New Beginning 18: Beware of Reality Warpers!

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Philote wrote

(Shadow, but he hasn't used any just yet)

 (Never mind; I was gonna have one of the plants be moly, a natural magic negating plant, but I think this ending is fine. Is this your first battle, or your second?)

[Marvelous Miscreant]

"You leave me no choice mountain! I'll have to explode your rocky innards."

I fly like a rocket into the middle of the mountain in an attempt to push my way through the rock and stone into the mountain's base.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

The ice reacts. Hatefully backing off, it has no more capability to act. Even if it just collapsed upon Zale, it was be instantly turned back to steam.

The icescape bangs on the wall. Back to Frostflame Island for them.

[Philote]

(First, but the others should be done soon so we don't have to start another)

[Zaleramancer]

"Yay! I didn't have to turn into a dragon!"

I advance to the next room.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 "WUH-OH!" The mountain trembles within.

Its rocky bowels begin churning.

Did I say mountain? I meant volcano. And he seems to have some rumbly in his tumbly.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Well, Zale's also on his first.

So, technically, only Jester and Marv would have to wait.

But...it's up to you.

[Philote]

Ok, you can start another, we can just bring a quick end if the others finish quickly.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

And this one will be much less pleasant, because its scape is not that of some element of nature, but some element of magic.

Alchemical water, to be precise. It cannot be directly manipulated, and can change from viscous (like a D&D gelatinous cube) to acidic, to intoxicating, and numerous other different properties.

But the one fact that remains. On contact with skin, it negates powers (superhuman and magical). Its defeat must come without physical contact (though fortunately refraining from contact does not preclude use of forcefields).

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Kay.

The next room is one of pure darkness.

No light may enter or exit, and because of this, it is also a chilling deathly cold.

Watch out for the shadow demons. They bite. And scratch. And otherwise induce injury.

And they is fast.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

"Just great....this mountain's been eating mexican food." I shield myself from the lava and try to find a weakpoint to exploit.

[Philote]

After dealing with the jungle, we head deeper into the manor. Eventually entering a room void of light. The entrance shutting behind us after we have entered.

I keep a mental connection with my lieutenants so that I don't lose them, and attempt to have Shadow lead us through the space.

After a moment, I hear a commotion from Pyro's direction. Something had sneaked up and attacked him. Morph, reacting first, an arc of energy into the darkness to see if anything reacts.

[Mik_Hael]

Darn, I was going to use shadow demons...

[Celadon's Penultimate]

"I--I'm gonna...SPEW!!!" The volcano blasts an unnaturally large torrent of lava at Marv, but after that, has to recover. He's grown tired from the exercise of fighting Marv.

[Zaleramancer]

Eeep.

Does it de-shapeshift upon touch?

[Marvelous Miscreant]

"Ew, you got lava on my brand new shoes. You'll pay for that."

Energy builds up in my palms.

"KA.......ME........HA.........ME.........HA!"

[Celadon's Penultimate]

The shadows echo menacing laughter. To Phi's left, a figure runs invisibly to anticipate the best point to strike. To his right, a figure sneaks up behind one of his lieutenants, hoping to get in a hateful stab from his hand, morphed into a wicked blade.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Indeed.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

The blast is devastating. Normally, the volcano would have simply absorbed the heat and force of the attack, and reflected it, but this particular one wasn't exactly the top of volcano class.

"CRUD!" He cries out in a rumble of annoyance, "I'm too young for this crap! What ever happened to BEGINNER CLASSES???"

He taps out, and is returned to Frostflame Island.

Now Marv can go on with Jester to see if either of them can find me.

[Zaleramancer]

I drop several blackholes into the water.