The Princess and the Tower

[sorcerous]

WHO Anyone who wants to rescue Sansa! Also Loki and Sansa.
WHAT Rescuing Sansa from the Ice Tower
WHERE Upstream on the river.
WHEN This IC day/the next IC day
NOTES I'll be setting up subthreads for the ice maze, the guardians outside the tower, and the stairs inside the tower. The group will start out all together in the ice maze and then be separated into two, I believe. The groups are (correct me if I'm wrong) Cho, Sif and Faolan, and Giles, Helios, Kay and Bakura. It's not too late to participate! If you would like to, hit up the plurk linked in the below paragraph.

The general sequence of events can pretty much be assumed to be: they get through the ice maze, they get through the guardians, they get up the stairs. If anyone would in particular like your group to be the winner, that's cool with me, go ahead and jump in here, otherwise it'll just be whoever manages to RP to that part first.

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[warewolf]

"Shit!" Kay barks. He tries to dodge, but being a big wolf has its drawbacks. Like being a big target. If Bakura's shield offers complete protection, he'll escape unscathed. If not, he'll take a long cut of damage across one shoulder. Either way, Kay scrambles back, growling.

"Wasn't expecting that."

[sorcerous]

The guardians fight ponderously and slow, but with great power. This strike misses, but the spear slams into the ground, creating a crack through the ice. The sound of running water is audible below.

Kay and Bakura will have to find a way to break the guardians before he can pass through.

[shiromadoushi]

The shield is strong and practiced, though Bakura winces just a touch at the impact before feeding more power to it. "If the whole place is a trap, I think we need to expect everything to do the unexpected!" he exclaimed, looking up at the statutes. His magic isn't offensive, how on Earth could he...?

Wait.

"Will you let me power you up? My magic doesn't have anything that can blast, but if I raise your attributes enough, you should be able to take them out!"

[warewolf]

Power me up? Raise my what? What the hell is this, one of Steven's animes? Kay can't help thinking. "God, this place is nerdy," he complained under his breath. He also wondered if it was a good idea to let Bakura use magic on him without understanding exactly what it would do. He remembered Gallowglass, and the strings attached to his magic.

But right now, Kay didn't feel he had a choice. If one of those things got him, he felt like it could cut him in half. He was strong, but he wasn't fast. It only took him a long beat to reach the decision. "Okay. Do it."

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura nodded, closing his eyes in concentration, pulling his magic together. If it sounded nerdy it was because Bakura was thinking in TRPG terms, linking together 3 basic attribute raising spells; strength, defense, dexterity, and feeding them into each other to create a single spell.

"ENHANCE!" he yelled reaching out to wrap Kay in the magic before letting it sink into him.

[sorcerous]

It is a clever solution, and the magic works. Kay is made stronger, quicker, better.

[warewolf]

That? That feels awesome. Kay decided to skip the sarcastic commentary on the implications of 'enhance' and just focus on beating the crap out of those guardians.

Speed was what he needed most. Kay was a powerhouse, but he wasn't good at dodging. Right now, though, he felt lighter on his feet than he ever had before, and - man, he had this crazy idea. In a flash, Kay darted around behind one of the guardians, then leapt up -- and up -- and up. If the guardian was too tall for him to do this in one leap, he'd just sink his claws into its back and spring up the rest of the way. Where he wanted to be was hanging from the guardian's shoulders by his front paws -- so he could close his jaws around the ice statue's throat.

[sorcerous]

The guardians weren't so large; the leap took him exactly where he meant to be. Ice crunched between his jaws, and as soon as it was broken once, it all began to shatter. Cracks webbing out from the point of the bite, jagged shards melting dull, and the guardian then comes completely apart, falling into a pile of bits of ice.

[warewolf]

Flushed with his victory, Kay whirled around to attack the second guardian. Not even pausing to shake the ice from his fur, Kay took hold of the second guardian's ankle with his mouth, and yanked it off its feet. If he could, he'd swing it around so that it hit the wall of the tower or the maze, whichever was closest. Kay was fight-mad now, not even paying attention to the fact that if he hit the tower wall he could damage it -- and the princess -- inside.

He'd also left himself open to a counterattack from the guardian while he had it by the ankle.

[sorcerous]

Oddly, the expected counterattack doesn't come. There isn't a strike, even though the guardian clearly had time for it.

Instead, the unbalancing from being held at the ankle makes the guardian tip over and, ponderously, slam into the tower wall.

The ice beneath them groans, and the wall shivers with spiderweb-cracks.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura moves back as the guardian begins to fall, shielding himself and his companion against any splinters of shattered ice, doing his best to stay upright at the shaking.

He turns as the sound of the cracks reach his ears. "...oh crap..."

Sometimes, he really wished his magic let him fly...

"It's going to collapse!" he shouted, turning to try and find a place to bolt to that would be safe.

[warewolf]

"Oh, shit." He'd done that, hadn't he? He'd forgotten that the tower would be just as fragile as the guardians. Kay wasted a valuable second dropping his face into his hand.

Insinct said to run -- but that girl was still in the tower, Kay remembered. If he got her killed through being an idiot...!

Kay ran into the tower and started leaping up the stairs, taking them six or seven at a time.

[shiromadoushi]

Wait, where was---

Oh shi--

Bakura bolted after, shield all but humming around him as he ran, trying to catch up, but not being as fast.

[sorcerous]

[ ooc: everyone merge into one thread here? ]