Transian Public Library - Log 7
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xp_logsAs the creatures besiege them, Wanda and Amanda combine abilities to find a way to stop the device.
"OK, there doesn't seem to be an end to these fucking things." Kane hissed as he hit one hard enough to fling it off the road and crash down the side of the mountain. "Tell me there's some kind of off switch!"
"Breaking the fucking thing summoning them seems like a good bet!" Amanda replied, spearing another with a piece of guard rail she had magically levitated. "Wanda, are you able to whammy it?"
Wanda unceremoniously booted the one she was fighting and a well pulled string sending it tumbling away from her hard enough to catch some impressive air as it fell off the mountain. "One whammy coming up," she responded, twisting back to the machine. Entropic energy pooled around her hands - she was going for brute force. As she slammed her hands down on the device, shields flared around it and the energy bounced right back into Wanda's chest.
The pulse of her own power entering her sent her flying backwards where she hit the road and bounced, coming to rest in a heap of limbs, red static, and tendrils of smoke from where it had hit.
"Oh bloody fuck." A brief but intense circle of flames cleared a path around the witch for long enough for her to run to Wanda's side, where she called up a shielding spell over both of them. "Don't move, let me make sure you didn't break something," she told the older woman. There was no fuel for a healing spell, unless she drained her co-workers and the men they'd captured, so she went with her first aid teaching, carefully feeling Wanda's neck and head for unnatural movement or signs of bleeding.
Breathing felt wrong and her entire world was awash in a sea of red static, lines fractured and fuzzy but she could move. That was all that mattered. Wanda gently pushed Amanda's hand aside. "No time," she groaned as if she had just eaten part of the road. "Fix me later, we break the machine first."
Amanda looped one of Wanda's arms over her shoulder to help hoist the taller woman to her feet but Wanda pulled away quickly, muttering as tendrils of entropic energy burned holes into Amanda's clothes. "'m overloaded but..." Her eyes, glowing red under the magic shield, turned towards the device.
Amanda nodded and stepped back to give Wanda space, but even so random chaos energy was swirling around inside her shielding spell, untying her bootlaces and threatening to dissolve the seams in her jacket. "We need to get past the shields," she said, frowning at the device. "It's set up to repel attacks."
Wanda nodded as she tried to catch her breath. Her eyes had a hard time focusing through the spiraling lines of chaos but she could see that Amanda's shield was being battered, not only from the outside attacks but from Wanda's own power. But..."You said attacks," she rasped. "What about defensive magic?"
"Defens... of course!" Amanda focussed and case a second shielding spell, this one a small floating globe about the size of a soccer ball. "No time for a test run, we need to get the fuck out of here. Fill 'er up."
“One chaos filled floating ball coming up.” Straightening up, Wanda took a deep breath and let it out right as she slid her hand through the shielding. Energy flared around her palm and fingers and then outwards until it was pressing against the inside of the shields. She quickly removed her hand before her power degraded the magic.
Amanda gritted her teeth. The feedback from Wanda's chaos energy was reverberating through the spell and it was all she could do to maintain it. "'M gunna have to drop the big shield," she managed. "Get ready for incoming." The bubble surrounding the two of them winked out a bare second later, but the small sphere of chaos energy stabilised in mid-air. With almost a shooing gesture, Amanda sent it floating above the melee around them towards the machine.
Like dogs realizing there was a ball in play, the growing crowd of creatures snapped around to follow the ball. As it got closer to the machine, a large portion abandoned attacking them and focused the defensive magic. "The machine might not realize it's a threat but they seem to do," Wanda said, voice a bit stronger. Her powers were still dialed up to 11 but, as she flexed her fingers, that was about to be a good thing. "Come on, you little pieces of chaos, let me show you how it's done."
Looking up, the red in her eyes intense with overloaded chaos energy, Wanda headed towards the melee. It may have been because chaos spoke to chaos in that moment or they were too busy trying - and failing - to reach the ball of magic but she was mostly left alone until she was several deep. Garrison and Jean were a safe distance away as Wanda grabbed hold of two creatures and, with a sigh, released everything that had been building up.
The shockwave of chaos and entropy lit up the mountain side.
"Very nice," Amanda called over to Wanda, focussing on her spell. The crimson-filled ball floated over the heads of the remaining creatures until it reached the machine. Then slowly it began to descend; Amanda's face was a mask of concentration, the tip of her tongue sticking out of the corner of her mouth and oblivious to the chaos around her. The protection spell around the device flickered as the ball made contact with it and halted... then slowly passed through. Amanda paused just a moment longer to let it hover just above it and then snapped her fingers.
The ball winked out of existence, releasing the stored chaos energy.
As it washed over the device, electricity crackled and enveloped the ball. It began to rotate faster and irregularly, tumbling until finally it lifted itself to the top of the truck bed and exploded, showering them all with the greasy tinny back of the throat taste of wasted magic. The rents in the sky disappeared immediately, and the remaining figures collapsed and dissipated almost as quickly.
There was a long pause as they all looked around, but no further signs of magic appeared. "I guess that's it, eh?" Kane said, walking to the truck and starting to haul out large and heavy books full of books as Jean and MA got the cars. It only took a few minutes to load them both up, and less than twenty to find the winding country road off the highway up to the mountain pass where they had landed the Blackbird in stealth mode. On the way out, Kane texted a meaningless single digit to Silver Sable, indicating that the Land Rovers were ready to be collected. Ten minutes later, when the first of Dr. Faustus' security detail was reaching the ambush site, the Blackbird was already in the air and headed home.
"OK, there doesn't seem to be an end to these fucking things." Kane hissed as he hit one hard enough to fling it off the road and crash down the side of the mountain. "Tell me there's some kind of off switch!"
"Breaking the fucking thing summoning them seems like a good bet!" Amanda replied, spearing another with a piece of guard rail she had magically levitated. "Wanda, are you able to whammy it?"
Wanda unceremoniously booted the one she was fighting and a well pulled string sending it tumbling away from her hard enough to catch some impressive air as it fell off the mountain. "One whammy coming up," she responded, twisting back to the machine. Entropic energy pooled around her hands - she was going for brute force. As she slammed her hands down on the device, shields flared around it and the energy bounced right back into Wanda's chest.
The pulse of her own power entering her sent her flying backwards where she hit the road and bounced, coming to rest in a heap of limbs, red static, and tendrils of smoke from where it had hit.
"Oh bloody fuck." A brief but intense circle of flames cleared a path around the witch for long enough for her to run to Wanda's side, where she called up a shielding spell over both of them. "Don't move, let me make sure you didn't break something," she told the older woman. There was no fuel for a healing spell, unless she drained her co-workers and the men they'd captured, so she went with her first aid teaching, carefully feeling Wanda's neck and head for unnatural movement or signs of bleeding.
Breathing felt wrong and her entire world was awash in a sea of red static, lines fractured and fuzzy but she could move. That was all that mattered. Wanda gently pushed Amanda's hand aside. "No time," she groaned as if she had just eaten part of the road. "Fix me later, we break the machine first."
Amanda looped one of Wanda's arms over her shoulder to help hoist the taller woman to her feet but Wanda pulled away quickly, muttering as tendrils of entropic energy burned holes into Amanda's clothes. "'m overloaded but..." Her eyes, glowing red under the magic shield, turned towards the device.
Amanda nodded and stepped back to give Wanda space, but even so random chaos energy was swirling around inside her shielding spell, untying her bootlaces and threatening to dissolve the seams in her jacket. "We need to get past the shields," she said, frowning at the device. "It's set up to repel attacks."
Wanda nodded as she tried to catch her breath. Her eyes had a hard time focusing through the spiraling lines of chaos but she could see that Amanda's shield was being battered, not only from the outside attacks but from Wanda's own power. But..."You said attacks," she rasped. "What about defensive magic?"
"Defens... of course!" Amanda focussed and case a second shielding spell, this one a small floating globe about the size of a soccer ball. "No time for a test run, we need to get the fuck out of here. Fill 'er up."
“One chaos filled floating ball coming up.” Straightening up, Wanda took a deep breath and let it out right as she slid her hand through the shielding. Energy flared around her palm and fingers and then outwards until it was pressing against the inside of the shields. She quickly removed her hand before her power degraded the magic.
Amanda gritted her teeth. The feedback from Wanda's chaos energy was reverberating through the spell and it was all she could do to maintain it. "'M gunna have to drop the big shield," she managed. "Get ready for incoming." The bubble surrounding the two of them winked out a bare second later, but the small sphere of chaos energy stabilised in mid-air. With almost a shooing gesture, Amanda sent it floating above the melee around them towards the machine.
Like dogs realizing there was a ball in play, the growing crowd of creatures snapped around to follow the ball. As it got closer to the machine, a large portion abandoned attacking them and focused the defensive magic. "The machine might not realize it's a threat but they seem to do," Wanda said, voice a bit stronger. Her powers were still dialed up to 11 but, as she flexed her fingers, that was about to be a good thing. "Come on, you little pieces of chaos, let me show you how it's done."
Looking up, the red in her eyes intense with overloaded chaos energy, Wanda headed towards the melee. It may have been because chaos spoke to chaos in that moment or they were too busy trying - and failing - to reach the ball of magic but she was mostly left alone until she was several deep. Garrison and Jean were a safe distance away as Wanda grabbed hold of two creatures and, with a sigh, released everything that had been building up.
The shockwave of chaos and entropy lit up the mountain side.
"Very nice," Amanda called over to Wanda, focussing on her spell. The crimson-filled ball floated over the heads of the remaining creatures until it reached the machine. Then slowly it began to descend; Amanda's face was a mask of concentration, the tip of her tongue sticking out of the corner of her mouth and oblivious to the chaos around her. The protection spell around the device flickered as the ball made contact with it and halted... then slowly passed through. Amanda paused just a moment longer to let it hover just above it and then snapped her fingers.
The ball winked out of existence, releasing the stored chaos energy.
As it washed over the device, electricity crackled and enveloped the ball. It began to rotate faster and irregularly, tumbling until finally it lifted itself to the top of the truck bed and exploded, showering them all with the greasy tinny back of the throat taste of wasted magic. The rents in the sky disappeared immediately, and the remaining figures collapsed and dissipated almost as quickly.
There was a long pause as they all looked around, but no further signs of magic appeared. "I guess that's it, eh?" Kane said, walking to the truck and starting to haul out large and heavy books full of books as Jean and MA got the cars. It only took a few minutes to load them both up, and less than twenty to find the winding country road off the highway up to the mountain pass where they had landed the Blackbird in stealth mode. On the way out, Kane texted a meaningless single digit to Silver Sable, indicating that the Land Rovers were ready to be collected. Ten minutes later, when the first of Dr. Faustus' security detail was reaching the ambush site, the Blackbird was already in the air and headed home.
