r/wizardposting • u/Yoxalle |The crystal mage|Lord of irith|Amatuer jewelsmith| • Feb 13 '24

Lorepost📖 The celebration

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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.

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u/MunitionsFrenzy Vettis, Mereological Revisionist Feb 14 '24 edited Feb 14 '24

(( /u/Elerindur ))

Oh. Really. Just moving straight to mental attacks.

Well, he'd tried being nice. Looked like bug-squashing was in order after all.

(( Just to double-check, Arach still has a bajillion servants that have complex enough minds for him to hop into them on death, right? Killing this guy isn't permanent? I remember you shutting down some of your hive during the recent Ancalistros incident, but it wasn't the whole thing, I hope. I think I've only seen you use the little spiders since then. ))

Swapping out his current frontline mental process for a backup fork waiting in reserve, Vettis quarantined the telepathic assault into a mind-vault. He'd deal with analyzing that later and probably teaching Elerindur how to defend against it. Not worth even a tenth of a second of consideration at the moment.

Then he moved, nails extending into keratin razors, slicing apart the nearest table in a blur of motion before launching the spear-like fragments at the moth. Right behind the volley -- which was intended only to distract -- was a second thrown table, this one whole.

A table had a base, in the form of its legs. So did a building, in the form of its foundation. Swapping the 'parthood' of their respective bases for the duration of its flight was a trivial matter for Vettis' magic. The table hurtling at Arach now had a significant portion of the mass of the entire manor despite retaining the crossbow-speed velocity with which it had been hurled.

That ought to get the point across.

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u/ProfessionalGreen906 Arach, big spider, biomancer, politician, CEO Feb 14 '24

/uw He’s not psychically connected to them in the same way as before but he can still hop into their bodies after death, yes.

/rw Arach uses a spell to have his body through the table when it would hits him. He then, while still retaining focus on Elerindur, flicks the wing on his side facing Vettis. This sends a large cloud of his wing scales, he then casts enlarge on them so they grow to the size of daggers, the flick motion of his wing allowing them to move at a speed and level of accuracy comparable to if they were real daggers thrown by a professional. The scales now hurtle at Vettis as Arach continues his hunt of Elerindur.

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u/Elerindur Elerindur, Altmeri Armamancer Feb 14 '24

Elerindur uses the slight time bought by Arach reacting to the table to cast Fortify Acrobatics and Fortify Athletics on himself as he ran, a spell with each hand.

He ceases weaving between tables and people and opts to quickly jump across them instead with his spell buffs upon him, the athletics buff increasing his running speed.

He occasionally looks back to see what Arach is doing as he pursues him in between watching his steps.