follow their prey anywhere, their greatest weakness can be found beyond the city limits:
Very tall grass.
The terrain gets too hard to roll over outside the city. But the group has to get there alive first.
✦ Post in actionspam format. Plots and mod-run events in the game are meant to be in actionspam format to keep a brisk pace.
✦ Free-for-all Post. This event will be in "free-for-all" format, meaning that threadhopping is encouraged and that threading should be treated in the same conversational way as network posts.
✦ Bankable Magic. Alongside other mage types being able to figure out and use their magic for the first time, Archivist mages can start reflecting and banking magic for the first time as well. The fairies will be casting first-level fire, ice, and disorientation spells that can either be reflected at enemies or banked.
✦ NPCing. Players are free to npc Wheelers and fairies attacking within their threads. The fairies cannot talk. The Wheelers will mostly laugh and call out threats that they'll rip the characters apart.
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Spare her this irritation, at least, if she was going to die all over again.]
Oh what are they going to do? Kill me again?
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[And people called him dramatic.]
There are things worse than death. Do you want to help us escape or make a last stand?
[As forceful as he tried to sound, he couldn't be mad. That wasn't a bad way to go, really, he just didn't want to do it in prison robes.]
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Hanzo and Kubo would care, even dead. Her husband and her son would care whether these strangers lived or died or not. She doesn't, particularly, but someone may care deeply whether this stranger lives or dies or not, the way she cares that her husband is dead and her son may already be mutilated in a way worse than death.
Let him have his chance to return to them, then.]
Then I'll hold them off.
[Her bladework becomes more precise, her desperate slashing more controlled now that she has a purpose, however short a one. Let these people who aren't living an undeath worse than life get back to the lives they still have - it's a short term goal, but her heart can't bear the thought of long term ones anymore.
The swarm of pixies has lost too many casualties, and scatters as the first Wheeler draws within reach of blades and magic.]
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[Sirius's legs ached, but he forced them to move again. He hit a decent sized chunk of the wall or some other unfortunate building. He concentrates, forcing it to rise in the air and then soar toward the Wheeler's, well, wheels.]
You can't hold them all off.
[The absurdity of the situation struck him again and he muttered.]
I can't believe I'm arguing with a monkey.
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[Certainly for different reasons than he can't believe he's arguing with a monkey. What she can and can't do is not his business. She's made her choice.
She keeps on making it as the Wheeler swipes at her with a razor-sharp wheel. She dodges the blade and stabs the Wheeler up under the armpit, but the sword fails to separate the limb and she dodges a swipe from the stabbed Wheeler's companion.
She tightens her grip on the sword as she keeps fighting. I was promised power, she remembers. Well where is that power, exactly, when she's fighting for her afterlife?
The Wheelers are still coming, but she shows no signs of retreating.]
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He recalled what had been said earlier. If they strayed too far from each other, one of them teleported back to the group. Hopefully that held true now because he didn't see any other way to end this.]
Fall back before they overrun you.
[Sirius hoped that wouldn't be his last piece of advice. As much as he hated to, he started to run. For the first time in a dozen years, he had too many things to live for.]