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Post by Tout-Perd on May 25, 2007 14:05:46 GMT -5
"You know, Masumi, it's really good that none of us suffer from an irrational fear of clowns. Well, actually, considering the state of most of our attire, we most likely could be considered a troupe of circus performers... So I suppose that it's a VERY good thing for us." Achenes was almost immediately beside the warrior, her case at the ready. Her clothes had several tears in them that were not present before, and her case had several large scrapes on it. There was a large spatter of bright red on it, maybe blood.
"I got nothing from the usual thugs. Well, except some of their teeth, but that's not much good, right?" She focused her gaze on the clown's claws. She just needed to read where he was going to swing. Be ready for anything, be always mindful...
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Post by Beelzebibble on May 25, 2007 15:20:23 GMT -5
Rhometer and Higgledy Piggledy observed from behind a large statue of an accordion which Rhometer had created specially for the occasion. Higgledy Piggledy tolerated its existence for the moment.
"I could turn his claws into chained saws," Rhometer offered.
"That would make the situation worse," said Higgledy Piggledy.
"Well, what suggestivenesses do you have, Mr. Don't-Make-Chained-Saws Pants?"
"Ssh. I'm trying to decide whether transmuting his claws from metal to rubber would constitute an increase in the net order of the universe or a decrease."
"What would?" He'd been too busy making six large pink carnivorous butterflies to pay attention to Hig's words. Those same butterflies now flew at the combatants in the street, with the intent to take a good chunk of flesh out of whomever they bit.
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Post by ch00beh on May 25, 2007 18:08:18 GMT -5
OOC: *waits for obligatory storm caused by the six butterflies*
BIC: Vieve looked over her shoulder when she heard Rhometer babbling around, only to find ugly butterflies. Since she was closest to them all, she seemed to be their target.
"Go bother the other funny man, Mr. butterflies," she said. She held her left hand at them, and suddenly, it expanded into a large, clawed shadow hand. Despite it's ferocious appearance, Vieve used it to gently push the butterflies around her allies, guiding them towards the clown.
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Post by Beelzebibble on May 25, 2007 21:10:05 GMT -5
On the other side of the world, mountains crumbled, the earth split in twain, and the seas regurgitated hideous monsters.
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Post by albatrosstrevelyan on May 26, 2007 10:18:51 GMT -5
OOC: LOl BIC: Masumi charged forward, and almost as quick as a flash of lighting she drew her sword and slashed, and put it back in its scabbard. When she looked for the position of the clown, he had already moved to the side.
"You can't touch! You can't hurt! You! Can't! Win" And with that the clown began to laugh like someone who was on hig doses of crack, and was best friends with Bozo.
Masumi tried to turn, but the clown had already swung, splitting her skin in four places causing blood to erupt from her body. She fell forward on her knees in pain.
The clown turned and looked at Veve and dissappeared and then reappeared behind her and swung, but before he connected he seemed to surrounded all the fighters at blazing speeds swinging wildly.
Tears swelled in Masumi's eyes. "The pain... blood... loss... pain... pain... pain..." An aura surrounded Masumi and she stood once again, and armed her sword after the clowns assault.
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Post by ch00beh on May 26, 2007 13:47:44 GMT -5
"Ah!" Vieve screamed as she was hit. She dropped her dagger, which instantly disappeared in what appeared to be a puff of shadows. As with her dagger, her form disappeared into streams of darkness, though her shadow stayed and looked like it jumped backwards. When her shadow "landed" on the ground again, her body reformed.
Her fingers were already tracing another spell on her arm. Veve finished it off by holding her right arm low, palm up, then raising it quickly. "Into the darkness!"
Her shadow seemed to take a mind of its own and detatched from her body. It made a mad sprint towards the clown, and when it was under his feet, it sprung up from the ground and enveloped him in a bubble of pitch darkness.
Vieve wasn't a trained warrior, so she couldn't ignore her wound for very much longer. She hoped the clown was incapacitated long enough so she could trace the extensive pattern used for healing. Although her people could easily reform their bodies, healing required reforming it in the right way.
OOC: Hmm... I've been spelling "Jennavieve" wrong this entire time... >.>
EDIT 2: It seems I've still been spelling "JennEvieve" wrong. >.<
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Post by Tout-Perd on Jun 6, 2007 14:39:52 GMT -5
"Let's do this." Achenes spun her case with practiced ease, almost as if it weighed nothing in her grasp. As the clown appeared, Achenes sidestepped his first swing, and stood still for the second, letting it miss her cheek by a millimeter. Before poofing away, he took a jab at her gut, and she turned sideways, yet again barely dodging the attack.
"I may not be the best warrior here... But a shabby performance like that is no way to lay a finger on one trained in the Hiyarihatto style. We're trained to dodge bullets, for crying out loud. So step up the ambushes, Bozo."
OOC: Yeah. Achenes=OBSCENE, Rurouni Kenshin level defense, if not better, but not much more offense than a guy with a baseball bat.
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Post by albatrosstrevelyan on Jun 7, 2007 7:44:20 GMT -5
The clown disappeared again and reappeared in the middle of the team.
Masumi's aura has grown stronger and she rushed forward mumbling something in a foreign language. She drew her sword and it was growing a fierce pinkish color, and with one mighty swing the vines of a cherry-blossom tree erupted from the tip of the blade wrapping itself around the clown.
Squirming the clown couldn't be freed "What is this? How can I not use my teleportation!"
Masumi smiled a devlish smile and thrust the blade of her sword forward through the trunk of the spiritual tree connecting with the clowns abdomen piercing his stomach and entrails. Blood was spilled on the ground underneath the clowns feet.
"Where can I find the black samurai?" Masumi demanded.
"Where can you find darkness?" The clown replied laughing "You think you won, but you still have a long journey ahead of you."
With the end o fthose words the cherry blossom spiritual tree disappeared and so did the clown.
Masumi pondered "Darkness?"
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 7, 2007 11:53:21 GMT -5
"Darkness? I don't like the dark..." Vieve mumbled. She was executing an even more complex series of rune-touches to completely heal herself. Unfortunately, her powers only applied to her own body.
After a minute of tracing lines on her arm, the spell finally started. Her own shadow crawled up the bottom of her dress, up her torso, and wrapped itself around her cut. A moment later, it was as if nothing had ever happened.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jun 8, 2007 22:16:37 GMT -5
OOC - Darkness, eh? That's certainly made intriguing by the presence of Vieve and Higgledy Piggledy on the team.
"I can find darkyness!" Rhometer cried. He immediately proceeded to break several fundamental rules governing the behavior of light by sitting down right in the middle of his own shadow. Of course, Higgledy Piggledy did not take well to such treatment and promptly moved out of the way.
"Where can we find darkness?" Hig wondered aloud. "In a room without windows? In a cave underground?"
"We could just wait until pratfall."
Hig paused for a moment, impressed. "You mean 'nightfall', but otherwise that's one of the more lucid things I've ever heard out of you. Still... I suspect the clown meant total darkness."
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Post by ch00beh on Jun 9, 2007 1:25:30 GMT -5
"Um, before we got to this total darkness thingy, I just want to let everyone know that I'm almost completely powerless in total dark," Vieve said. "I have to concentrate most of my powers into keeping my physical form intact and stuff."
Vieve thought for a moment. "Well, I can see better in the dark than in the day. But that's about it."
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Post by albatrosstrevelyan on Jul 13, 2007 19:49:15 GMT -5
Masumi smiled and gave a little laugh "We need to go to total darkness soon, before it envelopes us all..." Masumi smiled again "Don't think that I m crazy" With that she began to walk away and head torwards the library.
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Post by ch00beh on Jul 16, 2007 12:30:56 GMT -5
Vieve shrugged. She dropped the black dagger back into her shadow, and the weapon simply melted out of existence. The girl then proceeded to glide behind Masumi.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jul 16, 2007 12:50:09 GMT -5
Rhometer and Higgledy Piggledy performed some random action designed to generate enough words to bring this post to a semi-demi-barely-acceptable length, then followed as well.
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Post by ch00beh on Jul 16, 2007 14:02:52 GMT -5
Vieve dropped back and started gliding nest to Rhometer. She watched the random action with apparent fascination. "Woah, what did you just do?"
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jul 16, 2007 15:58:37 GMT -5
"I do'd something?" Rhometer asked. He turned to Hig. "I do'd something!"
"Didn't catch it," Hig murmured.
"What'd I do'd?"
"I have no idea. Perhaps you simply existed."
Rhometer turned to Vieve. "Perhops I simply exhausted," he said conclusively.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Jul 17, 2007 20:42:26 GMT -5
"Indeed. Existing. One of my favorite pass times, barring backgammon and caligraphy." Achenes muttered, slinging her case over her shoulder again. "Total darkness? I'll second Vieve. I do my reads based mainly on sight, so if I can't see, I'll be in a bad way."
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Post by Damien on Jul 18, 2007 4:27:48 GMT -5
"Perhaps this darkness that he refers does not pertain to a lack of light but rather a lack of good? Whatever it is, I'm fairly sure a torch will be of little help." Jeremy said straightening his top hat which had slid a little to the side.
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Apr 13, 2008 17:37:03 GMT -5
OOC: Okay, I am going to bring this topic back, because I like my character! And I am going to actually think of some plot points! ;p
BIC:
Masumi turned around and looked at her troop, her amber eyes wide. She fell to the ground again wrapping her arm slightly around her mid-drift. "Total darkness, I believe that he is referring to a city just north of here. There is a gang.." she stopped spitting some blood to the ground "I apologize it seems I have over done myself. The gang is called night stalkers, we may find a lead there." Masumi closed her eyes and rolled over trying to succumb the pain.
"We must hurry, however, because that city north of here has herbs that are vital to my wounds..." Masumi looked up to her group in pain. She reached into her kimono and pulled out slips of what seemed voucher's for each on of them. "Pure coincidence that I have one for each of us!" she said with a half crooked smile. Lurching in pain once again, she began to speak softly, with a painful grunt here and there "They... are for renting... horses. We should be able to travel faster that way... as the road is through a long forest."
OOC: I hope you guys respond, and I just remembered the topic today! april fourteenth, so reply! The story is a brewing in my brain.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Apr 14, 2008 10:20:19 GMT -5
"Crud..." Achenes muttered, and tossed her case to her other glove. She shouldered it again, and continued trudging along.
"I honestly wish that I could help you, but I know nothing of medicine beyond the most basic first aid." Achenes said, pulling her cap down over one of her eyes. She thought for a moment, and then smiled apologetically.
"Hey, at least on the bright side, the kind of people we may end up fighting sounds like my type of opponents. Nothing like mussing up the suits of a bunch of organized criminals..." Achenes paused, and cast a concerned glance to Masumi. "Do you need a hand there?"
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Post by Beelzebibble on Apr 14, 2008 14:12:50 GMT -5
OOC - How comforting to see a topic thought dead come back to life! This ought to happen more often.
"I'LL HEAL YOUR WINDS!" Rhometer shouted, but before he could move toward Masumi, Hig intervened.
"You don't have a great history as a healer. Rhometer," he explained to the rest of the group, "is by his nature better at making things less intact than more so. Madame, I'm not sure what substance his claws were made of, and I fear any attempt for me to seal your wounds could be hazardous... But I can lift some of the pain, at least, if it will make our voyage easier for you."
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Apr 14, 2008 15:43:08 GMT -5
Masumi grunted blood running through the gaps of her fingers. “That would be very much… appreciated” Masumi sat still, as Hig went through the healing process. After a few minutes Masumi could stand without much of an effort, and gave a warm smile of gratitude. “The bleeding has stopped for now, but I don’t think that the wound will close properly without the herbs that reside in the city to the north.”
The team walked throughout the city and rented horses for their long journey through the forest. Masumi attached the supplies they would need for the trip to each of the teams members saddles. “We will need this food when we set up camp in the forest, we will most likely go hunting if necessary for extra meat” She said looking over at Rhometer sarcastically. She smiled mounting her horse “Keep up!” kicking the pressure points Masumi sped forward Kaida following through the air. The sun was setting when they reached the edge of the forest, and Masumi stopped waiting for the others to catch up to her position. “This is a group effort, we can either set camp here and travel the forest at dawn, or go as far as we can, and set up camp in the forest directly. I will leave it up for you to decide.”
OOC: Sorry for the autoing BIC: The team voted on camping outside of the forest, it was time to fill their stomachs anyway, and Masumi need time to rest her wounds after a long day’s horseback. “Why don’t we all work to get a camp set up. Hig, Rhometer, and Jeremy, you should gather some wood, and us ladies will prepare the food, and will be ready to cook when you return.” Smiling she was excited to make friends with the female members of her party.
OOC: Basically for a few posts were going to develop our characters a little bit more, and have some interaction, and then maybe will put in some more action.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Apr 14, 2008 16:32:06 GMT -5
"We'll prepare the food?" Achenes said incredulously, biting her lower lip. She tossed down the case, and removed her gloves, revealing pale, delicate hands. Slipping the gloves into her pocket, she tipped her hat back a little.
"Miss, I do good at very specific things... Cooking is not one of them. I live on ramen, toast, pizza, and takeout. If you expect much of a meal prepared by me..." Achenes said, her voice simple and no-nonsense. She rolled up her sleeves, and inhaled deeply. "What are we even going for, here? Like something really hearty, or light and refreshing? Eh, screw it. Just tell me what I need to do."
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Post by Beelzebibble on Apr 15, 2008 15:48:16 GMT -5
OOC - No problem on the autoing. Actually, I was hoping you'd do that, instead of just having Masumi say "Yes, please" and then me writing "So then Hig relieved her of some of the pain." We would both have wasted posts, so your autoing was completely called for.
Higgledy Piggledy reached out. Once he had his dark arms wrapped firmly around the shadow of a fallen tree trunk, he lifted his hands up.
The shadow of the tree trunk went with them. And the tree trunk itself went with that.
Disregarding the position of the sun, he swung around Rhometer's feet, elongated himself until he could reach Masumi, and deposited the tree trunk in front of her.
"Showoff," Rhometer grumbled.
"You're bound by the physical weight of things. I'm only bound by the weight of their shadows. And that's never very much."
"I could have just maked some wirefood," said Rhometer, looking hurt.
"But since you didn't, would you mind dividing this into manageable chunks instead?"
"Ooh, yeah, I would! Mind! I mean I'll do it!" With that, Rhometer started tracing patterns in the bark of the dead tree with his finger. In another few moments, the tree had been reduced to a pile of wood pieces, some as generic logs but others carved into quite interesting sculptures, including numerous animals and plants that seemed to exist only in his imagination.
"You may be good at picking stuffs up but you are NO MATCH FOR ME artistickerly," he said proudly.
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Post by ch00beh on Apr 23, 2008 23:02:58 GMT -5
OOC: The auto was fine, Vieve wouldn't want to be in an especially dark place at night anyway.
BIC: "Cook?" Vieve was mildly puzzled. She figured the word must have had something to do with fire. As a Dawnchild, she never consciously ate. Her body, consisting of nothing but shadows, required no tangible sustenance, and the only thing she had to nourish was her soul. As her race's name implied, the light of dawn would give her all the energy she needed in a day.
"What's a food?"
Suddenly, Vieve was very distracted by the presence of several ornately carved wooden figures. She quickly turned away from the other ladies and half-skipped to the pile of wood, picking up the monkey that had caught her attention. She looked at it and smiled brightly.
"Can I have it? Monkeys are funny."
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Post by Beelzebibble on Apr 24, 2008 0:20:26 GMT -5
"By any means you must have the monkey! But only on one condishwasher which is, if you take Herbert McKinley Abastado the monkey you must take also his friend Chapstitch." Rhometer rummaged through the pile and found what appeared to be a sock puppet, except that it was made not out of cotton but wood. "For I fear they've becamed booze buddies and would hate being segregarious. Take that!"
He held out the wooden sock puppet, disregarding the fact that it would almost certainly not fit on Vieve's hand.
Observing from a respectable length away, Higgledy Piggledy said, "Bosom buddies, indeed..."
He turned (so to speak) to Masumi. "At any rate, looking ahead to tomorrow, is there anything we should know about this forest? Anything out of the ordinary? Rhometer and I tend to perform better when we've had time to plan ahead."
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