Endlessblaze

Seeing the others deciding to focus Flora, Leo grabs the staff of thunderbolts, gives it a spin once, and raises it. "Sorry about this, you'll thank me later!" Leo activates the staff of Lightning bolts, and adds in his last point of mana to boost its power further. His primary target is Flora, and his secondary targets are Wire marionette 3, and rope marionette 3

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"Lets see if your armor can take THIS!" Punch wraps her hand up in what seems to be swirling green light, and a vortex of wind and dust, forming a spike over her fist, "WIND LANCE PUNCH!" Punch uses Color Strike on Judge. Declaring the Element "Wind" and the Physical damage type "Piercing" Perks Stats

Leo makes a sound somewhere between a dismissive or spiteful 'Tch' and a groan of disgust. When he speaks its with an undercurrent of horror and anger. "I was afraid of this. The monster is a corrupted soul. It appears its under a self perpetuating curse that suffuses its Psychic shell, Its mind, with Elemental Despair. That suffering drives it to lash out, and cause more suffering. I think the curse might be feeding on it somehow" "That would explain why it broke loose during the siege, It consumed the suffering and pain inflicted during the battle. How brutally efficient. "Whats worse, the magic used is INCREDIBLY strong. The soul doesn't seem to have the raw willpower needed to purge itself. We need to defeat and contain her, from there, we can figure out how to break the curse and assist in purging the Elemental Despair. If I weren't busy fighting, I'd feel sick. Lets finish this quickly!" Leo uses Winter Blade on chain marionette 1

"Target sighted! Lets see what we have here...." Leo brings a hand up to his scouter, adjusting it slightly as his shield beams to life, and he draws snow from her scabbard. Loadout Relevant perks Stats Leo actives the Scouter Targeting the Witch. This will reveal information about her, and Grant Leo plus 2 Res against her attacks for the rest of the battle. Leo's armor grants him +1 Res, and an additional +2 against magical attacks Leo's Golemic Arm mounted computer grants him +1 Res Leo has Night Vision Leo's Aglets allow him to walk on hot surfaces and keep him from getting stuck in mud. MP:1 EG: 27

"Yeah..." "We're close. Everyone, be ready for anything. This is the center of this whole place, and the signal is coming from inside. Our target is most likely beyond that door." Leo takes a breath. Alright, time to see what they were really dealing with. Once everyone is ready, enter the keep

"Okaaaa….Hold it there....I think Ive got this" Channeling up some force mana, Leo lodges it under the Portcullis, speaking a short and simple spell to render the magic self sustaining and more solid. "Okaaaaay….I think that should be good" Leo nods and carefulyyyyyy moves to let go of the portcullis, ready to grab back on or back off if something starts going bad, And assuming nothing bad happens he will move to open the door.

"Well, that won't do. Next Idea" Leo will take hold of the portcullis, careful not to stab himself with them. "Hey guys, a little help?" Leo with, with the help of the party if willing, attempt to lift the portcullis

"Well, Obvious things first." Leo knocks on a part of the portcullis or wall that won't stab him. "Hello? Flora, We're here."

"That is a reallyyyy useful power. Im going to have to study you at some point. Any other cool tricks up your sleeves?" Leo continues, walking and talking

Punch, pats the head of the purple haired girl as she passes her. Walking forward. "Oh don't you worry about us, we will be fine. Im more interested in....." She keeps walking. And looks up at judge. "You. What about you big boy? Lets see if your as tough as you look!" Punch leaps high into the air, and spins, generating large ammounts of rotational energy both in regards to her own mass, and withen her bodily energy. As she comes back down, she prepares to slam her foot into Judge's face and impart alllll that twisting, spinning energy into him. "VORTEX KICK" (On judge) Vortex Kick: The user jumps and spins in the air, before delivering a powerful kick to a target. The imparted kinetic and bodily energy then forces the target to spin rapidly. Deals STR+1d6 and Inflicts Dizzy for two rounds. This move has a three-round cooldown. Dizzy causes the afflicted target to have a 50% miss chance. Actions Perks Stats

"Woah woah woah…." Leo stumbles a bit, swinging his arms, before regaining his balance. "Oh. Hey kusuke. I guess your here. Looks like a one way forcefield or warped space....Lets give the others a second to realize it and come through."

"Uh. hang on what was-" Leo turns around to see the rest of the party gone. "Crap, Flora must have shifted our position, or something. Or maybe its just...." Leo takes a few steps back to see if he can get back with the group

Leo starts to explain again. But snow instead cuts him off, opting to make this simpler "Well we-" "Dont bother, beginning playback" Snow quickly replays the explanations given thus far from her memory. Preventing Leo from having to explain again, having decided it was getting old.

Leo makes a "Tch" sound. "Some pepole just don't know what they have. If I ever run into him, Ill be sure to stab him a few times. Alternativly, freezing someone's blood so that it expands can be quite debilitating in certain situations. Is this guy dead, or is he still running around?" "Why would he even bother with the souls of his family? Why not use Lizards or a Hired soul? Sure he can't just go mind wiping them, but lizards hardly give a shit and a hired soul would be complying already. Why bother with mindwipes anyways?"

"I don't belive you did no. How bad are we talking?"

"Well....that was freaky." Leo's fingers twitched. The clearly non friendly movements had kept making him thing a fight was about to happen. Now He had an adrenaline rush, and an antsy desire to start swinging his sword around. "It will likely only get worse from here....This area looks pleasant, but I doubt it will keep for long." "Lets see if we cant get any more information now that we are inside." Leo speaks, pouring out his Analyze spell once again. Scanning the area around him.... "This is pretty intresting actualy. Its not just the buildings. Everything in this pocket dimension is nothing more then a solid illusion. Even those monsters back there are just mana constructs. The spellwork is really strange. Some of it is just, Flawless and clean, but then there are just massive chunks that make my very first creations look GOOD, And considering I have no formal education and learned my first spells from a bunch of old books in a Post-Apocalyptic wasteland, many of which were damaged, thats saying something." "All in all, this place is not much larger then the associated field back in normal space" "More concerningly, She watching us." While Leo is thinking, snow is the one responding to kusuke "She might not necessarily dislike us. Which may be even more concerning. There is strong evidence that this Flora, is insane, remember? And one of the directives that was being put into stoneheart was something about 'Finding real friends'. Of course, this means its VERY likely we are indeed going the right way." "Snow. Let's give stoneheart another checkup. If we are closing in on the source, the effect could be stronger. There might be more information" "Right" Leo taps at his computer, but after a few moments.... "Nothing. No change that I can see....We should probbly get moving, wouldent want to keep our.....host waiting Leo will, Party willing, Continue

"No nothing like that. Short version, something I bought in the last world I was in broke loose, and did things I didn't know it could do. We need to retrieve it." "The lost golems seem to be past that wall the bird found, but that might indicate some way to pass it. We should check that out. If they are alone, we might get more information on what happened and can go from there. If they aren't, then great, we found our target" Assuming the party is on board with it, head in the direction of the distress beacon

"We are fighting a monster of some kind. There may be a small chance of a peaceful resolution, but almost certainly fighting it. We also need to recover a particular gem that should be in its possession, and bring it back intact." "I just got back from scouting. Once we pass through the nearby portal, we will end up in a sort of pocket dimension, containing an illusionary city. Our target is a monster inside. We need to recover the gem. Going off what we have learned, and what I was told by the merchant who I bought it from, the gem is likely a container for it, and once we beat it, it will be forced to retreat back into it, not unlike a ghost." "Ethier that or the gem MAKES monsters. I won't be able to be sure until we get a closer look." "If everyone is up to it, are we ready to go?"

Getting a small amount of blood drawn, and getting some polish from the smith, Leo starts to prepare three pieces of equipment From Thran vine-metal, and T-gold he makes some armor, and gives it a nice polish. He then tries to make some shielding aglets, but they have a few problems He tries to fix them with an enchantment, but ends up weakening them. Grumbling, he shrugs and puts them on anyways. Before testing a mana type, and trying an alt cast on a bit of glass He quickly unenchants everything but the glass itself and puts it in a box more testing finds a few more things for later use. Finaly he uses cores of T-gold and T-glass and some enchantments to whip some stuff up.

Once AZ and Satomi arrive, Leo is not present. The massive golem that follows him around though is, and Helpfully informs them in a mindless mechanical tone, of the current situation. Everything Leo told kusuke before walking off with his new bird is relayed to them, and they are informed Leo should be right back. Soon enough, Leo starts walking back with his scanning bird in hand, accompanied by Kusuke and the pair meets up with the group. "Oh Hey guys. I take it your interested in the mission?" Sitting the bird down on the table he seems to take note of Satomi's present state. "Oh, what's wrong Satomi? You don't look like your in the best shape."

"Ill be fine. Im not dependent on foreign mana to live or function. Unlike a normal golem or enchantment, my mana comes from my own soul, and is directly tied to my own will. As opposed to my golems who lack souls and depend wholly on mana intake and programing. If it were strong enough to effect me, It wouldn't just be Stoneheart. It would be subjugating more or less all enchantments. Its not even effecting my other golems, Just Stoneheart specifically because of the unique modified spellwork I was testing on him." "Thats why I've wrapped stoneheart around me. Effects like this go both ways. If Stoneheart is sucking up my mana and my will, its going to prevent the field from effecting him as badly. We aren't talking about just a brief exposure. Everyone and every thing in this area is being bathed in it. I wouldn't want to leave a golem out here like this for too long, but it should be fine" "It might help to explain that any pretty much any Thaumic mana, that is, mana which includes Air in its attunement, can be used to alter the effects of any spell when cast. If you cast your fireball spell with plant mana, you might get like, a ball of plant matter or a flame that plants can consume as fuel. It depends on the exact spell and mana type." "Stone heart was created useing spellwork modified by the mana of my missing item, a gem of some kind or something. So the energy of the gem and Stoneheart are more or less the same. That mana is also tied to wishes and desires, Stoneheart was MEANT to be easily controllable. The whole point of me testing the golomancy spells that make him up with that mana type, was to see if useing it like that would make a golem responsive to mental commands"

"In this case, the resonance could be considered a good thing. It's what allowed me to get the portal open to begin with and find out more about what was going on. I should be able to get a lot of cool information out of Stoneheart's new codes and programs. Theres even a language in there I don't recognize. Its REALLY bad code though. Sloppy, inefficient. Its likely that this individual has no experience working with golems and the changes are just a natural effect of stoneheart coming into contact with the field and the will of the being in question." "The thing about golems, is like other enchanted devices, they need mana to function and exsist. And like any magical construct they can be effected by mana coming in if it contains strong directed will. Leave a golem alone in a forest for a long time and it will usualy go feral eventualy, or at least gain new animal like habits. Likewise a dose of doped ambiance can seriously screw with them. Stone golems are usualy better about this, but Stoneheart was created as nothing more then a test of the mana type of the item in question. He was born from mana attuned to it and honestly was never actualy meant to be something we kept around, that would explain why he is so vulnerable to it, when frostbrute has not been effected." "I kept him because I realized that part of the effect of the mana used, was that he could feel emotion. Dident feel right to ditch him after that. So I gave him a body. At the moment he is still loyal and has gained some intresting new bits, So as long as we deal with this problem before something bad happens, it should be a net gain." "As for insanity I didn't feel any headaches coming on when I looked at the strange code, and looking at this....city isn't doing anything to me...So It should be ok. We should be able to just jump in. Why? Is it effecting you?"

He finds Leo sitting at his table outside, his hands hovering over a new bird golem with a long wire connecting to a...control pad with a screen? there is a mix of distortion in the air, like a heat haze, and shimmering pale blue over the construct and under his hands. Initially he does not even look up to answer. "An item I brought with me after having purchased it from a world hopping merchant seems to have activated its previously unknown functions, and breached the containment procedures I created with the help of the drayd. Though it hasn't really done anything yet aside from addle stoneheart." "Despair, sadness, must return. must find, hatred, return, return." "Be patient stoneheart, we are going to find her" "Yeah, basicly this entire area has had its ambiance displaced by a magic field, Which resonates with stoneheart due to how he was created. Thankfully this gives us plenty of info and means to solve the problem. At the moment, Ive ordered stoneheart to remain on me so my mana will counter act the field. He keeps wanting to 'Return' to someone named 'Flora'...." Leo trails off for a moment, looking up with an actualy...concerned look on his face. As he stated, stoneheart has wrapped itself around him, as opposed to its usual thing of just floating around and following. "This is not really to big of a deal on its own. But.....I'm concerned with what we will find. I suspect this Flora may not presently be of sound mind, considering the data I got from that item prior, and the way Stoneheart keeps rambling. This could be a rescue mission. Find the item, get this person help." He looks back down at the bird and starts speaking more spellwork at it, If Kusuke payed enough attention, he might recognize snippets and chunks of the spell he had used on the dryad's wine glass earlier, broken up, slightly altered, and mixed in with a bunch of other words to create something he seemed to be binding into the construct. "Stoneheart's directives are being overwritten and new functions have been added. It would seem the Item displaced itself and its container, along with the lab tech golems who were monitoring it and slowing down its magic intake, into extra dimensional space. Inside the magic field are several points that seem to be like doors. Stoneheart's new function 'Return' is likely a key to those doors." He pauses to follow up snow's explanation. "Its ability to move in Other Directions may be what allowed it to escape containment, as it never occurred to me it might have that ability, I only shielded against it in three dimensions, and tried to block magic as much magic as I could safely. Ill have to correct that mistake later. Once I have time, further scan of the new functions might allow me to make a countermeasure." He mutters a few more of his golem spells at it, before nodding, satisfied to himself as its screen lights up. standing up and lifting the bird into his arms "Ive copied the 'Return' function from stoneheart into this new bird, and also installed an enchantment based on my Analyze spell. This should allow us to scout out what we are looking at, before diving in head first. So we can make preparations if need be." "Lets see whats on the other side shall we? Snow have frostbrute explain that to anyone else who arrives while I'm checking this out" Leo heads over to the nearby zone, whether kusuke follows or not, and once in range activates the bird, and sends it flying off, as he holds its handheld part. As he presses something a portal opens up nearby, and the bird flys in. "Intresting...Lets see whats inside." "Not as big as it looks huh? Not a surprise. The amount of energy that must go into this is already pretty huge. Something is moveing in there though...Lets go in for a closer look...." Leo sends the bird of in the direction of the movement, having it send back data as it goes. "Every Adventurer instinct I have is screaming that thing is hostile and, or Flora. Can't get the bird close to it huh? This is good data though. Ill have to review it later when this problem has been dealt with"