Mission discussions

[bejustorbedead]

Sometimes Ky runs missions and, and I'd like to make sure everyone's on the same page OOCly before logs are put up.

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[spelleton]

this all sounds good! Ekkehardt will mainly be providing support and healing when needed, and he'll be letting the students lead the mission so they can get some combat experience - he'll only step in if someone's in danger of actually dying.

[lastexit]

Depending on how the creature senses 'threats' Maya could hide a second person in her silence (it's not like the monster has real eyes, if all its senses are magic based Maya's silence would make her hard to track). Her hearing would also let her know there was another undead in the area to better keep track of where the beast is. Which covers what she brings to the table.

Because she's a walking escort mission with no combat ability.

[tiredcharmer]

Tyzias's powerset is basically a toolbox: given enough time and information, she can craft runespells that are precisely what she needs for victory. Given what information she has on the monster, this'll be her loadout:

A juiced-up version of her normal FOL (fuck-off laser) that has some additional piercing power and creates small, localized explosions to blast off the ablative armor of the horror. In exchange, she's losing her ability to create barriers.

Her "force step," an instantaneous teleport that charges the air displaced by Tyzias's arrival to create a small outward blast. She can also do a charge across normal space with this ability to create a larger blast. It's normally short range, but if she has very precise locational data she can go much farther with a little casting time.

A simple tracking rune that she'll need to get close to apply to the creature's aura, but will give her enough of a location to teleport if somebody can keep it in one place long enough.

If Tyzias is backed into a corner, she can activate a transformation that's basically the Ultimate Shield from FMA, although it also increases her strength and agility. She can't maintain this for more than a minute a day without having some pretty bad side effects, though, so this is definitely a last resort.

Tyzias is a heavy hitter, but she'll want to observe the creature adding to its mass and its other abilities first before going in for the kill, which may be a problem. In addition, the moment she steps outside of Daybreak Academy, her movements are being tracked by a lot of people who want her very dead. The mission may be interrupted by one of those parties, if everybody's down for it.

[bejustorbedead]

Depending on where they are, Ky may caution against concussive or explosive powers as the really old tunnels were notorious for not being stable.

Sudden cave ins do make for good drama, but naturally something characters may try to avoid icly.

[tiredcharmer]

It's less of a grenade and more of a concentrated burst of high concussive force that's localized to a small area--around the size of a human fist. It's designed to blast away armor and travels through solid mass very well, but doesn't do so good while traveling through air, so a cave-in shouldn't be a concern--unless the thing proves to be fast enough to evade one of the lasers, it misses, and hits the catacomb walls. Oh, what a terrible thing to happen. (Tyzias would actually feet super guilty for this.)