mages LFG water temple

[deviances]

Who: An incredibly unbalanced party of casters and maybe a tank?? who knows. AKA: Belthazar, Eithan, Yuan, Khadgar, and Eliza
Broadcast: Nope!
Action: In the water temple!
When: RIGHT NOW

[ Belthazar's dragged Eithan along on a temple run, and some others are joining the party! Safety in numbers, right? Well, if they don't all kill each other first. Oops.

Good game, guys. ]


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[touchallthebooks]

[Khadgar watches in silence, wishing he had something to write runes with when Yuan 'blink's' into a patch of light. And then swiftly recalling when he and Belthazar met, the criticism at still needing runes, and the fact that the Guardian had easily teleported three people from Karazhan to Stormwind.

And he'd beaten the Guardian and whatever demon had possessed him. If Mesdivh could do it...]

I can teleport, I know you can to. I believe I can imitate the Guardians technique without Atiesh.

[Or-]

Or I can try to make a shield covering the spaces between safe tiles. Even demons claws have trouble getting through one, I doubt these spikes could match that.

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[ He watches Yuan teleport effortlessly - that's pretty convenient! But that's for psychics, in his world. Eithan's no psychic. So... he's pretty much stuck.

He looks at Belth... and deadpans, ] You know, I think I left that in my other coat.

[ Sigh.

He listens to Khadgar, and. Welp. Okay, looks like Eithan's definitely a liability for this one! Doesn't feel great. So he pushes a hand through his hair, starts looking all around the room, trying to see what he can figure out from this position. ]

Yeah, since I'm clearly not teleportin'... [ He looks over to Yuan. ] Can you see anything that'll like, turn the spikes off? Or at least tell me where to step? [ Then, to Khadgar: ] Otherwise, yeah, I might have to take you up on that shieldin' thing. Or somethin'.

[cloakand_danger]

[Yuan looks around, and spots something.] There is some kind of a switch over here. Let me just... [Another shimmery effect, and he teleports somewhere out of sight of the party now - his voice is slightly muffled as he calls back to the others.] I'm pressing it now, look around.

[The effect isn't hard to notice, though: the spikes immediately shoot out of their hiding places all at once, and then slowly retract.]

...Well, that was...

[Shoonk! And after about ten seconds, they do it again.] ...The switch flips two ways. I can probably turn that back off.

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[Belth snorts at Eithan's dry as hell delivery.] Right, of course. My apologies.

[Then Yuan teleports away, only to change the puzzle drastically. Belth squeaks at the SUDDEN ONSLAUGHT OF SPIKES.] By the Light! Turn that off!

[That taken care of, he takes a moment to calm down and keep thinking.]

A shield could work. I don't trust any variation of slow-fall to help us swim across. [He bites his bottom lip, judging the distance.] A short-range portal could also do the trick.

[He glances at Khadgar.]

It may be necessary for one of us to keep the portal open on each side, but I know we could do it.

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Fuck--!

[ At least it's not a squeak?? But he does put a hand over his heart as he exhales. Geez, at least no one was standing somewhere dangerous! ] U-Uhh, yeah, off, please? 's probably best. Thanks.

[ Bless you, Yuan.

He listens to Belthazar pitch his idea, nods along, understanding - he knows about portals, they're what mages and scientists created together to connect the realms back home - so he's not at all confused, at least! Just impressed that it could be done so easily here. ]

I'm up for portal attempts if y'all are, honestly.

[touchallthebooks]

[Khadgar's impulse is to throw himself backwards, away from the spikes he's clearly in no danger from.] Please! Yes turn them off!

[Before someone slips and gets shanked.

Belthazar has good thinking though. They could fairly easily two-way portal this. They're both talented enough mages. It really makes hm wish they were from the same time, they probably could have pushed each other a lot in the Kirin Tor.]

I think we could, yeah. Let's try it, otherwise we came all this way for nothing.

[cloakand_danger]

[Yuan flips the switch back the other way while they discuss portals, and shows up back with the group in another burst of feathers.]

I don't know anything about 'portals', but if there's a way I can contribute power safely, I'll do what I can.

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[He waits until Yuan is safely nearby just in case something goes wrong. It's important to stay together.]

All right. I'm going to conjure a portal and go through it. It should keep going for a few seconds, but after that it will try to unravel. I'll be able to keep it up at the exit, but Khadgar-- I need you to support this side until Eithan is through.

After that, you can either jump through yourself or blink across, it matters not.

[He holds out his hands, then, and begins conjuring. There's a distinct shift in the way the water feels, as if someone is warping it around without actually touching it. Tendrils of magic both visible and invisible coalesce into a small ball between his hands, and then he widens it, until a little window appears. The shimmer looks like the other side of the puzzle, where of course another portal has appeared.]

Oh, and one more thing. [He looks at Eithan.] Hold your breath and try not to throw up. It never ends well.

[And in he goes!

Belth pops out on the other side without incident. The portal starts to fizzle out, but Belth immediately resumes spellcasting on his end, and it seems to stabilize for the moment. He could probably do this by himself-- probably-- but he'd deplete the rest of his mana, and he doesn't want to approach that topic with Khadgar around. Not yet.

Better to just split the work.]

[touchallthebooks]

I'm not great at blinking yet.

[So he'll probably end up hopping through the portal. As soon as Belthazar is through and starts stabilizing his side, Khadgar sets to stabilizing his, letting his own magic slip in and around the portal.

It takes a moment before he's comfortable with how the portal is settled and he nods to Eithan.]

It's ready when you are. Remember Belthazar's tip.

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[ Well, this is all incredibly interesting! And no, that's not sarcasm. For once. Eithan can feel the way the magic warps and bends, and he watches as the portal is stretched into being. Consider him duly impressed. Though when Belth gives him that little piece of advice, Eithan just... blinks. ]

... 's it really that bad?

[ It's not that bad back home... Then again, those are professionally constructed, carefully planned-out portals between the realms, not something people just, well, poofed into being like that.

He waits for Khadgar to be ready - though he does blink again at the mention of Belth's tip. ]

Uh, okay?

[ Here goes nothing! He takes a deep breath, holds it, and in he goes.

... And wow, no, that's not like the portals back home, that's pretty damn unpleasant. Wow. He pops out safely on the other side, letting out that breath he was holding along with a noise of disgust. ]

Dear Miina, holy fuckin' hell.

[ Okay. Well. World's spinning a little, but! No big deal. Yeah. ... At least he's not gonna throw up??? ]

[arcanepower]

[Eithan pops out on the other side looking a bit like his stomach has been twisted inside out and shoved into another dimension, and it kinda has. Belth gives him a smile of sympathy.]

Wormholes. You'll be okay in a minute.

[He keeps channeling mana into the portal.]

Come on, you two! I am going to outlive half of you if you take any longer!

[cloakand_danger]

[Yuan was distracted by the feel of magic doing things he's never seen done - at least not on such a small scale. Belth's call reminds him that he needs to step through, and he does so a little apprehensively.

It's not much worse than teleporting, really. But he's also grateful he doesn't need to eat often.]

I really doubt that, kid.