Now everyone is swallowed by darkness. It becomes impossible to discern where everyone is. No matter how bright a light source one may carry, one can only detect the person in front and in back of them.
A splashing sound is heard, followed by a scream.
let me see if I have this clear- Fleur's lamp without flame was based on Fleur's concentration, and followed Guiverna so long as Fleur could see her, or was attached to her?
The room behind us is illuminated as par a cloudy da with a duration of moon.
Fleur is inside the illuminated room when she drops the lamp without flame spell, Guiverna was out of Fleur's sight but had some illumination. Fleur dropped the lamp without flame and everyone is now in darkness?
That is based on the presumption that the group follows Guiverna into the passage. If my understanding is incorrect, I apologize.
Oka, once inside the passage Fleur will cast Incantation of the well lit lab again
level 30, casting total 20+aura bonus (4?)+ die roll:8- fatigue penalty:3.
I do not think that this is a valid target, as it is not a room nor remotely room sized. But whatev. Fleur can now see (dimly) about five feet in any direction. And the oppressive weight of the darkness is tangible.
to be fair she had no idea if it was a valid target or not. Can she see anyone else within those 5 feet? If note she will call out as well as send a call through her link " Where are you?" Report, what's going on?
Vallito follows whichever magus or maga last gave him an order, and patiently waits until someone gets lost or hurt inside the cave. "Someone always does" he thinks, shaking his head.
I need a list of how many people are in the expedition. Someone gets suddenly grabbed by the ankles and pulled down. They will probably* not survive. They are the one Guiverna hears scream.
(* by "probably not survive", I mean to say that I as SG, have decided to callously kill or cripple someone, but I am kind enough to let you the players choose whom that shall be)
Into the darkness? There is Guiverna, Fleur, Epona, and Bernat. Roger, Gerard, Antoni, and Vallito would be back in the dining room cavern. Everyone but Guiverna can hear Fleur's mental instruction, and Fleur can hear anything Vallito says, regardless of distance (with the possible exception of regio boundaries depending on their properties).
Bernat screams as something grabs him away
Fleur will cast lamp without flame and send it in the direction she heard the scream come from;
target 10 sta+cr+ig=20, -3 for fatigue, aura (+4?) + die roll (assuming stress given the situation)- rolled 6
does the reCo spell he is under to let him walk on water help him resist being dragged under? It has duration diameter not concentration.
People frantically look around to find who screamed. Guiverna hears it, but is unsure of the direction. The expedition organizes itself and counts off by name. Bernat does not answer.
The walking on water spell is soon to wear off. It has already worn off on Guiverna, and she sinks up to her waist in water.
Fleur is unable to discern what happened yet.
What happened with her lamp without flame spell cast towards the sound of the scream? Or does Guiverna cannot discern the direction apply to Fleur as well?
I take it she wasn't able to reach the edge of the stream before she lost concentration on her spell? (Message #98). If not, she will climb out of the water if she can.
Regardless, she gets a bad feeling about this, and decides to take measures to defend herself. So she will:
The Fangs and Scales have a Diameter duration, while Doublet and Cat have a Sun duration.
That spell has a range of Touch, so you cannot really cast it at anything. Only upon something that you touch. And you are casting it after hearing the scream. What is worse is that, no matter how powerful the source of light, it can only provide dim illumination in a radius of five feet (a single pace).
Guivera pulls herself up out of the end pool and wades to shore. And she is wise to have a bad feeling and to cast those protective spells.
Then Fleur will head towards the sound of the scream.
Now as for Bernat...
When I said that he "screamed", though the word alone has a connotation of frightened panic, it was more like a stream of angry profanity in his own native language.
Something grabbed him from (someplace?) and has pulled him into "somewhere else".
He cannot see.
It is not blindness. If he rubs his eyes he sees the flashes of light inside the eyeball that pressure produces.
It is absolute darkness. Almost tangible. Even deeper than it was back in the tunnel.
Someone pokes him with a stick or something, growling in some obscene language. Though it is nothing he has ever heard before, the meaning is instinctively clear. It is a demand to keep moving, to fall in line and march.
Bernat can no detect that he is but one amongst a sea of bodies, unwashed and pungent, murmuring in the same obscene tongue bemoaning their fate.
What is her current source of light? The omnipresent magical dampening is obvious. Whatever the potency, the luminosity will be only a fifth of whatever it normally would be.
Bernat is missing! The expedition searches around and splashes, and there is no sign of him nor do you discern a path of egress. If one were to probe the depth of the stream you walk on, it is waist deep and slow moving at this point. There are no pits or passages.
In theory, something could have grabbed him down and swam away quickly. But there was no splashing sound, just screams of profanity.
The other possibility should be obvious by now.
She wants to improvise a spell to allow her to locate (probably with hearing target) human bodies alive or dead, but there is no established guideline for that without an arcane connection. What would be her base for such a spell?