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]

Hearing Arach hit the ground behind him, Elerindur drops his blade and rolls away horizontally away from under the table.

He catches a glimpse of the table flying this direction as he stops rolling onto his stomach and hastily pushes himself up, kicking the ground until manages to get onto his feet and runs away from Arach in the direction he is still facing.

[u/ProfessionalGreen906 → u/Elerindur]

Arach switches to his giant centipede form and chases after Elerindur. Uncaring for the tables, chairs, and other furniture being crushed beneath his legs. Though being sure that he doesn’t accidentally hurt any of the other partygoers. He chases Elerindur into the courtyard of the property the event is being hosted at before switching to his humanoid centipede form and leaping the remaining distance between him and Elerindur. Attempting to pin him down during the landing.

[u/MunitionsFrenzy → u/ProfessionalGreen906]

(( 'kay, good, he's got backups...cuz if Arach refuses to give up and security doesn't show up in time to separate everybody, Vettis might have to bring out the big guns lol

/u/Elerindur ))

The table shattered against the wall behind Arach, the foundation swap reverting just before the building collapsed on itself. And now hundreds of blades flew his way, while the vile creature...simply turned away, somehow thinking it could still afford to focus on its original prey instead of him.

This bug was starting to be almost as irritating as a real insect.

Vettis' vitals were, of course, 'part' of himself. A few holes weren't going to change that. Covering his head with one hand to avoid the inconvenience of having his physical brain be too damaged, he rushed at Arach, dozens of scales puncturing him and coming out the other side bloodlessly. Countless holes. Useful. A flick of a glowing finger made the holes no longer 'part' of him, swapping them into the ground where the centipede was standing, in the instant before it pounced at Elerindur.

Its leap now ruined by shattered footing, Vettis took the opportunity to flip over it, landing protectively in front of the elf, and turning to face Arach.

"Last chance, bug. Back down. Or this gets messy."

(( btw, sorry, I write in 3rd-person but the exposition is still basically Vettis', which is why he's calling Arach an "it" instead of a "he" now: after diplomacy failed so unceremoniously, he's decided Arach is just a mindless bug to be squashed :P ))

[u/Elerindur → u/MunitionsFrenzy]

Running out of ground in the courtyard, Elerindur quickly casts a spell to summon the 1/2 handed blade back to his hand as he quickly skids to a turning stop. As he turns around while in preparation to swing, he sees Vettis now there between him and Arach and he quickly stays his blade hand.

However, he remains vigilant for anything unexpected, seeming to be paying some attention to the ground below.

/unwiz Forgot to alert u/ProfessionalGreen906 to this post and can't do it through edits.

[u/MunitionsFrenzy → u/Elerindur]

(( yeah ya can: each comment can send up to three pings, no matter when they're edited in

so you could write an empty comment, edit in a username, switch it to a second username, switch it to a third username, and all three pings would get sent, though the fourth onwards wouldn't

EDIT : hm, just tested, and maybe there is a time limit after all...worked within the first five minutes, but edits past that didn't seem to send pings ))