| From: | Sandman <SANDSJO2@******.JUNIATA.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Astral Bigo... |
| Date: | Fri, 19 Feb 93 06:13:00 CET |
Call it an ego the size of Ares' influence, but I figured I'd trace it
and take it on. Dumb idea, and next time anyone is allowed to launch a
missile into my back... it would be easier.
Anyway, I figured I'd get my brothers to help me out. Got some
tactical info from one, but the biggest helps were the spells. A
quickening and two spell locks. (A ritual, a while back, got found by the
target; I'm the only reason they're still tottering around. Services
are a wonderful thing to be owed...) Anyway, one of the locks was a
temporary tracer to help me find 'Mr. Bigg'. Used a compilation of the
descriptions I got from several of you who had seen Biggo--thanks go to
the contributors. Spell wasn't anything two flashy, just gave me a
'feeling' of which direction to go. Still took me over an hour to catch
up to it. The other lock was in case I "got into more than I could handle."
(Who me? I thought. Thought again later.) It was a one shot teleport
spell, designed to drop me back in the middle of the ceremony/ritual room
used by our group. Real simple activation, too. Just touch it (a pin
on my collar) and say, "Home, James." Sometimes I wonder about those guys,
and just how much power they've pushed through their minds...
The quickening was a beautiful piece of art, though. I was lucky
she had had the idea before, and the prelims were together; she only needed
to do the details. When I go into combat, I push my speed up as far as
my magic will take me, which is pretty decent. You know those Sams who have
that _Really High Wired Reflexes_? I mean the max level. I'm up there, just
I don't crackle and spark. Anyway, she had a spell to magically speed up
mundos and mages who had no other tech jacking them up. She designed a new
spell set specifically with my aura and the way it functions/flows when I'm
running high in combat, so it'll work on me. (Only on me, though. I'll
owe _her_ for that one.) Said it's as much as she knows magic can do.
I tried it out after she quickened it on me (she really looked beat; I'm
not sure what she's going to take in return, or when. As someone said,
paybacks are a bitch.); there's a combat room in the area which we use
to test spells and such. The quickening fraggin' _doubled_ the power
arcing through me. I moved so fast... Well, you've got to experience it.
But I thought I could see the light travelling through the air...
Probably like what some of those old-time drugs (LSD, Acid were a couple) did
to ya after you took them. Found out after my playtime that it ain't all fun
and games. Take your normal pulled, sore muscle. Now make that every muscle
in your body. Now make all those muscles cramp up at the same time...
Yeah, not fun. Thank the Powers for healing spells.
I figured with this, I could take on BigCheeseyBlackDude. So, went
out trying to get to it. Won't bore you with the trail. Anyway, I finally
caught up to it, uh huh, in the near vicinity of MagnaTech. Nice guy that
I am, decided to challenge it. Somebody smack me upside the head, please?
It turned to me, swelled up, (hey, I don't mind a bit of melodrama, but...)
and said in a big nasty mean-black-astral-giant-who-gives-off-background-
count-like-no-tomorrow-and-is-twice-your-size voice, "Another of you bugs
tries to disturb me? I would have thought the last would have warned you
all into hiding holes so deep your flesh would turn pure white. <Big Sigh>
I guess I'll have to use you to teach a lesson to the others; the last class
session obviously didn't take." Glitter and Sparkle flew out of their
scabbards, my aura exploded into white fire(hey, I got a lot of magic goin
through me, remember?), and we went at it. Fifteen seconds later, I'm
beginning to wonder what the afterlife is like. After twenty, I'm beginning
to think I'll find out. My first hint was when the wave of acid blasted out
of the tracking SpellLock, most likely. Didn't feel good, though the spell
barely affected me. So, while my babies whirl in a blocking wall, I tilt my
head over so my cheek's on the pin. Just as I say the magic "Home, James",
and the magic begins to envelop me in a mystic pair of hands, (Astral really
is pretty) Mister Bigggggggggg gets through my blocks and tears a giant
claw into the lock! The magic spasmed and threw me into the astral.
From the bruises on mind and body when I woke up, I think I'm glad
I blacked out. The magic didn't get me back to the chamber where it was
supposed to, but it did get me within a block of the building. Managed to
stumble the rest of the way. I'm posting this now so you might have an idea
what you're up against. I damaged that thing somewhat, though not severely.
I'm NOT going to take it on in an even (ha) fight again, that's the chip
truth. I'm not trying to warn you away, like it wanted; I want to see that
abomination shrivel to ebony dust and be swept away in the astral wind!!!!
Luckily I got through with the quickening intact. I'll be ready to fight
real soon, right after my brothers heal my body, and I get a quick little
na... ]>>>>>
:Message terminated due to forehead falling onto keyboard:
-Scythe <22:33:19/02-18-54>
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Boy, that just expanded from the original idea... I haven't really done
this story writing stuff much before--it was fun! Sorry if the length
got a bit much, but hey, these things do happen. See you all around.
Sandman aka Jon Sands
sandsjo2@******.juniata.edu
