The Cracking Ice - Chapter 1

You be clear, they're no tentacles, they're like tendrils of light, more smoke and dreams than something you can shoot.

Just before Chat decides to light the place up with missile fury, Kyron comes flying out of the rift. He rumbles over backwards and sends his magic new l back, dragging heavily with psychic might. Ben dices forward, reaches it the collapsing hole and grabs Tipolei, and yanks him back through.

The rift slams shut nearly in the dog soldiers ankles and explodes in a gigantic blast.

Ben, Kyron, and Tipolei are caught in the exploding mess.

Reminder - You guys because of the protection spell are considered in Mega Damage Armor.

Kyron has 17 armor/toughness total currently.

so 6 = 2 wounds ?

6 net would be Shaken. 8 for the first Wound, etc.

Lays in the snow and ice stunned by the exploding rift. Not able to focus quite yet he called out.

"Everyone ok, we lose anyone ?"

Kyron lying in the snow has a perfect view as the sky clears. The wind stops, the snow caught in the swirling air dissipates, and the sun beats down with sudden, welcome power. It will take a moment for the air near the ground to heat and the snow to melt, but the direct sun warms him immediately.

Ana, once everything clears, immediately jumps off of the Echo and runs to Tipolei, hugging him tight.

Ben finds himself in agony but grits his teeth through. "I've been through worse," he tells himself. He calls out through the com, "Is everyone present and accounted for?"

When the blasts hits him in the back, with Kyron's armor spell still active, Tipolei feels a light shove. After Ana's hug, Tipolei puts her on his shoulders and moves to help Ben and Kyron up, holding and supporting them if necessary. Once everyone is safe in Echo, Tipolei says, Me think we won, but me scout around just in case. Kai, you want help me ? And with that, Tipolei goes back out and starts a wide spiral around where was the rift, smelling the air to make sure there are no more demons. He does that for at least an hour, not taking any chances...

Kai lands next to Echo and looks around. "Are we already done?"

Rolling

Just lays were he is placed but smiles seeing Tipolei, "It worked you made it."

I'm here. Where to everyone?

"Everones in a pile, Kill Hound is running around looking for ice demons... I think they'd die once the area gets back to normal temperature and they melt slowly..."

"Ana, that was super cool what you did. Kai, thanks for the help. Im sorry everyone that Rift was too out of control for me to stop."

Ana looks down, smiling a little while typing before frowning a little.[Last time I did that, I exploded a town...]

The sun beasts down, melting the snow into a slushy mess. Tipolei shots around but finds any trace smells of the demons to be old and fading, mostly concentrated on a few patrols and traffic in and out of the rift--he doesn't think any escaped.

Chay begins to get antsy so you pile back into Echo and roll out. The ground becomes extremely treacherous, but you escape the slush zone before they melt is too severe. It may take as much as a week for it all to melt, and maybe a lot longer for the area to return to normal.

Do you return to town?

"Well, this time Ana, you might have saved lives. You did good, everyone you did good."

Well folks, I think we should head back to town and toot our own horns, doncha think? Come to think of it, Echo even has 180 decibel dual air horns.

Chay laughed heartily at his attempt at a pun. It was a release of all the bottled up tension if nothing else.

"Wouldn't that kinda be kicking them in the face while they're down since they failed and acted kinda jerky?"

"We include them in the victory Kai, saying how Justice's hammer and the sniper rifle played a role in driving those ice demons back to their frozen hell."