While William sits stunned in the slightly damaged taxi, and Mephis and Sarah - after some physical prompting from Mephis - climb out struggle to open the trunk of the cab to get at their equipment*, Gauronne examines the taxi driver, currently writhing on the ground as his body begins to reshape in even more severe ways.
Limbs akimbo, the taxi driver flops around on the ground like a dying fish. Streaks of his skin begin to pale to a pinkish tone, before bristling with coarse white hairs; as time passes, these streaks begin to become interwoven. His nose widens, twisting so that his nostrils point outward, and screams - in a slightly bestial manner - as his tusked jaw begins to jut outward. Sweat glistens as his body heats, and he crudely struggles to remove his clothing with his hoofed hands in a vain attempt to cool himself down. The sweat intermingles with the blood that is trickling out of the tortured soul's wounds from his leap through the windscreen. His bulk quivers as he thrashes about. Loud snaps can be heard coming from inside the taxi driver's body, and occasionally a glimpse can be made of a leg slowly transforming into something not meant to be attached to a human being.
But the most disturbing transformation is to his eyes: red, they are, and angry. They seem to stare accusingly at nothing.
It becomes apparent to Gauronne that the unfortunate taxi driver is becoming transformed into something porcine; either some kind of wereboar, or a pigman, or possibly even something even more monstrous. A regular pig seems unlikely, given the changes to his eyes, though that might just be caused by burst blood vessels or an underlying condition exacerbated by the magical change.
* [Just wanted to make it clear that the taxi driver swallowed the key before his big leap through the front window, so you're going to either get the key out of his stomach somehow or find some other method of opening the trunk.]
[Update]
The new rulebook, with a hefty set of updates to the spell section, has been uploaded. There is also a change and addition to the Humanity attribute (and a smaller associated change to the Endurance attribute) that you should be aware of.
All the changes should hopefully be highlighted (as long as you use Word or a similarly advanced word processing package to view the file). If anyone has any problems, please let me know and I'll PM you a list of the changes.
Also, due to a traffic snafu I ended up being able to work on the character spreadsheet yesterday, and that will be all set once I get your equipment lists finalized.
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The poor man is obviously suffering; Gauronne will therefore burn 1 Magic Point on a Slumber spell, the better to prevent him from feeling the pain. If the Slumber spell does not affect the ex-driver, something is seriously wrong, and Gauronne will need to come up with an alternative plan, pronto. Assuming the Slumber spell does have the expected effect on the soon-to-be-werepig, Gauronne will follow up with a Probe spell, with the intent of finding out (a) what sort of enchantment is on the poor man, and (b) what must be done to cure him (or at least lessen the severity of the transformation,if at all possible).
ReplyDeleteI don't found the jey and i go to the back of the taxi, and look if there is any form to acces to the trunk, maybe behind the seat. I asked loudly "What's happening in there?I hope anyone know what is happening to that poor man"
ReplyDeleteLeaning onto the taxi, Mephis thinks to himself and just barely remembers the driver having eaten the key or something to that extent, and takes a quick glance inside the taxi for anything to either defend himself against any attacks, or to wedge open the truck in case of an emergency.
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