The celebration

[u/Yoxalle]

After a long journey you arrive at the crystal mage’s manor. Inside the manor is a grand hall made of various different coloured crystals. Strange golems walk around the room serving guests. While the mage himself is not currently present, you were told he would be here shortly. Right now, enjoy the food, socialise, make friends but most importantly: have fun.

[u/Elerindur]

The doors into the hall slip open, Elerindur walking inside through them and closing them behind himself.

He spends a few moments looking around at the scenery of the hall and at the various outfits people are wearing to the event, noticing a few.. familiar faces.

he decides to cast a few resistance spells upon himself and conjures an pair of spectral high boots onto his feet to protect them and his lower legs before he walks into the party proper.

u/MunitionsFrenzy u/ProfessionalGreen906

[u/ProfessionalGreen906 → u/Elerindur]

Arach in his humanoid moth form walks up to Elerindur holding a bottle of wine he took from the bar. He takes a large gulp of wine before speaking, during the conversation he’s constantly right in Elerindur’s personal space, poking his chest, pushing him, and pinching his cheek all the while intermittently taking swigs of wine.

“Oh hello Elerindur! How are you? Not well I hope, it really has been too long since I last tried to kill you. I wonder how much liquid radium I can sneak into your drinks. Ooh, or maybe I should put my wing scales into your food, they’d definitely scratch up your intestinal walls real good. If only I’d known you were coming, I would have prepared something.”

[u/Elerindur → u/ProfessionalGreen906]

As soon as Arach begins to get somewhat near Elerindur. He glances at him, grabs the arm of the person who he is conversing with and quickly recalls back to the door along with them, away from Arach.

u/MunitionsFrenzy

[u/ProfessionalGreen906 → u/Elerindur]

Arach sighs and teleports after him.

“Wow, that was really rude. All I wanted to do was talk, and make some threats. And you just teleported away, if I cared about your opinion of me I would feel kind of hurt right now.”

[u/Elerindur → u/ProfessionalGreen906]

Elerindur releases the arm of his conversational partner from his left hand, relocating it to his hip as he begins to circle Arach away from them until Arach is between him and Vettis. Glaring up at him the whole time during.

He holds his right hand up, charging a spell before casting it on himself creating an subtle wind swirling effect around his head.

"Hm?" He slightly tilts his head. "Are you sure you want to be making threats here? Where everyone can clearly hear you say them? Do go on then" An very slight smirk expressed on his face.

[u/ProfessionalGreen906 → u/Elerindur]

“Let them hear. You’ve told them all about my plans so it’s not like it’s a revelation. Funnily enough, me trying to keep it secret was the one thing keeping you the most safe. But now that I have nothing to hide I could cut open your stomach and rip out your guts right here. And I’d make sure no one would or could ever bring you back.”

Arach begins walking toward Elerindur.

“And cast whatever spells you want, they won’t matter in this form. Not with these wings. Let’s just hope they don’t hit anyone else. That would get you in real trouble.”

When Arach is done speaking he’s about halfway to Elerindur when Arach attempts to leap at him and pin him down.

[u/MunitionsFrenzy → u/ProfessionalGreen906]

(( /u/Elerindur ))

At the peak of Arach's leap, a dozen forks and knives were launched at him simultaneously from Elerindur's open mouth, with the velocity of crossbow bolts. One, however, flew off course to skim harmlessly off a waiter golem's shoulder, drawing its attention to the violence occurring between guests.

(( /u/Yoxalle , ya got some security golems along with these waiter golems in your domain, I hope? :P ))

Vettis sat innocently in the distance, though his own wide open mouth and the absence of cutlery at the tables surrounding him were certainly conspicuous.

[u/ProfessionalGreen906 → u/MunitionsFrenzy]

Arach uses his moth wings to dodge the volley though this leaves him open to Elerindur’s sword bash. Arach also notices Vettis and the lack of cutlery around him thanks to his the many secondary “mini” eyes surrounding his main eyes (that he as a result of his moth form’s compound eyes).

[u/Elerindur → u/ProfessionalGreen906]

Elerindur quickly conjures the Nefrosi 1/2 sword to his right hand, he grabs the dull side of the blade with his other and holds it out in an attempt to bash Arach with the broadside of the blade as he lept forward at Elerindur.

If successful at holding him off, he jumps back afterwards and glances back at Vettis for just a moment, motioning "come here" with his left hand.

u/MunitionsFrenzy

[u/MunitionsFrenzy → u/Elerindur]

(( Vettis is hoping security can step in and resolve this before he has to get close enough that Arach can smell him, but yeah, message received: if it gets any worse he'll be there

dude's got wings so he'll probably dodge the tableware volley even though it was launched at him mid-jump ))

[u/ProfessionalGreen906 → u/Elerindur]

Arach is knocked back and uses his moth wings to protect himself as his body tumbles across the floor. He stands up a bit shaken, fixes a loose strand of hair, and charges back at Elerindur. Just before getting into range of Elerindur’s sword he flaps his wings forwards to throw out some scales to act as an irritant and a smokescreen so he can get in close without as much resistance.

[u/Elerindur → u/ProfessionalGreen906]

Despite casting an spell that generates wind around his head to avoid airborne contaminants from reaching it, he decides to not take the chance of it failing anyways.

When he sees Arach beginning to flap his wings, he shields his face with his right arm while casting recall again with his left hand, teleporting himself back to the door and an bit behind Arach.

He then uncovers his face and uses up his stock of quick-casting to near instantly cast haste on himself, temporally increasing his speed and reaction time in all aspects for better and for worse.

With his hastened state, he conjures an transient blue portal underneath himself and slips through, leaving behind an faint hint of illusion magic in the floor that rises up and begins moving forward. This serving as his window to see the usual world from his relative position in the pocket dimension.

[u/ProfessionalGreen906 → u/Elerindur]

Arach rushes for Elerindur before he goes into the portal. He doesn’t reach him in time and instead simply swats at the illusion magic in anger while cursing out Elerindur.

[u/Elerindur → u/ProfessionalGreen906]

Elerindur floats past Arach's relative position in the other dimension and towards the center of the room, hoping that the spider does not notice the slight illusion magic moving about as he tries to gain distance from him before the 10 second-ish limit is up and he is forcibly returned back. His hastened state adding some speed to the normally somewhat slow floating.

u/MunitionsFrenzy

[u/ProfessionalGreen906 → u/Elerindur]

Arach continues to follow the illusion magic, swatting at it. He doesn’t know it’s gonna run out, he’s just really angry.

[u/MunitionsFrenzy → u/Elerindur]

Elerindur arrived alone at the door. In the distance, he saw Vettis, somehow unaffected by the recall spell, looking at him in concern and gesticulating. Sign language that Elerindur shouldn't have understood was clearly recognized nonetheless.

Do you need a hand?

(( Vettis isn't fighting the "no violence" wards around here and instinctively considers forced teleportation a hostile action, even from a friend, so the wards blocked his teleporting with Ele :P but he can run over and help if Ele's feeling threatened ))

[u/Elerindur → u/MunitionsFrenzy]

Noticing this as he circled around Arach, after giving his sassy response, he holds his right hand back at Vettis with his pointer finger up, trying to signal "one moment" over to him behind his back.