Cruallassar

The Final Hazard

Kael was already following through with his next move. Though he was now marked invulnerable, and he trusted the system, mere invulnerability wasn't enough to guarantee that he could keep the knight away...more importantly, the crossbow bolts plated one with metal, and while it didn't seem particularly strong and could probably be broken with enough strength, it would still prove a hindrance. However, on one hand, the backpack carrying the anti-metal solvent had by now drifted close enough to reach out and grab. On the other hand, there was a lesson Kael remembered about the different means of enchanting oneself to move faster. One could simply cast a speed enchantment, but to do so meant one also had to increase the speed of their perceptions, otherwise their body would move faster than they can control, or they would not be able to react fast enough to an event for their speed to matter. The other method is to increase the speed of the passage of time on oneself...to their perception, it will be as if time slowed down around them. Forces will still act on them in their own time, such as gravity or being struck with a set force, but everything not part of the spell will move and take effect far slower. And for Kael, who's chiefest need at the moment was time to act, that was perfect.
Chicken? He could play that. Kael ignores the shot, intent on typing out his next command. How nice of the knight to take his time with quips and flairs as he gives Kael lots of time to finish his plan...
"Alter time Entity VII accelerate 100x"

The Final Hazard

@Terminal

Kael's brain was working overtime. Of course, it did this very well...
Resetting it had...what? Turned off his Ethereal sight...given the knight back his shield...had it reset to an earlier point in time? Impossible, that would have changed position too. Reset all con...no, then the knight...irrelevant. What did he know? He knew that apparently this machine responded to commands. Any command? Well, that was the way magic worked...but then, this was more like an enchanted object, so only some commands, whatever was built into it. But then, this thing appeared to have complete control over this entire world, so that was a hell of a lot of "only some commands". It had some sort of conduit running into it, and another linking it to the knight...maybe the conduit was some sort of portal? But then, what was the link to the knight? He needed more time to test, and while the knight's bolts were unlikely to hit him, and...
"No, you won't! You haven't played cards before, have you?"
...but wait, his ethereal sight had been turned off...maybe his power that the machine had said something would take was taken as well? If so, that would be ungood. He needed to test that, but he also needed to make every action count considering the time duress. He wills one of the small rubber balls in his pouches to appear outside said pouch and shoot at the knight, that would be a nice nuisance for him. At the same time...let's try a basic magical command to buy him more time. But computer terms, it had apparently renamed everyone to separate entities...let's see...
In a quick frenzy of movement, his fingers reach out and tap the keys as fast as he could, just in case the knight wasn't bluffing.
"Shield Entity VII from harm"

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GAAAAAH!!!
I am now in the situation where my medieval fantasy character has to learn how to use a computer, and not only that, but the correct answer to this is essentially RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME IF ONLY MY CHARACTER HAD COMPUTER SKILLS!!!!
This is maddening.

[Edit]
Oh yeah, and a guy trying to kill him for no apparent reason, but that's basically a side note scarcely worth considering.

The Final Hazard

@Terminal

Kael moves himself over to face the keys on the machine, typing out the word "reset" on them to see what happens. Then the explosion sounds and he twists around to view the last of his comrades...and the erstwhile murderer...expire. Lovely. So much for saving anyone else then. "You know, this situation might seem a hell of a lot more hopeless if you were doing less trying to kill everyone and convincing everyone of the fact. As it is, I'm inclined to disbelieve you." He notes the detachment of the knight's shield...interesting. So he was still vulnerable to the metal bolts. Kael wills the knight's crossbow to explode as an afterthought as he hastily returns his gaze to the machine's screen.

The Final Hazard

@Terminal

Kael hastily examines the machine in front of him, looking for controls or other devices that might suggest a reset command. These lines of...some kind of power that extended into the machine and out to the Pavise Knight seemed significant somehow...a power supply, perhaps?
"Couldn't care less. I just want to leave."
Perhaps his power of will over the dimension could sever it as well? He was keeping track of the knight's location via his sense of that line primarily...but if he could neutralize the last remaining hostile, then resetting the world might be considerably easier. He takes a brief moment to glance toward the knight and directs his will to the destruction of the line reaching out to his enemy. It was nice that he seemed to have scored a hit on Donny...

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-sigh-
I knew I should have specifically formed the slug after projected impact...

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@Terminal
Might I inquire as to the fate of the crossbow bolt that was redirected back at the Pavise Knight?

The Final Hazard

@Terminal

Luckily, no warning needed to be given for Kael to be warned. The first sign of the Pavise Knight's betrayal was his position...even as Kael examined the mysterious cords of power extending out from the machine, the mere fact that the one extended to the Pavise Knight behind Kael was enough to immediately confirm treachery, since for the knight to be in any way behind him involved his continuing to move towards Kael, and the machine was more or less to Kael's left. He had been unwilling to let any of his possible enemies out of easy vision, and if the knight took pains to attempt to change that, the reason was clear.
The second sign was his words and manner in which he said them. He wasn't supposed to be commenting, and the proper inflection for such a comment was most certainly not deadpan, not with a normal person in this scenario.
The third was the metallic twang...but really, that was just a catalyst for the pre-prepared action.
Since the knight was still a short ways away, as Kael had been knocked back pretty far by the shockwave, he even had plenty of time for action...but when one has become capable of accomplishing things at the speed of thought, that's just a bonus. The resulting exertion of Kael's will had been prepared against Donny's ranged weapons, but the circumstance mattered not in the slightest as the crossbow bolt flew barely a foot before it is twisted around and thrown directly back at the Pavise Knight at equal speed. Of course, such an action wasn't even close to guaranteeing the target's neutralization, so Kael's next mental command was to form the one thing that had been confirmed to stop these knights. He willed a slug to form very closely around the Pavise Knight...the same as the slug that they had had such a dangerous ride in, which had claimed the lives of three people. He could have formed it on the Knight and killed him instantly...but if the machine stymied his attempts to reset it, the Knight's life might still come in handy. Kael was not Donny, to slaughter ruthlessly without thought for the value of life. And for icing on the mental cake, Kael willed himself back over to the machine, behind it so as to be within sight of both the Pavise Knight and the result of his actions against the Hitman.

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@shylarah

You don't have to do that for me.

@Bright_Ops

As is true in the case of most gifts...

The Final Hazard

@Terminal

Kael stops his speeding flight with a thought, glancing toward the Pavise Knight. "I'm good, eyes on the objective. Reset the machine!" His attempt to reset it had been a long shot at best...there had been no telling what might affect a machine that had stayed in the collapsed world, other than using it as it was meant to be used. Good to know what the result was. Then there was the knight...he may be a potential issue, but he's not a hostile at the moment, and the closest thing they had to someone who might know how to work that machine. Of course Kael might be able to figure it out himself, but turning his back on anyone present was not something he wanted to do. Ironic, actually...he didn't trust the knight, but it was the knight who seemed like the indispensable asset at the moment, and Kael couldn't afford not to trust him. Suddenly he noticed the shining radiance above him, and Fortune's charge. Donny's attention was diverted...unreliably though, since the man had shown himself extremely competent whether he appeared to be looking at you or not. But that was no defense against powers he didn't know of or didn't see coming. The Pavise Knight was at a safe distance if he didn't follow instructions...focusing on the objective was another of the first things Kael's mentor had taught him, but if Donny killed their distraction before they managed to reset it, it would be an issue. Both objectives are therefore critical.
Kael slides three more of his supply of metal bolts out and wills them at Donny...or more specifically, he wills one to appear immediately next to his center of mass at an angle behind the direction he is facing, one above his head directed downwards, and one spinning vertically at an angle upwards from his side, each appearing and instantly directed at high speed at the hitman. No angle to escape, no room to dodge, and with the metal bolts, even a glancing hit would likely be fatal. Lesson three from his mentor: When trying to defeat a formidable opponent, strike swiftly, silently, and leave no room for escape. Kael's next action would be to use his Ethereal Sight...it would work, because he willed it.