Reprise! Act 1!

[Carthrat]

Apart from the diseased clearing, the forest looked much like a forest. Carthrat was hovering in the air thanks to her magic, that rediculously large club hoisted over her shoulder.

Ginn was still on the ground, in the middle of the clearing..

[Ginnezumusha]

Ginn looked at the people up in the sky.

"Can ya see anything from up there?"

[Rezantis]

Relm blinked, then sighed and pulled Ginn up to the same level she was standing on.

"Well," she eyed the pulsing ground, "You probably don't want to be standing there right now.  How about we get out of here?"

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma scratched his head, eying the path of destruction. "A beach ball. Who made this place, and what where they doing to their brain at the time?"

Sighing, he looked around, and began checking for a clear path to follow...

[Carthrat]

There was no obvious path to follow, except, of course, the way back through the carnage.

[Ginnezumusha]

"Good idea.  You were saying something about heading west?"

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma sighed, and set off in a random direction.

[Carthrat]

As Ryoma walked off into the forest... his face got smacked by a tree branch.

A tree branch that wasn't there a moment ago..

[Bean Bandit]

"....The hell?" Ryoma grabbed at the branch, and pulled, using all of his considerable strength. "I've got a funny feeling about this..."

[Carthrat]

Grabbing the branch proved to be a mistake, as it promptly reavealed itself to be the polymorphing creature in hiding..

It started to meld with Ryoma's skin, turning into some kind of goo and fusing itself into his arm..

[Rezantis]

"Well, yes.  Talk when we're down.  Hold on a second, this landing might . . ."

Ginnezumusha and Carthrat didn't hear what this landing might be, as rushing currents of air grabbed the pair and hurled them at high speed off their platform.  They barely had time to realize what was happening before the rushing winds dropped them on the forest floor, several hundred meters west of where they'd previously been.

Dropped fairly hard.

And still going at a very high speed.

But still, it was A landing.

[Carthrat]

Splat.

"Y'know, for all the good it does, armour dosn't absorb the force from a fall that well," notes Carthrat, somewhat loudly.

[Ginnezumusha]

Ginn plowed into the ground, leaving a rut in the ground several meters long before coming to rest at the base of a tree.

Ginn happened to be quite abused and confused at the moment.

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"Thank you sir, may I have another..."

[Rezantis]

Relm dropped through the forest canopy, landing lightly on the ground near Ginn and Carthrat.

"Eheheheh," a sheepish expression crossed her face, "sorry, I'm not really good at moving other things that far . . ."

[Carthrat]

"It's ok. I forgive you. You're buying lunch when we get to wherever it is we were going," says Carthrat, pulling herself up. "Anyway, I think a suitable course of action should be to burn down the forest. We'll smoke out that bastard!"

Carthrat produces a flamethrower and a few sticks of dynamite, and her fingers start to twitch..