- the machines are technically healing machines ... only the intact one works. You step inside and it revitalizes you, leaving you healthy and glowing (not literally, but you know, like a skincare ad) but the reverse can also be used. They suck your life out of you and make you weak and ill and suspectible to injury - to make it heal you have to have the bracelet, but as Margaret found out if you break it ... it'll start sucking the life out of everything in the room - to get to the bracelet you kinda have to climb through the broken glass hole which, idk, doesn't seem great to me - There is a part of a Threshold Crest that seems to power these machines, and you'll feel a strong desire to retrieve it.
I think at this point, too, the eyes are impatient. Margaret, you hear a voice in your head. `He knows something. He has something you need. You need to get the Crest.`
Owner hears `Be careful. She's going to strike first--!` ]
[yeah. okay. it might be harder if it was sidon, or guy, but it's owner. he's been passive aggressive this whole time and never seems to trust her. if she has to get him out of the way to do this, so be it.
but she doesn't strike first, actually. she's careful. she walks towards him a little.]
Hey, Owner, mind if I try something with that one?
[ he pauses what he's doing, turning to look at her. owner doesn't answer right away, and instead simply steps away from the contraption, and gestures towards it. ]
[great! well, then, she will just try to go into the machine and grab that bracelet from the skeleton. future vision locked and loaded to alert her if he tries to make a move.]
[she's so confident in her plan but even if she did predict the future she'd still have to dodge a sword.
anyway. she rolled a 5 on future sight so she realizes she's about to be stabbed with a sword as she's stabbed with a sword, and i rolled a 5 on dodging so she just is stabbed in the back.
[she sticks her hand into the broken glass and yanks out that bracelet, not caring whether or not she cuts her hand. the wound in her back is very concerning. she can feel her vision swimming, going dark. blood is dripping down her back. but she can heal herself. it's fine. it's fine.
with the bracelet, she's going to slowly start backing up towards the other orb. she has to keep her concentration on to continue holding him in place and it's very hard to keep concentrating like this, so you should keep rolling to see if you get free. she's watching him as she moves and bleeding heavily so moving very slowly, but she's also reaching for her gun with a shaking hand.]
Thank you. I feel like we have been lacking humor between ourselves lately.
[ he keeps struggling to get free, taking note of what she's taking-- the bracelet? he files that away as something potentially important, because why else would she want it? she only wants important things, because margaret is so full of herself.
eventually, he does break out of the hold. there a slight pause as he registers what happened, and he is immediately going to rush over to try to stab her again. sure, she has a gun, but sometimes yolo. ]
[with her future sight she fails to predict whether he'll come after her with sword or with a spell but that's fine, she was going for the gun, so she'll continue going for the gun as she backs up. she will fire at him several shots, but her hands are trembling and she's dizzy so her aim is bad. feel free to get hit by them however you want though.]
I guess we're just going through a rocky patch. When I bring you back, I'll make sure you're less of a dick.
[ that's fine. he dodges one completely, and two others graze him, enough that he stops advancing on her for a few seconds. ]
I'd be surprised if anyone can meet your standards, Margaret.
[ anyway, guess who has telekinesis because of a scroll from over 100 comments ago. however, i rolled an 8, so this is likely going to be easy to dodge. but he is going to yeet some of the broken glass over at her. ]
[she doesn't fucking dodge it!! not at all! instead, she's going to try to charm him. and i mean with a magic spell, not just with our general magic. i only rolled a 13 though so idk if she'll succeed. if she does, he'll be friendly and do what she says again until he next gets injured.
i made all of my magic spells when i took arcana really based on controlling people and i see now i should have just taken lightning.]
See? That's how an employee should speak to their boss. Just do me a favor and wait there? Or kill yourself, or something.
[charm person cannot make you kill yourself but also it would not be fun for you to have to just stand here and be charmed so it can work that way if you want it to. you can keep rolling to break out of it though.
she's going to stumble backwards and try to climb into the healing machine, dripping blood as she goes.]
[well she tries to slam the door to the healing pod shut but it's glass so he can probably sword her right through that. ahhhhh. she is trying to turn on the healing machine but i rolled bad on arcana so she doesn't get it this round!]
[she can get hit extremely badly, his sword and the shards of glass driving into her body with little resistance. but she manages to turn the healing pod on. per alli, it will start healing her wounds by draining his. so he can keep stabbing, and any of these stabs should kill her, but unless he can get her out of here she'll keep surviving and he'll keep growing weaker.]
I'm not... I'm not going anywhere, you little freak.
[she actually has counterspell but oh no she's too distracted by being healed and stabbed so it doesn't stop this from happening! she turns into a car and smashes through the glass, breaking the healing pod and shattering the gem. it's going to start draining the lifeforce from both of us but that's a latter problem.
the right now problem is that she's trying to ram him. you stupid bitch! this is priceless ancient technology we need to fulfill our beautiful dream and you're destroying it with your petty bullshit!
[ see this fulfilled his plan on getting her out of the pod but now it has created a new problem, which is that she is now a car.
i somehow rolled a 20 which means owner just jumps on top of the front hood and is just kind of hanging on now somehow with one arm and holding onto a sword
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THE REJUVENATION CHAMBER
- to make it heal you have to have the bracelet, but as Margaret found out if you break it ... it'll start sucking the life out of everything in the room
- to get to the bracelet you kinda have to climb through the broken glass hole which, idk, doesn't seem great to me
- There is a part of a Threshold Crest that seems to power these machines, and you'll feel a strong desire to retrieve it.
I think at this point, too, the eyes are impatient. Margaret, you hear a voice in your head. `He knows something. He has something you need. You need to get the Crest.`
Owner hears `Be careful. She's going to strike first--!` ]
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but she doesn't strike first, actually. she's careful. she walks towards him a little.]
Hey, Owner, mind if I try something with that one?
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Go ahead, Margaret. I shall wait.
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anyway. she rolled a 5 on future sight so she realizes she's about to be stabbed with a sword as she's stabbed with a sword, and i rolled a 5 on dodging so she just is stabbed in the back.
ouch.
anyway she's casting Hold Person on him.]
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he is held (derogatory). ]
Ah, you can't take a joke.
[ he stabbed her. ]
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[she sticks her hand into the broken glass and yanks out that bracelet, not caring whether or not she cuts her hand. the wound in her back is very concerning. she can feel her vision swimming, going dark. blood is dripping down her back. but she can heal herself. it's fine. it's fine.
with the bracelet, she's going to slowly start backing up towards the other orb. she has to keep her concentration on to continue holding him in place and it's very hard to keep concentrating like this, so you should keep rolling to see if you get free. she's watching him as she moves and bleeding heavily so moving very slowly, but she's also reaching for her gun with a shaking hand.]
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[ he keeps struggling to get free, taking note of what she's taking-- the bracelet? he files that away as something potentially important, because why else would she want it? she only wants important things, because margaret is so full of herself.
eventually, he does break out of the hold. there a slight pause as he registers what happened, and he is immediately going to rush over to try to stab her again. sure, she has a gun, but sometimes yolo. ]
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I guess we're just going through a rocky patch. When I bring you back, I'll make sure you're less of a dick.
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I'd be surprised if anyone can meet your standards, Margaret.
[ anyway, guess who has telekinesis because of a scroll from over 100 comments ago. however, i rolled an 8, so this is likely going to be easy to dodge. but he is going to yeet some of the broken glass over at her. ]
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[she doesn't fucking dodge it!! not at all! instead, she's going to try to charm him. and i mean with a magic spell, not just with our general magic. i only rolled a 13 though so idk if she'll succeed. if she does, he'll be friendly and do what she says again until he next gets injured.
i made all of my magic spells when i took arcana really based on controlling people and i see now i should have just taken lightning.]
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rolls lower so it works. so he just stops in the middle of trying to murder her with glass. ]
Yes?
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[charm person cannot make you kill yourself but also it would not be fun for you to have to just stand here and be charmed so it can work that way if you want it to. you can keep rolling to break out of it though.
she's going to stumble backwards and try to climb into the healing machine, dripping blood as she goes.]
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but since this is an injury, it does allow him to snap out of it. he yanks the sword out and immediately dashes to her to try to stab her AGAIN. ]
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he is honestly just going to stab wildly at the glass. i rolled a 12, so, if she gets hit and how badly it is can be up to you. ]
It's going to be okay, Margaret. Please come out.
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I'm not... I'm not going anywhere, you little freak.
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after a few stabs and nothing really seeming to happen to her, he pauses and just stares for a moment.
sorry he is going to try (rolls 10) to use polymorph to turn her into a car mostly because it would be too big for this thing and break it ]
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the right now problem is that she's trying to ram him. you stupid bitch! this is priceless ancient technology we need to fulfill our beautiful dream and you're destroying it with your petty bullshit!
she honks her horn. beep beep.]
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i somehow rolled a 20 which means owner just jumps on top of the front hood and is just kind of hanging on now somehow with one arm and holding onto a sword
wheeeeee ]
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she's just going to screech around the room making sharp turns and honking her horn trying to throw him off.]
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Margaret! You are an awful driver!
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and he is launched off the hood and crashes onto the ground nearby. he doesn't move. ]
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