Armerio can go from the other side.

I've been super busy lately, and my internet has been going on and off too. So I'm going on a looong hiatus. For now, you can just assume that Keep, Caite and Narwhal have all disappeared during the teleportation and are doing something offscreen. Meanwhile, The Silken Queen and Vargas are free to be controlled by someone else, anyone really.

@Thinslayer
I assume we're moving via the Portal, so what about the knights that are unconscious in the shelter? Are they going to die? Was that the purpose of moving everyone there in the first place? To get rid of inactive characters?
I figured that may have been the case from the get-go, but seeing as the portal doesn't seem to be tremendously huge (rather, it seems to be not much larger than a regular knight), my suspicion is piqued.

@Ares-Hsg
We are fighting Apocrean Cultists, as in Knights who have become followers of the Apocreans. So... You may need to edit over the combat a little, 'cause it seems like you're fighting Harvesters, judging by the "gaze" attack seen in Ares' combat.

@Everyone (including the two mentioned above)
Final comment... Meteor/star/thing falling from above due to Lyn's pendant. What are your thoughts?

Alright. I don't like the idea of moving peoples' characters without their permission... But I suppose that'd be better than leaving them there and them imminently dying for no reason. Or being captured and used as sacrifices or something.

Also, I'll be gone for 4 hours. But I do have something I'd like to do with Pippin, specifically, should the situation pan out in the way I think it's almost definitely going to end up as.

Clarify exactly what it is and can do... because if it is what I think it is, to be honest it won't do much more than wreck the town itself.

Don't see how it would kill any knights to be quite honest, weren't they basically on a meteor (Skylark)? If Apocreans are basically deities (very first post) then it definitely won't do much to them. And not The Swarm either, I might even use Armerio to stop it, as I was about to beef Armerio up in the next post and give him a power boost, realistically, or as realistic as it gets at this point.

@Ember: Thanks for the heads up i'll edit it.

Also, Swarm undead, Swarmbane, I suppose that was my bad. But Armerio isn't going to be remotely close to that easy.. just a heads up. But seriously though, around 3 quarters of the army already? Tsk tsk..

But really that meteor just seems like it'll just be a big distraction. Which might not work in your favour.

The energy the Core has released in what I view as a concentrated form, such as Gwen and Swarmbane. The raw energy from The Core itself will hurt him, unless he brings say twice as much Swarm energy to counter it. Which is why he started making an army (which can arrive to his side in a few moments, due to the connection they have with their master, he can summon them, with a mark I was honestly planning to keep secret. Sicarius has the mark too.).

Poor Ares though. Hope I don't have to kill him off.

I'm assuming the current Gwen is shellform Gwen then? And what supernatural energy powers her if not the Core?

But either way, Armerio is only slightly weak to things using an external manifestation of Core energy, he slightly resists everything else, except shadow, he fully resists that. So that's where it's at.

Hate making typing errors.. they literally pest my soul.

You mentioned (and i'm just seeing the nigh) that Protoform Gwen was powered by nigh-supernatural energies right? So I was curious what exactly those energies were.

Also, Apocrean Hierarchs? I dug up this post Sawhero made back on page 1:

"Just for future reference, this would probably be a good post for everyone to save.
Apocrean recruits are the lowest level. The don't have any special armor, and have not taken their first soul.
Apocrean initiates wear the Apocrean set, and have the Obsidian Edge.
After taking their tenth soul, they become Acolytes, receiveing the bomb and gun, and gaining the ability to call on Apocrean Harvesters.
Very rarely, the Apocrea will grant a knight the full powers of a Harvester.
Acolytes have the ability to summon obsidian, allowing them to create spikes, walls, or even replace damaged weapons. This power is limited in use, and takes days to recharge."

So what would be a Hierarch?

Guarded by Apocrean Harvesters exclusively, as they're higher up I believe. Give them all the abilities the Disciples or whatever have too, so they actually seem like the most powerful.

Don't understand how they're harmed by mist or crystal energy, but I can dig that. I'm gonna wait till later to post anything else on Ares, and in Armerio's or Vargas's case, i'm waiting on Colray.

I like the ideas, but I think... To save space, the details of the area should probably be left to the reader. We just have to decide whether the ground is actually solid ground, or if it's sorta like a bunch of stones bound together by dark energy, or some other thing; as that would influence combat maneuvers.

You'll never take me alive!

I believe there have been questions on the floor and mist energy and stuff?

So The Shroud of the Apocrea mission I see regular floors, but with glowing purple Obsidian or whatever that is, and some yellow stuff I take to be Apocrean symbols. So i'm good to roll with that as the floor. The castle, no input from me on that. Mist energy would be present, as the Apocrean weapons are made from Obsidian to run on mist. However:

You could give Apocrean equipment an edge down here due to 'super-powered' Obsidian sources, so to speak.

When near one of the yellow symbols that I think are Apocrean, an Apocrean will be strengthened and a knight will be weakened. They'll be like 100 metres apart I guess, and have a radius of 10 feet.

Thoughts?

(A wild Liminori was spotted! lol)

@Ember - I might still have Armerio try and send a recruiting pitch to Strom however, if he can find him.

Beck sent a single harvester to engage the knights at Gwen's portal. I don't know about any others.

Also, anybody up for being a council member? I know Ares is doing this too but, I don't know.

Wait, so wuts on the other side?

Srry I ment whats on the other side of the portal

I meant in the obsidian castle, the reason I put anything that had a comsets was because I wasn't sure if all of Armerio's army had coms. You know, like zombies and stuff probably don't. I probably should have put where the thing broadcasted.

So I'll need you to change that. :)

Srry I cant post I have finals this week

EDIT: But since finals, we have a weird schedule and get out of school early

You're right that there's more to Gwen's "returning to life" than meets the eye. Her clone literally dies whenever she leaves it, and that takes its toll. The oxygen loss alone could do her in. She's counting on not having to do much fighting when she reaches her target, which might turn out to be a fatal mistake, depending on how this plays out.

Who exactly is the Core Spirit? Is it Lyn? Is Lyn surrounded? So lost here.

The "Core Spirit" is the spirit of the being that lives inside the Core of the Clockworks. That spirit currently inhabits/controls a clone of its body named "Gwenivere."

The homework has Iincreased for me, sorry about that. and I really didn't know what to say for Luke, he's a little useless in the combat spectrum compared to the others.

Snipers are more focused on the entire group, but have not fired a shot yet. That's for later.

Luke isn't prideful, just too shy :)

Not sure what Gwen has planned, but I think it has more to do with the Apocreans now than the Swarm. Regardless, Lyn will (presumably) fight with Armerio soon enough, so you could always make her die off then.

Thanks for the warning, though.

I can safely say this is not my first rp, but you both did a pretty good job for a first.

@Ares-Hsg: Again, you seem to be controlling a lot of characters at the moment. I could take Margrel off your hands. I didn't volunteer before because I figured someone else might.

If I control Margrel, I can craft a good fight sequence between her and Luke.