Chapter 2
From DALpedia
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday June 26th, 2004
The door flew open to the crumbling building and Draven stepped out, inhaling the cool morning breeze as the first rays of the sun peeked through the distant trees. Clearly something was still on fire somewhere, as a burning smell hung in the air, but Draven resisted the urge to say that one familiar line all military commanders say at some point in their careers when they smell something burning in the morning… He wasn’t in the most pleasant mood, anyway.
As he had ordered, the entirety of his battle-ready soldiers (who he had not sent out on scout missions) were assembled in long lines on both sides of his encampment, ready for his inspection. The dark soldiers stood row by row, completely motionless. Every tenth or fifteenth warrior stood out as a guard captain, identifiable by a small silver medal on the left side of his chest plate. And every five or ten guard captains had their lieutenant, identifiable by their gold medal.
Before he started, the lieutenant he had sent out scouting approached him from the right, saluting.
“Sir! Reporting, sir!”
“What have you?”
“… N-nothing… sir… no sign of the knight, or the sword…”
Still looking forward, Draven shifted his eyes to the right in irritation. Before the officer could react, Draven slapped him in the back of the helmet with a loud clang, dropping the officer to his knees.
“Idiot! Only report when you have something useful!”
Draven stormed through the center of the lines, shifting his glance left and right, inspecting the motionless troops. Another lieutenant approached him from behind, this one the one who organized the inspection.
“How many?”
“4,117 my lord…”
Draven stopped and folded his arms. That was the number of able-bodied men he had at his disposal, quite a bit lower than what he had started out with. But he had run into unexpected resistance… and he probably wiped out a few more himself when he blasted the castle… Still most of the work was done with; it should be enough to finish the job.
Draven placed his arms behind his back and continued a few more paces, lost in thought.
But he stopped short, in mid-stride… the sky had grown dark without him noticing, and a stronger wind was in the air… Draven’s eyes dashed to the left and right. The multitude of soldiers suddenly lowered their heads all at once and knelt to the ground on one knee. Draven’s heart sank. There was only one person in the entire empire who demanded that sort of bow…
All in one motion, Draven bowed his head as well, turning completely around and kneeling in the same fashion as his soldiers to look at the feet of the one who stood behind him… A few feet away stood a massive figure engulfed in total shadow. The black aura burned about him like fire, absorbing all light around it. His deep voice cut through the most fearless of warriors:
“Draven, have you obtained the sword?”
Draven panicked inside, but he did not dare show it. Still gazing upon the ground, he replied in the only acceptable way.
“Yes my Emperor, the blade is yours…”
“Excellent. I will be arriving soon to collect it. Until then, guard it with your life…”
“Yes, my lord…”
The shadow grew dim and faded away, and the sky regained its normal morning hue. Draven clutched his fist into the sand. Lying is treason… but there was no way he would allow himself to be show less effective than them…
Draven stood up at once, with such ferocity in his heart that a wave a flame burst from his body, scorching the grass around him and knocking the lieutenant beside him who had just gotten back up down again. But he managed to control his power once again, and the aura of flame reduced to nothing. Clearly, action had to be taken immediately.
Draven lifted the lieutenant up by the collar of his armor like a rag doll, eyes buring with rage, he barked orders into the terrified man’s face in a deep, almost irate voice:
“Listen up and listen well!”
He pointed to the burned-out building in which the mage Scorch was imprisoned.
“I want one thousand men guarding Scorch RIGHT NOW!”
Draven tossed the man in the direction of the building, who landed hard in front of him.
“I don’t care if you have them sit and stare at that building, JUST DO IT!”
He then turned his head to the legion behind him, clenching his fist.
“As for the rest of you, I want this entire island combed! The island is narrow here. Form a single file line from the eastern shore to the western, and move southwards. Stay within shouting distance of each other. Leave no valley unchecked, no cavern unexplored, and no house unburned! I WANT THAT SWORD!”
The individual soldiers of the legion scattered in a panic in the usual fashion as when Draven finishes his orders. Fully confident that his troops would fail him, Draven darted off in the direction of the southern forest by himself.
“If you want something done right…”
But as if forming another plan, he slowed, yelling back to his legion behind him.
“Are there no competent commanders left?”
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The air inside the cavern was cool and uncomfortable. Lying on his back, Iduran clutched his side in pain.
“Blast it! There’s no way I’m staying. Let me go NOW!”
The Romme soldier standing by pushed Iduran down as he tried to get up.
“But… I… must…!”
Another soldier rushed in, this one with a broken arm in a sling, and helped hold the old knight down with his good arm. An elderly man in a white robe walked toward the downed knight, speaking softly:
“My lord, you mustn’t …”
“Like Hades I will!”
“My lord, you wound has become infected. My herbs may heal you, but if there is any chance of you surviving, you must not move!”
Iduran relaxed himself, letting the fever get the best of him. After a moment’s thought:
“I must speak to the two men that came with me. Bring them to me…”
His other hand clutched his sword in its sheath lying next to him, it’s red gem glowing dimly in the light of the torches on the cavern walls.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday June 26th, 2004
A Wyverin flew about a hundered feet about Draven made a turn and landed about 15 feet away from him. A well known commander of the Dark Empire steped of and walked over to Draven.
"My little friend here..." The commander said wile scacthing the Wyverin behind the ear "Says, he say 3 men, and a dog, go running to some caves, might be some help..." The commander said
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Duilin woke up from were he was sleeping, because Gedi started barking when a Romme soilder came to him to tell him he has to speak to Iduran.
"Uh yeah, just a second." Duilin gets up and grabs his new weapons and heads over to were Iduran is, but first he decieds to see if Cheetah is awake.
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday June 26th, 2004
Haraldur drank a horn of mead in one in his father´s hall. He then approached his father.
"Do I have my unit?"
"Yes, you do Haraldur. Act with relative caution. Despite our spies we still know very little of what is happening in Romme. Hopefully this will be profitable."
"Yes. Is the regular army ready to leave at short notice? Is the citizen army ready to mobilise?"
"Yes, and yes."
"Good, hopefully we will acquire a few boatfuls then. And maybe som land."
"Try not to require the services of the citizen army. I want us to remain well defended."
"I doubt I will need them. They will only be needed if there is substantial fighting and sourcery."
"Good."
Haraldur stepped out of the hall, went accross the street and entered the hall of the berserkers.
"Get into the boats," he said calmly.
His unit left the hall and converged on the beach, and boarded their longships.
"Head towards Romme. When I need you I will go to where you are. You know what to do then."
The boats left in the direction of Romme.
The surroundings melted around him, becoming the air 100 metres above Romme. He hovered and looked around to find out what, if anything, was happening.
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Saturday June 26th, 2004
Shin Yong floated to the shores of the island, unconscious. He had just been defeated in a battle on a continent far north of here, but he managed to survive. The location in which he had floated to was about 200 paces from Draven's position.
Shin Yong's ice aura reacted to Draven's flame energy violently, restoring Shin Yong to full strength, and reaching out toward Draven. Whether Draven would feel the chill of the aura or not it didn't matter. Shin had regained consciousness, and knew Draven's exact location; he could feel him. He took a few steps forward, then stopped.
"There was evil here far worse than Draven...could it have been...him?"
Deciding it would be better not to think about it, Shin Yong continued his stride.
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In the port town of "Redrumm", Gyulim had just reserved a room at the most inexpensive inn within miles. Prefering not to be there unless absolutely necessary, she decided to explore the town.
The commercial district was the least shady district in Redrumm, and thankfully the inn is located there. After browsing some of the weapon and artifact stores, a young pickpocket ran past, and lifted what little money Gyulim had left.
"Hey! Come back here!"
As she chased the pickpocket down a dark alley, she was confronted by a whole game of thugs, who were taking orders directly from the pickpocket. At his command, they began to attack...
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Saturday June 26th, 2004
Seth stood on the Bow of his stolen Cargo ship which glowed with his trademark blue aura.
He sensed Fire, Destruction, and Evil.
He had been heading to Jinbur, a port city, but he didn't really have anything to do there but sit in a bar and get drunk.
His plantium hair glistened in the moonlight, as he set sail towards the Evil.
The breeze blowed through his tunic easily, and he felt a chill.
It was a beautiful night, which contrasted horribly with the feeling in the air.
Though Seth pilots a ship, he is no where near a good sailor.
He crashes upon a sandbar 2 miles off the coast of the island.
He pilots a small cargo ship, and the hull cracked near the stern.
Water gushes in and Seth doesn't really notice, until It breaks through the stairs from the cargo room to the deck.
The water flows through the stairs at a rapid speed and Seth jumps out of the ship, and onto the sandbar. He removes his leather straps and tunic and stuffs them into his pants.
He slowly swims through the water, makes it onto shore, and passes out near the burnt forest from fatique.
Posted by: Cesque on Sunday June 27th, 2004
(huh... I thought it'll be on a new topic)
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday June 27th, 2004
Haraldur scans the ground for villages, piles of dead bodies, armies and buildings. He notes what he sees. He notes also the position of beaches.
He teleports to one of his ships. He tells them where to land and where to go after that. He tells them to take everything from dead bodies. He tells them to sack villages, loot and pillage etc.. He tells them to stay away from other armies until told otherwise.
He casts a haste spell on his unit and the boats zoom to Romme. They land on a beach. At his command, Haraldur's unit turns invisible, and so do the ships, and they all hover in the air, ships included. They look accross the land.
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday June 27th, 2004
Draven folded his arms and looked up at the wyvern rider.
"Commander Nex, lead the way. If what you say is true, we must capture and interrogate these insects..."
Draven stopped short, shifting his eyes to the left. Something... different was approaching...
"Go on ahead... I'll catch up."
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As he waited, Iduran ran his fingers over the jewel on his blade, trying to formulate what he was going to say. Time was running out...
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Sunday June 27th, 2004
Shin Yong Tsing approched Draven, totally unarmed.
"Are you the the vile demon known as Draven?"
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Gyulim moved like the legendary mercenary, Sigilus. Within the blink of an eye, all of the thugs were unconscious. She glared at the pickpocket.
He grew scared, and set her money on the ground at her feet, then ran off. Gyulim picked up the cash, and proceeded to check on the status of the vessel that was to travel to Romme.
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday June 27th, 2004
"Very well" Nex replies. He hops onto the Wyverien and then takes of and starts to fly high in the sky but slowly so Draven could keep up.
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Duilin grows impationt and then walks over to were Iduran is.
"Iduran, you wanted to speak to me? Cheetah overselpt..." He says
Posted by: Cesque on Monday June 28th, 2004
"What the...?" - asked Scorch as he heard footsteps. Hundreds of footsteps. Somewhere in the distance, echoes of speech could have been heard.
"Sir Draven's orders. More guards."
"Do we really need...?"
"Obviously, not. But these are sir Draven's orders."
"Oh, great." - Scorch thought.
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Shivers ran down Nagash' spine.
"Did you notice that?" - he asked one of the surviving archers, as they sat in the remains of the burned forest..
"Of course. It was hard not to notice that. Surely, there's some forcer stronger than Draven. Which will propably, one time or another, get mad at him and this might-"
"Ssshhh. Silence."
Footsteps. Sounds of swords cutting through the woods.
"They are... looking for something. Propably for this sword... Run."
Archers stood up and began running. Nagash still crouched, hardly visible, among ash and leaves. Soldiers heard the sound and hasted up - following the archers. Lots of soldiers in dark armors ran past Nagash. As Nagash stood up, suddenly he noticed one more soldier running after the searching army, who stopped seeing him.
Without much thinking, Nagash pointed his staff at the lone soldier, and with a silent crack, a whip-like vine entangled him and brang before face of Nagash.
"What are you looking for?"
"The... blade..." Vine was choking the soldier's neck.
"Where's Scorch?"
"In... the... city... guarded... by most... of the army..."
"Shoot. I'll have to abandon thought about his rescue for a while. Turn back and don't return here, all right?"
"Yee...ss..." The soldier was running short of air.
Suddenly, the grip of vine was released. Nagash looked angered at the lone knight, who instantly turned back and began running back toward battlefield.
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"Huh..." - Cheetah said as someone tried to wake him. - "Leave me alone here... I want to get some sleep!"
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday June 28th, 2004
Haraldur's unit of berserkers cast haste spells on themselves and gathered all the belongings from the nearest corpses. They brought so much that the ships were full.
"Stop," said Haraldur. "The ships are full. I will remain ere while you bring back the ships to our country, with the loot obviously. When I need you, you will know."
The ships left.
Haraldur hovered there in thought for a moment. He came to the conclusion that it would be beneficial to spread chaos.
He went to the village furthest away from the armies. He cast fireballs on the houses. The people panicked. Balls of fire were dropping onto their village with no visible source. Pleased with that, Haraldur did this to every untouched village in the land.
After this he went 500 metres up in the air to see what would happen next.
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday June 28th, 2004
Arms still folded, Draven smirked at the man in the center of the blue aura.
"Dear, now. A bit harsh, aren't we? Yes, I'm Draven. Who might you be and what business do you have here? Make it quick, for I'm rather busy right now..."
Draven sighed inwardly. Though somewhat amusing when he had nothing better to do, the amount of people trying to kill him in the past few days was starting to become annoying...
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Iduran handed his sheathed blade to Duilin.
"Listen... I have no idea how to release this blade's power... or even if it exists... I thought the wizard we met awhile back might have known something, but apparently not... There's only one more I can think of to consult..."
He sighed, as if trying to decide whether what he was saying was a good idea or not. After a long pause,
"As you may have noticed, there's a mountain in the center of this island. Climb any tree and you will see it. Deep inside sleeps... a fire dragon... he's an intelligent creature, I know, and he's lived for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. If there's anyone who would know about the enchantment of a blade, it would be him...
"But you must know... he's not exactly friendly... When I was I child, he awoke and destroyed much of the southern half of this island... Still, he must be asked about this blade... Can you do it? I would go if I had the strength, but it is a two days' journey from here..."
At that moment, another soldier burst into the cave room.
"The Dark soldiers are everywhere! They've redoubled their efforts! Also, I can see smoke rising from nearby villages..."
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Monday June 28th, 2004
Shin Yong forged his ice sword from his aura, and sent a chill wave that brought everything within a 200 mile radius down by 40 degrees. Several Dark Soldiers died instantly. Shin looked at Draven and pointed his sword.
"Draven, head general of the Dark Empire, your time is up, for I, Shin Yong Tsing, head General of the Holy Kingdom of Aritan, have come for your life. Draw your sword."
The heat was on...(lol, heat, heh)
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Gyulim felt a small drop in temperature that was unnatural.
"Oh god...he's in battle. Why does he always do that?"
Deciding that it would be better if she didn't think about it, Gyulim approached the docks, and inquired about the status about the vessel to Romme.
"I'm sorry, Miss Lee...but the vessel you seek is still not ready. I highly suggest you get indoors, though; this drop in temperature might lead to a heavy storm soon, and you don't want to catch cold."
"Very well. I shall head back to the inn."
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday June 28th, 2004
"I'll take care of this!" Duilin says heroicly. He runs out side with his mace in one hand and his buster sword in the other. "Man, this stuff is heavy" He says as he drops his Buster Sword, he picks it back up and then puts his mace away and then runs over to the enemies.
Nex flies over the dark soilders, on his Wyverin. He laughs as he swoops down and then the wyverin picks up a romme soilder and tosses him high in air and then swoops over to him, Nex swings out his blades and cuts the soilder as he is in the air. "Now were the bloody heck is Draven? He's missing out on all the fun!" He says to himself "I'll go back for him in awile, but first I'm gonna go kill me some rommeis!"
Nex jumps off the Wyverin. The Wyverin flys around wile Nex fights some soilders. Duilin then charges at him and swings his buster sword at him. Nex blocks it with his blades, one in front on in the back, have Duilin in a lock, he then kicks Duilin in the gut 3 times, on the third kick he relased him cause Duilin to fly back a few meters. Duilin recovers from the fall and then takes out his chain mace and runs at Nex swinging it at his torso, Nex falls to the ground but then jumps up on his feet kicking Duilin in the prosess. Duilin then stumbles to the ground, he gets up shakes his head, and sees the Nex is gone.
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday June 28th, 2004
Encouraged by the effects of burning the villages, Haraldur decided to cause more chaos. He scanned the ground for where the most soldiers were in a small area. For some reason about 1000 were sitting around a burnt out house... Ignoring the strangeness of this, he caused a large black burning cloud to appear above them, it rained down burning oil.
He smiled. He made sure he was still invisible and floating. He was. He smiled again.
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday June 28th, 2004
Zeros', Qeni and Zev were sitting on a hill beside where the burning village was.
"Whats that Zeros'?" asked Zev, he pointed toward the sight of the burning the village.
"No idea." shrugged Zeros'.
Qeni was fast asleep inbetween Zeros' and Zev.
"Good thing Qeni doesnt now about this..." he thought to himself.
He looked once agian at the site, the burning village.
He thought to himself agian, "Who could of done this..."
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Monday June 28th, 2004
The tide came in. Waves of cold water licked at Seths body.
Seth awoke quickly and surveyed his surroundings.
He saw a burning forest not far from him, he saw the cold ocean, the full moon, and his wrecked boat far out into the sea.
He pulled his tunic and leather straps out of his pants and put them back on his body.
He shook like a dog, trying to get some of the water off of him.
He combed his hair back into place with his hand, and walked along the coast.
He walked for miles, until he came up to a burning village. It was a grotesque sight. Burnt human being lay across the streets and most houses were collapsed and ashes were piled everywhere. Seth grimaced.
He saw no sign of life in the village, and continued walking. He saw a trail of blood and foot prints. Seeing as it was the only lead he had, he followed the trail. He was brought to a cavern after walking for a few hours. He heard voices inside.
He walked into the wet, dank cavern and saw a wounded, fairly old soldier in gray armor..
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday June 28th, 2004
(My avatar is my character...heh...)
Zeros' saw Seth walk into the cavern. He picked up Qeni and Zev and glided over towards the cavern.
The saw Seth and walked up to him.
"What are you doing here..."
Posted by: Cesque on Tuesday June 29th, 2004
"Oh, great." - said Scorch as he noticed something is not as right as it was. Soldiers around him seemed to get somehow scared by the situation, seeing burning oil raining from above.
"Propably Draven changed order and wants now to burry me in a feiry grave?"
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"So the hell broke free." - Nagash thought. - "An international invasion on Romme? What the...?"
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"Huh..." - Cheetah woke up again, hearing the sounds. - "Leave me alone!"
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday June 29th, 2004
Haraldur started a scan of the island to work out what natural resources it had.
Marble, iron, gold, wood and fertile land. Perfect. Many sheep grazing, good for fleece and meat. Good sustainable fish stocks. Good strategic position. Perfect for occupation.
Maybe he should not have been so harsh on the viallagers... Meh, too late now anyway. Some will have survived, thankfully.
It would be imperitive to weaken the opposing armies, and spread chaos, so the village burning did have a silver lining all of its own.
Those Dark Empire soldiers look to be panicking, he thought. That was successful.
Hmmmm... seems that uch of the forest has been decimated. Draven has been playing with fire again. What is the point in invading a country if you are going to destroy its natural resources at the same time? You would definitely not be popular, and so it would be more difficult to keep control of the area. Stupid, stupid.
Maybe it would be beneficial to stop this destruction to save people and forest? Indeed, that would be a good idea.
A large black cloud appeared over the whole island, and started to rain, water this time.
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday June 29th, 2004
"Aritan? Boy did you take a wrong turn... Don't you imbeciles know when to quit? And stop that, you're screwing up the ecosystem!"
Draven threw his arms to his sides, and a burst of flame erupted from his body, incinerating the nearby plant life and raising the nearby temperature considerably.
"Very well, I suppose I can spare five minutes."
But suddenly a cloud appeared out of nowhere and it began to rain...
"What is this?! Bah!"
Another burst of fire erupted from him like an explosion, shaking the ground. He had doubled the intensity of his aura, so that the falling drops of water evaporated in mid-air before getting too close to him. Wrapped in fire, his glance shifted to Scorch's prison in the distance, around which many soldiers were rolling around on the ground partially on fire. Thinking to himself,
'Is this storm Scorch's doing? I better kill this one quickly...'
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The Romme soldier guarding Iduran stepped in front of the newcomer.
"Who might you be?"
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday June 29th, 2004
Bored, Haraldur scans the area where he rained on burning oil for any important or interesting people. There was a prisoner there. A prisoner? A prisoner?! Draven taking a prisoner? That is very rare indeed. Must be a special reason for doing that.
Maybe we can stir things up a bit? A bit more. Indeed.
The iron shackles around Scorch begin to slowly crack, and fall off even kore slowly.
Haraldur teleports 500 metres backwards, and remain invisible.
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Tuesday June 29th, 2004
Shin lunged at Draven, and plunged his sword where Draven's heart would be.
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//No entry for Gyulim at this time//
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday June 29th, 2004
Wile next hoped back on his Wyverin he thought for a moment. I wonder who is leading this attack... Nex and his Wyverin swooped away from the battle and headed back to were Draven was. He saw Draven and the other guy fighting, so he decieded to swing out his to blades jumped of his Wyverin, told it to wait, and slowly walked to the fight...
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Duilin then shook his head in confusion
"Sheesh, that was the thoughest fight I've had since I battled Draven, that guy was just as good as him....hope he dosen't know any freaky magic like Draven dose....that would make him even stronger then...."
Duilin looks around and then notices that he let somebody go into the cave.
"OH NO!" Duilin yells and then runs back into the cave and stops as he sees the man and the guard. "HEY!" He yells.
* He yells hey after he answers the guard question: "Who might you be?" *
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday June 29th, 2004
Zeros' shrugged and walked away from Seth. Qeni and Zev not far behind.
Zeros' could sense an evil around, but there was no one in sight.
"Stay here.." he said in a low voice.
He glided over to where the village was and started scouting out the land scape.
Its all burnt...no survivors..., he thought
He kept walking around making sure not to be attacked by anyone.
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday June 29th, 2004
Oh yeah I forgot about Gedi!
Gedi was hiding in Duilin's room when suddenly he decieded to go outside. He sneaked out side, when suddenly a Dark Warrior attack him. Gedi jumped at the soilders face a dug his claws into his neck and tore them out, makeing a messy mess! The then ran back inside and then kicked open Cheetah's door and jumped on Cheetah's bed and barked loudly hopeing to wake him up.
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday June 29th, 2004
Haraldur hovered there wonderig why the prisoner had not moved. Surely he would want to go free? Or wreak vengance upon Draven? This is very strange indeed.
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday June 29th, 2004
He saw Shin lunge at Draven and started to use his wing to hover above the ground.
Why is this all happening...Will Qeni and Zev be safe here...
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday June 30th, 2004
Draven sidestepped to the left, just barely avoiding his opponent's dashing attack. While in mid air, he twisted his body around so that his firery left palm pierced through Shin's aura of coldness and landed mere inches from his adversary's head as he dashed past. He then began to conjure a fireball at the end of his palm as he normally did, but because of his proximity, the energy would gather inside his opponent's head, effectively causing it to explode...
(Total elapsed time: 1 second)
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday June 30th, 2004
It rained harder. Then it began to snow and hail.
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Wednesday June 30th, 2004
Seth stayed silent and did not answer the guards question, and the shout did not faze him.
His eyes went blank as if he were intranced.
He attempted to walk past the guard, the guard grabbed him by his Tunic and lifted him, then Seth grabbed the guards hand and Seths steel claws dug into the guards hand.
The guard screeched and let go of Seth.
Seth dashed into the Cavern until he met Iduran and he stopped and stared at him awkwardly.
Seth turned his head back to a forward position and continued walking into the Cavern, his eyes still just two shiney, white pearls in his skull.
He was out of Idurans sight, and a loud, inhuman shriek could be heard all through the cavern..
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday June 30th, 2004
Duilin ran after Seth with his weapon ready. He went to were Iduran was to see if everything was okay.
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Nex aproached the two men fighting. He looked at Draven, and Shin, he then walked towards Shin swinging his blades around.
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Wednesday June 30th, 2004
"Hah! It'll take more than that to defeat me!"
Shin suddenly rulled under Draven's arm, grabbed it, and rotated behind Draven, bending him over.
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday June 30th, 2004
Nex then grinded his blades together and jump kicked at Shin!
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Wednesday June 30th, 2004
Shin felt Nex's movements through his aura, and proceeded to send a rain of huge icicles through Nex's body. There is no way to dodge (sorry man, but Shin's attacks are very precise)
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday June 30th, 2004
Zeros' looked over at the cavern where Qeni and Zev were.
He cast a protective barrier around them so they wouldnt get hurt.
Zeros' unsheathed his sword (look at avatar) and flew over towards Nex, and then he held the sword above his limp body and plunged his sword into his body (according to MotD's post he has ice shards in his body so Im assuming he cant move.), spraying blood everywhere.
"One down..." he whispered.
He could feel another evil around but all he saw was Draven and Shin fighting.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 1st, 2004
//Thank god my charactors are allways wearing the right armor, when ever you try to cheat like this//
The icecles hit Nex but his robes and metall vest consumed most of the attack. He fell to the ground, he was hurt, but okay, he then deceieded to lie there for abit and think of some stradegy wile he plays dead, Draven could take care of him for awile, he's just as strong as he is....heh....Nex is surpizeing.
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday July 1st, 2004
(Remember: The recipient of the attack handles the end result!)
Using the torque gernerated by Shin bending him to turn the bend into a flip, Draven landed on his feet. Continuing to turn, Draven threw the half generated fireball straight at the ground, not so much intending to catch Shin in the blast but, to distract him, as a cloud of dust arose from the explosion in the already poor visibility of the weather. Additionally, he used the blast as spring board to rocket himself skyward. As he rose, the snow and hail clearly impeded him.
"How vexing!"
Reaching an altitude of 50 feet or so, Draven cupped both hands straight above his head. The aura of flame around him lifted, surging into a massive ball of crimson energy straight above him. Still looking skyward, draven fired the orb straight into the air like a cannon. The ball soared higher and higher into the clouds above until Draven finally motioned his arms to his sides, causing a massive red explosion high above the battlefield. The darkness of the storm was replaced by an eerie crimson glow as the clouds immediately above disintigrated into nothing. Draven had blasted a huge hole in the storm, the effect being a large area of calmness around the current location and storms all around in the distance.
Draven clenched his right fist.
"Whoeverso dares to interupt my battle with petty weather tricks should know I will have his head when I am finished here..."
Still floating above (aura-less) and quite irritated he had to use the energy he had stored to stop a storm, Draven folded his arms and surveyed the situation below. Shin stood almost directly below him. Nearby was Nex on the ground and another unfamilar figure stood by...
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Iduran whispered to the guard with the broken arm, who was leaning on the cave wall next to him.
"Did you hear that?"
(Perhaps Haraldur should come down and interact with some other characters, rather than trying to play god, heh...)
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 1st, 2004
//I was just following MotD's post...heh...Ignore everything below (plunged the sword into the body...)\\
Zeros' stopped his stab in mid air and looks back towards Qeni and Zev, they were huddled over in a feddle position.
Zeros' sheathed his sword and glided up to the alltitude of Draven.
"Whats your purpose here..." he said in a low, mencing voice.
He could still sense another presense...other then himself, Draven, Shin and Nex
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday July 1st, 2004
//But I like playing God! <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /> //
Haraldur materialised behind Draven and said "And what will you do with the head after you have done with it? We cannot have you littering. The country is a mess as it is." He dematerialised.
He materialised again right in front of Draven. He smiled. He then very fast surged towards the ground. The common rock troll is a creature prone to grudge-bearing, he thought. No need to get one's own troops into action when there are expendable recruits nearby. He dematerialised before hitting the ground.
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Thursday July 1st, 2004
Shin smiled to himself as he cupped his hands and summoned all the ice energy he could. As the orb of energy grew and grew, plant life froze to death and was encased in a sheet of ice. After a time, the orb of ice had reached huge proportions, with the origin still being between Shin's hands. As the orb hit a 15 foot radius, Shin blasted it upward in Draven's direction, knowing that Draven had very few options left.
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday July 1st, 2004
A blast of lightning hit the orb of ice causing it to explode into many fast moving shards or ice flying in all directions.
Haraldur smiled, then started towards the city of the rock trolls.
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Thursday July 1st, 2004
Upon realizing that his orb had been shattered, Shin focused his mind and all of the ice shards gathered around him and began circling at a godlike speed.
"Well, since that didn't work...I guess I'll have to try this instead..."
Shin then raised his hand, and several shards joined together to make a ring of ice. Shin hurled the ring in Draven's direction, hoping that Draven would be hit by it, and cut in half.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 1st, 2004
Nex then relaised that somebody else was here, so then he jumped back up swung out one of his blade knives and one of his sickles and then looked around.
"Haradular perhaps...." He thought to himself
He then deceied to something to get rid of shin. He charged up a huge fire ball (just like Duilin's) and then formed it into an arrow shape (he's more skilled with it) and aimed it at Shin
"DIE!" He yells as he tosses it at Shin.
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Duilin then looks around abit
"Ummm...Iduran, do you see what made that sound? And were did it go? I'll get it for you...kill it...hurt it...talk to it...whatever..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday July 1st, 2004
Haraldur arrived at the city of the rock trolls. He saw the squalor of their environment, and thought: perfect. He approached the gates and said, "Do you have a death wish? Simple yes or no question."
One of the trolls laughed out loud. Haraldur looked pissed off, and noted the troll was made of marble. Acid flew out of his fingers and splashed on the troll. The troll writhed in agony as his body reacted with the acid around him. Haraldur then went through the gates.
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Thursday July 1st, 2004
Seths eyes returned to normal, and he gasped in horror.
He stood before a Scourge. It had the body of a beautiful nude woman from the waist up, and from the waist down she was a serpant. Her serpant tail was curled, but it quickly unfolded and became a 20 foot long deadly weapon. She had lured Seth to her using her beautiful siren song that was so high pitched, only Seths elven ears could pick it up.
She let loose another massive shriek. Seths ears twinged in pain.
He got into his loose form battle stance, one shoulder going up and down at a time, knees bent. This stance allows Seth to move at great speed.
The giant tail swung at Seth; He jumped up and came down claws first. They impaled the tail through the green scales easily, but he was stuck!
The Scourge flailed her Tail, and Seth, around in a tantrum of pain.
Seths claws finally released, and Seth was slammed into the cavern wall on his back. He slumped down to the floor and was stunned from the impact for a moment.
"If only I could distract her long enough to summon a fire elemental strike.." Seth thought to himself.
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 1st, 2004
Zeros' quickly dove down, unsheathed his sword and blocked the fireball heading towards Shin.
"You take care of the other...Ill get this one..." he told Shin.
Zeros' then unsheathed his other sword (its a small sword that is covered by his coat going across his back, its about 1-2 feet in lengh, it looked like Zeros' main sword, but much much smaller) and took a battle pose.
"Come on..." he said.
He glided towards Nex's position and when he reached it, he did a X slash and then Nex...
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 1st, 2004
Nex then did his own cross slash blocking Zeros'
"What the hell do you think your doing? I practally invented that move!" Nex laughed. He then pushed back Zeros' with his weapons and by kicking him away, he then jumped back and got in to some scary look fighters stance.
//Just to let you know, Nex is as though as Draven is, because of his with his master fighing skills//
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 1st, 2004
Zeros' quickly regained his balance.
He sighed.
"It'll take more then that to stop me..." he started to laugh.
He sheathed his smaller sword and then held out his long katana infront of him horizontally. He then grabbed the blade and blood started dripping from the blade onto the ground.
He then slashed in a downward slash motion and a blade of blood flew towards Nex. With Zeros' unsheathing his other sword and rushing at Nex at the same time.
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday July 2nd, 2004
The screams of the marble troll alerted the population of the city, but Haraldur just walked past and into the hall of the troll king.
"Good morning," he said. "I can see that you live your lives in a state of squalor. That can be fixed. Remember who caused you squalor? The Dark Empire when they betrayed you after years of you serving them.
"Right now the Dark Empire has invaded the natrion of Romme, directly above you. They have faced some resistance, and are not as strong here as they might have been. This is the perfect time for you to strike if you are to have your vengence soon."
Vague calls and shouts arose around him, and some trolls started cheering. The troll king stared at him for a while, and then stood up and picked up a spear, and led his men out of the gates.
Haraldur smiled, and dematerialised.
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday July 2nd, 2004
"Me? What are YOU doing here? This island is the property of the Dark Empire now."
Draven shook his fist at Zeros' as he flew away, but he quickly turned his attention to the bearded warrior who materialized in front of him.
"Wonderful... the barbarians have arrived..."
But much to his surprise, Draven glanced downward and realized Shin had readied his next attack while he was distracted. The ball of ice exploded below and the razor sharp ring of ice sped dangerously close to him.
Draven flew backwards, facing the ring as it followed him. Extending his right palm and supporting his right arm with his left, Draven fired off a small fireball at the ring, which shattered one of the blade-like shards, but the rest remained intact. Repeating this strategy, he fired off five more blasts which shattered the rest.
Draven turned sharply and landed on the ground some 50 feet in front of Shin. The ice that had formed on the ground began to melt under his feet as a dim aura of flame began to appear around him.
"General, huh? Were those your troops? Really now, you should tell them to mind their own business... Now where were we?"
Draven pressed his palms together as if praying. A stream of fire formed in between as he slowly brought them appart. When he was satisfied with the length, Draven grabbed one end of the fire with his right hand and the rest of the burning energy thinned in to a sharp sword shape.
Draven twirled his blade in front of him in a sideways figure-8 pattern, then widened his stance and pointed it towards Shin, all without breaking his stare into his opponent's eyes.
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday July 2nd, 2004
Iduran looked at Duilin with a worried expression.
"Yes, perhaps you should check it out... Is that some sort of struggle I hear? Blasted wound... I can't stand staying in bed!"
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday July 2nd, 2004
Nex droped his blade knive and grabed Zeros' sword as if it was not even sharp at all. Nex's eyes started glowing red, he made an inhumen sound and then swung Zeros' sword away with great force and then with his other hand he slashed at him with his sickle. His other hand was all bloodly yet, he didn't seem to react to it.
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Duilin noded as he went deeper into the cave to look around. Gedi then ran out of Cheetahs room and then looked around and look at Iduran, and gave him some sort of confused look, like a, What's going on here? , look.
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday July 2nd, 2004
Ranks of trolls scurried out of openings in the ground, attacking Dark Empire soldiers on sight. The Dark Empire soldiers were terrified because their swords had very little effect on the stone bodies of the trolls.
A troop of trolls, on seeing Draven, screamed and charged at him and his opponent, wishing to maim and kill.
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Friday July 2nd, 2004
Duilin had walked into the large Cavern "room" and the scourge automatically started attacking Duilin.
//Don't worry Dude Man, Duilin isn't getting hurt unless you want him to, sorry if I end up controlling Duilin somewhere in here, but Duilin has to combat the Scourge at least a little bit, it's attacking him..//
Duilin evaded the Scourges swings and even managed a few gashes into the monsters tail.
Seth saw Duilin battling the Scourge and thought, "What a perfect distraction.."
Seth kneels down and stares at the ground while mumbling an incantation. Then he raises his right arm out to his side and points at the target with his left hand. An aura of red and orange surrounds his right hand, then after a few moments a ball of flames about 2 feet in diameter appears on his left hand and flys out of his palm, onto the Scourge.
The ball of fire striked the Scourge in the chest and it wailed in pain.
The Scourge was obviously weakened, but not dead.
The Scourges tail wasn't moving much because of the pain it was experiencing from the 3rd degree burns it had on her weakest spot, the human half of her body.
Seth was able to run up and get a good couple of slashes on the Scourges human half of her body and she bled badly from this.
She crumpled down, but wasn't dead.. yet.
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday July 2nd, 2004
"Whoa!" Duilin yelled as he saw the scourge, after the small battle, Duilin then punch the Scorge in the gut. Wile she was recovering from the pain Duilin ran about 10 yards away from the monster.
"Okay, hunny, EAT FLAME OF DEATH!!!" Duilin raised his hands over his head and charged up the large fire ball and tossed it at the Scourge
//That would most likely kill the thing!//
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday July 2nd, 2004
Zeros' quickly tried to dodge, but barely got away. He suffered a slash starting at the top right corner of his face and going down to the bottom left corner.
"Humph..." he sighed.
Even though Zeros' was serverly hurt, he ran back at Nex, agian with full force. Blades forward, charging directly towards Nex.
//Dude Man we need to get hurt some...we can't be invincible...\\
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He looked to the right for a second and saw Qeni and Zev pounding on the barrier.
"Zewos! Wet us out!" cried Qeni.
Zeros'...Please dont die...for my sisters sake... Zev thought to himself.
//Soon Qeni and Zev will play a bigger role...but you gotta wait...\\
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday July 2nd, 2004
Zeros' blade stabed Nex, but the armor protected him from it going threw and killing him. He shed abit of blood, yet he didn't cry out in any pain at all. He then pushed Zeros' away,wile his head was turned, when he was looking at the kids. Nex then swung out both of his blades and swung one but thrusted the other, at the same time *it may not seem like much but it's accually kinda though to do, wile your fighting, because wile your fighting you need to think fast*
(Meanwile Nex's Wyverin is harmlessly sleeping)
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
Zeros' quickly regained his senses towards the battle and blocked both attacks. Using his large katana to block the slice and his small dagger like sword to block the thrust.
The blade that was thrust quickly sparked and slipped off of Zeros' smaller sword, slashing his right side open.
Zeros' stood holding there holding his side, blood dripping onto the ground.
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Qeni and Zev were watching the battle. Qeni started to cry becasue Zeros' was hurt. Zev also started sobbing, but not as much as Qeni.
A goblin appeared behind the two children.
Zeros' sensed it and sheathed his smaller sword and threw the sheath at the barrier. At this moment the barrier open letting the sword through, then closing immediatly after.
Zev stood there hold a sword and a sheath. He knew what he had to do, fight the monster.
Zev stepped infront of Qeni and pushed her into a small cubbyhole. He whispered something to her, "Stay here...Be safe...Don't worry...I'll protect you..." he kissed her forehead and put a large rock infront of the hole.
Qeni started to cry agian. "Zewvy...Zewos'..."
Zev tied the robe attached to the sheath around his waste and unsheathed the sword Zeros' gave him.
The dim torches flikered and gave off little light, making the goblin look even more menacing. The reflections bounced off the sword.
The goblin charged at the child, Zev stumbled around, but manged to block it.
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
//If your "goblin" is supposed to be a troll, remember they wanted to attack the Dark Empire mostly.//
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
Shin glared towards Draven as his aura re-built itself."No. I'm alone. Those fools wouldn't even be worthy of Aritan's army."
The aura of ice compacted itself so much that it would be impossible for the flames to so much as dent it, and then it compressed itself into a sword. Shin took a leather strip from his robes and tied it around where the hilt would be.
"Lets throw the magic aside and try pure combat. What say you, vile demon?"
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Gyulim returned to the inn, only to find that a mass of drunk sailors were all gathered at the tables closest to the door and to the stairs. Sighing to herself, Gyulim headed to the stairs so she could get to the safety of her room.
But it seemed as though the sailors weren't going to make that easy...
"Hey baby...don't leave us hangin' now"
"You wanna...sail da seven seas..."
"I'll buy ya a drink; could pound all night long, hehehe..."
Gyulim did her best to ignore all of the sailors' rude comments, but when one of them smacked her from behind, she couldn't take it anymore. She grabbed that sailor by his hair, and threw him in the direction of the others.
"Now, I'm going to go to my room. If I see any of you lurking outside my door, you'll see the sea again...but you won't be sailing it."
With that, Gyulim continued to her room, and locked the door. Right there on her nightstand...was a letter from her father; one of Aritan's high lords.
"Great...now they know where I am. Can't they let me find Shin before they track me down?"
She picked up the envelope, and opened it.
Your running away has indeed angered our ruler, but seeing as how you have a noble cause, you will not be punished. I managed to convince him to send out some troops to help you locate Shin. They are all at the inn now, disguised as sailors so as not to draw attention. I wouldn't be surprised if they had all gotten drunk already, but if so, don't let them get to you. However, if they show any serious disrespect, make it clear to them that you will not tolerate it at all.
Included with this envelope is 10,000 units of that port town's currency. I figured you would be low on money at this point, and I knew that you would need help sooner or later.
Now be a good girl, and good luck on finding your love.
-Father
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
Draven raised an eye at his opponent, but soon shifted his glance to his left... For some reason, some twenty or thirty small trollish creatures were charging at him and his opponent brandishing short swords and axes.
"Oh, for the love of..."
Lowering his crimson blade, Draven extended his left palm. A surge of crimson energy gathered, forming into an orb. He let the fireball charge until the trolls were some 100 feet away, then fired. The orb rocketed through the air, slamming into the lead group and exploding on impact. The frontmost creatures immediately liquidated into nothing, the rest flew backwards hundreds of yards engulfed in flame... Draven had a knack of finding ways to burn things that could not be burned...
Draven turned back to Shin with a mocking smile, placing his left hand on his waist, and chopping his flaming sword in the air.
"Oh, I'm sorry, what was that? I wasn't paying attention..."
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
"Hahahahaha! You pitiful fool! You rid yourself of your one of you swords, you think you can beat me with now? You never could anyways!"
Wile Zeros' was sitting there in pain, Nex swung his two blades down at Zeros' aiming to eiter cut off his arms or slice him into three peices!
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
//Ok...its a troll then, and the cave Qeni and Zev are in is the troll's cave.\\
"Think so? Well just see about that...Qeni and Zev are more important then my pitiful life..." he said to Nex.
He grabbed his katana and block horizontally, stopping the assult.
"You think I wouldn't carry more then just two swords? Haha...!" he started laughing
He used his left hand and reached behind him, and pulled out a shuriken. The rain was making his wound hurt more, everytime a drop touched it.
He switched hands on his sword and now held the shuriken in his right hand. He then stabbed himself with it where the wound from Nex's sword was.
He gasped. Then he regained his senses. He mumbled something and then the shurkien started glowing the color of dark red blood.
He then threw it at Nex, right where is lungs were supposed to be.
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Zev was now tangled in combat, this was the first time he ever handled a weapon, other then a stick to keep away snakes.
Zev backed up alittle and regained his balance. He was the one to charge this time. The troll held out his hand hoping to block it, but instead his hand was cut in half.
The troll screamed out in pain. Hold his arm where his hand was supposed to be. Zev took this moment. He charged agian at the troll, this time aiming for his head.
Contact was made between steel and flesh.
The cave troll's head was taken clean off. Blood gushed out from his neck, staining the walls and roof of the cave.
Zev stood in the middle of the cave, the sword bloody, his clothes stained. He now has his hands stained with blood.
He went over to where the small cubby hole was and moved the rocks. Qeni was there, eyes closed, still sobbing. She cried herself to sleep.
Zev picked up his sister and put her over his back (like a piggy back ride). He put the sword back in its sheath. He then found another cubby hole, big enough for the both of them.
He took the sword, and budged a boulder infront of it. The pressure was too much, and it broke the sword in half. He fell asleep right there on the rocky cold ground, his sister beside him.
His last thought before he went to sleep, Zeros'...please.
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
//Er... Zeros': these trolls are made of rock. No blood, and you could not cut into them with a sword.//
A troop of about 1500 trolls approached a building surrounded by bruning, dead and wounded soldiers, all wearing the uniforms of the Dark Empire. They charged, and the troops of the Dark Empire were massacred. They found a man dozing among a heap of broken chains, and ignored him.
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Haraldur teleported to be above the island. He saw some people fighting far below, and saw that one was Draven and another was some martial artist. He went down at huge speed: flames burned around him and he seemed to cause a bow wave of flame in the air. A strange field seemed to surround him ,engulfed by flame. Winds swept all around him. Above him a tornado started forming, caused by his movement. He hit the ground. The ground exploded around him and the people fighting. The rocks underneath crumbled and magma came to the surface. The winds swpt around and caused a fire storm, which soon swept into to nearby forest.
Haraldur appeared again above the island, and saw that the forests were burning again. Annoyed, he caused rain to fall, but on the forests only. He also caused a small cloud to be 500 metres above Draven and rain on him and follow him everywhere.
He teleported so that he was in front of Draven and said, "Some people claim there is nothing better than a cold shower. And you look as if you have a hangover, so I have taken things into my own hands for your well being." Droplets of water started to drop towards Draven. Haraldur dematerialised.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
//Oh and Haradular, Nex and Zeros' are fighting close by aswell, just thought I'd let you know//
The shuriken then stabed Nex right in the lung. He gasped for air, and stumbled abit, he didn't seem to be okay at the moment.
"I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS!" Nex yelled in extreme rage, "Might aswell make this place have an even bigger fire problom now" he charged up a huge fire ball, and I mean huge for the size of these things and tried to toss it at Zeros' but it took to much energy for him, so then he fell to the ground and the fireball evaporated, he started gasping for air. Nex's Wyverin wakes up, because of the sound of flame, notices what is going on and flys over screeches at Zeros' and pics up Nex and flys away...
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
//Yes, I do know, and they would also be affected by the huge ball of wind, fire and flying rocks. And by the magma spurting out from the ground.//
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
//Theres a twist...\\
Zeros' gasped, he held his side and he fainted.
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The troll got up off the ground. He went over to where his fake head was and smashed it agianst the wall.
The troll popped his head out and started to walk off in the back depths of the cave.
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
The Fire Ball Duilin made killed the scourge and Seth confronted Duilin.
Seth spoke for the first time, saying, "What are you doing in this cavern? Hiding? If so, you're doing a piss-poor job. You left foot prints all the way to your cave."
"Now, where is this evil I sense?" Seth said, as his nostrils flared, and his hair a mess from being slung around by the Scourge.
//By the Way Dude Man, Nex has hit by a shuriken, not a sword if I read correctly and if a shuriken is what I'm thinking it is. a Shuriken is a 5 pointed throwing star ninjas use. They're pretty small, but it was stained with demon blood, so it might have more illing properties.\\
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
//Heh, illing properties, that's what you think...*smiles evily*//
Duilin blinks for a moment and then speaks "An evil you sence, well I say it's either, Draven, an evil fire mage, who leads the Dark Empire, or, I belive his name is Nex...yeah....I remember, this guy attacked, well he looked like Nex...Well it was either Nex or Draven, but maybe somebody else...." Duilin then thought for a momet "Who are you, and what are you trying to do, and who do you work for?"
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The Wyverin landed on a moutain and placed Nex down. It taps Nex abit to wake him up. Nex then gets up and brushes the dirt off his robes. He then plucks the shuriken out of him and looks at it. He then examins the blood, it's mixed with his blood, yet there both simular.
"Deamon blood....heh....fool..." Nex laughs as he tosses the star away, he pats his Wyverin on the head "I'm going to go get relaxed and heal up abit" Nex starts limping around, he finds a large rock and goes over and sits on it. He takes off one of his metall boots and turns it around and shakes it abit, some small rocks tumble out, then he puts it back on. He streches abit, yawns, and sits down. He looks around abit and examins what is around him, and looks to see if anyone is near.
//Hey, if any of you can guess what Nex's race is I'll change iton his profile, from Unknown, to whatever it is <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /> //
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
Seth said, "I'm but a wondering ex-monk. I tend to destroy evils I come across in an attempt to become a Saint and become a God when I die.. Uhm.. is this all of your force? I think we're on the same side here. Want my aid?"
//I'm guessing Nex is a demon or half demon? By the Way, Where's Cessy? o.o\\
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
"I guess that would be good then. I'm Duilin Tanlonscar, I used to serve the Dark Empire, but it was agaisnt my own will, and I wasn't allowed to get out of this one commander's sight" Duilin pauses for a moment "But I killed him, good!" Duilin then puts his weapons away. "So you want me to tell you want's going on, or do you allready know?"
//Yes he is a deamon, good job!//
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
"Seth Faowind, pleased to meet you I guess..." Seth said as he shaked Duilins hand.
"Please do explain what's going on in this hell hole. I've seen destroyed cilliages, countless slain innocents, burning greenery everywhere... Is it the work of 'Darveen' or who ever you said?"
~Over an 11 minute period Duilin explains to Seth what's going on~
"Ah, and they want your friends sword? I guess I could help you men out. We're going to ask a dragon about the sword to learn of it's abilities? Lead on. But first, who will look after your wounded comrad?"
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Nevina had sensed the evil on 'her' island, as she calls it, for sometime now, but had thought it best to ignore it.
She looked out to the East and saw destruction, smelt smoke, and felt she must do something.
Nevina equipped herself with her weapons, put on her tunic and necklace and headed off to the East, following the evil in the rain.
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
"Let's stop the foolish games and be true fighters."
Before Draven could even react, Shin's sword was poised to strike, and Shin lunged forward. He slashed swiftly for Draven's neck, ready for in case he either blocked or countered...
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday July 3rd, 2004
"Well I have a few people to do that, Cheetah, and my little dog friend Gedi, and some crippled soilder, I hope that will be enough, let's just hope Nex or Draven dosne't bump into him, maybe we should try and resuce Scorch, or find somebody else, I'm not exacly strong..the most I can do is fire spells, but those are dangerous, and make me tired abit....I learned them form...sombody....Well anyways, let's get going now!"
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Nex deciedes to move over to a cliff edge. He looks around and sees a village, and then he looks aroud abit more and sees a burnig village and a series of caves.
"Yes...that's were they are..." Nex says to himself "But I still need to heal up abit...then I can fly down there on my Wyverin..."
Posted by: Dippy on Sunday July 4th, 2004
Nex quicly spins around and sees a large man of straw welding a flame thrower
"hello my name is Raven and I will be your Burnerer today"He said
"Bite me"
"was that not the plan?"
"You are one sick puppy... I'm gonna put you to sleep" Nex draws his blade and runs him through
poke poke "Eee. it's like poking through merang" poke poke
"Hmm I like my food well done anyway" He blasts his flame thower at Nex.
(Dudman is kool with me controleing his guy)
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday July 4th, 2004
//Another reason it had an effect on him was casue Zeros' is a Demi-Human (half human, half deamon) so...\\
Zeros' got up and examined the wound.
"Damnit...I was too careless..." he shrugged off the feeling and got up, his wing drooping.
He reached the cave and dropped down the barrier.
"Qeni and Zev are here somewhere..." he mumbled.
He walked into the back of the cave, one hand holding his right side, one hand grasping his sword.
A troll appeared infront of him. He smelled the air. Blood.
He grasped his sword harder and put up his dukes.
"Cmon..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday July 4th, 2004
Haraldur appeared in front of Nevina. He said, "Good morning, what is your name? I am Haraldur Gunnar Hilmarsson, prince of the people of Víkingagarð. You probably do not know a lot about us, but our traditional enemy has long been the Dark Empire. We are prepared to do anything to stop them, not stopping short of anything in our aims. If we need to kill innocent civilians in order to make things worse for the Dark Empire, we do so. If we need to destroy an island to kill Dark Empire soldiers, we do so. If we have to commit the foulest of crimes, genocide, to help destroy the Dark Empire, we force ourselves to do so. If we have to steal, pillage, destroy, kill and maim in order to stop the Dark Empire, we do so. This is no moral crusade, it is hatred that drives us. Complete loathing that drives us.
"You should see that rock trolls are chasing Dark Empire soldiers, causing havoc. I believe they have halved Draven's already reduced force.
"We intend to take over this island. We intend to use it as an outpost, due to its strategic position, to launch attacks on the Dark Empire.
"You, yourself, will have to come to a decision, who do you hate, or hate more, them or us? If you hate them, or hate them more than us, I suggest you help us. I will leave you now. If you wish to speak to me, just hover about 500 metres into the air, above wherever Draven is. Bye."
He dematerialised to be above Draven.
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday July 4th, 2004
The flame hits Nex, but he aborbs it and makes a large fireball. He prepares to toss it at him, but then thinks.
"You know...maybe you could be of some use....Would you consider joining me? Because it looks like Draven, might die or something...and I sence that there is something else around here....Anyways...we need another strong warrior...you seem to be strong...how would you like to join the Dark Empire?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday July 4th, 2004
//Scarecrow...Were off to see the wizard! The wonderful Wizard of Oz! They say he is the wonderful Wizard of Oz...\\
The troll charged at Zeros', he tried to evade, but becasue of his wound he couldn't. He stood in the direct line of the troll and parried it, then with all his remaining strenght, he tossed the troll against the wall.
While the troll was stuned, Zeros' dunk his hand inside where the wound was, he gasped at the pain, he stumbled alittle, but then quickly regained his balance.
He held his outstreached bloody hand. He made a slashing motion in the air, and then blades made out of blood, flew towards the direction the troll was at, paralyzing it even more.
He sheathed his sword, he then started charging up a ball of fire, ice and thunder (the thunder ball was made by his wing, and the fire and ice by his hands). Then he combined them, this was a stranious task. When he finally managed, a phoenix appeared.
The phoenix was a brilliant red.
At that moment, the cave shook, and all evil vanished from the cave.
Zeros' held his side, he sensed where Qeni and Zev were, he pushed the rock aside with the last of his strenght.
He woke up Qeni and Zev and then collapsed.
Zev shook Zeros' "Cmon man...wake up!" he started. Qeni started to cry. "Zewos..."
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday July 4th, 2004
(It seems Haraldur wants Draven's full attention...)
Draven lept backwards, slashing at his opponent's blade with his own. After Haraldur's taunt and feeling a few raindrops, Draven doubled his aura once more.
"You blasted wretch! Can you not see that I'M BUSY!"
Draven exploded in a fury, the fireball wrapped around him digging into the ground. Draven flew backwards at highspeed, unsettling much earth, untill he was several hundred feet from Shin. Without looking, he threw his left hand upwards, tossing a fireball straight up into the rain cloud above him, which exploded and dispersed the cloud as before, but this time a shimmering beacon of red light remained in place in the sky, warming the air and creating a high pressure zone that repelled clouds (heh...)
Draven then position his left hand in front of him, making a fist except for two fingers that pointed upward. Three small dark shadows appeared on the outskrits of his burning aura, rotating around him slowly.
"Go... find the teleporting one and bring me his head... or at least make it known that he must wait his turn..."
The apparitions dissapeared into nothing. Wrapped in flame, cape fluttering wildly, and hovering several inches above the ground, Draven began to slowly move toward Shin.
"How convienient, Aritan, that three independent people who wish to kill me all appear independenly within two days... Games you say? Well, well, if you don't like the method of combat, you shouldn't have come... You could have kept your life... but it's your choice... DIE!"
Draven dashed forward, slashing his blade downwards and emitting a cresent moon shaped wave of flame, which headed straight for the warrior.
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As Haraldur appeared above Draven, three dark apparitions materialized, rotating around him, each wrapped in black and carring a huge scythe. They spoke in whispering voices...
"You anger our lord..."
"Anger... yesss..."
"Anger... indeed...
"You must die..."
"Die... yesss...
"Die... indeed..."
The first appeared right in front of Haraldur, slashing at his face in a huge arc...
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday July 4th, 2004
//Heh, forgot about Duilin//
Duilin and Seth walked over to the cave enterance, they pass by Gedi.
"Okay boy, you wait here!" Duilin tells Gedi, Gedi then starts to look sad "Oh fine you can come with us, just be careful!" He then looks over to Iduran "Hey, this is Seth, he's going to help me with The Dragon, then we do what needs to be done...I supose Cheetah, can just guard you, we are also going to find that wind mage, Scorch, he could be usefull."
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Sunday July 4th, 2004
Seth walked out of the Cavern with Duilin but said, "Do we really need a fire mage? I Can summon all the elements of this realm, though it takes a while, and isn't as powerful as a mages magic spell, but it usually gets the job done.. And you, you have that "Flaming Ball of Death" thing, we got all the fire magic we could want.. but if you still want to get this Scorch guy.. lead the way.."
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Nevina though to herself, "The hell? I can't hover, and who's Draven?... Wierdo..."
Nevina continued on her way towards the evil.. she was getting closer, she could taste it...
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday July 4th, 2004
Haraldur blasts backwards to avoid the slash. Three tornados sprang out of his fingertips, looking to catch the shades in strong winds. //Xorlak, I am assuming that you only can control them, or are they NPCs for anyone to control?// He created a defensive barrier around himself. Winds swept everywhere at huge speeds, spiralling all around the island. Before long a hurricane was brewing, with lightining strikes setting the forests alight once again and incinerating the odd squirrel. Some trees were being uprooted.
"Good morning gentlemen, I hope you like light breezes."
Thinking to himself that the elf would probably be able to innately sense evil, he teleported himself and the shades right in front of her. This might be a good chance to show her who the real evil here was...
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday July 4th, 2004
Duilin laughs "I don't recall me telling you he was a fire mage, he is a wind mage. Draven is a fire mage, he's abad guy, and even so, me must save him. Well anyways...We should stop by this near by town and pick up suplys, it's on the way. What do you say?"
Posted by: Dippy on Sunday July 4th, 2004
"fine I will joine Voyutl"? He looks down at Duiln and Seth and Gede from the moutin, "Hey what is that over there?"
//Dudman told me the moutin waz near them//
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Sunday July 4th, 2004
Nevina was shocked at what appeared before her. The Haraldur guy was being faught by 3 demonic looking creatures. Seeing as how the man was out numbered, and the man seemed to mean her no harm, she decided to try to help him.
Nevina unsheathed her scimitar and pointed it at one of the shades. "Surrender or die vile heathen!" Nevina shouted as she charged at one of shades, aiming to take off its neck in one slash.
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"Ah, well with a name like "Scorch" I just assumed he had something to do with fire.. and everything I see is burnt.. meh, anyways, sure let's go look in that village. I would've gotten supplies from that village on the way here, but the dead bodies repeled me."
"Wha.. who's that up on that mountain..?"
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday July 4th, 2004
//Yeah so we are outside now, I supose//
Duilin looks up and then sees a small figure flying towards them, it grows biiger, it is Nex and Raven rideing on a Wyverin.
"Holy crap!" Duilin shouts. The Wyverin grabs Gedi and countiues flying and bites off Gedi's head "NOOOOO!!!! GEDI!!!!"
Duilin was in great rage and then took out his cross bow and fired it at The Wyverin. It shreaked in pain and then sumbled in the air abit, The Wyverin flew off and landed on top of the moutain.
"Okay new goal....avenge Gedi....somehow...." Duilin said, oddly he didn't seem to look any sadder then he usealy dose all the time (he allways looks sad) he just sighed and countiued to walk over to the burt village.
When they arrived, they saw a few Dark Warriors run off and some off those Rock Trolls kill them, and then the trolls ran away.
"Okay let's see what we can find..." Duilin says, in a tone as if he had allready forgotten about Gedi. Duilin seemed to be abit hartless all of the sudden, I guess it shows you that he has abit of evil inside of him, yet, don't we all?
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday July 4th, 2004
Haraldur cast a spell giving Nevina extra strength and health, and cast a spell to slow down and weaken the shades. Then he made two small firestorms go towards two of the shades to try and incinerate them.
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday July 4th, 2004
Zeros' was dying by the second. Qeni and Zev knew they had to do something.
"Qeni...We can't help them...Im sorry Zeros'..." Zev started to cry.
"Zewos...Dwont die...Wew need you...*sniff *sniff*" she started to cry louder.
Tears streamed down from Qeni's face, landing on Zeros' wound.
Zev looked over towards Qeni, he gasped.
Qeni had grown white angel wings, streaching outside the cave. She touched Zeros', then at that moment, his wound started to close and stop bleeding.
Zeros' eyes slowly opened. Zev got up and hugged Zeros'
"Zeros'! I thought you were dead! Man..." he started to cry agian, but this time they were tears of happiness.
Zeros' turned his attention to Qeni. She had wings coming out of her back.
"Qeni...I knew it..." he went towards Qeni and picked her up. The wings started to disappear and she fainted.
"Qen.." Zeros' hit Zev in the back of the head with the blunt of his sword. He sheathed his sword back.
The carried Qeni and Zev out of the cave. He then searched the area. He sensed many good presences, he sensed a girl.
He materialized infront of Nevina. He grabbed the sword and stopped her assualt.
He unsheathed his sword with his free hand, slashed in the air and then the shade disappeared.
"Please...take care of this kids...and get as far away as possible. This will get dangerous soon..." he told her.
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Monday July 5th, 2004
Shin stepped backwards, but that did not help him avoid the slash; all it did was prevent it from being fatal. As the slash connected, Shin thrust his sword in the direction of Draven's heart...(counter-attack, heh)
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Disgusted that Aritan troops would even dare get drunk, Gyulim headed back to the lower level of the inn. What luck; one of them had passed out. She took his beer bottle, and smashed it on a table. All of the sailors looked at her in silence.
"Alright, you were sent to help me find Shin, were you not?"
All of them nodded.
"Then why the hell are u getting boozed like this!? AND WHERE DID THE MONEY MY FATHER SENT ME GO TO?"
The soldiers looked at each other, scared out of their wits...then one of them spoke up...
"umm...we bought a lot of beer and ale..."
Gyulim became especially pissed off, and threw that soldier out of the inn. The rest of them stood at attention out of fear...
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday July 5th, 2004
"Good morning, and who might you be, and your little children?" A defensive wall appeared between him and the shades. "Are you wishing to kill me or aid me? Or do you just not care? Pray, tell. I find it helps in the long run." He sent a third firestorm towards the third shade.
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday July 5th, 2004
Zeros' turned his attention towards Haraldur.
"I have no alliance with anyone. If it helps I despise the Dark Empire too. For now we can be commrades. I suppose it helps to say you also hate the Dark Empire too."
He put Qeni and Zev down on the ground and cast a protective barrier around them and Nevina.
He whispered something to Nevina "Please, protect them. Thet can be the saviors or the destruction of this world."
He unsheathed his sword and looked back towards Haraldur.
"How shall we handle this...friend?" he said it with sarcasim.
//That was the slot twist about Qeni and Zev...heh.\\
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday July 5th, 2004
"Well, first of all, I do despise the Dark Empire. My entire country does. My country intends to take over this island so that we can launch attacks on the Dark Empire from here. This island is very close to other lands beonging to the Dark Empire. We will take over them all. After the Dark Empire is destroyed, then we will give those lands back to the inhabitants, if there are any left. Also, I suggest destroying these creatures who are bing burned."
A huge blast of sand went from Haraldur's fingertips towards the shades, looking to pulverise them.
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday July 5th, 2004
(Draven actually threw some energy from his sword at a distance, but I'll work with this.)
Draven's fire cresent missed. Still surging at his opponent at high speed, Draven went in for a downward slash. The clash of the two opposing auras in close proximity was violent. Surges of energy unsettled the ground all around, throwing bits of earth into the air as the two elements neutralized each other. Draven felt his blade hit his mark, although just barely. Repositioning himself to thrust it in further with both arms, he left himself open to Shin's counter attack, and realizing this an instant to late, leaned to the right and felt the icy coldness cut through the armor on his left side and grazing his skin. Draven lept backwards a few feet, now holding his crimson blade in his left hand and covering his wound with his right.
"Not bad, Aritan..."
Draven thrust his blade into the ground with one hand, causing the ground to split in the direction of Shin. A widening crack ran between his opponent's feet, which began to spew searing lava...
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(Phew... You're all leaving me behind!)
The wraith, in the middle of a slashing attack, was hit by the firestorm's full force and disintigrated into nothing.
The remaining two apparitions backed up a bit and began to circle the whole group at high speed. Dim red translucent orbs appeared around them-- a protective spell against fire attacks.
The first charged at Haraldur at full speed, but it dissapeared in front of his face, reappearing behind him and attempting a horizotal slash across his back.
The second could not resist the children. It dive-bombed the barrier, throwing down a small black orb of energy that neaturalized it on contact. It then materialized behind the two petrified children, aiming to place a horizontal slash across their necks...
(Permission granted to kill the two wraiths, as long as it is done in good taste and by two different characters.)
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday July 5th, 2004
"Well thats what Im trying..." he heard Qeni and Zev scream.
"Will finish this talk later..." he phased out, and then reappeared infront of the shade.
He blocked the scythe with his sword, he pushed up, that made his weapon go off balance. When he was off-balance, Zeros' cut a few inches below where the scythe was attached to the wood, sending it flying off in the direction of the shade.
It went through his chest, and landed on the ground behind him, killing him instantly.
"Shh...dont cry now Qeni..." he cast another barrier over the two children and Nevina.
He phased out then phased back in next to Haraldur.
"Where were we..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday July 5th, 2004
Haraldur ducked and materialised quickly behind the shade, and made a huge aura of flame surround him. When the aura subsided, there was nothing there but a scythe with a hand attached to it.
"I think I was stating my position... Anyway, are you willing to help me take over the island so as to attack the Dark Empire?"
He looked accross the landscape. The Aritan guy still lived, he must be strong...
"Anyway, what do we do and where do we go now, do you think?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday July 5th, 2004
"Haha...Sure...why not?" he started to laugh.
He looked around as did Haraldur and he saw Duilin and Seth.
"Be right back..." he phased out and then phased back infront of Seth and Duilin.
"How are you gentleman? What is your purpose here?"
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday July 5th, 2004
Haraldur teleported himself to be where Zeros' was.
"Hallo. An adventurer and what appears to be a deserter from the Dark Empire... Hmmm... interesting..."
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday July 5th, 2004
"Oh, well I'm Duilin Tanlon Scar, this is my friend Seth. I'm with the Romme as you can see, I WAS with Dark Empire, and now I left them, it's a long story, anyways, we are off to see this great Dragon that lives in some moutain/cave thing, he supost to know all about this magic sword, that our friend has. Draven, who I assume you may allready know, if trying to get this sword, for some unknown reason, I know about Draven's plans, and skills because I used to work for him" Duilin paused for a moment
"Who are you two people?" Duilin asks
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday July 5th, 2004
"I am prince Haraldur Gunnar Hilmarsson of Víkingagarð. I intend to take over Romme so as to attack the Dark Empire from it."
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Monday July 5th, 2004
Nevina looked at Zeros' in an odd, slightly annoyed way.
"How many baby sitters have you seen carrying a scimitar?" Nevina said sarcastically.
"I have no experience looking after anyones lives besides my own.. gah.. the last of the Jin Knights, reduced to a baby sitter.. wouldn't the elders be proud? But if you feel fighting is more important than your little friends here, I guess I'll have to look after them. Now if you'll excuse me..
*Nevina slashes her scimitar at the barrier and breaks it open with ease.*
I don't think the safest place for these two is in the middle of a battle zone."
Nevina puts Qeni on her back, holds Zevs hand, and escorts them to her palace.
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Seth just stares at everyone awkwardly and shuffles.
"Are we getting Scorch out or not? These distractions are getting on my nerves.."
Seth starts walking off in the wrong direction.
"Uhmm.. which way?" Seth asks in an embarassed tone.
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday July 5th, 2004
"Yeah, just a moment" Duilin says to Seth, he then looks a Haradular "Uhhh, Exuce me? But you are against the Dark Empire, but you are going to TAKE over Romme? So, are you against us aswell, or do you wish to lead it? Just, don't get in our way because, we are on an important mission and all."
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday July 6th, 2004
Zeros' sends a message to Nevina through ESP
"Thank you."
He returned his attention to Seth and Duilin. "The dragon...I have heard of him, but...not a magical sword..."
He phased out and back near where Shin and Draven were fighting.
He told Haraldur a message through ESP.
"Do whatever you want, I can handle things here. Find the sword, kill them. I don't care...as long as Qeni and Zev stay safe."
He turned towards the warriors battle.
"I know how this will end..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday July 6th, 2004
"I will give Romme back to the inhabitants after the Dark Empire is destroyed. It will be safe then anyway. It is not intended to be a permanent occupation in any way. If there are any Romme generals left I would like to meet with them. Is the one called Iduran still alive?"
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Tuesday July 6th, 2004
Shin stepped to one side of the crack, and did his best to avoid being hit by the lava being ejected from the core. When his chance came, he cast his most powerful ice spell towards the crack, freezing all of the lava that got 2 feet from the surface, and sealing the crack. From here, he looked at Draven.
"Childish..."
The proud general of Aritan felt that this battle had played out long enough, and his ice sword returned into his hand, sending a refreshing chill through his body. The wound on his side began to heal with the resulting energy...
"No wonder my soldiers have had trouble with you in the past. Now, where is your emperor...I felt his presence here before. Tell me. Now."
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday July 6th, 2004
"Yes I belive he is, over at that set of caves over there, near by you will see a secert enterance, tell them I said it was okay for you to speak to Iduran. I don't know to much about the other gernerals. Now perhaps you chould help us with something, we are trying to find this Wind Mage, his name is Scorch, do you know anything about him, or were we could find him, or anybody who may know? Probally some Dark Warriors know...."
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday July 6th, 2004
(DM: I hope Duilin remembered to actually take Iduran's sword with him, heh...)
Wonderful. Draven's opponent could detect elemental energy auras. That would explain how he found Draven so easily.
"Dear, dear... demanding now, are we?"
Draven straightened up, hovering a few inches higher above the ground and tapped the crimson blade in his left hand on the top of his left shoulder plate.
"If you wish to consult our lord, Aritan, you're going to have to stay alive until then... He happens to be on his way here right now. Weather he'll arrive in a few days or a few weeks, I don't know..."
Draven grinned menacingly, as if holding back one vital bit of information...
"I don't suggest you stick around to find out, though..."
He tossed his blade to the side, catching it with his right hand. Three orbs of vermillion energy appeared around him, rotating quickly.
"However, that's none of your concern. I'll grant your death wish myself..."
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday July 6th, 2004
// <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /> Umm....Yes Yes he did....//
Duilin has the sword hiddin in his pack, so NOBODY can get it..
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday July 6th, 2004
"There is definately a wind mage amongst a pile of broken chains (I broke them) in a burned out building surrounded by trolls (I ordered them) and dead Dark Empire soldiers (I killed them). He was asleep the last time I saw him. He is probably the one you speak of.
"Also, If you wish I could teleport you to the cave of the dragon. It seems to be a reasonably long climb, and if I can teleport you, it is unnecessary."
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday July 6th, 2004
Zeros' phased out and back to were Haraldur, Duilin and Seth were.
"So...a secret passage eh? Hmm..." he spoke in a mumble.
He phased back out then back in near the secret passage. He spoke to one of the people, "A man named Duilin told me it was OK to see Iduran."
The guards led him to where Iduran was.
"Hello there..Mr. Iduran."
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday July 6th, 2004
A door appeared beside Haraldur.
"Through this door is the entrance to the dragon's cave. I will be leaving you now."
Haraldur materialised beside Zeros'.
"Good morning General Iduran."
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Tuesday July 6th, 2004
Shin glared at Draven.
"This fight is over. I can see that you are truly skilled, and that it was very unwise for me to challenge you in my current state. As for your emperor, I merely wish to speak to him. That is all."
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Tuesday July 6th, 2004
Nevina finally arrived at the palace with Qeni fast asleep on her shoulders, and Zev tired, still frasping her hand.
She took the brother and sister to the Kings bedroom and laid them onto the luxurious bed.
She turned around and stepped onto the balcony and a shadowy figure appeared before her..
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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday July 6th, 2004
"Whoa, how nice of him!" He says as he steps into the portal...
"A guy with such powers as him may be usefull..." Duilin says to Seth "Now let's get looking for that Dragon.
//Hey X, perhaps you could discribe the area to us?//
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Meanwile, Nex and Raven ride the Wyverin, but head down over to the area of caves.
"Now were would that secert passage be..." Nex says "You wait here wile I go look for it." Nex says as he walks around.
Nex then sees the passage and sneaks inside, he sees the cripled soilder, Zeros' and Iduran
"Damnit, what is that half deamon doing here doing here!" Nex thinks "I'll teach him a lesson once and for all...but I don't like the looks on that other guy....wait...could that be...no....if so....I'm out of here...but I'll be waiting for them on there way outside..."
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Kathrine is abored ing a ship, headed to the Romme islands. She abords the ship. She is going there, for a well earned vaction, but is well unaware that it was attacked by the Dark Empire and is a total place of danger and chaos!
She sits at a pub in the ship.
//This might be a good time to add some charactors and have them appear. If not then I'll just have her arive at some harbor in a few days//
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
While Zeros' was waiting for a reply from Iduran, he sniffed the air.
Daemon blood.
He kept sniffing around untill he found out where the scent was coming from.
"Its that man agian. The one I fought with before."
He phases out and then phases back in right infront of Nex.
"Hello there...we meet agian."
Zeros' unsheaths his sword.
"I can see your still wounded from last time. This time I won't make the mistake of letting you go...AND I can use my full power."
He slashes at Nex and then he...
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Qeni and Zev were lying on the kings bed. Qeni was asleep, but Zev was still awake.
He looked toward where Nevina was he also saw the shadowy figure. He decided to keep quiet till he can figure out whats going on.
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
"Excuse my associate, Iduran, he has some unfinished business. Just one second."
Haraldur materialised near Zeros' and cast a strength spell on him, then materialised near Iduran again.
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
He jumps backwards and then looks at Zeros' and laughs
"I'd like you to meet my new friend, Raven, and his flame thrower" He says
He then jumps on his Wyverin wile Raven aproces him.
"I'm not in the mood to get hurt at the moment" His Wyverin flys high above them and circles around the two.
Posted by: Dippy on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
"tell me Zeros' are demi humans flamable?" Raven said
*no answer*
"then I will find out myself"
He rains fire upon him with his flame thrower
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
Haraldur materialised. A huge storm appeared, winds flying everywhere. The flamethrower's flames were doused, and went out. The winds blew the Wyvyrn about. Lightning started to strike the ground.
Haraldur materialised in front of Iduran again.
//Dude Man: A hint, get Nex back on the ground. In the air in a storm?//
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
The Wyverin did a barrel roll motion in the air and flew off, and crashed into the ground, knocking it out cold, Nex was grabing on to the thing for dear life wile this was happening. He is about 25ft away from Zeros' and Raven
He looked over a Raven and sighed "Stupid, humen-flames, not as good as our deamon flames, Muahahahaa! Anyways....Who is doing this...it can't be natural...it must be that...guy...that...Hara-guy...I must find Draven...But first kill that stupid demi deamon! The Dark Empire will NOT loose, we will NOT fail! It's time to get back to killing mode!" Nex, focues his energy, his wounds heal, flame circles around him, then it stops and he charges at Zeros' with his blades in front of him ready to stab Zeros' to death
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
An inter-dimensional imbalance suddenly engulfs the island, making teleporting a distance more than 50 feet or so extremely dangerous...
(New rules in effect now, please see sign-up topic
My apologies for disrupting the flow, but I'm nullifying Duilin and co's teleportation to the Dragon's Cave. Everyone else who teleported can remain in their position. Haruldur is standing in front of Iduran.)
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Iduran was growing weaker from fever. He looked up from bed to see an unfamiliar face.
"Who are you?"
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Draven dispatched the crimson blade and folded his arms.
"Hmmm, a wise Aritan... what a treat."
Really, Draven should kill him now... but he was pressed for time and clearly this guy could take hours...
"Merely talk, huh? Tell me. I'll convey the message, if it is worthy..."
He didn't dispatch the rotating orbs, but they rotated slower and lower than before.
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
//Thank you Xorlak, because that teleportation was really biteing my nevres, even the dragons den one, I had to make a new intro to my other charactor, now time to edit some posts!//
Duilin looks over at Seth "We should probally scout the area, and look for suplies"
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
"Me? Prince Haraldur Gunnar Hilmarsson of Víkingagarð."
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
Zeros' did a quick side step to the left to avoid the stab.
"This agian?" he sighed.
He then did a full 90 degree turn to the left (he was facing > so hes facing ^ now), and slashed outward to the right, then upwards, blocking the thrust.
He phased out with his body slowly disappearing into nothing, and re-materalized behind him, facing back to back. (The teleport wasnt more then 10 feet probably.)
He held his sword outward, then turned it around (with the hilt facing away from him and the point of the sword point towards Nex. Hes still facing ^ and Nex is facing opposite of Zeros')
"Say hello to my little friend" he mumbled to Nex.
He then thrust his sword backwards, aiming for Nex's back, hoping to cripple him.
//Is that better?\\
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
Shin moved not a muscle for a moment, then stated clearly.
"I merely wish to know exactly why the Dark Empire sent their soldiers to Aritan ten years ago, and if possible, to forge a treaty so I may spend my time with my love rather than chasing your soldiers from dawn till dusk. What say you?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
//P.S, My phase out is more like speed...not teleportation.\\
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
//Hmm...need to make another abiliaty for my charactor, everyone else's are really though, time to have one of those super charactors like EVERYBODY else has//
The sword hit Nex, however his armor proteced him from to much damage, no crippling, just injured him, some. Nex then demonstrated a little deamon magic move that he has, he exploded into a small ball of flame, that would only cause a 2nd degree burn and faded back about 5 feet away from Zeros', now faceing him *or was he already, you spun around to much*
"Say hello to MY little friend!" He said as he quickly charged up a small fire ball of death and then shot it at him, and again, and again *he fired 3 fire balls at you*
//Yeah, so here is the advantage the small ones have, there fast then the huge ones, and don't take as much time to charge, but do less damage. The huge ones, that Duilin only dose, are more dogeable *if you can teleport, but EVERYONE can do that, but do WAY more damage//
//Xorlak, can you limit one Demi God like charactor to everyone? Because this is getting a little insane//
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
The figure stepped into the light and it was a man, but not an ordinary man.
He hovered and was dressed in a black robe. He had a cleanly shaven face, and long black hair shrowding his face. He had a scar going down from his left eye to his chin and he wielded a bastard sword. //This is an NPC, feel free to control him//
He stared at Nevina strangly, almost as though he was looking through her. He held up his unarmed hand and beaconed to her. She became intranced.
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Seth looked around for a few moments then he started walking towards a village North of his current position, then stopped, waiting for Duilin to join him.
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
Zeros' managed to block 2 of the fireballs, but the other one hit Zeros' left arm, disabling it momentarly.
"Hmph.."
He phased out (phasing out is speed, not teleportation...) and reappeared infront of Nex.
He quickly started slashing in X shapped patterns to keep Nex from retaliating too fast from his attacks he fired at Zeros'.
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Zev started to shake. He was sitting there starring at Nevina and a shadowy figure...he looked menacing, and the lady who helped him and Qeni seemed to be in a trance.
Qeni was still fast asleep. He hoped she didnt wake up.
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The shadow figure only said 4 words, "Give me the children." He started to walk over to Qeni and Zev, Qeni snoring and Zev shaking.
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
"Ah! Ack!" Nex cried as the slash(s) hit him in the torso, he fell to the ground from the attack, unable to attack back for a second.
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Duilin looked over at Seth and say him heading somewere, he shrugs, asuming Seth know's what he is doing and starts walking with him
"So...were are going?" He asks
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday July 7th, 2004
Kathrine is abored ing a ship, headed to the Romme islands. She abords the ship. She is going there, for a well earned vaction, but is well unaware that it was attacked by the Dark Empire and is a total place of danger and chaos!
She sits at a pub in the ship.
//This might be a good time to add some charactors and have them appear. If not then I'll just have her arive at some harbor in a few days//
Just to infourm you, I'm makeing a new intro to her.
//Sorry about the doulbe post, just I had to quote the other one because of page things and all....//
Posted by: DarkElite on Thursday July 8th, 2004
xorlak, delete some Pm's (i see your about to post...) i have something else (sorry <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /> )
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday July 8th, 2004
(Short bursts of speed are perfectly acceptable. Just so long as you don't teleport 2 miles away, smack Draven in the face, then return to the present battle in the same post (heh...))
(DM: A bit of insanity is good... heh...)
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Draven's aura of flame dissapeared, along with the crimson orbs. His feet set down of the now rocky, mangled ground.
"Interesting that you should attack me, and then request a peace treaty..."
A soft breeze blew his cape, the distortions in the weather returning to normal.
"Unfortunately the main war against Aritan is out of my hands. I command the legions to the east of the empire. True I've encoutered your legions once or twice, but my main concern is the eastern front. I've conquered the nations of Tsar and Litany, and now our purpose is here."
Draven's tone turned darker...
"The assults on your country are lead by the western general... Jayce... but you'd have better luck speaking to the Emperor himself than that brute..."
"As for the reason. Our lord probably wanted something of yours. We tend to do that... you see. Now if you don't mind, I have business to attend to. If you don't bother us here, we won't bother you... for now, at least."
Draven fliped his cape as he turned around, walking in the opposite direction.
(If you wish to play along to make the story deeper, Shin could remember an ornately decorated spear with a spakling blue gem incrested in the handle that was stolen in the initial attack...)
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Iduran didn't recognize the prince's country's name. But he felt somewhat relieved as the man spoke with authority.
"Prince? Welcome, welcome. How can I help you? *cough* *cough*"
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 8th, 2004
Zeros' was there standing near a weak Nex. He was about to do another flurry of slashes when he remembered.
He sheathed his sword, turned around and walked away from Nex. He mumbled something while he was walking, "It wouldn't make Qeni happy if I killed anyone...even someone who is trying to kill me.(Human of course...heh.)"
He phased back out and the back beside Haraldur.
"You handle him if you like, I cannot kill any living person. Qeni would hate me if I did."
He then turned his attention to Iduran.
"Iduran...we meet agian."
//If you remember my breif posts in Chapter 1. My internet went down and it was far to long into the story to come back.\\
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The man kept getting closer mumbling "Give me the children"
Zev was frightened, but he knew that he had to save his sister. "S..s..sstay ba..ack.." he was holding out his hand in a stopping motion.
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday July 8th, 2004
"It seems that your country cannot easily rive the Dark Empire out of your land. We can help. The Dark Empire is a great enemy of my country, and we want to use yor country as a place to launch attacks on the Dark Empire from. We would find it much easier to attack the Dark Empire if we can work together."
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 8th, 2004
Nex then looks up and sees that Zeros' left.
"What? He didn't kill me....That's odd....he must not know about what I am then...I think....Or maybe he dose" Nex pondered abit then got up. He then looks at Raven, who did nothing the whole time
"You worthless lump of hay! You do nothing! You did nothing at all! You fired on unseccesfull shot! And you let him get away!" Nex grows even angyer "For now on, I'm a lonewolf, or you can be, just you keep away from me, your no good!"
He then walks over to his half dead Wyverin and punches it to wake it up. But the stupid thing just flys away with out him.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!" He yells as he rasies his arms in rage and kneals down on his knees. He pounds his hands on the ground "Ack...I must find Draven...we must....kill...Romme...we must kill these ones who rebel on us! We will prevail!" He starts his way over to were Draven was at the begining
"What ever happend to him, he said he would be right with me" Nex says as he starts walking over there
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Suddenly the Wyverin flew above Duilin and Seth and then sharged down for a kill!
"Ah ha! Revenge!" Duilin yells, he swipes out his Buster Sword and swings it at the Wyverin as is charges at him, but he misses as it flys by him.
(Remember he is an NPC so I'd like it if sombody else would like to control him for me)
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Thursday July 8th, 2004
The Wyvern swooped back down at Duilin, aiming to slash a talon into Duilins neck.
Seth Jumped (He's a monk, very agile) up onto the Wyvern and slashed his claws on the Wyverns neck and head.
The Wyvern started doing barrel rolls and Seth fell off.
The Wyvern was bleeding immensly, but certainly not dead.
"I need more effective weapons..." Seth mumbled.
The Wyvern swooped down at Seth.....
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The cloaked figure commanded Nevina to bring him the children.
Nevina walked towards Zev; she had no pupils in her eyes and looked frightening.
Zev spoke to Nevina, and pleaded for her to wake up.
She continued advancing towards the Children; she grabbed them and walked to the man.
The man out stretched his hands for the Children; Nevina drew her Scimitar and chopped off one of the mans hands. (It's an NPC, I can do that.. heh) ~total time=2.1 seconds~
The man screamed in pain and Nevina grinned.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 8th, 2004
Duilin then tosses his Buster Sword as well as he could before it could attack Seth. The sword sliced it's head clean off and it crashed down right infront of Seth.
"Take that you stupid, aquadog eating son of a bitch!" Duilin says as it dies, he then looks over at Seth "Sooo....."
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Nex then finally arives at his destinaton, he starts walking over to Draven.
Nex then sees Draven, he is extermely tired out "Draven!" He says, as he stubles a bit "What happend to the ice ninja, and who was he with?" He asks
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 8th, 2004
//Qeni and Zev are my characters...but don't control them...you can ALITTLE, if it won't affect whats happening, like what CW did.\\
Zev closed his eyes and put his hands over his ears to keep from seeing the blood and hearing the man.
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Zeros' sighed, "I think I pissed that man off..."
He turned around and saw the scarecrow. He out streached his hand and formed a gun with his thumb and pointer finger (like on Yuyu Hakuso), he siad one word "Bang." At that instant, a fireball flew out of his finger and towards Raven.
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday July 9th, 2004
(*Ahem* Zeros' found the cave, WALKED in, and returned to Haraldur's side...)
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Iduran replied to Haraldur,
"How gratious of you. We apperciate any help you could give us, but I'm afraid our forces are so depleted that we cannot fight back at all... Our soldiers are reduced to the perhaps a dozen or so in this cave, many of them wounded... Our castle and town are destroyed, although I'm hoping the sounthern villages are unharmed... But please, help yourself to any weapons or armor you may find in this cavern. *cough*"
Iduran recognized the winged Zeros' as he walked in from the very first assult of the Dark Empire.
"Yes, I remember you. Welcome!"
But as he said this, Iduran saw a shadow approach from behind. Iduran gasped as Zeros' launched his attack toward the enemy in the dark.
(I thought Raven was a character, not an NPC.)
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Draven moved his head to the side, cracking his neck as he approached Nex.
"Some Aritan with some issues... don't mess with him unless he attacks you. We have more important concerns..."
Draven turned to the forest to the east of their present location.
"So there's a cave out there, huh? Let's have ourselves a look..."
Draven ignighted in flame and took off towards the forest on foot at perhaps 30 MPH, the crimson energy enhancing his speed.
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday July 9th, 2004
//No..Zeros' and Nex were fighting in the cave near Iduran...about 30 feet away, and yes Raven is a character, Dippy's.\\
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday July 9th, 2004
"EEEeeerrrg!" Nex squealed "I wish I had my Wyverin or my wings back...." Nex then thinks for a moment, he then charges a large fire in his hands, the flame starts to grow *heh, useing more discription now*, aims it below him, he checks the angleing a bit, windspeed, then fires the attack, and the impact blows him away, and yes it would hurt alot, but him being a deamon *in cass you haven't noticed yet, heh* blows him in to the direction on were the cave was, and he lands about 50 ft away from it, and lands on the ground and is in great pain, but at least he didn't have to walk there agian!
"Just...wait...a little...bit...." He looks up abit, his vision is a little blury, he then spots Raven and Zeros' fighting "Meh.....I supose...I won't....do that....thingy....anymore.....neeeare....." He passes out for abit...
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Friday July 9th, 2004
Seth simply said, "To a village, for supplies. You said we needed to do that right? Maybe I can find a better weapon.."
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Nevina spoke to the man, "What are you here for? Why do you want these children?"
The Man said, "My name is Bane Glasno, I feast upon children, now out of my way!"
Bane flew quickly by Nevina, slashing her side on the way to the Children.
Nevina bowed down and Bane thought she was doubling over in pain, but really she was quietly whispering a prayer in an ancient tongue. Her hand glowed with a white aura and she applied her hand to the wound.
In a few seconds, it dissappeared, and while Bane was turned, licking his lips, hands out streched to the children, Nevina thrusted her Scimitar into Banes back.
It went straight through and came about 6 inches from Zevs forehead.
Bane screeched in agony. But, Bane was an un-dead creature...
Nevina pulled the Scimitar out of Banes back, thinking he was dead.
Bane turned quickly, stabbed Nevina in the torso and took her Scimitar.
Bane pushed her into the wall.
She crumpled down and while Bane thought she was done for, Bane turned around.
Nevina pulled her Holy Dirk from under her skirt and stabbed Bane with it in the area where his heart should be.
His flesh steamed and Bane cried inhumanly.
Bane exploded into a dazzling cloud of black dust.
Nevina was crippled from her stab wound, and did not have the strength to heal herself.
She passed out on the floor, a foot from the bed, bleeding.
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday July 10th, 2004
//Hmm...should I let a character die off? And Dude Man, control Raven...lol...since he's your brother character.\\
Qeni finally woke up from all the racket and saw Nevina bleeding. They both ran towards her.
Zev shook her gently, "Hey...hey...HEY!? Wake up.." Qeni was bent over where Nevina's wound was, crying. When her tear hit Nevina's wound, the hole started to close and stopped the bleeding.
(If you didnt notice, thats her special power...Zev's will come in later...when the time is right...heh.)
Qeni stopped crying. She tried to pick up Nevina, but she was way too heavy. Zev also tried to help, but for a grown women, it was far too much of a task.
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday July 10th, 2004
Draven slowed down as he heard an explosion and saw Nex rocket above over the treetops.
"Sometimes I just don't know about him..."
The bushes to his left shuffled and three Dark Soldiers and their guard captain appeared, brandishing their weapons, one injured. They lowered their arms as soon as they recognized their general.
"My lord! It is awful..."
"What?"
"This forest is infested with violent little trollish things with rock-hard skin... It takes much effort to even injure them with our weapons... We've lost most of our company already..."
Draven saw the bushes rustle behind the guard captain as he spoke, and one of the brutish trolls emerged from them, preparing to chop the man in the back with his axe. Draven extended his arm and two fingers from his fist, which glowed crimson red for a second before emitting a small blast of flame, which shattered the troll on impact. Keeping his pose, Draven shifted his eyes towards the captain.
"Miserable... So, you've been spending your time running instead of searching..."
The guard captain stuttered, but could not respond in time.
"Come with me. Keep your eyes pealed for some sort of cave."
Draven walked on, the four soldiers timidly following their gerneral, half afraid of him, half relieved that they found him before another group of trolls...
Up ahead was a deep entangleation of vines and other shrubbery. Draven extened his palm in order to blast it away, but thought it better to approach the cave quietly, wherever it was. So he ordered the soldiers to hack away at the foliage as they continued on.
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday July 10th, 2004
Zeros' could sense something coming. He also heard Nex land near by, "Not him agian...". It wasn't Nex, but he could feel someone else coming. He put one hand on his sword and let one hand to his side.
One of the guards started to step forward, but Zeros' motioned him to stop.
"But sir..."
"No...its nothing...don't worry about it."
He knew there was something coming, but who...
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday July 11th, 2004
//Okay Raven has been knocked out now, because I don't think he's going to be posting, even when he dose go online *and he barely dose* and even when I told him this, he did not post, so to bad for him//
Nex then recoverd and got up. He shifted his eyes around. He then sneaked around a little bit, and saw Zeros' and then sneaked back to were he landed.
"Okay....so I'll kill him, and then me and Draven will wipe out who ever is inside the cave!" Nex thought to himself. He then looks around for Draven to see of he is here yet.
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"Okay, then, let's get going then" Duilin replies. He then follows Seth to the village...
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday July 11th, 2004
Draven looked up through the dense treetops to see if he could get a handle of the direction he was going by the position of the sun, but the dense cloud cover and the fact that it was high noon made this difficult. Frustrated with not seeing anything after a half hour, Draven levitated himself, folding his arms as he floated skyward to the level of the leafy canopy, then a bit higher. The forest surronded him in all directions. A bit further on in front, he could see the sea, so he must be heading in the right general direction (east). He then looked southward, at what appeared to be a clearing. Rising a bit higher, he could make out what looked like small huts and houses.
"Hmmm..."
Draven fell back downward through the trees, landing on his feet in the middle of the four soldiers looking up at him.
"This way, boys. Change of plans..."
Abandoning the cave idea for the moment, he lead the soldiers in the direction of the village.
(Draven actually strayed a bit south of the cave, and may be closer to Duilin and Seth...)
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday July 11th, 2004
Duilin then paused for a moment....He felt abit un safe
"Hmmm...." He then turned around "Oh no.......Draven..." He then cluched Iduran's sword he had with him "Seth, we should either run, or get ready to fight..."
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"What the devil is takeing him so long!?" Nex says impatiently "Ack, I'll just wipe out the cave myself...I bet that sword is in there to!" Nex walks over to were he remembers were the cave was, and spots Zeros' outside of it (He is outside right?)
he then swings out his two blades and prepares to kill everybody who he can.
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday July 11th, 2004
//Yeah, but hes near the enterence.\\
Zeros' turned around with his hand still on the hilt of his sword.
"..." he unsheathes his sword and blocks Nex's blade attack (He is attacking right?), he then turns around to the guards, still blcoking the attack.
"You two! Go inform Iduran and Haraldur! Now!" he yells to the two guards stationed outside the cave.
"Yes sir!" the guards run off towards where Iduran and Haraldur are.
"Hmph...you agian...why don't you just give up and leave."
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The guards arive at Iduran and Haraldur's location.
The guards salute Iduran.
"Sir! The enemy is appreared! That mysterious man is locked in combat with one of there generals!"
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday July 11th, 2004
//No..he didn't attack, but let's just say he did, just not to mess up the story. <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' />//
Nex then relases the attack //that he did not make <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /> //
"I'm sorry, I don't know the meaing of the term, "Give Up And Leave" but I do know the meaing of the term "Gut You Like A Fish" and that's what I'm going to do to you!"
He swings one blade at his torso and one and one swinging at the legs.
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Sunday July 11th, 2004
Seth got into his loose battle stance, arms sloping down one at a time in rythm, knees bent, swaying back and forth; he was ready. A glint in his eye, his face expressionless, ready to strike at the first sight of enemy at a staggering speed.
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Nevina began to stur, and she slowly got back onto her feet, her blue hair scrambled all over her head.
She combed her hair back in place with her hand.
She asks Qeni how she revived her. Qeni does not respond. Nevina thanks Qeni.
She saw the bastard sword and a back sheath laying in the ashes.
She picked them up, and walked into a room in the palace made completely of gold, and containing only a golden tub studded with precious gems. A tub full of Holy Water.
She carefully dunks the bastard sword into the tub and does an elaberate hand gesture involving her hand going in an "okay" gesture and pulling it back, above the sword.
She pulled the sword out of the water and it glowed with a holy white aura for a few seconds.
She puts the back sheath on her back, puts the bastard sword into the sheath and walks back to the Kings Bedroom and picks up her scimitar.
"Isn't as safe here as Zeros' probably though eh?" Nevina asks the children.
~Nevina has aquired a Holy Bastard Sword~
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday July 11th, 2004
//Well he said "swings his blades out"...so...\\
He blocks the top blade with his sword, then he grabs the lower blade with his left hand.
He meances in pain, blood started to flow from his hand.
"Hmph..." he put his hand up to his mouth and licked it.
"Blood Blades." he slashes his hand downward and to the left (Like this ----> / ), then downward and to the right. (Like this ----> \ ).
Crecent blades formed from his left hand, and flew towards his opponent.
He smirked.
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Zev nodded and Qeni said nothing. Zev pointed towards Qeni.
"She never talks to anyone, but me or Zeros'"
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday July 12th, 2004
(Since Duilin isn't wearing his Dark Empire armor anymore and Draven never saw Seth, he probably won't recognize the two. Just don't let him see the sword!)
Draven arrived at the open gates of the village, passing two suspicious characters who he payed no mind, his attention fixed on one thing. One of the soldiers following him happened to glance at the two, standing some distance away at the edge of the forest half hidden behind a bush. The soldier paused for a second, studying Duilin's face curiously, but then carried on, following his general.
The town was one of those quaint, picturesque villages that Draven absolutely could not stand. The urge to utterly destroy it with his gigantic-fireball-of-death attack was nearly overwelming, but he restrained himself, realizing the potential use he could make out of it. The streets were rather populous for a small village, filled with people whispering rumors of the "attack on Romme castle" and the "explosions heard yesterday". Many became frightened by the sight of Draven and his entourage as they walked down the unpaved road and avoided them.
Draven stopped in front of a larger wooden building, plainly marked "INN" and stroked his chin for a moment.
"Wait here."
He entered the door alone.
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(Uh oh, I think Haraldur is on vacation...)
Iduran sat up in bed.
"What!? I must..."
He attempted to rise, but the old cloaked man held him down.
"No, you must not!"
"Blast it! Somebody must help him!"
Two more guards, hearing the conversation, joined the one sent inside and grabbed their arms. After a moment, three fully armed Romme soldiers appeared at the mouth of the cave. Two wielded broadswords and a heavy shield, while the third carried a long spear.
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday July 12th, 2004
He saw the soldiers appear. They start to come near him, but he stopped them.
"No you musn't!" he yelled out to the soldiers.
"But...but sir..." they started to come forward some more.
"No! This is a battle between daemons...I have more honor then to accept help...it is agianst my code!"
He took his left hand, still bleeding, and he drew a spell in the air, and released a barrier spell.
They started slashing at it, but only to be blew back.
"What is he thinking..." one of the soldiers whispered.
"Cmon...lets report back to Iduran." the started to go back to where Iduran was.
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday July 12th, 2004
The slash to right was blocked. Nex blocked the other, but it wasn't as succesful, he hit his blade but it still scaped along and hit him, not causeing more then a long cut. He kicked Zeros' away, not enough to hurt him but to push him away (he likes doing that) and then raised his hands over his head and aborbed heat and made a fire ball and blasted it at Zeros'.
//Heh, FYI, deamons are almost imune to fire, but since Zeros' is only half deamon it would still do some damage//
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"Hey...I thought I say somebody look at me...but Draven dosen't seem to notices us. I don't know about you, but I'm going to take advantage of that!" Duilin says. He sneaks over to the bush, and then he rose his hands over his head and aborbed heat and made a fire ball and then tossed the good ol' fire ball of death at Draven's thugs, causeing them flying in the air and land wile burning to a crisp!
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Monday July 12th, 2004
"Bah! Why'd you do that? Now they know of our presence. Do not have a single stealthy bone in your body? Now we must make a head on attack on Draven, who obviously knows we're here." Seth scowled.
"Oh well, we can still wail on him." Seth said with a smurk and a wink.
Seth charged as fast as he could, reaching Draven when he was half turned around and Seth slashed with his steel claws with deadly force.
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"Well that's rather pecuilar." Nevina said with interest.
"Well, your sister has magical abilities, do you Zev?"
"If Qeni would, I could teach her some curative magic, she seems to have potential.." Nevina said, her voice trailing off at the end.
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday July 13th, 2004
"Bah! YOU FOOL! HE didn't know we were here, he was in the inn, and now you just have.....grrr you! Hypocryte!!!! I....don't know what to do now..." Duilin then calapses on the floor from exhaution and from confusion, for some reason.
Posted by: Cesque on Tuesday July 13th, 2004
Scorch looked around. Silence. Something must have happened to his mind. He moved his arms and legs.
"Free?" - he asked himself. - "Oh well. Now I guess I must settle down things with few people..."
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Cheetah woke up finaly. - "Huh. Outsiders." - he came toward the arrived soldiers. - "(yawn) Oh well, greetings."
(now, can anyone draw me a basic sum-up of what's going on, who's fighting who? thanks for Cyber for brief explanation so far <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />)
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday July 13th, 2004
(Welcome back! Scorch should wake up to find himself unguarded, surrounded by dead and wounded Dark Soldiers. Outside the cave Cheetah is in, Zeros' and Nex are fighting. Haraldur is inside with Iduran (but he's on vacation at the moment). Draven is at a village south of the cave with Duilin and Seth.)
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(You guys are so violent, heh...)
Hearing an explosion and screams just outside, Draven returned through the door he just entered to find three of the soldiers sprawled out on the ground and one just standing there, dumbfounded. A quick glance to his left revealed someone quickly descending upon him. Draven did a leap forward and to his right, landing some ten feet away from the unknown warrior as his claws sliced through the wooden frame of the door like paper.
Turning around, Draven folded his arms and let out a deep sigh.
"What is this now... number five? Really..."
Draven squinted at the unknown warrior angrily. Immediately a burst of flame exploded from his body. Fire surged in all directions, igniting the inn and the buildings on the opposite side of the street. Many surrounding villagers were knocked off of their feet, while the rest ran for their lives, screaming. A dim aura of flame remained wrapped around Draven.
"So tell me, what business do you have with High General Draven of the Dark Empire?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday July 13th, 2004
Zev shurged, "I dunno if I have any...but, I think her magic activates when someones near death..She would agree to it if Zeros' was here.."
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The three guards arrived, and reported back to Iduran, knowing that he wouldn't be happy.
"Sir...he said not to help him so...we came back...he also cast a protective barrier around the outside of the cave, so theres no way we can help him anyways."
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Zeros' stood there. "Hmm...now now, what should I do? AH! I know..."
Zeros' spun his sword around him a couple times and then sheathed his sword. He held out his two hands and started to gather ice energy in both of his hands.
Once he had enough energy, he brought his two hands together and combined the two powers, making a ball of ice energy.
He threw this at the fireball. When the two energy's hit, they both canceled out each other, but not without making a huge explosion and sending energy back to each of them.
Zeros' unsheathed his sword agian and spun it around, he then held it out and tried to block the energy, but the energy was great, he was struggling.
Posted by: Cesque on Tuesday July 13th, 2004
(Zeros... Isn't "Zev" hebrew for "Wolf"? <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /> )
"Hmm..." - Scorch said to himself. - "Before I'll draw my vengeance - which propably will cause me trouble again - I'll have to somehow find the rest of the group... And this foreigner who freed me... Weren't they heading to some southern village?"
Scorch's sight slowly returned - apparently the inside head damage after burn healed a bit even without Nagash' magic. - But still, he saw blurred images.
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"What to do? What to do? Greater conflict seems to come to our land." - Nagash thought, as suddenly a pack of frenzied wild boars ran out of the woods as if something scared them, and charged at Nagash, noticing him. Ensured about his attunity to earth due to being an earth mage, as he tried to calm the animals down, he was attack and thorn into pieces.
This was the end of him. <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cool.gif' />
("oh my God, they killed Nagash!" now I'll have to control only 2 characters, yippie)
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Cheetah wandered around near the cave. "What the...?" - he asked. - "Protective barrier? Fights? What is this all about...? I sense trouble again."
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Tuesday July 13th, 2004
(Yeah, Zev is Hebrew for wolf, I named a character in a game I was making once that because he was a Wolf-Man thing, lol. I thought Draven was outside.. gah.. XD must pay attention.)
Seth looked around and noticed Duilin wasn't with him.
"Uhmm.. uh oh?" Seth mumbled, embarrassed.
"Ah, but may I ask what bussiness the Dark Empire has here? Why do you want to take over Romme?" Seth asked.
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Nevina just stands there doing nothing. She has nothing to do. =/
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday July 13th, 2004
Nex raises his hand at the energy comeing toward him, and aborbs it forming another fire ball, he fires it at Zeros' wile he is fighting off the other energy.
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Duilin then gets up and looks at Draven.
"Hey, Draven, remember me? Duilin? Anyways, what the hell are you doing here? Just leave, were busy with some harmless mission..."He says to Draven.
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday July 13th, 2004
Zeros' deflects his ball of energy, and flings it at the fireball, going right through it, and going towards Nex.
"Hmph..." he also put more energy in it, making it alot stronger then the one Nex absorbed.
//Make it more fun...heh.\\
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday July 13th, 2004
The energy ball headed toward him, he swung his blades infront of him the block the energy, but the energy hit him in the torso before he could block it, and he fell to the ground, but quickly recoverd. No standing he ran at Zeros', jumped kicked at him and tossed one of his blades at him!
Posted by: Cesque on Wednesday July 14th, 2004
Scorch was still unsure what to do. He tried to focus and notice something in the kaleidoscopic view he had before his eyes. As the vision began to reveal some things, he noticed the shore in the distance. Knowing he should follow this way, he began heading south, toward the caves and the village...
"The sword... the sword is the key to power to destroy the Dark Empire... Now, where the thunderclap is that sword? I hope Iduran still has it!"
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"Lovely fireworks."- commented Cheetah, with one of his totally-lacking-any-sense comments.
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday July 14th, 2004
Draven smirked at Seth.
"We're merely collecting something we require... and you didn't answer my question..."
Draven extended his right palm. Surges of crimson energy surged before it, forming into an orb that slowly grew in size... clearly he was putting more energy into this attack than the normal fireball. Even if Seth dodged it, the already burning inn behind him would surely be destroyed...
Before launching the attack, Draven turned his eye towards Duilin.
"You... yes... Leave huh? Why don't you wait your turn..."
Draven remembered Duilin traveled with the man with the sword. Perhaps he could lead him to it...
Still charging the fireball with his right, Draven thrusted his left hand in the direction of Duilin, forcing a blast of heated air towards him in an attempt to push him back...
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Iduran turned in his cot.
"Blast it! ... Maybe he has a chance by himself... Better guard the cave entrance, though, just in case..."
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Wednesday July 14th, 2004
Seth cocked his head at an angle and stared at the Crimson ball of energy surging in Dravens hand with curiousity.
"How is it these people summon elements so quickly, and with seemingly no Verbal or Somatic components..?" Seth thought to himself.
"Ah, and you require.. Idurans sword? For what purpose? Who commands you, Draven?" Seth asked, trying to buy some time, while he tried to preform a move he had never attempted before, his hands flailing behind him on odd motions, odd verbal incantations racing through his mind..
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday July 15th, 2004
Draven raised an eyebrow at his unknown adversary, the ball of energy in his palm still pointed at him.
"You are correct. Our Emperor requires it. That is all I know and all I care. If you could lead me to it, though, I can make it worth your while..."
Well, it wasn't all he knew, but all he needed to tell his enemies...
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 15th, 2004
Zeros' smirked.
He blocked the blade, sending it flying off behind him, and straight into the top of the cave (like the roof of the cave).
The kick hit him in the chest and sent him flying off into the barrier, sending a loud shock through the cave. The guards that arrived to protect the front of the cave, incase the barrier breaks, arrived right when Zeros' hit the barrier.
Zeros' pushed back agianst the barrier and stood upright agian.
He spun his sword around agian and then sheathed it.
He concentrated his energy and another wing grew out of his right side.
He flew up into the sky.
When he arrived, he contrated all his energy into a fire, water, and thunder elements (the thunder were coming out of his wings).
He combined them and formed a glowing red phoenix being.
Zeros' started to laugh.
"Haha....how will you candle this?"
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Thursday July 15th, 2004
"Just because your master requires the sword does not serve as good enough purpose for me to join you. Duilin here has saved my life a few times, but you here, are threating mine. I think I'll stick with Duilin if it's all the same to you, sir." Seth said, a bit cocky, as his spell was near completion..
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Nevina walks off into the armory without so much as a word to Zev or Qeni.
She looks through the weapons she has, and finds a small dagger and a rapier about the same length as a short sword.
She heads back to the Kings Bedroom and hands a weapon to each child; dagger for Qeni, rapier for Zev.
"I hope niether of you end up having to use these, but after that attack.. who knows what will happen, eh? I nearly died.."
//What am I gonna do with these kids? Nevina is just playing baby sitter =/, nothing interesting for Nevina, Qeni, or Zev.. I'll try to think up something, heh.//
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 15th, 2004
Duilin started to get a bit scared for a moment. He thought for a moment. If he told Draven he had the sword then he would be in big trouble, if he lied that it was at another place, that may cause susption, because why would he tell him were it was. He didn't know what to do really. He just turned his head at Seth and shook it. He looked back at Draven.
"We will never tell you, ever!" He yelled at Draven
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Nex looks at the Pheonix with a semi-frightend look. He then charges the fireball of death, but he explodes it and it causes a sheild of fire around him.
"I hope this helps...." Nex thinks
Posted by: Cesque on Thursday July 15th, 2004
(where are Nevina, Zev and Queni? at the Romme castle?)
Scorch marched onward, passing through the beach and past the caves. He passed through enough to stop now. Somewhere in the distance lied a village.
"Iduran, Duilin and Cheetah must be there. If they got away... No. They couldn't get away. I only hope Draven will not be tracking me... Where in the world is this guy anyway?"
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Cheetah stood there, with folded arms, throwing comments about the battle taking place, ensured of his safety.
"Now, why must everyone fly around here?"
"Who the hell this guys thinks he is?"
"Hey! A phoenix. Nice. I wish I could do that."
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 15th, 2004
//Bring em back my way...heh...or take them with you and ill control em, just think of something and we'll go with the flow.\\
"The phoenix...reborn from the ashes!"
Zeros' floats down and lands on the roof of the cave.
He folds his arms and settles his wings down.
"Now phoenix...lets have some fun."
(if you read above, the phoenix abbliterates all evil, or people with evil intentions within an area. Check one of my posts where I was resucing Qeni and Zev.)
The phoenix flies upwards into the sky, above the clouds and then stops.
The wind is brisk, sending flames from the phoenix everywhere.
It squalls, then the sun comes into place near where Nex is standing.
Beams of light shoot down by the thousands, hitting where Nex is, then....
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"Ive already had to use a sword...but, Zeros' has always protected Qeni, so she has never needed to..."
He reaches over to Qeni and she hands him the dagger Nevina gave her.
"Now its my turn..." he straps the sword to his waist and the dagger in his belt.
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Thursday July 15th, 2004
//Cesque, Nevina, Qeni and Zev are in the Jin Palace. (a place of my own invention; Nevina lives there. Read her bio on the DA RP Chapter 2 sign up to find out more about it). I got something for our little group here.. heh//
After Zev took the dagger, a group of 30 villianous creatures flew through the window. They looked identical to the previous enemy, with a few acceptions in their faces and hair styles. One of them spoke out, "You have killed our comrad. That results in a captital punishment;..death."
Nevina paid the words no mind; She drew her Holy bastard sword quickly and slashed through 3 of them, who died instantly because of the swords holy element, before they could even draw their weapons.
But the 3 were out numbered. Nevina swooped up Qeni and Zev, then put them on her shoulders. She ran and Qeni and Zev held on for dear life.
The 27 remaining antagonists drew their weapons; some bastard swords, some rapiers, some battle scythes, a few Tridents even.
They chased Nevina as she tried to flee the palace.
Nevina ran into a beautiful corridor that led to the front gate. The corridor had beautiful silk rugs which the creatures hovered over while chasing Nevina. There was a 1 foot distance between each torch, which was the lighting of the corridor.
Nevina began to mumble an incantation; it sounded as though she was speaking in tongues. She moved her hands in a 'blessing' motion, raised one hand to the sky and yelled "Puratorians Element!" and a large, beautiful ball of white light appeared in her hand.
Nevina turned around and threw the ball of energy. It lit the corridor with a blinding white light, that out-shined the torches light thousand-fold. The Creatures screamed in agony. Nevina knew the attack was only strong enough to kill about 5 of the creatures, so she continued running threw the corridor, then reached the door.
The creatures were un-blinded and the surviving creatures continued the pursuit.
Posted by: Cesque on Thursday July 15th, 2004
Scorch, tired of his travel (he obviously forgot to cast a haste spell on himself until half of the way), entered the village. Some shapes were there, standing before the inn...
Some unknown man, someone who looked like Duilin (altough it was hard to tell as the vision was still a bit blurred and shadows and lights were playing before his eyes) and...
"To all storms!" - the wizard only said, seeing Draven with some fireball preppared to strike at Duilin. - "Not YOU!"
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"Phoenix... eeeh... I wonder if I'll ever get a chance to get soul of such a holy beast added to my transformations' arsenal." - said Cheetah, watching the battle.
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 15th, 2004
Zev unsheathed his sword and dagger and started slashing ones who got too close.
His struggling caused his to slip out of Nevina's grasp.
He hit the ground, but then quickly flipped back up on his feet.
"Keep going! Protect my sister! Dont let them get her! If they do..." he sentence was cut short, he was almost struck down by a sword, but he managed to slip back and slay the one that almost killed him.
"So...3 agianst 1..." he smirked.
The other 19 or so were still chasing after Nevina.
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Thursday July 15th, 2004
Nevina started talking in tongues again; attempting a divine protection type spell for Zev.
Her hands flailed in odd motions, many beaconing to the sky. Energy came out of her hands in a cone shape and stuck Zev, and suddenly he felt as though he had great strength, and his skin became rough like a leather hide. (This is a temperary spell. He isn't gonna be cow hide boy forever, heh) He was now able to swing his rapier with incredible ease.
Nevina drew her Holy dirk and her scimitar, inabling her to fight with 2 weapons (It's incredibly hard to swing a bastard sword 1 handed you know.. specially when you've hardly ever used one in your life..)
She realized it's going to be hard to fight these creatures with Qeni on her back, especially if Qeni was not to be harmed.
Nevina found a nook in a great tree. She put Qeni in the nook and prayed to the tree. The tree was now holy ground and the creatures could not get near Qeni without burning.
Nevina smirked and Charged head on into the group of creatures, a white aura glowing around her. (a protection spell that is triggered automatically when she reaches extreme anger) The aura provided her with a holy barrier between her and the creatures.
She slew creature after creature; decapitating them with scimitar (They must be decapitated or stuck my a holy force to die), gutting them with her Holy Dirk, and one or two of the shadowy figures died from their own stupidity, touching the Holy Aura.
The aura faded after she slaughted 10 creatures, for the barrier can't last long (wouldn't be fun if she could slaughter them all that easy, eh?).
Nevina then slashed her Scimitar at one of the creatures. The creature had long white hair with black streaks and a sunken in face. Nevina aimed her slash to take off his head, but he guarded with his Trident, then stabbed her in the stomach after the clang on steel against steel.
Nevina started bleeding perfusly, and she ran the best she could, to get away from the creature while she tried to cast heal.
Nevina said the incantation, apllied her hand to her wound, and it shrunk, but not completey. She did not have enough strength to cast a spell strong enough to cure the wound completely, so it still pained her.
She charged at the creature that dealt the blow, this time aiming to gut and decapitate at the same time. He blocked the scimitar, but he did not see the dirk coming, and he was stabbed, dying instantly, though it felt like an infinity to the creature.
The remaining 8 that had been chasing her now seemed to coware when she looked at them.
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday July 16th, 2004
Qeni started to cry, "Whehre Zevy..."
Her tears started to hit the ground. When they did, a bright light flashed, all the people and creatures around her were blinded instantly.
When the light cleared, all that was left was one of the apparitions, but the left half of its body was gone.
"Zevy..." she started to fall out of the tree from exhaustion.
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Zev could sense something happened near Qeni, but he couldn't focus on that right now.
The three charged at him, weapons raised, meaning to kill him.
He swung his rapier at his head, slaying him instantly.
The other two came upon him instantly, he was not able to react.
One hit his right arm, but he was sloppy, it made a long cut from his shoulders, all the way down to his fingers.
The other aimed at his head, but Zev was able to jerk his head back just in time, only suffering a scar across his left eye, down to his chin.
Zev almost fainted by the pain (they were life threating, just deep enough to cause alot of pain and scars), but he regained his senses and cut the two down.
He sheathed his weapons back and ran as fast as he could to where Qeni was.
"Qeni...dont worry, Im coming."
He held his right arm and closed his left eye, trying to deal with the pain.
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Qeni was falling off where she was pearched.
She was about to fall and hit the ground, when two huge wings sprouted from her back.
They were glowing a white holy aura. The seemed to pass through solid objects (they were huge...about 100 feet...)
They let her down gentlely.
The apparition saw the wings and started hoping towards Qeni, mumbling a few words, "The....holllllllly.....childdddd...."
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday July 16th, 2004
Draven's smirk grew larger, if that was even possible.
"Very well."
Like a cannon, the crimson orb blasted outward from his outstreatched hand. The recoil from the firing was so great that it shook the very foundations of the town, though Draven did not move an inch. A ring of fire escaped from the tip of his hand as the orb shot out with such great speed that its perfect sphere shape became distorted and stretched. Within a mere fraction of a second it would reach its target of Seth...
But also at that instant, Draven thought he heard a voice... the voice of an old enemy from behind...
Posted by: Cesque on Friday July 16th, 2004
Still in the slow-motion of haste spell, Scorch was able to blow a stream of air which blew toward an orb to alter it's direction as he was slightly knocked back by the recoil. But the orb was faster than Scorch thought, and the changing of it's course was not really that significant. Propably now orb would explode at left side of it's target instead of directly in the front."I am hoping it is worth saving your sorry life, whoever you are?" - Scorch said to Seth while doing so.
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Sounds like a Christmas carol to me.
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday July 16th, 2004
The beam of light then shot down at Nex, the fire shield was able to protect him form the beams, but it faded off after the beams stoped. Nex looks at the Phoneix and then looks at Zeros'
"I've had enough of you! And I'm going to rid you from this world if it kills me!!!" He yells. He then raises him arms over him and then aborbs heat around him, and there was alot because of the Pheonix's attack. He formed a fire ball of death with a 20km radius. He then tossed it at the roof of the cave were Zeros' was standing. Once it hits *if Zeros' flys away to dodge it or not* it exploded at created a huge hole in the cave. Fortunatly the people inside were protected because of Zeros' sheild. But the people outside, not so much...There are most likely dead or really hurt. The impact of the explotion caused Nex to fly off in the air and land over in the forest....
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Duilin looks at Scorch with a surpized look.
"Scorch! Your here!" Duilin says. "You think you take all three of us? Your out numbered and out powerd!" He says to Draven. "You gonna run, now?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday July 16th, 2004
He didn't run. He took the full force of the blast.
"Hmph...Hold a grudge eh?"
He stood there holding his sword, holding back some of the balls force.
He quickly deflected it and aimed it towards the Phoenix, he absorbed it, adding to his already great power.
"Phoenix, return."
The phoenix turned into a beam of light and shot into a gem imbeded in the hilt of his sword.
He slowly floated down and landed near Iduran.
"Hmph...now what?"
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Zev slowly arrived at Qeni's position and saw the apparition almost reaching Qeni.
Zev pulled out his rapier and slowly trudged toward him.
He swung with the last of his force and cut down the last of the apparitions.
He went over towards Qeni and fell to the ground next to her.
"Soon...it will be over...soon..." he mumbled.
Posted by: Cesque on Saturday July 17th, 2004
"Who's this guy?" - asked Scorch, pointing at Seth.
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(hmm... can someone explain how does that barrier work? It is passable by foot, is it transparent...? I thought it was somethink like globe, protecting everything inside, but I see now it's some sort of passage barrier on the enterance of cave...)
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday July 17th, 2004
//Read my now edited post above//
Nex passes out
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Duilin looks over at Scorch. "It's my new friend Seth, he's a good guy." he looks back over at Draven.
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday July 17th, 2004
(A fireball with a radius of 20km is a tad much, don't you think? Heh...)
The orb of energy, slightly blown off of its track by the gust of wind, flew right past Seth, almost grazing the left side of his face. It rocketed right through the wooden wall of the inn behind him, exploding once inside. Fireballs billowed from all the windows of the two-story building as it shattered to pieces in a gigantic cloud of flame. A black mushroom shaped cloud rose from the burning rubble as flaming debris rained down upon the village.
Hand still outstretched, Draven looked left and behind him.
"Scorch... you left your room... I don't appreciate that...
He lowered his hand and shifted his eyes to Duilin.
"Out numbered and out powered? Well, at least you got one right..."
Draven clenched his fists and crossed his arms in front of him like a X shape. He then brought both arms to his sides. The dim aura of flame around him exploded furiously, wrapping him in a bright fireball.
Posted by: Cesque on Saturday July 17th, 2004
(20 km? Shouldn't that devastate the whole village where Draven, Scorch, Duilin and Seth are? <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />)
"I should have left my room, just I should have stopped at this tournament of magic near the caves rather than go further and enp up here." - said Scorch, knowing the presence of Draven will mean trouble. - "Duilin and Seth, what the storm are you doing here?!"
Finishing speaking, Scorch also crossed his arms like Draven, chanted some spell and streams of electricity began to spirally circulate around his body, starting from legs, getting to the top of his head. Wizard's eyes began to suddenly glow with white light...
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday July 17th, 2004
//No, I stopped it with my sword and then my phoenix absorbed its power.\\
Zeros' tapped his foot.
"Well Iduran?"
//And the barrier, its transparent, but it protects everyone as long as it does get devastated by a very strong blast or I dont get killed.\\
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday July 17th, 2004
"We'll talk later Scorch!" Duilin says. He then takes out his Cross Bow and looks at Draven "If I'm right about one thing then I supose you must have a bunch of 'invisible' friends around you. Eat arrow, kid!" he aims the cross bow at Draven's head and fires it.
//Oh and if your wondering why Duilin would call Draven kid, it because Duilin is older then him, and I supose he calls some people that//
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Saturday July 17th, 2004
Seth had finished his counter spell, but did not trigger it since the Wizard had saved him and he no longer needed it. He did however, store it and kept it readied for he knew it would come in Handy
Seth ran as fast as he could to dravens side and slashed at him, hoping it would give Duilins arrow the split second it needed for it to Hit Draven before he could evade it.
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Zev had slain the last of the apparitions so Nevina just sheathed her weapons and stared at Qeni, waiting for her to do something.
Posted by: Cesque on Sunday July 18th, 2004
Scorch raised above the ground several centimeters, still in his self-enchanted position, with eyes glowing and hands crossed. He looked a bit out-of-existence now, with his mind wandering somewhere out of this world. For sure, he didn't look like a nervous, enraged wizard anymore...
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What to say about Cheetah? He still watched the combat hoping it will end soon... And Zeros will win.
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday July 18th, 2004
"Fools!"
Draven spun on his heel, leaping up into the air to avoid Seth's slash. While turning, he extended his right hand in the direction of the arrow, ignighting it in flame, and motioned his hand toward Seth, changing the now flaming arrow's trajectory slightly to its new target. At the same time, he extended his left hand and fired off a low energy fireball in Scorch's direction.
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Iduran woke up with a start and realized Zeros' was talking to him.
"Huh? Oh yes, you've defeated him? Maybe we have a chance after all... I wonder if you should aid Duilin in his quest, or perhaps find some way to distract the Dark Empire..."
(Iduran's not geting out of bed anytime soon and he's pretty much run out of helpful advice, heh...)
Posted by: Cesque on Sunday July 18th, 2004
Seeing yet another the fireball approaching his direction, Scorch chanted another spell and suddenly a section of air began to move in it's direction like a barrier, smashing Draven's projectile on itself.
Scorch then whispered yet another spell, which gathered masses of air to circulate around himself, which mixed with lightning shield already enchanting him, engulfed wizard in a hurricane of air, buzzing with electric energy within.
Unfolding his arms, with his eyes glowing somewhere in the depths of furious masses of air now shielding Scorch from the outside world, air wizard preppared for yet another unavoidable struggle with Draven.
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"Oh well!" - Cheetah hurried to Zeros. - "Congratulations on destroying of this pathetic creature!"
"Now, can someone tell me what are we supposed to do now?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday July 18th, 2004
"Hmph...why not?"
He phashed in then back out (phased is speed, about 30 feet in any direction) above ground, hoving with his wings.
"Ill go try anyways." he started to fly away and then stopped.
He pointed towards Cheetah, "And you. Protect this cave if that Dark Empire general comes back, Im counting on you." he started to fly off towards where Seth, Duiliun, Scorch, and Draven were.
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While in mid flight, the phoenix spoke to him.
"You know what will happen if someone captures Qeni and Zev right?"
He nodded, "Of course...thats why I protect them...they still haven't tapped into there power."
Posted by: Cesque on Sunday July 18th, 2004
"Ah, crap!" - said Cheetah to himself. - "As usually, I have to keep out of action."
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday July 18th, 2004
Zeros' finally arrived at the village where the 4 were fighting. (Elapsed time...2 posts)
The villagers were running around in terror, and the local in was burnt.
"Hmph...Look what hes done..."
He landed on the ground and looked around. Some people were hurt, other were killed.
He phased out then back in right behind Draven. He patted him on the shoulder.
"Hello there friend!" he started to hug Draven.
Posted by: Cesque on Monday July 19th, 2004
(isn't Draven now looking like a blazing fireball thanks to his extra-powered immolation aura enhancement? Good look on hugging him.)
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Monday July 19th, 2004
After many hours of being alone, Shin headed for a vacant beach. Upon arrival, he sat, just a few feet from where the waves crashed upon the sandy shores. He stared at the waves, hoping to get his thoughts together.
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The shock of Gyulim's attitude scared everyone at the inn. None of them could so much as move after her terrible outburst of anger.
"...Well, aren't you guys going to get me to Romme?"
Since everyone was still a bit on the scared side, she decided to just have a drink and wait...
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday July 19th, 2004
//Deamons are pratically immune to fire, he would still be hurt from it since he is only half deamon, but he wouldn't get to hurt really//
"What the HELL??" Duillin says as he spots Zeros'. "Who hugs a guy when he's on fire!?" He then shrugs and then aims his cross bow back at Draven but waits to fire it
*he did NOT fire the cross bow in this post*
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday July 19th, 2004
He sees Duilin and Seth.
He then stops hugging Draven and walks over to Seth and Duilin are and pats Duilin on the shoulder.
"Oh! Oh! Oh! I know who you guys are...wait...who are you two agian? And whos mister windy/lightning man over there?" he points towards Scorch.
//We needed alittle humor. <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /> \\
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday July 19th, 2004
Duilin blankly stares at Zeros' ands says nothing...
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday July 19th, 2004
Draven landed from his attack, turning to the left to see a half-demon with outstreatched arms.
"What the...?"
Draven thrust both hands toward the demi-human and fired an attack into his chest, so that he would be hugging a fireball instead (heh...). Draven also used the force of firing the attack to propel him backwards 15 feet or so, where he assumed more of a martial arts stance, still wrapped in fire.
Draven's eyes darted around. Behind him was a fully powered up Scorch, with Duilin nearby with his crossbow aimed. Directly in front was the demi human Zeros', and some feet to the left of him was Seth, who tried to strike him earlier.
Draven knew well that he could take any one of the warriors by himself easily. Two without much trouble. Three perhaps, with some time... but four? Could he defeat all four?
Clearly the best course of action would be to take one out very quickly, to display his superior strength and strike fear into the hearts of the remainders. But which one... The winged one in front probably wouldn't go down in one blow...that one played a part in sabotaging his troops' assault, Draven recalled. The one to the left, although he's only used simple claw attacks, Draven knew too little about. Scorch, behind, he knew well though, and he knew he could take hours... And then there was Duilin. Yes, Duilin was nothing more than a simple soldier turned traitor... Draven knew how to punish his own soldiers well...
Draven spun around, outstretching two fingers from his clenched fist. At once, the huge aura of flame around him condensed into a fine, brilliant point of light at the tip of his fingers.
"DIE!"
A very narrow armor-piercing beam of crimson light shot towards Duilin's chest like a laser at lightning speed...
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday July 19th, 2004
(Bah! It happened again! No posting while I'm typing! Heh...)
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday July 19th, 2004
As soon as Duilin say Draven look at him, he knew he was going to attack. He swung his sword out and as soon as the laser was about to hit him, it hit the sword instead, but it sliced threw the sword, weaking the laser knocking it of corse and the laser hit his leg instead. He fell to the ground, and drop his broken sword and his backpak, that then opened up, revealing Iduran's Sword. Duilin gasps at the sight, and grabs the sword, gets up, stumbels because of damage on his leg and falls back down, but keeps a good grip on Iduran's sword. He blinks at Draven abit with a semi-scared look.
Posted by: Cesque on Monday July 19th, 2004
- "Mister windy lightning man is the one you shouldn't make fun of." - said Scorch with voice distorted by the rotating particles of air to the new-comer.
Turning his sight from Draven, Scorch conjured a beam of lightning from undeaneath his tornado coil shield to fly directly at the winged demihuman, in addition to Draven's fireball.
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday July 19th, 2004
"Well well..."
Zeros' quickly unsheathed his sword and spun it around a bit, and absorbed Draven's fire ball into his hilt where his phoenix was, in addition, he spun his sword around and sheathed it.
"Hmph..." he then held both his arms up in a cross infront of him, guarding himself from the lightning.
He quickly phased in then back out infront of Duilin, he held an out-streached arm to Duilin.
"Give me the sword, unless you want to die..." he looks at Duilin and smiles. His expresion quickly turns to anger and then he turns to Draven.
"So thats what your after is it? Then if I have it you'll come after me right? Fun fun...I like a good challange, and you seem like you would give me some ammount of trouble..."
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Monday July 19th, 2004
//uhmm.. I had a repelled arrow flying at me, right?\\
About 10 posts ago>> Seth raised his hands and yelled "Kah!" Then a large translucent red barrier appeared and it surged with power. The arrow hit is and desingrated easily.(That would've stopped Dravens super fireball if Scorch hadn't saved Seth first.)
The Barrier disarmed, and disapeared. Seth smirked at Draven and maked a "nanabooboo" face. (Seth isn't exactly right in the head.. He thinks he can become a god, lol, but what if he can..? o.o)<<
//err currently..//
Seth saw that Zeros' and Draven both wanted the sword and Duilin was in no shape to mame either of them.
"since no one's payin' attention to me, maybe I try another little trick.. heheh" Seth thought to himself.
Seth kneeled down, outstrecthed one hand from his side, and the other pointing at Draven. He bowed his head and began to mumble an incantation. A beautiful Aura of white, spakly light surrounded his hand streched from his side. Light began to glow in a ball on his hand pointed at Draven. He then made a throwing gesture and lanuched the Holy Ball of energy at Draven.
>>Note: It's of Holy Element, if that would account for anything. That would mean it'd cripple Zeros' if it hit him because he's half deamon, but I assulted Draven, not Zeros', lol.
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday July 19th, 2004
Duilin ignored Zeros' and kept a good grip on the sword. He looked over Zeros' and back at Draven. He started thinking a bit, he didn't seem to scared really. But not the he wasn't <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /> .
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Nex lifts his head abit and then gets up. He's pretty dizzy but he manages to walk abit, not really knowing exacttly were he is going however. He walks over to this near by creek and removes his helmet (But I'm not telling you what his face looks like <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /> ) and splashed some water on his face and puts his helmet back on.
"I just have to quit at this...I'm going nowere....stupid Rommes, I hate them, I hate that stupid winged deamon guy....I need to get my wings back....somehow....he's more powerfull then me, that's that....I need to become more powerful...somehow!" He then walks over into the forest and then takes out his blades...."Hey wait a minute....Were is my other blade...oh yeah...I threw at the guy...to late to pick it up now I supose..." Well he then starts cuting down a small tree with his blade, it falls down, soem time later the tree is then cut into firewood. He then grabs some stones and such and makes a small circle, puts the wood into the middle of them, raises his hand and abores heat and creates a fire ball and tosses it at the wood. He then removes his robe (and no he is not nude now because he is wearing metall armor and cloths under it) and flaps it up and down over the flame, make alot of smoke, therefor signaling at he is here, well not that HE is here, but that somebody is here.
(If your wondering why he is doing this it's because he need help, because he is hurt and exhausted and has no items but his what he is wearing and his sword knife and sickle, and those won't help)
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday July 19th, 2004
"Hmph...whatever...get killed for all I care..." he put his hand behind his back (which means under his coat also) and he pulled out a potion.
"Here..." he threw the potion in the direction of Duilin, "This will fix your leg, but it won't stop the pain, deal with it."
He stood upright and faced Draven with a smirk on his face.
"Well shall we begin?" he unsheathed his blade and spun it around, flames exploded from it every time it completed a circle.
"Looks like my phoenix is getting restless..." he held his sword with the blade facing away from Draven and the hilt facing towards him.
//you know...like im holding the blade like this <---facing Draven (Zeros)-|-------(Duilin) ----> sword facing away from Draven, towords Duilin (behind him)\\
My helpful diagram!
Posted by: Cesque on Tuesday July 20th, 2004
Bob Marley?
He will go against Xorlak rules for being god-like character. <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' />
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Somewhere in the distance, Scorch noticed a signal smoke.
"Iduran..." - he spoke to himself. - "Iduran somewhere near the caves..."
But then, he turned to look at Draven, Zeros, Duilin and holy ball thrown by Seth. Not thinking too much, he rushed directly at Draven, a trail of lightning a wind following him, he put both hands in front of him (superman style) and after chanting short spell, created a bolt of lightning in each, aimed at Draven, the stopped and turned to move in another direction, escaping too direct combat.
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday July 20th, 2004
Duilin drank the potion and then stood up. He takes out his chain mace a puts Iduran's in his left hand. He still of course feals the pain but he can easily fight threw it (he's accualy a though dude, just weak compared to all these semi-demi-gods).
I can't let him get the sword.......Or can I.......
I have to do something.....But what.....
Duilin closes his eys, takes a deep breath and then re opens his eyes.
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday July 20th, 2004
//Well Im a half-daemon...\\
"No spells, your fire is useless agianst me (wells semi-useless), sword to sword, how about it?"
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday July 20th, 2004
Draven recognized the sword immediately, and his smirk returned.
"Perfect."
He began to slowly walk towards Duilin and Zeros', his aura of flame (that he expended) slowly returning. But he wasn't paying attention to Seth, and was suddendly hit by an explosion of white light in his right arm, which knocked him off balance and nearly caused him to fall over. Regaining his balance, Draven shot a glare to his right.
"What?! How dare you!"
But before he could react, lightning bolts hit directly in front of him, causing him to leap backwards several feet. But before he hit the ground, Draven outsteatched his arms and remained floating two feet in the air, his cape blowing wildly. Draven had managed to get all four opponents more or less in front of him. He replied to the winged one:
"Useless, huh? We'll see..."
There were a few seconds of tense silence... Draven floated there, eyes darting to each one of his adversaries. Which way would be best...? Hmmm... yes... heh...
Draven cupped his hands in front of his chest. A fireball began to form in between, though more slowly than normal... He shaped this one more delicately, eyes still moving from one warrior to the next...
Posted by: Cesque on Tuesday July 20th, 2004
Scorch kept falling back. He began to move toward Duilin, his cyclone armor still protecting him...
"Give me the sword, Duilin." - he said. - "Your death here as a martyr for that blade will not help. I'll take it where it should go..."
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday July 20th, 2004
Zeros' wings extend and he quickly raises to Draven's height, dust blowing furiously and his cloak blowing about to all sides.
It was a tense moment. Zeros' gripped the hilt tighter and the blade was still facing away from Draven, and the hilt towards him.
"I'll take you on."
Flames slowly jumped from the hilt to the blade of his sword as he advanced.
"Your move." he said with a fierce look on his face.
He used telepath.
"Quickly get that sword out of here, I don't know why everyone wants it, but just get it away from here while I handle him. If I die...tell Qeni and Zev I died protecting them..." the voiced started to sound sad.
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday July 20th, 2004
Duilin then looks at Scorch, for abit, and thinks about giveing him the sword. And if it would help much if Draven knew Scorch had it.
"Hmmm....Well I supose so...but what if Draven sees the transfer...wait a minute, I got and idea." Duilin wispers to Zeros'
"Hey, Whateveryernameis, distract Draven so that I'm not in his sight. It's very imortant..."
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday July 21st, 2004
"Hmph...it doesn't matter, he'll find out anyways. Look at his face. He'll keep on eye on me and then another on you, and he won't change." he said in telepath.
He advanced slower.
"But whatever...don't blame me if you get killed, makes no difference to me."
He started to flap his wings faster and faster, more dust kicked up, blind whoever was behind him, he quickly took this chance and charged at Draven, the sword still in the same postion.
"Prepare yourself!" Zeros' cried out as he flew towards Draven as fast as he could.
"Kaw!" Zeros' pheonix screeched out from his sword and the image of a phoenix could be seen in his battle aura.
Posted by: Cesque on Wednesday July 21st, 2004
"Then I wish long life to you, Duilin, and protect this blade." - said Scorch and he began to slowly move himself out of village (levitating), looking at the smoke above the horizon...
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday July 21st, 2004
"Petty tricks!"
Zeros' attack preparation had acquired Draven's attention. It would be best to do the confident one in first. Draven raised the completed fireball in his right hand into the air and threw it downward into the ground in front of him as he dashed forward. The ball exploded upon hitting the ground, causing a great cloud of black smoke to engulf the vicinity, which Draven dove into. Additionally, the concentrated orb shattered into 16 smaller balls of crimson light, which shot out in all directions from the center of the cloud, some headed straight at his nearby opponents.
Almost immediately after Draven dove into the black cloud, he emerged on the opposite side-- right in Zeros' face. Draven flew out in a horizontal position, both arms to the side, but his right brandished his four foot long blade of pure flame... Draven plunged the blade forward, aiming for Zeros' heart.
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday July 21st, 2004
"It is no trick, fool!" he said as Draven was in his face, ready to stab him.
He put up a barrier around the other and himself, blocking the rays of light.
Zeros' quick reflexes made Zeros' able to parry Draven's blow.
"Hmph...so this is your power?" as there blades connected, flames shot out from both there weapons.
He quickly reached behind with his left hand and pulled out a small sword and aimed it at his foe's chest.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 22nd, 2004
Duilin glares Zeros' after he says "But whatever...don't blame me if you get killed, makes no difference to me."
"Insenitivecarelessonofabitch...." Duilin mutters, not careing who herd or understood what he said
"Hey, Seth!" Duilin calls over to him "What should we do?"
Posted by: Cesque on Thursday July 22nd, 2004
Scorch escaped the vicinity of Draven's cloud, and the crimson ball of light was caught in whirls of his cyclone shield, then after some time strangely flew out from the other side and exploded.
"Good." - Scorch told himself. - "Let them fight themselves. I never intended to come here to fight anyway..."
As he finished his verbal note to self, he chanted another spell and the air around him got "off" him, leaving him only in protection of his ragged cape and forming a separate tornado from itself, which then began to fly toward where Draven and Zeros where, through the air.
Scorch made his superman-style-flight-pose and left the village toward the caves and the strange smoke near them...
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 22nd, 2004
"This is war, it doesn't make any difference...just leave before you get killed, I might not even survive this battle, if I don't you need to find Qeni and Zev and protect them..." he telepaths to Duilin
He continued attacking Draven, ignoring Scorch's tornado.
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It was raining.
Zev finally woke up, he noticed that Qeni was still asleep even after a long rest.
He found a puddle and washed himself off of dirt and dried blood, he also noticed Nevina nearby.
The attack left a long scar down from the top right side of his head down to the bottom left and a scar al the way from his shoulder down his right arm.
He sighed, "Why does this all happen to me..."
He slowly walked over to Qeni and picked her up and put her on his back.
He called out to Nevina, "Don't follow us, Im going to look for Zeros', that is unless you want to come." He adjusted Qeni on his back and started off back towards the castle they were at earlier.
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday July 22nd, 2004
The wind picked up considerably around the two warriors as they clashed, causing Draven's cape and aura to fly wildly. Draven veered to the right, using the force from the contact of the two blades as a push off, barely evading his opponent's stab. He turned in the air as he moved away from Zero's so that he was flying backwards and slashed his sword diagonally downwards, causing a crescent-shaped blast of fire to leave the tip of his blade and travel toward his adversary.
At the same time Draven caught the sight of Scorch leaving from the corner of his eye.
"Hmmm, the traitor is making a break for it," he thought to himself. "No matter, as long as the one with the blade doesn't escape..."
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 22nd, 2004
Zeros' flew backwards as well, he quickly regained his balance and turn his sword backwards and stabbed himself through the side, causing blood to drip down his side and on the sword. He also slashed diagonally downwards, causing a crescent-shaped blast filled with blood and fire from his Phoenix.
When the energy's hit, it caused a big explosion, devistating nearby houses and people (except for Duilin and Seth, since I cast a barrier around them and Scorch is away from the town), burning them to a crisp.
Zeros' regained his balance from the blast and started slashing more, causing crescent-shaped blades to come out of his sword, heading straight for his foe.
He followed closely behind the blades, awaiting the right to at when to attack Draven.
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Zev sighed.
"Geez Qeni...when did you get so heavy..." he fell down face forwards from exhaustion. He got up and crossed his legs while rubbing his head, "Oww...geez..." he looked around, its was still raining and most of the trees drooped from the rain.
He saw a tree that had a cave like structure in its trunk. Zev dragged Qeni over towards the cave-like structure and stopped under the tree.
"Guess we can camp here for now..."
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 22nd, 2004
"Hey you think you could be more carfull, with your ''war''?" Duilin calls over to Seth, not expecting or wishing him to answer. Duilin just continues looking at Draven and Zeros' fight. "This guy's really powerfull, I'm not even worried if he losses, because if he leaves then I supose Draven might be weakend enough for us to wipe him out...But it would be best if Zeros' won, and Draven is very strong...Hmmm....Seth, perhaps we should help fight...He would never suspect it at all, you think we should Seth?"
"Now I wonder who and were Queni and Zev are...And who or what this guy is..."
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Five dark empire soilders that noticed the smoke signal and headed to were Nex was. Nex say the soilders and stoped the signal.
"Uh, Sir, is everything allright?" A soilder asked
"I...need...potions....ethiers....resores...NOW!!!" Nex orders
The soilders obeyed him, and pitched in 3 potions, 2 eithers and 5 restores. He drank them all down in about 1 minute.
"So, sir, is that all?" A another soilder asked
"Hmm, no, We must go to this near by cave and kill a bunch of people and steal there gear and hunt down the sword!" He said "But first, back to the Town around the Romme Castle! And get more soilder, we must have....about...50 more soilders, you five will come with! And then we do that, let's go...NOW!"
Nex and the soilders arive at the town around The Romme Castle. Nex being a General (not a high general like Draven) he was aloud to get the 50 soilders, so 55 soilder along with Nex marched over to the the caves and suronded the cave.
Da Da Da Daaa!
Posted by: Cesque on Thursday July 22nd, 2004
"What the..." - Scorch suddenly noticed bunch o' soldiers with some unknown Dark Empire soldier near the caves as he arrived there.
"Fast guys, getting to and from Romme castle in 1 post..." - he thought.
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Cheetah felt something evil might happen.
"Hold on, sir." - he said to Iduran. - "I heard something outside..."
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 22nd, 2004
"Okay guys, our speed, one post! A new record!" Nex says. He then points his blade to the castle "ATTACK!"
The soilders then charge in to the cave and prepare to kill everything that insinte with the Dark Empire.
"Wrong cave morons!" Nex yells at them. They run out and then head toward to correct cave. They surond the enterance. And then aproach to head inside and fight!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-Okay guy's this will kinda be like a little Mini Game. There are 55 soilders, that we will all keep track off. They are all NPCs, and there is Cheetah, Scorch and Iduran I belive in the cave. And let's say you can only defeat up to 5 soilders per post, and I can control them to.
//So Xorlak is that cool, with me makeing a little game type thing?//
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Thursday July 22nd, 2004
"Nah" Seth whispered to Duilin. "we'd only complicate things, and probably get blown up. I'm not strong enough to slay Draven. That Holy Ball of Energy would've killed a normal person, but it didn't even knock him down.. I got a better idea. Do you still have the sword, Duilin? The smoke clouded by vision and I can't tell if you passed it to Scorch or not. Anyways, our job is to locate the dragon, not kill Draven; Zeros' can do that since he's so eager.."
"We'll sneak away, get some supplies, and look for the Dragon. Here's how.."
Seth began to speak to Draven in tongues through telepath, though you could still see his lips move. He flooded Dravens mind with an incantation, and if the spell were to work, it would cloud his mind to the point where he couldn't see Seth or Duilin; only Zeros' and the location around him, but Seth and Duilin would appear to be gone.
Seth slashed open the barrier Zeros' had cast on him, and decided to sneak into the abandoned weapon shop to see if Draven noticed, while he still flooded Dravens mind.
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Nevina had been secretly following the two children, though that had not noticed. She saw that they stopped in a tree, so she looked into the tree, and casted some blessings onto them. 3 of the night stars seemed to dissapear from the sky and come into her hands. She swirled her hands around in a paicular fashion, and the two children began to glow. This blessing would grant them superior strength and a supernatural 6th sense to detect evil forces, these spells would last 3 days; 1 day per a star Nevina stole from the sky.
Nevina then walked off to look for that Haraldur-guy. He had seemed to dissapear..
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 22nd, 2004
"No, I still have it. And uhhh....what are doing?" Duilin asked looking at Seth as he dose his odd spell.
Posted by: Cesque on Thursday July 22nd, 2004
Listen to Xorlak when he says about weird descriptions. Fight what? Fight how? Describe more precisely, really...
Also... how many soldiers are there?
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Scorch landed behind the attackers and followed them into the cave.
"So... they're after Iduran... This new general shall fall easier than Draven."
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"Crap!" - screamed Cheetah. - "Iduran, stand up, grab your sword and fight! Someone's here! The rest of Romme survivors, do the same!"
Cheetah himself turned self into a frost serpent that he once defeated with Duilin and Iduran and consumeds essence of.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 22nd, 2004
// <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /> I've said how many soilders there were 3 times!!!!!!! Oh and I've changed my mind about the minigame thing. We will keep track of soilders however.//
The soilders dash around and start breaking things breaking things. Three soilders aproached Cheetah.
"What the hell?" One yelled. He then swung his sword in a downward motion in the middle of the serpent. The other two aimed stabs at the head.
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 22nd, 2004
Zev opened one eye, he saw Nevina leave, he only muttered one word "Thanks" and went back to sleep.
Posted by: Cesque on Friday July 23rd, 2004
Cheetah then simply breathed his icy breath and frozen 4 soldiers closest to him to the floor.
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From the other side, Scorch's chain lightning struck one of soldiers, then leaped through 4 next, electrifying them effectively. Smell of burned flesh began to fill cave.
"Who the hell are you, servant of Dark Empire?"
(46 soldiers active, 5 dead, 4 frozen)
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday July 23rd, 2004
Draven felt something. Like someone was trying to attack his mind. He was sure the spell came from Zeros', paying no mind to those behind him.
"What a miserable attempt..."
Draven darted from left to right, dodging crescent waves of energy as he moved closer and closer to his adversary. At the distance of five feet or so, Draven's feet hit the ground and he lept high into the air, right over his opponent's head. With his crimson blade in his right, Draven's left hand pointed straight down, glowing bright red. He aimed to pummel his adversary into the ground with a flurry of fireballs...
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Iduran sat up in bed hearing the rukus and several Dark Soldiers bursting into his cave-room. A Romme soldier rushed to meet them but was knocked back. The robed man held Iduran down once more.
"No! You musn't!"
"Shut up! I can't take it anymore!"
With his right hand, Iduran punched the robed doctor square in the mouth, sending him flying into a chair on the other side of the room, which broke on contact. With the other hand, he grabbed the broadsword out of the sheath of the other Romme soldier, who was standing next to him, petrfied at the sight of the dark warriors. Iduran then lifted the blade above his head with both hands and stood up on the cot, the bed sheets flying off of him to reveal that he is wearing full body armor. As the cot began to collapse beneath his feet, Iduran lept toward the fist dark soldier apporaching, preforming a horizontal slash in the air.
"Gaaaaahhhhh!!!!"
The slash severed the man's head from his body, which fell backwards as Iduran landed in a crouching position, sword extended to the side.
"One."
(45 left: 5 electrocuted, 4 frozen, 1 decapitated)
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday July 23rd, 2004
//Wouldnt that be 40 left?\\
"Miserable atempt huh? Well it worked on you!" he spun his sword around, making flames fly from it, it also expanded the aura of his phoenix, making his fire stronger with each spin.
The blades also did a 360 and turned around heading for Draven, Zeros' phased in and then back out, right behind Draven. He murmered something to Draven.
"The enemy inside of me."
He held his sword directly above Draven's head, ready to stab it right through his skull.
"You will not get Qeni or Zev!" he thrust his sword down as hard as he could, the wind blew his cloak aside as he prepared to thrust through Draven's skull.
He used telepath and told Seth and Duilin something, "Get out of here...NOW! Unless you want to get killed! Go find Iduran, quick! There getting attacked by Dark Empire soldiers, I don't know how long they can hold out, that man was heading there, you should to. They don't have many able bodied men there. If Draven starts following you, just ignore him, Ill take care of him."
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Zev could feel something happening, "Why...the war has begun." Qeni finally woke up. She was sitting behind him with he legs crossed yawning.
Zev turned around and smiled a gentle smile, "Welcome back Sleepy head."
Qeni just smiled back.
"Cmon..." he said while getting up "We gotta get moving now..." Zev just picked up Qeni and started running through the forest as fast as he could, which was fast thanks to Nevina's spell.
//Just one question, whats wrong with Iduran and whats with the sword? I wasnt around for the first chapter but a few pages.\\
Posted by: Cesque on Friday July 23rd, 2004
(There were 55 soldiers, Zeros)
The blade is what Draven seeks and purpose of destruction of Romme castle... It most likely has some supreme power.
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday July 23rd, 2004
Duilin then nods at Zeros' and then runs as fast as he possible could.
"Comeing, Seth?" He says as he runs off. "I'm going wheter you are or not."
"Draven dosen'y have to worry about me, there are a bunch of soilders over at the cave. THEY WILL KILL ME! Not....heh..."
Duilin then stoped running once he saw the cave. He sneaks in and see a bunch of soilders killing stuff. Duilin then spots the serpent, and get abit scared for a seoned but realizes that it's Cheetah. An enemy soilder runs infront of him and kicked him down on the ground. The soilder prepares to stab him in the chest with his halebird(sp?) but Duilin tosses his mace right as his face, smashing his skull in, makeing a bloody mess. Duilin gets up and picks up with chain mace with the bloody ball, and then spots another one geting ready to slice him in half with is axe. Duilin then tosses his knive at the guys chest, causeing him to fall down sreaming in pain. He then jumps onto the soilder rips the knive out and then uses it to cut a hole in his head, makeing another bloody mess. He kicks the dead body away makeing a trail of blood for about 1/2 ft.
"Okay who elese want's some!?"
43 left: 5 electrocuted, 4 frozen, 1 decapitated, 2 brutaly slain
//I bet that post won't help a few of you sleep at night <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /> //
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Friday July 23rd, 2004
Seth watched Duilin run off.
"Damn, that guy can run.." Seth thought to himself.
Seth walked into the weapon shop and said, "Ugh.. look at the curves on her, regular man slayer there.."
Seth was, of course, talking about the Falchon hanging on a rack upon the half-chared wall.
Seth picked it up, swung it around a bit and said, "Yep. Nice".
Seth took off his steel claws and put them in his pocket. He then stuck the Falchon between gis shirt and his torso straps forming a make-shift belt.
He then ran as fast as he could (which wasn't too fast since the falchon weighed him down a bit, but he still ran faster than the average man) in the direction Duilin had went.
He walked into the cavern and saw the grotesque damage Duilin had done. He continued running through the Cavern and saw many things; frozen men, electrofied, and it was quite a stench.
through one of the hallways 3 dark empirian soldiers charged at him.
Seth dunked to miss the initial slash the frontial one made, then Seth grabbed the mans leg and used him as a projectile to knock the other two down. His assault was successful and he then drew his Falchon and Pounced sword-first onto the pile of men, impaling them all.
40 left: 5 elctrocuted, 4 frozen,3 impaled, 2 brutally slain, 1 decapitated
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Nevina had left the children about an hour ago and had been following the evil she sensed. She had now come upon a burning village and she knew the vile one was present here. (She was walking and the palace is quite a distance from the town so 1 hour isn't bad time)
So here She stood, at the entrance of the town.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday July 24th, 2004
Duilin walks more into the cave and then spots Seth and the impailed soilders.
"Seth!" He yells to get his attention, but then almost right after he said that, 2 soilder near by noticed the two and ran towars them. One welding a double axe (a pole arm with small axe blades on the end of each side) and one with an claymore and a wood sheild. The one with the claymore and sheild went to attack Duilin and the other went to attack Seth.
Duilin swing his mace in a downward derection, but the soilder blocked it with his sheild. And then swung his claymore at Duilin, cuting his armor causeing not very much damage. Dulin re swung his mace but more fericely at the soilder and this time in a sideways positon, and again the soilder blocked it with his sheild, however the ferice attack was able to smash threwthe sheild and caused some serious pain to the badie's left hand that was holding it. Duilin then went in for another downward swing at the soilder's head, and then it smashed down at his skull, crushing it, causeing a quick, painless but messy death...
"I'm not going to be able to sleep anymore..." Duilin spots the claymore and picks it up "Say hello to your new daddy!!"
39 Soilders remaining
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Saturday July 24th, 2004
Seth, blood spattered from Duilins messy kill, charged at his advicary, who swung his Axe, aiming to send it directly into Seths chest, but the axeman was slow and gave Seth the chance to dunk down and slash diagonally in a downwards motion with his Falchon, severing the axe-wielding mans right leg.
The Axeman moaned in pain and began to cry.
Seth decided to put him out of his misery quickly instead of making him suffer and Seth swung his sword at the mans neck, decapitating and killing him instantly.
"damn, this sure does beat those claws." Seth said.
38 left: 5 electrocuted, 4 frozen, 3 impaled, 3 brutally killed, 2 decapitated
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday July 24th, 2004
"Hmm...Let's see what this sword can do. Maces and swords, that's my skill....Hey nice Flachon, Seth! So wanna re join up now. We need to find Iduran, here is not safe for him, we need a new hide out and we need to get the guys there!" Duilin says "So, we go look for Iduran now? Or should we just fight off these guys and hope for the best? I'm kidding about the seconed option....we can do that on the way:D !"
//Duilin's been kind of a physcopath ever since he killed Darion...I've noticed that he hasn't killed much people since Darion, but now he has/going to!//
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday July 24th, 2004
Qeni was tired out and was getting a piggy back ride by her brother.
They reached the town Nevina was at, but kept going towards the cave where all the soilders are.
They arrived there to see Duilin, Seth and the others fighting the 38 left.
One dark soldier saw the kids and he charged at them, he wielded a dual swords.
Zev instantly froze, Qeni was still tired out and couldn't move. Zev screached out loud, "Kyaaaaa!". He held Qeni with both arms so he couldn't wield either his sword or dagger.
Zev dodged from side to side, waiting for someone to help him, but he managed to kick him, with the super strenght, making his ankle twist around, snapping the bone in his foot and started bleeding on the floor.
He still managed to walk around, slashing at Zev.
38 left: 5 electrocuted, 4 frozen, 3 impaled, 3 brutally killed, 2 decapitated
//The one Zev kicked isn't dead yet, his ankle just hurts ALOT\\
Posted by: Cesque on Saturday July 24th, 2004
// What's happening to Nex? He should be somewhere inside and answer to Scorch as he called him <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cool.gif' /> //
Scorch suddenly noticed some serpent inside the cave.
"Cheetah!" - he cried, as more soldiers gathered to fight him. Conjuring a small tornado, he let is free to knock few soldiers like bowls. It didn't kill any of these, but it kept them more distant from Scorch, giving him some time to chant spell and fire an orb of slightning toward them, exploding into electric blast, frying 7 soldiers in nearest row.
Having some time, he began to look for that demonic Dark Empire general who ordered this attack ending in slaughter of his own troops.
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Cheetah, noticing old ally, smashed the frozen soldiers with his tail and reverted to human form, grabbed his spear and thrusted directly into heart of closest soldier. Not being too powerful, he began to move back as a pack of enemies headed toward him.
"Ha! Finally, some action! Gee... What a mess!"
30 left: 12 electrocuted, 4 frozen & smashed, 4 impaled, 3 brutally killed, 2 decapitated
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday July 24th, 2004
Haraldur's musings were disturbed by fighting around him.
He cast a spell to attempt to pull Iduran back and onto the bed without hurting him. He then caused the nearest 8 soldiers the spontaneously burst into flame, and they screamed in pain and died.
He then attempted to teleport himself and Iduran out of the cave and to the nearest safe one. It failed. They ended up 800 metres above the sea somewhere they did not know. They were falling rapidly.
"Shit."
Haraldur stopped his fall with a levitation spell and managed to catch Iduran.
"Where the hell are we?"
22 left: 12 electrocuted, 4 frozen & smashed, 4 impaled, 3 brutally killed, 2 decapitated, 8 burning corpses
Posted by: Cesque on Saturday July 24th, 2004
(Haraldur... I understand you're weird but... what the hell are you doing?!)It's know as "spontaneously combusted".
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday July 24th, 2004
It's know as "spontaneously combusted".
//I know that, but "8 burning corpses" I think sounds a little different to "decapitated" and "electrocuted."
And what do you mean by "What the hell are you doing?" What do you think I am doing?//
Posted by: Cesque on Saturday July 24th, 2004
You rush out - from nowhere - then in one post teleport along with Iduran - how the hell did you get to his cave? - above the sea <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' />
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday July 24th, 2004
//I was already in Iduran's room. There new rules making teleports above 50 metres very dangerous and unpredictable because of a disturbance in the field around the world. I teleported to be above the sea by mistake.//
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday July 24th, 2004
Draven moved his head to the left slightly. Zeros' sword came down fast and hard, slicing into the metal shoulder guard just to the right of his chin, barely missing his skin underneath.
"How DARE you!"
Draven grabbed the man's arm and tossed him over his shoulder judo-style straight down at the ground below. At the same time, Draven propelled himself upwards, raising both hands above his head.
"DIE!"
His crimson blade reformed and condensed into a fireball one foot in diameter in between his hands. But in a flash of red light, the orb had grown to three feet. Draven wrenched his arms back and threw it straight downwards.
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"What in blazes did you do?!"
Iduran slashed the air with the broadsword.
"Unhand me! And take me back! I must help them!"
He began to kick the air until he looked downward and saw water far below.
"Gah!"
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(Zeros': Iduran suffered an injury at the hands of Sigilus, which nearly killed him until he recieved some treatment. However he wasn't cured competely and the wound eventually became infected, making him bedridden.
As for the blade Duilin now has. Draven wants it, and he's the only one who knows why... heh...)
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday July 24th, 2004
"It appears a great force has disturbed the field around the world. There is no telling where we would go to if I teleported us again. Also, you are at least safe here.
"Hmmm... despite the lack of visible land, I recognise this bit of sea. We are quite close to my home. I can sense the ways of the currents. Let us go there."
Haraldur chucked Iduran gently away from him and Iduran just floated in mid air. The sunlight shined off an almost imperceptable field around him
"Come with me, please, sir."
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday July 24th, 2004
//It's a surpize were Nex is, let's say he going to be a boss, a very though one indeed!//
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday July 24th, 2004
Zev managed to dodge the person slashing at him, since he got his swords stuck in the cave wall. While he was trying to pull them out, Zev pulled out a sword and decapitate him.
21 left: 12 electrocuted, 4 frozen & smashed, 4 impaled, 3 brutally killed, 3 decapitated, 8 burning corpses
He managed to reach Iduran's room without getting hurt.
"Geez...what up with all that..." he noticed the Doctor sprawled out on the floor ontop of the broken chair, he decided not to wake him up.
Zev looked around for a place to set down Qeni. He started to walk over to a bookcase and started to chip away a hole in the back with his sword. He managed to make a small hole, at least big enough for Qeni to be comfortable.
He put a finger over his mouth, "Shh...stay quiet and don't say a thing Qeni..." he moved the bookcase alittle over the hole, but left enough room for air to go into the hole.
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A Dark Empire soldier noticed this and decided to keep quiet and stay in the shadows.
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Zeros' quickly flapped his wings to make himself float just a few inches above the ground. "Whew...that was close..." he looked back up at Draven and noticed the fireball, 3 feet in diameter.
He spun his sword around and sheathed it. He held out one hand, while the fireball headed directly towards it. The fireball hit his hand, but he managed to stop it.
He genetally put his feet on the ground and stood there holding Draven's fireball.
"Is that all you got?" he closed his eyes and you could see his lips move, but no words came out. The fire ball started to grow bigger and bigger, and also...change in color, from a bright red, to a darker, more deep colors red.
He chuncked it back at Draven, heading staright for his arm.
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The Dark Empire soldier saw the little kid leave, he decided, it was as good as time as any to steal the little girl, he figured Nex would want to see this.
He stoop infront of the bookcase and pulled it away from the hole Qeni was in.
Qeni started to crawl out, thinking it was Zev. She poked her head out and started to talk. "Ze..." the guard quickly pulled a towel out and put it over her nose and mouth, making her unconcious.
He slipped out and over towards where Nex was (wherever he was), he held out the girl in his two hands.
"Look what I found sir."
Posted by: Cesque on Saturday July 24th, 2004
Isn't chloroform an invention a bit too modern for fantasy game? <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' />
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Cheetah, as 3 soldiers came toward him, concentrated. He suddenly leaped at one of soldiers, transforming himself into barracuda and biting throat of middle soldier, leaving him bleeding and suffocating to fall on the floor.
"Damn, wrong transform. I wanted a cheetah..."
Quickly, he reverted back to human form and with a spear quickly pierces two other opponents, then as they stood up, dying, he knocked them to the ground with fist.
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Scorch grabbed one of enemies, electrocuted him with electric grasp of his hands, then finished him with strike from his bold head (he lacked any hair since last encounter between his head and Draven's fireball).
(heh... this RPG turned into "find a new unique way to slay a human being, you have 55 soldiers to try this on")
17 left: 13 electrocuted, 4 frozen & smashed, 6 impaled, 3 brutally killed, 3 decapitated, 8 burning corpses, 1 throat-bitten by a barracuda
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday July 24th, 2004
Duilin then headed off, hopefully followed by Seth, to were he saw Cheetah. However as Cheetah got in Duilin's sight, 2 soilders ran at Duilin, one armed with a two deriks and one armed with two hand axes. The one with the deriks slashed one at and angle and one at an angle but faceing towards the target, Duilin swung his Claymore at the deriks and then kicks his openet in the gut causes him to fall backwards, the other soilder swung his hand axes down at him, be Duilin slashed his Claymore right at the soilder's gut, sliceing him like knive on pork ribs! The other soilder got back up and threw one of his deriks at him, but Duilin hit the derik away, cause it to hit the cave wall and then fall on the ground stabing only dirt. The soilder then cautiously slid at him aiming for Duilin's leg, but he jumped and then slashed in a downwards position at the soilder, causesing a fatal cut on the spine.
"Yeah! Eat that!" He said after he defeated his two openents. He then walks over to Cheetah...
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"Oh what do we have here!" Nex says as he takes the child "Good work, um, take this sheild I found." Nex gives the soilder an iron sheild (now somebody has to fight a soilder armed with any type of one handed weapon and an iron sheild) "Now leave and kill stuff!"
Nex takes away the towel and then tosses it away. He has the child held like you would hold a cat or a baby. He then pokes the kid in the forehead
"Wake up, humen child!" He says, in a kinda freaky voice.
(Heh prehaps a change of plans of what I'm going to do now, little hostage thing perhaps?)
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday July 24th, 2004
Haraldur starts walking away northward.
Posted by: Cesque on Saturday July 24th, 2004
(Duilin... clarify the list for us... how much did you kill? I get that 2, thus...)
15 left: 13 electrocuted, 4 frozen & smashed, 6 impaled, 5 brutally killed, 3 decapitated, 8 burning corpses, 1 throat-bitten by a barracuda
(assuming you killed them brutally)
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday July 25th, 2004
Isn't chloroform an invention a bit too modern for fantasy game? <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' />
I didnt specifically say chloroform...but actaully doing that makes a person unconcious...trust me...
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"Oww...Zevy..stop..." she opens her, but she doesn't see Zev, but Nex staring at her. She sigh then takes in a deep breath, "KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"she screams with all her might. She starts shaking around, trying to get loose.
"ZEVY....ZEWOS!!!"
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Zev hears the scream and starts walking towards the echo. A few Dark soldier appeared infront of him trying to stop him.
"Out of my way!" he unsheathes his sword and starts slashing around, chopping off the ankles of 2 soliders, bleeding them to death and 3 other were killed through a slash to the heart.
10 left: 13 electrocuted, 4 frozen & smashed, 6 impaled, 8 brutally killed, 3 decapitated, 8 burning corpses, 1 throat-bitten by a barracuda, 2 bleed to death
"Qeni Im coming!" wings started to grow from his body, this time demon type bat wings. They grew to 100 feet in lenght, not even seeming possible, going through solid objects.
He started to glide right towards Nex.
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When Qeni sensed this power, her own wings grew, this time bright glowing, white angel wings, also about 100 feet in lenght and passed through solid objects.
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Zeros' head twitched. He looked behind him. He saw the two pairs of wings, one pair white angel wings, other black bat like wings.
"Its too early...
Posted by: Cesque on Sunday July 25th, 2004
(isn't Zev 6 year old? quite a good warrior for that age... and all right, I've never tried such method of getting someone unconsious, maybe you're right <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />)
"What the..." - Scorch and Cheetah noticed a screaming child.
"Must be that Dark Empire general." - said Scorch as the rest of soldiers came to block their passage. Noticing 45 dead bodies around them, surely they morale wasn't best.
"All right, gentlemen, you're here most likely by your will so we don't take 'surrender' option." - said Scorch and knocked them to the ground with a wave of air, then with chain lightning finished first 7.
Cheetah instantly transformed into cheetah (he picked right form now, at least) and ripped first with claws, then ripped throat of second one and left him to bleed to death
"One left." - said Scorch and began to fade in the air, prepparing a close-range teleport...
...then, the last soldier, filled with fear, felt as something happens inside his organism. He felt as if someone was about to appear in his place. He couldn't run as instantly Scorch teleported ON himself, forcing the soldier's body to explode into a bloody mess to make place for teleporting wizard, who now appearing in his place, with whole body painted in blood from the soldier in whose place he appeared.
None left! 13 electrocuted, 4 frozen & smashed, 6 impaled, 8 brutally killed, 3 decapitated, 8 burning corpses, 1 throat-bitten by a barracuda, 3 bleed to death, 1 eviscerated, 1 telefragged <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />
The cave was filled with dead corpses now and painted red with blood.
"That's death with style... Now, dark thunder-damn empire general... stop where you are! You have seen the slaughter... Learn to think logicaly and respect our power."
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday July 25th, 2004
Draven lowered his arms and stood straight up, as if he were on solid ground, though he was some 40 feet above Zeros'. He squinted at the fireball raging toward him from below and his smirk returned...
"Of course not..."
Leaning downwards, Draven brought both hands to his right, cupping them. They instantly became filled with crimson energy. His aura of flame exploded once more, reddening the surrounding land.
"HAAAHHH!!!"
Draven thrust both hands downward, emitting a brilliant flash of red light. What followed was not another fireball, but a crimson pillar of flame that continuously flew from his hands. The fire beam slammed into the oncoming fireball, halving its speed as it ascended. Draven's aura exploded once more, and the beam grew wider, sending shockwaves across the surrounding town, which decimated any building still standing. The fireball changed direction, pushed by the beam of fire, now falling backwards upon Zeros'
"Down! Down! To Hades you go!"
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Iduran flapped his arms, looking downwards at the water below nervously.
"H... how?"
But he soon realized his feet felt like they were on solid ground, even though he was suspended several hundred feet above the sea. He cautiously stepped forward, following the mysterious man through thin air.
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday July 25th, 2004
After a while of walking, Haraldur arrived above a beach of black sand and sat down on the air. He waited for Iduran.
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday July 25th, 2004
//Yes he is 6, but Nevina cast some spell on him to make him super strong and fast\\
Zeros' was still facing towards the cave, his back to Draven. His eyes turned dark. Two more wings grew out from where the other ones were (he had 2 already, so now he has 4), he flinched involuntary. He held out his hand, and caught the oncoming fireball. He just closed his hand and the fireball exploded.
He turned around and faced Draven, his eyes looking even darker, almost pitch black. He involuntarily flinched and disappeared from sight and then in not even a second, appeared behind Draven, his back facing Draven's.
His movements seemed robotic, as if someone was controlling him. His phoenix aura was now pitch black. He grasped his sword harder. He twisted his arm around backwards and thrust his weapon upwards, aiming at Draven's head/neck.
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Sunday July 25th, 2004
Seth had followed Duilin and now stood with Cheetah and Duilin.
"uhmm.. what now?" Seth said, now covered in blood, as was the rest of the Cavern.
Seth put his Falchon back under his leather straps.
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Nevina felt the heat of the flame pillar as it burned on her face.
She turned around and ran about 10 feet from the Town entrance.
"I can't take heat like that.." Nevina said to herself.
"If Haraldur was there I think he'd be dead about now.. Then again, he can float, maybe he eats fire too..?" Nevina muttered to herself.
Nevina smelled blood; a massive amount close by.
She ran to the cavern but on the way, incountered a Dark Empire Soldier armed with a Katar and an Iron Shield.
Nevina said, "I have no time for you!" and tried to run him through with her Holy Bastard Sword, but failed and the Soldier knocked her in the head with his iron shield.
The blow knocked Nevina to the ground and the soldier attempted to thrust his Katar into her spine, her Nevina jumped onto her hands and bucked with both legs, catching the Soldier square on the jaw.
During Nevinas kick, she landed onto her feet, knees bent, one hand on the ground, behind the soldier. She then Thrust her Bastard Sword into the mans back, severing his spine; impaling his intestines and coming out his front side.
Nevina Pulled her sword out of the man swiftly, took the mans shirt off and cleaned her blade with it.
Nevina now stands in the Cavern entrance, gawking at the corpses.
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday July 25th, 2004
Zev's wings disappeared and he feel to the ground. He feel straight down and he saw Nevina then. He hit the ground with a thud and his body turned around and he was facing Nevina.
He gets up, blood splashing out from beneth his feet. He reached Nevina and looked up to her, his eyes started to fill with tears. He started to hug her, but then feel to his knees and put his head on his knees.
"I couldn't protect her...*sniff sniff*...I couldn't protect my sister...I wish I were stronger...*sniff sniff*"
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday July 26th, 2004
"I guess we need to find Iduran and make sure he's safe!" Duilin says to Seth "Cheetah do you know were he went to?"-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Nex then grabs the child mouth "Zewos.....Zeros'....yes! "Shush! No body can help you now. But don't worry, I won't hurt you TO much, I just need something from you..." Nex says. Nex then made a slight strach on the kid's arm, by pokeing her with his sickle, only enough to make a small drop of blood, and then took the blood on his finger and then sucked it off. He then wraped around a cloth on Queni's arm. (She's probally crying right now). Nex then started to grow deamon wings! They were 100ft just like Zeros' but looked as though as they were made of rock with fire colored water flowing over them.
"Wahahahahahahaha!" Nex laughed evily "Now, nothing can stop me. And I have you to thank for it, my little one" Nex then then wrote a note down on a sroll of paper he had and tossed it outside on the enterance of the cave and then flue off with the baby and then went off and faded into the distance...
The Note said....
Posted by: Cesque on Monday July 26th, 2004
(Duilin, I understand you like FAST action but slow down a bit, Nex can move faster than Scorch can teleport!)
"I have no idea." - said Cheetah. - "But I can look for them."
He instantly turned into a wyvern and flew out of cave, wacefully watching nearby surroundings, keeping out of Nex...
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"Hey, YOU!" - Scorch ran out of cave screaming. - "You think just because you hold some stupid crying child you're untouchable?! Take THIS!"
And with a short spell cried in rage and a fierce move of his hand, Scorch tossed a long, fast flashing lightning bolt after flying demon.
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday July 26th, 2004
Zeros' saw the note flying around and he instally reverted back to his normal self. He read the piece of paper.Zeros' set the piece of paper aflame.
"Damn that bastard..." he looked towards Draven.
"Well finish this later! I have more important matters to attend to!" with that Zeros' phased out and back in on the ground, he ran as fast as he could towards the cave.
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Zev saw Zeros' running towards the cave, he wiped the tears on his shirt and stood up, waving at Zeros'.
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Zeros' arrived at the cave and saw Zev waving. He stopped and wiped up a tear that was left. He patted him on the head, "Hey. Whats up?"
Zev started to cry agian. "Qeni..." Zeros' smiled. "Don't worry, I know. Im going to get her back, so don't you worry..." Zev wiped his face agian and smiled back. " 'k..."
He saw Scorch throw a lightning bolt at Nex, but he jumped up in the air and blocked it. He then floated down and grabbed Scorch, he had an angry expression on his face. He grabbed Scorch by his shirt and lifted him up off the ground.
"What the hell do you think your doing!? You actually think he'll play fair!? He would of just used Qeni as a human shield!" he let go of Scorch. "Think next time."
He phased out then back infront of Duilin. "Pull the sword out, I need to see something."
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday July 26th, 2004
(Bah you posted wile I did! Then I had to delete my post, but thanks anyway!)
Nex smiles and then fades away and then appears about ten feet away and then flys off...
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"Uhh.....I'm not sure Zeros'. You have helped me and all, but I don't know if I can trust you enough..." Duilin said "Oh screw it just take the damn sword, it's proabally just some priceless artifact that Draven wants to sell or something" He drops the sword on the ground, he has that I give up look on his face.
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday July 26th, 2004
A thought ful expression appeared on Haraldur's face. He stuck his left hand up in the air. Above him a person slowly materialised.
"You were waiting for me, weren't you?"
The person, younger than Haraldur, was thrown down to the ground by an invisible source, but stopped himself in mid air. He floated up to be next to Haraldur.
"Hi, Hilmarsson."
"Hi, Olafsson."
"Who's the old man?"
"An important general. Keep him here, in safety. After that, go to Romme. You will know what to do. I will sort the rest out, understand?"
"Perfectly."
"Good."
Prince Haraldur spread out his arms and rose up. Light shone out of him and when the light faded he was nowhere to be seen.
Such a show off, thought the younger Haraldur, he knows full well that the lights are all for show. Can't that old man hurry up?
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday July 26th, 2004
(Phew, slow it down a bit for me, folks, will ya? And how did Zeros' get the note that was dropped in front of the cave, miles away, anyway...?)
"I think not!"
Draven started after Zeros' like a rocket, but slowed down a bit, looking around. It then hit him that Duilin had escaped with the sword...
"Blast it! Not again!"
Draven floated downward, gritting his teeth, trying to control his rage. The only thing left was to follow the demi human; he must be going somewhere...
He then remembered somthing... Draven relaxed, his intense aura of flame disappeared as he studied the man in the distance, his feet touching the ground. Going to meet his friends, perhaps? Some of these people can detect energy auras... If he followed on foot, they shouldn't be able to pick him up.
Draven ran out of the crater that was the village and into the charred outskirts of the forest, his cape flowing behind.
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The man walked much faster than Iduran, who wasn't doing so well on air. Sword still in his right hand (he hadn't equipped his sheath), Iduran approached Haraldur from behind as he disappeared from sight. He looked at the other floating man as if to say 'Who are you...?' or 'What is going on...?' but remained speechless...
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday July 26th, 2004
Haraldur the younger nodded at Iduran.
"Hallo. I am Haraldur Gunnar Olafsson. I am the second in command of the Prince's unit. Follow me and we will go to the halls of the king. There you can receive healing, and the king wishes to speak to you. Just lower yourself onto the sand. I hear that in your country the sand is not black. What colour is it?"
Haraldur the younger gently lowered himself down and stood on the ground.
"It is easy! If it makes you feel more comfortable, act as if you are climbing down a cliff, in the same way as you walked on the air."
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Haraldur the elder flew very fast towards the home of the Dark Empire. The seas and lands flew past beneath him.
Posted by: Cesque on Monday July 26th, 2004
Zeros... HOW the hell did you stop a lightning bolt Scorch fired BEFORE you ended fighting with Draven, while in the meantime you managed to run all the way between village and caves and read a note THEN stop the lightning bolt?
STOP IT, please, all right? SLOW DOWN and some realism!
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Scorch looked in fury at Zeros.
"Stop telling me what I have to do, fool!" - he screamed, prepparing some lightning magic in his hands in case the demon would want to grab him by some part of clothing again.
"Who the storm cares about your stupid child! Dark Empire has to pay and I using some rascal as meat shield means nothing to me! And shut this second kid up, I am absolutely SICK of it's crying!"
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Cheetah flew around, but suddenly a person running in dark cape through the forest caught his attention.
"Draven..." - he thought. It was obvious. - "Heading to the cave..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday July 26th, 2004
Eventually Haraldur came to the heart of the Dark Empire, where it all began.
He looked around.
//Xorlak, could you please describe where I am, since this is a power controlled by you, really.//
Posted by: Cesque on Monday July 26th, 2004
(what?! heart of Dark Empire?! How the... nah, this RPG is slowly getting too weird for me...)
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Monday July 26th, 2004
Yesh, I'm getting a tad confused myself, what with the people running at uber speed and what not. o.o Gets kind of odd.
"I can't sense Iduran. He's either no longer on this island or he's dead." Seth said, with a small twinge of fear in his voice.
"I'm not sure giving Zeros' the sword is such a good idea, Duilin. You know he's gonna rush right up there to that wierdo who's got Qeni. Isn't he a Dark Empirian? If he kills Zeros' the sword is going to fall into Dark hands." Seth said.
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"Who the hell is that, Zev?" Nevina asked.
"I can't fly.., and he's a demon isn't he? Gah.. If only I could reach him..."
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday July 26th, 2004
(Yeah Haradular your story is odd unfair and your charactors movement and powers are confusing and unfair and Cesque I'll slow down it's just that I'm trying to keep up with everyone else if you know what I mean. And Zeros' your teleporting is getting to confusing, I think teleporting should be banned overall, Xorlak, what so you say to that?)
"Seth, Zeros' is porbally got some plan, and really I think I'd know if it had magical powers and I think you could sence them to, it's probally just worth millions of gold peices.....Oh god! What did I do!? We need to do something....what do we do what do we do!!"
"Nevermind I know what to do! Okay this is what we...okay....umm.....Okay...Uhh...." Duilin starts shudder abit for some reason and starts thinking for a bit "Okay this is gonna be gross but umm....we take....the dark soilder's armor....and go to the Romme Castle....and find Wyverns.....and fly them to were they might be..." Duilin grinds his teeth abit...
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday July 26th, 2004
//The phasing im doing ISNT teleporting, its basically VERY fast speed...and I thought the town was like a couple hundred yards away, not a couple miles, sheeze...most of the time I read this IM tired becuase I can usually only post at night now, but my Mom and dad are gone today, so I can only be on for a couple minutes then get off.\\
"Whatever...you don't care, but I DO!" he yelled back at Scorch. He walked over towards where Duilin was. He picked the sword up with his left hand. "I have no idea what this does either, but it has to be important." He stuffed the sword behind his cloak and extended his wings.
He looked back towards Duilin. "If that man comes here, tell him I have the sword." He then looked to Scorch. "Its because there children..why wouldn't they cry? When you come up with an anwser I'd like to know."
He flew up in the air and started gliding off towards where Nex said to meet him.
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday July 26th, 2004
(Twas a moutain, I'll describe the setting, oh and I'd would aperiate it if nobody would interifere with this this scean, I'd just like it to be Nex and Zeros')
The top of the moutain was so high that the clouds covered it, makeing foggy all around, you could here wind blowing threw caverns, and hawks screaching. On top of on peek on the moutain stood Nex with crying Qunei under one arm and the other arm empty and prepared to be given something.
"Give me the sword...." Is all that Nex said
Posted by: Cesque on Tuesday July 27th, 2004
Zeros, whatever the distance is... you can't abandon fighting, make all the way to caves, read a note and stop lightning bolt I fired before you done with first thing among these
Another thing, if you begin talk, please wait for peoples' response, all right? You took the sword from Duilin without asking what he has to say/do about this, you threw some words at Scorch before he could answer... and flew away.
Scorch looked at departing Nex, amazed people act faster nowadays than he does under influence of haste spell.
"To hell with your child!" - he cried after him and begin to analyze the sky, looking for Cheetah and his news about Iduran.
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Suddenly, a wyvern landed behind Scorch, turning to human form Cheetah. He noticed Duilin and Seth around.
"Not good, not good. Draven is coming."
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday July 27th, 2004
(I'll have some minor rule adjustments up after this post.)
(Actually Zeros' taking the sword is fine since Duilin dropped it.)
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Draven peered through the forest, seeing an opening ahead and several people standing around. He came closer, sneaking behind a large tree at the edge of the clearing. The forested ground he was on was a little higher than the clearing, so he had a good view of the people and what they were standing in front of-- the cave. Several bodies of Dark Soldiers were strewn about.
Draven recognized most. He squinted at the sight of Scorch, but smirked when he saw Duilin. There was also the man who attacked him with claws earlier, the shape-shifting Gepardi, some woman he didn't recognize, and a small child... The winged one who attacked him earlier was nowhere to be seen...
What are they doing? Planning something? Does Duilin still have the sword? Draven wanted to eradicate them all... but it would be better to watch for a bit...
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"Err... it's yellow..."
Climb down?! Is there an invisible cliff after the invisible floor?! Iduran squatted, petrified of the height, and began to tip-toe forward. Amazingly, the very first step was a bit lower than the first, as he somehow expected. He turned around, feeling downward with his left hand, hoping to find something to grab on to-- and somehow he did. He continued this way for a good 10 minutes, slowly descending the invisible ledge until he touched the black sand of the beach. Upon contact, he collapsed on the ground, sticking his sword into the sand.
"I'm getting too old for this..."
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(Haraldur, you don't want to go here just yet... heh...)
The elder Haraldur saw the edge of the sea before him-- sharp black mountains jutted up out of the ocean. Among the mist of the mountains, dark spiked towers jutted up at regular intervals along the coastline. He had come to the edge of what was called the mainland of the Dark Empire, a sprawling continent 1,000 miles across through the middle. This had once been the most beautiful land in the world. But abuses of nature had turned the entirety of it into a desolate wasteland. It was no matter-- this is how they like it...
As soon as the towers came into view, a flood of winged creatures poured from the towers. Haraludur soon found some 50 black wyverns spread out in front of him. But there was another... A man in armor lead the way, flying through the air under his own power, completely covered by bleak gray and blood red plates. Only a slit in his pointy helmet allowed him to see. On his back was a sword-- the width of a normal broadsword, but its length was twice his size.
The warrior floated in front of the legion of winged creatures.
"WHOSO DARES TRESSPASS WITHIN THE REIGN OF THE DARK EMPIRE?"
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday July 27th, 2004
Hmmm..., thought Haraldur, maybe this was a little premature...
"Thin air." said Haraldur.
Haraldur then disappeared from sight and flew upwards. Unsure whether he was being chased or not, he accelerated. Clouds flew past.
"Nearly there..." he gasped.
The sonic boom was deafening, but he still flew upward. In the thinning air far above, a hole appeared before him. He went through. All his belongings, and his big breakfast, fell down from the emptry sky.
He appeared in a black space, empty of everything but air, and food and water from his last visits. The hole would not open up for hours, he would just have to stay here and hope his namesake does not get hurt. Dammit! Why had he foolishly believed that the largest power in the world would keep its borders unguarded. He hopre he would not have to pay a high price.
//Haraldur the elder is now out of action for the rest of this chapter.//
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"Really? You are still alive despite everything, I doubt you will be too old for anything for quite a while.
"I will take to our doctors, in case you have any serious injuries. Do you want a hand up?"
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday July 27th, 2004
"Draven is comeing....No worry, because of me, if he comes and kills us all, then it would acompish nothing, but I say we destory him instead. He was the one who ordered the attack on my village, and ordered Darion to kill people, includeing my family, so I'd like to see him dead! Preferably by my doing!" Duilin swung out his claymore and his mace. He kinda stumbled abit because of the weight of them both in only one hand. "Dangit, how come I can't even hold two weapons at once and Zeros' or something can hold like, two giant busterbroadsword is one hand and a cannon in the other....wait I don't think he can...but you know what I mean!"
He holsters his mace, and now just has the claymore. "I'll be ready when he comes...."
How come NOW I'm starting to regreat giveing Zeros' the sword
"Seth, do you accualy just want to run for it and try my plan or just kill Draven and get this overwith?"
Posted by: Cesque on Tuesday July 27th, 2004
Scorch folded his arms and began to look for any smallest movements from the forest... A sight was a beautiful thing to have.
"The lack of blade has it's good sides, you see. If you'll die Duilin, which is somehow highly possible due to your lack of power and experience in combat, Draven still won't get the blade."
"It has it's bad sides, though - now blade belongs to that winged demon creature who cares about some two..." - Scorch throws a look at Nevina and Zev - "Two kids... And who knows that this irresponsible creature might do. And where Iduran is..."
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday July 27th, 2004
"Hmmm.....a confusing thing to say there Scorch. But I understand the me dieing part, the battle against the Rommes we fought was my first battle...first with the Dark Empire anyway....Meh whatever!"
He then lowers his voice so only Seth can here "Seth I say we leave and look for Zeros' he should go back to the Romme Castle. What do you say? But we should get some Dark Empire armor first."
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Tuesday July 27th, 2004
"Whatever. I'd prefer to not die though, please." Said Seth, sticking his tongue out in a childish manner.
"Zeros' is up there fighting Nex, what makes you think he's gonna rush off to the Romme Castle? I say we attack Draven, If nothing else we have more numbers than him. Plus I got this sweet Falchon here and I'm much more of a threat now, meheee."
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Nevina stared at everyone and said, "Who are you people..? Why are you here?"
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday July 27th, 2004
"Hmmm....I supose your right then. We will defeat Draven first or something...just....I need to think of a plan to get the sword and defeat the enemy....."Duilin then turn his head over to Nevina, and starts talking before she sees her. "Who are YOU?Why are you he-...." He then stops as he spot Nevina....."Uh......well hello there, i'm Duilin, how may I help you?" <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' />
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Tuesday July 27th, 2004
"Oh I don't think I want YOUR help, sir." Nevina said, giving Duilin a perverted look.
"I'm Nevina Seev, last of the Jin Knights. I'm here investigating the evil force I sense and to discover why my Island is in such bad shape.. and because I kind of got ran out of my Palace by some evil apparitions.." Nevina explained.
"So, returning to my initial question, who are YOU guys, and what are YOU doing here?"
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Seth simply said, "Alright." and pulled out his Falchon, wielding it with his right hand, and put a steel claw onto his left hand. Seth then got into a battle stance, pointing his Falchon out towards the mouth of the cavern and his shoulder went up and down on his left arm; the one holding the steel claws.
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday July 27th, 2004
"Oh I'm Duilin....This is Seth, this elf like man, and the wizard dude, Scorch, and that other guy is Cheetah, he's gepardi, a shapeshifting person. Wellcome, and is that kid you have there Zeros'?" Duilin says. He then looks at Seth "What ARE you doing?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday July 27th, 2004
He arrived at the mountain, he saw Nex holding Qeni under his arm and his other arm out-streached, waiting for something. He glided down slowly and stop infront of Nex, hovering a foot or two above the top of the mountain.
"So...its you," he pulled the sword out, "You want this? Give me back Qeni first, then I'll give you this. I don't trust Dark Empire soldiers, let alone generals." he put the sword behind his back and stabbed it through his chest, absorbing it into his body (basically, when he stabbed it into his body, he was able to absorb it and now its sitting next to his spine, behind his cloak). He conjured an exact copy of the sword with his demonic powers.
"Im waiting..." he pulled the sword back from his cloak. "The swords here. Put Qeni on the ground and when she walks over to me, you can have it."
He thought to himself, "Don't worry Qeni, hopefully I can protect you this time." his thought wandered off.
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Zev held Nevina's leg from behind, scared of the other people, especially Scorch.
He just barely peeped out from behind her to look at the four.
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday July 27th, 2004
Nex tilted his head abit, and then thought for a moment. Nex then smiled *even though you can't even se his dang face* and then said
"You know, I don't recall that being part of the deal. I remember saying, If you ever wanted to see you kid again then met me here to give me the sword. I see how you got the idea, but you see my young friend, that dosen't mean I'm going to give you the baby...no it dosen't.....but since I'm in a good mood, I think I'll give you the child, JUST, TO, BE, NICE!" Nex then had the the baby in both hands and then slowly started to give it to Zeros' but then "Ooops!" He threw the child, down and she started to fall down to the ground, Zeros' better hurry up and catch her! "Wahahahahahahahaha! Go get her...hero!" He then jumped up and started flapping his wings hovering in the air...
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday July 27th, 2004
"(Editor: Censored)er" he muttered under his breath.
He did a 180 and was now facing the ground, he flapped his wings as fast as he could and chased after the falling Qeni. He reached out his hand and Qeni reached out her's.
"Almost there..." he grabbed her hand and slowly turned upright, making him face upwards, looking towards Nex. He held Qeni with both hands.
He slowly glided back upwards, towards where Nex was hovering.
"So thats how you want it." he slowly accended. "You want to kill the Seraph's daughter?
He reached the height of Nex. He glared at him. He unsheathed his sword in his right hand, and held Qeni in his left. He looked around, he saw a mountain peek and slowly descended towards it.
He gently put Qeni down on the peek. "Don't worry." He hugged her. "I won't let you die." He cast a barrier around her, which would prevent her from falling if the mountain was destroyed, and also if any attacks went towards her.
He accended fast. He phased out, then reappared infront of Nex.
He spun his sword around and his phoenix aura's strengh increased.
"Now where were we?" He charged at Nex, sword forwards, and his left hand behind his back, reaching for something. He pulled out the fake sword and set it aflame, making it ashes.
"Now the swords gone. What say you know Nex!" he continued his charge.
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Zev tugged on Nevina's shirt. He had a worried expersion on his face. "Who are they...?"
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday July 28th, 2004
Nex then grew angry "Not that I wan't going to kill you in the first place, but you just gave me a better reason to kill you! Prepare for the most painfull battle of your life!" He yells. He then takes his blade and one of his sickles out. And then as Zeros' charges at him he then flys at him, puts a lock on Zeros' sword with his sickle and then takes his sword and swings it in and upward angle aiming to stab him in the stomoch!
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday July 28th, 2004
The shadows of the forest revealed a smile. Draven was now leaning on the tree with his arms folded. The warriors were talking, but he was just out of hearing range... he thought he could make out the word "Draven" from time to time, though.
"Are they expecting me?" he thought to himself. They do seem rather edgy, flipping swords around, practicing battle poses, and whatnot. Draven's eyes kept returning to the child, timidly clinging to the woman's leg. Is that his mother? Aww... he's got a tiny rapier and sheath... how cute... Heh heh heh...
Draven's mind flipped through a range of diabolical schemes, finally settling on one...
"They're so expectant, hmmm, I wonder..."
Draven now leaned his back against the tree and cupped his hands in front of his chest. Within, he slowly conjured a small ball of flame, its light hidden by his gloves...
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Iduran stood up and pulled his sword out of the sand, realizing the youth had thought he had collapsed because he was old, rather than his intense fear of heights.
"*Ahem* No thank you. I'm quite all right, yes... quite all right..."
Iduran fingered the small hole in his armor. Although the skin was still quite tender, he was feeling better. Perhaps the old doctor's herbs were worth something after all.
"Where... are we?"
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday July 28th, 2004
The young Haraldur said:
"You are in the realm of Víkingagarð. If you wish, we can go and see some doctors. After that, I will arrange temporary accomodation for you. No doubt the king will want to speak to you at some point. But, ultimately, what happens is up to you."
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Wednesday July 28th, 2004
Seth got out of position and Spoke to Nevina.
"That guy there is Cheetah, he changes his shape, That's Scorch, a wind mage, don't ask about the name, heh. I see you've already met Duilin, and I'm Seth. The two Demons on top of the mountain are Zeros' and Nex. Don't worry about Qeni, Zeros' seems to have saved her. You might want to ready yourself for combat. Draven is coming.."
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Nevina nodded her head then drew her Holy Bastard Sword and grasped it tightly in both hands, facing out towards the forest.
Nevina whispered to Zev, "Hide.."
Posted by: Cesque on Wednesday July 28th, 2004
"You there having fun, lovebirds?" - Scorch said with ignorant voice after Nevina and Seth. - "I have bad feeling about this all. We're standing here as in open terrain and it's very likely Draven will ambush us or attack from air while we will least expect this."
Cheetah only looked around nervously, waiting for the inevitable. he practiced few combat moves with his spear.
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Wednesday July 28th, 2004
After a long rest period, Shin's strength was fully restored. He stood, and used his aura to sense everything around him. After feeling a ripple of energy similar to that emmitted from someone with a thick head, Shin raised his hand, and summoned an eagle. He climbed onto the eagle's back, and took off. After following the energy for a short time, he found the source of the yell. He jumped off the eagle and sent it away. He landed a good 15 feet from Nevina's party.
He walked in their general direction, following their energy signal. He moved slowly, so as not to alert them to his presence; he didn't want any Dark Empire soldiers to attack him. When he got close enough to see, he decided it would be better if he made himself known. He formed an ice ball with a small bit of energy, threw it above them, and it began snowing...
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Gyulim returned to the bar, where the soldiers of Aritan were in uniform, and standing at attention.
"Ma'am!", they all yelled on arrival. She bowed to them.
"Let's go; Shin was just in combat, and since I didn't feel the aura of his ice sword, I have a feeling that he's either still in combat, or dead. Let us not leave him out there."
With that, the soldiers led her out to their vessel, where a tall, tan-skinned captain stood. He grinned, bowed, and led her on board.
"It's a 1 hour ride to Romme from here if we go full-speed, ma'am", he said.
Gyulim nodded; she wanted to see her love as soon as possible...
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday July 28th, 2004
Zev looked up at Nevina. Then he looked up at the snow falling around them. He held out his hand and it just melted. He looked around and saw Shin. He decided it was better the hide then to stay here.
He looked around for some place to hide. He saw Iduran's room unoccupided, he ran towards it and hid right behind the doorway, but he was still able to see outside.
He thought to himself. "I hope my sisters ok..."
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Zeros' thought to himself, "Draven should be around there by now..." He dodge Nex's stab. He grabbed the blade and it cut through his hand, making blood run down his arm.
"You forgot one thing...I am the master of the blood arts!" He tore his hand from the blade, blood dripped from his hand and down towards the mountain.
He cracked his fingers, he held his fingers outstreached and did an uppercut motion, making blood fly from his hand and form 5 (for the number of fingers he has) crescent blades, flying right towards Nex. Zeros' didn't brake off from the weapon lock, but kept on it, holding Nex in a close proximity.
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Wednesday July 28th, 2004
Shin grinned and said out loud "You didn't have to hide. I just wanted to see if you people were friendly or not. I serve not the Dark Empire, but the Holy Realm of Aritan. My name is Shin."
He glanced at Nevina. "My, what is this lovely young lady doing around here? It's unfitting for a lady to be in a dangerous place like this and to be armed...no women in Aritan serve the army. Sure, we have martial artists, but they never serve." After giving a wink, he approached Scorch.
"And you were the one who's energy I sensed...hah! You're stronger than I thought you'd be...but then again, my readings can be inaccurate from a distance."
Shin paced a bit, then asked, "Who are you people, anyways?"
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Gyulim decided to explore the vessel a bit. After leaving her room, she headed to the lower level, and entered the galley, where one of the soldiers was hard at work preparing some food...chicken and rice. Gyulim sighed, and grabbed an apple out of a sack and ate; she hadn't eaten in the longest time.
Feeling refreshed, she asked the soldier how long it would take. He said to give it ten more minutes, so she decided to go on deck...
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday July 28th, 2004
Zev walked out and waved to Shin. "No...its cause they said..said someone name Draven or something was coming..." He walked back into Iduran's room and hid behind the door and looked back out.
"They told me to hide.."
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Wednesday July 28th, 2004
Nevina decided it best to ignore Shins slightly sexist comment, but mumbled under her breath, "I've been fighting since before your great great grandfather could wipe his own ass.."
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Seth got out of the cavern a ways and made a snow ball out of the falling flakes Shin had conjured. Seth then stuck it in his pocket and headed back to the cave.
Seth began to snicker.
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday July 28th, 2004
Zev saw Seth get the snowball and he just shook his head. "I should be doing that.."
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday July 28th, 2004
"Love birds?" He says to Scorch. "If you think that's language of love then, you people have to get out more...." Duilin then made a snowball and then tossed it at Seth hitting him right in the head. And laughed abit, he then pointed to Cheetah "He did it!" He then laughed abit and then stoped as if he was senceing or hereing something. "I think I herd a tree burning or something...."
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Nex then slashed at blood blades that came at him and then glared at Zeros'. Let's see you do bloods arts when I slice your (Editor: Censored)ing off!!!" He yells as he dives down at him and then aims a sideways speedy slice right at Zeros' neck!
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday July 28th, 2004
He simply held up his left hand and blocked the blade.
"Is that the best you've got?" He sighed. "I was expecting more of a challange from a demon who just regained his wings...guess I was wrong." He smirked. he thought to himself, "That should piss him off enough..."
He broke off the attack and sparks flew. He extended his aura, cause the area to heat up. He sheathed his sword.
"Tell you what." he started "I wont even use my Masamune." He shruged. "Use whatever weapon you like."
He held out both his arms and extended his pointer finger on his right hand, and braced himself with his left hand. Sparks extended from his out-streached finger, energy from his aura gained in his hand and soon enough, a large fireball had formed infront of him, the middle where his finger was.
"Bang." An explosion sound could be heard as his finger recoiled, and the large fireball (Lets say...about...3 yards in diameter) flew towards his opponent.
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Zev just sat there and watched as Duilin acted like a child.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 29th, 2004
Nex then raised his hand at the flame and then it formed one big fireball hovering in his hand.
"Yawn, is what I say to your fireworks show, I want my money back!" Nex then prepared to toss it at him but he just decieded to do something else. He evaporated the fireball. And then he charged up, an electric based attack. It was a large energy ball of electrisity(is that with an S or a C?) and flug it at Zeros' "Boing!" it moved at farely fast speed. "Hoo Hah!" He yells!
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 29th, 2004
//And its spelled "electricity"
"Sorry. I said no money back gaurntees." He just snapped his fingers and a barrier appeared infront of him, blocking the electricity attack.
"Well, Well." He phased out and then back in right behind Nex. "Demons now adays..." He twisted his arm around backwards and shot, point-blank, right at his head with his spirit energy.
Posted by: Cesque on Thursday July 29th, 2004
"Another stranger..." - mumbled Scorch to himself, noticing Shin, the shook his head noticing people with their snowballs. - "Like children... We already have one crying 6 year old here, and that's enough for me..."
He thinked for a while then, hearing what Duilin said.
"Tree burning? What the hell are you talking about? Anyway, I can't hear as those weirdos have fun with snow all around..."
This all was getting Scorch a little angry... He never liked to be in a huge group of people he couldn't understand.
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"Snow!" - Cheetah said with childish hapiness on face. - "We've never had Scorch in my homeland! Yippie!"
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday July 29th, 2004
"Blast it! That Aritan..."
Draven's eyes twitched with irritation as he watched several of the warriors begin to play in the snow like children... He soon realized that his vexation had heated up his surroundings, and he tried to calm down so his presence would not be detected.
Draven put his back to the tree once more and looked down at the fireball he had created. It was only two inches in diameter and he had built it slowly, so as to avoid detection (which was even more difficult now that the Aritan was here...), but it will do the job.
Draven un-cupped his hands and the ball slowly floated upwards, stopping in front of his face. A motion of his left index finger caused it slowly to float to his left, silently moving between the trees, slowly advancing around the edge of the circular clearing to the opposite side of where he was at. In a moment, it will be in the perfect place for a distraction...
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Iduran leaned on the sword as he stuck it back into the black sand.
"I thank you for your hospitality. But you see, my country is in grave danger at the moment and I'm anxious to get back... you wouldn't be able to provide some transportation, would you? ... Uh, how far away are we from Romme, anyway?"
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday July 29th, 2004
"Your country is no longer completely overrun. There are some Dark Empire soldiers left, but thousands were killed by some rock trolls persuaded by the prince, who also killed many. There were a lot of them gathered around a burnt out house with the wizard Scorch as a prisoner, almost all of them are dead.
"Basically, you have few soldiers left, the Dark Empire have few soldiers left and the trolls have returned to their home.
"If you wish, our elite unit, which I am currently in command of since the prince is away, can go to your country with you, and maybe the regualar army too, but that might not be immediatley necessary. Although Draven might get reenforcements, he is loth to do so. We have sources that report that there is great rivalry between Draven and other powers in the Dark Empire, and between those other powers, but we are not completely sure. However, why else has he not sought reenforcements other than not wanting to decrease his standing among his rivals?
"So, you may go if you wish, with our forces or not, but I wish to come with you. We are quite far north and slightly west of your country, but we have ways of increasing the speed of the journey if you desire speed.
"What is your decision?"
Posted by: Cesque on Thursday July 29th, 2004
(perhaps next time, instead of "post your character" we should have "post your army" or "post your country", so that it will be fait to paly with Haraldur <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /> )
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday July 29th, 2004
//Fait?//
Posted by: Cesque on Thursday July 29th, 2004
//Fait to paly, didn't you read?//
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday July 29th, 2004
//What does fait to paly mean? I though paly was a typo of play. What did you mean?//
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 29th, 2004
"Well isn't that dandy!" Nex says as the blasts hits him in the head blowing it off....Nex's body then falls down to the ground a fades under the fog.....
*I love killing off charactors!* <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />
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"No it's.....It's something else...." Duilin replys "I think Draven is close..." He then thought for a moment, and then went inside the cave to talk to Seth.
"Hey Seth, tell me, you can, SENCE stuff can't you? Can you sence Draven?" He asks Seth.
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Thursday July 29th, 2004
"Yes.. normally. I can't sense him now though.. Strange.."
Seth Made another snow ball, keeping the other in his pocket (He has a more serious purpose for the one in his pocket..).
With the new snow ball, he came up behind Duilin and Smeared the snow all in his hair.
"I didn't do it!" Seth yelled playfully.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 29th, 2004
Duilin then looked angrly at Seth, and then smiled *for once* and then made two snowballs and blasted one right at Seth's face and then. Looked at Scorch, and then tosses it right his chest!
"Hahahahaha....Okay seriously guy...I know Draven is here....so..." He then spoke in a louder voice "Well....I guess Draven is comeing guys, we might as well go into the cave, or have a HUGE snowball fight!" Duilin said, he then shook his head at the others, to asure him the he wasn't serious
"Hmmm...I don't think that really acomplised much but....meh..." Duilin said
Posted by: Colin on Thursday July 29th, 2004
//And it's spelt "it's".
//You really need to play my tic-tac-toe game, heh.
Posted by: Cesque on Thursday July 29th, 2004
"Hmm..." - said Scorch, overhearing conversation. - "Normally I should be able to sense him... But my sight returned, and I lost my magical abilities, I guess. And STOP WITH THE SNOW! We're having Draven somewhere here, ready to strike us, I guess..."
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"Whee!" - said Cheetah and threw a snowball at Seth.
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 29th, 2004
Zeros' grabbed Nex's limp body, he decided, even though he was evil, he needed to be buried. "He's still one of my own kind, no matter how evil he is..." he thought to himself.
Zeros' slowly floated down back towards Qeni, holding Nex's limp body in his left hand, which was still bleeding alot (Zeros' hand). He made the barrier disappear. He flung Nex's body over his shoulder and grabbed Qeni with both hands. Qeni started to cry when she saw Zeros' hand.
"Shh...don't worry...its just a scratch..."
He slowly glided up and flew back towards the cave, as fast as he could, he knew Draven would be near by.
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Zev walked out of his hiding spot and rolled a snowball and tossed it at Seth.
Posted by: Cesque on Thursday July 29th, 2004
"I see you have more reason that I thought." - said Scorch seeing Nex. - "You didn't deliver blade to the enemy."
"Now, could you please be so kind and check from the air whenever Draven is anywhere around? I have strange feeling that with his speed, he should be here long ago... So he propably plans some ambush."
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Thursday July 29th, 2004
Seth rolled 4 new snow balls and hid behind a stalagmite in the cave.
"So it's War is it?" Seth Said in a silly tone.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 29th, 2004
"Holy shit.....Nex?" Duilin say running over to Nex's dead body
"He was the only person in the Dark Empire who was accually nice to me....." Duilin then got abit sad "I remember fighting him awile ago to....odd...."
Nex's body was heavly bleeding with the head all messed up and bloody *I'll accually just have his head just messed up now, I allready did the head blwoing off with Patrick*
"Hey Zeros' you mind if I help you burry the guy, I kinda like him, he was okay to me....He gave me something that enabled me to start flame and stuff....He said it was black deamon magic." Duilin sat down beside Nex's body. He tried to remove the helmet but it was caved in to his face and was very bloody and tight. "Yuck! No way are we removeing that, just let the damn helmet stay!"
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FLASH BACK
At a training barracks at a Dark Empire out post. Duilin is fighting a captive Gel monster, Duilin swings his mace at the Gel but misses and then Gel starts to grab at Duilin, Darion then swings his Buster Sword at the Gel, cutting it in half.
"You stupid fool! Your weak and useless! You won't be ANY help when we make our first strike on Romme!" Darion yelled at Duilin, he smacks at Duilin and he falls back and hit's the ground. Darion then turned around and bumped into Nex. "Umm....I'm....sorry, sir..." Nex then pushes Darion out of the way and then walks over to Duilin.
"You seem to lack fighting experence" Nex says to Duilin
"I was forced to join when I was 18 years old..." Duilin replies
"That's not very nice now is it. I don't usealy capture childeren, I never hurt them, unless abosoultley nessicary...What's your name soilder?"
"Duilin, Duilin Talonscar."
"Talonscar? What an odd last name...Anyways drink this...and I'll teach you something." He takes out a potion vale full of blood red liquid. And gives it to Duilin, Duilin then drinks the potion, it tastes like blood, but it's warm, and has abit more kick to it! Nex and Duilin talk abit more and Nex teaches him how to use the Fire Ball Of Death.
"Why are you so nice?" Duilin asks Nex
"Well....I'm not sure, but I think it's abit odd why I am so nice....I'm a....Deamon..." Nex replys
"You are?"
"Yes, but tell no one or I'll destroy you!"
"Ummm....Okay...."
Nex then pats him on the head and then gives him a backpak full of potions "Take these, now I must leave!" Nex then walks away
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"I wish I could have talked to him abit....oh well, he proabally would have been alot meaner and would have killed me when when we fought, if he knew it was me..." Duilin then cracked his knukless "Okay, so..."
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 29th, 2004
"...Sure." he handed Nex's body over to Duilin. He put Qeni down and she immediately ran over to Zev. "Zevy!" Qeni hugged Zev. Zeros' went over to Qeni and Zev, and smilied. He patted Zev on the head. "Take your sister and go hide..." He grabbed the sheath and sword that Zev had strapped to his back.
He walked in the middle of the cave. "And don't worry guys, Draven won't get the sword, its in a place he'll never look, and only I know where the location is."
He pulled out the small rapier and looked around. He saw the fireball floating. He went over to the side of the cave where it was and leaned on the wall. He held the blade up and aimed. He threw it at the tree.
"Draven huh...I would of thought he already attacked by now." He thought to himself. He picked up some snow and threw it at Seth.
"Im gonna...go somewhere, I'll be right back." He walked in the direction where Draven was hiding.
"Well Draven, you can stop hiding now. I know your around here..." he said in a low-tone, as not to alarm his comrades. "We have some unfinished business."
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Qeni and Zev ignored Zeros' instructions and played in the snow.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 29th, 2004
Duilin then walked around inside the cave holding Nex's dead body. He then found a shovel and then he put Nex down on the ground. He started diging a hole in the ground. He then took Nex's weapons "Hey, these were the same weapons he hade a wile back. That kinda sad considering ym arsenel has changed about twice...or not..."He then wraped Nex in his own torn robes and then put him in the gave, and buryed it, he then took out his mace and then swung it at a part of the cave wall a few time, smashing off a large peice of rock, He buryed 25% of the rock at the postion his head was at. He then took out his combat knive and sketched some words on to the rock, the rock was to be his tomestone.
He may has struck fear and hate into most
But to some he was a hero, a friend
Even the ones with the darkest minds have the lightest harts
"Meh, that kinda sucks, but I guess it's okay...for him anyways." Duilin then took an empty potion bottle out of his backpak and then placed it by the tomestone.
"There ya go pal, you can have one back, I used it, but the bottle's yours man!" Duilin then walked out of the cave and back to the others.
"Were did Zeros' go off to?" He asks
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday July 29th, 2004
Zev had Qeni down on the ground and talked over to Duilin. "He said something about going somewhere, whatever that mean." He went back to playing in the snow with his sister.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday July 29th, 2004
"Thanks Zev, your a sport!" He says and then sits down "Well I guess Zeros' is probally gonna fight Draven now....I'm not in the mood for fighting at the moment...Hey maybe we can sneak over to the village and grab some gear, what do you say guys, I'll go, one more person come with!"
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday July 30th, 2004
Qeni sat in the snow exhausted, Zev sat by her, exhausted also.
"Sheesh..tired.." Zev looked over towards Qeni, she was already asleep. Zev walked over to her and tried to pick her up.
He fell backwards, he was too exhaused to help Qeni into Iduran's room to sleep.
Posted by: Cesque on Friday July 30th, 2004
"Nex was actually a total bastard, as far as I understand." - Scorch said to himself, then whispered. - "All demons are. And can't be trusted."
"The problem is," - he said now with loud voice to Zeros, looking around for Draven. - "We don't have where the sword is either, and we have no insurance that you can be trusted. The only one who might have slightest idea about the sword around here is Iduran. When we deal with Draven, I suggest you return HIM the sword."
"Where are you Draven... I'm tired of waiting..."
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday July 30th, 2004
"Oh yes that why I was looking for him, I want the sword back, he's caused enough trouble with it..." Duilin says
"And yeah I don't dought at all that he was a total bastard. He killed alot of inocent people but none of them women or childern, but still, he probally was an ass hole, but he never did anything wrong to me. I don't really like him, or hate him...He was just doing his job for the Dark Empire, like we used to work for them, Scorch, so I'm sure you would understand."
Posted by: Cesque on Friday July 30th, 2004
"Women and children? Why should women and children be elevated? They're people just like adult men, and they have same right to die... Work for them? Oh yes. I remember several years ago I worked for them, but then I became officer and most soldiers were working for me instead."
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday July 30th, 2004
"My god Scorch, you seem even worres Nex at times. But, Nex mersilly salatured people and impaled them usealy....But that's not the point! He cared sometimes! He felt remorse. But you with, your wind magic and your super powers, you think that everyone is even but your better then everyone else! And there not elevated, there just lest expenable because there are so few of them! You just don't care about anything do you, except winning the war. You just think your so though and can say whatever and have it be true, don't you!" Duilin says abit angrly. "Now if you exuce me, I'm going to village for suplies, we seem to be running low on them, and I'm sure we are all very hungry...Well I am, and the kids are exhaughted so they could use some food to." Duilin then walks off and heads over toward were the near by village is...
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday July 30th, 2004
Zev managed to get Qeni into the room. He picked her up slowly onto the bed and she feel asleep. Zev got in on the other side and feel asleep too.
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Zeros' laughed at the argument Scorch and Duilin were having.
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday July 30th, 2004
Moments later Duilin arives at the village. He safely made it there by takeing some detours to avoid Draven. He walks around at the village, he sees a few burning buildings, some villagers repairing them.
"Heh, seems like the people are starting settle back inside. Duilin then opens up his back back and sees how much money he has.
"Wow, I didn't know I'd have this much allready, he has, 1113 GP *or whatever we want to call it right now*
He then enters a shop.
"Supplies are running abit low because of that attack we had abit eariler" The Shop Keeper said
"Okay, I just need a few potions and ethers and maybe some food, can I get some of that?" Duilin asks
"Sure..."
A few moments later he heads his way back to the cave, he got about 8 potions and eithers, and a large bag full of fruits and vegis! He takes his detour to avoid trouble!
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday July 30th, 2004
Draven watched curiously as the winged one returned with the dead body of his subordinate.
"What in blazes...?"
Yes, it was the same one he had fought at the village. Wonderful. First the Aritan shows up, and now HIM. But he thought he heard him say something:
"Draven won't get the sword, it's in a place he'll never look, and only I know where the location is."
Duilin doesn't have the sword? Blast it... what to do now... Scratch the old plan... The winged one was walking in Draven's direction now, and he gave his challenge in his calm voice. Draven remained hidden for a moment. His surprise was ruined. Could he take them ALL on? Should he fall back for now?
Fall back! Preposterious! A High General of the Dark Empire NEVER loses!
"Hmph."
Draven snapped his fingers. The fireball that he had so carefuly manuvered to the opposite side of the clearing exploded, ignighting a tree in flames directly behind Scorch. That distraction should give him at least a moment's time alone with the winged one...
Draven turned so that he was now leaning against the tree with his arms folded and his clever smirk, facing Zeros'.
"I must say, I'm quite impressed, demon. The commander you just offed was a wild one... I don't believe I've caught your name..."
A soft breeze blew as the coldness of Shin's spell began to lose its effect.
"Tell me, why is it that you fight?"
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(Good observations, Haraldur)
Iduran stroked his chin in thought.
"You mean, those thousands of soldiers that attacked us are gone? This is wonderful news! Well, if you don't think an army is neccessary, then we won't bring one. I don't want to get your people involved... although I would appreciate returning home as quickly as possible and I welcome you as a guide. What is your name, young man?"
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday July 30th, 2004
Duilin then arived outside of the cave with the others
"Now that's defentily the smell of a tree burning!" Duilin says, wile smileing at Scorch "Well we should probally do SOMETHING about that now!"
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday July 30th, 2004
"My name is Haraldur Gunnar Olafsson, I am named after the prince, Haraldur Gunnar Hilmarsson.
"Let us go to the ships now. They are just in our capital city, Haraldsvík (named in honour of its founder: our first king, Haraldur Ragnar Steinsson), which is also our principal port. Come with me."
He started walking away, and gestured Iduran to follow him.
//How he knew all this: in this world blood brotherhood means that a telepathic link is maintained between the blood brothers. This means that the two Haraldurs always know what the other one is thinking and doing, except when the elder one is out of this world.//
Posted by: Cesque on Friday July 30th, 2004
(didn't Dude Man's last post go against the new rules?)
(blood brotherhood grants telepathy? whoah! *grabs knife*)
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"I am no worse than Dark Emp-...!" - Scorch began as suddenly something exploded behind him. He leaped back, turned in direction of blazing trees and
"Draven, huh...?"
Scorch began to gather energy for his lightning spell, but he noticed Draven wasn't where he was supposed to be. He propably escaped after the attack... Scorch looked carefully for slightest movement within the forest... But there was nothing.
"Hold on, comrades! Draven can be here any minute... Where is that demon when we need him? Cheetah! We'll make an ambush on our own. You see this tree? Get us there." - wizard pointed a high tree a bit deeper in the forest.
After listening to Scorch words, Gepardi changed into a wyvern, grabbed Scorch in claws and they flew silently over the forest, then landed and freed Scorch, who situated himself in not-too-comfortable position on a tree. Cheetah in wyvern form, green, was almost invisible among the leaves...
If Draven will come (and propably slay Duilin who was supposed to finally die since a long time, as Scorch thought, this all action and people made him somehow more aggresive), he will find no sword... He will look for it... And they'll have follow him, entering action to take sword when time comes... or before this happens, if a need arises.
(I won't be here propably for next 2 days, so I had to get Scorch and Cheetah somehow out of direct action <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' />)
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday July 30th, 2004
//No it went with them, I went to a from in 3 posts! Nothing wrong about that!//
"Cowardly bastard!" Duilin says about Scorch "Okay, so, Asian fighter dude and Hot elf girl, who are you two?" Duilin asks
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Friday July 30th, 2004
Nevina blushes a bit at being called 'hot' and says, "I do believe I already introduced myself, as has Shin.."
"Anyways, why are we sitting around here? That tree is going to ignite the whole forest.."
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Seth came out from behind the stalagmite and kneeled down onto the cavern floor. He stared at the ground and stuck his left hand out from his side, and pointed his other at the burning tree. A blue aura swirled around his left hand and on his right hand a ball of water formed, as though gravity did not exist. Seth commanded the ball and sent it hurtling at the tree, dosing the fire for the most part.
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday July 30th, 2004
//Isn't the other guy Shin? Your charactor is Nevina!//
"Right...I must have missed that." Duilin says. He smiles abit when she blushes. He then looks over to Seth.
"Whoa, cool move dude!" He says "That was awsome....have an apple!" He tosses an apple form his backpak to Seth.
He then empties out the food onto a flat rock. "Eat, we might as well have some food since Zeros' and Draven are probally killing each other as we speak, frankly all I'm interested in is getting back the sword and finding the cave, we really should get back to that....If Zeros' dies then we will just have to find it ourself...maybe we can do that now?" Duilin says wile muching on a carrot
*the types of food he got were apples, carrots, peaches and turnips*
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Friday July 30th, 2004
//Yes, but you asked about Shin and he had already introduced himself to everyone, then Nevina said that he's introduced himself already, and so has she//
Seth caught the apple Duilin threw and ate it in 2 parts, core and all.
"Blah.. what is this? It's good, but half of it tastes like a twig.." //Seth has never eaten anything but Rice, Potatoes and different forms of meat and soup, so Apples and most other fruits are new to him.//
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Nevina got a carrot from the pile and munched happily.
After she had swallowed she said, "Thanks Duilin." and continued eating.
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday July 30th, 2004
"Your wellcome..." Duilin says.He looks over at Seth "Ha ha! You don't eat entire thing, you eat it untill you get to the twigy stuff and then toss it away!" Duilin says finishing his carrot. "Now these things" He says picking up a peach "Are very juicey! A very good, you eat them hole, but not the big wooden thing inside" He tosses one to Seth and then grabs one for himself and then starts eating it. He then takes two more and then walks into the cave to were Quei and Zev are, he sees them sleeping.
//I accually eat apples whole but Duilin dosen't. Heck, I only like the green ones//
"Cute..." He then places the peaches beside them and walks over to were his old room was. He sits down on his bed and then takes of his backpak and then opens it up. He takes out an ether and then drinks it down and then places the vale on his small drawer. He then takes out a peice of folded paper, he didn't remember putting this inside, it must have been in there for ages.
General, Darion
"Holy crap! Nex wanted me dead this whole time...that bastard!" Duilin then ran over to Nex's grave and took out his mace and then smashed the grave stone.
"He then looks back at the note, Bronzed Skull.....that's right...my grandfather's bronze skull....I wouldn't mind finding that...But who the hell are Pophin and Veronkia? I hope there not super demi gods like Nex and Draven!" He then goes back to his bed and lies down and starts to think
//I'd add a flash back but I think I'll save space for the rest of you people <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /> //
//Add you will find out about Pophin and Veronika in chapter 3//
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday July 30th, 2004
Zeros' leaned back agianst a tree also, he folded his arms. He closed his eyes for a second and then his head turned and faced Draven.
"My name? Why do you ask? If you shall know, it is Zeros'. And the reason I fight, is so the two children I have sworn to protect can live in a place without war and fighting. They have already been through alot, I want them to grow up with a better childhood then mine...500 years ago, yes. I remember it, it is but a memory of my past locked away within the depth's of my mind."
He closed his eyes agian. He spoke, without opening his eyes. "I told you why I fight, now tell me why you fight." He paused for a moment. "Tell my why you and your soldiers want to control this conntinent, Draven."
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday July 31st, 2004
Money and power were the two easiest lures of enlisting a new warrior. This one would be a bit more difficult... but not impossible.
"For protection... Hmm, yes... you would give your life for them, would you not?"
He shot a glance through the trees at the two children playing in the melting snow.
"But what if you didn't have to? What we seek here is the simple blade you've hidden... The Dark Empire ultimately seeks a united world of peace. Fighting is merely an unnecessary transitional phase... Those that resist must be exterminated. A shame, really... But it doesn't have to happen to you. You've proven yourself a competent warrior. It would be shameful to snuff out such skill, if not by me, then by others... What I'm saying is, join my side, Zeros'. I'm in need of competent commanders. Join us and the children will come to no harm, I swear it."
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Iduran blinked in confusion at all the Haraldurs, but then nodded and followed the young man, studying his surroundings with interest.
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday July 31st, 2004
After walking for a while, Haraldur stops at a pool. He kneels down and sips at water from his hands.
"Care to join me?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday July 31st, 2004
Zeros' laughed. "A world of peace eh?" He put one of his hands on his sword. "A world of peace with mear humans as slaves I presume.." He stopped leaning agianst the tree. He put his hands to his side. "Well Draven." he started "Lets see if you are worthy of getting this land of 'peace.' I will be your next obsticle. There once was peace, a time when the Dark Empire ruled, it was a time of dispair, but when Romme came, the people saw hope."
He stood there, with his arms down, waiting for Draven to attack.
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday August 1st, 2004
"How disappointing..."
Draven's posture remained unchanged.
"I'll cut you a shorter deal, then. Give me the blade and we won't kill you or the children. A simple exchange. Really, is all this violence worth it?"
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Iduran stooped down and looked at his reflection in the water.
"Well, I suppose..."
He cupped his hands and dipped them into the cool water, but realizing he was quite durty from the previous day's battle, he began to wash them instead, afterwards splashing water on his face.
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday August 1st, 2004
After Iduran had finished, Haraldur carried on walking, they were half way there now.
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday August 1st, 2004
He reached behind his cloak with his right hand, he started to conjour another one of the fake blades behind his back. He pulled it out and stabbed it into the ground.
"There." He turned around and started to walk off, leaving the "blade" with Draven.
Posted by: Cesque on Monday August 2nd, 2004
"What the hell are they doing?" - thought Scorch, who with his imperfect sight couldn't actually tell what people before the cave were doing, especially that smoke rising from burning forest began to blur his vision.
"Standing there, chatting..."
Draven must be somewhere else, he thought, as he began to scan area with eyes. Ah, crap, he has time, after all. It's better to use element of stealth than rush into yet another unwon battle...
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday August 2nd, 2004
Draven eyed Zeros' as he walked away. He stepped to the sword and pulled it out of the ground with his right hand, examining it. He had only seen the sword once before, and this one did indeed have a red gem in the handle, although it didn't shimmer quite as brilliantly as he remembered... but perhaps it was just the shadows of the forest.
"My thanks, o winged one..." He said, not looking backwards as Zeros' walked away.
An aura of flame appeared around Draven as he held the blade in front of his face, laughing to himself. It was much more trouble than expected, but it should be worth it... Draven shot up into the air above the tree line, in full view of those assembled in front of the cave, though his back was turned to them. After a second, he shot southward at full speed wrapped in fire, the assembled party, the cave, and Romme castle behind him.
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(Just because it takes a number of posts to get somewhere doesn't have to mean it has to be boring. Heh...)
Iduran followed the boy down the path as thicker and thicker vegetation appeared on the sides of the road. The plants were foreign to Iduran and he looked from side to side with interest at long tentacle-like vines and spade-shaped leaves as he walked. As the two progressed, the vegetation grew higher over their heads as well, almost blocking out the sun. The boy continued on, obviously comfortable in this area he knew well. But Iduran slowed his pace a little as his interest turned to unease... His eyes shifted back and forth. Were... the plants... moving...?
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday August 2nd, 2004
A huge tentacle whipped out and nearly hit Haraldur, who then ducked.
"Get down! Do not let them touch you!"
He sliced off the tentacle with his sword. He muttered something and the plant which attacked him and some others in the area started to glow.
"Oh, shit!"
He crawled forward and to the left, where he saw the stem of a glowing plant. The plants could only sense things at about head height, so he was quite safe. He brought his sword around and the stem was severed, and the plant let out a wail as it died.
He did the same to the 6 other plants nearest to him.
21 left: 7 stems severed.
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday August 2nd, 2004
//Heh, looks like a started a new NPC Battleing System! I bet alot more of these will be going on...Hmm...//
Duilin then exited the cave and then looked around abit "So, is Zeros' and/or Draven back yet?" He asks.
Posted by: Cesque on Monday August 2nd, 2004
"To all storms!" - Scorch loudly said to himself. - "That demon gave Draven the blade. I knew it. Traitor. I knew it! He couldn't be trusted! Just to save life of some pathetic children... nooo..."
For a while, he considered going after Draven...
"No." - Scorch got back to his senses. - "He has the blade. He is too powerful. Propably he knows the power of this weapon... yes, Cheetah, we'll have to get it by means other than combat."
He looked around the forest, sure no one notices him.
"But now, let's just sit here and watch the action, shall we?"
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Monday August 2nd, 2004
Seth strode over to the pile of food and picked up a peach.
"..Fuzzy.. I think it's growing a 'stache, heh.." Seth thought to himself.
Nevertheless, He took a bite and apparently liked it, as he continued to devour it.
Seth got tired after eating and slumped down on a wall, ignoring the fact that it was drenched in blood.
Seth got into meditation position and went into trance. (Elves trance for 4 hours, instead of sleeping for 8 hours like humans)
~Seth CAN be awakened, but it'll take a good deal of noise to do so~
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Nevina remembered how tired she was after seeing Seth go into trance.
Nevina headed outside to trance, seeing as the cavern was full of men, some of them perverted, and the fact that the place was drenched in blood didn't exactly make her want to sleep in there to begin with.
Nevina found a tree outside and climbed up it.
About 6 feet from the ground She found a nice, stable branch to sit on. She layed her back against the tree for support, and went into trance as well.
~Nevina also can be awakened, but it won't take too much noise because she's a light sleeper. She could also be awakened by shaking her tree and making her fall out but, doing so would most likely anger her~
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday August 2nd, 2004
He sensed Scorch's anger. He knew he was close by. He said something to Scorch through telekensis (he picks up there mental frequency waves and transfers them into sound, thus allowing his feelings into words). "You really think I would give him the blade? That was one of my fakes. Draven will find out soon enough. I want you to get everyone else out of here, even my children."
He continuted to walk back to the cave.
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday August 3rd, 2004
"Hmmm...." Duilin then, just looked around inside the cave. "Damn, this place is a mess..." Duilin then walked into Iduran's room. He sees the man in the robe, he was awake now, rubbing his head.
"Hey, were did Iduran go?" Duilin asks
"Not sure, he hit me and then, he was gone...I hope he's okay..." He replies
Duilin then just turns around allready bored with the man. This one man with one tooth and an eye patch looks at him
"MY NAME'S SKIPPY!!" The man says in a booming voice
"Umm....Hi..." Duilin continues walking
"Will you be my friend?" The man asks
"Ummm....no..." He replys and continues walking.
He spots the main with the broken arm, he nods at him and the man nods back.
Duilin just continues to walk around the cave, thinking of things, thinking of his past...
-=-=-=-=FLASHBACK=-=-=-=-
"You stupid, ugly, worthless, magget!" Darion yells at him, Duilin is doing push ups and Darion is standing beside him yelling at him, there is a bunch of crates being carried from a boat, Duilin droped one and it broke open smashing the suplies inside makeing Darion very angry.
"You think your strong? You think your though? Well your wrong! Your weak! Your weak as silk! Silk that comes from the butts of chineese worms!" Darion yells
"I'm sorry, Darion, It won't happen again, it was just WAY to heavy, maybe I could just carry the small boxes..." Duilin says
"The next boxes you will be carrining is a box full of pecies with your own ass in it!"
"What's is that supost mean?"
"It's means....YAARRG!" Darion then wacks Duilin and he falls down, Darion starts kicking him repeatedly, untill Duilin starts bleeding. Darion then picks up the poor guy and then carries him over to a small bunker and then tosses him in and closes the door and locks it. "YOU SUCK!" Darion then leaves
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"I still feal like my revenge is incomplete..." Duilin says to himself "I still hate that Darion freak.....He should die 5 more times, each time for one of my family members he killed! No, 5 hundered times, each time for how many people he killed!"
Duilin then shook his head rapidly and then blink a few times
"Neech...I'm going insane here..."
Posted by: Cesque on Tuesday August 3rd, 2004
// Zeros, it's telepathy, not telekinezis. Telekinezis, as name implies, is moving objects from distance (like word kinetics in physics, it's from greek I believe) //
"What the...?" - Scorch suddenly heard Zeros' voice. - "Get out of my head! Fakes, all right..."
Then with whisper, he added:
"This demon is getting me really aggravated. I hate those telepathic freaks with their weird plans. We'll be in trouble when Draven identifies the blade as fake, he can't be that stupid."
Then, he noticed on some other tree trancing Nevina.
"Ah, did I mention I also hate elves and their inhuman behavior?"
Scorch didn't even notice as Cheetah behind him changed into human form and now hanged on a branch held with both hands. It seemed to be a very comfortable position for him.
"Almost everyone went into the cave. Shouldn't we follow them?"
"Shhh, you have no idea about stealth actions, spying, observation and how those things are important during war."
"You're right. I have no idea, but I guess sitting on a tree and looking at Draven flying in the sky, with the rest of people hidden in the cave, is not a brilliant tactic."
"We'll see what Draven will do..."
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday August 3rd, 2004
The point of red light that was Draven faded into the southern horizon as the sun began to set. Draven looked at the trees pass below as he sped across the sky. It was a tiring way of travel, but he should be able to make it to his small armada of ships shortly after nightfall. Of course, with most of his force annihilated they would be mostly empty, but that didn't matter. His mission was accomplished, or so he thought...
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"What in blazes are they?!"
Iduran fell backwards as a vine went for his neck, instinctively slashing his broadsword sideways and cutting the tentacle at half length, which immediately shrunk back in pain. The severed piece fell to Iduran's right as he hit the ground himself, the green leaves turning to a dark brown and a pale yellow gas emanating from the vine as it decayed.
Iduran looked to his left and saw Haraldur taking down the vines from a crawling position and decided to try the same method on the other side of the path. The vines flipped overhead wildly as he crawled to the edge of the path and began hacking wildly at the shrubbery, slicing through both glowing malicious vines and innocent plants alike. After a minute, he managed to hack through 5 more tentacles.
(14 left, 13 severed)
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday August 3rd, 2004
"In the first war we had against the Dark Empire, they threw onto us a plague of these creatures. Most were destroyed, but, looking like plants, they easily hide. There are few left."
Crawling sideways over to another he snapped it's stem with his hands. He then severed the stems of four others.
9 left, 17 severed, one snapped stem
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday August 3rd, 2004
//Yeah...whatever it is...\\
He looked around the cave. He saw Nevina in the tree, Seth lying in the cave, Duilin eating and he saw Qeni and Zev sleeping in Iduran's abandoned bed.
He jumped up and started gliding beside Nevina.
He tapped her on the shoulder. "Hey there sleepy-head. Just thought you'd like to know I gave Draven a replica of Idurans blade...well and he'll be here soon. Just tell everyone else for me ok?" He paused. "Could you take Qeni and Zev with you? I want them to live, so they can see a peaceful world...like it was a few centuries ago."
He landed on the ground and leaned agianst the cave, he started to meditate.
Posted by: Cesque on Tuesday August 3rd, 2004
"Everything is getting peaceful and quiet. Too quiet." - Scorch said. - "Cheetah, aren't you tired of hanging on that branch?"
"You bet I am."
"How about following Draven "
"How? You will fly with me and spy on him?"
"No, I'll fly ON you. I'm tired of traveling by air."
"No way!"
"Forget it. You're too weak. Head into the cave while I'll follow Draven."
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Cheetah instantly turned into wyvern and flew toward the cave. He landed on the ground, ignored meditating Nevina and Zeros, turned into human form and got inside.
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Scorch began to chant spells again. First it was haste, then a weak form of invisibility that made him look transparent. He couldn't cast full invisibility on himself while hasted, after years of mastering haste the spell was powerful enough to block most influence of further self-enchantments. The way magic worked and thousands of theories about this were confusing him, so he abandoned thinking on this subject.
He leaped into the air, elevated his position to be among tips of trees not to be so visible then began to fly after the small dot on the horizon... Draven's speed was unmatched, though, but propably he would be able to get where Draven wants to get.
Scorch had time to think for a while, "on the fly", literaly...
"What's south? A port. I visited it once already. Which gives me chance to get away from all this conflict, or to head after Draven... Or find some hideout and get some rest and think over my own plan for a while, 'what to do if Zeros' plan with fake blade screws everything up'..."
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Tuesday August 3rd, 2004
Shin sensed Draven leaving Romme and smiled to himself.
"Idiot."
He then approached the tree that Nevina was sleeping in, and leapt straight up to the branch right above hers, which coincidentally gave a pretty clear view of some of her...assets, heh. Without disturbing Nevina, Shin stared long and hard for a few moments, before his branch suddenly snapped, and he landed right on top of Nevina, feeling quite awkward...
Gyulim better not see this he thought...
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After a short trip across the seas, Gyulim arrived at Romme. After disembarking from the boat, she ran ahead of the soldiers and followed Shin's energy...but she was many miles away...
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday August 4th, 2004
Zeros' herd the branch snap and was awakened from his meditation. "Idiot." he murmered under his breath. He walked outside the cave and found where Shin was on-top of Nevina. He simply jumped up and started floating. "Need a lift?"
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(If he accepted help..)
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He grabbed Shin by the back of his shirt and set him down on the ground.
Zeros' sat down on the ground with his leg crossed, leaning agianst the tree, going back into a state of light meditation.
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(If he did not accept help..)
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"Whatever..." he simply landed on the ground, sat down with his legs crossed, leaned agianst the tree and went back into a state of light meditation.
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday August 4th, 2004
Draven glanced at the setting sun and deep red sky to his right. What a pain this whole ordeal was... He had never had this much trouble with any mission before... Luckily it was all over...
(Yeah, right...)
Now what to do when he arrives at the ships? Draven brought his army in three humongous warships, leaving 100 soldiers and crew in each and attacking with the rest. Probably would be best to wait for him there. Luckily he wouldn't have to explain the loss of his force, since he'll be so elated at acquiring the final weapon...
"Ugh... I hope he doesn't bring them along for the ride..."
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"Blast it!"
Seeing that the number of vines was diminishing, Iduran stood up and slashed the two in front of him. But this motion caused the remaining seven to go straight for him. Two entangled his right leg and the rest his torso and arms, lifting him up off of the ground.
"Gah!!!"
He stuggled violently, but to no avail, until he conjured the only bit of magic he knew. Iduran's broadsword began to glow a pale blue, charged with ice energy. In his restricted motion, he managed to barely graze the vines grabbing his right arm, causing them to wince back in pain. With his right arm free, he began to spin the sword around wildly, freezing and severing the remaining tentacles after a few seconds. Iduran fell to the ground, out of breath.
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday August 4th, 2004
Haraldur quickly shimmied accross the ground and killed the rest, and then went over to Iduran.
"You have been poisoned. It seems you will need to stay here for a little longer than you anticipated.
"I will not allow you to walk, as excercise will increase your heart rate and so speed up the distribution of the poison around the body. I am afraid I am going to carry you."
Haraldur got a grip on Iduran and stood up, holding Iduran.
"Be as still as possible," he said. He then started to walk the rest of the way to the city. He nodded to the guard as he entered the gate.
Posted by: Mark of the Dragon on Wednesday August 4th, 2004
Shin grunted..."No...I don't need help. I like it here, for some reasons more than others, hehehe"
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Gyulim continued following Shin's energy signal. His signal was a little less pure than she remembered...
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday August 4th, 2004
Zeros' stood up and walked over to Qeni and Zev. He picked them up and started gliding into the air. He waved. "Ill see you all later..I'll come back when the Dark Empire sturs things up agian." And with that, he flew off into the sunset, never to be seen agian. (Well...at least untill Chapter 3!)
Posted by: Cesque on Wednesday August 4th, 2004
(into the sunset, this should be direction Scorch and Draven are heading, again your super-fast speed allows you to avoid them)
(strange Sun rises south in Romme <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />)
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday August 4th, 2004
Zeros' then remembered that towards the sunset was the way Draven and Scorch were heading. He stopped in mid-air and turned around and flew that way.
"Damn sense of direction..." he muttered under his breath.
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Wednesday August 4th, 2004
Zeros' words sturred Nevina and caused her to go into a lighter trance. She was able to comprehend what Zeros' said.. to some extent. She heard "Draven... Sword replica... tell."
Because of the lighter trance she was in, Shins fall woke her up (she didn't open her eyes very quickly, It was enough time for Zeros' to talk to Shin.) Nevina opened her eyes about the time Shin said, "No...I don't need help. I like it here, for some reasons more than others, hehehe"
Nevina saw Shin was on top of her and said, "You climbed this tree just to get on top of me? Wow, I feel special." Nevina tried to suppress a slightly excited look on her face.
Nevina then attempted to slide out from under Shin.
Posted by: Cesque on Thursday August 5th, 2004
"Howdy, folks." - said Cheetah, noticing the overall aura of doing-nothing, as if no one cared that propably Draven will get mad soon noiticing the sword is false and get's back to kill them all.
Seeing no one cares, Cheetah found his old place of rest and went to sleep.
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Scorch silently hovered among the trees (imagine him flying like these levitating motor-like speeders from "Empire strikes back", something like this), hoping to get to the get to the base and imperial fleet as fast as possible... without Draven knowing he's been followed.
(Xorlak, if you'll be ending chapter 2 with Draven arriving at the ships, you can assume Scorch got there and is hiding somewhere spying (behind some crates or something), so that he won't start chapter 2 flying above the forest <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />)
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday August 5th, 2004
(Details, Cesque, details... Draven, who is heading south, looked to his right to see the setting sun, which would be west. Heh...)
(Chapter 2 ends around this time tomarrow.)
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As the last rays of the sun left the WESTERN sky, Draven could see the lights of his warships docked just off of the shore straight ahead. This southern shore of Romme was rocky, so the ships were anchored a few hundred yards from the land. He passed over the many small landing boats that were on the shore (along with a few dark soldiers in a small camp) and landed on the deck of the middle ship, which was illuminated by torches like the rest. A lieutenant appeared and saluted him.
"L... lord Draven! Are you... alone?"
"The deed is done. Prepare for the Emperor's arrival."
"Y-yes sir! And what about Commanders Kail, Darion, and Nex?"
"They won't be joining us."
Draven flipped his cape and turned to walk towards the door that lead below deck, still brandishing his prize in his right hand, but paused for a moment.
"If you wish to send a party northwards to tell any remaining soldiers to return to the ships, you may. But I doubt you will have much luck..."
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Iduran began to sit up.
"Are you sure? Actually I... feel... quite... all... riiiighhht......"
With that, the old soldier became dizzy and fell unconscious, becoming limp in Haruldur's arms.
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday August 5th, 2004
Haraldur strode quickly to a large turf building and lay Iduran on a bed near the entrance. He then walked over to a man in a white tunic and told him what had happened. The man then went over to Iduran and put a cup next to him. The man then layed his hands on Iduran and closed his eyes. The cup very slowly started to fill with a purple liquid.
Haraldur sat down on a chair next to the bed and went to sleep, knowing that this procedure would take hours to complete.
//I am now done with Chapter 2, and so is Iduran//
Posted by: Cesque on Thursday August 5th, 2004
Scorch left the forest and landed on the beach. Hiding behind one of rocks, he noticed completely preppared fleet of Dark Empire.
"Maw of the beast." - he thought, then he noticed Draven talking to some lieutenant. He couldn't exactly hear what they spoke about, though. But it wasn't looking good.
"Oh great. Guess I'll stay here and wait to see what happens..."
(all right... end for Scorch and Cheetah)
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday August 5th, 2004
Zeros' set down on a small island away from everyone elses going-on's. He looked around and found the island had plenty of trees, so there was alot of shade around.
He say under a tree and set Qeni and Zev down beside him. He leaned agianst the tree and put Qeni and Zev under a sleep spell. He closed his eyes and went into a deep, meditative sleep.
//End Zeros', Qeni and Zev.\\
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday August 5th, 2004
Duilin got abit tired and then headed into his room.
"It's abit messy, but, I'll manage"
He pushes a dead body off of his bed and then lies down on it, he tosses his weapon's aside and then goes to sleep
//Duilin has sleept in alot worrse places him being an ex dark empire servent/soilder//
(End for Duilin of Chapter 2)
Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Thursday August 5th, 2004
Nevina got out from under Shin and jumped from branch to branch, higher into her tree.
She looked at Shin with a silly 'don't follow me' expression. She then sat on her new found branch and went back into her trance, now 14 feet from the ground.
(Nevinas chapter 2 stopping place)
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Seth did not stur, though he began to levitate about a foot from the ground while still in a deep trance. (He may only levitate during trance, and during then it really doesn't benefit him. This is just another way I go about making Seth a balanced character.)
(Seths chapter 2 stopping place)
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday August 6th, 2004
Draven pushed the door open to his cabin, which was completely void of light. With a wave of the hand, all the candles in the room ignited, revealing candle holders of gold and an ornate bed. He walked over to the table and laid the sword across it, sitting in the chair next to it and folding his arms. The gem glimmered in the orange light of the flames, but still, it seemed dull and cloudy... What could this mean...?
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Meanwhile...
In a darkened room...
Two shadows stood before a third...
The first was a woman's voice, stern and authoritive.
"My lord, they say we will arrive tomarrow morning."
The second was a man's, somehow both brutish and refined, with almost a British accent.
"I'll bet he screwed it up..."
The third was also a man's, though much deeper, and the very sound of it cut through the soul...
"He has said he has obtained it. That is all that is necessary to believe."
The woman again, to the second.
"Must you be so critical of our comrade?"
"He is not one of us. Humans inherently are failures..."
A flip of the cape, and the sound of heavy armor leaving the room.
Thus ended the second day of the Dark Empire's assault on Romme.
To be continued...