After the party decided that they would try to rescue their friends, Ashlyn didn't expect to have to raid a fucking garbage disposal facility. As the party entered the building, Ashlyn noted that it was eerily quiet. As in there was a surprise twist. As they approached a room, they noticed a figure dangily on a chain through a window, a open door to the right of the window. They gestured for the party to come over.
"I can't tell who that is but for sure it seems like a trap," Ashlyn started, clenching a little tighter on their spellbook and whip. "There seems to be a lack of magic but I feel like we should have someone scout ahead."
"Why don't we send in one of the familiars?" Gik asked. As the party glanced at both Ashlyn and Lumine, Ashlyn tilted their head. At that motion, Rataghast vanished from their shoulders, leaving the party to look towards Lumine.
"Definitely not sending the rat. That thing dies half the time. Spider, go in and check out that room." Lumine said, seeming overly proud of the spider.
As soon as the spider passed through the door, the door behind Brad closed shut and a strange gas started to pump into their room. Struggling to breath, the entire party ran past the spider, with the door slamming shut behind them.
Lights began to turn on, showing the figure to be a heavily modified Wick, hanging on a chain, as well as a window showing Ett turning some switches that seemed to cause the floor to heat up.
Speakers crackled with 1's condescending voice speaking, Ashlyn instantly tuning out what he was saying to observe the walls, which were lined with glyphs that Ashlyn recognized from Ward's apartment. Ward had hidden traces of magic behind wards of masking.
So Ward was here as well. Ashlyn noted, very well knowing that this would be a very dangerous fight.
A thud pulled Ashlyn out of their musings. Wick had dropped down holding a maul, spurring Brad into lunging into action. To everyone's horror, Wick brushed off most of Brad's blows as if they were light slaps. Looking at the ground, Ashlyn figured they might try to turn off the incinerator to help make the fight easier.
Opening up a Dimension Door towards Ett, Ashlyn had to stop the Dimension Door early as Ett was protected by some spell that Ward had put into place. As the Dimension Door faded early, Ashlyn crashed into the wall and landed on the ground, wincing, as they noticed the rest of the party facing Wick.
As Ashlyn watched Wick attacking Brad, they felt the floor underneath them starting to heat up. Quickly scrambling back, Ashlyn felt a huge wave of heat infront of them as raging fire spit up from the ground.
That's what Ett was doing.
With this newfound knowledge, Ashlyn tried to dispel whatever spell Ward had put to prevent people from teleporting into the control room. As they concentrated on trying to dispel the spell, they could faintly hear the party getting hurt and they tried to hurry up and stop the incinerator as they could feel the floor heating beneath their feet once again.
As Ashlyn felt a wave of magic surge through them, they felt it crash into the spell Ward placed, sensing the magical wall start to budge. To their dismay, the magical wall appeared to bounce back the wave of magic they had just released and fade away.
Ward had definitely been boosted by 1. As in she pooled everything into becoming a more powerful spellcaster. Ashlyn turned around defeated, only to see Wick deal sickening blows to Stirner, Brad in a corner as heavy wounds were coating his entire body.
Everything slowed down for Ashlyn. Their bladesong thrummed throughout their entire body and they started to move towards Wick as they could faintly hear the rest of the party attempt to get a hit on Wick.
Before Wick could get any more hits on Stirner, Ashlyn immediately attempted to hit Wick with a Booming blade strike, narrowly missing. Following that, Ashlyn's whip struck hard on Wick, causing Wick to redirect her attention towards them.
Wick took a swing at Ashlyn, with Ashlyn easily weaving away from that strike. Wick swung twice more at Ashlyn, as they ducked and weaved around the attacks. Before Ashlyn could retaliate, a bolt of magic blasted Wick's arm clean off, knocking her unconscious. Ashlyn and the rest of the party looked at Gik, his gun steaming.
The entire floor blasted beams of fire around everyone, causing a majority of the party to be partially singed. as the fire faded, Brad opened the door towards Ett and shouted "He's getting away!"
"I'm on it!" Ashlyn ran right towards a vent where Ett ran to and sent Rataghast into the vent after Ett. Closing their eyes, they started to murmur the directions where Ett was going until Rataghast could no longer follow.
As Rataghast disappeared, Ashlyn turned to look out the window as they noticed the party had extracted the device 1 had installed on Wick as well as somehow reattached Wick's non metallic arm.
With this simple fight being extremely dangerous, Ashlyn hoped the next rescue missions would go better.
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Rescuing Friends
Fantasy"Courtesy of 1." All of the party had received a note like this, with arson and severe property damage to accompany it. With this in mind, it was time to overthrow a tyrant and save their friends.
