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Rejam rolled 1 20-sided dice:
18
Total: 18 (1-20)
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 Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:01 am
Luckily, as with last time, escaping it proved an easy task. Maybe it really was just sort of like a giant catfish. He could live with that.
HP 12
Stones 34
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Rejam rolled 20 10-sided dice:
2, 8, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 9, 3, 3, 7, 5, 9, 2, 6, 2, 10, 2, 10, 7
Total: 98 (20-200)
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:02 am
He hauled himself dripping onto the sand, and didn't flee with quite so much fervor as last time. Instead, he slogged inland to what he felt was a safe distance--and that was a bit of an arbitrary measurement on an Island over-run with Insanity titans and dancing shadow-creatures and the like--and flopped down in the sand exhaustedly.
It was not the best state of mind to begin carving, and it showed in a string of frustrating failures, the stone crumbling.
He stopped to take a deep, steadying breath.
Don't think. You're good at that, right? At not thinking. Just carve the rune. Only think about the rune. And don't even think, not really. Just... hold a thought. Think without agency, or intent.
FAILED: 11
REGULAR: 5
SUPERIOR: 4
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Rejam rolled 14 10-sided dice:
5, 5, 10, 8, 8, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 5, 4, 3, 7
Total: 73 (14-140)
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:05 am
Pausing to steady himself helped, but he failed notably more than he had on his first attempt. The days that had elapsed had been full of plenty to make him less at ease; the tournament, the encounters with Rep and Jordan, that strained, hurtful conversation with Peyton. The lurking terror of his secrets getting out in a way that he had no control over.
It was impossible to fully prevent the intrusive fears and anxieties from creeping in, shattering stone after stone. But after a long, fingers-aching spell in the sun, baking brown and clothes drying to a salt-crusted crisp on his body, he managed to get what he was after.
Relinquishing the stones to the portal reconstruction efforts was going to hurt. But Taym had no delusions that he was doing it out of charity. He needed cigarettes, and he was damned if he was going to barter for them any more than he had to.
FAILED: 4
REGULAR: 9
SUPERIOR: 1
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