EDIT:

((I was thinking that was a good idea, too.

Waiting on Pi for a few more days.

As for Sono... if he doesn't post here at all in two more weeks, we'll have to act as if the conflicts involving his characters resulted in chasing off, but not killing or seriously injuring, his characters. Nothing else seems safe.))

((Since Galax/Gbot isn't responding to Haven, I'm deeming it a lost cause. Moving on.

Zhaver, people are waiting for you in Outnumbered.))

--Dimension Warp--

The kid released the speed-up button. "Any questions?"

"Alright," Soteka crossed his arms, "so you mean to tell us that you created us?"
"Yes."
"And that you sent us to all those places."
"Yes."
"All because of some game?"
"Yeah, pretty much."

Mekito was scratching his head. "But that doesn't explain why you took us here?"

"Oh right. I'm gonna change your classes to that of Combat Wizards. Elemental Warriors clearly aren't enough to stop Kefka."
"But there's no such thing as-" Before Mekito could finish, the kid held two fingers up to his forehead before waving them away.
"Good luck."

--Kurduhm, Residential Area--

"How cute." The shadow twins, in unison, reappeared behind Luna Wing once her attempted hit-and-run seemingly hit. They used her as a sort of meat shield from the bullets, making sure to keep her between them and the Jet-pack Squadron.

"THUNDAJA FLARE!!" The Fire Twins attacked Kefka in unison, now notably clad in new clothing. Soteka now had an orange hooded-shirt with a thick black line running down the middle. A line of purple feathers ran down the length of his white sleeves, and a white circle was on his back. His pants and shoes had no visible difference from before. Mekito has a similar attire, however he wore red and green instead of orange and purple, respectively, and the hood has a blue trim.

--Kurduhm, Capitol Building Exterior--

((Alright, let's see here.

The Wind Beast, like the Earth Beast, is about the size of Turbo. No blade catching for you, lest you like shadow burns in your hand.
The Cyclone Slash is an attack that comes from the side with the same amount of force that it took to cleave straight through the ground without losing momentum.
The scythe and halberd used by the Shadow Beasts are more ethereal than solid, especially with the staff parts. So there's a strong chance of solid attacks passing through those and a definite chance of shadow burns if it does pass.
I'm just gonna say it missed Walton. Unless you want the shadow burn, which I will be more than happy to oblige.))

"I don't really think it's ei-GKH!!" The Earth Beast grabbed Akuma by the head as he was distracted before flinging him at Turbo.

The Wind Beast barely managed to sliced Walton as the momentum from the cyclone lead it towards Dan and Rick.

"Thanks." Shiki took the potion and gulped it down. As he did this, Shadow-Heavy unleashed it's Sliding Haymaker as Asura jumped forward in a Dropkick Drill. The two collided, before Asura broke through the arm. He jumped back in front of him and spin-kicked him straight into the Pyroplastiques.

--Kurduhm, Bunker Area--

'Kinda glad I'm not seen as big as a threat.' Vhytel finished flying and dropped straight in the middle of his rune (which is in the middle of the army-esque group). "Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to do THIS!!" He shot a hand up, the rune glowing purple before turning black and releasing a massive plume of shadows.

Genevra wrapped her wings around herself and unloaded a Dark explosion in several places around her, limiting Space Sphere's movement.

Arkhov warped out of the laser's path. He embedded his blade into the ground and punched the ground, causing several shadow geysers to erupt from the ground.

--Floralia--

((Can I just say Samantha is a lost cause? It's like Pi refuses to roleplay her anymore.))

Orange and Joe hopped off the branch onto the next island. "Say, Joe. You think we should have slowed down for the others?"
Joe shrugged. "What're you asking me for? You were the one who ran off."
"Ah, good point."

When they looked back, however, a six-armed person flew by, carrying Dedede with him. "Oh geez, I have to hurry before that annoying puffball catches up.
"Hey!" Orange pointed at them. "Isn't that the King?"
Taranza turned back, shocked. "Y-You! Quit following me already, you annoying pest!" (A bit OOC, but eh.)
"Following you?" Joe looked at Orange, who was scratching his head (or at least something that looks that way). "What are you talking about?"

"Don't play around. I know you want the hero of Dream Land back, but I refuse! Milady needs him." Taranza shot a nearby flower with energy. "Flowery Woods, Get Them!"

"What? Hero?" Orange was about to draw his sword before the flower erupted from the ground into Flowery Woods DX. As they were distracted, Taranza, with Dedede in tow, flew off.

--Manor de Fieghan--

While the siblings were mourning the deaths of the manor, Sammer proceeded to start up the incinerator. He went to grabbing and throwing corpses into it so that the house wouldn't be affected by necro-reanimation anymore.

(Sonosuke I guess you can control Samantha until Pi stops being lazy)

-Floralia-

Kirby jumps out of nowhere with a sword ability and rapidly starts cutting at Flowery Woods DX. "Follow him, i'll take care of Flowery Woods DX" and Kirby put on epic shades as his killing bosses music came on.

((Well, that escalated quickly))
--Floralia, somewhere else--
Dear lord, it was Kirby, the pink fluffball has come to end us all.

(Xx what POV are you in?)
"Yea thanks be a jerk to me" Kirby says cutting off the branches of Flowery Woods DX. Link appeared out of nowhere and started cutting at Flowery Woods DX too.

((Noooow I'm ready.))

--Kurduhm, Capitol Building Exterior--

Walton sidestepped the scythe attack, and as it fell down, stepped on it. Though his shoes were slightly burned, his feet treated the scythe as though it were a solid object, allowing him to leap up off of it and launch a rising uppercut at the Wind Beast's lower jaw, or whatever substituted for the Wind Beast's lower jaw.

"Walton, dear!" Helena moved forward, and her Combat Coil's tip was now glowing. "Save some for me!"

Dan and Rick continued holding the line with no problems, and Amy picked off spawn one after the other. "Sheesh... these guys are startin' to get boring."

"I know!" Dan shook his head, casually braining three Shadow Spawn at once with his shovel while elbowing another aside. "Don't they ever give up?"

You see, the Shadow Spawn, like any other foe in anywhere, were a rich, healthy source of Experience Points. And thanks to their constant assault, Dan, Rick, and Amy were all at least two levels higher than when they'd started. Amy yawned while picking up a Shadow Spawn that tried to sneak by her and drop-kicking it into a wall. "Can't they just go home and do something counterproductive?"

"Counterproductive? Amy, whyever would they be counterproductive?" Dan said, as he lifted a Shadow Spawn bodily and swung it like a flail, knocking out about five others, before impaling it on his shovel.

"Isn't that all they do? Heck, that's what they're doing right now!" Amy killed another sneaky Shadow Spawn by pistol-whipping it before killing three more with the same Hard Light bullet.

"Y'know, she's right on the money," Rick calmly said, while killing eight nearby Shadow Spawn with one swing.

"All of you, keep your eyes open." Cecilia was right behind Amy, unloading Revolver shots into the Shadow Spawn. It turned out that level ups weren't necessary; the Champions were just that good at taking out large groups of weak targets. "That scythe-wielding beast is getting close!"

Meanwhile, the pyroplastiques exploded right next to the hapless Shadow-Heavy. Uther leapt backward at the sight. "Forsooth! Prithee warn me of the fireworks next time, milady!"

Turbo caught Akuma in mid-flight. "OH, YOU'RE THROWIN' STUFF AT ME NOW, HUH? YEAH, LIKE THAT'S GONNA- OH, HEY, IT'S YOU." Turbo let go of Akuma. "ALL RIGHT! THIS GUY GAVE UP THE RIGHT TO A FAIR FIGHT. Y'KNOW WHAT HE'S WEAK TO?" Turbo gripped his hammer, grinning as it started building up energy. "'CAUSE I MIGHT HAVE SOMETHIN' FOR IT!"

"Turbo, shall I be needed?"

"MAYBE. I DON'T KNOW."

"Perhaps I'll err on the side of caution, then." Uther pulled his Magnetized Tomahawk back into his hand. "Stand down, you ugly pig-dog! The Elite Eight always triumph!"

--Kurduhm, Concealed Cave--

"Hmmm. Suspicious!"

A short, stocky man with a ridiculously oversized pair of clockwork goggles shrugged and threw a Hovering Electro-Turret into the air. "But not suspicious enough to warrant monitoring in person. Luna Wing, how are things on your end?"

"Completely insane!" Luna's voice rang over the mic. "But we should be able to get it under control. Still, we could really use your help."

"Of course! I'm making my way back to the city as we speak." Myles, now a good distance from the Concealed Cave, kept talking into his mic while riding a motorcycle through the Hawk Forest. "How about you, Smash?"

"MOST BODACIOUS! These guys know how to fight, but bro, they haven't TOUCHED the bunker. We should be able to make 'em run off, or make 'em die if I play loud enough to WIPE OUT THEIR BRAIN CELLS! OH YEAH!" A totally bodacious guitar riff plays over the mic.

"Hmm. And you, Ertha?"

"The culprit's apprehended, dear. It turns out we've got a lot of investigating to do in regards to Erutus Profiteur. His underling made the idiot mistake of- yes, you moron, you're an underling- telling their patsies just what he was up to. Said underling is also behind some of the disappearances."

Myles shrugs. "Right. I should be there in about four minutes..."

--Kurduhm, Bunker Area--

Smash Rock played a high note for each of the trio's significant attacks. "You guys play a crappy beat! Can't you sync your moves?" A barrier formed around the attacks, dropping the damage to a quarter of its original strength.

The Super Sentry lowered its laser. "DID I DEAL DAMAGE?"

"I don't rightly know. They ain't reactin'."

"THEN I WILL JUST HAVE TO SHOOT THEM UNTIL THEY DIE."

The Space Sphere took some damage from the explosion, but kept firing. "Space never gives up! Space power! Uh oh, space meter is-" A Rescue Ranger bolt struck the Sphere. "Space meter is good. Visualize in space! You're wrong! SPACE IS BETTER THAN GATORADE! SPAAAACE!"

"Yeah! Visualize an' attack! Go git 'em! ...For space!"

Only one more soldier fell. The rest began firing to the beat of Smash Rock's renewed rhythm.

--Kurduhm, Underground Vault--

"Wait a moment." Ertha lifted the ball out of Sonus's reach, keeping it shut. "We have to question him first, dear. And we can do that from outside a place where he can burn you alive. Also..." Ertha turned toward Desidia. "You really should respect your elders. I've been in mineral-control for most of my adult life. I can give you advice. Now, you... Sonus, right? I believe you wanted to know who he was?"

"Does that question even merit an answer?" DeRosa laughed. "I don't answer to you. I don't answer to anyone!"

"You had better answer," Ertha snapped, sounding significantly less kindly. "Otherwise, I'll dip this sphere in boiling magma. I've still got plenty of magma left."

"Ow, geez!" Scout cringed at the very thought of being stuck in a metal sphere that was dipped in magma. "Thanks for the nightmare."

"My apologies, dear. He's made me a little upset." Ertha smiled. "Now. Be a good boy and answer."

"Fine!" DeRosa sighed. "The report cited earlier is correct. I am Fiore DeRosa, former- no, RIGHTFUL Captain of the Eternian Bloodrose Legion. And I would have been Grand Marshal of Eternia, taking the position from the Templar Braev Lee, were it not for some ill luck and an upset subordinate."

Gerome shrugged. "That would be Einheria, correct?"

"Gah!" DeRosa kicked the inside of the ball. "Don't speak that harpy's name! If it weren't for HER... GAHHH! She must have told you about me, didn't she?"

"Well, there's your answer. Now..." Ertha tossed the ball in the air. "Who else are you working with?"

"As Einheria probably told them, Profiteur and Qada are co-conspirators. They, along with me, were freed by one 'Sturm' to work for one 'Desmond Skurge'. It is for this reason that I was wasting time in this city."

"Eager to sell out your co-conspirators, aren't you?" Ertha glared. "I think you're lying. Wonder what the magma thinks?"

"N-no! It's true!" DeRosa stammered.

"Very well, then. Desidia, correct?" Ertha turned toward Desidia. "It is only by our continued power that DeRosa isn't escaping. So let's carry him out together. The rest of you are free to follow us or leave as you desire- the big door leads out to the fish market."

"Wait, wait, wait. The FISH MARKET?!" Cynthia shouted, "You... DeRosa, you said those were execution grounds!"

"Did I lie? Fish hardly consider the place bloodless."

"Surprise, surprise. DeRosa's a dirty liar." Severa shrugged. "Thanks, ma'am. I'll be going on ahead. And... everyone else?" Severa gritted her teeth, and her face turned beet red, before she finally blurted out, "Thanks. Thanks for saving me."

"Anytime, sugar!" Scout flipped his bat. "You can always count on the-"

The Spy tapped Scout on the shoulder and whispered Severa's age (~16), compared to his (either 23 or 27, depending on whether the Track Terrorizer's description referred to RobotWars!Scout or GravelWars!Scout), in his ear. "Oh. Uhh... naw, y-you're [REDACTED]in' me, Spy!"

"I am not."

"She's that young an' already swordfightin'?"

Severa sighed. "Yeah, yeah. Sure."

Gerome dismounted Minerva. "She isn't lying- that is the Kurduhm fish market. Execution grounds... bah."

"Let's get outta here!" Cynthia was grinning ear-to-ear. "We're heroes now, right? ...Uh, Ertha, does this make us heroes?"

"Yes, it does, dear. Provided your testimony is true, which I'm inclined to believe it is- and I'm no fool."

"YAY!" Cynthia punched the air. "THEN IT'S TIME FOR A HEROES' FEAST!"

"You have the RIGHT IDEA, Minion!" Claptrap rolled up to the stairs with Cynthia. "Heroes' feast!"

"Minion?" Cynthia shook her head. "Nope! Sidekick! We're heroes! Heroes have sidekicks, not minions!"

"Oh. ...Okay! Follow me, sidekick! ...err, Sidekick? Can you... give me a hand with the stairs?"

Cynthia walked back up the stairs, picked up Claptrap by his head, and started carrying him down.

Wes shrugged. "I guess I'll stay here in case DeRosa tries to break out. Rui?"

Rui smiled. "I'll be right here with you, then."

"I suppose I should get as much information as I can about DeRosa..." And his attire, Spy thought. Mann Co. could benefit from that style. And, hey, a pay raise is a pay raise.

Scout stayed with Ertha and Desidia for two reasons. One: he'd embarrassed himself by hitting on Severa. Two: Spy was there, and he knew Spy, at least well enough to know if he was trying to Backstab him for Strange points.

"All right... give me just a few minutes. I have to prepare a path for the ball to go down. It involves magnetism; this way, we can both devote our full power to keeping DeRosa from breaking out with magic while transporting him over a large distance."

((Ahh. That helps split the characters.))

--Manor di Fieghan--

"...right." Zack turned toward Alf. "We should get back to the Shelter. But not until after these are cleaned up."

"'Course. We left the security system on in there, though. Not much is gonna get in!"

"Sarah, everything all right?"

"Yep." Sarah blinked repeatedly. "These new eyes are weird, though. But... am I going to go insane?"

"What?"

"Well, I guess I'm one of the Faeries now. And they all went insane, didn't they?"

Zack hung his head. "Most of them... but most were insane after they transformed. Do you feel like you're insane?"

Sarah shook her head. "I don't know. I've never been insane."

"Well, what do I look like?"

"There's about eight of you, but you look the same as ever." Sarah smiled. "Is that good?"

"Yes, that's good. Does your back feel better?"

"Yep! I don't even remember the pain." Sarah looked at Sammer. "Well, we should go help him clean up, shouldn't we? Look, Alf's already picking up bodies."

Alf nodded to the twins, a dead zombie over his shoulder. "You two... wanna bury your pop?"

"No..." Zack shook his head. "No, he wouldn't want us to risk him getting back up." Zack gritted his teeth and walked up to his father's twisted remains. "But first... E-1? Take the Sylfite apparatus off him. Wars have been fought over them, so we shouldn't let them go to waste."

"UNDERSTOOD." E-1 began removing the machinery from the former Baron di Fieghan's body.

"All right. Our next goal is..."

"To get this barony working right again," Sarah said. "Let's get to the teleporter."

((I'm posting at this location for some reason))

--Kurduhm, Capitol Building Exterior

Tap, tap, tap. That was the sound of a seed falling from the sky and hitting several rooftops on the was down and landing near a group of shadow spawn. This was of course no ordinary seed though, why do you think I'm telling you about it? The seed fell into a small hole where it snugly lied. Suddenly, what seemed to be an earthquake happened (The roots are pretty big) and a beautiful but huge blue and white flower burst from the ground called a Stormbloom. The Stormbloom immediately started up a heavy rain and a dense fog all over Kurduhm. The Stormbloom then just sat there.

((The Stormbloom is neutral, so you can completely ignore it aside from it making everything hard to do. Doing something to get rid of the rain/fog will make it mad and so will attacking it.))

((I think I know who you're talking about.

The Elite Eight (Turbo, Luna Wing, and such) were meant in part to be a way to make people stop attacking Kurduhm, so the story could move out of it, as well as providing Kurduhm with a little flavor (CYBORG MINOTAUR, [REDACTED] YEAH). But, in retrospect, they gained way too much power. I rolled with that, having plans to significantly weaken them (I won't spoil any more than that) once all the hundred-odd fights in Kurduhm stopped.

The Engie's mostly been limited to his weapons (established as Rescue Ranger, Wrangler and Wrench), and his Sentry, Dispenser, and Teleporter, the former having been upgraded by Pi's character and the Dispenser having Space Sphere grafted to it. Zack and Sarah haven't gotten in any fights against anything other than Zombies (and Qada, who's established as overconfident in his own ability and who had quite a time crunch, considering Alf was Stopped nearby and packing a blunderbuss that he'd use the minute Stop wore off), and are having understandable difficulties learning the use of their new weapons. So I don't think it's them.

Possibly Desmond's minions might have triggered this sort of response, but as Desmond is meant to be a dangerous villain, yet has no outstanding abilities of his own, his minions have got to be pretty tough.

The ones I'm concerned with are the Champions. They've been shown to have weaknesses before (for example, Cecilia's Blink Drive overheats if used too much, especially around shadow energy) Their personalities have been harder to flesh out in the middle of combat (except for Dan, who's always over-the-top in any situation), and while Walton's fists were able to hit shadow-based targets from the very beginning, I didn't have ample opportunity to show this ability off. Add a little fatigue from what seemed (to me) like a battle without any end in sight, and things got ugly; there's been one attack connecting on my characters, and that only forced Helena's retreat for a few turns. (Add to that that Arkhov seemed to be immune to everything that was thrown at him...)

I'll try to play the Champs properly from this point.

The XP from the Shadow Spawn was, admittedly, due to boredom with the whole "Dan and Rick keep hitting the shadow spawn and holding them back"; I freely admit I was mostly trying to make myself laugh. Yep, that was a mistake. (With that said, if you kept fighting the same thing, it naturally follows that you'd get better at fighting that thing...)

Also, where do you get the idea that we've seen your characters as weak? I've been getting the opposite idea; I feel like my characters haven't been taken seriously! ...hold on a second, I may be on to something here. Each of us knows our characters really well, but not the other's characters, except in those cases where they're exported from a game we've both played (like Kefka). So it would follow that, when one character has an ability (such as Walton's being able to punch shadows) or immunity (like Arkhov being immune to the majority of non-light-based attacks) that the other doesn't know about, the other is going to be annoyed when it comes into play, whether they should or not. It's like Fire Emblem's Fog of War, except not sadistic on purpose.))

--Kurduhm, Residential District--

"Aw, geez!" The squadron turned to desperately fire at the missiles, trying in vain to keep them all away. Despite this, about fifteen men were shot out of the sky before flares could properly be deployed, which kept the rest of the missiles away. "We can't keep this up!"

"So, I take it you aren't going to tell me your motives?" Luna Wing sighed. "Look. Me and the two of you are on a different level of power than everyone else here. An opportunity like this doesn't show up every day. And I know you'd rather not have any more vengeful Kurduhm widows chasing you with Gigatanks than you can handle." Luna Wing pointed off the the north. "So why don't we take this fight somewhere else, where we can really cut loose without anyone else getting in the way? You two versus me. Mount Nargabar's peak- it's that way. Coming?"

"Ha HA ha ha ha! Now THAT'S the way I LIKE it!" Kefka grinned as he took the brunt of the spell from the Fire Twins. "All right, now what to do... I KNOW!" Kefka picked up a Super Ball. "Oooh, nooo, a Super Ball. Weak physical damage. The HORROR. That's what you're thinkin' right? Come on, you can tell me! I take secrets to the GRAVE!" Kefka tossed the ball in the air and promptly blasted it with "FLOOD! THUNDAJA! HAHAHAHA! Enjoy!" Kefka promptly hurled the enchanted Super Ball at Soteka, giggling like a maniac.

--???-

"As you can see, Sturm..." Qada gestured toward a set of vials. "I've been making progress on my research into the craft of Onomancy. This has far more potential than Profiteur and DeRosa's hare-brained money-making scheme. You remember Report 18, correct?"

"Of course. Go on."

"Well, the means are going to be slightly different..." Qada's teeth flashed in a cruel grin. "But the ends will be exactly the same. I simply require the target's DNA for the salve the report refers to. And it will be very useful to both yourself and Mr. Skurge."

"Indeed." Sturm stared at each vial in turn. "Qada, where Profiteur and DeRosa have been nothing but a waste of resources, you have potential to be a great asset. I will overlook your earlier failure- it seems we all make mistakes. But do not let me down."

"I don't intend to! Mmm hmm hmm hmm hmm... DeRosa's remaining captives have made fine test subjects. I expect, though, that I won't need TOO many more..."

--Kurduhm, Capitol Exterior--

Walton stumbled to the ground upon the scythe suddenly not being there, and when he came to his feet, there stood the clones of him and Helena.

"Ha! It's even got a coil like mine." Helena grinned. "Impressive."

Walton stared at his clone. "So. Who's going to make the first move? You, or me?"

Amy's mouth dropped open as one of the Shadow Spawn took her shape. "Whaaa?!"

"Fear them not, Amy!" Dan brandished his shovel. "Though they may have our shape, and our armaments, we will prevail! Danger Force shall never fall!"

Cecilia stared at her clone. Could it copy her Watch's temporal effect? If so, did it start with the same cooldown she started with? Obviously this clone would be blinking about, but could the Blink Drive overheat? Did it have her capacity for intelligence? Did it have her tactical ability? Did its revolver have the same limitations as hers? Did it have abilities she didn't? Did those eyes change its vision at all? How about the others? Did the clone of Dan have water left in his tank? Could they run out of ammo?

"Hmm." Cecilia, her eyes trained on her opposite, began mentally taking apart her own allies. Who would be best against who...

"Ohh, yeah. It's duelin' time, isn't it?" Rick lifted his rocket launcher. "I'm designed for danger! And this is INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS! Oh, YEAH!"

Turbo roared and charged forward, knocking one boulder aside before being struck in the shoulder by another. "OW! HEY, CUT THAT OUT! THAT'S CHEAP!"

"Sir Turbo!" Uther stayed calm, keeping his tomahawk drawn, as he sidestepped through the storm of rocks. "Keep a cool head, lest you be struck down by these stones!" Uther watched the Earth Beast carefully, looking for some opening.

((I'll get the rest later.))

((I can do the vault and stuff, please don't post there yet.

EDIT: Almost done, will post tomorrow.

EDIT EDIT: Darn it, got really sidetracked. I doubt I will post today. Let me just put only what I have for the vault right now.

Was expecting them to at least acknowledge the storm, but whatever.))

--Kurduhm, Vault--

"Wait, can you dip Scanbot in molten lava?" asked Lance.

"WOW, REAL NICE," said Scanbot.

"I'll just stay here," said Lance

"I SHOULD JUST FORM MY OWN GROUP AND RUN AWAY FROM ALL OF YOU. ALL OF YOU ARE REDUCING MY IQ JUST BY BEING NEAR YOU."

"I didn't know fish had markets," the inkling said once she heard that the big door led to the fish market.

"SEE WHAT I MEAN?" said Scanbot

"I didn't know your 'IQ' could get more reduced."

"IT'S BECOME LOWER, NOT GET MORE REDUCED. YOU ARE- AHH, I CAN'T SCAN ANYTHING!" said Scanbot as he was splashed with orange ink. The inkling then went with Sonus, Severa, Cynthia, and Claptrap.

--Kurduhm, Fish Market--

((I need to come up with a name for the Inkling already))

The Inkling walked out of the big doors to find lots of rain and a dense fog. "Erm, where did this come from?" she asked herself.

"HELLO, WELCOME!" said someone.

"Wha-" asked the Inkling as she turned to look at the person. This person was infact, the demon merchant from a longish time ago holding some sort of rod with stopped the rain in a small ball surrounding him so that the rain didn't hit him.

"I assume you're here to buy some fish, well then, I have many fish and fish dishes for sale."

"No thanks."

"Are you sure?" said the demon merchant, who then pulled out a scroll which opened up to reveal a LONG list of fish and dishes made with fish.

"Yeah, could I buy your wand thing?"

"You can buy the rod of water displacement for the low low price of 90000."

"What? Where am I supposed to get that money? Although, what's this thing called 'Calamari'?" asked the Inkling as she pointed to something on the scroll.

"Uh, that? Oh that's a dish made of, erm- It costs 50. It's on a limited .000000000001% discount right now."

"I guess I could try it," said the Inkling as she gave him some money.

"Well, umm, enjoy your, Calamari, heh."

"I hope I like it," said the Inkling as she ate a bit of the Calamari, "Hey, this tastes kinda good. What's it made of?"

"Well, umm, how do I explain this? It's made of, errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, should I say it? It's made of squid," said the demon merchant. Instantly the Inkling spat the Calamari out and dropped the rest of it in disgust.

((I kinda screwed up and forgot to post. I will, however, have a post up here shortly.))

--Kurduhm, Bunker Area--

The Engie lifted his Rescue Ranger, wondering what that was. Were they leaving, or charging a big attack?

--Kurduhm, Fish Market--

Severa sighed. "You just had to do that... when did it start pouring down rain like this?"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Everybody, calm down."

A short guy with a huge scraggly beard and moustache and wild hair walked around the corner, and manages to calm the populace down. "Ha! So you're those supposed 'dangerous criminals'- whoa, whoa, no need for guns right now! No worries, everyone. These people are likely to be no threat. See? They've got their weapons sheathed."

A low murmur runs through the crowd, and then they slowly get back to their business.

The guy turns toward Sonus. "Sound guy, right? Ha! Ertha told me about you. And this must be Severa. 'Dangerous Criminal', or so Mr. Profiteur said. I'm Myles. Pleased to meet ya."

Severa shook her head. "You don't honestly believe..."

"Of course not! Word is, Profiteur disappeared." Myles shook his head. "Maybe it was all part of the plan. Anyway, we've got a lot of things to do... invaders an' marauders see to think the place is open season."

"Invaders and marauders?!" Cynthia's brow furrowed. "Show me where they are!"

"That's the spirit! ...But for the most part, we've got it under control. Most of the danger zones have been evacuated." Myles pointed toward the Judicial Center. "You're going to want to wait at the Judicial Center. Not for too long, don't worry- it's just to ensure Profiteur really was lying."

Gerome nodded, slowly. "If you've been having invaders, then we'd better prove we're not invaders. Minerva!"

Gerome's Wyvern walked out of the door. "Mrrgh?"

"Yes, we'll get some rest soon enough."

-Kurduhm, Vault-

"Make fun of your abilities? Oh, dear. Sorry... I tend to list ways other people can improve. The rest of the Eight looks to me for advice, what with me being the oldest."

Ertha smiles. "You're doing very well, dear- worked faster than I could have. Though... I notice you haven't been working as much with anything in the metal that wasn't steel. Is that a limit of your own abilities?" Ertha smiles. "What you've done with the steel, of course, was very effective. You simply needed to work with the other minerals to lower the temperature at which the metal turns brittle. Otherwise, DeRosa could just cool the sphere and break out- mages are tricky."

Ertha turns toward Scanbot and Lance. "Why, you two... you remind me of Smash Rock when he was younger. My goodness, that boy was impossible to teach..."

"From what I know about Scanbot... yeah, that fits." Wes shook his head.

"So, ma'am, uh..." Scout asked, "How long's it gonna be?"

"Oh, just a few more minutes. Desidia, could you start moving the ball down the path I've made from the 2% Chromium Steel? Gently, please. We need to make sure the antimagic doesn't break."

BUMP!

((Zhaver, should we wait for Pi?))

((I'm back now, I'll be posting my post in a little once I make my final edit))

--Kurduhm, fish market--

Sonus listened to what the man had to say. He nodded his head after the man was done. "Its fine, no need to say sorry." Sonus looked over at the two kids in the fog. "Interesting story they got there. I wonder." Sonus poked the inkling on the head and waved his hand gesturing for the inkling to follow. "Come on squidy, lets go see what's going on over there. Screw the Judicial thingy." Sonus started walking over towards the two kids, and on the way tagged the random person that has no significance to anything whatsoever. "Your it."

He stopped about a yard away from the kids and spoke. "Yo."

--Kurduhm, Vault--

"God! Is there any way to shut that thing up!" Desidia covered one of his ears with his hand in hopes to drown scan bot out just a little. It didnt work. He faced Ertha and smiled a little. Desidia smiled and nodded at everything Ertha was saying although most of it flew over his head "Yeah, that is my limit, just steel. I can kind of control the things that make up steel but not as well." Desidia looked around for Scamory ((I have no idea if hes out or not but im going to assume that Scamory is in its pokeball.))

"Hey where did that steel bird go? I liked him a lot." Desidia let out a HUGE and over exaggerated yawn. "So... sleepy... need... carry me." Desidia feel to his knees, his eyelids slowly falling over his eyes.

Alright, character applications so I can get something so I don't have to find my old character's info and still roleplay like I like it, please.

((Yeah, pretty much, character application for... well, creating a character in the roleplaying game.))

((Thanks! :D
Name: Zekrua

*Powers: Zekrua has the power of fire, and he even has weapons and armor based off of the element fire.

*Personalty: Zekrua is willing to accept a fight if someone teases him, though is usually kind.

*Backstory: Zekrua was at his home volcano(Yes, he DOES live in a volcano, which is reason for the powers part being mainly fire) when it erupted unexpectedly. Zekrua was blasted out along with some volcanic debris.

*Anything else you want to say that I didn't cover.
He is at the bottom of the volcano, waiting for the lava slide to end.
Due to natural instincts of living in a volcano, he can dodge everything he senses is near him.
He has volcanic wings that are immune to fire and lava for obvious reasons that he uses to get to the top of his volcano quickly. Though he may also use them for traveling to one o' his friends' house for a visit, so he's naturally been using them for getting around here and there.
Zekrua often wears blue jeans and a T-shirt under his lava- and fire-resistant armor, and sometimes since he got used to the heat by mutual effects he can actually swim in lava. It takes place of swimming in water, for him.

Hope that's not too OP. The wings work nicely with the character either way, so I prefer keeping them, even if I can't use them in the roleplay.. :) l )

((Personally, I think we have enough fire-themed characters at the moment.))

((@Zhaver

No, no, you don't get it. He doesn't dodge everything, just the things he can sense. That makes sense, because you can detect falling debris usually. He may not dodge but parry some things he senses, but the only way to hit him is to be very quiet, pretend you're not there, and make it so that he also pretends you're not there, without him even knowing you are there. Pretty difficult, but magic should help with that. After all, it makes sense, he has to dodge LOTS of debris, given his home.

@Sono
But I already made the backstory! I don't wanna make another one to change my character from fire-based to some other elemental character type! :( ))
-Zekrua, Volcano Disaster-(I presume that's how this works)(And yes, the volcano was given its name to how many times per day it erupts, and how lethal those eruptions are)
"Well, that was unexpected." I say as I walk along(Is it okay if I use In Character for roleplaying?) the lonely volcano, waiting until the volcano eruption stops. I hate it when the volcano does that. It can seriously screw up my experiments in my lab inside the volcano. I certainly hope that the cloning machine can either not be damaged or be repaired easily after the damage done. Man, it would suck to have to build a whole new cloning machine! To think how much work I spent on that thing!

((Drat, I should've known I'd forgot something. But... what charge towards Erk and Serra? Obakun just told Vortak to deal with the flying pests. Torghast attacked Luna (which I admittedly failed to address), and Vortak fired his missiles.

On worlds of your making, the metaphysics can be whatever you want (within reason, of course... unless that's the point of the world is that there IS no reason). You can have a world where neither chaos nor magic works, and instead the main "force" is bagel lasers. (I'm sober, I swear!)

I imagine a baseline, however, as allowing Chaos more raw power, while allowing Magic easier control and more details available. For example, the advantage with Chaos is that the fireball hits harder in a wider area, but the disadvantage would be that it's harder to put the fireball in the precise spot you need the fireball, and it's harder to do stuff like delay the blast or make the fireball orbit a certain target. So magic gets adaptability while chaos gets power. (And laser beams get a mix of the two.)

Maybe we should start rolling dice... naaah. It'd get too complicated and we'd just be arguing over who is X good at Y and who is better at Z, W or V. That might have been what killed Yore of Almire, and Machinauts was designed specifically for dice.

Also, welcome, Tender! The general consensus for "Out-of-character" seems to be "use double parenthesis" like I'm doing here. Anyway, simply follow Thin's rules and play nice (something I, admittedly, need to brush up on as well), and we should be fine!))

--Kurduhm, Residential District-- (continued)

"Thanks. We'll return the favor."

"Be careful out there! If you get hurt, head straight to us!"

Serra looked up at Luna Wing. She was fending off Torghast's attacks with her sword, but a few of those blows looked like they hurt. "Erk, what should we do now?"

"All right, let's think about this somewhere we won't be found."

Erk led Serra behind some rubble. "Okay, who do you think we should try to take out?"

"That one." Erk pointed toward Vortak. "Depending on how this goes... he's got enough firepower to destroy us ten times over. But... he's an automaton of some kind, composed of armor. And armor tends to be conductive to magic."

"So you're saying our attacks will work best on him?"

Erk shrugged. "I'm saying it's the best chance we've got. But he's a quick one. So we'll have to strategize..."

"Maybe I could make a really noisy spell and you could make a really quiet spell?"

Erk nodded. "You're catching on quickly. But just in case our attack goes awry..."

"Rexcalibur?"

"...That's worked well enough in the past. It should be useful for backpedaling or throwing off his aim."

"What about those... explodey-things he shoots?" Serra shook her head. "I don't see us dodging all of them."

"Of course not." Erk hung his head. "That's what I'm worried about..."

--Volcano Disaster-- ((This is the name of the place, right?))

"Now where am I..."

Princess Lei Tency. Guardian of the Lag Rift. Ruler-to-be of the Interlocked Kingdoms. No sense of direction whatsoever. While traversing the Kingdoms, Tency had fallen into a rift in space-time (darn things were EVERYWHERE these days for some reason) and ended up in a world that most likely took itself much more seriously than her homeworld.

"I mean, look at this." Tency stared at Volcano Disaster, not knowing what it was called. "A volcano area and there aren't parodies about convection currents. I'm worried... I might find myself dragged into something that's actually pretty grim."

Wait a minute, Tency thought. Why are you talking to yourself? "Because I can, ME. And it DOESN'T make me crazy. Now, it's time for the obligatory searching for things!"

Ensuring her Lag Bracer was on tight, Tency began scouring the area for any signs of anything...

((Yep. She's back. And Translation Trainwreck may show up as well, depending on the silliness (or seriousness) of what goes on here.))

((This post is pretty much pointless given how small it is

Well, I might as well add Ailill back in the game too. Maybe later Nylocke might show up again

EDIT: http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/filter/tips))

--Volcano Disaster--

Ahead of her was Ailill, who took a giant rock to the face.

((EDIT: Somehow I got ninja'd.))

--Volcano Disaster--

"Oh, no need to worry." Tency shrugged. "I'm the Lag Princess, guardian of the Lag Rift. The heat around me isn't registering at all. I found myself here because there's far too many dimensional gates in my kingdom- honestly, it's ridiculous- and I'm currently trying to find out just where I am in the universe."

Tency followed the strange guy in the lava suit to Ailill's location. "Ah, you're the one that agreed before to help me fight the Terrible Order of Unprecedented Hatred and Overt Unpleasantness! I... think. ...Are you all right? It appears you've taken a rock to the face."

((EDIT: Yeah, you can have two characters))

--Volcano Disaster--

Ailill answered with, "Because some NPC gave me a quest, I used the teleporter to warp to the nearest town and went here, because some NPC gave me a quest."

Ailill turned towards Tency, "Yeah, I know you. Don't worry about me, I'm the guardian class."