Mad Plans: Part II

[Khael!]

New Chapter! Okay, a lot of the rules I had written up ages ago... yeah. I'm not running this nearly so much like D&D as previously thought. I'm slowly working in more player freedom so we can get a level of comedic ingenuity closer to the original Mad Plans Thread that inspired this. (One of these days I'll go re-write that damned thing... XP)

If you'd like to join, post your character in the signup so I can take a look at it. I'll let a couple newcomers in every now and then, and will post in the signup when said newcomers can start.

Here's the last post from Part I:
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The serpent does not move for so long as it seems to be torn between which person is the greater threat. Ishva begins moving in a slow dance-like motion, attempting to hypnotize the snake. They look a little silly there. The snake slowly takes notice of this dance, following its' movements breifly, and then becoming rather... confused by the whole act.

Lindo takes the moment to fly up into its' face hissing, eyes gleaming with ferocity. You have only a few seconds to act.
With the aid of Ataska, you pin the snake to the ground. Ataska has a firm grip on the throat of the creature. You grip slightly below that, keeping its' head still while Ataska tightens the vine around it.

Twelve feet away, Dragoon just watches from beside the mess of objects. Eyes wide, taking it all in. He's got his blade ready if the snake decides to make a dash for it. There's already enough people all in that one area.


The snake snaps to again as it is pinned, and begins thrashing its' tail about like an aimless whip. Lindo, you lose hold of the snake's neck as the hardened scales covering its' tail lash you upside the face.

Ataska struggles to keep hold of the serpent's head, the spiny protrusions snag into the cloth wrapped around his hands. Thankfully, this seems to be keeping the snake from pulling its' head out of your grasp. The snake whips at your boot, making an incomplete cut through the leather that doesn't hurt you.

Lindo, you lunge for its' writhing body attempting to stop further hits, and get a hold of it momentarily with one hand. It pushes ever harder to free itself; you apply more weight, both hands, then your arms... until finally you're sitting on the thing. The tail's tip now wiggles around with too little length at its' disposal to harm anyone.



"Uh, you sure you guys have it?" Dragoon looks to Agrerius, then the snake and back again, "better work quickly."

He moves up, being sure to stay clear of the snake's head regardless of how stuck it is, and circles around to the other end. He grabs the base of the rigid, claw-like tail end with both gloved hands.

"Doesn't look like a stinger... Should we cover this thing?"

[Bisected8]

"I'm quite sure snakes don't have stings" I said.

[Ogianres]

"Oh, not snakes that you or I have ever seen, not that I am familiar with very many snakes," Agrerius looked down at the pinned serpent, what's not covered by the fascinating cat-person Lindo, "perhaps we are not on a world or even plane of existence that we were previously on!" he scowled as he looked back up towards the cloud-filled sky, "perhaps horses fly and it rains here for twenty-odd years at a time! Maybe a snake with a stinger is the first of many reality-defying things that we might encounter!" His eyes flashed as he bared his teeth and his voice rose nearly to a yell, "maybe everything that we have known, and learned, and held so dearly are worthless oddities of another reality, and we are trapped somewhere we know nothing about!" His head snapped back down to its default angle and his face resumed its ponderous expression, "or not. In the latter case, I doubt a snake would have a stinger."

Agrerius carefully approached the snake, holding out his flask as if it would protect him should the snake escape Lindo's grasp.

[xravi]

"Stinger?" Roy said, as if someone said something that made no sense at all. "Snakes bite, not sting." Roy became drawn in by what Agrerius has said about an alternate reality. “Maybe people can fly then.” He stood and began jumping up and down, flapping his arms in a sad attempt to fly. Roy stopped jumping up and down assuming he was looking like a dumb ass in front of the others. “If only I could fly.” Roy trailed off thinking of the possibilities of an alternate realty.

[42PETUNIAS]

((OOC: World we're not familiar with? Am I missing something?))

Ataska took the flask and the cover from Agrerius's hand, put it down next to him for a second, then used both hands to very, very carefully pry apart the snakes jaws, he swiftly attempted to bring the flask underneath the two fangs, and then pressed it up into the fangs.

[Myst]

Lindo tilted his head to the side, listening to the possibly evil guy, "But if this is an alternate dimension, wouldn't there be all sorts of random stuff already? I haven't seen anything out of the ordinary."
Looking down at the snake-stinger-thing, Lindo extended his claws and placed one at the tip of it's tail, "If you're worried about getting 'stung,' why not just cut it off?"

[Khael!]

I look closely as Lindo touches the tip. "That's what I'm wondering. Wouldn't be too nice to do to the... mostly-snake though. Since it's still alive and all. That'd probably just make it really mad."

Ataska, your attempt at prying the jaw open ends with the serpent giving you an almost intentionally stubborn look. You can't get your fingers in between its' 'lips' to get a good hold - its' mouth snaps open and shut in an annoying bid to throw your hands off. It doesn't work, but it does reveal two long curved fangs at the front of its' mouth.

"Why don't you hold the container in front of its' face? Maybe the snake will get bugged at it and bite..." Dragoon wraps some tensor bandaging around the tail claw. "Now it's not so nasty. Are we planning on keeping this thing?"

[Akamaz]

the look of intelligence (stubornness and confusion) in the beasts eyes kpromp ishva to atttempt communication.

(in draconic, as tht's the only intelligent reptile language she knows) Hello.

[42PETUNIAS]

Ataska started to wave the flask around in front of the snake, jerking it around a bit to make it appear lifelife, and making sure that the hand holding it was wrapped in the cloth. "Anyone got a small piece of meat that I can try to tempt it with"

[Myst]

Lindo frowned, thinking, while still keeping a claw pressed to the snake-ish tail, "But if it got mad, wouldn't that make it bite the jar? So I'd really be solving the problem...plus it looks yummy."