I watch the bandit leader Kaitlyn from behind a tree. I spawn another bug from my wrist; it's about time we adopted a new child.
Or failing that, she'll make an excellent meal.
I charge my gunblade and silently jump at the bandit.
(OOC: @Archemiday-Thebard: permission to commence PvP combat?)
You're too late, I already ran away because he started attacking me
((Sorry if my grammar and spelling aren't perfect. I'm on a tablet which isn't exactly suited to typing..... And for some reason my keyboard itself is slow to respond and rather glitchy....))
"Yeah? Could've fooled me, bub."
I whirl my proto-sword and advance, adamant on getting the truth out of this guy. His sudden attack tells me he has something to hide.
I stop abruptly when a female knight dashes out in front of me, brandishing a Calibur and telling me to stop. She thinks I'm going kill him. And I realize, as I stand there, legs bent nearly into a crouch, proto-sword held tight in my hand, teeth bared behind my Kat Mask, that she has every reason to think me murderous and insane. As does this Albert fellow. I must look like an actual Kat Tribe warrior, purple eyes glittering dangerously beneath my cowl, large frame and feral posture, and a coating of dust and rocks lending a weathered, aged look to my armor. I let out a deep sigh and relax my stance,taking yet another step backwards and sheathing my sword. I relax my jaw and put a hand on Chester, who's fur still bristles.
"I'm..... I'm sorry. I'm scared and hurt and I've lost everyone and everything I gave a damn about. In the last day, I've been stripped of my rank, equipment, and citizenship for crimes I did not commit. My name is Vatarian, and a day ago, I was a vanguard of the spiral Order. Now I'm an outlaw. And soon I'll be bandit food. My humblest apologies for attacking you.... I am.... I am known to be rather too aggressive in certain circumstances. This being one of them.
Who are you people?"
This was strange. I had never felt so guilty ever. It wasn't even on purpose, it was that swarm thing that I know is in me... and I'm having periodic flashes of void and murder. Speaking of them, I'm having one right now. Find... target... oh hey there's meat in my pocket. i shud eet et.. nom nom that wis delishis... hao du ei fined moer... where
Wait what? I don't even know what happened. I honestly want to go out and kill someone who belongs to the Spiral Order right now. I don't know why, something's wrong with me but I don't know what...
(00C: can my character be partialy resistant to the swarm and is the first person/construct to notice gwens infestation? Equipment: motion booster enhanced mecha legs and an armored right gauntlet used as a shield and a bashing board deals damage similer to a lumber ;D also has a very light cannon mostly a flash of light used to blind enemies, accelerated healing, lastly my motion boosters and cannon are stuck with sand at the moment until I get it cleaned. appearence: half knight half mech with a singular ocular lens, dans face is shrouded by a hood with the glow from the lens shining purple, he has a t-shirt and shorts on which means no armor)
((Has awesome bionic limbs and flashlight cannon..... Wears t-shirt. Sure, why not?))
Your resistance to the Swarm is directly proportional to the inorganic amount of your brain. If you have a mechanical brain like Arch's, you will be completely resistant to it. If you have semi-sentient implants in your brain, those will be unaffected in the event of infestation.
That said, if the Swarm attempts to infest you through an inorganic part of your body, you'd better pray that it can't get through that part. A Void branding on a mechanical limb, for example, will be totally ineffective.
00C:sure his brain has a few implants for control over his mechanical parts
my joints are all but useless now. I crawled through the desert sands seeing things that aren't there. Until I heard the sound of clashing metal coming from over a far sand dune. People? I stopped crawling and listen closely it sounds like fighting. I reasoned that it might be dangerous to get any closer in my condition, but I was in desperate need of help. I crept closer until i was just over the sand dune. There were three knights talking to eachother. Where was the fighting? I readied my gauntlet and fired a burst of energy into the night sky. That should get their attention i thought as i tried to reload my cannon, I heard clicking and then a long creak, damn my cannon's jammed.
(I unexpectedly am immune to swarm. Aw yeah. Permission granted for pvp. Don't expect to catch her, though.).
Kaitlyn PoV: Hmph. One of the girls had left, and the two other people are heading out of the forest. I heard a gunshot speeding towards me, and I jumped onto a tree. I drew my gun.
Arch PoV: Sana put her sword between the two. Wait, where has Gwen been?
OOC: Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Too much swarm for me.
Also OOC: Sorry guys, school started again today.
(OOC: I propose we edit new combat actions into our original combat posts, instead of making new posts for each action.)
I unleash a powerful spin attack at the bandit. As the blade slashes across her torso, I release my Valiance charge. Kaitlyn jumps back, narrowly avoids my slash (but still eats my charge shot), and flips over me. She kick-jumps off my head, which sends me sprawling to the ground. I roll to my feet just in time to avoid a flurry of blaster rounds. I flip to my feet, drop to one knee, and return fire with a pair of blaster shots. I suddenly dart at her and duck to slash her legs. Knowing she will try to hop over it, I bring up the blade in a quick diagonal up-slice.
School started for me too. I can't be on on school days until 3:30 PM or so. :(
IC:
What was happening? If there were people around... I mean, if... wait...
My thoughts drifted around like floats in the sea. Eventually, I gathered them together. Those runes on my chest... did they had anything to do with my random intervals of murder? I thought so... How could I remove them? At least there wasn't anyone around to see me if I turned into my Void form right now.
Suddenly, a blast of energy flashed into the sky, catching my eye. Bits of energy fell near me. In a bright explosion, the runes became marginally smaller. Wait... that was it! If I could gather a few supernovas... the runes might disappear! If I could survive them. Heading in the direction the energy burst came from, I hoped that I could gather enough energy to make the runes disappear.
I saw a the knight with the strange runes running towards me. A thirsty look in his eyes, aw snap he wants my ce, I quickly dusted myself with sand so that I looked like a broken pile of scrap metal
I glanced at the pile of sand and scrap metal, stopping to dust the sand off. A knight's visor appeared.
"Hey, uh, could I borrow some of your energy? It's a matter of life and death," I semi-truthfully said. It was a matter of everyone else in vendetta's life and death. I knew I probably looked silly, but I had to borrow as much energy as my energy tank could hold, to get rid of those runes and probably exorcise whatever the source of the runes was.
(OOC: I'm part robot) I backhanded him with my gauntlet and once again tried to charge my cannon. Click click click wrrrrr DAMN IT!! I crawled away as fast as I could.
Sanaca sisghs, shaking her head.
"Arche, I just don't know what we should do, Gwen's being acting far too strange lately, I shouldn't of allowed her to just walk away while she was acting like that. But now we have these two new guys, and they might need our help, what should we do?"
I sigh. "Oh, all I want is some ce so I can get rid of these stupid runes..." Then it happened, my skin and clothes turning completely black, and my eyes becoming red, as I feel like some other force is controlling my mind... Chasing Dan, I shoot him with my void blaster as I try to catch up on him. (IMPORTANT NOTE: You haven't died yet.) All I can feel is murder and rage. This feeling... What was wrong with me?? ...oH mAn I'M feElIng A bItt deEzY lOl
I then pass out.
OOC: I can't believe only one knight saw the flare. Sanaca break us up before we blow ourselves sky high. And dude if you've read my posts you would know that my joints aren't working anymore, which means I can't run away so that means we're both screwed to the RP bomb unless something interdimensional happens ;)
Can you look back and see me unconscious but in my void form now?
Dude, I passed out, which means I can't kill you right now. Herptyderp.
Kaitlyn: I dodged the slash, and did a front flip, kicking the attack in the middle of it for some distance. I fired off a few shots while retreating
Arch: "We really shouldn't have. Oh, I cracked it. Oh. Oh no. Oh gosh. Erm. Ever hear about the Swarm?" I said worryingly to Sana.
Though I might be a Swarm pawn whose mind was wiped. You never know
(OOC:sorry didn't see the edited post) I raised my gauntlet and blocked the void shots. The infected knight then shudered and collapsed. Poor guy, I guess I can part with some ce, I manualy turned the gears in my cannon and removed the energy from the chamber. "good luck," I wispered to the downed knight as I pressed the energy into his runes.
A bit bewildered, Sanaca looked around at the strange scene, one Knight with bionic body parts, another who's utterly confused, and one who was acting as strange as Gwen had...
"Yeah, of course! Never seen one up front, but I've studied them a bit. Why?" Sanaca replied nervously to Archemiday's concerning expression.
(OOC:
one who was acting as strange as Gwen had
You're onto something. Keep investigating.)
I'm having a lot of trouble parsing your combat post.
You wrote: I dodged the slash, and did a front flip, kicking the attack in the middle of it for some distance. I fired off a few shots while retreating
When I woke up, I found that my runes were a little smaller. Looks like he decided to give me some ce after all. I should thank him. Except for he wasn't there. Either he left, or there's something really wrong with me. I walk away. I still only had 10 crowns in my pocket, and I needed to get more. Fast. I check out the weapon shop, and see a gruff man who appeared to be the sword dealer.
"Um, do you happen to have a Flourish I could buy?"
"No. This is the gun dealer. Stop making stupid deals before I blow yer face off."
Man, something's wrong with my recognition skills today. I used to be able to pick out a sword dealer out of thousands out gun and bomb dealers. Ah, THERE'S the sword dealer.
"Um, do you happen to have a Flourish I could buy?"
"Why, certainly! It'll cost you 7500 crowns."
I cringed. I could barely scrape that much by swiftly defeating Lord Vanaduke. But HERE? Money-making was bound to be much harder. I wouldn't be able to scrape that much up in DAYS. And it looked like the other people were having trouble with getting something good too. No help from that side. Well, it looked like I would have to get a 3 star sword, given the trouble I've gotten into today. But my calibur was completely broken, because of the bandit attack. And there wasn't even an alchemy machine.
Crafting was going to take a whole day without an alchemy machine. And I'd be vulnerable to bandits while I was making the sword. I dismissed the thought. Who'd want to steal from someone who had nothing left?
Those Spiral idiots. I would get them for doing this someday.
So I went to find the materials needed for a nightblade. I would need 10 Dark shards, 3 brimstone, 2 forbidden fruit, and 1 phial of phear for crafting.
Without many fiends, I couldn't get that. With only a Brandish, a tiring blaster, and nothing to repair the calibur and blaster with, I was doomed in here.
EDIT: I forgot he has the brandish too. Sorry. Editing post now to fit that.
Ooc
it appears I had a bit of an error in the post. I meant for Kaitlyn to jump back from the slash, and do a front flip and land on your head, using it a nice place to kick and move back. If it still doesn't make any sense I can change it.
(OOC: New additions to the combat post will be italicized. Also, I have no intention of killing Kaitlyn, I just need to defeat her in the interests of character development. Is that okay?)
((Where am I in all of this? I feel like things have jumped abruptly and in the process ceased to make sense.....))
Find the last story post you made, figure out what it was replying to, read the rest of the story, and see how to fit in from there. That's what I do when I'm lost.
Try this.
The last story post you made...
...appears to reply to this.
The person you're talking to ignores you and runs in the direction of energy flashes.
He then chases Danpixed and passes out.
He was last seen in the town of Vendetta.
Meanwhile, Sanaca glances at your character, thinking you confused.
Can you take it from there?
As I thought about how to get my materials, a group of bandits approach me. Bet they want everything that I have left. That isn't much.
"Ok, chum, give us your money."
"I don't have any." Well, that was almost true. I DID have 10 crowns, but that's barely anything.
"You look rich. Empty your pockets." Wait, what? I look rich because I'm in Regal? Regal Spiral Sallet and Spiral Cuirass. It's not even- Well okay, I'll empty my pockets. All I found was the 10 crown coin.
"Well, if you don't want to give us your money, we can take it from you." one of the bandits sneered. Suddenly, I transformed, into the same shadowy color, with the same red eyes. For the third time, ever and since I got landed here. "Like a Snarbolax," I thought.
I assaulted one of them with my brandish, while Shadowraith the Void Maskeraith (Didn't need any more shadowing anyway) hexed them all with his haze. It was horrible. I killed one with my brandish, and started to focus on the others, wiping them all out with a few quick charge attacks. Twas bloody. The 5 bandits never stood a chance with their weak armor.
As well as keeping my 10 crown coin, I went over to steal from the bloodied corpses of the bandits. I can't pity them, no matter how hard I try. From all of them collectively, I found,
5 Crimsonite
5 Dark Matter
5 Valestone
5 Luminite
6 Moonstone
3 Simple Orbs of Alchemy
3 Advanced Orbs of Alchemy
3 Elite Orbs of Alchemy
50 Brimstone (ew)
10 Forbidden Fruit
15 Sinful Brew
5 Phials of Phear (Void form ain't afraid of anythin)
1 Mug of Misery (presumably to drink from)
1 Ghost Bell
4000 crowns, probably all stolen
I took everything except for the 43 Brimstone I wouldn't need and put it in my knapsack. I also got to eat some of the meat from one of the bandit corpses. I started making my Nightblade (which eventually would be a Silent Nightblade). First, I hit the dark matter a few times, until I have no Dark Matter and only 25 Dark Shards. They go into my knapsack. Inserting the Advanced Orbs of Alchemy into the Brandish, I applied the materials on the Brandish (Dark Shards are placed into that little slot near the hilt, Brimstone gets rubbed onto it, Forbidden Fruit is inserted into it, Phial of Phear is emptied into it and then thrown right in) and wait for a while. (You are welcome to post. Please don't disturb my crafting.) To wait it out, I pour some Sinful Brew into the Ghost Bell and sip it.
Sorry guys. I've been busy and have no time for the RP anymore. Feel free to take over my characters
I can respect that; work and school gotta take priority. If I have any time of my own, I'll try to see your character through to a good conclusion.
Good luck!
Archemiday breaks in to a fancy dance while singing karaoke. Then he makes the 'Transformer' sound when they're changing, and becomes a streetlamp. Then he Morse codes the phrase "Big ladies don't skin bears.' And explodes.
I have school, but I can still scrape up some time.
Is Sandwich-Hero becoming the RP's Hulk? He seems to become super powerful when he's angry, just like the Hulk.
I'm not posting because I have no idea what to post.
And Pow has some mechanical areas - a bionic arm (because his proper one was shot off. Go away, stupid Morai! Thankfully, it DOES help his sword fighting.),a steel skull (again, heavily damaged by Morai) and a a steel implant on the leftmost section of his brain to help his bionic arm to function. Under his armour, he has a piece of Skolver fur on his left shoulder for 'good luck' and piercing defence and a Sun Silver armour vest for unknown purposes. Possibly to protect his heart.
Hex, Arch did NOT mean that in any way.
Besides, I did say they had weak armor, and they took all my materials too. Unlike you people. >:(
After Archemiday's explanation, Sanaca couldn't stop from gaping. They had to find Gwen, immediately. Looking back at the others, she sighed, what to do?
I fire off a few more rounds from my gunblade. Kaitlyn yelps as she goes down, and I jump on her and ready my sword to behead her. But...darn, why can't I? As I gaze into her fearful eyes, I see another person in their reflection, someone who, like her, desires to live and be free just as much as she does.
She is alive.
She is human.
So was I, once upon a time.
A tear rolls down my cheek. I plant a kiss on her sweating forehead and whisper, "Your life is spared. Spend it wisely." I get up and walk into the dead forest.
I reach the outer border of the forest, and I stumble upon the savage army, led by a towering Void Chieftan. I swallow my fear and march up to him. "I need your army." He just laughs at me. Idiot. I growl and telekinetically push him to the ground. Before he can get up, I plant my boot on his neck and lean close to his face. "I said I need your army." He tries to kick me off; bad move. I grind my heel into his neck, stopping all hostile movement on his part. Of course, being a Void creature, it'll be harder than that to kill him, but my point gets across. I let him get up, and he gestures to the army and bows to me.
This could work.
Sanaca frowned, the other Knight's would survive on their own, she didn't need to babysit them. Nodding to Archemiday, she called to the other knights,
"You'd best get to town before it's truly night time, you won't last very long otherwise." With the final warning, she and Archemiday dashed off in search of Gwen.
The materials disappeared from my Brandish. Inserting the 1000 crowns inside the Brandish, the Brandish became a Nightblade in a flash of darkness. Evil emanated from the tip of the blade. I shuddered just touching it. I quickly shoved the Nightblade in my knapsack. The Nightblade had made me very uncomfortable already. I felt that if I tried to wield the Nightblade for more than 20 minutes straight, my Void form would be permanent. That wasn't what I wanted.
I spotted two knights running toward the forest. I took out my Blaster and tried to shoot them, but just as I pulled the trigger, a tiny bullet came out only to fizzle away a few feet away from me. The Blaster broke apart into a pile of scrap. I frowned. Even if I was good at close range combat, NO ONE can survive without a gun. And that included everyone, including the master of swordfighting. I suddenly realized I didn't know any good recipes for guns that didn't have a prerequisite. Except for the Autogun and the Frost Gun. Since literally everyone had a superior gun (namely the blaster) to those, I wanted to pack getting a gun in and go sleep. Except I can't. If I try to sleep I'm going to get robbed.
Well, I had about enough to make a Silent Nightblade. But, as I took out my Nightblade, I was attacked by bandits. There were more of them this time, and they seemed to have better armor. A puny 3* sword wasn't enough to damage them. All I could do was run away. I hid near the back of the armor shop. Bad move, more bandits passed by. Dammit, there were bandits everywhere! I felt as if there was just about no place I could hide without being spotted by bandits. Still running, I turned around the corner. It didn't seem as if I could run much longer to me.
Third person mode activated
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A bandit passed the corner and spotted Albert, but before he could get to him, the bandit was grabbed from behind and pulled back behind the corner. Albert heard a scream, the sickening crunch of crushed bones, and a low growl. A large black boot came into view, followed by a massive, hulking figure in spiky black armor. Its deep red eyes stared at Albert, seemingly crushing his soul with malice and hatred. But it made no move on him, and backed off to make way for another, more...attractive figure.
It was a young woman, wearing the Armor of the Fallen.
She peeked around the corner, smirked, then stepped into full view. He felt as if his mind was invaded; as if to prove his point, she addressed him by name, despite never having met him before. "Hello Albert. You must be new here. I'm Gwen. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance."
"Let's try and see if she's back at the Inn, if not, we mind as well get better equipped. The dangers out here are nothing compared to Gwen, but we don't want to die trying to find her." Sanaca said as she and Archemiday entered the Inn, and went back to their room. It was no surprise at all that she wasn't there. As they dropped off their crowns and went about their business, Sanaca was met with an abrupt bout of remorse. In the very few days she had been here, so much had happened, and she was no where closer to getting back to Haven. Taking a moment, she recovered and as she grabbed some extra medical supplies, her hand brushed against the Shadow Silver, sending shivers up her spine. They had best find a use for it.
"Where should we start?"
(OOC: Random Number picker, 1 = Forest, 2 = Mountains, 3 = Barren-lands... 1!)
"How about the forest?" Archemiday replied." Sanaca nods in agreement.
"Sure, the forest it is. I might find some new plants to make some concoctions with as well."
(OOC: @Hexlash: First off, a grammatical error. You wrote, "...but we don't want to die trying to find her.' Gwen said..." Did you mean to say "Sanaca said?"
Secondly, Gwen is already in the town of Vendetta, not at the inn, but near the weapons shop (if I remember right) addressing Albert. There's still dozens of bandits wandering about. Now, it may be unrealistic to say that Gwen's events are co-temporal with Sanaca's, but it's sufficiently close that we could fudge the time and pretend they're happening simultaneously. Gwen may not be visible in town, but her Void Chieftan would be pretty hard to miss.)
(OOC: I'll fix that, but from your previous parts I assumed you were in the forest addressing those Void dudes and thought that Albert was near the other Knights. Sooo yeah, not sure where you are but ok...)
Something catches Sanaca's eye, and she gasps, pushing Archemiday into an alley. Shushing him before he can protest, Sanaca gestures to what seems to be Gwen, speaking with another Knight, but she looked quite different. Before either can respond, a gravely voice sounds behind them.
"Looking for trouble?" The Bandit revealed himself, smiling wickedly. "Trouble makers are always out at night." Sanaca reached for her Brandish as she steeled herself for battle, Archemiday already pointing his Flourish at them. "Ha. What a joke." With surprising speed, the bandit knocks the two out of the alley, making quite a large commotion. More bandits appearing behind him. Grunting, Archemiday retaliates, Sanaca pushing herself off the ground and looking back to see what Gwen was doing.
"Gwen!" Sanaca cried out desperately, against all odds of what Archemiday had told her, she clung onto the hope that Gwen was still there.
Sanaca dashes out, yelling for the two to stop.
"Do you realize what you're doing? If you kill each other, you'll just blow yourself up!" She pulls out her Calibur defensively. "There's no reason to attack each other, you gain nothing fighting like that." Sanaca adamantly glares at the two.