The demon is to your left as you are looking down the hill.
The first shot grazes the demons arm, and the second embeds itself in its shoulder. You pull the trigger for the third shot, and it passes through its neck, its head lolls to the side, and it goes over.
The echoes from the explosions grow quiet.
--M. J. Young
Pump a few more rounds into both demons. I'm not convinced. Yes, I'm serious. 22 at the start. Your call how many "A few" is, as long as it's more than 1 and less than having an empty clip when I'm done. After that, check the demon's corpses. Is there anything of value and/or potential use on them? Weapons, totems, etc.
After that, take off the cloaking cloak (almost forgot) put it in my backpack, then go over and check on the four people. What are their reactions? I imagine quite a few odd reactions to being saved by an invisible warrior. You said that it was 1 man and 3 women. The man and one woman severely injured. I'm assuming that it's the king and one princess. How bad are their injuries?
After assessing their injuries, ask for a moment alone. Walk away, kneel and pray:
"God, thank you for granting me the power to defeat our enemies. I ask now that you heal these people's bodies and spirits, that they might accompany me back to the land of normal human beings." I've got a cure injuries in others (cough cough) spell, that's what I'm using. Whatever that says is what I'm doing. New use? No, I think that's restricted to my home. Well, whatever that says, minus the home base part. That's what I'm doing.
After that, see if everyone is better, and ask if there's any other demons around. If they're better, and there's no further threats, see about leading them over the hill and back to the staircase.
You fire more shots into the demons. They have nothing of value, in fact nothing at all, on their persons. You blow body parts off of them, and they do not respond.
The king is near death, and the Princess Margaret, eldest of the three, is also very badly injured. Nerene and Olivia are terrified but unharmed. The younger, Olivia, asks, "Who are you?" Nerene rather quietly says, "Thank you"--or at least you think she said that, as she barely made any noise.
This is the skill you have which cures damage:
1@1 Unlimited Damage Repair M+2@7 pray "God, heal my injuries, that I might continue this battle" for five minutes +3SMI can see applying it to someone else and changing the reason as a new use of the skill. I am rewriting it as
1@1 Unlimited Damage Repair M+2@7 pray "God, heal (subject, possibly self) injuries, that (subject) might (do what needs to be done)" for five minutes +3SMYou still have to do it once for each of them.
You pray for the king, who begins recovering immediately and in a few minutes is fully recovered.
You pray for Margaret, but there is no change in her.
"Her heart is dying," Nerene says. "She loved Cathcart; she married him. Then she learned that she had wed a demon, and watched him die in the same moment."
"It was bad for us," Olivia says. "We were engaged to demons, by our own choice. But we weren't married."
"It may have saved your lives," the king says. "Dicalus and Eschevar wanted to marry you, so they would have legal claim to the throne. Had you married them, or had Cathcart survived, the demons would have had no use for us and would have killed us immediately so they could claim the throne.
"We owe you much, young man," the king says to you. "How do we repay you?"
--M. J. Young
"Well king, do you have a name? I'm not from around here, so I really don't know how to address royalty. My name is John, by the way. First thing you can do to repay me is all of you get on your knees to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and give thanks and pray for the healing of Margaret. I'll join you. Everybody join hands in a circle around her. Let's see if God can undo what Satan has done." Pray for 5 minutes.
Assuming she recovers: "Well, we are on an island. God granted me the power to walk on water. That's how I got across. How do we get everybody back? Does anyone know where the boat is?"
MJ, I hurt Mr. Smith's daughter in a psionic botch, and I prayed for her healing. That was the healing (cough cough) spell that I meant for the royals. It doesn't matter. I like this one better anyway.
How many shots do I have left in the clip?
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Just making notes
I've got a king eager to reward the warrior who saved his family, and I've got the Smiths, at least some of whom I'm sure wouldn't mind moving to the city. What do I want? Well, I don't need any more gold or treasure. What I do want is to learn. Move the Smith family here to the city. Learn knitting, cooking, sewing and weaving from the wife and daughters. Being able to make my own clothes from scratch could only come in handy.
I am going to finish that damn Leatherman tool!!!!! So, continue blacksmithing. Also, learn every weapon skill and fighting style I can from the knights and castle guard. Everything except horse jousting, too dangerous. I imagine William and Mr. Smith would enjoy that too. Yeah, good times are ahead. And no, your worshipfulness, I don't want to marry your daughter and become an heir to the throne. I can probably stay here for 10 more years before they notice that I'm not aging, so learn everything you can in that time.
Sunday take a day of rest and worship
Monday-Friday, learn fighting skills
Saturday, visit the Smiths and learn the "Woman's Work" skills.
GOOD TIMES ARE AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They look at each other. The youngest, Olivia, says, "The proper title is, 'Your majesty'."
"I'm Philip," the King says.
Concerning your healing prayer, are you attempting to:
- get each of these three other people to attempt to heal Margaret, individually, that is, get them to attempt to teach themselves a spell?
- create a spell in which three people kneeling and praying is a material component necessary to its success?
- join the magical abilities of four people together in one spell?
- do something I haven't guessed?
The boat is by a small dock by the beach; you saw it as you arrived. It would be large enough to accommodate everyone. Do you know how to operate a rowboat?
After killing the two demons, you fired five more shots into each. By my count, you still have thirteen bullets in this clip.
--M. J. Young
join the magical abilities of four people together in one spell?
Yes. And I REALLY hate the word "spell" in connection with prayer. While technically it may be be correct, it's also got some negativity to it. Of course, a lot of people think "Psychotic" is a synonym for "insane"
Rowboat, yes, four summers at Round Lake Christian Assembly. I'd say 1@5 use rowboat.
EDIT: I'm joining this prayer, so it would be 5 people, not four.
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MJ I just realized, my gaming character does not have mental illness. He never did. I wonder, could that be part of the Scriff transfer? It's hard to explain how I know my character never had mental illness, but I've done some things of late that I would like to do, but my mental illness would likely prevent me from doing. Again, hard to explain. My character is no longer psychotic, but he never was in the first place. It makes sense to me, but you probably wouldn't understand even if I could find the words to explain it. Anyway, I just thought that was worthy of note.
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Addressing the king "Well, Phil, would it be OK with you if I addressed you as 'Your Worshipfulness'? The only Princess I really ever got to know was Princess Leia Organa. Her rescuer, a warrior by the name of Han Solo frequently addressed her as 'Your Worshipfulness.'"
Of course, Han was doing it to mock the princess, but the king doesn't need to know that.......
EDIT: MJ, 1@8 understand time travel theory. Unless you feel comfortable giving me a higher number than that. I knew a great deal about The Architect's divergent's time travel theory before I versed out. Kyler told me that the Multiverser game system didn't exist. He didn't say a word about the time travel website.
I'll have to give some thought to exactly what skill you have in time travel. Obviously it's not knowledge of how to time travel; it's more knowledge about the nature of time. I would say that it's part of your education level, and that in application it will something you would roleplay, but I'll keep my mind open if something arises where it would apply.
In response to your suggested address of the king, he answers, "I--I don't think that 'worshipfulness' would be an appropriate title even for the bishop. I am certain that it is not appropriate for you to worship me; a king expects respect, but not more than that."
I did count you. I did not count Margaret.
You grasp the hands of those to either side and start to pray. You feel a unity growing between the four of you, as if you are in concert with each other, drawing on each other's strengths.
Suddenly there is an abrupt uncontrolled release of power, a blast of energy which knocks you down and tears into you like a grenade. You are knocked back onto the ground.
You distantly hear the king's voice. "Nerene? Olivia? Are you both alright?" There is a pause. "Well, know, of course you're wounded; but you're both alive. It looks like Margaret didn't make it." His voice is getting closer. "I'm afraid John's had it. That was quite a blast. We must get out of this strange world before worse happens. Let's bring John along--can either of you help me with him?"
That is the last thing you hear.
You are waking up now, in Cross Out a New World, John.
--M. J. Young
Kyler gave me a post "After the verse." I'm curious about what happens. Well, Pedro is on the other side, I'm sure they can figure out how to use the rowboat, and Pedro can lead them home and protect them. My job is done.
I get it. A botch being God's will. They made it. I got a large reward, and I left. My job was finished, God wanted me to go to this world. Margaret would have died anyway. I did want to learn to use some more low-tech skills, but blacksmithing and knitting will have to do.
Note to self: Don't forget to start streamlining the equipment. Why do we need an entire wrench and socket set? We have 2 adjustable wrenches. If we are in a world where we need more than that, we can get them. Why do we need all of the screwdrivers? We have a multi tip screwdriver. Keep the two biggest, and the two medium though. It seems money is pretty easy to come by as a verser, so don't worry about needing to buy things.
When I saw you had posted here, I wondered if I was going to have to "justify the dice" in some way.
I certainly do not know, nor pretend to know, why that explosion might have been necessary. I do note, however, that Margaret, the only one besides you who died, had been married to Cathcart for at least a few weeks. Although the scenario does not say it is possible for a human to bear the child of a demon, it doesn't say it isn't, and so it is entirely possible that God knew what not even Margaret knew, that her child, who would have been rightful heir to the throne, was Cathcart's son.
Besides, I really love it when a player reaches the climax of the story, saves the day, and then gets versed out--no feeling of having to figure out what to do in this world next. I was thinking about how you would fare against what I call my Narnian Dragon (the last person I remember rescuing the princesses and killing all the demons single-handedly got as far as, "That looks like a dragon," before dying; he wants a rematch). Maybe one day I'll send you to Narnia and you can face one there.
--M. J. Young