[HQ Ignorance] Scene 12a: The Mystic Responds & Battle Begins!

[Nic Hughes]

Sam Elliot wrote:
> As the tension mounts, Icthya peers about, looking for the best route out of
> this area, anywhere a wolf might find it hard to follow. She's almost ready
> to slope away on her own but remembers that earnest human holding the banner
> brightly aloft when she was drunk before the trolls. She resolves to stay
> put for now and slowly releases her blow, stroking an arrow slowly. Then all
> hell breaks loose. Muttering a curse, Icthya grabs a bundle of twigs and
> throws it in the air, releasing A Moment Yearning from his fetish.
>
>   
As the mystic's words became more and more emotional Aalmon became 
calmer, he twitched his nose and began rubbing a talisman thoughtfully. 
As the first wolves began harassing the group he unslung his axe but 
instead of swinging it he began to caress the strange star-metal of its 
blade lovingly. He looked up at the full face of Sedenya above and 
smiled back at her before seeming to trace out a path across the stars 
with his eyes, as he did so a crimson glow began for form around him and 
Baros who had capered behind his bigger brother and was chanting prayers 
of his own.

> The thick layer of leaf litter on the floor about the elf flies up into the
> air, coalescing into the form of a centaur.  Straight backed and of noble
> bearing, where each hoof should be, there is a rock.
>
> Pausing only to bow briefly at his mistress, the centaur charges to meet the
> wolves head-on, a flurry of rushing crushing hooves.
>
> "Let's get off this holy ground" says Icthya to the others, releasing a
> single blessed arrow into the fray before fleeing.
>
>   
Aalmon nodded almost as if to himself and then shouted out "Follow me, 
we can go where they cannot follow." With that he made an arcane gesture 
and the crimson glow turned to the silvery starlight reflecting off his 
axe-blade. He stepped forward and the glow lifted him high off the 
ground - a shimmering starlike dance of light following in his trail as 
he rose. He turned to the others and gestured, "Quickly, before they 
over-run us!" Then as they rose the light seemed to fold in around them 
and they became part of the blackness of the night sky - hidden from sight.

As they walk high above the land Baros trots around trying to keep the 
group and their animals together "We will find a safe place to return" 
he says to each as his brother's eyes, with a strange gleam in them, 
look down at the distant hills and valleys seeking out a refuge.

OOC: Lev, I do not know what sort of contest you had in mind so I am not 
sure how to describe this game-mechanically. Both the Star Walking and 
Hide in Darkness abilities are both running at levels above W5 on the 
full moon before augments so lifting the whole group should not be 
unreasonable for magic at that level. Of course if anyone resists or 
refuses to follow they will probably exclude themselves from the effect.

Nic

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