[Game Thread] Lord Windos’ PokeRole Adventure 2: The Wild Lands

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

Oz was made of all kinds of ordeals she was forced to endure. From her harsh training as a Sky Scimitar. The failed mission where her friends and companions died. To use their corpses as a hiding place. And to abandon her region and old life to live the life of a wanderer witch.

None of these ordeals can compare to the ordeal she has to endure now.

Oz had to try to hold her face throat in the ground, trying as best she can to not lose consciousness, but she knows it is a losing battle. Hecate is stronger than her. Then she decided to try to talk, do anything to stop her.

Which is a very difficult thing when your daughter is strangling you.

“He-Hecate, p-p-please. Y-Y-you hur-hurting m-m-me!” Oz could barely speak, the pain was too much.



She began to feel her mind going away, little by little fainting.

Damn it…My friends need me…I…I can’t believe I will fail them again. I can’t fail them again…I…Can’t…

Damn it all…If I just had my gauntlet I could do something…If I had a way to focus spells, I could try to use a Teleport or at least a Phantom Force…Something I could focus my emotions somehow…

Wait…”focus”?

!

Then it clicked in her head. A gauntlet is nothing more than something to focus the power of Pokemon with the Magi. An artificial way for humans with connection to Earthpower to connect to their Pokemon and use their moves and powers. And summon spells.

While strangling, she tries to move her neck, seeing her necklace: The Key Stone.

It’s a shot in the dark…But it is her best chance.

One hand of Oz tries to hold Hecate as best she can.

“Hecate…I know you are hurt…And I am sorry…I am sorry for what I did to you…”

With the other hand, she grabs her Key Stone, her necklace, and show in front of Hecate.

“I…I should have trusted you. Should have trusted you, and thought about how you would feel. This Key Stone and the Mega Stone on your head is the symbol of our trust!”

Oz then closes her eyes, trying to focus the spell she has on mind.

“You are my daughter, my pride, my everything. And I love you. But I am also a medic and a healer. And I must heal people and Pokemon hearts. This includes you, sister! I refuse to give up on the people who need me! And I refuse to give up on you, my beloved daughter!”

She then uses the connection with Hecate herself, using her Bond as a way to help deepen the focus and call upon her Move: Aromatherapy.

Key Stones have the power to connect trainer and Pokemon, using the bond between the two to make the Pokemon evolve BEYOND its limits. The Mega Evolution. And to summon a Move so powerful a pokemon could not do normally by itself: Z-Move. It’s an artefact who uses the bond of both to call upon power.

In a way…very similar to the gauntlets of Scimitars.

It’s a shot in the dark. But it's the best chance Oz has to try to escape Hecate grab.

Action: Use words to calmdown Hecate, and try to use the Key Stone/Mega Necklace and use her Bond with Hecate and use Aromatherapy as a way to calm her sister/daughter. Maybe a combination of Oz words + Aromatherapy could help calm Hecate emotions (thanks for the amazing idea @PhantomUnderYourDesk !) Let’s try to use that method you mentioned Windos. If there is a time to test the theory is NOW. Between Oz Pokemon, Hecate is problably the one with deepest connection with Oz, alongside Glinda.

Considering it was your Witch's intent to Faint and cart you away so you can't join the Call to Arms your initial plea is met with resounding silence and her scowl deepening. As far as opening statements get, this one was...less than effective. 

Which was pretty bad, since you're vision was starting to get very spotting and your lungs were starting to burn.

Yet.

Yet.

Yet you still prevailed, spending Will and deepening your connection to Nature itself to brace yourself against your Sister's attempt at Tough Love.

Then, you had your Idea in a flash of Insightful inspiration as you were Teeter Dancing on the edge of oblivion.

Using your Key Stone as a Magic Focus?

In this situation?

VERY bold and risky Move....but when you're literally getting strangled for time....you got no choice but to ACT!

Before you ACT, though, you try one last desperate shot at entreating for your child to cease her drastic, hasty play to protect you. The speech comes as a surprise to your martial mistress, both the ardent feeling you were frantically yet firmly STILL trying to convey and the fact that you were still able to even take and Move around to begin with! What in the world?! She KNEW her Mother-Master was amazing, but in this case....

Plea for Clemency!
INS (4) + Contest (*3) + Empathy (2) - 4 (WHY WON'T YOU FAINT ALREADY?!)
(2)(4)(4)(5)(6) 4 Successes!

...despite her IMMENSE F E A R  and Frustration with it in this VERY ODD and stressing scenario, your little girl can't but admire your Resolve anyway. Even now, at your most vulnerable and in a situation neither of you never could have possibly imagined, your beautiful heart shined bright as ever....

...Though it doesn stop Hecate from trying to Faint you. She's still determined as ever to stop your foolishness before it can truly become terminal for the last time. Only now she's more distressed and Pained than ever at what she felt was necessary....

...Yet, for a briefest moment, her grip slackened just ever so slightly.

Enough to allow you to bring your Full Focus and Channel your own Magic and hers in earnest to try and cast one last ditch Spell to calm your Wonder Witch DOWN!

Hecate's eyes widen at the surge of power flowing between her and YOU, and is downright caught off guard when your Key Stone starts to glow too......and her Mega Stone as well ?! What in the - ?!?!?!

Key Focused EVOCATION: Aromatherapy !

SPE (14 - you're going ALL out to save your but, and you're able to get at Hecate's Power too through you Plea!) + Survival (*3 - STRUGGLING with all your Will!) + Nature (2) - 7 (VERY Unorthodox Spell Casting Method + SEVERE HAPPERING OF CONCENTRATION) - 3 Successes (KEY STONE/MEGA STONE RESONANCE?!?!) = 12D6 Dice

(3)(2)(2)(2)(3)(4) (5)(3)(1)(1)(5)(2)  3 - 3 -1 =
NEGATIVE SUCCESSES!!!

Luck Dice Activate for BOTH you and Hecate!
(1) DOH! (6) HUH?

Due to the Results, we're doing a most Strange Fused Fortune Roll - *8 Dice , ??? !!!
(1)(6)(3)(6) (3)(1)(3)(6) !!!
Snake Eyes, Trios, and Devil's Sign !!!!!

By Father Fate, Lady Luck, and Miss Fortune!!!

Coin Flip: GOOD? or BAD?
*Flips*
Heads 

Rarity of ???: (*3)(*3) 
Auto Rare
Severity: Rolling 1D20 three times, taking most interesting result at + 3 - (12) , (18) , (7)
Crit - Auto Confirmed
Wackiness: Rolling 1D100 three times, taking most interesting result at + 3 - (18) , (56) , (89)
Top Echelon Roll

*Maniacal Laughter* Oh joy!

Here
we 
GO~!

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One moment, the very air froze around you and Hecate, the very Force of Magic and your Bond suddenly going taut.

Both of your expression go rigid, plain surprise, awe, and dread waring for dominance as you felt each other like never before...

*SNAP!*

SE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xKUK5G4TCw

And then your Bond suddenly draws you two IN

*F   L   A   S   H*

Oz/Hecate/You White Out........

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@Dragonstrike , @Redstone , @PhantomUnderYourDesk

Off in the room where Darren is currently being held, treated, and observed, you all three (who were currently waiting/watching/also being treated there, but with enough distance between each other to have semi-private conversations) felt the Center *Thrum* as something just happened.

Something...BEYOND STRANGE.

Then -

*F     L      A     S     H!*

*SHIIIIIIIIIING!*

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SEs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1TxgIY50gk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2PeOV07F-M

You saw a prismatic light come from a nearby stock room, along with a reverberating *noise* that make your teeth ache a a pulse of ***** that made your SOULs feel.....weird.

Said nearby stock room currently had Oz in it, who had elected to use it moments earlier as a more secluded location to discuss her Choice to Answer the Call to Arms and go Face The Hateful Sandlossugeist .

Uh...