Weather Warning
Mar. 19th, 2005 04:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothYesterday, after discovering that the Togo's near Lazar's house had closed down and was being replaced by a 'Georgios', and being forced to settle for Quiznos (consensus after dinner: wow, Quiznos really does suck as much as we remembered it sucking), and futzing around with the computer that loomed in the middle of the room blocking everyone's view of everyone else (note: this is a good thing, because I got to take the computer home afterwards q:3), we had a session of the GURPS game.
Murdock had spent the time over the two weeks since the last game perfecting his antigravity craft... only problem is, he didn't actually have the tech to do antigravity, since it's TL 9 and he's limited to TL 8. He said that Lazar had told him that this magic metal 'retrosumite' that he'd been using for everything was also good for contragrav, but Lazar corrected him and said that it could only be used for *conducting* gravity and not redirecting it. So he had to start over.
We did eventually get to playing, though.
Don Faraday spent a full day, and emptied out most of his laboratory's stores, constructing a convertable dirigible to quickly carry the party to the next pinion. Kitten replicated himself five times using timeport and spent five days making potions, while John sat around bored.
But eventually they set off, heading for the ley line crossing that the rat had identified as the 'weather control college'. They made good time until, to no one's surprise, they ran into a giant thunderstorm with hurricane-force winds. Don managed to land his craft without damaging it, but before he could finish emptying out and folding up the balloon, Kitten's attempt to ward away the lightning instead attracted a huge barrage right into the gasbag, which *didn't* catch fire -- Kitten had tried to make it lightning proof -- but *did* ruin it, and rupture the hydrogen storage tanks.
Kitten's second attempt *did* make them immune to further lightning, though, and for good measure he set up a zone of zero wind around the vehicle so that they could drive relatively safely, bothered only by the muddy ground. The storm tried to drop trees on them with lightning, and wash them away, but they eventually made it through the storm to the edge of a mist-filled chasm.
Kitten cast a spell on everyone to let them see through the mist. >.< Now, it couldn't see through *all* the mist, since the force of the weather control totem-cluster got stronger the closer to ground zero it got, but that just sort of made it obvious where they were headed -- a misty area on the far side of a forest past a lake at the base of the cliff they were parked on top of.
Kitten didn't want to try flying or teleporting people, because he was already keeping up a HUGE array of spells, so the three of them started walking down the narrow switchbacked path. They didn't get far before they were attacked by a sudden wind -- one that Kitten's Wind spell didn't counteract! Especially because he screwed up and accidentally cast Create Water Elemental instead.
The wind battered at them, and lifted Kitten clean off the ground, but the created elemental also grabbed hold of him and kept the wind from being able to just drop him to his death. John tried firing his ordinary (well, infinite ammo, but it was ordinary ammo) gun at the wind, with about as much effect as firing a gun into the wind usually has. Kitten, however, tried to destroy the air around himself, which hurt the windy creature, and sent it running off in pain.
Recognizing its screams as human screams, Kitten figured out that this was a mage in a Body of Wind form -- normally, he'd be visible as a white mist, but they were all *in* a white mist and had see-through-mist spells up. Oops! So Kitten dispelled the body of wind spell, then, when the mage cast his own Wind spell to whisk himself away as he Slowfalled safely groundwards, Kitten dispelled his Slowfall, and the mage's own wind slammed him into the surface of the lake Very Hard. They didn't have any more trouble from that quarter.
After the water elemental ferried them all to the base of the cliff, the party decided to follow the obvious pathway, which led through a city-like collection of small buildings built into an underhanging cavern area at one side of the chasm they found themselves in. While walking through the strange architechture (Kitten: "It was built by hamsters!") they noticed meter-wide paths of frost crackling along the ground (and walls, and occasionally ceiling) towards them. The enemies were moving slowing, so they dodged past and ran... except for Kitten, who was engulfed in one of the wandering hexes of absolute zero, and frozen solid.
That is, Kitten himself was fine -- like everyone else, he had a ridiculously well-cast temperature tolerance ritual up that made absolute zero be well within his comfort zone. Unfortunately, his equipment and the water in the surrounding air was not affected by that ritual, and he was covered in a thick layer of frost, while all his stuff was flash-chilled and rendered solid and brittle. Kitten wasn't able to break out on his own, but Don used his laser shotgun in heat-ray mode to break him out, and then they all ran away for real, easily outpacing the strange areas of chill.
By this point, the goal was in sight -- or, well, out of sight, but the mist around it was in sight, and they had only to follow the path through the forest to reach it.
last session | next session
There were two more mages who were supposed to attack them, but one was going to use lightning and the other cold. Not really terribly useful attacks against the party right now... I'll have to give it some thought and see if there are any indirect attacks that might be worth using.
Murdock had spent the time over the two weeks since the last game perfecting his antigravity craft... only problem is, he didn't actually have the tech to do antigravity, since it's TL 9 and he's limited to TL 8. He said that Lazar had told him that this magic metal 'retrosumite' that he'd been using for everything was also good for contragrav, but Lazar corrected him and said that it could only be used for *conducting* gravity and not redirecting it. So he had to start over.
We did eventually get to playing, though.
Don Faraday spent a full day, and emptied out most of his laboratory's stores, constructing a convertable dirigible to quickly carry the party to the next pinion. Kitten replicated himself five times using timeport and spent five days making potions, while John sat around bored.
But eventually they set off, heading for the ley line crossing that the rat had identified as the 'weather control college'. They made good time until, to no one's surprise, they ran into a giant thunderstorm with hurricane-force winds. Don managed to land his craft without damaging it, but before he could finish emptying out and folding up the balloon, Kitten's attempt to ward away the lightning instead attracted a huge barrage right into the gasbag, which *didn't* catch fire -- Kitten had tried to make it lightning proof -- but *did* ruin it, and rupture the hydrogen storage tanks.
Kitten's second attempt *did* make them immune to further lightning, though, and for good measure he set up a zone of zero wind around the vehicle so that they could drive relatively safely, bothered only by the muddy ground. The storm tried to drop trees on them with lightning, and wash them away, but they eventually made it through the storm to the edge of a mist-filled chasm.
Kitten cast a spell on everyone to let them see through the mist. >.< Now, it couldn't see through *all* the mist, since the force of the weather control totem-cluster got stronger the closer to ground zero it got, but that just sort of made it obvious where they were headed -- a misty area on the far side of a forest past a lake at the base of the cliff they were parked on top of.
Kitten didn't want to try flying or teleporting people, because he was already keeping up a HUGE array of spells, so the three of them started walking down the narrow switchbacked path. They didn't get far before they were attacked by a sudden wind -- one that Kitten's Wind spell didn't counteract! Especially because he screwed up and accidentally cast Create Water Elemental instead.
The wind battered at them, and lifted Kitten clean off the ground, but the created elemental also grabbed hold of him and kept the wind from being able to just drop him to his death. John tried firing his ordinary (well, infinite ammo, but it was ordinary ammo) gun at the wind, with about as much effect as firing a gun into the wind usually has. Kitten, however, tried to destroy the air around himself, which hurt the windy creature, and sent it running off in pain.
Recognizing its screams as human screams, Kitten figured out that this was a mage in a Body of Wind form -- normally, he'd be visible as a white mist, but they were all *in* a white mist and had see-through-mist spells up. Oops! So Kitten dispelled the body of wind spell, then, when the mage cast his own Wind spell to whisk himself away as he Slowfalled safely groundwards, Kitten dispelled his Slowfall, and the mage's own wind slammed him into the surface of the lake Very Hard. They didn't have any more trouble from that quarter.
After the water elemental ferried them all to the base of the cliff, the party decided to follow the obvious pathway, which led through a city-like collection of small buildings built into an underhanging cavern area at one side of the chasm they found themselves in. While walking through the strange architechture (Kitten: "It was built by hamsters!") they noticed meter-wide paths of frost crackling along the ground (and walls, and occasionally ceiling) towards them. The enemies were moving slowing, so they dodged past and ran... except for Kitten, who was engulfed in one of the wandering hexes of absolute zero, and frozen solid.
That is, Kitten himself was fine -- like everyone else, he had a ridiculously well-cast temperature tolerance ritual up that made absolute zero be well within his comfort zone. Unfortunately, his equipment and the water in the surrounding air was not affected by that ritual, and he was covered in a thick layer of frost, while all his stuff was flash-chilled and rendered solid and brittle. Kitten wasn't able to break out on his own, but Don used his laser shotgun in heat-ray mode to break him out, and then they all ran away for real, easily outpacing the strange areas of chill.
By this point, the goal was in sight -- or, well, out of sight, but the mist around it was in sight, and they had only to follow the path through the forest to reach it.
last session | next session
There were two more mages who were supposed to attack them, but one was going to use lightning and the other cold. Not really terribly useful attacks against the party right now... I'll have to give it some thought and see if there are any indirect attacks that might be worth using.
