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lostcarnival2017-10-10 01:07 pm
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2017-10-10 01:07 pm
⇨ THE HUNT
Who: Everyone!
When: Day 173, the Afternoon
Where: Heartstone Manor Courtyard
What: Everyone goes into the forest with arrows, swords, and horses and is told to hunt and the kill the biggest beast they can find. Best kills win a prize! Or, if you'd rather not, you can wander around the forest and pretend to hunt instead.
Warnings: Violence and ethical quandaries.
When: Day 173, the Afternoon
Where: Heartstone Manor Courtyard
What: Everyone goes into the forest with arrows, swords, and horses and is told to hunt and the kill the biggest beast they can find. Best kills win a prize! Or, if you'd rather not, you can wander around the forest and pretend to hunt instead.
Warnings: Violence and ethical quandaries.
BEASTS OF BURDEN↴ Come the day of the Hunt, everyone will be brought to the courtyard forest and provided with arrows, bows, and blades as requested. Magic and other weaponry can be used to hunt, but it is suggested by the Prince that the best kill is the one done in a gentlemanly manner, which probably means he will be most impressed by those using the tools provided. The "Best Kill" will be determined from a mixture or whatever beast the Prince decides is best, and the method in which it was killed. The less damage done to the body the better - tearing the body apart will receive poor grades. The corpses are not yours to eat or keep, and all must be returned to the Prince at the end of the day for judgment. The servants are especially nervous, tense, and solemn today, and unless they have no choice, most of them will be trying to give the courtyard a wide berth. Those that have to serve will have stony expressions, or at best will be trying to put on a cheerful face. If casually asked why they are upset, most of them will say something vague about the Hunt making them nervous, and how dangerous it is to participate. OOC: Those who make top levels will have a chance to be randomly selected for a couple particular plot events, so be prepared for that. |
⇨ LARGE PREY
THE DRAGON
The dragon released into the forest is an impressive beast, and one of the hardest to approach. It is disinclined to pursue anyone in the forest, and will instead keep to areas that it can defend or create makeshift fortifications with. It's scales are rock hard, and it breathes some kind of poisonous gas clouds that burn the skin and respiratory tract. It's bad enough that it could cause weaker guests to suffocate. However, it is disinclined to use this unless you get close.
► TRAITS: Intelligent, territorial, fortifying, reclusive, defensive.
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So Lauren and Susan are going after this dragon together! This is the only prey they are going after, and from living in the forest, both boys definitely have hunting experience (what else are they going to be eating living out there? listed in their apps as survival skills). We also will be using AC points for the total of +5 (8 points from Susan, and 7 from Lauren, unless it has to be split by 3s, in which case 9 from Susan and 6 from Lauren).
Susan will be using his magic to attack, rather than a weapon, although if there were any crossbows included in the bows then he may use one of those a bit.
Lauren will be using wind magic to fend off the gas if its blown on them, and otherwise will be using a combination of magic, his staff, and a borrowed sword to fight. OH RIGHT edited to add Lauren has various spells that can cure/prevent against poison because lol druid. So there's another help.
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She's not using any sort of weaponry offered other than her gem powers including flight for trying to track it down, and her water to try and murder the shit out of it.
As a Gem, obviously the poisonous gas isn't going to effect her ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And as a Lazuli who we now know are terraformers, she will probably adjust the playing field as she needs to to win. Or go to the air if she has to to fight it up there.
No. She's not fair in fighting.
THE COCKATRICE
The cockatrice is a reptilian bird monster who is much more likely to engage those who get near it. Prone to loud displays of intimidation, it won't hesitate to maim hunters, but it would rather make a dash for it afterward instead of finishing the job. It seems pretty clear that it wants you to think that it has the upper hand, even if it doesn't.
► TRAITS: Brazen, mobile, intimidating, loud, decently clever.
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The entire team will focus all of their efforts on the Cockatrice, setting out with the intentions of surrounding and killing their target (Each for their own reasons).
While all three are not hunters, Carly has experience in fighting, mostly with the use of her fire magic; Miko has recent experience in combat, and super strength; Foster relies on ambush for combat, and will be transforming his mice into larger creatures to aid him in battle and tracking.
Carly, despite a lack of experience, will also be using a Bow and Arrow.
Miko will bring a small knife, while Foster is bringing a large knife.
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Hunt #2
But this thing, man. THIS THING. Zangetsu wants to fight it. He wants to 1v1 him. As with the peryton, Zangetsu has a variety of physical and energy based attacks at his disposal, and he is a natural born killer.
THE BICORN
The bicorn is an elusive creature whose primary challenge will be tracking it down in the first place. It moves through the trees swiftly, and can seem to dissolve into fog when being pursued. While its biggest strengths are in speed and mobility, it can still easily run a person through with that horn, and its hooves are as hard as diamond.
► TRAITS: Strategic, intelligent, mobile, elusive, evasive.
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They will focus their efforts on the one target.
Neither of them are hunters by trade, but they both have experience fighting/hunting large animals in their home worlds.
9S will be able to track the target by pinging for life signs, and may use his sword to damage it (possibly by throwing it). Pod 153 will be accompanying them, and may use its laser to attack when it seems like there aren't any servants watching.
Rita will try to play by the "rules" and refrain from using magic to damage the target, instead relying on a bow (which she only just learned to use). She'll still use magic strategically to attempt to slow, confuse, or herd the target in a particular direction.
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Lambert is a mutated killing machine, specifically trained to fight monsters and will be wielding a sword. Strange is a magician who knows how to shoot a gun but not use a bow and arrow. They'll be focusing all their efforts on the bicorn.
Strange will serve as the bait/distraction, while Lambert stalks in the shadows. Any tracking is 100% on Lambert's end as he's got those witcher senses which can be put to good use. Once they spot the bicorn, Strange will serve as a big obnoxious distraction. Most of this will involve just shooting arrows near the thing but eventually fuck it, he'll use magic: putting up walls of earth to try and close the bicorn off, asking the tree roots to grab it's legs, etc. If the bicorn tries to gore him, Strange will try to puff into smoke in order to get the hell away from murderhorse. While this happens and yakety sax plays in the background, Lambert's going to use his witcher magic to either calm the thing down/force it into submission/attempt to break any transformation curse that might be on the thing.
WINNER!
The combination of magics from Lambert and Strange will seem to be having uncertain effects - the bicorn will be somewhat panicked from being captured at first, and while it will be forced to stay still by magic it will be wary of their intentions. This can escalate to the mentioned "horse kissing situation" however you like, but somehow that does end up being the last little push that their attempted magic takes to work.
Finally, they will feel some kind of enchantment snap, clearly fae in origin. The fully equine nature of the bicorn will seem to fade away like fog, revealing the exhausted form of a willowy and beautiful woman - though one that still has the horns, tail, and fully bestial legs and hooves of her previous form.
She is otherwise naked, and will pass out shortly after the spell is broken. Her hair is long and white, just like her mane was a horse.
TL;DR: They try to wake her up with red phoenix fruit and also there's a lot of invisible people.
Strange will give the lady his jacket for some decency and offer words of encouragement/keep an eye out for other people approaching/try his hardest not to look at her boobs.
9S and Rita will be in the vicinity as they break the enchantment. 9S will immediately be ordered by Lambert to look for the rest of nightrunner crew, Syrlya and Scout.
Rita will examine the unicorn lady for injuries or any indication of the cause of her fainting. She’ll also be looking for magic traces of her transformation curse or whatever else may be present. Lambert will stand guard until 9S gets back (which will be pretty quick, since they're not far off either) after which he will be sent out to look for Childermass.
Scout will cast her cloak-of-shadows glamour dealie on everyone at the scene, with the Nightrunners and Childermass as the exceptions who can see through it. This power doesn’t make someone invisible/inaudible/scentless/whatever, it just makes them not consciously register to people unless they do something super noticeable. Works less reliably on fae, on whom “super noticeable” is also a broader topic. She’ll also see if anyone’s bleeding or in pain and block that. She’s had her daemon around since before 9S fetched her, so he’ll also keep watch. As a simple spell one he’s not corporeal and probably can’t be seen.
Syrlya will put them all under an invisibility spell, don’t u love having that. So many people at once is a strain so he can’t leave it for long and will emphasize they need to move her quickly, because they sure as fuck can’t go back to the Prince like “by the way we have your servant you fucking MONSTER”. Someone should get her out of here while the rest attend the judging like Nothing Is Wrong. He’s not bothered by her being naked, because you know, sometimes people just are.
After some rapid discussion, the group collectively decides that an attempt will be made to wake the horse lady up because consciousness is a good thing. Lambert is going to coax her into drinking a vial of the distilled red phoenix fruit juice he has on him, which is basically a milder adrenaline shot than eating the fruit directly.
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2) It seems that she passed out mostly from the shock/exhaustion of the hunt, and then her transformation. She's unconscious for now, but it's reasonable to expect she will wake up in the foreseeable future.
3) The red phoenix vial will wake her up! She is disorientated and confused, but it will definitely get her conscious, and she doesn't seem to have any major cognitive or physical dysfunction beyond being super physically tired. She seems shocked by the fact that these people are apparently trying to help her.
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Syrlya is going to crouch to horselady’s level and speak softly because someone needs to be like, soothing here. He got this. But if no one else has any questions before he reassures her “we’re friends, and we want to help you”, he’ll get to the most important: Was it the Prince who did this to her, and why?
“Do you even know where you are?” Lambert will add to that, frowning.
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"It was a punishment. I... I ran from him. He was displeased."
She'd been changed a while ago, and had been a bicorn for some time already before the hunt. She's not sure how long. Maybe weeks or months.
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This poor bicorn’s just getting question after question as Strange quickly pipes up, “You ran from him? Were you planning on going somewhere specific?”
Scout goes pale. “These poor people,” she says to herself, horrified. Not wanting to crowd the bicorn she removes the soft outer cloaklike part of her hunting-habit to pass to Syr to give to her. She’s got Strange’s jacket, but this could go over it, she thinks.
Lambert doesn't crowd the bicorn either, but he's thinking. The Ringmaster had mentioned concubines, and despite her currently inhuman features, the bicorn woman looks like she would have been quite the beauty as a human. Could she be one of those?
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The Arcanine will start snuffling around the edges of the illusion just, but Childermass, unlike Baker, looks directly through the illusion. Well then. That's all something. The magician grabs the Arcanine by his ruff, pulling him into the illusion with them.
"What do you think you're doing? You broke one of the Prince's spells?!"
Yeah, rather than being helpful, he's here to tell them their utter morons.