"You may be able to handle rocks like that, but what the real challenge is the only shelter here would burn anyone until they were no more in less than a millisecond. Plus, I don't like being around people I haven't known for very long for too long. Best off just going somewhere else, wherever that might be," I explain.
--Sheik, Glacier of Doom--(That's Sheik's home glacier name, by the way)
"Crud, got blown downhill. Ah well, time to visit Zekrua," I say as I form a hoverboard out of ice with my magic. I head off in the direction of Volcano Disaster.
A new kind of roleplaying game
--Volcano Disaster--
"You'll never burn with the ," said the demon merchant, who was literally standing in lava right then. (The demon merchant just looks like a normal human to the eyes, letting Tender-Footmender know this.)
"What?" asked Ailill.
"Perhaps you should have your hearing checked," said the demon merchant.
"Who are you?" asked Ailill
"I am a humble merchant who travels all through the universe selling magic wares to protagonists," said the demon merchant.
I turn to the demon merchant and yell at him,"WHO ARE YOU?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" I pull out my Lens of Truth my father gave me(made from pure chaos energy), only it's in flames. "And why the heck are you a demon? I thought demons were supposed to be in Hell." I point to the ground, only drive my finger a little into the ground.(My character will use the Flaming Lens of Truth shown here for whenever he thinks someone is very, very suspicious. He only used it on the Demon Merchant because he thought the demon merchant was EXTREMELY suspicious. Just wanted to let you know.)
--Volcano Disaster--
"Whoa, wait a minute, hold on." Tency took a look at the merchant. "Huuuuuh. Wellll then. I guess that overly convenient plot devi- uhh, LENS has a good case... you DO have something of a fiendish look about you. Plus you're standing in lava, which would fit, since, y'know, hell, lava, burning inferno, this guy would be kinda used to it."
"Soooo. Let me guess, you're about to tempt me with some overpowered item that makes my face explode when I use it too much. Oh, wait! Or you suck out people's life force and use it to power your items... or maybe this is one of THOSE stories, and you're the protagonist. Or maybe this is one of THOOOSE stories, and you're a... love interest..." Tency grimaced. "Yeah, let's make sure it's NOT one of THOSE stories and-"
Tency pauses for a moment to look at the lava. "Hey, Ailill? This lava is getting a LITTLE close, so I'm going to head on out of here." Then she turned and winked at Zekrua. "And, thanks for the concern, but if things were serious, I could cause a little Lag on lava as well."
Then Tency goes off on her way, toward... whatever terrain was in the direction she was going. Hopefully there wasn't a swamp...
((That's awfully rude of Zekrua.))
--Kurduhm, Residential District--
Soteka rolled out of the way as Obakun crashed into the spot he was previously. As he looked up, however, Soteka nearly saw too late the Super Ball coming straight at him and barely warped out of the way, this time having noticeably less strain.
"Kefka! One on one, you crazy clown... wizard... thing!" (*Technically a Knight- Oh hey, broken 4th wall*) "Whatever! Flame Thunderbolt!" Mekito swiped his arm in front of him, sending a bolt of lightning that was on fire arcing towards Kefka.
Vortak lessened his assault as he quickly closed the distance between him and the Jetpack Squadron.
Obakun suddenly zoomed towards Soteka, blade outstretched to cleave him in half. Soteka raises his blade to stop him, which, unlike his outfit, has remained the same. "Obakun! Why must we always fight?"
"Are you joking?!" Obakun lashed out with a kick that sent Soteka flying. In the air, "We're light and darkness!" Obakun slashed downwards, a heavy blow that Soteka parried with equal strength. "Opposites destined for conflict against each other!"
"Or to live in harmony!" Soteka brought his blade against Obakun's again before back flipping away from a Shadow Claw. "We don't have to fight, we can just end the-"
"Enough!" Obakun drop-kicked Soteka in the blade, forcing him back a few feet. "I'm not gonna have you of all people try to convince me into ending the war!" Obakun began relentlessly slamming his blade against Soteka's, refusing to allow him a chance to recover. His voice was practically oozing venom. "Not after you yourself told me that you didn't want it to end!" His eyes turned a deep blue. "Not after the whole sh*t with the D-Men and Afikazer!" A black haze began seeping from them as well. "You heard it yourself from Balance And Chaos! Light and Dark are Never meant to live in peace with one another!"
Shadow Energy was drawn into Obakun as he reared his blade one last time. "Dark Prominence!" Obakun swung in a wide arc, unleashing several massive explosions of darkness where Soteka once stood.
--Mount Nargabar, Peak--
"Like I would tell the likes of you my motives." Torghast looked around the mountain top. "This is where you said, right?" Torghast held his blade forward in a stance adopted from Japanese warriors during the Feudal Era. His eyes turned almost cyan in color as shadows seeped from them, not unlike what happened with Obakun. "You're the host;" he grinned, baring sharp fangs, "your move."
--Kurduhm, Capitol Building Exterior--
The Shadow clones began examining their weapons, primarily Shan, Shecilia, and Shelen. They didn't need to examine the bodies themselves, as they don't share the same restrictions or advantages (except Shick, for reasons).
Shan, in particular, was testing out the steam pack it copied. Almost unexpectedly, it propelled straight at Dan, sliding on its feet and shovel outstretched. At this, Shick shot a portal between them and one at the wall behind Dan before shooting a rocket towards Rick. Shadan stopped and jumped shovel-first into the portal and towards Dan yet again.
Shamy shot a bullet each at Amy and Cecilia before run-jumping at Amy, foot forward. Shecilia, try as it might, and quite possibly could be seen by Cecilia, was unable to use the Blink Drive. Instead it resorted to quickly shifting as shadow sludge in a zigzag pattern, coming up and firing at Cecilia at each shift-turn.
Shelen unloaded the Combat Coil directly at Helen, black lightning arcing wildly towards her as opposed to the more straight bolt of Helen's coil. Shalton strolled towards its template, stared at Walton, and took a brawler stance.
The Earth Beast started spinning around, axe held out, and moved towards Turbo and Akuma. "What the-" Akuma stomped, a stone wall rising between them and the Beast as said Beast rammed continuously against it.
"Akuma, hold u-" Before Shiki could finish, a loud, heavily distorted roar came from the Shadow-Heavy's remains. There stood a large creature sharing only the Heavy's likeness. The Minigun had infused completely with the firing arm, turning into more of a cannon that an actual minigun. The free hand had turned into a large grabber with three claw-like fingers. There was no visible armor, what was left having been torn off by the pyroplastiques explosion. It roared again and unleashed a barrage of bullets and shadow missiles from the cannon's wide hole.
"Gah!" Asura flew out of the way, grabbing Uther, as Shiki, having no one else to grab, shock-jumped out of the way.
--Kurduhm, Bunker Area--
"Honestly, I can't trust you three for anything outside of fighting." A figure walked out of the web. As in, physically appeared from and came out of the web. It was notably more demonic in appearance compared to Vhytel, who was one himself. His skin was a dark grey with black lines running down his sides. As he spoke, a thin, black smoke escaped his mouth, dispersing as it came near the ground. Horns stood curved above where ears were supposed to be.
"I should introduce myself. I am Reshiva, the Shadow Devil. These three" he held a hand towards Vhytel, Arkhov, and Genevra "are my most trusted servants. I see you've been quite hostile towards them; they were told only to find a way back home, but here we all are, fighting. Now then." The web surrounding the Immortals disappeared into Reshiva's hands as he looked straight at Smash Rock. "I believe you could help us, seeing as your a big native here?"
--Manor de Fieghan--
After all the corpses had been cleared, along with that of the Baron, Sammer clap-wiped his hands. "Where to now?" He took a step forward before nearly falling over. "Oh, whoa... I need a recharge...." Sammer half-walked, half-stumbled to his recharge station.
"You could go on without me. This won't take too long."
--Floralia, Old Odyssey Plains--
((Link shoud come back up, he's great at climbing))
Flowery continued to drop pollen blobs. Shouldn't expect much else from a Whispy recolor, at least not yet.
--Floralia, Tundra Place (same place as Pi's "Somewhere Else")--
Soon, the trio of Orange, Joe, and Samantha arrived in a snowy area. Everywhere they looked was igloos and Waddle Dees skiing around with each other.
Orange went up to a Dee selling Hot Cocoa. "Hey, I need to ask you something."
The Dee turned towards Orange and Co. before jumping back from the stand.
"Wh- Hey, I'm not gonna hurt you." The Dee continued to keep his distance.
"Orange, let me try." Joe stepped up, taking Orange's place as Orange pouted. At this, the Dee became calmer but was still very much nervous due to Joe's presence. "Have you seen some guy with six arms carrying the King fly by?"
The Dee nodded and pointed a stubby arm towards a large tower looming in the distance.
"Thanks. Come on, let's go save Dedede." He ran off, Orange following behind.
--Kurduhm, Residential District--
"Okay, we've got to do something! He's headed for the soldiers!"
"Putting him right in the air, where the blades of Rexcalibur deal the most damage..." Erk picked up the Rexcalibur tome. It wasn't in great shape- Erk figured it had about ten uses left, without repairs. But it was his best shot.
"Have to make this count... Serra, hide and be ready to use this." Erk tossed Serra his Rescue Staff.
"Oh, good idea." Serra quickly endeavored to find a nice hiding spot, away from the action. Meanwhile, Erk focused on Vortak's flight path, then leapt out from behind cover and sent a blast of magical wind directly at him.
"Whee heeee! Look at THIS!" Kefka pulled his hand back, and the Super Ball, as if obeying his command, immediately bounced into Mekito's spell, negating the fire with an explosion of water, and causing the electricity to fly off course. "Sooo, one-on-one, hmm? I didn't take you for the type to give up a sporting chance, but, meh, no skin off MY nose." Kefka started cackling, shouting, "Rasp! RASP!"
Blasts of... anti-magic?... started to form above and in front of Mekito.
The jetpack squadron kept aiming their guns at Vortak, rising up higher in the air. "Keep him back! He's dangerous!"
"Try to push him into that wind shot!"
--Nargabar Peak--
"Huh." Luna Wing landed on the peak. "You know, I challenged both of you... I really am curious. Why WERE you destroying our buildings and murdering our citizens? Nothing better to do? Bored for some reason? Mixed us up with someone else? Collateral damage? No brain? I'm thinking it's the last one."
Luna held her sword aloft. "By the way, my anti-magic shield is down. Try and hit me if you want." Small rocks on the peak of Nargabar were vibrating gently, but... why?
--Capitol Exterior--
"Hah!" Helena activated her own coil's lux lightning to try and counter the clone's, turning the dial to make it arc a little more. A few bolts tried to leap around, failing to do so, and Helena suffered a few more shadow burns. "Ack... not too shabby."
Walton kept his eyes on his copy, trying to stare him down and keep his attention. "Why don't you make the first move?"
"FREE JUMP!" Rick, in a move that violated common sense, jumped over the rocket's landing spot with his Gunboats down, and the explosion propelled him into the air. "YEEEEAH! EAT SUPPORT FIRE, YOU UNORIGINAL [DATA EXPUNGED]!" Rick aimed his rocket launcher behind Dan and prepared to fire.
"Wait for it, wait for it..." Dan watched his copy leap into the first portal, and then dived into said first portal, with his own shovel outstretched, and swung... and missed. "DRAT YOU, you cheating SCOUNDREL! I'm out of steam!"
"Whoa!" Amy rolled to the side to avoid Copy Amy's attack, but the bullet seared her shoulder. "Oooh... now I'm mad!" Amy grimaced and fired back at her copy.
Cecilia ducked back, initially bewildered by the two bullets aimed at her... then she noticed. "My copy can't blink." A thin smile curved on Cecilia's face as she quickly adapted to the pain in her left leg that Copy Amy's bullet had left, and watched Copy Cecilia's pattern, ducking under one bullet and waiting for another...
As soon as Copy Cecilia fired one bullet, Cecilia blinked behind Copy Helena. Then she aimed two Hard Light shots into the copy's back, before turning toward her own copy to react. A glance at her Blink Drive told her it was at a comfortable 45%... maybe this rain was helping cool the Drive on the spot?
--Kurduhm, Bunker Area--
"SPAAA-"
"Stand down!" Engie shouted. "Don't make that big feller angry!"
Smash Rock stopped playing his music, while his soldiers took the chance to apply medipacks and use Lone Star Prime's dispenser healing. Smash Rock's brow furrowed. "Man, don't take this the wrong way, but your 'we just wanna go home' story sounds like total crap. Have you been watchin' your guys? They ran in here and started cuttin' down people- at least, [REDACTED] over there did."
Smash Rock pointed his guitar at Arkhov. "First thing this guy tried to do was hack apart little kids, OK? And he DID hack apart hundreds of soldiers! So if you don't dig that, and you're gonna throw him in the pits or whatever kinda punishment you got, fine. But otherwise, we know that freak of the week is gonna go murder-crazy again!"
Some of the soldiers groaned. They didn't know what this Reshiva would do, but they didn't expect a peaceful resolution...
--Manor di Fieghan, Outside--
"All right. Thanks for all the help, Sammer." Sarah started floating upstairs. "Sooo. Now what?"
"Now, we should head back to Kurduhm. I think Father might have known the Regent."
Sarah sighed. "Okay... but will they be afraid of me?"
"Knowing all the nonsense going on there..." Zack shook his head. "Probably not."
"Okay! Hey, Alf!"
"Yeah, I heard ya. Let's get movin' to the teleporter."
Zack shouted down to E-1. "E-1! Watch the place!"
"AFFIRMATIVE, SIR."
--Manor di Fieghan, Outskirts--
"Hmm! Therein is all that remains of... good heavens!" Ser Rossenbach held his nose. "What is that cursed stench?"
"Bodies burning." Shell said, in the same matter-of-fact tone she used for everything. "The exact nuance of the smell makes it clear that human or mammalian bodies are being burned. The lack of auditory feedback, such as screaming, indicates that this is not a live burning, but rather burning of corpses that are already bereft of life."
"Let us make haste, then." Rossenbach looked down at Shell. "Perhaps we can find you a home here?"
Shell stared at the manor for a moment. It wasn't... the same. But... it would work. "This would be acceptable."
"Right, then!" Rossenbach pointed toward the Manor. "We must meet with the heirs to Fieghan. Onward!"
((I feel this post is really lazy.))
--Kurduhm, Fish Market--
"Huh?" asked the Inkling as she woke up. She decided to follow Sonus to where he was going.
The two didn't seem to notice Sonus talking to them, and had soon left. The girl however quickly glanced at Sonus while they were leaving.
"Who are they?" asked the Inkling.
--Kurduhm, Vault--
"WOW, WHAT A SLEEPY HEAD. I THINK HE'S RIGHT ABOUT HOW BORING ALL YOU PEOPLE WITH LOW IQ'S ARE. MAYBE I SHOULD JOIN HIM, BECAUSE GEE, IT SURE IS BORING AROUND HERE," said Scanbot. Lance, tired with Scanbot's antics, then threw Scanbot as hard as he could towards Desidia in order to hurt Scanbot, and managed to get Scanbot on a collision course with Desidia's head.
"WOW, REAL NICE. THROWING YOUR PROBLEMS AT PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND HOW BORING YOU ARE," said Scanbot, now upside-down whether or not he hit Desidia.
--Volcano Disaster--
((I just realized I accidentally didn't finish the demon merchant's first line. It's supposed to say "You'll never burn with these magical wares." I guess it still fits a bit though.))
"I think your lens of truth is broken, because I don't see any demons around here," said the demon merchant, who then turned for Tency, "As for you, quit spreading rumors about my wares, it's bad for business. Don't you think I'm probably using my own wares to stand in this lava? For only 50000, you can too. I'm just a humble merchant who's NOT a demon (just ignore my title, it obviously means nothing) who makes a living off of selling items to protagonists for 4 times the price as if you sold them to me. It makes great profit, especially since protagonists are always loaded with money. I also offer a save feature which is useless here since this is a forum game and forum games don't need save features, hi mister spacebar."
"I'll just be going now," said Ailill as he joined Tency to wherever she was going, leaving the demon merchant behind.
--Candyland--
((I'm going to start a story-arc involving Candyland anyway, though you can still go through the portal. This idea of a story-arc much better than my first thoughts of a story-arc. I still recommend you go through the portal. I don't know, I'm finding this rather hard to type out
Is this Plague Knight from after the events of Shovel Knight or before Shovel Knight started his adventure?))
"Yeah, why?" asked Ashley while riding a broom (The broom is Red just so you know, and I don't mean the color red). Meanwhile, the chocolate bunny still pursued them
All of a sudden, a portal appeared behind the chocolate bunny. Out of the portal came a black beast, eyes filled with anger. It likely wasn't working for the marshmallow judging by it's appearance and anger. The beast leaped towards them in pursuit behind the bunny. "I WILL KILL YOU AND ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY!" shouted the beast as it chased them at high speeds (nobody here should know why it wants to kill them). "wut?" asked Prospector Ooga Booga.
The bunny turned its head towards the beast while chasing the group. "That looks like a giant meanie," it said, "I think it needs hugs to calm down!" The bunny turned around and ran towards the beast, who immediately picked up the bunny with one hand while still running and chucked it at the party. Ashley flew over the bunny and Prospector Ooga Booga ducked under it. "woh," said Prospector Ooga Booga, "utz ganin un us!"
The black beast indeed seemed to be catching up to them, and rather quickly.
"WHAT THE HUG?" asked the marshmallow, who caught up with them using some kind of candy bird which it was still riding on, "That looks like a giant meanie, I think it needs hugs to calm down! Nah..."
--Cat Temple--
"I'll be fine," said Alex as he flew out of the way.
--Floralia, Tundra Place--
"All right," said Samantha as she followed them. Suddenly, a large blue fish (A.K.A. Kine) approached Orange and said, "Hey Kirby, remember me? We used to go on adventures in the sea together. You seem to have changed color since I last saw you."
((From before Shovel Knight begins.))
--Candyland--
"Oooooh! FREE MONSTER!" Plague Knight stopped for a moment to chuck an exploding flask at the thing before blinking up to Messorem's portal. "QUICK! Get in here!" Then Plague Knight leapt into the portal, waiting for Ashley, Red, and hopefully Prospector Whatever His Name Is and that Beast to come into that portal.
"Hey! MISTER M! I got some warriors here that MAAAAAY be INTERESTED in a JOOOOOOB!"
--Cat Temple--
"All right. Theta, let's get moving."
"Bigsisareyousurethisisagoodidea?"
Eta nodded. "We need to find the source of that scream. Upsilon! Let's go forward."
"Got it." Upsilon hovered behind Eta and Theta, watching the floor for anything off.
--Kurduhm, Fish Market--
Sonus lifted his arm and reached for the kids. "Hold on a se-." Sonus took a half step forward but stopped before he really moved anywhere. He looked back at the inkling. Pondering that question himself. "I cant say I know, that cold guy seemed to know, and me... im just curious." With that Sonus began walking in the direction of the kids. "You coming or what squidy?" He asked the inkling.
--Kurduhm, Vault--
Scan bot hit Desidia's head and made a loud metal clang upon impact. The impact also work Desidia up with a start. His eyes bursted out and looked all over the room. "What?! Who?! How?!" Desidia quickly sprang back up, his fingers spastically moving. "OKKK. Back in action! Where are we moving him?" Desidia did not wait for an answer but rather started moving the ball down the path again, faster than last time. His eyes still on alert for anymore scan bots that might be heading his way.
((So you aren't going to respond to Plague Knight?))
((Lets pretend like Messorem is in Exile k?))
Messorem looked over toward the portal as plague knight entered. He huffed and got up, making old man noises as he got up. He stretched out his back and shook out his legs. "God, im just getting too old for my own good. But king of the mask, tell me how it was. The lands you saw, the people you met, how was the food?" Messorem went over and patted Plague knight on his head.
((Sorry this took so long Doc, really busy.))
"Well, I think it was kind of proving your title, then. Often it does that, shows me a description of the titled subject instead of the real thing. Happened once, twice, three, four, five... ...Yeah." I look at the Demon Merchant again with the Lens of Truth, and it shows a merchant with something slung over his shoulder with many, many red things in it. Said merchant was also wearing some of those products. I put the Lens of Truth back to where it went, and said, "Sorry, but there would be no purpose in me buying your products here." I went and stood in the lava for 2 seconds. "See?" I said while standing in the lava. "No harm done. So there would be no point. Unless you have one of them uhh..." I try to remember something I saw before. Healing necklace, no... Strength necklace, no...
Ah, Dulling Talisman. "If you have a Dulling Talisman for a cheap price, then that would have some sort of use to it here. Those rocks hit hard. I could cleave one in half easily, but that's if I stay alert. Oh, here's one coming. I'll show you." I pull out my lava blade and easily cleave it in half. "But that doesn't work as well if I don't see one coming." OW! One hit me in the back. I'm sent flying FAR away from the demon merchant, but still in sight of him. "SEE?" I call to him.
((Sorry about the late response again. A bad enough cold will do that.))
--Kurduhm, Fish Market--
((WARNING: Early-game spoilers for a Fire Emblem game that was never released in the US))
"Apparently those two are fighting some kind of 'Dark One'. Sounds a whole lot like Grima..." Severa shook her head. Why am I bothering to help them? Wait a minute, what kind of question was that?! They were fighting this dark thing on their own.
"Naaah. Grima was always a bad guy! This other guy sounds like he wasn't always bad. Kiiiinda liiiike... uh, it was that one emperor... name's on the tip of my tongue..." Cynthia pumped her fist as she remembered the name. "Hardin! That's the name!"
"Whatever this thing is..." Gerome shook his head. "Fighting it hardly sounds like a task for two. I'm wondering if we shouldn't call the rest of the Shepherds?"
"We probably should," Severa said. "Where'd you get here from?"
"There was a rift in Ferox that led to a place called 'Eternia', which is how I ended up meeting with Rui and the Scout, and finding out about DeRosa from Einheria- I suspect Profiteur used this rift as well, to make contact with you. From here, we traveled by airship to a place called 'Eisenberg', where there was another rift in the caves beneath the mountain called 'Nargabar'. Cynthia... how did you get here?"
Cynthia's face fell a little. "I don't know. A rift showed up in the middle of Ylisstol. I went in to investigate it, and it shut behind me... then there were all these weird metal birds with people in them."
"Ah, airplanes!" Myles grinned. "I guess nobody got around to making them in your world. Airplanes are machines that use electricity and fuel to fly."
"So, like the tank we saw... but it flies." Severa asked, "Cynthia, were these airplanes hostile?"
"Nope! They led me here and told me to help Profiteur... with... wait a minute!" Cynthia's brow furrowed. "They lied to me!"
"Wouldn't be the first time you fell for a liar..."
"Hey! You fell for it, too!"
"Enough... let's see what they've got to say."
--Kurduhm, Vault--
"All right, there we go." Ertha applied her own powers to the ball, and it started moving at a reasonable speed out of the vault. "All right, let's get going."
Wes, Rui, Scout and Spy started leaving the vault.
((I... don't know what else to type...))
--Exile--
"Heyyyy, M! Soooo. Lands were made of candy. People I met tried to brainwash me. Food tried to brainwash me- mainly because the food was candy and the candy was people! ALSO found this witch-lookin' lady." Plague Knight motioned toward Ashley. "MIGHT be pretty good! I don't know. I'm not a magic expert. OH, and there ALSO may be a huge monster chasing us in here, so maybe you could beat it up and get it to join your CAMPAIGN OF SCIENCE! ...or whatever it is you do."
--Volcano Disaster--
Tency was finally off to the edge of the Volcano's eruption zone. "Whew... no more falling rocks should bother us here. Now, what's ahead of... ARE YOU SERIOUS?"
In front of them was a poison swamp. Even worse, on Tency's Plotte Coupon, it was labeled "Marital swamp and poison"- in other words, it was labeled with a terribly translated name. Which could only mean...
Tency clenched her fists. "Translation Trainwreck."
((Sorry for not posting more.))
--Kurduhm, Fish Market--
"Yeah, I'm coming," said the Inkling as she followed Sonus, I still need a name for her.
--Kurduhm, Vault--
((Because I don't know what to put here right now)
Mister Toaster falls from the ceiling for no reason.
A wild Mister Toaster appeared!
(T) Mister Toaster: 1,000,000 / 1,000,000
--Exile--
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-" yelled the Marshmallow, who suddenly flew by as they had been thrown by the beast. The Marshmallow went through a portal that suddenly opened somewhere else in exile. The portal closed a few moments afterward. The sound of footsteps then occurred. Also, Prospector Ooga Booga didn't make it to the portal. Don't bother going back for him, it's for the greater good.
--Cat Temple--
((Forgot about the scream, quickly, I'll make it something))
In front of them was a dead body, it looked like the person recently died, meaning it was probably where the scream came from. It looked like they had died from being speared, meaning there was probably a spear trap there.
--Volcano Disaster--
"Sorry, I'm fresh out, I'm getting more of them on Tuesday though, so check back then. Remember, always and only shop at your local Everything But Cake," the demon merchant said before he disappeared.
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
((I'm really tempted to put characters from this thread here, but they aren't technically my characters so I can't :(
They would fit so well here...))
"Translation Trainwreck? Who's that?" asked Ailill.
I hit a huge rock over away from the mountain, and the force apparently causes it to send it over to the Marital Swamp and Poison, resulting in a giant crater that will soon become a mini volcano in the middle due to the force of Volcano Disaster's rocks.
--Sheik, Volcano Disaster--
Whew, finally here. That took a while. I guess I should rest on the side. I form a shield barrier with my magic and lie down, waiting for it to automatically disabled or to see Zekrua fly over above or get sent over the side of the volcano on a huge rock.
--Kurduhm, Vault--
Desidia yawned and staggered down the hall. "God, so... tired. So Ertha, what are you exactly? Also how did you get your power? Over all my whole experience here has been a strange one. This isnt even my world so you would imagine that I have had some trouble here. Theres also the fact that somehow Messorem is back. We thought that Sonus killed him but I guess not. We both felt it, our powers were given by him so just the fact that hes alive somewhere is giving me the chills. I dont know about Sonus, he was a crazy one, that kid." Desidia kept on walking and talking and talking and talking. But hey, at least he wasn't sleeping.
((Doc can we pretend that the Mister Toaster came after Desidia finished up talking and Ertha has responded?))
--Kurduhm, Fish Market--
"Cool." Sonus ran into this mist after the kids. "Hey, you too. Can you wait up a minute?"
((I dont really know what to post here either.))
--Exile--
Messorem's eyes widened as soon as he heard the words candy. "Candy? Really? Damn, right as I go on a diet too, of course." Messorem went over to Ashley ((Im assuming she's in Exile.)) Lovely to meet you. I assume that Plague knight told you why I need you? I look forward to working with you." As Messorem finished saying this the marshmallow flew by and back out another portal. "One of the locals I assume?" Messorem walked over to the portal to candy land, his hands at his side and ready to cast a magic show. "Show me the beast."
((I don't even know why I made this Mister Toaster appear. Lets just pretend Mister Toaster didn't appear at all. Maybe I was just bored...))
((Make him appear later, I like Mister Toaster.))
And suddenly my eyes fly wide open, as I realise this is not my world. This is not the place oh so safe like home, this is not the places of dreams it really should be - this nightmare is real.
First I have to start a - and as soon as I think of fire the ground ignites and the warmth spreads through the chill of the darkness, the smoke serving as nothing more than proof my senses are working, the ground serving as nothing more than to hold up my form as I collapse to a seated form... I ha-...I must escape this hell (before I become the end of it, all over again).
((Sorry about the late response. Again.
Not sure what to post at the Fish Market.))
--Kurduhm, Vault--
Wes reached for his Pokeball after he saw the toaster... and then stopped as it suddenly vanished.
"What the... what even... I don't even..."
"The rifts are getting stronger." Ertha sighed. "Someone's going to have to stabilize them."
"Right. Desidia's question?"
"Mm-hmm." Ertha shrugged. "Well, my power is simply a form of martial arts combined with technology. It relies on directing a series of nanomachines that alter the electron structure of most mineral elements. There's limits, though." Ertha patted her arm. "I've only got so many nanomachines, and they can only alter so many electron structures at a time. By condensing the directions into simple movements- that's where the martial arts factor comes in- I'm able to save energy, but only so much.
"As for what I am, I'm human. And I'm also one of Kurduhm's Eight Elite. We're Kurduhm's most powerful fighters." Ertha continued moving the ball along. "Now, who's this Messorem fella?"
--Exile--
Plague Knight did an overexaggerated gesture with his staff towards the portal. "Right through the portal! Watch out, he's BIG! HEE HEEEEE!"
--Cat Temple--
"Gaah!" Eta immediately prepared to fire... before realizing that the dead body wasn't moving. "...Oh. Geez, I thought we were about to get attacked by a spear zombie... or something."
"Spear zombie? Zombies don't have spears." Upsilon pointed his gun at the body. "Looks like there's the source of our scream... hold on. That maggot is giving me a funny look."
"A maggot is giving you a funny look?" Eta sighed. "Look. I know that suddenly switching sides is probably hard on your mind-"
"No, no. Look." Upsilon shined a spotlight on a maggot that was doing its best to stay hidden. "There's no other maggots like it in the place. Theta, back me up on this."
"Bioscanning...complete. Upsilonisrightbigsisthat'stheonlymaggotwiththatkindofbodystructurealltheothersaresignificantlylargeralsothatmaggothastracesofmetal."
"...Wait, traces of metal?"
"YesIdon'tknowwhymaybeitatemetalormaybeitssomethingmoredangerous."
Upsilon sighed. "I know who this might be. But I really hope it isn't who I think it is."
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
"Translation Trainwreck is one of the most dangerous members of T.O.U.H.O.U. and a megalomaniacal tyrant. Cursed to speak every word he said as if it were badly translated through at least forty tongues, Translation Trainwreck did not seek to break the curse or get around the curse... he sought to spread it, and infect all that he saw with it." Tency's eyes narrowed. "We'll have to go in here and remove Trainwreck's underlings. No doubt there's some kind of broken bridge at the other end of the swamp that we can only fix once they're gone, anyway."
--Kurduhm, Vault--
Desidia smiled and nodded as Ertha spoke majority of what she was saying flew right over his head. "He caught some of it, one of the things that really stuck with him was "Kurduhm's Eight Elite."
"Kurduhm's Eight Elite? Sounds powerful. Also a mix between tech and martial arts sounds cool as hell." Desidia looked back at the steel ball and thought about this world for a second. Its all been so strange, just everything. "You should show me to the rest of the Eight Elite. I would love to meet them. Messorem you ask? Hes... A bad guy. He created me and Sonus, turned us into what we are today, for better or for worse. Back in our world he would take people, give them powers, call em Deus and add them to his army. Some of us escaped and others joined Messorem, most of them became mentally broken. Sonus was the first Deus, hes Messorems son. I was supposed to be the "perfect Deus, but then I fought Sonus and my whole body became paralyzed. We thought that we killed him back in our world but hes back, somewhere."
((Where are we going Doc? To be honest Im liking this character building segment but do you know where they are heading.))
((I don't know what to put anywhere either.))
--Kurduhm, Fish Market--
But it was too late as they both had left the market already.
Meanwhile, the fog just slowly got harder and harder to see through.
Fish stick sandwich burrito.
--Kurduhm, Vault--
"WHAT IS A MISTER TOASTER? THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOME TERRIBLE FORUM GAME," said Scanbot, "REGARDING OUTSIDE FOR NO REASON, I WONDER WHAT'S GOING ON OUT THERE RIGHT NOW. I BET SOME INSANE ROUGE A.I. IS RIGHT NOW ATTEMPTING TO KILL YOUR LEADER. JUST KIDDING, THE ONLY THING INSANE HERE IS HOW INSANELY LOW YOUR I.Q. IS. ANYBODY WHO SAYS A ROUGE A.I. IS TRYING TO KILL YOUR LEADER SHOULD BE PUT IN A MENTAL PRISON. SERIOUSLY, WHY WOULD A ROUGE A.I. BOTHER?"
--Meanwhile, somewhere near the bunker area--
"ERROR."
"TROOPS SPOTTED."
"SEARCHING..."
"ERROR."
"HIGH THREAT LEVEL ENEMIES SPOTTED."
"HIGH AUTHORITY ENEMY SPOTTED."
"MISSION: ELIMINATE HIGH AUTHORITY."
"ERROR, ERROR."
"MAY HARM ANY CIVILIANS."
"ENTERING BATTLE MODE."
"PLEASE STOP GLITCHING SELF."
"COMMENCING SURPRISE ATTACK..."
Praetorian MKII launched missiles at the bunker area while the group was busy with Arkhov, then it charged forward and sliced at the bunker and any soldiers in the way of the bunker.
--Exile--
The portal started closing though. The beast raced but it was not fast enough as the portal closed right before it got to it. (You can and probably should reopen the portal. Its not guaranteed you'll go to the exact same place or time though. )
--Cat Temple--
"Wait... Metal... Maggot...?" said Alex, "Is it mechanical?"
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
"Ok," said Ailill. Ailill started sneaking foward.
Hello?
It's getting quite lonely here...
Where is everyone?
((Fighting my way through college homework.
I'll get to posting here tomorrow, or Tuesday at the latest.))
((Pi, by the way, the Bunker Area... is underground. I'm pretty sure Praetorian was on the wall earlier?))
--Kurduhm, Fish Market--
"Agh! I lost them..." Severa squinted, trying to catch sight of the two. Nothing... "What's with this fog?! It was clear as day when we went into the Vault."
"Well... I don't know, to be honest..." Myles hears a voice on his radio. "Huh, what's that? Oh... whew. Okay, send some scouts to check out what's going on. Whoever's on our side will want some of our supply drops."
"...Arcfire!" Cynthia lit a broken lance on fire. "Theeeere. That's better!"
"Not a bad idea. A torch can help us see through this fog." The light from the torch made it much easier (relative to earlier, anyway) to tell what was going on around them.
((I think I'll have them run into Sturm's allies (other than the Bravely Default Jobmasters he broke out of Eternia) soon enough.))
--Kurduhm, Vault--
((We're heading outside.))
"Ha, thanks. So Messorem's dangerous... I'll keep that in mind. Well, here we are."
A group of soldiers was present outside the vault. Upon noticing Ertha, they immediately gave a salute.
"Good work, men. Now lock this guy and we'll begin interrogation as soon as we've got the resources."
The soldiers deployed a liberal amount of Teleport Locks around the ball, then started carrying it off.
"Right. Any other criminals you know about besides Profiteur and DeRosa?"
"Sturm." It didn't take Rui any time at all to say that. "There's a man, usually in a big black robe, whose face is covered with a red iron mask. His name is Sturm, and he deployed a lot of troops to keep us from getting to this world through Eisenberg. We saw him escorting Profiteur out of the city."
"So that's who that was." Ertha shook her head. "Right. We'll keep an eye open for him."
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
"Quickly, Ailill. We must... oh, son of a swear word."
The poisonous swamp was forming a maze of islands, connected by short rope bridges. And there were walking suits of armor patrolling the rope bridges... "Plod Backpacks! ...Long story. Trainwreck was trying to say 'Living Armor', but didn't. Those Plod Backpacks are upset about being called something like 'Plod Backpacks', and the anger doubles their physical attack power."
Tency examined the Plod Backpacks. They all had swords, which they would easily cut the bridges with; that would force Tency and Ailill to cross the poison swamp, which... is generally bad for one's health. But wait! Maybe there was a way to sneak past them...
Or better yet, a way to cross without the bridges.
((Just imagine that they made their way to the bunker in the time between the last post it was on the wall to attacking the bunker area.
Didn't know it was underground though.
Just waiting on Zhaver and your response in other areas of the game now. Feel free to take your time.
EDIT: While I wait for Zhaver and your post in the cat temple...))
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
"Well, I'm a tank so I think I can handle a higher attack power, except they could just cut the bridge soooo..." said Ailill, who then looked around, when he saw some random girl, lying on the ground. How she got there was a mystery. She appeared to be still alive though, so I came along and started poking her with a stick and then left (No I didn't really, just ignore that). The girl slowly returned to consciousness.
"Huh?" asked the girl.
"How did you get here?" asked Ailill.
"I don't remember... I don't remember anything..." said the girl, "Wait, I remember one thing... Julie. Is that my name?"
"I dunno, is it?" asked Ailill.
"I think... it might..." said Julie.
"Judging by the fact that it now says 'said Julie' instead of 'said the girl,' I'd say it is," said Ailill.
"Ok..." said Julie. Julie joined your party!
"What? Why?" asked Ailill, despite the fact that it was obviously because story.
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
"YES!" Tency punched the air. "A new party member!" Then Tency realized that the gravity of Julie's predicament meant this was way too out-of-character for the princess to be and immediately became concerned.
"You don't remember anything?" Tency shook her head. "Well, then. This looks like a case of narrative retrograde amnesia. Right, well, something might jog your memory... hold on, one second. Can you remember any super powers or other abilities that may help us get past Plod Backpacks? ...Err, those are living suits of armor."
((Where are you Zhaver?))
--Martial Swamp and Poison--
"No... I don't..." said Julie, "Sorry..."
"Great, so she can't help us advance the plot, lovely," said Ailill, "Why don't we just chop a really tall tree down and use that as a bridge?"
-- Carly's bedroom--
((Starting a new place because why not
Note despite the fact that it says Carly's bedroom, this adventure doesn't have said person on the adventure
This adventure is for tiny ones only))
Carly turned towards Henry, a.k.a. her pet mouse, who was her favorite pet. "Well, I'm going to school now," said Carly, "Good-bye!" Carly started heading towards the door, but she then saw a spider on the floor and shrieked. She squashed the spider then head out.
After she left, Henry's best friend and neighbor, Orange the hamster, undid his cage lock. Orange went over to Henry's cage. "Yo," he said, "Want me to undo your cage lock?"
"Yeah," said Henry.
"Alright," said Orange. Orange undid Henry's cage lock. "There ya go!"
"Thanks," said Henry. Henry stepped out of his cage.
((Again, I'm sorry about these late responses.))
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
Tency shook her head. "It's a good idea in theory, but do we have anything to chop a tree down with?"
((Zhaver where are you?
What about the cat temple?))
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
"What about that axe?" asked Julie, pointing towards a worn axe on the ground.
"Wow, how plot convenient that the only way to find that axe was to find you first," said Ailill.
"What..?" asked Julie.
"Never mind, why don't you just equip that axe and chop down that tree?"
"Ok..." said Julie.
Julie equipped WORN AXE.
"You don't have to say that," said Ailill.
TOO BAD.
Julie challenged Tree to a battle!
Julie attacked! It dealt 13 damage!
Tree used splash! But nothing happened.
Julie attacked! It dealt 12 damage!
Tree fainted!
Gained 2 exp.
Obtained 1 gil. (Hey, money DOES grow on trees!)
The tree fell down, forming a bridge.
-- Carly's bedroom--
Then a mouse named Jill appeared walking out of a hole in the wall, "Hey! What's up Fella's?"
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
As the music ground to a halt, Tency let out a sigh of relief. "Well. I expected there would be a more difficult boss-"
"WRRRROOOOOOOAR!"
An enormous suit of armor with four arms and sharp claws on each landed behind the party. "THOUGHT YOU WOULD GET AROUND THE SWAMP, HUH? THIS TIME, YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH THE PLOTTE COUPON! I, IRON SHREDDER, WILL FLAY YOU AL-"
"Iron Shredder?"
"WHAT?"
Tency was trying not to laugh. "The text box... doesn't say your name is Iron Shredder. It says... pfft... hahaha... basket internet. That's your translated name, isn't it?"
Basket Internet was silent for a few moments. Then... "TRAINWREEEEEECK!"
Basket Internet promptly turned around. "I'M GOING TO HAVE A CHAT WITH MY BOSS ABOUT THIS! IN THE MEANTIME..." Basket Internet dropped a few large Plod Backpacks in front of the party. "DESTROY THEM, LIVING ARMOR TITANS!"
"You mean Plod Rucksacks," Tency corrected, again looking at the chat box.
"AAAAAARGH!" Iron Shredder stormed off. Meanwhile, the Plod Rucksacks started a fight!
Plod Rucksack A used KELP!
Plod Rucksack A's P. DEF increased.
Plod Rucksack B used NUKE!
Plod Rucksack B scanned Tency!
Level 6
HP: 120/124
SP: 50/85
Weak against Poison
Tency used SHOCK 1!
Plod Rucksack A took 35 damage.
((Just to let you know, I have plans for after they beat Basket Internet, so can you please remind me after we beat him? Thanks.
Might as well put the other's stats here.
Ailill
Level 6
HP: 143/143
SP: 60/60
Weak against water
Julie
Level 6
HP 131/131
SP: 70/70
Weak against lightning
Should we continue on without Zhaver?
Still waiting on the cat temple...))
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
"Wait, why is a nuke used for SCANNING?" said Ailill, "Makes no sense."
Julie used EXAMINE!
Julie examined Plod Rucksack A
Insert stats here
Ailill attacked Plod Rucksack B!
Insert damage here
--Carly's Bedroom--
"Oh, hello there," said Henry, "I don't recall seeing you before, are you new here? If so, my name's Henry, and this is Orange."
"I don't think he's new, bro. For one, he just came out of one of the entrances to Inder Town. I've also overheard some calling him Jill, so I assume that's his name," said Orange.
"Oh, sorry," said Henry, "Speaking of Inder Town, it's been a while since I was last there, do you want to go there Orange or should we try getting out of the bedroom through a hole leading around the door, although it seems that Skittles the snake has been guarding it recently, that or we could go somewhere else in here like under Carly's bed or such."
"I think that Jill should decide, bro," said Orange.
"Perhaps you are right. Jill, where do you think we should go?" said Henry.
((Oh my. Whoops.
I'm glad I can search specific threads with Google.
Let's keep waiting for Zhaver.))
--Cat Temple--
"I sure hope it's mechanical." Upsilon shuddered. "There's a Death's Arm agent that uses living bugs, wired with freaky nanomachines, as a weapon. They call him 'Hivemind', and he's even more nuts than my old boss."
"Cyborg bugs? That sounds freaky." Eta noticed Upsilon was staring uneasily at the maggot. "Especially if they look like regular bugs. That's high octane paranoia fuel! An anthill could blow up in your face. Between him and Claymorte... anyone else in that rogues' gallery?"
"Probably, but I don't know any more." Upsilon stared ahead. "Right. Let's see what's ahead. And watch the bugs."
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
Plod Rucksack B took 11 damage!
Plod Rucksack
Level 12
HP: 85/120
SP: 25/30
Weak against Lightning
Weak against Dispel
"'Tis another botched translation. That's Trainwreck's modus operandi- do evil things and mess up the dialogue while he's at it." Tency nodded. "Right, as I suspected! They're weak to electricity. All the metal! Okay, try to use lightning!"
Plod Rucksack A used FARCE!
Ailill took [insert] damage.
Tency took 16 damage.
Julie took [insert] damage.
Plod Rucksack B used GUNGNIR!
Plod Rucksack B's M. DEF increased.
Tency used Shock 1! Plod Rucksack A took 37 damage.
((FARCE is supposed to be "Cleave", but instead, they gave it a term for a parody. And that's nothing compared to replacing "Shell" with the name of a lance from Norse mythology.))
--Carly's Bedroom--
"Uh, how about we go under Carly's bed? It's much safer there!"
((If you're wondering why Ailill has a weakness to water it's because this))
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
Ailill took 13 damage!
Julie took 17 damage!
"I think you're the only one here who can use lightning, unless Julie can," said Ailill.
"I don't believe so..." said Julie.
"Great," said Ailill.
Ailill attacked Plod Rucksack B!
Plod Rucksack B took [Insert] damage.
"You know, I bet I could try talking like this Translation Trainwreck guy," said Ailill, "Ahem, 'the shuttle to the train station in despair, as I said, it's stupid,' did I do well?"
Julie attacked Plod Rucksack B!
Plod Rucksack took [Insert] damage.
((Note: I think Julie should do more damage then she did to the tree, an explanation could be that the tree had more P. DEF then the Plod Backpacks.
Current stats:
Ailill
Level 6
HP: 130/143
SP: 60/60
Weak against water
Julie
Level 6
HP 114/131
SP: 67/70
Weak against lightning))
--Cat Temple--
"There's only one way to find out," said Alex, grabbing the maggot and holding it in the air, "I HEARBY SUMMON YE GIANT MAGGOT MACHINE OF EVIL WHATEVER YOU ARE CALLED." Nothing happened, making Alex look ridiculous. "Sorry," he said.
In the next room, there was a statue of a giant monster with a cat mask on. In the corner there was a statue of some guy holding a spear. He was wearing modern clothes with a shirt and pants but other then that looked a little tribal. He looked like he was jumping back.
Also there was a squirrel statue on his shoulder.
Suddenly, stone doors closed locking them in, and the monster statue crumbled and fell apart, only to reveal that the statue was actually a giant monster disguised as a statue. The giant monster roared swung it's arms at everybody. Ailill flew up to dodge and used Golden Shower on it to try to lower it's defense.
((I'm sorry this part is so lazy '^'))
--Carly's Room--
"All right, we can do that," said Henry.
"Lead the way bro!" said Orange. Henry and Orange went to the bed then under it (assuming Jill follows them).
--Carly's Room, under Carly's Bed--
"All right we're here!" said Henry.
"I bet we could find some good stuff under here," said Orange, picking up a thumbtack, "Like this radical sword!"
"Yeah, could you hand me that?" asked Henry.
"Sure bro!" said Orange, handing him the thumbtack. Orange picked up a small screw. "How does this stuff wind up down here?" he said.
"I don't know," said Henry, "Hey, what's that over there?" All of a sudden, some white specter thing on black paper floated towards them and attacked.
"What's over there doesn't seem to like us very much bro!" said Orange, "Talk about under the bed being safer."
"Quickly, to arms!" said Henry. Henry held his thumbtack up towards the paper-specter and Orange did the same with his screw. "Quick Jill," said Henry, "Get a weapon to defend yourself with!"
Did ever I mention Henry was rather brave for a mouse?
The battle started and so did some battle music. Henry thrust his thumb tack at the ghost, it dodged but Orange hit it while it was dodging with his screw. The paper-specter emitted some sort of sound wave, but despite the fact it was a sound wave it hurt. Orange was hit by the sound wave while Henry dodged.
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
((All right, a little more, but Plod Rucksacks are still large walking suits of armor, so they're going to have some defense.))
(Plod Rucksack B took 17 damage. Plod Rucksack B took 14 damage.)
"They can't have much more health! Keep firing!"
Plod Rucksack A uses CLOCK!
Tency took 44 damage!
Plod Rucksack B uses HARBOR!
Plod Rucksack B used its M. DEF boost to attack!
Ailill took [insert] damage.
Tency took 23 damage.
Julie took [insert] damage.
"Blaugh! Come on!" Tency spat some of the remainder of Plod Rucksack A's poison attack out of her mouth. "A poison attack? On a suit of armor? REALLY?"
Tency uses Shock 1! Plod Rucksack A took 40 damage.
--Cat Temple--
"KILLER AZTEC CAT GOLEM!" Eta immediately fired her rocket launcher at one of the monster's arms, while Theta rolled behind Eta and started zeroing in on the monster's head. Upsilon, meanwhile, began firing his machine gun at the monster's torso, flying directly in front of its other arm.
"Come on! Hit me, crapsack! HIT ME!"
"Upsilon? Are you nuts?!"
"Yeah, but I think this'll work!" Upsilon was waiting for just the right moment to strike...
--Carly's Room, under Carly's Bed--
"Woah! What Is that thing?" We should get outta here quickly"
((Didn't mean that much.
Meant more like an average of 15, though I guess 17 is an average of 15, so...
Ailill was fine with his damage done before.
How do you think we should determine critical hits and such? Also what would be in our inventory right now?))
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
(Ailill took 26 damage. Julie took 24 damage.)
Julie attacked Plod Rucksack B!
Plod Rucksack B took [insert] damage!
"So no feedback on my imitation? How about this one, 'But if you want to talk about your business, if children's disappointed because he lost century,'" said Ailill.
Julie attacked Plod Rucksack B!
Plod Rucksack B took [insert] damage!
(Ailill
Level 6
HP: 104/143
SP: 60/60
Weak against water
Julie
Level 6
HP 90/131
SP: 67/70
Weak against lightning)
((Wow, messing up dialogue with translators is fun.))
--Cat Temple--
The Killer Aztec Cat Golem (K.A.T. for short, for whatever reason) thrust it's hand at the ground, causing the place to shake and bats to be disturbed and fly out of hiding. K.A.T. spewed grey breath at Ailill while he was flying. Ailill dodged it, but the breath hit some bats that flew behind him. They turned to stone and feel to the ground. The monster then spewed the same gray breath at Eta, Theta, and Upsilon.
--Carly's Room, under Carly's Bed--
"Yeah, you're probably right, that sound wave thing REALLY hurt!" said Orange, "Come on bro, bro?"
"Come on, show me your moves!" said Henry. Orange grabbed Henry and dragged him away. "Hopefully they don't follow," said Orange.
They didn't follow luckily for the group.
--Carly's Room--
"Ok now, we can either go to Inder Town or try to get out of the bedroom, which should we do Jill?" said Orange.
((My goodness, I really dropped the ball on this one. Three days!))
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
Plod Rucksack B took 16 damage!
Plod Rucksack B took 14 damage!
"Not bad," Tency said. "If we ever need a double agent, you could do pretty well!"
Tency used Shock 1!
Plod Rucksack A took 18 damage.
Plod Rucksack B took 19 damage.
Plod Rucksack A is down!
Plod Rucksack B used EDIBLE!
EDIBLE chose LET!
Plod Rucksack B used LET!
Plod Rucksack B exploded! ((This is a fixed-damage attack.))
Plod Rucksack B took 29 damage.
Tency took 29 damage.
Julie took 29 damage.
Ailill took 29 damage.
Plod Rucksack B is down!
Ailill, Julie, and Tency won the battle!
10 Sil obtained!
8 XP earned!
1 AP earned!
Tency stood up after the Plod Rucksack exploded, coughing. "Phew... anyone got a Potion? Or whatever the healing item is? I'm in sorry shape..."
--Cat Temple--
Theta squeezed off a hasty shot at K.A.T.'s head and rolled back along with Eta, while Upsilon flew backwards out of range. "Stay back! We don't know if that's reversible!"
"We know THIS won't be!" Upsilon unloaded a missile at K.A.T.'s open mouth, while Eta aimed another rocket at... oh wait.
"Grrr! Great time to be out of ammo." Eta drew a small ray gun from her side and shot it haphazardly in K.A.T.'s direction.
((It's fine, I mean, look at some of my posts))
--Marital Swamp and Poison--
"It seems it let it go, I'm sure the explosions never bothered it anyway," said Ailill, "I don't believe I do, why don't we see if there are any lying on the ground for no reason at all." Ailill looked around. "I'm going to try that random sparkly spot over there," said Ailill. Ailill walked over to said sparkly spot and interacted with it.
Obtained Tonic x5!
"How convenient that we just happened to find these random tonics (which were for some reason in the middle of a swamp) for our situation," said Ailill. Ailill drank one of the tonics. He then gave a tonic to Julie and Tency before putting the remaining two in the group's shared inventory. Julie drank her tonic.
Ailill restored 50 hp.
Julie restored 50 hp.
(this is fixed)
--Cat Temple--
K.A.T. promptly swallowed the missile, causing it to fall down and cry through its stony mask. Some of its tears fell on the stone bat, which caused it to turn back to it's normal batty self and fly off. Perhaps if you got some tears to fall on the statue of guy with the squirrel statue he could join your cause (*hint hint*).
"we should go to Inder Town!"
(Sorry, I have an itchy throat!.)
((Doctorspacebar?))
--Carly's Room--
"Yeah, I think that's a good idea," said Orange, "Maybe ask around about what that thing was." Orange and Henry went into Inder town and presumably Jill followed.
--Inder Town--
"All right," said Henry once inside, "Me and Orange will go ask around about that thing, Jill you can do whatever you want."
((OK, this time it actually was my fault.))
-Marital Swamp and Poison-
Tency regained 50 HP.
"Phew..." Tency let out a sigh of relief. "Well, now. Let's get moving before Basket Internet comes back."
Tency walked across the tree, and looked to her right. "Wait, the exit? Well, that's convenient. I wonder if the swamp's monsters are too high leveled for us?"
-Overworld-
Tency walked out onto the World Map. Volcano Disaster and Marital Swamp and Poison were visible, though Tency was now inexplicably twice the size of the entrance path. To the east was a small city; directly to the north was the "Rot Coffee of What" which, of course, was a haunted forest.
"Okay, Ailill. We've got two clear paths. Which way, the town or the haunted forest?"
-Cat Temple-
"All right, Chuck Norris tears!" Eta promptly deployed a liquid vacuum to grab the tears.
"Chuck Norris tears? Those don't cure Petrification."
"Sure they do," Eta said, as she picked up the tears. "They cure everything!"
"Idon'tthinkthey'reChuckNorristearsbigsisbecauseChuckNorrisnevercriesalsothat'snotChuckNorrisifthatwasChuckNorriswe'dalreadybedead."
"I know, I know..." Eta routed a few of the tears toward the squirrel statue. "Maybe that thing was petrified?"
--Inder Town--
"yeah, Lets go ask some of the folks over there!"
((I was thinking we would have fought Basket Internet in the swamp, but oh well, I can do what I wanted to do now.))
--Overworld--
"Well obviously the town," said Ailill, "why would we want to go into a haunted forest, other then the fact that we probably have to in order to advance story?"
Ailill takes one step towards the town and then ??? appeared!
"Wat, why is there a boss here? Also why are we suddenly not using FF6 music?" asked Ailill.
??? appeared to be mostly human. Not much else I can say about them other then that, probably because ??? doesn't have much purpose in the story other than this battle even though they're called ???.
??? fired a minigun arm at Ailill!
Ailill took 6746 damage!
Ailill died!
"OH WHAT THE ****?" said Ailill, despite lying on the ground dead, "WHY THE **** DOES IT DO 6746 DAMAGE, I'M ONLY LEVEL 6, WHY IS HE HERE? HOW IS THIS FAIR? Julie, check his stats please."
"Ok..." said Julie.
Julie used examine!
???
Level 80
HP 13000/13000
SP: 725/750
"WHAT? WHY?" asked Ailill.
(((I'm assuming that's around the stats a normal enemy has around level 80.
Note this fight is rigged so that the party loses, don't worry because I'll make sure the party is fully healed at the inn in the town free of charge once they lose, unless you were planning on doing something when they got to the town, though you could probably easily change it so that it happens when they come out of the inn. This is the only time I will be doing this.)
--Cat Temple--
While Eta was routing tears towards the squirrel statue, K.A.T. slammed his arms at Eta.
Meanwhile, most of the tears Eta routed got on the statue of the guy. The statue of the guy and the squirrel gradually turned back into their normal non-petrified forms. "I owe you one," said Dakota (the guy), "I shall accompany you until the end of this temple. What year is it anyway?" Dakota grabbed his spear and stabbed K.A.T. who was surprised by him and flinched. Felix (the squirrel) did nothing as they are a squirrel.
--Inder Town--
Henry and Orange went around asking about the paper-specters, though nobody knew about them. They went back to where Jill was. "Well bro, maybe Skittles knows something about them?" said Orange while buying some crackers and a small nail.
"Doubt it, we could try though," said Henry, "Jill, Orange and I are going to go ask Skittles about those things, come if you like." The two left Inder Town.
--Carly's Room--
As Henry and Orange came out of Inder Town, a voice came from above. "DO WE SMELL CRACKERS?" it said. Sammy and Philip the parakeets flew down from above. "What do you want bros?" asked Orange.
"Your crackers of course!" said Sammy.
"All right bros," said Orange as he tossed the two some crackers.
"Thank you!" said Philip.
"We'd like to repay you for those crackers," said Sammy.
"But unfortunately we can't help you fight directly," said Philip.
"But we can help you in other ways," said Sammy.
"Thank you!" said Henry.
"You're welcome," said Sammy. Sammy and Philip flew off. Henry and Orange then decided to wait a bit for Jill.
((Oh, no worries. I know a good Hopeless Boss Fight when I see one, so you can go ahead and have "Minigun Victor" take out about 8000-ish of Tency's hit points. (Of note: my post title references another Hopeless Boss Fight! But that fight can actually be won, and gets you a secret ending. It's also safe to assume it'd be the best ending of all because [SPOILERS] and [MORE SPOILERS].)))
"Wait, one of these gigs? Really?!" Tency shook her head. "Uhh, crap... can we run?"
Can't flee this fight!
"Are you SURE we can't run?!"
Can't flee this fight!
"But there's a poisonous swamp right over-"
Can't flee this fight!
"What about the haunted for-"
Can't flee this fight!
"Oh come on, I can create pure lag-"
Can't flee this fight!
"How'd this guy get a minigun, anyway? The most we have is muskets and stuff like that!"
Can't flee this fight!
"Fine. Maybe I DON'T want to flee this fight."
Can't flee this fight!
"...curse you, Reverse Psychology, you let me down in my hour of need!"
Can't flee this-
"ALL RIGHT ALREADY."
Tency casts PowerLeak!
??? lost [insert] MP.
((PowerLeak will only get rid of around 20-30 MP.))
-Cat Temple-
THUD! Eta rolled out of the way of the swing, but the force of K.A.T.'s hand hitting the ground sent Eta flying backward. "Whooooo! You should try boxing, that is one MEAN swing."
"Ithinktheyearis2044butonlyinmyworldIdon'tknowaboutyourworldmaybewecanfindoutlater." Theta steadied her Precision Blaster. "Doyouknowthatthing'sweakpoint?"
"Grr. This ray pistol is too small." Eta kept shooting the ray pistol's shots, which, of course, were nothing compared to her built-in rocket launcher.
Upsilon took advantage of Dakota's attack and unloaded another missile at K.A.T.'s head.
--Volcano Disaster--
"All right, already." Tency shook her head. "Honestly, I'm royalty and I'm not this bossy... Where SHOULD I go, then?"
Tency kept her eyes open for falling rocks. Gee, it'd be nice if one showed up in... oh, hey, that was convenient! "One second, let me handle this rock hurtling toward my head... COUPON OF PLOTTE! ACTIVATE!"
Tency pulled up one sleeve, revealing a bracelet with a connection to the Lag Rift. She directed some Lag up to a falling rock, stopping it in mid-air, before casually walking out of its path. "All right, step out from under that rock, gentlemen. It's Lagging."
((The limits to Tency's Plotte Coupon (AKA the Lag Bracer) are this:
-Living beings can push through Lag with some effort.
-More than ten uses per fifteen minutes will make Tency very tired
-The bracelet will not work if Tency's arms are immobilized))