The wind intensifies, growing into a mighty gale. You feel it slam into you forcefully, sending you flying across the tracks and onto the station's middle platform, taking your breath away and leaving you lying on your back. Slowly, you stand up, panting, noticing the way your heart's beating speed has increased tenfold. You're alive. You're alive! That wind propelled you over the small gap between platforms! What an incredibly lucky break.
"Yes, very lucky. But not for long." A voice says, from behind you. Turning around, you see what looks like a suit of sleek black armor, the various portions of it hanging in mid/air with nothing to keep them together, with two oversized gauntlets hanging from the sides, almost low enough to drag on the floor. Cruel, vicious spikes and bits of scrap adorn them.
"You must be disposed of. Good bye, whelp." Its voice is emotionless, a monotone that sends chills down your spine.
With a slow and heavy motion, the armor lifts a gauntlet, swings it around its head twice, then launches it at you. It disengages from the invisible structure holding it together with the rest of it and lazily flies through the air toward you.
You don't even have time to think. Moving by reflex, you manage to get ouf of the way...but only just barely. The gauntlet crashes past you, ripping strips of your shirt and coat to pieces, and drawing blood from you, the deafening sound it makes drowned out by the two trains whooshing past the platform. The wounds it has opened hurt, a LOT, but even the blood now oozing from your side won't be enough to kill you...yet. Lifting its now-gauntletless left arm, the gauntlet zooms back to its place in less time than it takes to blink.
"Can you hear me, youngling? Listen to me. This creature is dangerous and abominable, and does not belong to your world. It was granted access into it by a deranged mind, and given orders to hunt you down and kill you. It will follow those orders remorselessly, and there is little you can do to stop it as you are now. I can give you the tools to vanquish it, but not if you do not allow me to do so. If you wish to live, grant me permission to intervene, and align yourself with one of the Four Elements!"
4) "Quick! Will you allow me to grant you the powers to dispatch this creature?"
A) "Yes."
B) "No."
5) "You must align yourself with one of the Elements. Choose!"
A) Fire/Wands (Abilities related to: Spells, Knowledge, Zeal, Passions)
B) Water/Cups (Abilities related to: Persuasion, Leadership, Command, Manipulation, Emotions)
C) Air/Swords (Abilities related to: Combat Techniques, Cunning, Foresight, War)
D) Earth/Pentacles (Balance, Reality, Persistence, Growth)
[NOTE: Even if you vote NO on the first choice, please remember to vote on the second choice. I also wish to take this opportunity to stress that no choice here will result in an unwinnable adventure. For now, it is all about the choices you make and not about 'proper play' of any sort.
Additionally, keep in mind that you can (though it's not necessary by any means) suggest abilities you would like to have access to in conjunction with your other choices. These do not have to fall within the portfolio of your chosen element at all, though external abilities may manifest in unexpected ways. Please try to keep the suggestions reasonable: things such as "Create Objects", "Pierce Illusions", "Break Arts", or even "Incite Emotions" would be fine; "Reality Warping", "Time Stop", or "Unlimited Blade Works v6" would not.
EDIT: This choice will run for 24 hours regardless of the number of votes, with the most voted options being chosen. No first-to-X here.]
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