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The Fate who calls herself Mountain tried to convince some of her neighbors to allow the occasional mountain in their lands, for stability purposes.
"I meant no insult!" Dodge ball of lava. "I don't intend to interfere, you said no!" Dodge house-sized spear of ice. "I'm leaving peacefully, okay, so stop tearing up the tile!"
"You'll respawn at home. No permanent damage. You interrupted an important meeting, you need to learn a lesson about territory, mountain bitch." Dodge- no, fail to dodge a thrown tree, and then another ice ball. The next sphere of magma is what destroyed that form.
She wakes up, stripped of all her tools and enchantments and even clothes, and groans in pain.
Steel in Wormverse
sturdycoldsteel
sturdycoldsteel
Oh, well in that case he can easily catch up to her enough to create dense field of a certain deep purple flower actively emitting pollen.
She should start to feel sleepy almost immediately after inhaling the stuff.
She should start to feel sleepy almost immediately after inhaling the stuff.
sturdycoldsteel
Aaaaaand sterilize and wither all the flowers, the pollen will decay in hours at most. Dreambringers are not toys. Oh, right, he should probably do that to the brutes as well as her. They have mouth-and-nose-holes and enough space around the chest to breathe some air and a dose of dreambringer's pollen, now. It probably hasn't been too long but then again he's not that familiar with humans' exact limits.
He gives a dramatic sigh. This place is tiresome, he'd have expected it to collapse entirely years ago if it was made of tiles. He asks the stars, so to speak, if any of the three unconscious humans would (relatively) willingly help him learn the local language but it would only cause more violence.
He peers into the strings of fate once again, asking where he can find an actual civilization.
He gives a dramatic sigh. This place is tiresome, he'd have expected it to collapse entirely years ago if it was made of tiles. He asks the stars, so to speak, if any of the three unconscious humans would (relatively) willingly help him learn the local language but it would only cause more violence.
He peers into the strings of fate once again, asking where he can find an actual civilization.
...well, the strings of fate seem to point at the last town he visited as the nearest example of 'actual civilization.'
sturdycoldsteel
Hm. Is the entire planet as lawless? Well, Fate and Fates are inexact at the best of times. Ah well.
He deposits Jua and her goons a few miles away from his forest with a little food and water. He tailors the forest to look more menacing, expands it to the limits of his perception (only another mile or so), and places a variety of carefully-tailored chemical defenses that won't survive outside its bounds. He goes back to using most of his natural ability for seeing fate as a Centaur to try and figure out why most magic won't work here. It's vague, as usual, but he'll unlock this interesting puzzle sooner or later.
He deposits Jua and her goons a few miles away from his forest with a little food and water. He tailors the forest to look more menacing, expands it to the limits of his perception (only another mile or so), and places a variety of carefully-tailored chemical defenses that won't survive outside its bounds. He goes back to using most of his natural ability for seeing fate as a Centaur to try and figure out why most magic won't work here. It's vague, as usual, but he'll unlock this interesting puzzle sooner or later.
sturdycoldsteel
Well, that will trigger the foaming beans, which will slow the fires down at minimum.
He flies for the edge and makes a quick circuit, smothering sections of fire with a bounty of more foaming beans as he goes. Is it Jua again?
He flies for the edge and makes a quick circuit, smothering sections of fire with a bounty of more foaming beans as he goes. Is it Jua again?
Yes, it is, and the fires are being caused by explosions! Kinda hard to contain.
She is also not alone. Four men, all of them fairly nimble-looking and capable of running preternaturally fast, are carrying various glowing items from Jua to other parts of the forest.
She is also not alone. Four men, all of them fairly nimble-looking and capable of running preternaturally fast, are carrying various glowing items from Jua to other parts of the forest.
sturdycoldsteel
Killing is ugly. Explosions are uglier. POISONOUS FUMES FOR EVERYONE, delivered by alarming-looking flowers suddenly springing up near people and emitting white-orange smoke.
Yikes. This guy's got range, damnable capes. The four speedsters start running away, one of them stopping to grab Jua, but very soon they all start losing balance and fall on the ground, writhing in pain.
sturdycoldsteel
Neurotoxin will do that to you.
He gives them each some more, and grows plants through several important body parts, ending it relatively quickly. Gruesome. Unpleasant and disgusting. But pacifism simply wasn't working.
He doesn't try to put out the fires. Too hot and fierce for foaming beans by now. He retrieves some things from the center and flies around, spreading what he recognized as local forage and crops, until it's likely to have burned out.
From then on whenever someone recognizably more than human visits he attempts to scare them away just once, and repeats the poison trick if that doesn't work.
He gives them each some more, and grows plants through several important body parts, ending it relatively quickly. Gruesome. Unpleasant and disgusting. But pacifism simply wasn't working.
He doesn't try to put out the fires. Too hot and fierce for foaming beans by now. He retrieves some things from the center and flies around, spreading what he recognized as local forage and crops, until it's likely to have burned out.
From then on whenever someone recognizably more than human visits he attempts to scare them away just once, and repeats the poison trick if that doesn't work.
One short, scrawny man comes to visit, not visibly superhuman or anything, accompanied by someone who might be a body guard, but is certainly not as large as Jua's pals were.
sturdycoldsteel
"...No understand. Little talk." He says a long sentence in his own language to emphasize the point.
sturdycoldsteel
"Send to talk to me, is learn. Give food." The language barrier might impede negotiations, here.
sturdycoldsteel
And Tenno goes back to repairing his forest. Ironwood trees to resist fire and explosions, so-called bloodroot thorns, carnivorous flowers, all the chemical defenses from before and then some, guessing at the right conditions to attract local insects. It's a lot of effort, actually, and doesn't look very nice but he should have gone all out earlier.
Things might even be looking properly interesting now, if that guy keeps his promise.
Things might even be looking properly interesting now, if that guy keeps his promise.