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 Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:35 pm
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Shikoba was slightly drunk. This was important to note.
Alright, not drunk, but perhaps a little bit buzzed was a good way to describe it. Normally he would be taking these battles a lot more seriously, but when you fought titans day after day, eventually you just learn to go with it. And by that, we mean drinking a bit. He could still function, but for once the executioner was more languid than stiff, flexible rather than rigid, and grinning rather than scowling.
He had drunk a couple of glasses just to get into that state, and gods help the things he decided to stick his weapon into.
How he and Shaheen grabbed Thrain was still a mystery--one of the many things that escaped his notice. He didn't quite care about the hows so much as the can we go kill things yes let's go murderize that's a good plan. "Hurry it up before the portal closes," he complained half-heartedly, as his mind was still locked on the pretty image of misty blood flowing from the many wounds he would soon create.
DEVOUR CLASS TITAN HP: 100/100 ** Halved due to special effect RANGE: 50 - 100 meters CLASS: ***** (5 Distortion Fragments needed to successfully purify) Attack: Its long fast-moving tentacles will try to grab anything close to it and stuff it in. Very dangerous. Auto damage: This creature does 10 auto damage a full round. LOOT: Upon successful purification, roll a 4-sided dice to see what you obtain 1: Bonus Distortion Fragment x10 2: Insanity Tentacle x2 3: Insanity Broken Core: x2 4: Insanity Fragment x7
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:47 pm
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Whereas Shik had had a mere couple of drinks, Shaheen decided to have just one more than that. It was a matter of pride, of principal, of being just one step above at all times. In this case, just one step a little more drunk then he. Yes it made total sense in her head at the time. No, she did not regret it for a second.
She was feeling a little more dizzy and perhaps a lot more giddy than she could truly appreciate, however, when they both decided HELL might as well go and find a titan to destroy, or purify, or whatever it was they were supposed to be doing.
So, they had set off for the portal, Shaheen smiling unabashedly, and eyes landing on a familiar burly and blonde sight on there way. The guardian, Thrain, had surely found himself in the right place at the right time, and she did not hesitate to dart towards him, to grab him by the upper arm and haul him along for their bit of evening sport. He should have found himself blessed to be included.
No longer a date, but now a threesome, Shaheen attempted to give Shik a hard look as they approached the portal, one that quickly faded as she let out a laugh instead, the whispers in her head slightly more quiet today as she had taken a dose of distortion only a couple of days before.
"So eager, Shik? Relax, we have all evening for good fun." Yes, Shaheen actually said something about fun. She was feeling a strange combination of mellow and happiness, but the same thirst for greatness that had driven her for her entire life, even if much of that had to do with her parents.
"Ladies first." She practically purred, offering Thrain a large grin and gesturing for him to go ahead of her.
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:59 pm
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Thankfully the Guardian had settled somewhere between the two. Not too many drinks, but not few enough that singing was totally out of the question. Which meant that as he was pulled and pushed and moved along he was quite content to... Sing and be generally obnoxious.
"Red, the color of angry war people who... Who... Damn you both, you're hard to rhyme with..." The stallion stumbled after Shaheen, thoroughly enjoying being lead around because that meant he did not have to think on it on his own. Which, given the number of drinks he had actually ingested, was a pretty swell thing.
A small stumble was how he went through the portal, doing his best to try and think of more lyrics.
"Ladies are wonderful, being called one is not an insullltttttttt~" He tried, finding that rhyming was pretty much out the window. Still, once through he was slightly unhappy to see... A large monster.
"We will defeat the foe... Or else we have to........ go???" He never said he was very good at singing...
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:10 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:29 pm
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Seussi rolled 8 4-sided dice:
3, 1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1
Total: 14 (8-32)
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:47 pm
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Shaheen thought she was super clever with her little jibe what were you laughing about Shik? Her facial expression fell into it's more usual smirk of self satisfaction as she sashayed her hips through the portal after both Shik and Thrain, bringing up the rear to their little party but quickly pushing her way up between the two men, hand slipping around Shik's upper arm before she leaned up towards him, eyes bright with excitement as the titan lumbered into view.
"This is one of the big ones! I fought one before with---" But her words were cut off as Thrain responded with words that were bitter sweet before a weapon flashed and was sent hurtling towards the giant foe. There was something about the way that he said it, something that had her smile dying on her lips and...
...Oh hell no, she was not starting to tear up! If this is what the affects of alcohol had on her, she was having none of it ever again!
Leaving Shik's side, hand slipping away from him she reached behind her and pulled her sword out, then reached out with her free hand and gave Thrain a light pat on the back. "We are your people. You are my brother, whether it be in arms on the battlefield or simply walking side by side through the sanctuary." A very sober sentiment from a half drunk pony, one that took a lot of concentration to give before she darted forward with a holler, her eyes fairly glassy and not just from too much drink.
A dagger came to hand, and she swiped at the titan with two broad strokes of each blade, crisscrossing the strikes before leaping back, but not before getting swatted at like a giant fly by tentacles that writhed and swung through the air.
HP: 40 (will just take AD as I go)
Loot:
Items: Insanity Sword (using now)
Damage: 6 from sword + 11 = 17
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medigel rolled 7 4-sided dice:
2, 3, 1, 3, 4, 2, 3
Total: 18 (7-28)
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:10 am
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Why was everyone getting so emotional?! Shik opened his mouth, expecting as usual for something remarkably snarky to come out--and nothing left him except, "A fine idea."
Dear forgotten gods, he was never going to drink again. This sentimentality was murdering him from the inside out.
Warmly so.
He was not going soft, damn it. He just . . . never had a brother before, okay. His sister was the only family left that he knew of, as his parents hadn't made-- NO ******** THIS. BATTLE TIME.
"I do hope you're...capable of singing gloriously, Thrain," Shik added, grinning as his dagger became to light up. "As you do not fight with those who seek corpses, but those who create them." Poor Thrain would forever be inflicted with the secondary status of being not-of-War, but Shik supposed he could make a fine honorary member if he tried really, really hard.
Like ripping out that thing's misty guts with his sickle hard.
He shook his head and snickered as Shaheen went on the offensive, the light around his weapon finally becoming outright flames. "Nonono, this is how you do it." With a brazen cry he took to the sky, wings beating rapidly as he plunged his dagger into the tentacle monster's top and ripped a scar through it, smoke and mist intermingling as a sizzling sound was left in his wake.
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:17 am
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AyeAvast rolled 2 8-sided dice:
4, 5
Total: 9 (2-16)
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 4:24 pm
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"I'll have you know I do everything gloriously!" Thrain boomed back to Shik, waving his sickles around quite furiously. Everything he did was beyond fantastic, hadn't you noticed? It was most likely that yeah ok, maybe the Death Guardian had a track record of derping things up but that was neither here nor there! What was here though was the beginning of a great song. With a clear of his throat, the Guardian took his two blades and clanked them together three times to indicate he was going to sing now and y'all best shut up.
"Far away, in whatever odd place we find ourselvessssss~
Battling misty monsters of varying sizzzzzzzze
Brothers and sisters born from blades and from spilled bloooooood~
We seek to squash this foggy floooooood" See, Shik? He was a baller singer. He was just so crazy good. You didn't even known.
But true to his promise, he darted forward between the tentacles, not careful enough to miss them all, gritting his teeth against their deceptively strong pull. It hurt, but he had a song to thing of! And also blades that he used to slice at the appendages that attempted to wrap around him.
Quote: HP: 40/50 Damage: 3 Loot: 5 Distortion Fragments
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Seussi rolled 7 4-sided dice:
2, 1, 2, 4, 3, 1, 1
Total: 14 (7-28)
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 5:28 pm
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What Shaheen was learning from all of this, was that it was rather hard to concentrate on the task at hand, and rather hard not to become distracted. Thrain's singing had her serious face crumbling and she snorted quite loudly before laughing out almost hysterically, and stumbling back as she clutched at her stomach. Of course, that moment was short lived as she watched with what could only be delight in her eyes, when Shik's blade became alight with fire.
"That's new~!" She practically sing songed towards him, watching as he went on the attack, her expression quickly changing as eyes narrowed, her face screwing up a little.
"Show off." There was still some amusement in her tone, but less then before as she took to the air herself, intent on not letting Shik take all of the lime light, her own blade lighting up, but not with flames, just the yellow glow of her Fear as it infused her blade before she struck, driving it in deep and pulling it down.
She came to another realization at that moment. Flying while partially drunk was hard.
HP: 40
Damage: 12
Item: Insanity sword-used
Loot: 4 X distortion shards, 1 X insanity broken core
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medigel rolled 2 10-sided dice:
6, 7
Total: 13 (2-20)
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 12:54 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:25 pm
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AyeAvast rolled 9 4-sided dice:
2, 1, 3, 4, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3
Total: 22 (9-36)
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Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 3:17 pm
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Although normally laughter at his song might have been taken as a form of negative criticism, from Shik it was basically the highest form of a compliment. The gruff War horseman never cut up like that, and Thrain was feeling particularly pleased that he had made him laugh. Granted, Shaheen's laughter, on the other hand, did not mean the same thing. Her laughter meant she thought the Guardian a fool, which was very rude all things considered. But it only meant that, after taking a lash from a tentacle and quietly blinking the stars from his field of vision, Thrain clanked his sickles together in way of making some background music for himself.
"With flaming swords from fluttering Waaaaaaar
Death fights with its brethren once moooooreeeee
Together we fight, together we stand, together we defeaaaaat
We seek to make this sickness retreeeaaaattttt!" Oh yeah, baller bard.
A fiercer clank of his sickles began just in time for it to be Thrain's turn to strike the monster once more. He grinned and scraped them together as though using the other blade to wipe something from its brother. Where they met, long shadows poured from the metal, dripping down onto the ground where it roiled around the Guardian's feet. One last time he clanked his blades together before he launched himself forward to slash at the monster, the inky black ichor at his feet turning into spikes that drove themselves into the tentacled beast.
Oh yeah, baller fighter too.
Quote: HP: 30/50 Damage: 10 Loot: 5 Distortion Fragments Fear: Y2 SS- using now
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Seussi rolled 2 4-sided dice:
4, 3
Total: 7 (2-8)
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Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 3:51 pm
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There was really nothing wrong with getting a little bit tipsy now and again. Nothing at all except that on a good day, Shaheen emotions took more ups and downs and turns and loops then a roller coaster, and any amount of alcohol was only going to exacerbate that situation further. One moment laughing and jovial, actually having fun and not caring if anybody knew it. A light mood to go with her new lease on life provided by the distortion that Shik could now inject in her to keep her insanity at bay.
At bay, but never wholly gone. It still tormented her at times, still woke her in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, still whispered at her and intensified all of her smallest insecurities so that they ate up everything else. But it didn't matter, everything was fine. Everything was fine......
Why was everyone ignoring her?
It was true. Shik hadn't gifted her with his usual combat banter. Thrain had only spoken in response to things that Shikoba had said to him, and nothing in return to her. She felt, for all intents and purposes, like she wasn't even there, like they couldn't even see her.
Her smile faltered. Her wings beat steadily behind her as she turned to glance, first at one, and then at the other, before the happy expression on her face slipped away completely, a dead pan look taking it's place instead. She saw how it was. She wasn't strictly needed or wanted in this little party. Thrain's new musical notes fell on deaf ears as he struck at the titan one more time, leaving it ready for purification.
Turning away from them both, and without a word, she flew around to the other side of the titan, away from them, attempting to dodge around flailing tentacles, chest tight, reaching into the pouch on her belt and extracting two distortion crystals to toss down at the large creature.
She just wanted this done so that she could leave. Now.
She only half considered throwing rocks at the heads of the two men in anger. She was trying really hard not to react violently.
HP: 30
Damage: 7
Item: Insanity sword-used
Loot: 4 X distortion shards, 1 X insanity broken core -using 2 shards
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medigel rolled 3 4-sided dice:
2, 3, 3
Total: 8 (3-12)
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