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| 25 Oct 2015 06:27 PM |
Original Thread: http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=176509655
Name: Aerath Bartley
Age:26
Race:Spawns
Class: Mage
Occupation: At the moment Adventurer(does odd jobs and mercenary work, usually acts as a courier)
Starting Quest: Low
Appearance (include clothing): Aerath stands at 5'6, a few inches below average with a rather pathetic physique. An unruly mass of curly black hair conceals the two stubby horns protruding from his head while just below the hair two placid brown eyes observe the world. Aerath prefers simple cloth or linen clothes that are in the hues of tan, mud brown, or grey. Though at the moment it's probable he's simply in prison garb.
Biography (optional): Aerath started out in a well to do merchant family. Learning the business of trade and money, that which makes the world go 'round. At least that's what his father taught him. Aerath had always shown a talent for the arcane and so he was tutored for some time before the war between Voranmer and Shornor tore his whole life down. As Aerlon became increasingly dangerous, fingers began to point at the family of Spawn by rival merchants. His parents were sent to the chopping block, but Aerath was mercifully spared and so he spent time running odd jobs to get by until he happened to get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, landing him in prison.
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Starting Spells: Dante's Step (30 mana) - Teleport a short distance. When cast, a cloud of black smoke is left behind where you previously were. Any enemies caught in the smoke will be temporarily blinded Dark Missile - A bolt of dark magical energy, fired out towards an enemy and dealing dark magic damage if it hits, and burning damage if it hits exposed skin.
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This is a low. You've been thrown away into a cell to rot for some time, before you'll be taken out and killed. So it goes. Treason is no laughing matter, and whether you're guilty or not doesn't matter. Your hands are bound with bindings created from the bark and leaves of a tree that disrupts magical energies. As such, you're unable to cast spells.
Your cell is made of stone walls and metal bars. There's no window, and the only light comes from the lanterns hanging from the walls out in the hallway. There's a pile of hay for you to sleep on, and a hole for you to perform toilet-related duties. Today is a bit of a strange day for this prison in particular, as it's overflowing. More people than usual have been convicted of treason and are set for death. In fact, there isn't nearly enough time in the day to kill everyone. You're going to die either today, or tomorrow.
Typically, cells in this block only have one prisoner assigned to each. But, as they've run out of cells here, you've been stuck with a prison-mate, who's currently sitting on the hay without a word. She came in just a few minutes ago, and hasn't spoken since, for a reason you notice quickly.
She's a pale-skinned Spawn, with one horn coming out the left side of her forehead. She has strange, blood-red eyes, and is dressed in the same prison rags are you are. She has long, dark hair tied into twintails. You note that she has the same bindings as you do. Strangely, there's a piece of cloth tied around her face, which appears to serve as a gag. There's some kind of lock at the back of the cloth, preventing it from ever being untied without a key. Even stranger than that is the fact that the girl looks to be around six or seven years old. She's just sitting on her pile of hay, looking up at the ceiling and walls occasionally, but not looking at you very much. |
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| 25 Oct 2015 07:17 PM |
I cast my eyes around the cell, searching for anything that might cut my bindings. Bark and leaves doesn't seem all that difficult to saw through. As I search I ponder the reason for a gag on the girl before thinking of something. The pale skin, the red eyes...
"Are you a vampire?" I blurt out as soon as it occurs to me.
"Sure"~Romuluz 2014 |
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| 26 Oct 2015 12:36 AM |
There isn't anything around your cell you could use to cut the bindings. Though, looking at the bars, they're not the finest things. They're extremely rusted and even a bit sharp in places. You think that, given enough time, you could rub your bindings against these bars and wear the bindings down to the point where they'll snap. Though, that really would require quite a bit of time. And if a guard saw you doing it, you'd probably be killed on the spot.
You hear only silence from the girl, and as you look over at her, you see what appears to be tears streaming down from her eyes. |
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| 26 Oct 2015 05:52 PM |
I pause for a moment, formulating a plan. It doesn't take long, one tends to think quickly when your head is on the line. I walk over to the girl, crouching near her and speak.
"Listen, we can get out of this but only if you help yourself, alright?" I say quietly, trying to project a sense of confidence I don't feel. As I do this I watch the guards carefully, looking for patterns in their patrol route, the armor they're wearing, whether they are attentive of whose in what cell.
Meanwhile I also try to recall some basic facts, how much mana do I have? Can Dante's step go through the bars? How much mana do I regain? Can I use a scaled down version of a spell such as dark missile to cut through a binding? (Obviously once my own bindings are off)
"Sure"~Romuluz 2014 |
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| 26 Oct 2015 09:16 PM |
The girl looks at you with a confused expression on her face. She proceeds to hold up her bound hands to you, as well as tap on the gag in her mouth.
Watching the guards, you find there aren't very many of them coming down here. The cell block is just a straight hallway, with cells on both sides of the hall. Not very much to patrol. The guards that do come down only do so to pull people out for execution or other reasons. The majority of them are wearing chainmail armor, though some are more heavily-geared in plated armor.
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You have 100/100 Mana.
Dante's Step allows you to teleport to a location provided that: you can see your destination and it's within a short distance of you. So yes, you could use it to get through the bars.
Dark Missile can be used to cut through bindings. However, you don't have the skill to manipulate the spell past its base version, and therefore can't scale it down. Using it to cut bindings would pose a risk to the bound person. |
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| 27 Oct 2015 03:02 PM |
The girl will understand soon. Keeping an eye and an ear out for guards I shuffle over to the bars, rubbing the bindings against them in an attempt to break free, motioning for the girl to do the same. In the meantime I look for prisoners in other cells that have any fight left in them that could potentially aid me in my escape.
"Sure"~Romuluz 2014 |
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| 28 Oct 2015 10:19 AM |
| All the other prisoners seem rather bored or distressed. More commonly though, it's a mixture of both. So, none would be could candidates to aid you in staging a riot. You begin to rub your bindings against the bars, stopping whenever you see a guard come down. Right now, it seems like it would take a very long time for these bindings to wear down. It almost seems futile to try. You press on, but you notice the girl doesn't walk over to do the same. She seems to be digging around in the pile of hay for some odd reason. |
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| 28 Oct 2015 05:06 PM |
I continue in my attempts to cut through my bindings, glancing at the girl every now and then to see what she's doing but keeping the focus of my attention on oncoming guards. Whatever the girl is doing may prove useful, but with no way to communicate it I have no idea if I can help, and I'll need all the time I can get to saw through these bindings before the guards come for me.
"Sure"~Romuluz 2014 |
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| 28 Oct 2015 09:00 PM |
| You continue on rubbing your bindings against the bars. Soon, you've grown too weary to continue on. Looking at the bindings, they don't seem to have worn down very much at all. As you look over at the the hay to see what the girl's doing, you realize you're the only one in the cell. That girl is missing now, you're not sure where she is or where she went. |
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| 28 Oct 2015 10:44 PM |
| Apparently there was something in the hay. Still keeping an eye out for guards I go over to investigate the hay, feeling around beneath it and so forth, the prospect o f escape rejuvenating my weary body if only for a little bit. |
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| 28 Oct 2015 11:39 PM |
| As you start to feel the hay, the little girl pokes her head out of it. She moves her bound-hands to her mouth as though she were attempting to help project her voice to shout. She points you, then to the outside of the cell block, to the stairs where guards would come down to make sure everybody is still miserable in their cell. She then sinks back into the hay, practically invisible. |
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| 28 Oct 2015 11:54 PM |
I sigh, exasperated and not quite sure what the girl is trying to communicate. However it's obvious that this is a one Spawn hiding place and she's trying to save her own hide. Resting for a moment I look around again wearily for anything I might have missed. As I do so it occurs to me what the girl might want.
"Wait, you want me to signal a guard down here?" I inquire, the skepticism obvious in my tone. What can a little girl and a rather u athletic man do to overpower a trained guard without magic? |
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| 29 Oct 2015 04:39 PM |
| There's nothing around the room you haven't already noticed. The girl sticks her head back out from the hay and nods, before sinking back into the hay. |
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| 29 Oct 2015 04:48 PM |
With no other options and time running out I might as well follow my cell-mates plan. Taking a moment to rest and mentally prepare myself for the potentially su1c1dal plan of engaging an armed guard in close quarters while bound, I shuffle over to the bars and begin hurling a steady stream of the foulest expletives I can think of down the hall at the guards.
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| 29 Oct 2015 04:59 PM |
After lashing the tongue of a sailor out, and attracting the attention of a few prisoners who are looking at you through their cell, you hear a guard come down from the stairs, dressed in chainmail and wielding a halberd. "Shut up in there, or we'll move your execution up to tod-" he stops and peers into your cell, "aren't you the one with the cellmate? Where is she?" |
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| 29 Oct 2015 05:10 PM |
I snicker and continue my verbal assault on the guard, backing away from the bars so he doesn't try to stick me with the halberd through it. The less attention he has on the girl and the more on me the better.
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| 29 Oct 2015 05:12 PM |
He ignores your insults for a moment and looks around in the cell. He calls up the stairs. "Smith! I'm going in to look for the dark-prisoner!" You hear a voice answer back from the stairs, but you can't make out what was said. "Back against the wall, prisoner," he orders. |
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| 29 Oct 2015 05:16 PM |
I comply, leaning against the wall opposite of the hay pile and waiting for the guard. My heart pounding in my chest though I manage to look bemused.
"Sure"~Romuluz 2014 |
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| 29 Oct 2015 05:18 PM |
Slowly, the guard withdraws a keyring from his waist, picking out one of the keys and unlocking the cell door. He puts the keyring back at his waist and opens the door, slowly walking inside with his halberd at the ready and looking around. With a quick and sudden movement, the girl leaps out from the hay and runs forward towards the guard, leaping onto his head and obscuring his vision.
"Mmmph!" the guard shouts as he reaches his hand up in an attempt to grab and throw the girl off of him. |
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| 29 Oct 2015 05:20 PM |
I lunge forward and slam into the guard, trying to both get between him and his halberd as well as knock him to the ground while he's off balance with the girl on his head.
"Sure"~Romuluz 2014 |
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| 29 Oct 2015 05:24 PM |
As you slam your body into the guard, he's knocked into the bars. The girl pivots dexterously around his head, with her now at the back of his head. She begins to try to choke the guard out, but seems to have severe difficulty in doing so, what with her bound hands. Rather than being able to completely cut off air-intake, she's only able to cause the guard to gag several times and be unable to completely focus on doing anything.
In doing this, she looks at you and jerks her head to the sharp halberd that's fallen to the ground. |
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| 29 Oct 2015 05:32 PM |
I rush to the Halberd, not even bothering to pick it up seeing as I don't know squat about polearms. Instead I simply thrust my bindings at the business end, trying to cut them as quickly as possible, if I happen to get a few cuts so be it. Freedom will always cost blood.
"Sure"~Romuluz 2014 |
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| 29 Oct 2015 05:34 PM |
In your haste to cut your bindings, you do indeed cut yourself a bit, mainly around your hand and wrist area. Nothing too deep, but enough to sting. 95/100 HP
Your bindings fall away, and you feel demonic energies beginning to flow through your body once more.
SPELLS NOW AVAILABLE FOR CASTING. |
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