Tiffany 2010/06/03(Thu)16:43 No. 187282 ID: 426169
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Ok ok ok I'm calm. I'm calm.

The lance is a part of me. It's a part of me. An extension of my arm. Aaagh, why is this so hard?
It just... It just wont spread. Like something's blocking it.

It's a little better than before, but OH GOD

>"AIEEEEE"

Gareth screams as Jakov's claws pierce the skin.

>>187282
That thing Alexander told you to do- the way you hide your spirit song! STOP DOING THAT.

>>187282
Maybe you should stop hiding your aura?

Unleash your TRUE POWER!

>>187282
Regardless of if >>187285 works or not, you've got to attack now with whatever you've got. Strike Jakov in the arm holding Gareth; even if you don't have the lance working entirely correctly, maybe it'll still hurt enough that Jakov drops him.

You can do this, Tiffany. Discipline and will; you've faced the Reaper Man! Jakov is small potatoes in comparison, and you will act unflinchingly in his presence.

Tiffany 2010/06/03(Thu)17:01 No. 187293 ID: 426169
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That's it! All I gotta do is-

"YOU'RE SMALL POTATOES!" Tiffany screams as she stops suppressing her aura.

The lance seems to light on fire, burning with a brilliant white light! A moment ago it was so heavy that Tiffany could barely hold it up, but now it seems as light as a feather!

Jakov seems to cover away from the light ever so slightly.

>>187293
I assume that you do not need any encouragement to tear Jakov a new one in whatever portion of his anatomy is most convenient, save Gareth, and firmly prove yourself a badass.

>>187293
Ram it into him.

>>187297
Cut off his arm to free Garth, then lop off his legs, then stab him IN THE FACE.

>>187293
Don't just stab him with it. Try to control the aura so that it attacks Jakov's essence. Or perhaps... so that it blooms out and annihilates his entire form.

Alright, if you can, send a stab at Jakov's arm, or shoulder. Hopefully this will have the effect of making him cringe in the opposite direction or to drop Gareth. If he does not move, shred his arm in any way possible to free Gareth.

A possibility, though, would be his escape. I'm expecting this guy to fade away to report back to gramps as soon as we do any moderate damage to him, possibly leaving Gareth behind depending on if we save him or not.

Tiffany 2010/06/03(Thu)17:26 No. 187307 ID: 426169
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Tiffany charges Jakov, lance aimed at his heart!

As soon as Tiffany begins to advance, Jakov backs away flinging Gareth towards Tiffany like a broken ragdoll. Tiffany can hear the sound of tearing cloth as Jakov loosens his grip. Jakov is careful to maintain a safe distance from the white fire.

Gareth moans in pain.

>>187307
"Gareth, you gonna be okay? How do I disperse a Wraith? Or kill it for good?"

Try to use the spear's power to close his wounds.

Also, tell Dad to get in the light, it's safe there!

>>187307
Motion for dad to get over here, then rush Jakov.

>>187307
Tell Dad to help Gareth. Stand guard while he tells you how bad the injuries are- mostly, if Gareth is okay to move.

Is it within our current aura capacity to fire a lazor?

>>187307
So... what's all that stuff in the background? More enemies?

I wonder if Martin would be adverse to giving us a bit of assistance, here?

>>187307
i guess the best we can do is get on the run.... like now...

Tell me the house is locked... and rune protected...
Cause that imortal beast is about to get on your tail.

As weird and cliche as this sounds, you'll have to play Gramp's games to beat him in the future judging from what we're seeing.

Tiffany 2010/06/03(Thu)17:55 No. 187327 ID: 426169
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"Dad! See to Gareth!"

Tiffany steps up towards Jakov, shielding dad and Gareth. Suddenly, Jakov's shape shifts and he launches into the air, flying north with considerable speed! A rout!

"Hah! So he's a coward after all. Only goes after helpless little girls. Well I ain't helpless anymore!"

Gareth lets out a groan.

"How is he? Is he gonna be all right?"

>"I'll live, if you *cough* lay off the monologues."

>"Looks like the the cuts aren't very deep. I'm no doctor, but the bruises don't look too bad."

>"Ribs feel a bit banged up. Probably should see a doctor soonish. And he tore my robe pretty bad."

"Oh good. Come on, let's get a move on. We've got our stuff, the house is locked, nothing left here but to leave."

>"Yeah I think we got everything, and I locked the- oh shit."

"That is not a good word. What is it?"

>"My amulet! That big black sonuvabitch took my amulet!"

>>187327
Oh god damn it that means Alexander is going to be able to do his mind control thing.

Ask if there's any way to stop it.

>>187327
That's not good. Is there any way that you can destroy your amulet magically from here? Or somehow render it unusable?

>>187327
Damn, we can't leave now.

Have him call up the rest of the Kinsley family. We need a heavy guard on the safehouse until they can remove and relocate everything there.
Or change the locks.

Also, he will be able to use it to get into the safehouse which will let him get to the Immortal, which is BAD.

Surely there must be a way for Gareth to destroy it. It's linked to him, right?

>>187330
But we have to leave, because if Grandpa's coming and we engage him, there's a chance that he'll get his hands on the grimoire. We can't take that risk. At most, we can return quickly to the safehouse and invoke a spell or two to make it more secure.

Hmm, ask Gareth what that symbol was above the map. It's the one thing we have no clue about at the moment.

>>187333
Go to a gardening store and buy bags and bags of blood meal, hundreds of feet of garden hose, Y splits and connectors, and other such materials.

Shape the hose into a giant hide/absolute circle around the entire building with the splits and connectors, check to make sure it won't leak, then fill it with a blood meal and water mixture.

If he has a key to the door, how about we do our best to make sure he can't find the door? Drop some rituals girl. Hide the door, hide the keyhole. You know some runes for closing stuff? Make the door not wanna open. Jam the lock.

>>187335
...That would actually work really well, as long as Necromancy just needs blood, not blood from something with sapience (or if this is a setting where animals don't have souls... well, souls), and let you make a BIG, POTENT circle on the cheap.

HOORAY MODERN CONVENIENCE!

>>187341

Obviously blood of different animals has different uses, according to their relationship with humans. Most notably large amounts of goat's blood was once used to stave off a necromantic plague.

>>187332

Yeah, by dying. :p

>>187336

This is... the best thing I can think to do at the moment. That and we can hope that Jakov didn't owe Alexander two favors.

>>187330

Actually Gareth already cleaned everything out of there. Thomas's staff, that unusual stone, and the book. You were getting ready to hurry off to the old world after all. That still doesn't mean Grandpa would suddenly become a hell of a lot more dangerous upon discovering his devoted servant imprisoned in there.

>>187353
>Yeah, by dying. :p
Yeah, we'd be best of killing him, practically speaking. It's not likely to ingratiate ourselves to the Kinsleys, though.

>That and we can hope that Jakov didn't owe Alexander two favors.
It seems more like the "favor" thing was just a cover, and Jakov is actually bound permanently to Alexander's service.

Wait, killing him would destroy it? Can't we kill him long enough to get rid of it and then raise him somehow?

>>187335
While we should definitely consider this a great idea for large scale ritual workings in the future, I would point out that at the moment we are working with unknown time constraints. Setting up something that large would take quite a while.

If we cannot destroy or disable the amulet, we conceal the door to the safehouse and have Gareth call his family and explain the situation. They undoubtedly have numerous other assets which might be endangered by Alexander's possession of one of their amulets.

>>187361
No, because we don't know how.

Use the same circle Grampa used on Mom to put Dad in The Immortal's body. Kill the immortal in Dad's body. Fix wounds. Reverse circle. Put Dad back. Immortal's body is an empty container. Take to England or use in familiar process.

>>187372
Wait, nevermind. I don't think Mom got switched to sitting in the skull. I think she's just in the back seat of her own mind.

Damn.

As funny as dad in an immortal will be, I think we should avoid this in the future. Again, seconding contacting Kingsleys and letting Martin know that Grandpa is nearby and for him to get out of town ASAP.

>>187390

Dad would be like this giant lizard thing and he'd be all "Put me back in my body right this minute young lady!!" and you'd be like "But daaaad"

>>187372
That is a good idea, but it has a few issues. We don't know how Grampa took control, for one thing. It's not something that was inherent to the spell, it's something he did later using the control access that was built into the spell.

Also, we don't want to risk Dad for something like that.

>>187419


Ah, you're right, that was just a trap circle.

I was trying to think of a way to attack its mind. I think we're shit out of luck in any kind of confrontation.

Speaking of which should we go check on the pit now? Jakov could already be smudging the barrier circle. I'd rather flail the lance at him than the immortal.

Tiffany 2010/06/04(Fri)11:43 No. 187763 ID: 426169
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"Damn! Will he be able to use his mind-control?"

>"I don't think so, I only had it for a short while. But- damn. He will be able to get in the safe house."

"Oh NO. Ok let me think... Maybe... Maybe we can hide the safe-house? Like, put a huge concealment circle around it?"

>"Do you know how to make one? I sure don't."

"I can try."

>"Do we have the time? Alexander could be here any minute."

I don't like those lights in the background. They might be a legion of the dead. If its not, then we can put a concealment rune around it. I almost want to say for Dad and Thomas to get to a hospital quick and leave us here for the concealing. It's too dangerous to have to keep track of their location while doing our thing. Hopefully Dad will not pull a protective "NO I WILL NOT LEAVE MY DAUGHTER ALONE IN A TIME LIKE THIS" and then the author does it because I mentioned it. Derp

>>187763
Well, does your family have some kind of contingency in place for this? I can't imagine they'd lock up something as dangerous as that thing with nothing more than an amulet between any random crazy and letting him out. Ring them up!

In the meantime, we don't have to hide the entire safehouse- we only have to hide the glowing symbol on the door. If he can't see where to put the key, he won't be able to open it.

Also, how can you not know how to make a concealment circle? I thought you'd been studying this for years!

The entire building sounds like a tall order. Are the walls sturdy/warded enough to prevent entry through means other than the door?

Anyway, while you are doing magic, you could have the others try to throw together a place that looks like it MIGHT have been a hidden safehouse once, but it was cleared out in a hurry and the door left standing open.

Tiffany 2010/06/04(Fri)12:47 No. 187774 ID: 426169
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"Don't you guys have a back-up plan or something?"

>"Yeah. Thomas!"

"ARGH. How can you not know how to make a concealment circle? I thought you'd been a student for years?"

>"Hey, I told you we weren't studying proper magic yet."

>"Will you two stop arguing? Look, if Alexander doesn't know about the safe-house, then he won't accidentally stumble across it. Hell we had difficulty finding it and we know the damn address! If he does know about it, no amount of concealment runes would keep him from finding it."

"... Yeah I guess that makes sense."

>"So, what do we do, Tiff?"

>>187774
If we're not going to worry about the safehouse, we leave as quickly as possible. Sitting around at the airport awaiting a flight with a crazed necromancer incoming is a terrible plan, so we get a car- rent, borrow, or steal, doesn't matter- and drive a couple hundred miles away, then check Gareth into a hospital. He calls his family on the way and tells them what's going on; they might have an opinion of some kind.

And Tiffany turns off her aura's singing, since it can supposedly be used to track her and she can turn it on again if she needs it.

Dirtbag 2010/06/04(Fri)13:19 No. 187783 ID: e3f578
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MOVE LIKE YOU'VE GOT THE GROOVE!

Tiffany 2010/06/04(Fri)13:29 No. 187789 ID: 426169
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"Ok. Mmm. I don't like the idea of having to sit at the airport for hours, waiting for Alexander to find us."

>"Me neither. Where's the next nearest airport?"

>"Dutchin. Hundred twenty something miles east."

>"That sounds way better. Do we rent a car or something?"

>"Nah. I got a better idea."

Tiffany 2010/06/04(Fri)14:36 No. 187821 ID: 426169
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And so they put the wounded Kinsley in the side car, and rode towards the east, the airport, and safety.

>"Man I can't wait to fly in a plane. Salted peanuts, cocktails, stewardesses, man this beats the tail-feathers off flying by myself. Uh, boss, what's that?"

"This, Mulder, is a cage."

>"Whatsit for, boss?"

Tiffany tells him.

>"wat"

Tiffany 2010/06/04(Fri)14:40 No. 187823 ID: 426169
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>"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?"

x3 Mulder