[Ace of Wands] Gameplay

"Best if you take a break now honey." Esther heard Wiki's question, but decided they'd best take precautions before carrying out any further actions. While their pilot had been extremely helpful in piloting the boat that close to the cliff, it wouldn't do for him to witness any of the vulgar acts of magic they might perform.

With that last comment Esther kissed the pilot full on his arms, a long lingering one which allowed her to transfer a mild sedative, a knock out drug to his mouth which she coated her lips with.

Wiki looks for a rope, they could crawl down with.

The boatsman unexpectedly leans away from the kiss, but doesnt fight aggressively. Esther kisses him and he melts, his eyes fluttering and he passes out.

Wiki finds a fair bit of synthetic rope but it may not hold a lot of weight. Then again it is meant to hold a boat in wind. Maybe?

"If you lash it up for them, I could make this stronger. Now that I put our cute little mundane here to sleep."

I was thinking in those same lines.
Wiki attaches a small gizmo to the end of the line, and work on it for a bit, while Esther workes on the rest of the rope.
When they are ready, Wiki fires a laser from her wrist-computer, at a solid-looking piece of the mountain. That red dot and the gizmo she worked into the rope, are extremely attracted to each other, and it shoots up like a giant magnet was pulling at a paperclip.

The rope shoots up into the air and strikes the mountain. Taurus grabs the rope and wraps it around his waist. Bracing himself, Schlomo squeezes the unconscious form of Mordecai with one arm and grasps the rope with his other crooked elbow. Lifting a leg, he loops a knee over and prepares to hop off the cliff.

Are you going to tie the rope to anything?

Oh Shit! Help me!
Wiki was mighty proud of the attacked rope that she forgot the anchoring part. She grabs the end of the rope just before it is pulled out the boat by the weight of the others. Now Wiki is the anchor, sprawling on the deck of the boat.

"Whoa honey, I thought you had that secured." Esther signaled to Taurus to hold steady and wait, while Wiki scrambled to tie the rope to the boat. Esther then laid a hand on the rope, willing its flimsier nylon material to become as hard as steel, so that Schlomo could slide down.

Esther touches the rope and she sees that it's not nylon, but synthetic climbing rope, capable of holding significant weight.

With the rope secured, Schlomo slides down and lands hard in the middle of the boat. It Bob's up and down and begins to drift toward the cliff by the force on the rope. Taurus jumps in plunging twenty five feet down, under the water but pulling himself up the rope.

Esther helped them back up and into the boat. "Alright you big cow. Tell me everything, and don't leave anything now. First thing, are we in danger? Do we need to leave now?"

Sudden waves rock the boat. Not dangerous, but unexpected. Taurus sits facing Esther.

"I followed him into the other world. His trail lead here, I crossed over. But I did not find him, only these two. I decided to stay when Schlomo told me what had happened."

The large golem stirs. "We must get Mordecai help. He confronted the interloper. I do not understand what happened, but he was struck down and we escaped. I brought him back over, but came here and could not get down. " He opens his hand, a fragment of cloth between his fingers. "I ripped this from his clothing in the struggle ."

Wiki examines the cloth fragment. I can setup a search algorithm with this sample

"Let's have a look at Mordy first." Esther jumped straightaway to tend to Mordecai's injuries, whether physical or otherwise.

Mordecai seems to be drained of energy, as in exhausted, but otherwise healthy. That being said, his condition is serious and not likely to improve without intervention.

Esther's magic touch revives him, his eyes fluttering open.He looks far older than his actual age. "Wh- wh- where am I?" he says weakly.

Glenda looks at Mordecai with concern. "Let me see if I can help," she says, with an unusual solemnness. She takes several deep breaths to clear her mind and focus her intent. She then begins taking his vitals, feeling for his pulse, listening to his heartbeat and breathing. She beings tracing the veins along his arms and head.

Mordecai's body seems fine now but for his mind. He had suffered some kind of episode.

Are you going to hang out here, wake the driver, or pilot yourselves back to the dock?

Wiki looks at the downed driver and then at the controls. This could not be that much different than driving a car. If they just woke him near the docks they should be fine.

Lets get back

"Alrighty, you pilot the boat. Lemme have a look at that piece of cloth." Now that Glenda was tending to Mordecai, and Wiki was driving the boat, Esther touched the cloth to see if she could get any sense of its origins.

Esther sees a shop, a high end clothier at the Bellagio. The suit is purchased with a solid black American Express card, as a hand rubs the material appreciatively. (She doesn't make out anything on the card.)

She sees a struggle, a brief fight. The wearer appeared as if from nowhere, and caught Mordecai unaware. A flash of magic, and Mordecai falls limp to the otherworldly ground. The tear of fabric, and the man wrestles free, vanishing through Correspondence magic.

She sees Schlomo on a cliff, unwavering concern focussed like a laser on his creator.

"You did good Schlomo, Mordy would be proud of you."Esther was beginning to have a picture of the kind of mage they were dealing with, as she described what she saw to the others.

"Nice suit," she rubbed the cloth against her face, "Must've cost a pretty penny. Wiki, if we go back to this bespoke tailor shop at the Bellagio, you should be able to run a trace on the man's credit card right, so long as we find the transaction? But let's get our dear Rabbi to a hospital first."