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Fjord ([personal profile] built_fjord_tough) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2019-04-16 06:54 am
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A New You, Tuesday, Period Two

"Alright," Fjord drawled, "final week. Since this semester started, you've bargained your way out of jail by doing some odd jobs, stopped Kobolds from digging up a farmer's field, left the Kobolds to the mercy of the Gnolls, fended off an attack from the emboldened Gnolls - sort of - on the town, headed off to investigate why a wyrmling was wandering dangerously close to town and helped to clear out its lair from the shadow demon living within, and then signed on to do," he shrugged, "essentially mercenary work for a sea captain claiming to be a merchant sailor shipping live cargo. A displacer beast, now dead, a realization which had half the crew rise up in mutiny against the captain."

He looked across the scattered remains of crew on both sides of that clash. They were looking a little worse for wear, but apparently Jatila's 'just attack everyone and they'll sort it the hell out' strategy had... actually worked?

"We've managed to strike a... tentative... truce, at least until we reach dry land, which is good," as he spoke, a large tentacle curled out from the water behind him. He continued speaking as though completely unaware. "Since I have a sneaking suspicion you're gonna want all hands on deck for this."

That was, of course, when the tentacle slammed down and grabbed Fjord, hauling him overboard, before one by one, nine more tentacles curled up and around the ship as a whole, and some distance off a large, almost reptilian head rose from the water, opened its mouth to reveal rows on rows of horrifying teeth, and it roared a roar like thunder, lightning crackling in the air around it.

There was your final, kids. Fjord had released the kraken.

[OOC: Open!]
hashtag_chocobro: (winter gear peace sign)

Re: Sign In!

[personal profile] hashtag_chocobro 2019-04-16 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
Prompto Argentum Seros Glacium, with one last fanfare
unusual_sith: (dread)

Re: Sign In!

[personal profile] unusual_sith 2019-04-16 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Lana Beniko Jatila
goldfishontherocks: (Worried (PoE2))

Re: Sign In!

[personal profile] goldfishontherocks 2019-04-17 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Keyleth
hashtag_chocobro: (arms crossed in red)

Re: Lecture!

[personal profile] hashtag_chocobro 2019-04-16 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
H'okay. One last video game class, a class that, for the last few weeks for Prompto at least, seemed kind of a blur and a crapshoot, making him realize that he'd sort of had a pretty wild ride for the last few weeks. But it was fine! He was fine, really, and this was actually going to be good, he managed to get himself out of bed that morning (Not.Easy.), survived fashion class I assume, and now the ultimate distraction of pretending to be someone else entirely in the throes of a mega-super boss-battle.

It was video game class. If today wasn't a mega-super boss-battle, Prompto was going to be judging you so hard, Fjord.

Bring it! He was....mostly ready.
hashtag_chocobro: (GASP.)

Re: The Kraken!

[personal profile] hashtag_chocobro 2019-04-16 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
Immune to nonmagical attacks? Good thing they had a sorcerer on the team, right?

Toooooo bad that sorcerer was...Seros.

Yeah, this was going to take a bit more than a few well timed magic missiles there, Ice Boy.
unusual_sith: (glowing)

Re: The Kraken!

[personal profile] unusual_sith 2019-04-16 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Jatila looked at that thing, then down at her daggers, and noped out.

Hey, it was a long shot, but there was one thing she could try - her suggestion spell.

"Leave us alone!"
unusual_sith: (dead now)

Re: The Kraken!

[personal profile] unusual_sith 2019-04-16 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
And Jatila...died. A lot.

Well, at least that left plenty of time for pizza.
goldfishontherocks: (Wow)

Re: The Kraken!

[personal profile] goldfishontherocks 2019-04-17 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
KEYLETH WAS GOING TO REMEMBER THIS SOMEDAY, FJORD.

. . . when the final trial of her Aramenté involved fighting a kraken in the Elemental Plane of Water, but at least then she'd be a high level druid with really powerful spells and equally powerful friends, not pretending to be a low level fighter.

Who had taken the Eldritch Knight subclass, yes, but that didn't do much good when she had two spell slots, her only attack spells were Shocking Grasp and Witch Bolt and the damn kraken was immune to lightning damage, and her weapons were nonmagical.

She was able to deflect one attack with Shield and blunt the effects of another with Absorb Elements, but that still meant one bite did enough damage to knock her out, and with everyone else getting taken out of the fight and no real healing options, well. That was pretty much three automatic failed death saves.

At least this would still be less embarrassing than the goldfish incident would be.
unusual_sith: (nom)

Re: But At Least...

[personal profile] unusual_sith 2019-04-16 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Lana sighed and went to eat her pizza.

"Was there any way to fight that thing?" she asked.
unusual_sith: (not really)

Re: But At Least...

[personal profile] unusual_sith 2019-04-16 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Lana rolled her eyes. "The ship wasn't my choice. Or Jatila's, come to that." She took a bite of pizza.

"I should have picked someone who cared a bit more. And had magic."
unusual_sith: (thinking)

Re: But At Least...

[personal profile] unusual_sith 2019-04-17 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Lana thought about it. "What is the point - that actions have repercussions, or that no matter what you do, you die?"
unusual_sith: (hmph)

Re: But At Least...

[personal profile] unusual_sith 2019-04-18 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Not really," Lana said. "Unfortunately, all I learned about people like that is that they're idiots."
unusual_sith: (hmph)

Re: But At Least...

[personal profile] unusual_sith 2019-04-18 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Lana shrugged. "A lot of people back home think like that. I thought maybe I'd get some insight into why. Now I'm just left wanting to shock some sense into them all."
unusual_sith: (thinking)

Re: But At Least...

[personal profile] unusual_sith 2019-04-18 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"I suppose it's at least been informative," Lana said, "so thank you for that."