Vacare

Myriad Reality

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...Alright, it looks like it’s time for you to find a new host world.

@Nimda

I have a feeling that wasn't meant for us. I think that was meant for the elves in this area.

*I touch the ground and Noct perches on my shoulder once again*

Myriad Reality

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Let’s find out.
Lily: *Casts an illumination spell, highlighting points of life in the area, corresponding to the size and intelligence of the creature*

@Nimda

*Nothing comes up*

Seems like we got it, I guess we can-

*Something begins to crawl out of the pitfall trap, a dark ooze that begins to take the form of a humanoid figure*

Ominous Voice: "This is only the beginning..."

*The ooze then falls and becomes an inanimate sludge that begins to evaporate*

Myriad Reality

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*Shields my eyes from the dust and roots my legs in the terrain to keep my balance*
Lily: *Amplifies the ongoing effects of the spell, now quaking the ground with its intensity*

@Nimda

*The spell goes on for a few seconds before beginning to fade and eventually disappearing*

I think I got it.

Myriad Reality

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Lily: Spirit Shield!
*Creates a barrier of spiritual energy to push back the attack*
-*Throws a ball bearing into the bear, which creates a pitfall trap below it*

@Nimda

*The bear falls through and the spell channeled through Noct finally completes and a bright beam comes out. The shockwave itself is enough to affect the spirit shield that was put up. Dust gets kicked up obscuring everyone's vision.*

HAMMER OF DAWN!

Myriad Reality

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Can do!
*Twelve white magic circles of decreasing diameter open along the barrel, and a bright light shines from within*
Lily: *Materializes a red circle with a crosshair over Gio's right eye, highlighting the bear's vitals*
-*Lines each gun up with one of the organs and unleashes a beam of light, each circle accelerating and focusing it into an intense, cutting laser*

@Nimda

*The cutting laser seems to be working but and eventually gets through sending the bear reeling back in pain. In a fit of anger it lashes out all the dark fluid against us. I continue channeling the spell through noct*

Just... A few more... Seconds...

Myriad Reality

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*Grabs my signature square-barrel guns from my pack, along with another handful of ball bearings, and begins channeling spells through them*
Lily: That’s not going to work, but do your best anyway.

@Nimda

*Like some eldritch horror, tentacles start to emerge from its back. The raw strength and mass of the bear shatters the ice and begins charging at us before it steps into the stone spike traps which seem to slow it down.*

There! GIO HIT IT!

*I put both of my hands together and channel a spell through Noct. A circle begins to form on Noct many times larger than himself, first white then purple it seems like it's charging up. Hoping Gio and Lily can slow down the bear just a little more*

Myriad Reality

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Lily: *A pale magic circle spins around my eye, and I reorganize the magical structures supporting the spells to add piercing damage to each attack*

@Nimda

*THe fresh ice starts to crack*

I've bought us some time, prepare yourselves.

Myriad Reality

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That, we can do.
*Pulls three metal ball bearings from my bag between my fingers, with white sparks of magic arcing between them*
Get ready!
*Flings them into the air above the bear, creating a stack of three magic circles, each smaller than the one below it and focusing beams of sunlight onto the bear*

@Nimda

*As the beams of sunlight hit the bear it roared and it manipulated the liquid around it to harden into armor around its body.*

HEAVEN'S LANCE!

*A spear of light shot from my hand and impacted the bear but it seemed more angry than injured, whilst a formation of ice began to form around it. A spell channeled through Noct: Winter Prison*

Myriad Reality

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Lily: Yep, better get ready!
-*The ground cracks as its mana is siphoned into a brown magic circle twice my length, which creates spike traps around the bear*

@Nimda

*A golden circle of magic the size of my palm appears from my outstretched hand gathering energy. The bear begins to break through the first layers of the trap splashing the black fluid in every direction*

Come on... Just a little bit more... Gio, Lily, Buy me time.

*Noct flies into the air and from him a cyan magic circle appears spanning past his wing span*

Myriad Reality

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*Builds a wall of solid rock around the bear, encasing it in stone*
Lily, analyze that thing!
Lily: On it!

@Nimda

*As you do you find that the black miasma it's producing is preventing it from burning. The stone that encases it begins to crack as the bear begins to fight back*

I thought burning all this black stuff away would let us get to it... It's not working.