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Post by Beelzebibble on Dec 31, 2008 1:42:41 GMT -5
OOC: SHADOWSHIPPING NOOOOOOOOO
PM away.
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Jan 31, 2009 13:53:40 GMT -5
Masumi drew her sword as the hideous creatures constructed from plant matter crawled there way closer to her and Achenes, "Good work on the ring of fire, but any closer and we wouldn't have room to avoid anything," Masumi said back to her companion. The most of them looked like they had assumed the skeletons of past people who had traveled into the forest, the flesh now mossy, and full of vines, the teeth still visible, but were razored to a fine edge. "These remains must be put to rest, how awful this must be on the souls of the dead..." Masumi said saddened, her stance becoming more focused.
Masumi rushed forward slicing one of the plant zombies head in half, and throwing the remains to the side. She spun around taking out a few more which lept from the tree's, with the flat of her blade, she opened her free palm sending a sakura energy ball, causing the the minions that fell from the tree's to be consumed by a sudden tree growing from the spot that the energy ball hit in the earth. "This is going to be difficult," Masumi muttered under her breath. OOC: Sorry if it sucks.
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Post by ch00beh on Feb 3, 2009 3:07:57 GMT -5
OOC: Rho's stream of consciousness made me laugh.
BIC: Scared. Darkness everywhere. Can't focus. Monsters! Stay behind tree.
Vieve whimpered a bit as she curled up into a ball. She hated night. She wanted to do something but she was paralyzed. Her body didn't move like she wanted it to because her thoughts were spent on keeping her form intact. Her paralysis was as much from fear as it was from her joints feeling stiff.
She heard her new friends fighting and yelling. She wanted to do something to help, but what could she do? Throw rocks? Hit something with a stick? Instead she closed her eyes and tried to shut out the noise. At some point she knew it was over, but she dared not move.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Feb 6, 2009 10:11:50 GMT -5
What looked like a bear reared up behind Achenes, although with a coat not of fur but of pine needles, it looked somewhat more like an enormous hulking porcupine. Judging that this animal was probably the forest's natural superpredator, Higgledy Piggledy concluded that it would be better for the local food chain if the bear lived on to fight another day. Without so much as a flourish of his dark hand, Hig teleported the bear away to a far corner of the forest. Even if the forest god's imperative prompted the bear to find its way back to the fight, the fire would keep it out.
Hig mentally gave thanks that Rhometer wasn't here -- the boy would probably have changed the bear's pine needles into syringes and called himself a helper -- and proceeded to teleport more animals out of the arena. He showed no concern for the moss-ridden human zombies, however. Zombies generally did nothing good for an ecosystem.
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All the trees! How could he possumly see with all the trees all over the where? It was too dark for trees. Rhometer squinted up at the sky, trying to see the moons and stars through all those thick, gnarled, bulbous bran-- wait. "Bulbous! That's it!"
Rho threw his hand triumphantly up in the air, and a lightbulb came into being on his palm. It was glowing brightly despite being affixed to nothing. Rhometer held it tenderly as he brought his arm down. "The bulbousest thing of all," he murmured in awe.
Now that he had a super clever light source, he looked around. Where was the nice shadow girl? Where was -- Oh there she was! Vieve, that was her name. He remembered! He went over to her, pulling his shadow alongside him at the feet -- but of course Hig was over way over that way with the fast ladies who went fast.
Rho held up the lightbulb so Vieve could see okay and he said "Vieve vieve! Everyone's all moving and I didn't want to just leave you here so I keeped behind. Don't be lost!"
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Post by Tout-Perd on Feb 11, 2009 20:09:20 GMT -5
"Bring it!" Achenes vaulted over an enormous spider, and landed on her hands and knees behind it. Quickly reversing to momentum, she shot back under the creature, and swept around her with her case. The beast fell, limbless, and Achenes rolled out of the way the moment before it crushed into the ground.
"You're all nothing! You hear that? Nothing!" Achenes slung her case over her shoulder, using it to take the brunt of a punch from another thorny apelike creature. She immediately flipped forwards, riding the impact, and struck the beast in the face with both feet. As the drool spattered her, Achenes spun around and hammered her weapon into the creature's skull. It stumbled back, and before it could recover, caught another bone-crushing backhand across the face. The redhead relented, and grinned slightly. A little blood of indeterminate origin ran down her cheek.
The monster grunted, and threw itself at her with a full-bodied punch. Achenes dropped, the fist shooting over her head and impaling a decaying werewolf behind her. She shot back up, striking at the ape's shoulder with her full weight going into the blow. With a tearing noise, the arm parted from the creature's body.
"Seriously..." Achenes batted aside another punch, and dropped the creature with a blow that snapped its head around. She cocked her head, a serpent seemingly crafted from loam flying by her and into the wall of fire.
"Sucks to be you, but I've got more important business to attend to than sitting at the fringe of this party," Achenes bolted forwards, raising the block of metal to stop the stinger from a wasp several sizes bigger than she was. The point punched through the near side to Achenes, seemingly spiralling like a drill. She braced her forearm against the case, and twisted it abruptly. The wasp fell to the ground, twitching, its stinger and most of its abdomen still trailing Achene's makeshift shield.
She jumped forwards, crushing the writhing beast into the dirt with both heels, and then bounding at the next creature. The stumbling, putrid blob of something mossy lurched at her, extending dozens of barbed tendrils.
"So sorry-" Achenes threw her case before her, flipping it in mid-pitch. She lashed out at the projectile with a flying kick, crushing it into the abomination. The creature ruptured like a pustule, venoms cascading onto the forest floor. Achenes hissed between her teeth, snagging the case before it touched the ground.
"Is that really all that you send into my domain?" A voice rose from the earth itself, shuddering and ancient. The forest creatures seemed to be cowed by the speech. They stopped attacking, and began to glance around in what could only be construed as dull terror.
"A dying woman, two little girls, and a boy who can command his shadow... Sad, really," Golden dust began to seep into the clearing, moving in from all directions. The flames died down, sucking down into the earth as if they had been dragged under by an invisible hand.
"Still, you did manage to kill quite a few monsters, even those among my most elite guardians. That would be an impressive feat from any warrior... Any warrior since they placed me here," The golden dust began to fade in sheen, almost reduced to a dull shade of beige by the time it was pooling in the center of the clearing. The monstrousities, jittery before, now began to flee as quickly as the could muster, without care for obstruction or hazard. Some tripped over others, crashing into the thorny thickets that were a constant presence in the forest. Others, wounded from battle, inched away from the growing presence with their dying strength.
"Of course, it is my duty... The one I was pledged to, before any of you had ever been born... I must defend this forest until either it or I am utterly obliterated," The cloud began to bunch up, twisting and rising from the litter. Leaves and crimson petals, seemingly falling from thin air, began to spiral downwards in an ever thickening mass.
"Wonderful. So we just need to crush a deity before this gruesome little game is over, huh?" Achenes had raised her case, shielding her face against the flying debris.
"Crushing me? I've slain more men than you would be able to count, child," The cloud of petals thickened to a spiralling curtain, obscuring its center completely. A wind began growing, pushing back the warriors even when they braced themselves against the ground. It howled and blustered for a moment, and then died down to the merest of whispers again. The petals stopped appearing, drifting to the earth naturally, and revealing a new form.
"So, who shall die first?" The figure was a tall, lean man with a grim countenance, his eyes focused in a harsh glare. He was hairless, where each hair would be instead replaced with impossibly fine blood-red petals. They streamed down the back of his head, and to his shoulders, waving as if they were searching for prey. Feathers and thorns jutted from his palid skin at random, never quite consistant in appearance with any other one. He was clad in a brown kimono with no ornamentation, which upon closer examination appeared to be made from the same material as fallen leaves. He extended his right hand out to the side, and a weed began rising up, growing and bubbling as if it were about to explode.
"This place loves the taste of blood. I should thank you for becoming its newest nourishment," He stuck his hand into the stem of the plant, and tore it free again. The plant withered back down instantly, decaying into dust as it fell. The man held up what he had produced. It was a massive blade, clearly styled after the tradition of Japan. A nodachi, crafted of ebony wood, with a rib of pale bone running along its back, and ribs from that wrapping around the sides of the blade, it dripped with a pale venom. Wordlessly, he pointed it towards Masumi.
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Feb 25, 2009 11:02:37 GMT -5
Masumi winced, as the large blade was pointed in her direction. "You are challenging me to a duel, I see," She said to what was represented to her as the Forest God.
Masumi rushed forward, her blade at her side. Leaping into the air, she came down hard with the first blow, which was easily deflected by the deity. Masumi landed hard in the fallen leaves, and slammed into a nearby tree. Slowly, she stood up staggering, blood running down her forehead, her breathing become heavy. "Damn..." she managed to muster, as she used her sword to support her.
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Post by ch00beh on Feb 25, 2009 11:31:17 GMT -5
Vieve felt a little warmer for some reason. She heard a voice calling... that silly shadow boy. She didn't dare relax her grip on herself, but she managed to look up to see a smiling Rhometer with a lightbulb. She cherished the rays of light dancing on her face before smiling back.
"Rhometer I am so glad to see you have light!" she said. Meekly, the Dawnchild got to her feet, and after a moment to make sure the light was staying, she hugged Rhometer.
"Thank you ever so much for staying. Now where are our friends?"
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Post by Tout-Perd on Mar 8, 2009 7:36:04 GMT -5
"Here I go!" Achenes shouted, and rushed past Masumi. The deity stepped forwards, starting to slash, only to have Achenes somesault into the air and leap cleanly over the blade. She brought down her case upon his head with a resounding crack, braced her feet against his gut, and vaulted away almost instantly.
"You humans are useless! That blow did nothing!" The god spun, and lashed at the girl. Achenes shifted back, the weapon clipping her stomach and leaving a thin red line. She smiled insanely, twisting to the side to avoid the transition into a thrust. The guardian lunged, slashing back at Achenes once more.
"No way!" Achenes threw herself into a roundoff over the blade, and continued into a series of cartwheels away from her foe. She landed on her knees, skidding a short distance in a spray of woodchips and dirt. She threw the case to the earth before her, and slapped one of the latches open.
"And once this opens, the fight's over," Achenes said, her teeth bared.
"Nothing could save you all," The deity shifted his grasp, and stabbed the ground with his blade. A pulse of light conducted into the litter, and a gigantic wooden spine shot from the earth beneath Achenes. She rolled clear, starting to move as it rose.
"This will. I know that much..." Achenes muttered from a crouch, leaning on her case. She flipped the other latch.
"After I put in the code, you're dead," She put a gloved finger on one of the dials.
"Two..." The girl stared defiantly at her opponent. She was covered in various small scratches and cuts, the freshest being the two on her torso from the near misses moments ago. Blood still oozed from them slowly, staining the tatters of her baggy shirt. The deity took a step towards her.
"Eight," Planting her hands on the earth, Achenes slid herself to the left. Another spine errupted from her former location, this one missing cleanly. The forest's ruler withdrew his blade from the earth, and readied himself to charge.
"One," Achenes spun the final dial, and pushed a button on the case. The deity rushed at her, sword raised over his head, and brought it down. Achenes slipped to the side, dodging the blow, and stepped in, throwing an uppercut into the underside of his jaw. The deity merely smirked, blood from Achenes' fist striking his thorny hide spattered across his smile. He raised his knee swiftly, hammering into the girl and sending her somersaulting away.
"So, what was it that you said, girl? When you got it open, I'd lose? All lies, I assume?" He swaggered over to where she had fallen, raising his blade to his shoulder. He gave a soft smile, taking hold of his weapon once more, and positioning it directly above Achenes. He tightened his grasp, and jagged serrations extended from the blade instantly.
"It ends now," He muttered, and brought the weapon down. Dead leaves exploded from thin air, blanketting the clearing and obscuring the view of his attack. The maelstrom swirled for a moment, everything silent except for the crinkle of leaves in the wind.
"Wrong," Achenes grunted through griited teeth. The blade had stopped short of dealing a lethal wound, its edge clamped between the metal ridges on the inside of the case. Achenes braced either half with her forearms, clamping it as tightly as she could muster against the might of the inhuman warrior.
"Masumi? Now..." She pleaded, the katana screeching as it began to tear into the metal of the case.
OOC: Third try's a charm?
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Post by Beelzebibble on Mar 8, 2009 18:56:48 GMT -5
"A boy who can command his shadow...? Oh, no, no," Higgledy Piggledy murmured, well aware that he wasn't speaking loudly enough for the forest god to hear him. "I'd like to think you have the two of us mistaken. Now let me see..." Restraint, as always, presented itself as the more orderly tactic than injury. Hig found the faint outline of the forest god and Achenes' shadows in the moonlight. Once he positioned himself properly, he seized the god's face from behind, blinding its eyes with his palms.
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Rhometer, on the other hand, was so glad to have found Vieve again that he totally forgot Hig had told him to wait for a signal! "This way! Come off!" And Rho led Vieve blithely through the forest, following the dark stretch of his shadow. He heard voices up ahead: they were about to find their friends any second!
"I think really fast lady and the really fast girl be'd having a really fast people race," he confided to Vieve. "May the really fastest won, huh?"
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Jun 16, 2009 11:27:08 GMT -5
Masumi looked up, placing hand on her stomach, "Right," She said picking her blade up from the ground. She rushed forward, the sounds of leaves could be heard as she gained speed, leaving a trail of sakura petals behind her. She brought forth her sword, letting out a loud battle cry, and with a big leap, she swung her sword, dismembering the gods head.
The body stood there, and the head rolled somewhere off into the distance, behind a tree of some sorts. Masumi slowly began to re-enter her blade into it's sheath, and as she did so, the body would fall farther to the ground. When the former forest god had fell, the sword was completely sheathed, concealed from reality, "It seems as if we won, Achenes." Masumi said with a gentle smile.
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Post by ch00beh on Jul 28, 2009 22:31:46 GMT -5
Vieve stumbled behind Rhometer, half being pulled half walking on her own. The conjured lightbulb floated above them, most likely kept afloat by the silly boy. The light it cast gave Vieve a very faint shadow, but it was enough that she could move. She no longer appeared to float; in fact, her dress was distinctly separated from the ground. Her feet could be seen under it taking awkward step after awkward step.
"Rhometer, I think we are running too fast!" Vieve looked visibly fatigued. "I don't think we can catch up with the really fast lady and the really fast girl anyway and I don't like the monsters and what if they got eaten and-"
She stopped talking when she saw Masumi slice the head off some kind of scary thing. She clung to Rho's arm.
OOC: OMG REVIVE
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Post by Tout-Perd on Feb 16, 2010 0:36:50 GMT -5
OOC: DOUBLE OMG REVIVE! BIC: The tree dissolved away, leaves flaking away from it in large swaths. Even the wood seemed to crumble into dead leaves, all slowly wafting to the earth. After but a few moments, it was gone completely. The god's head, life still in its eyes, spoke.
"Thank you, thank you all. You've freed me from my-" The voice fell silent. The god's body staggered, and then fell to the ground, disintegrating into a golden powder. The head made a choking noise, and then made a similar transformation. The dust began spreading outwards, a reverse of the beings arrival.
Each tree and beast it touched slowly unravelled into a litter of autumn foliage, quietly and peacefully breaking down. As it touched each of the travellers, it had no noticable effect, beyond a slight feeling of warmth, of well being.
Achenes looked up at the starry sky.
"I guess that even he didn't want to be here, after all..." She raised a gloved hand and scratched her neck.
"Let's get back to camp."
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Post by Beelzebibble on Mar 10, 2010 15:55:05 GMT -5
The ring of fire extinguished itself into a curling plume of periwinkle smoke, leaving the trees and plants where it had touched unburnt. The leafy limbs of slain forest creatures rapidly decomposed into a loamy mulch.
"Ah. Well good. Yes. It's very convenient to learn that we somehow turned out to be the heroes in this fight after all despite the fact that we could have had no way of knowing that. The havoc we have wreaked on the natural wildlife is no longer a thorny moral issue. Truly we may rest easy. Hello you two. Good idea staying out of this one. Such carnage is not for the eyes of children or at least those who appear to be so."
Higgledy Piggledy contracted and receded until he once again matched Rhometer's size and shape, though his coloration remained, in stark defiance of the physics of light particles, somehow much darker than the very faint shadow of Vieve that was now linked to his arm. He bristled slightly under the lightbulb's glow.
"I suppose the question of whether we are to spend the night here in the forest or carry on to the next town at once and declare to those adoring citizens our victory over nature hinges upon the gravity of Miss Masumi's condition. Certainly it seems logical to suggest that we will have accomplished very little if it transpires that tomorrow morning she has succumbed to her affliction. Although as I said before it is not necessarily reasonable to ask that the most biological entities among us remain awake for another few hours. I concede that readily."
OOC: Rho & Hig! If one of them doesn't f*ck up your plot, the other one will criticize the hell out of it! NOW AVAILABLE FROM RETAILERS ACROSS THE NATION
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Post by Tout-Perd on Jul 18, 2010 0:49:12 GMT -5
"Oh, come on, Hig, don't be a bitch. It's a pretty common fact, really. If you're willing to take the lead and bust some heads, things fall into place in your wake. You really don't need to think twice about it. You help somebody, oppose anybody you see doing wrong, and you can sleep easy at night," Achenes pulled at her hat, adjusting its settling on her brow, "Not as if I'd consider beating down a bunch of man-eating animal-vegetable-mineral things neccessarily morally ambiguous. They eat people, they're bad. Crush 'em."
"The only ambiguity there is the best way to dispose of the freaks," Achenes let her bitter words hang in the air for a moment, and glanced around. She cleared her throat, and then considered it most advantageous to move along to another subject.
"Where we go from here is up to Masumi. I'm a bit beat up, but she's the one of us with a medical issue. I can keep running for a while yet, I'd guess. I've had plenty of late nights, and I've been sleeping well the past couple days. If we wanna push for a solution, I've got fuel to burn."
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