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Watching the mayhem unfold in front of her, Shavaris isn't exactly sure what to do. Her surroundings are really throwing her off, but as she tries to focus, she realizes at least their foe is familiar.
She summons forth Eloise, thrilled to see her materialize here in New York and it grounds her. Unsheathing her blades, her hair turning the scarlet color of blood, she asks Eloise to head into the mix of Stormtroopers, to throw them off with a ghost in the mix and throws Sick and Twisted towards one of the Stormtroopers that is not affected by either Travin or Dageron. If that includes the one that Delph hit, she goes for him first. Using Steady Aim she takes advantage of the situation.
Attack: 30 Damage: 13
Attack: 30 Damage: 8
Sneak attack damage: 8
And as she hits him, a ghost that eerily resembles Shavaris floats from her victim to a nearby Stormtrooper, enveloping them and dealing 8 necrotic damage.
Sick and Twisted hits the Stormtroopers with an explosion of sparks. Blood spurts as one of the blades rolls its way around the Stormtroopers arm, severing the muscles of the arm and making the limb fall limp. As this happens, the ghostly apparition shoots straight into the strangely clothes fellow, he shudders and backs up, dusting at himself as though he could brush the effects off.
Another Stormtrooper bashes this guy with his shield and is clearly trying to push him to the floor but is completely unsuccessful as he steps aside. The Stormtrooper presses the attack, its sword biting into the weird clothing twice and drawing dark, viscous blood, but creating only superficial damage. Two more Stormtroopers leap to his aid, stabbing the attacker, while another Stormtrooper fires two arrows and doesn't hit shit. Both arrows go skittering across the concrete harmlessly...
Adam pulls out his lightsaber, saying “C’mon Susie Q, we’ve got some work to do!” And then he swings, attacking any stormtrooper that is not affected by Dageron’s Rod. “That’s quite a rod you have there, Dag.” He hacks forward with the lightsaber, aiming to strike the stormtroopers down quickly.
Lightsaber swing 1 : 17 to hit, for 16 points of slashing damage and 11 points of radiant damage, with HP maximum reduced by this amount.
Lightsaber swing 2 : (Nat 20!) 35 to hit, for 33 points of slashing damage, and 26 points of radiant damage, with HP maximum reduced by this amount.
He follows that with a bonus action uppercut, 13 to hit, for 5 points of bludgeoning damage.
“Wooo! You’ve got 3 minutes of Me time left boys! Whoooo Weeeee! The can of whoop ass has been opened!”
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Ward counts off the stormtroopers “Ennie, minnie, miney, You! “ Ward says, leveling both his arms and first firing the hookshot, hitting and flying towards the stormtroopers, firing his shotgun as he flies towards them.
Hookshot: 24hit, 6
Shotgun: Attack: 22 Damage: 13
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P: The Traveling Ward: Natural Napalm Enthusiast. (AURYN: The Hunt For The Last Unicorn.)
Johnathan looks at the enemies to see which are the biggest threats. As he glances at the one dressed in a weird attire for a moment something about them felt oddly familiar. It doesn’t take him long to realise what he was dealing with. Johnathan points to the creature, I know what you are. Did you really think those weird clothes would fool me?
Johnathan holds out his hand as radiant flames surround them. He shoots the fire to the weirdly dressed enemy in the hopes to burn them with its light.
Action: Sacred flame. Dc 16 dex save. On a fail they take 10+5 (radiant soul) radiant damage
As Adam steps in and strikes with his lightsaber, the weapon cuts grizzly gashes on the unfortunate Stormtrooper that first drew his ire. The Stormtrooper falls backwards as Adam goes for the uppercut, then sprawls dead at his feet.
Ward easily hits the Stormtrooper with his Hookshot and goes flying in the Stormtroopers direction, but is going so fast that his shotgun blast goes short and scatters pellets across the pavement. The Stormtrooper, with lightning quick reflexes, breaks the grapple of the Hookshot and takes a step back and away from Ward.
Weird-clothes-guy hisses as Johnathan's Sacred Flame illuminates him and then dodges away with all the quickness of an arrow.
The Stormtrooper infighting continues as one in the back, one of the tougher, not-run-of-the-mill looking Stormtroopers, turns on one of its nearby companions and lashes out with its sword. It punches two fast holes in the first of its more lightly armored brethren before slashing at a more heavily armored front-line type warrior, but its sword simply bounces off the shield...
"Kill them!" Weird dressed guy says, rallying the elite Stormtroopers behind him and pointing them in the direction of the Dawn Guard. "Forget those that are turned! Kill the one with that's swinging his rod first! All of you, concentrate your attack!"
The Stormtroopers stop their infighting, well, some of them anyway, then focus on Dageron as they prepare to move to contact.
Then there's a roaring sound...
A black...chariot...horseless chariot...comes screaming around the corner with two blazing white lights on the front like eyes. It roars, a loud, rumbling sound as its rubber coated wheels screech around the corner and then it plows through the Stormtroopers ranks, scattering them in all directions before it comes to a sliding, screaming halt between to two groups of combatants. It turns almost one hundred eighty degrees as it comes to a stop. There's enough time to register the loud music, though whatever this atrocious sound is (the steady rhythmic beat of a drum and the distorted growl of some stringed horror) sounds like no music most of them have ever heard, playing inside the chariot, and to see mural of the wizard wreathed in flames on the side of the vehicle as he slays a dragon, before the doors in the back open and a young human leans out and offers his hand to the band.
Travin looks up to the boy with his hand out and a jolt of realisation hits him, electrifying its way up the junkman's spine, which is accompanied by an odd squeaking "eeeeeeeeeeeeeee" sound which Travin does not realise is coming from his own mouth. Grabbing the boys hand Travin not only jumps aboard the van but does so with such force that he bowls over the boy and grabs at him pulling him in for a tight hug, all the while Travin's vocal excitement builds and builds "eeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE GAVIN! GAVIN GOT SO BIG! TRAVIN IS SO HAPPY TO SEE GAVIN YEH YEH!" Trav smushes his own face into Gavin's chest as he forgets to let go, bear hugging the poor lad.
Focused on the fight and noticing what the strange dressed man is as well, watches as Johnathan attacks him, and without realizing it yells out, "Noo... I want to talk to him!"
The chariot completely takes her by surprise. Stepping back and a bit in a panic as the vehicle roars and stops by the group. As the doors open and the ear splitting music emerges, she holds her hands up over her ears and looks to everyone else's reaction, including the stormtroopers.
But as Travin leaps in and yells out Gavin, realization dawns on her and she tentatively steps towards the van, completely unsure of herself. "Is this...thing.. going to eat us?"
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Delphinium was quite caught up with the fighting but seeing the strange squarish thing roaring with some kind of power the fairy wasn't sure if it was a friend or foe at first. That is, until it plowed through the stormtroopers that seemed to be growing in number. They all got bowled over or managed to jump out of the way but whatever the case it settled the dispute of who's side the thing was on. It stopped side by side with the rest of the Dawn guard and someone popped out and said come with them if they want to live. A curious statement for anyone as it was quite clear to the fairy these stormtroopers were not going to put up much of a fight. However, the person inside seems so earnest in their plea that it seemed rude to Delphinium to refuse. They look over to the pidgeon from before and seeing all the stormtroopers decides to save the bird too. With their blinding speed they go to attempt one grapple on the bird. Success of not, they then fly into the... wagon? Delphinium wasn't sure what to call it. Once inside, bird or not, Delphinium hears Travin cry his brother's name and the fairy smiles and says "Hello Gavin! nice to see you again. I'm in this thing and I saved the innocent bird from the troopers too! Not sure what you're worried about but I'm sure you know more about what's going on here then we do." As Shavaris says they want to talk to someone Delphinium looks to them and asks "Want me to grab them and drag them in?"
Exfiltration from the combat zone is a good ten seconds of unopposed chaos as the Stormtroopers continue to slaughter one another. A greataxe takes a bite out of an elite before said elite punches the greataxe wielder so hard that his head flies off and goes bouncing across the concrete of the garage, eliciting a surprised shriek from the front of the van. Another Stormtrooper swings with a battleaxe as the target begins to blur, and then an elite Stormtroopers fires a red bolt from some ten feet away and pierces the swingers chest, blowing a hole clean through its back but coming just barely short of killing it...
Violence. Three stormtroopers are cut down almost instantly by the rallying elites in their team, while two more are gravely wounded.
The head, still rolling, goes past a pigeon that hasn't even had time to fly away in the advent of battle. It's shocked as a tiny, bipedal creature grabs it and begins to wrestle it into the black-monster with the painting on it. The bird squawks with fear and flaps its wings frantically as it continuously tries to escape after being wrestled in by Delphinium and then dealing with the metal-bodied ones attempts to calm it. Feathers fly. It craps on the floor of the van.
The doors of the van get closed by Gavin a split second before tires squeal and they go racing back through the Stormtroopers again before the van jumps the ramp, crashes through the drop-gate leading into the street, and they emerge into the full light of the New York day.
Hundreds of cars, like the van, not like the van, line the streets. Yellow cars that say 'taxi' on top. Pedestrians. Flashing lights. Signs that light up. Everyone, every single person, is dressed weird as hell, and that's saying something after they'd traversed the Labyrinth twice.
"They'll be right behind us! Drive on the sidewalks if you have to!" Gavin yells toward the front of the van. It seems there are two people up there; a young man and a young woman...
Adam is holding on to the sides of the van on the inside, slinging back and forth. He looks out of the front of the van and the speed that they are going. “Hell yes!” is all that he says, excited about the ride and periodically glancing behind them. “Does one of those panes of glass come down? How dya open this damn window?” he fumbles with any latches he sees, hand on his lightsaber, getting ready to throw it at the pursuing vehicle.
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Ward sees Adam fiddling with the windows and with one hand takes out a shrapnel and a napalm bomb. "You could use one of these instead as well. The shrapnel one might pop whatever odd thing they use for tires with how squishy they look." Ward says, then goes back to attempting to calm the pigeon.
Delphinium lets the Pidgeon go seeing it so frantic and says "Oh, sorry. You're safe now. I'm just really fast so I was able to get you out of danger. Are you okay? They didn't do anything mean to you did they?" Whatever the pigeon does Delphinium goes up to the front to see the pair driving and lands on the dashboard. He looks them over and says "This is an amazing wagon! My friends say you power it with explosions and not horses! Which of you is the caster? Why can't I see explosions?" They turn around to look out the window. "There are so many outside the window too! Oh lots of yellow ones. Kind of like flower wagons." they look towards all the traffic as they look in wonder for a moment but then they see one of the sidewalk trees. Alone in one of those concrete islands like a single spot of green in a world of grey. They get a serious look and add "Oh, that Vigo... he trapped the trees... made them lonely. You all really need our help."
The pigeon continues to freak out as Ward works to calm it. It squawks and fights, and then looks as absolutely pissed off as a pigeon can look when Ward conjures a sparrow and proceeds to coax some crazy avian gangfight in the back of the van.
Everyone becomes aware that a Stormtrooper is hanging on tight to the rear bumper of the van as they try to get away. A couple of other Stormtroopers are chasing after them all, running as hard as their legs can go....
Ward eventually poofs away his sparrow after the Pidgeon tries to attack it multiple times, and goes back to talking with it for a bit before the Pidgeon faints. Ward goes to grab a shoebox filled with 3 buds of some green herb. Ward turns to either Gavin or the driver. "What are these odd herbs? I haven't encountered them before. I need the box for the feathered one, but I don't know what to do with this." Gavin, grabbing for his brother when Ward turns to him."DUDE! You can't put that pigeon in the box with my weed! What the **** is wrong with you!" Ward puts the herbs back in the box. "What is its importance? And do you have another box by chance, I believe when the bird wakes it will go back into it's panicking and I want to make sure it doesn't fly away." Ward says "It's importance?"The pimply faced kid in the driver's seat says as he looks at Ward in the rearview mirror."Uh, dude, that's some good ganj, man. That's it's importance. The bird? Dude **** that bird! I mean, don't actually **** that bird. But **** that bird!" "Yes but what does it do is what I ask. I grow and use my own herbs form medicines and the sort I simply wish to know what this one does. The bird, well it could be very helpful so I want to keep it and take care of it." Ward says. "What does it... Dude. That's weed, man. It gets you high as a motha****a!" "Oh, it's an intoxicant, sort of like alcohol? Interesting. Do you have any seeds or sprouts of it? I would like to further study it, since it seems this one is important to you. " Ward will say, then look for another similar box. The driver makes a ludicrous sounding voice."Oh its an intoxicant"He says, making exagerated movements of his mouth."Dude how old are you? Like 80? No it's not like alcohol. It'sweed. You know what, nevermind! I'm trying not to die!" Ward tilts his head,"Well, depending on what you consider age. I have experienced around, say 100 years, but I have been alive for a few hundred. The rest however I was resting in stone." Ward says, "Well, you will have to educate me later. " Ward will then look for another box, and if he can't find one ask for Delphs bag "Gavin, your friends are ****in' weird dude." The driver says. Ward then finds a coffee can with holes in it and puts the bird and some seeds inside.
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P: The Traveling Ward: Natural Napalm Enthusiast. (AURYN: The Hunt For The Last Unicorn.)
Dageron would reach out to the stormtrooper hanging from the vehicle, pulling them in with the others. Once secured, he pulls their helmets together until they 'clink' forehead to forehead. Over the cacouphony of noise within the vehicle, Dageron begins to interrogate his new ally.
"Gavin what happened to you!? You gotta older yeh yeh! Travin gots taller but that only happens yesterday hmmm? Where is Gavin taking the dawnguard? Who is Gavin's friend? What is this weeds?" Travin continues squishing his now older younger brother, giddy with excitement as Dag drags in the last of the troopers.
The lights, the sounds, the speed, the craziness in her direct vicinity, another vampire… was getting to be too much for Shavaris. Trying to maintain her sanity, she focuses on who is driving this beast, hoping one is Sarah… but knowing it can’t be that easy.
One is a skinny pimply faced teenage human male with a blue mohawk and the other is a teenage human female wearing a Ramones t-shirt. She has blonde hair but half her head is shaved. She has all the piercings. Nope…nope…nope.
She sits back on her seat and puts her head between her knees, the wood elf not doing so well at the moment. Others can hear her murmuring, no..no..no..no
Johnathan gives one last glance at the vampire he was fighting before rushing into the metal carriage with the others. He spends a few moments looking at the speaker from the vehicle for a moment with confusion. Once Travin announces it is Gavin Johnathan seems to frown a little, though doing his best to hide his frustration from Travin. Johnathan can’t help but imagine the chaos Blix caused for his realm, how Blix’s orders lead to the battle of the unicorn. He gives Gavin a stare for a moment before speaking. This is Blix, sorry I mean Gavin? The former goblin king? ….You’ve aged. Johnathan stops as he hears an ungodly noise coming from the back with Ward playing with a new pet. Johnathan shakes his head before returning his attention to Gavin. He watches in disbelief as Gavin talks about the herbs in the carriage and how to be cool. This is the same person that wanted to overthrow Jareth? Though if everyone in this plane acts like this it sure does explain Travin a bit better.
Never mind that, we need some answers. How did you and the troopers know where we were? Where is this carriage taking us? Also who are the ones mounting the horseless carriage?
The bird continues flipping out until Ward finally gets it put away in a coffee can. It continues to squawk from inside the can, fluttering and making a ton of noise, masking the sounds of Dageron's interrogation of the Stormtrooper.
There is the sound of a siren of some sort nearby, followed by the sound of a Magic Missile striking the top of the van. A shower of sparks falls across Gavin and the driver, the kid with the blue mohawk, shrieks a little.
"They're shooting something at us!" The driver shouts through the van as he tries to get his voice of the sound of Iron Man. "They've got lasers or something!"
"I told you there'd be magic!" Gavin shouts back to the driver. The van rocks below them as they dip off the sidewalk and away from screaming pedestrians and take advantage of an opening on the street.
"Cops!" The girl shouts. "I hear cops! Eat the weed!"
"What!? No one is eating the weed!" Gavin shouts back as he grabs his brother and brings him in closer. "Yeah Travin, that's great that you got taller! Uh...I dunno bro. Time is kinda ****y now? Or was when I got back? Oh, that's Hawk and Turquoise! Oh, and they call me Blix! I thought that was kind of fun. They didn't believe my story until you guys showed up though!"
Suddenly another vehicle speeds up next to them as a boxed-body carriage with flashing lights pulls along side them.
"NYPD! Pull over!" Is announced through the speaker over the sound of other approaching sirens.
"We gotta get the hell out of here!" Turquoise shouts. "Blix! Where did you say we were going!?"
"Just get us out of the city!" He shouts back.
Suddenly a Stormtrooper is on the other side of the van riding some sort of crazy looking flying shark thing. There are three red flashes, and more sparks from the left side of the van before glass shatters and flies into the cab.
"Ooooh shit dude!" Hawk screams. "Oooh shit not the paint!"
"I don't know!" Blix screams to Johnathan over the sound of blazing sirens, busting glass, screaming civilians, and one super upset pigeon. "Scrying!? We can worry about that later!"
Watching the mayhem unfold in front of her, Shavaris isn't exactly sure what to do. Her surroundings are really throwing her off, but as she tries to focus, she realizes at least their foe is familiar.
She summons forth Eloise, thrilled to see her materialize here in New York and it grounds her. Unsheathing her blades, her hair turning the scarlet color of blood, she asks Eloise to head into the mix of Stormtroopers, to throw them off with a ghost in the mix and throws Sick and Twisted towards one of the Stormtroopers that is not affected by either Travin or Dageron. If that includes the one that Delph hit, she goes for him first. Using Steady Aim she takes advantage of the situation.
Attack: 30 Damage: 13
Attack: 30 Damage: 8
Sneak attack damage: 8
And as she hits him, a ghost that eerily resembles Shavaris floats from her victim to a nearby Stormtrooper, enveloping them and dealing 8 necrotic damage.
Sick and Twisted hits the Stormtroopers with an explosion of sparks. Blood spurts as one of the blades rolls its way around the Stormtroopers arm, severing the muscles of the arm and making the limb fall limp. As this happens, the ghostly apparition shoots straight into the strangely clothes fellow, he shudders and backs up, dusting at himself as though he could brush the effects off.
Another Stormtrooper bashes this guy with his shield and is clearly trying to push him to the floor but is completely unsuccessful as he steps aside. The Stormtrooper presses the attack, its sword biting into the weird clothing twice and drawing dark, viscous blood, but creating only superficial damage. Two more Stormtroopers leap to his aid, stabbing the attacker, while another Stormtrooper fires two arrows and doesn't hit shit. Both arrows go skittering across the concrete harmlessly...
Post Order
Delphinium
Travin
DM
Dageron
DM
Shavaris
DM
Adam
Ward
Johnathan
DM
It's Adam's turn, followed by Ward and Johnathan!
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Adam pulls out his lightsaber, saying “C’mon Susie Q, we’ve got some work to do!” And then he swings, attacking any stormtrooper that is not affected by Dageron’s Rod. “That’s quite a rod you have there, Dag.” He hacks forward with the lightsaber, aiming to strike the stormtroopers down quickly.
Lightsaber swing 1 : 17 to hit, for 16 points of slashing damage and 11 points of radiant damage, with HP maximum reduced by this amount.
Lightsaber swing 2 : (Nat 20!) 35 to hit, for 33 points of slashing damage, and 26 points of radiant damage, with HP maximum reduced by this amount.
He follows that with a bonus action uppercut, 13 to hit, for 5 points of bludgeoning damage.
“Wooo! You’ve got 3 minutes of Me time left boys! Whoooo Weeeee! The can of whoop ass has been opened!”
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Ward counts off the stormtroopers “Ennie, minnie, miney, You! “ Ward says, leveling both his arms and first firing the hookshot, hitting and flying towards the stormtroopers, firing his shotgun as he flies towards them.
Hookshot: 24hit, 6
Shotgun: Attack: 22 Damage: 13
P: The Traveling Ward: Natural Napalm Enthusiast. (AURYN: The Hunt For The Last Unicorn.)
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Johnathan looks at the enemies to see which are the biggest threats. As he glances at the one dressed in a weird attire for a moment something about them felt oddly familiar. It doesn’t take him long to realise what he was dealing with. Johnathan points to the creature, I know what you are. Did you really think those weird clothes would fool me?
Johnathan holds out his hand as radiant flames surround them. He shoots the fire to the weirdly dressed enemy in the hopes to burn them with its light.
Action: Sacred flame. Dc 16 dex save. On a fail they take 10+5 (radiant soul) radiant damage
As Adam steps in and strikes with his lightsaber, the weapon cuts grizzly gashes on the unfortunate Stormtrooper that first drew his ire. The Stormtrooper falls backwards as Adam goes for the uppercut, then sprawls dead at his feet.
Ward easily hits the Stormtrooper with his Hookshot and goes flying in the Stormtroopers direction, but is going so fast that his shotgun blast goes short and scatters pellets across the pavement. The Stormtrooper, with lightning quick reflexes, breaks the grapple of the Hookshot and takes a step back and away from Ward.
Weird-clothes-guy hisses as Johnathan's Sacred Flame illuminates him and then dodges away with all the quickness of an arrow.
The Stormtrooper infighting continues as one in the back, one of the tougher, not-run-of-the-mill looking Stormtroopers, turns on one of its nearby companions and lashes out with its sword. It punches two fast holes in the first of its more lightly armored brethren before slashing at a more heavily armored front-line type warrior, but its sword simply bounces off the shield...
"Kill them!" Weird dressed guy says, rallying the elite Stormtroopers behind him and pointing them in the direction of the Dawn Guard. "Forget those that are turned! Kill the one with that's swinging his rod first! All of you, concentrate your attack!"
The Stormtroopers stop their infighting, well, some of them anyway, then focus on Dageron as they prepare to move to contact.
Then there's a roaring sound...
A black...chariot...horseless chariot...comes screaming around the corner with two blazing white lights on the front like eyes. It roars, a loud, rumbling sound as its rubber coated wheels screech around the corner and then it plows through the Stormtroopers ranks, scattering them in all directions before it comes to a sliding, screaming halt between to two groups of combatants. It turns almost one hundred eighty degrees as it comes to a stop. There's enough time to register the loud music, though whatever this atrocious sound is (the steady rhythmic beat of a drum and the distorted growl of some stringed horror) sounds like no music most of them have ever heard, playing inside the chariot, and to see mural of the wizard wreathed in flames on the side of the vehicle as he slays a dragon, before the doors in the back open and a young human leans out and offers his hand to the band.
There's something so familiar about him...
"Come with us if you want to live!"
Updated Post Order
Delphinium
Travin
DM
Dageron
DM
Shavaris
DM
Adam
Ward
Johnathan
DM
It's Delphinium's turn!
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Travin looks up to the boy with his hand out and a jolt of realisation hits him, electrifying its way up the junkman's spine, which is accompanied by an odd squeaking "eeeeeeeeeeeeeee" sound which Travin does not realise is coming from his own mouth. Grabbing the boys hand Travin not only jumps aboard the van but does so with such force that he bowls over the boy and grabs at him pulling him in for a tight hug, all the while Travin's vocal excitement builds and builds "eeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE GAVIN! GAVIN GOT SO BIG! TRAVIN IS SO HAPPY TO SEE GAVIN YEH YEH!" Trav smushes his own face into Gavin's chest as he forgets to let go, bear hugging the poor lad.
Focused on the fight and noticing what the strange dressed man is as well, watches as Johnathan attacks him, and without realizing it yells out, "Noo... I want to talk to him!"
The chariot completely takes her by surprise. Stepping back and a bit in a panic as the vehicle roars and stops by the group. As the doors open and the ear splitting music emerges, she holds her hands up over her ears and looks to everyone else's reaction, including the stormtroopers.
But as Travin leaps in and yells out Gavin, realization dawns on her and she tentatively steps towards the van, completely unsure of herself. "Is this...thing.. going to eat us?"
Delphinium was quite caught up with the fighting but seeing the strange squarish thing roaring with some kind of power the fairy wasn't sure if it was a friend or foe at first. That is, until it plowed through the stormtroopers that seemed to be growing in number. They all got bowled over or managed to jump out of the way but whatever the case it settled the dispute of who's side the thing was on. It stopped side by side with the rest of the Dawn guard and someone popped out and said come with them if they want to live. A curious statement for anyone as it was quite clear to the fairy these stormtroopers were not going to put up much of a fight. However, the person inside seems so earnest in their plea that it seemed rude to Delphinium to refuse. They look over to the pidgeon from before and seeing all the stormtroopers decides to save the bird too. With their blinding speed they go to attempt one grapple on the bird. Success of not, they then fly into the... wagon? Delphinium wasn't sure what to call it. Once inside, bird or not, Delphinium hears Travin cry his brother's name and the fairy smiles and says "Hello Gavin! nice to see you again. I'm in this thing and I saved the innocent bird from the troopers too! Not sure what you're worried about but I'm sure you know more about what's going on here then we do." As Shavaris says they want to talk to someone Delphinium looks to them and asks "Want me to grab them and drag them in?"
Grapple on Pidgeon: 12
Exfiltration from the combat zone is a good ten seconds of unopposed chaos as the Stormtroopers continue to slaughter one another. A greataxe takes a bite out of an elite before said elite punches the greataxe wielder so hard that his head flies off and goes bouncing across the concrete of the garage, eliciting a surprised shriek from the front of the van. Another Stormtrooper swings with a battleaxe as the target begins to blur, and then an elite Stormtroopers fires a red bolt from some ten feet away and pierces the swingers chest, blowing a hole clean through its back but coming just barely short of killing it...
Violence. Three stormtroopers are cut down almost instantly by the rallying elites in their team, while two more are gravely wounded.
The head, still rolling, goes past a pigeon that hasn't even had time to fly away in the advent of battle. It's shocked as a tiny, bipedal creature grabs it and begins to wrestle it into the black-monster with the painting on it. The bird squawks with fear and flaps its wings frantically as it continuously tries to escape after being wrestled in by Delphinium and then dealing with the metal-bodied ones attempts to calm it. Feathers fly. It craps on the floor of the van.
The doors of the van get closed by Gavin a split second before tires squeal and they go racing back through the Stormtroopers again before the van jumps the ramp, crashes through the drop-gate leading into the street, and they emerge into the full light of the New York day.
Hundreds of cars, like the van, not like the van, line the streets. Yellow cars that say 'taxi' on top. Pedestrians. Flashing lights. Signs that light up. Everyone, every single person, is dressed weird as hell, and that's saying something after they'd traversed the Labyrinth twice.
"They'll be right behind us! Drive on the sidewalks if you have to!" Gavin yells toward the front of the van. It seems there are two people up there; a young man and a young woman...
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Adam is holding on to the sides of the van on the inside, slinging back and forth. He looks out of the front of the van and the speed that they are going. “Hell yes!” is all that he says, excited about the ride and periodically glancing behind them. “Does one of those panes of glass come down? How dya open this damn window?” he fumbles with any latches he sees, hand on his lightsaber, getting ready to throw it at the pursuing vehicle.
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Ward sees Adam fiddling with the windows and with one hand takes out a shrapnel and a napalm bomb. "You could use one of these instead as well. The shrapnel one might pop whatever odd thing they use for tires with how squishy they look." Ward says, then goes back to attempting to calm the pigeon.
P: The Traveling Ward: Natural Napalm Enthusiast. (AURYN: The Hunt For The Last Unicorn.)
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Delphinium lets the Pidgeon go seeing it so frantic and says "Oh, sorry. You're safe now. I'm just really fast so I was able to get you out of danger. Are you okay? They didn't do anything mean to you did they?" Whatever the pigeon does Delphinium goes up to the front to see the pair driving and lands on the dashboard. He looks them over and says "This is an amazing wagon! My friends say you power it with explosions and not horses! Which of you is the caster? Why can't I see explosions?" They turn around to look out the window. "There are so many outside the window too! Oh lots of yellow ones. Kind of like flower wagons." they look towards all the traffic as they look in wonder for a moment but then they see one of the sidewalk trees. Alone in one of those concrete islands like a single spot of green in a world of grey. They get a serious look and add "Oh, that Vigo... he trapped the trees... made them lonely. You all really need our help."
The pigeon continues to freak out as Ward works to calm it. It squawks and fights, and then looks as absolutely pissed off as a pigeon can look when Ward conjures a sparrow and proceeds to coax some crazy avian gangfight in the back of the van.
Everyone becomes aware that a Stormtrooper is hanging on tight to the rear bumper of the van as they try to get away. A couple of other Stormtroopers are chasing after them all, running as hard as their legs can go....
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Ward eventually poofs away his sparrow after the Pidgeon tries to attack it multiple times, and goes back to talking with it for a bit before the Pidgeon faints. Ward goes to grab a shoebox filled with 3 buds of some green herb. Ward turns to either Gavin or the driver. "What are these odd herbs? I haven't encountered them before. I need the box for the feathered one, but I don't know what to do with this." Gavin, grabbing for his brother when Ward turns to him. "DUDE! You can't put that pigeon in the box with my weed! What the **** is wrong with you!" Ward puts the herbs back in the box. "What is its importance? And do you have another box by chance, I believe when the bird wakes it will go back into it's panicking and I want to make sure it doesn't fly away." Ward says "It's importance?" The pimply faced kid in the driver's seat says as he looks at Ward in the rearview mirror. "Uh, dude, that's some good ganj, man. That's it's importance. The bird? Dude **** that bird! I mean, don't actually **** that bird. But **** that bird!" "Yes but what does it do is what I ask. I grow and use my own herbs form medicines and the sort I simply wish to know what this one does. The bird, well it could be very helpful so I want to keep it and take care of it." Ward says. "What does it... Dude. That's weed, man. It gets you high as a motha****a!" "Oh, it's an intoxicant, sort of like alcohol? Interesting. Do you have any seeds or sprouts of it? I would like to further study it, since it seems this one is important to you. " Ward will say, then look for another similar box. The driver makes a ludicrous sounding voice. "Oh its an intoxicant" He says, making exagerated movements of his mouth. "Dude how old are you? Like 80? No it's not like alcohol. It's weed. You know what, nevermind! I'm trying not to die!" Ward tilts his head, "Well, depending on what you consider age. I have experienced around, say 100 years, but I have been alive for a few hundred. The rest however I was resting in stone." Ward says, "Well, you will have to educate me later. " Ward will then look for another box, and if he can't find one ask for Delphs bag "Gavin, your friends are ****in' weird dude." The driver says. Ward then finds a coffee can with holes in it and puts the bird and some seeds inside.
P: The Traveling Ward: Natural Napalm Enthusiast. (AURYN: The Hunt For The Last Unicorn.)
DM:
Dageron would reach out to the stormtrooper hanging from the vehicle, pulling them in with the others. Once secured, he pulls their helmets together until they 'clink' forehead to forehead. Over the cacouphony of noise within the vehicle, Dageron begins to interrogate his new ally.
"Gavin what happened to you!? You gotta older yeh yeh! Travin gots taller but that only happens yesterday hmmm? Where is Gavin taking the dawnguard? Who is Gavin's friend? What is this weeds?" Travin continues squishing his now older younger brother, giddy with excitement as Dag drags in the last of the troopers.
The lights, the sounds, the speed, the craziness in her direct vicinity, another vampire… was getting to be too much for Shavaris. Trying to maintain her sanity, she focuses on who is driving this beast, hoping one is Sarah… but knowing it can’t be that easy.
One is a skinny pimply faced teenage human male with a blue mohawk and the other is a teenage human female wearing a Ramones t-shirt. She has blonde hair but half her head is shaved. She has all the piercings. Nope…nope…nope.
She sits back on her seat and puts her head between her knees, the wood elf not doing so well at the moment. Others can hear her murmuring, no..no..no..no
Johnathan gives one last glance at the vampire he was fighting before rushing into the metal carriage with the others. He spends a few moments looking at the speaker from the vehicle for a moment with confusion. Once Travin announces it is Gavin Johnathan seems to frown a little, though doing his best to hide his frustration from Travin. Johnathan can’t help but imagine the chaos Blix caused for his realm, how Blix’s orders lead to the battle of the unicorn. He gives Gavin a stare for a moment before speaking. This is Blix, sorry I mean Gavin? The former goblin king? ….You’ve aged. Johnathan stops as he hears an ungodly noise coming from the back with Ward playing with a new pet. Johnathan shakes his head before returning his attention to Gavin. He watches in disbelief as Gavin talks about the herbs in the carriage and how to be cool. This is the same person that wanted to overthrow Jareth? Though if everyone in this plane acts like this it sure does explain Travin a bit better.
Never mind that, we need some answers. How did you and the troopers know where we were? Where is this carriage taking us? Also who are the ones mounting the horseless carriage?
The bird continues flipping out until Ward finally gets it put away in a coffee can. It continues to squawk from inside the can, fluttering and making a ton of noise, masking the sounds of Dageron's interrogation of the Stormtrooper.
There is the sound of a siren of some sort nearby, followed by the sound of a Magic Missile striking the top of the van. A shower of sparks falls across Gavin and the driver, the kid with the blue mohawk, shrieks a little.
"They're shooting something at us!" The driver shouts through the van as he tries to get his voice of the sound of Iron Man. "They've got lasers or something!"
"I told you there'd be magic!" Gavin shouts back to the driver. The van rocks below them as they dip off the sidewalk and away from screaming pedestrians and take advantage of an opening on the street.
"Cops!" The girl shouts. "I hear cops! Eat the weed!"
"What!? No one is eating the weed!" Gavin shouts back as he grabs his brother and brings him in closer. "Yeah Travin, that's great that you got taller! Uh...I dunno bro. Time is kinda ****y now? Or was when I got back? Oh, that's Hawk and Turquoise! Oh, and they call me Blix! I thought that was kind of fun. They didn't believe my story until you guys showed up though!"
Suddenly another vehicle speeds up next to them as a boxed-body carriage with flashing lights pulls along side them.
"NYPD! Pull over!" Is announced through the speaker over the sound of other approaching sirens.
"We gotta get the hell out of here!" Turquoise shouts. "Blix! Where did you say we were going!?"
"Just get us out of the city!" He shouts back.
Suddenly a Stormtrooper is on the other side of the van riding some sort of crazy looking flying shark thing. There are three red flashes, and more sparks from the left side of the van before glass shatters and flies into the cab.
"Ooooh shit dude!" Hawk screams. "Oooh shit not the paint!"
"I don't know!" Blix screams to Johnathan over the sound of blazing sirens, busting glass, screaming civilians, and one super upset pigeon. "Scrying!? We can worry about that later!"
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York