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Posers and Puzzles

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Iamatiger's eyes snap open. He is standing at the entrance to a deep, black put. The sun is at his back, warming him and making the dewdrops sparkle. The colors are vibrant...nobody else is nearby, except...

...inside the pit is the Crone. She is grasping with her claw-like fingers, trying to climb out and pull herself out.

Her left hand grabs iamatiger's front right paw as her empty eye sockets stare blindly at the light. When she touches him, she attempts to Possess him, so she can escape the horrors below...

But the tiger gives her light even her nonexistent eyes can see...it transfixes her, distracts her from her attempt to control the big cat.

Round 1: Attack - Possession - Defense - Flame's Brilliance

Her spiritual attack was thwarted. What will the tiger do now?

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MrPhil and Banana King awaken. They were napping next to a trail that leads into a small grove of trees. A grating, teeth clenched scream comes out from inside the grove. Hands grasp some tangled branches and attempt to move them aside. A man tall, distinguished, cruel and clearly driven mad by pain and zealotry, bruised and bleeding attempts to climb out.

A tentacle reaches out from inside the grove and grabs at his leg, but he evades it.

He stares at the two men, surprised for a moment, then spits forth some horrid words, flings some dust forward and attempts to Emotion Control both of them, terrifying them into immobility!

MrPhil attempts to ward the man away, but he can't figure out how...if he doesn't think of something to do in this spirit arena he will be immobilized with terror!

Banana King must also think of a way to defend himself from the Emotion Control spell!

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bananas feel no emotion

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Strongly illuminate crone. Talk to crone - share soul and flames brilliance will illuminate her. Take soul and flames will darken. To share flames, crone must aid tiger, not possess.

First question to prove goodwill, what soul invades human and can it be trusted? If no trust, how defeat it?

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bananas can control themselves to feel no emotion

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Tiger suggests the tentacles might like a banana.

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follow tigers advice, throw bananas at tentacle

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[i]Banana King vegitates...he becomes the banana...pure goodness in sweet fruit form...and terror cannot touch the banana.

He tries to offer the tentacle a banana, but finds that his banana power is exhausted for the rest of the battle!

However, because it's round 1, he now has one attack point, with which he can use one of his other skills to attack. It's the spirit world so he can be imaginative but the effect must make sense.

Mindwrack has used Emotion Control. He has no attack points left this round.

MrPhil realizes that Mindwrack did not attack him after all. He has not used any skills. He has one attack point. He channels all his knowledge of what the Lady has told him about magic and tries to force the spirit out of this body and back into the dismembered corpse! He uses his Attack Point with a now unnamed sorcery skill to make this attack.

Unfortunately Mindwrack is a master of Necromancy, and is able to ward himself away from this attack with a quick magic circle.

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[b]Banana King has used Way of Banana and has one Attack Point. MrPhil has used (unnamed). Mindwrack has used Emotion Control and Necromancy, and will need to use one more skill to defend against Banana King when he chooses to attack with his Attack Point.[b]

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Originally posted by iamatiger
Strongly illuminate crone. Talk to crone - share soul and flames brilliance will illuminate her. Take soul and flames will darken. To share flames, crone must aid tiger, not possess.

First question to prove goodwill, what soul invades human and can it be trusted? If no trust, how defeat it?
The Tiger's light is being used to protect against Possession! He must find another skill to try to assert control over the situation. He has one Action Point. Iamatiger has used Flame's Brilliance. The Crone has used Possession.

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meditate to regain strength, ask phil to shield me while meditation mode

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Grrr, talk no good. Knock crone back into pit.

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Suddenly see that crone is in two parts, one good, one bad. Think having good bit inside tiger brain might stop anything worse getting in. Smite the evil part of crone back into pit and let remainder into tiger brain (to share, not take over).

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Originally posted by telecomladyj
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