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Post by ch00beh on Apr 25, 2008 23:27:25 GMT -5
"But of course I'll take Chapstitch!" Vieve exclaimed. She took the wooden sock monkey and immediately sat down on the ground, her dress, as an extension of the girl's body, folding neatly around her. She began playing with her new toys, completely forgetting that she was supposed to be preparing a meal.
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Apr 26, 2008 15:57:22 GMT -5
Grimacing a bit from the pain running down her chest and abdomen. "The forest is filled with creatures, some kind, others not" Masumi rubbed her stomach. "There is a path we will take, which takes us straight through the forest, but is the most dangerous." she smiled oddly "How cliché..."
Masumi stoked the fire, building the flame higher. She brought out the cooking materials that they had purchased earlier in town and prepared to make there evenings meal. "Make sure we are all rested up tomorrow, we may have to protect ourself from the forest." Finishing dinner she scooped a soup like meal into bowls for anyone willing to eat.
Sitting down on a log she blew the steam coming from her bowl. "There is a fabled forest god, which likes to cause mischief to anyone who enters." Using chop sticks she expertly plucked a potato and ate it slowly. "Hot" she said smiling. Looking at the puzzled faces of her group members she smiled "By mischief I mean sending minions to destroy anyone who enters." Calmly she continued to eat her meal "You still willing to join me?"
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Post by Beelzebibble on Apr 26, 2008 16:10:30 GMT -5
"Man I am so good at making peskerly onions disappear, just you weight! I mean wait!" Rhometer's phonetic slip of the tongue, which only he and Hig were able to discern, gave him an idea. "I'll take away all their insideses and then they'll be soooo light that they will just Float Away on the Wind, yeah?"
"Is there any way to placate this forest god?" Higgledy Piggledy asked, wisely choosing to ignore Rhometer. "Surely we can signal to him somehow that we mean no harm... It's absolutely inconceivable that no one can pass through this forest unscathed. That would mean there'd be no interaction between the city we just left and the city we're going to."
He paused, considering. "And it would make the man who let us borrow these horses a damn fool."
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Apr 26, 2008 17:12:03 GMT -5
Turning to her companion "There is another way, but I am afraid that my condition will be terminal if I do not reach the town soon, and this is the quickest way, and we must make haste." Masumi reached into her kimono and pulled out a jar, with some medicinal herbs. "I use these to slow the bleeding to a minimum, but I need to make it to the town over."
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Post by ch00beh on Apr 27, 2008 0:59:24 GMT -5
"Forests always have adventures in them. I'm still coming," Vieve said excitedly.
"What's this?" She looked at the bowl of steamy liquid that Masumi had just given her. The Dawnchild carefully held the bowl in her hands, inspecting it in its entirety for at least a minute. She noticed that the others were putting whatever the contents were into their mouths. Vieve looked around one more time to make sure that was what to do, then raised the bowl to her lips and took a sip.
"Hot!" she squeaked, dropping the bowl on the ground. Its contents spilled, though miraculously, none of it got on the girl's dress. Vieve held her mouth open while tears welled up in her eyes. She had never experienced the tip of her tongue being burned by soup before.
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Post by Damien on May 13, 2008 10:05:01 GMT -5
OOC: I forgot about this topic! Yeah, I'm a bastard.
Jeremy gratefully accepted the bowl of steaming soup. He hadn't noticed how hungry he actually was until now, what with all the excitement and all. In a matter of minutes his bowl was completely clean and his stomach now feeling rather content.
"Even with such simple ingredients you make quite the meal my dear." Jeremy said placing the bowl on the ground and producing a handkerchief with which to wipe his mouth, seemingly from nowhere. "Are we to ride toward the city tonight, Masumi?"
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Post by Tout-Perd on Sept 4, 2008 21:43:49 GMT -5
"Forest god, hey? Goody. As if a back-alley brawler like me didn't have enough on her plate as is." Achenes said, a grim smile on her face. "I really don't care for mystic stuff, if you couldn't tell." She slurped the remaining broth of her soup noisily, jerking her head to keep her hair from falling into the bowl.
"Pretty good stuff. As I said, better than most anything I could cook. Last time I tried to make a decent meal, well, the hamburgers were red, the lettuce was brown, the cheese was green, and... errr... the ketchup bottle exploded."
"No, seriously. I'm just sitting there, spicing the meat, and the ketchup bottle on my table decided to do its best impression of the Challenger. The cap put a dent in my ceiling, and my whole room was covered in ketchup. Lost my security deposit on that one."
"Oh well. It's not as if I'm going to be in Utah again any time soon. Since I annihilated a ring of arms dealers and drug traffickers, there's only small fry and men with ten wives too many in there." Achenes took a bucket of water, and sloshed it over her bowl to rinse it out before tucking it away in her saddlebag.
"So, who's getting first watch? I could handle it, I guess, though I'm more the 'early to bed, early to rise' type." She asked, taking off her hat. A moment later, she self-consciously smoothed her hair down.
OOC: Celebrating the returns of Damien and Kevin to RP, I'm reviving this RP. Photu can get on board with that decision.
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Sept 6, 2008 21:14:18 GMT -5
Masumi cringed slightly at the pain eminating from her torso. She opened her medicinal herbs, and dipped her delicate fingers in the mashed ointment. She rubbed it across the slash that went down through her bosom, and across her belly button. Grunting "Stings a bit" she said wrapping herself.
A loud noise crashed slightly off the base of the camp. Masumi stood up, hand placed on the handle of Amarante. "There's trouble... it looks as if our camp disturbed the peace of the gods here, everyone prepare for a fight!"
OOC: LEE! PM me, so I can explain some of the details to you. Unfortunately... since... well... my internet at home sucks balls, and I have called and bitched out everyone I could. I can only post a few times a week, but oh the posting that wil be done.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Sept 9, 2008 15:08:32 GMT -5
"We better not be disturbed like this later on..." Achenes grumbled, rising to her feet and picking up her battered case that had served as her seat during dinner. She darted forwards, swinging her weapon with her steps to gain speed until she was moving almost as fast as a horse at full-gallop. She raised it in front of her, charging through a bush of brambles, and came upon the enemies.
One appeared to be a gorilla-esque creature, composed mainly of thick, greasy looking vines. Here and there, bits of its exposed understructure revealed it to have a skeleton composed of dark, heavily worn looking wood, probably stronger than bone despite its appearance. Another was a manlike apparition, possibly even a traveller like themselves. He stood clutching onto a sword that looked like a gigantic thorn, gritting his teeth in a way that could imply either rage or agony. Tiny plants sprouted all over his body, their roots stuck into his pores, his mouth, his tearducts, anywhere they could find a hold. Finally, there was something dangling from a tree. Achenes couldn't tell exactly what it was, but it looked similar to a bat with feathers from the angle she saw it.
Ignoring the horror of the creatures she faced, Achenes put the full force of her rush into an attack on the swordsman, her case slamming into his blade. The man grunted and leaned forwards, meeting her attack with equal force. Instead of warring with his superior might, she spun off to the side, slamming her case into the back of the apelike beast's head with the power of her first foe's swing. The creature went tumbling forwards, head over heels, though it ended up landing on its feet. Dropping to a savage stance on all fours, it bared its teeth, fangs made of jagged splinters, and hurled itself at her.
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Sept 9, 2008 17:23:00 GMT -5
Masumi came to the side sliding Amarante into the jaw of the ape like creature. It clamped down on the sword, and repelled the attack to Achenes. "Bad mistake" Masumi said, channeling energy through the blade an eruption of cherry blossoms suddenly exploding in the face of the creature. It reared backwards, half of its head blown completely to shreds, leaving leaving only the bottom half of the head.
"No" Masumi whispered as vines in the creatures body began to reassemble the missing head of the creature. Distracted by the phenomena she just witnessed she barely blocked a full force attack from the swords man, and flew backwards hitting the ground. "Kuso..." she said silently on all fours. Breathing heavily she shakily stood up, not noticing the onslaught of the ape coming towards her.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Sept 14, 2008 12:56:39 GMT -5
The feathered bat swooped down at Rhometer, who immediately fell back with a cry. He set about on the ground to find a stick. Once he had one, he leapt up and started swinging it wildly at the feathered bat whenever it dived back down at him.
"Are you mad? Stay focused! You can do better than a stick, Rhometer!" Higgledy Piggledy hissed.
"What do I do what I do do do what I what?"
"Remember what you said about making them lighter than air?"
Rhometer took another swing at the feathered bat. "Hey... yeah! I'll--"
"--try the opposite, actually."
Higgledy Piggledy reached out a dark hand, and the feathered bat suddenly lurched in midair. It immediately lost some altitude, after which it had to flap its wings harder to stay aloft. It tried to dive down at Rhometer again, but it was flying more slowly now, and Rhometer was able to score a stunning hit on it with the stick; this time, the bat was launched heavily off to the side and disappeared momentarily in the trees.
"Now I think it only fair and just that that flying thing ought to have had its advantage stripped down a bit," Hig observed. "But to attempt the same trick with the other two land-based creatures would be distinctly unfair. Therefore, I leave it to you."
"With pleasant!" Rhometer laughed. He reached out a hand toward the ape bearing down on the pretty Japanese lady. "Grave a little more havity, you!"
The ape, like the bat, gave an immediate jerk and then drooped down. It tried to pull up its arms to attack, but it was now visibly using up much more strength to do so.
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Sept 14, 2008 13:39:24 GMT -5
Masumi gave a thankful glance back at Rhometer for saving her from the onslaugt of the plant/ape like beast. "Now," Masumi said angrily with disgust "Your going to die!"
Masumi stood up from the ground and lifted her sword into the air, preparing for an execution, "Hmph..." she said, bringing the sword up, it flashed with a bright white pinkish color for a second, and she brought it down with enough force to slice a grown red wood tree. The beasts head rolled on the ground, but the attack wasn't finished. A trunk wrapped around the apes arms, then moved to the legs and torso, until it was full tangled in the hard trunk of a Cherry Blossom tree. The tree finished (basically eating) with the ape and bloomed with many cherry blossoms. Masumi folder her arm and ran her sword through, wiping what ever residue was on the blade.
Masumi glanced over, lookin at the man like apparation. She gave a mean glanced and twirled the sword in her hands "Bring it..."
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Post by Tout-Perd on Nov 1, 2008 22:44:11 GMT -5
"You two can take care of Mr. Chia there. I doubt he'll be quite as resilient as Grape Ape was," Achenes called out as she ran into the thick of the forest. Leaning down and swinging her case low, she hit a thin tree, ripping its roots from the earth, and sending it flying out of her path. She spun with her attack, slamming her case into the bat as it came in to attack her from behind.
"Not that easy!" Achenes pushed her cap back, keeping its brim out of her line of sight, and looked up into the trees. The batlike beast had totally disappeared, not only from her sight, but from her other senses as well... She closed her eyes, focusing her hearing until she could hear the breaths of her struggling companions, the sounds of their muscles moving-
A sharp pain exploded through her nerves, agony coming from her shoulder. Achenes tried to turn, only to find no purchase on the leaf litter. The beast had somehow approached her without a sound, catching her by the left shoulder, and now carrying her like a falcon with a mouse. She tried to bring her case up to slap it away, but the creature was in an ideal position to avoid her flailing.
"Stupid-" Achenes noticed what it was headed towards, a gnarled old tree with jagged branches and thorny bark... If she got slammed into that, she'd be shredded by the harsh projections. Calling up her strength, she threw her case ahead of her, striking the tree slightly above where she would hit the tree. As it slid down, the creature heaved, and flung her at its target.
Catching herself against the now level-with her case, and then twisting her body around, Achenes leapt at the beast. She caught it around the neck, pulling it down and swinging her legs up over its head. Moving quickly to avoid being bitten, she swung up onto its back, and slammed her knees into its shoulders. Forced into a nosedive, the bat slammed into the tree. It cried out in agony, flapping its wings desperately to get clear of the death trap. It was silenced when Achenes caught her falling case, putting the force of her freefall into a strike that literally pulverized its skull. Blood and feathers raining around her, she landed lightly on the ground.
"Chicken trouble." She mumbled as she re-entered the clearing, brushing the filthy feathers from her clothes.
OOC: Thank you, Airmaster, for inspiring me on how to more awesomely use Achenes.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Nov 2, 2008 16:00:25 GMT -5
Rhometer watched the green man and the pretty Japanese lady stand facing each other. They looked like they were about to have a swordfight! Rhometer decided to help. He let out a cry and ran toward the green man, brandishing his trusty stick. Higgledy Piggledy, dragged along behind him, had no time to protest before the green man turned to look at Rhometer, and swung his thorn sword around to face him.
"We'll cake tear of this!" Rhometer sang out to the pretty Japanese lady, a second before the green man took a step forward and thrust the thorn sword into the Peelasha's chest halfway up to the hilt.
Rhometer blinked in surprise, both at the green man's action, and also because it didn't seem to hurt at all. He looked down at the thorn sword, only to find that it wasn't a thorn sword any more.
The green man drew up his weapon in confusion. What had been the blade of the sword was now an old-fashioned spyglass with the narrow end directed outward. When the green man had tried to stab Rhometer, the spyglass had collapsed into its shortest length rather than penetrate the boy's skin.
"Did you do that?" Rhometer asked his shadow.
"Wouldn't have occurred to me," Hig replied. "That was a very clever move, Rho."
"But I didn't do'd it!"
"Maybe it was reflexi--"
Higgledy Piggledy's last word was cut off as the shadow of a vine wrapped itself around his neck. The actual vine was wrapped around Rhometer's. The green man's plants were stretching and enlarging, and Rhometer was entangled and lifted by a number of thorny vines coming from out of the green man's arms.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Nov 2, 2008 16:16:46 GMT -5
OOC: He hurt Rhometer. That bastard.
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Nov 2, 2008 20:34:35 GMT -5
Masumi threw her blade at the plant like ghost apparition, striking it in the chest, following behind she tackled the opponent thrusting her blade further into the man. Green blood spurted out the back side, her blade missing the spine, which would've killed the man permanently disposing them of the foe.
They landed on the moss covered forest floor, the thorny man landing on his feet, and Masumi as well. She bent her knee's reflexively, jumping upward, grabbing the hilt of her sword which followed making a path through the mans body splitting the man from his chest to his head. Green fluids erupting everywhere even getting on Masumi's clothes staining them. "I've learned from experience..." she said silently as her sword flashed a bright sakura color. Twisting her body, she did a horizontal strike seperating his lower half from his upper half, both being wrapped tightly in vines which seemed to be procured from his own body.
Masumi landed softly, and she grabbed her abdomen, anymore fighting with such intensity would certainly cause more bleeding which would lead to a black out, "Shit..."
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Post by Beelzebibble on Nov 2, 2008 20:57:43 GMT -5
OOC - Battle over, or not? It's hard to tell with these regenerative plant fiends.
P.S. Yesss. If causing Rhometer pain constitutes the overstepping of any emotional lines, then I've done something right with building that character.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Nov 2, 2008 21:05:29 GMT -5
OOC: Mm, it's due to his noncombatant nature. Since most other RP characters are either fighters or "Designated expendables", when somebody in the middle ground gets caught up in a fight, it's a pretty harsh blow. I'll edit in a post here in a little while. Let me get my Fallfish post finished.
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Nov 5, 2008 10:37:51 GMT -5
Masumi sheated her sword, and looked at all of her companions, "These are just the first enemies that we will face, if we want to end this quickly, we will have to go straight to the source," The look in Masumi's eyes could tell that if she kept fighting like this, she was never going to make it to the otherside of the forest. "We must continued onward, and if we can, get the ugly bastard to show is thorny face. We know how to kill most of the fiends that show themselves, so killing them in the future will be no problem." Masumi couldn't tell if she told her friends a complete and blatant lie, but she sure hoped that there would be no conflict through the rest of the forest, but unfortunately, she would most likely be wrong.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Nov 6, 2008 17:35:45 GMT -5
Rhometer, unusually, was at a loss for words. He simply sat down on a tree stump, rubbing his neck where the final enemy's vines had left red marks. Higgledy Piggledy thought it best to speak to Masumi rather than to him.
"Madame, your words confuse me. Which ugly bastard is this whose thorny face we want him to show? To which source must we go straight if we want to end this quickly? Surely you don't mean challenging the forest god? Rhometer and I have no business seeking to kill deities, nor is it my own personal inclination to devastate an ecosystem from the top down, although Rho might disagree." The shadow crossed his arms. "It's the Black Samurai you've been sent to assassinate, if I remember correctly. But, perhaps his face is thorny, too. You're more likely to know that than I.
"Shall we return to camp and rest the night, or does your condition dictate that we would do better to press on into the darkness? I imagine if we kept moving, this forest god and his fiends would be far behind us by dawn. But of course -- I'm being insensitive -- sleep is a necessity to most of those here, while to a Peelasha it is simply one way to pass a few hours."
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Nov 11, 2008 23:19:25 GMT -5
Masumi paused for a moment, "I wish we could get through here unscathed... Lets make haste and get to the other side of the forest before more of those creatures show up." Masumi paused breathing shakily, "We should... just... get... going."
Masumi began to run hopping over fallen limbs and ducking the low ones expertly, heading to the opposite of the forest.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Nov 30, 2008 3:13:10 GMT -5
"Wait... What about the horses, and the two that stayed in camp?" Achenes shouted after Masumi, scrambling to catch the woman. A small tree was in her way. With a brutal swing of her case, Achenes remedied the problem, splinters dropping like snow as she jumped off of the jagged remnants of the plant. She fell into stride alongside Masumi, and began talking, rapidfire.
"Are we just leaving them? Or are we drawing the monsters away from them? I don't really care either way," Achenes wiped some blood from her cheek, and continued talking. "But I'd like to have some sort of plan."
OOC: Short, but I want to know where we're going. Deserting camp and sending the hawk back to them with a note may be our best bet, unless Choobs wants to resume writing.
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Dec 25, 2008 1:33:58 GMT -5
"I have already relayed a message with Kaida, they should be following shortly..." Masumi said making her way up a tree, and leaping limb from limb. "If we could draw the monsters towards us, it would give the others a chance to ambush them from behind! I am sure they could catch up easily, we aren't going that fast ahead of them, "Masumi yelled back.
Masumi drew her blade, slicing a tree branch out of the way, and kicking it backwards. "Hurry Achenes."
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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 29, 2008 23:12:14 GMT -5
"So what you're saying is bolt ahead, then swing back and wipe out a lot of the nasties in one go?" Achenes punched her palm. "Excellent. Sounds like my kind of fun."
She began accelerating once more, motoring her arms and legs so quickly as to be almost a blur. Her tread, normally almost silent, now grew harsh and irregular. Instead of avoiding fallen branches or snagging thorns, Achenes simply bore down and either crushed the obstacle, or plowed directly through it.
"Is it drawing any attention? Hig, spot for me. I'm not looking back!" Achenes continued her mad sprint, lowering her head as she tore through an abnormally large spider's web. The question really had been idle chatter for her, just making more noise. She could feel the eyes of the forest coming to bear on herself and Masumi, phantom voices and warped growls emitting from both the folliage above and the leaf litter below.
"There may be a few more than I was bargaining for initially..." Achenes continued running directly up the trunk of a gnarled tree. She paused in her speech only to jump, withered black fruit falling around her like hail as she landed.
"Since usually, when you go charging in like gangbusters, things tend to want to get out of your- UNF! -way!" Achenes crushed the head of a boa-sized centipede with a decisive blow from her case, not so much as breaking stride.
OOC: I hope I'm not derailing this. So, now, the bazillion lackey fight scene, right, and then, after some diplomacy, we get to the meat of the plot.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Dec 31, 2008 1:38:10 GMT -5
OOC: Bazillion lackey fight scene? Really? We have to fight MORE bad guys? All right, all right. If no one else posts, I'll be the reserve squad, but seriously I need Choobs to get back into this topic.
Rhometer looked up to see the two really fast ladies go running ahead really fast into the thick of the forest. A race! He grinned widely and stood up. But then he remembered the nice shadow girl. She was really nice and he hadn't seen her since the nasty tree things and I really wonder where she is," he finished.
"You need to learn how better to separate your thoughts from your speech," Higgledy Piggledy commented.
Rho shrugged with only one shoulder. "Boundiaries are you's thing. I'm a defencestrator!"
"Fair enough," Hig said. "Stay here and wait for her, then. I'm going to join Masumi and Achenes. I'll tell you when to come over."
And, although the moon had long since risen, Higgledy Piggledy cast himself out, stretching as though the sun was still setting behind Rhometer. Fettered to his companion at the feet, Hig was nonetheless able to press a long distance into the trees. He watched from the forest floor while more minions of the forest god detached themselves from branches and bushes to surround Masumi and Achenes. The first woman whipped her sword around her, and the second swung her case, as the creatures pressed in. Hig thought it best not to distract them by announcing his presence, but instead set about quietly maintaining order in the situation.
To begin with, he waved his hand, and a wide ring of silvery-purple flame encircled the area. The flames did not spread but simply stood blazing, awaiting Hig's further command. Hig could have instructed the fiery ring to constrict, but he didn't want to force Masumi and Achenes into tightened fighting quarters. The important thing was to keep out any more of the forest god's minions than had already arrived. He doubted any of them would dare pass through flames, given the nature of the first three they had fought.
Hig supposed, upon further reflection, that a wide ring of unnaturally colored fire was probably also going to distract the ladies to some degree, but that was a regrettable necessity.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 31, 2008 1:40:25 GMT -5
OOC: Actually, I had an idea for dealing with most of the lackies. But I'd need to talk with you about it via PM.
And Choobs should get his butt back in here. Otherwise, Shadowshipping may fade away!
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