Eyeris

Torn Across the Rift

@Fetzen

I'll leave it up to you when you want to finish the conversation. You can time-skip the the meeting-room whoever you feel it is a good point to do so. You can assume that Winston was like 'so we have this meeting going on...' or whatever.

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The Meeting Room.


Rosalind was surprised that the monk was versed in magic. The way it worked in his world did not sound entirely different from the way it looked here. Yet, she was no expert. Twain was the resident magic expert on their team.

"When Twain returns, you should discuss it with him. He will be able to tell you if your thinking is on the right track. It might be worth going back to the site and combing it over more carefully, rather than under duress. Yet, we are not certain the site is safe or secure. If we return we might be attacked by the dragon again... Or perhaps someone else trying to clean up or cover up this mess. If there are more of them, they might not yet know what happened to their comrades, they might not know there were survivors or witnesses. We also do not know their strength. They were capable enough of opening a rift between worlds, it destroyed them, but they might be more capable with simpler magics."

"If we are lucky, they were all there, and they are all dead. We might never know their purpose, but, they would not be a threat anymore."

The screen shifted, but the marks that Dimitri had made with permanent marker, remained.

"We can not rely on luck."

The screen had turned to four new faces. Dmitri markings gave one a beauty mark, one a pair of lopsided glasses, and another a mustache.

"These are the members of MOON. A small team within TRIDENT. Their missions are always secret. I suspect their area of expertise is espionage, and undercover work. I myself only learned of this teams existence today." She sounded slightly annoyed by this fact, but continued as she rounded the table. A restless tiger frustrated by her prey; the mystery of the Rift. "They went missing several months back. MERCY, the team that found all of you and the site of the RIFT, was looking for them. They had tracked MOON to a city near the mountain, that is where the trail went cold. Then they detected the energy of the RIFT, followed it and... You know the rest."

"It might be a coincidence."

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In Vaughtar's room

"Ah... I don't know exactly what time it was..." Winston looked at his watch. "It was daytime when you were found, I think, and..." He turned the rim of his watch. "It should be about 11pm at the moment. Why do you ask? Is your... Transformation cycle... Relative to the time or position of the sun?" That would be in alignment with the Earth-stories concerning gargoyles. "Fascinating, that that the time would still affect you this far underwater."

"You are right. We do not know how to send anyone home. It is possible that we might find a way to re-open the rift. Yet, seeing the chaos and destruction caused by the first rift, that would be a big risk, and to be honest it is not our current priority."

How Can I Help

Winston set his eyes upon the gargoyle with a serious expression.

"As I said, the Ritualists are all dead. Killed by the RIFT and the things that came out of it. Yet, there were also innocents killed. They appear to have used unwilling human sacrifices as part of their ritual, and, not everyone who came through the rift survived. You were fortunate to come through that portal and eventually wake up. Many others did not." Winston frowned, he was particularly disturbed as he recalled the images of the dead otherworlders. The beautiful mermaid who choked and drowned in the open air....

"We at TRIDENT consider this event a serious crime of a magical nature. Our priority is to find the ones responsible, and prevent them from killing more innocents, and wielding magic for their own perverse purposes, whatever that might have been."

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Bel, you're not helping.

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The Miraculous is his wristband. The Kwami is a physical being that is as small as a mouse. Silver Fang is the name he uses when he's transformed. He can only use Falling Stars once per transformation, after which he has five minutes before he changes back. Before he can transform again, he must feed his Kwami, whose info is at the bottom of the CS, and the little thing likes jerky which is why he's hiding in a leather satchel filled with deer jerky.

@KazeXDZ

OK cool. So make sure that's OK in the cs.

And with the rain. Make it less of an effect. As "good" and "evil" on earth is not so clearly defined as it is on your world. So it's a boost up not insta-heal for your friends and not a death note to your enemies.

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Ta daaaaaaaaaaa

One post for all of you! <3

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Vaughtar's room
"Gargoyles? Yes. We have those but in our world..." Winston hesitated, not sure how the creature might bear this news, "... They are only stone carvings." Was this congruence between Earth and Munimis and so many others merely coincidence? "There are stories and legends of gargoyles coming to life, but, this has never been verified as fact." TRIDENT had found many myths to be in fact, but, not the story of gargoyles.

"Actually, when wee found you, you were not stone. You were unconscious and wounded."

He swallowed hard as the gargoyle pinned Winston with his eyes.

"Magic... Yes. Though, it is not very common at all. Most people on Earth believe that it does not exist. It is the same with Vamps... Vampires? You mean? Werewolves... and un-dead. They have been verified to exist, but most people do not know they are real."

"I am getting the sense that in your world these things are quite common. Here on Earth, they are nearly extinct." Winston bowed his head solemnly.

"Our organization, TRIDENT, is unqiue. We know about these things to be true because we seek them, many of us are them. It is why we came to the RIFT. We detected it and... Well... We make it our job to see to these things here on Earth, on behalf of those who can not or will not accept that responsibility."


The Meeting Room.

Rozalind put her hands on the table, glaring down the monk. She did not like to repeat herself. "You know what we know. We do not have any suspects for who opened the rift. We do not know what they meant to do. None of you seem to remember anything useful, and no one who was on this side before it happened is alive to speak of it. From what I understand even the dead could not be recovered for questioning."

She turned away from the group with a 'huff', crossing her arms and glaring at the screen. It shifted again, to an topographical view of the castle.

"The problem isn't that no one can read them. The problem is that they were blown away by the blizzard wind. Magicians of many sorts draw their circles and symbols in white chalk or paint." She began to pace around the table. "The majority are obscured. Blood-magic is a game that many play and few win..." She turned her head slightly, an idea coming to her mind... She would be sore to admit that the thought might have been inspired by the monk's question. "We will compile a list of all known blood-magicians that are at least half-competent."

There was a pause.

"By 'We' you mean 'Me'?" Zesiro sighed. He took out what looked like a tablet, and began to give the small glowing plate his full attention.

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@jdh97 Edited the power. Does that work better?

@KazeXDZ

Hey. I'd love for you to play with us. The character sheet is juts confusing me. The idea isn't clear to me.

If so, what is the Item? The spirit can hide in a bag of jerky? So it is outside the item? What does it look like if it is outside the item? What IS the item. How does this transformation thing work?

So he flips between being tommy and 'silver fanng'...?

Falling stars seems overpowered. 100 feet is a wide range. It does like 5 things at once.

I think i would like the character if i understood them better.

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Sarcastic ? What did I do so totally wrong ?

@Fetzen

Nothing! I'm impressed!

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@Eyeris
Sooo... this will get a bit difficult. What I am attempting now is an educated guess of Vaughtar's own weight as this will likely help to derive an adequate predication for the other questions.

I'm gonna use a flat out primitive geometric approach for the first part. As we live in a three-dimensional world, a body of whatever shape whose every lengths are increased by a factor of A can be expected to increase its volume by a factor of A^3. To make this actually useful, I make two additional assumptions:

• The chiseller that created Vaughtar had a sense for aesthetics, so when he decided to make him very tall, he didn't forget about the other two dimensions and Vaughtar has the same proportions as a human body.
• The material Vaughtar's body consists of when he's not stone is fully comparable to ordinary bone, flesh and blood. So his average density is the same as that of an ordinary human.

Now I take a human reference, someone that fits his general physique and that I can apply the cubic scaling to. As Vaughtar obviously possesses a general frame and a relative amount of muscle mass that easily matches those of a somewhat professional bodybuilder and for the sake of simplicity and availability of data, I take Conan The Barbarian as the reference. According to google, Arnie at that time weighed up to about 260 LBS at 6'2". So the scaling factor is (82" / 74")^3 = 1.36.

This, however, would only be Vaughtar minus wings, bone extensions, claws, horns, the strange bend between his feet and his knees that makes a part of his legs not contributing fully to his height etc. And there things get way more estimating. The wings can't be just a huge layer of leathery skin put up onto a bony frame because they're an entirely separate pair of limbs on his back and require their own power. This can't be seen on the image, but its the only logical conclusion I can come up with that there is a great bulk of additional muscle that likely spreads accross his entire back where the base of the wings is and partly onto the wings themselves. As a comparison and according to google, a human leg has about 19% of the total body weight, an arm about 6%. I'd take these combined 25% as a minimum for one of his wings - these things are his main means of transportation and have to get him off the ground and with basically no runway at all. That results in a second scaling factor of 1.5 multiplicative with the first one. If I do the calculation and apply rough rounding up for all the things missed I end up with Vaughtar weighing about 600 LBS.

I think that 3/4 of his own weight would be way over the top, but even with less than 1/2 of it he would likely have no problem with carrying even the taller ones of the party, and, as you said, probably two of the smaller folk.

Given Vaughtar being so large I doubt that his flying would be very fast. He also partly lacks a bird's optimization. So I'd summarize it up as very wide turns and a normal speed of perhaps 20mph (what is in the speed range of a condor as ar as I was able to find out). Of course he could climb and reach much higher speeds by nosediving, but that doesn't really count I think.

Holy moly what have I written ? It seems the mathematician in me has taken over when he saw that there were numbers to play with.

@Fetzen

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*slow clap*

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@Fetzen I like your amendment! If compare it to a bird, but, they have hollow bones and no magic. Maybe half or 3/4? He's bigger than everyone in the party so he could say least carry one at a time if you think about it that way. Two of the smaller folk.

I realize your cs is missing a really important piece of information.

WHAT is the wing speed velocity of an unladen gargoyle?

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@Belwicket

I've not seen it. The cs should be m made assuming I know nothing ;)

There isn't a description of the world.

What is "evil" as defined by the power? Weak? How much heals? Drops? What does this mean?

10-30% night vision? 10-30% alpha? Your amendment is not as helpful.

Also, where is kaze? Why are you always explaining and contesting for them? I'm much more in inclined to talk to kaze about the cs and what they think of my suggestions.