Reprise! Act 1!

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma frowned and looked at the phone. "Speak up. I'm not getting near you until I know what you are, and if you're safe." he told it firmly, feeling a little stupid.

[Rezantis]

OOC: *keels over laughing*

[Ginnezumusha]

Ginn casts wind, producing a light breeze to blow this cloud away.

[Rezantis]

The clowd did not, in fact, blow away - it kept expanding, and if anything sped up slightly.

Carthrat took a breath through the handkerchief and promptly started feeling nauseous.

And Relm noticed an arrow coming towards her out of the smoke.

Well, shit.

[Ginnezumusha]

Ginn pulls a gasmask from his pack and puts it on.

He draws a collapsable pole from his sleeve, extends it, and makes his way forward, poking all the while.

[Carthrat]

The phone makes a sad little sound, and thus transforms into a beach ball, which then rolls away... notably taking some trees with it, carving a path through the forest..

[Carthrat]

Carthrat plants her rediculously large weapon on the ground, and flicks a switch located near the handle...

*Fwoomp-BANG!*

With a deafaning roar, she sails *70 feet* above the cloud, managing to take the arrow for Relm right in the breastplate.

Inevitably, she started to fall...

..and meanwhile, the mystery archer fired a couple of shots at Ginn, who feels some heat coming from Carthrat's former position..

[Rezantis]

. . . until she got back down to fifty feet, whereupon she an invisible, yet very solid surface.  It was probably the same one Relm was standing on, from the looks of it.

Relm herself, looking faintly irritated, pulled a waterskin out of her pack and threw it into the cloud.  It's disappearance was followed by a very loud cracking and shattering sound, and a few shards of ice were seen to fly out of the cloud, only to fall back down again as their momentum was spent . . .

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma sweatdropped. "Well, this is pretty messed up...I...Oh, why the hell not?" He decided, following the path the beachball made.

[Ginnezumusha]

Ginn turns suddenly, as his stick has encountered something, and the arrows sail past.

The cloud seemed to shatter and fall apart after that, and Ginn looked around.

[Carthrat]

Ginn, Carthrat, and Relm note that no archer is visible, and that the ground and trees touched by the black cloud look like they've been afflicted with blight or something, because they're all blackened and leaking pus.

[Carthrat]

The beachball twists and turns through the forest, spraying woodchips and dirt into the air. And then, abruptly, curves around and makes a turn, leaving Ryoma's sight..

..when he catches up, it's gone, and the destruction has also stopped. No odd-looking or out-of-place things are immediatly present..

[Rezantis]

Relm stayed standing on, well, the air, scouring the forest beneath her for any signs of what might have happened . . .

. . . and incidentally grabbing her bag in a grip of air and levitating it up to her outstretched hand.

[Carthrat]

The Mystery Archer appears to have vanished. Assuming he wasn't invisible to begin with, and given the incredible sensory capacties of those present, that's unlikely.

The blackened ground is starting to pulse, like a heartbeat..

[Rezantis]

Swearing under her breath, Relm quickly surveyed the surrounding area.