Post by feedback on Jul 23, 2007 19:29:57 GMT -5
Continued from the earlier post.
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Shin continues to try and explain his actions as Klavion, Osmium, and myself start yelling at him telling him what a stupid move that was. Once we're done with that...
Shin: (So what can you tell me about the enemy's weapons?)
Lucia: (They hurt. Don't get hit.)
Tirvan: "They are weapons from my Order."
Shin: (Will they hurt me?)
Tirvan: "Probably."
Lucia: (Yes. Don't get hit.)
Moving to join the rest of us, Shin takes on a defensive stance and gets ready for the lone Eodai to charge. The one Eodai solidifies as he loses his ethereal status, marching towards us. A second Eodai, the one that was previously left behind, also appears, walking over the rubble that used to be a building. Not good.
Seizing the initiative, Osmium conjures a shadow tendril as he advances towards the two Eodai. Grabbing the Eodai by the neck, he makes a slight gesture and the tendril snaps the Eodai's neck in it's vice like grip. Unfortunately even with the zombie's neck hanging at an impossible angle, it doesn't seem to slow down any and just snarls back at Osmium.
Osmium: "I've seen worse."
Man, if it isn't one thing it's another. Well, if everyone else is determined to make their stand here, then I suppose that it won't do me any good to run. Landing next to Nalivir, I decide that it's really time to pull out all the stops and go full throttle. Figuring that the others should be able to buy me the necessary time I close my eyes briefly, focusing my mana and begin casting a spell, "I call upon the crimson flame that rests deep inside my soul. Awaken now and shine brightly with your eternal light. Guide me through the forest of the lost and onto the path of victory." As I'm busy incanting, I begin to glow with a faint crimson light that gradually builds as I incant. I can feel the magic flowing through me as I feel my reflexes quicken and my strength increase. After completing the incantation I am surrounded by a bright crimson glow that gives off the illusion that I am at the center of a burning flame. My burning crimson eyes now visible even through my sunglasses.
As I'm busy casting my first spell, I reach into a pocket and withdraw a small vial. Wasting no time as I finish my first spell, I quickly begin incanting a second spell, "Second heat, spirits of the eternal flame I summon thee. Gather within this vessel and grant me the power to destroy all who might oppose me. With burning hellfire we shall incinerate any who dare to oppose us and scatter their ashes to the four winds." As I'm incanting, I hold a small vial in my left hand. Snapping my fingers part way through the incantation, a small crimson flame appears in my right hand. As I finish my incantation I clap my hands together, breaking the vial and releasing the liquid contained within. The flame in my right hand flares as it makes contact with the liquid, quickly growing and engulfing me in fire. The previous flame illusion grows brighter as my second spell's strength flows through me. Satisfied that my preparations are complete, I turn my attention back to the battle at hand.
Unwilling or unable to wait any longer, Shin charges the approaching Eodai. Winding up his strong right arm as he closes the distance, he throws a powerful straight punch at the Eodai being held by Osmium's tendril. Sadly the Eodai saw this attack coming from a mile away and quickly goes ethereal just as the punch is about to connect. Killing two birds with one stone, our zombie friend frees himself from Osmium's iron grip and avoids our big bruiser's punch at the same time. Damn, these guys are smarter than they look.
Following Shin into battle, Tirvan charges in incanting a spell as he closes the distance. His sword's blade turn wispy clear as Tirvan makes a downward slash at the Eodai that Shin just failed to hit. His new weapon obviously capable of hitting ethereal opponents slams into the zombie doing some good damage. Interestingly little trick he has there, it seems that our friend has more than a few tricks up his sleeve.
A bit frustrated with his current situation, Shin goes on the mind link and asks Klavion is he has had any experience dealing with ethereal beings, more specifically how to fight them. Klavion responds with some general helpful hints, not that it does Shin any good. Left with few options, Shin appears to be waiting for the Eodai to solidify so he can put the hurt on him.
The other Eodai stumbles towards the battle. Judging from his movements, I take a wild guess that Nalivir's earlier spell managed to blind him. Pretty powerful spell too considering it's still in effect. He takes a swing at Tirvan, but Tirvan manages to barely duck under the attack. Two on five right now and one of them is blind, so far it seems that we have the advantage. Of course as I'm thinking this the one we thought Shin crushed with the flying building suddenly walks out from under the rubble, clearly ethereal himself. I think at this point every single one of us was thinking, 'Fuck!' A few of us even said it over the mind link too.
Nalivir, determined to be more than just a bystander begins casting another spell. Suddenly a wall of light appears between Tirvan and the blind Eodai. Defensive magic, the specialty of the light element. It seems that the good Senator isn't as helpless as she first appeared to be. I suppose I should feel a little guilty about how happy I am that Nalivir is being forced to use her magic, but at the same time I'm having too much fun analyzing her spells and determining the limit of her abilities. These spells are a lot more interesting than the simple furniture conjuring spells she was using earlier. Yeah, you could say that I'm in a very good mood now despite the shit I was just forced to deal with. These spells she's using are just fascinating.
With two enemies ethereal and one trapped behind a barrier, I don't have a clear shot on any of them. Well, no matter, this spell I have in mind takes some time to prepare anyways. I begin gathering some mana and molding it as I wait for a clear shot. As I'm waiting Osmium moves closer, looking for an opportunity to present itself so he can murder these zombies.
None of us have to wait too long as the two ethereal Eodai solidify, but before they can act Shin throws a quick straight punch at the Eodai with a broken neck. The Eodai managed to dodge slightly, but still got nailed in the arm and got sent flying backwards into the rubble. Sliding, bouncing, and tumbling across the ground for several meters clearing a path as he rolls. Looks like Shin made his presence felt, though he doesn't look too happy that the Eodai managed to avoid the brunt of that attack. The Eodai himself while he looks terrible now, still appears to be moving.
Seeing one Eodai down, but not out I decide to leave him to Shin and turn my attention to the guy who we thought was burried under the building. Hey, now doesn't he look familiar, he's that bastard who knocked me flat on my ass earlier. Yeah, well now we're playing my game and payback is a bitch. Judging from how effective some of our previous attacks were, it is obvious that these things won't stop just because we broke one or two of their bones or stabbed them in the vitals. Hoping that losing his head will do the trick I call on one of my most powerful and sacred flames, "The roar of time, from the heavens up above where the dragons dwell. Descend now to this mortal plane and smite these unbelievers with your divine might." A small golden white flame appears in both of my hands as I incant this spell. Making a wide sweeping motion with both of my arms, leaving a trail of golden white flames where they passes, I trace the outline of two perpendicular circles. A small flame appears in the center of the two circles and begins to expand and grow until it fills the interior of the two circles which have now become a sphere of golden white fire. Upon completing my incantation I take aim at my poor target and make a pushing gesture with my right hand, hurling this ball of holy fire at the Eodai zombie that nearly knocked me out earlier. My aim is true and I hit him right on the nose. His head is engulfed in holy flames that burn his head clean off his shoulders, the now headless Eodai drops lifelessly onto the ground as his neck smolders. I smile seeing very favorable results, 'This is why I love ranged combat.' Oh yeah, that worked out nicely.
I catch a look of surprise on Shin's face as he notices a ball of fire fly by and destroy one of the zombies. He glances back at me and I can tell that he now realizes that my threats of killing him weren't that far fetched. I suppose that's a good thing, maybe now he'll listen to me when I tell him not to do stupid things. Well, one can hope at least. Shin doesn't have long to admire my fireworks as the zombie he knocked down gets back to its feet and charges him swinging wildly. So wildly that he misses a Val sized target, now that takes real talent. Good job zombie dude.
The other blind Eodai blindly swings at Tirvan, only to connect with Nalivir's force wall. I'm actually surprised that his attack didn't break through and start wondering if this is due to the strength of the barrier or lack of strength on the part of the Eodai. In either case both Tirvan and Shin are spared much pain as it seems that these zombie's combat abilities have rapidly diminished in the short time it took us to retreat to this distance.
One down, one blind, and one on the verge of re-death. I guess that there isn't much for Nalivir to do offensively as she decides to tend to my wounds. Casting some sort of healing spell, she repairs the damage that I previously took. I once again thank her in Faerihalirianthyrianial and continue to watch the battle, looking for another good shot at these zombies.
As impressed as Shin might be with me, I'm also rather impressed with him at the moment. That red glow whatever it is seems to give him a tremendous boost to his offensive capabilities. Perhaps this is what he used in our first mission that caused him to become useless after it wore off. Given the difference between him now and the previous battle I observed, it would make sense that he is now pushing his body beyond his limits which would warrant the previously observed rebound effect. As I'm busy admiring Shin's booster ability, he's busy trying to uppercut the nearly dead again zombie. I'm not sure how but he somehow managed to uppercut the zombie's leg. I guess that he misjudged the distance or something. Either way that still looked like it hurt, but sadly it doesn't seem as if the zombie cared.
Tirvan being the ever interesting individual he is begins incanting another spell and his sword suddenly turns bright blue. He makes a slashing attack against the almost dead again zombie and connects. It appears that this new enchantment on his weapon is a lot more effective, that or the zombie finally reached the limit of its physical endurance as it collapses as Tirvan cleaves his blade through it. And then there was one.
Osmium advances his position a little more and conjures another shadow tendril to attack the zombie behind the force wall. Once again he does his best to squeeze the life out of the zombie with little success. It appears that these zombies are a bad opponent for our shadowy friend as his attacks don't seem to be doing a whole lot of damage. I sense a faint feeling of frustration as he notices that his attacks aren't doing nearly as much damage as they should be.
Suddenly Juno arrives, flying in at the speed of whoa. Taking aim at the only remaining threat, he fires some sort of red magical blast from his shoulder. This being the first time I have actually seen Juno in a fight, I am intrigued to notice that his abilities appear to be the result of magitek and not sorcery. His attack, whatever it was scores a hit on the zombie's leg, though unfortunately it doesn't appear to have much effect.
Shin eager to end this does a flying leap over the force wall, twisting and turning in mid-air landing behind the zombie. Feeling rather confident that this will be the final blow, Shin screams, "This is finished!" as he throws a straight fist at the back of the zombie's head. I'm not sure just how strong Shin is now that he's fully powered up, but that last attack hits the zombie right smack in the middle of the back of his head. I guess it was too surprised to react like it did with me, or being blind it probably had no clue what just happened. The zombie's face is smashed into the force wall, which flares brightly for an instant before shattering as the zombie goes flying through it. Tirvan, in the direct path of the flying zombie screams, "Oh fuck!" as he dives out of the way, the zombie passing harmlessly through his after image as Tirvan narrowly avoids getting hit by one of Shin's flying corpses. An event which seems to happen a lot more often than it really should. I wonder if Shin has ever heard the term friendly fire. The corpse continues to fly across the street and manages to break through at least two more walls before I lose sight of it. Damn, I think to myself, what a hit.
Looking around the now dead battlefield, I can't help but think to myself, 'Damn... That wasn't that bad at all. What the hell happened earlier then?' It is clear that many of us were using our most powerful abilities and our overwhelming victory is the result. Glancing around with a new respect for several of my allies, I watch as everyone starts to power down, or feel the after effects of their powers. Shin falls down looking completely exhausted while Tirvan lets his sword dissipate. Cutting the flow of mana to my spells, I stop glowing as the flames that surrounded me flicker one last time and then fade away as the wind blows. Juno lands next to us as Osmium walks over, not looking all that happy at the moment. Yelling over at Shin and Tirvan I ask if they're ok. They both respond that they're alright. I'm about to check to see how Nalivir is doing when Osmium starts yelling at Shin, continuing from where he left off earlier. Well, so much for trying to avoid talking about Shin's latest act of stupidity. Looking over at Osmium, then Shin, then Nalivir, I sigh. Yeah, this is going to take a whole lot of explaining.
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To be continued.
Hopefully I'll have the last segment up by sometime tomorrow assuming my internet doesn't decide to give me the finger again, but no promises. This last part I have sketchy notes on because again, mostly dialog that I didn't have time to copy down.
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Shin continues to try and explain his actions as Klavion, Osmium, and myself start yelling at him telling him what a stupid move that was. Once we're done with that...
Shin: (So what can you tell me about the enemy's weapons?)
Lucia: (They hurt. Don't get hit.)
Tirvan: "They are weapons from my Order."
Shin: (Will they hurt me?)
Tirvan: "Probably."
Lucia: (Yes. Don't get hit.)
Moving to join the rest of us, Shin takes on a defensive stance and gets ready for the lone Eodai to charge. The one Eodai solidifies as he loses his ethereal status, marching towards us. A second Eodai, the one that was previously left behind, also appears, walking over the rubble that used to be a building. Not good.
Seizing the initiative, Osmium conjures a shadow tendril as he advances towards the two Eodai. Grabbing the Eodai by the neck, he makes a slight gesture and the tendril snaps the Eodai's neck in it's vice like grip. Unfortunately even with the zombie's neck hanging at an impossible angle, it doesn't seem to slow down any and just snarls back at Osmium.
Osmium: "I've seen worse."
Man, if it isn't one thing it's another. Well, if everyone else is determined to make their stand here, then I suppose that it won't do me any good to run. Landing next to Nalivir, I decide that it's really time to pull out all the stops and go full throttle. Figuring that the others should be able to buy me the necessary time I close my eyes briefly, focusing my mana and begin casting a spell, "I call upon the crimson flame that rests deep inside my soul. Awaken now and shine brightly with your eternal light. Guide me through the forest of the lost and onto the path of victory." As I'm busy incanting, I begin to glow with a faint crimson light that gradually builds as I incant. I can feel the magic flowing through me as I feel my reflexes quicken and my strength increase. After completing the incantation I am surrounded by a bright crimson glow that gives off the illusion that I am at the center of a burning flame. My burning crimson eyes now visible even through my sunglasses.
As I'm busy casting my first spell, I reach into a pocket and withdraw a small vial. Wasting no time as I finish my first spell, I quickly begin incanting a second spell, "Second heat, spirits of the eternal flame I summon thee. Gather within this vessel and grant me the power to destroy all who might oppose me. With burning hellfire we shall incinerate any who dare to oppose us and scatter their ashes to the four winds." As I'm incanting, I hold a small vial in my left hand. Snapping my fingers part way through the incantation, a small crimson flame appears in my right hand. As I finish my incantation I clap my hands together, breaking the vial and releasing the liquid contained within. The flame in my right hand flares as it makes contact with the liquid, quickly growing and engulfing me in fire. The previous flame illusion grows brighter as my second spell's strength flows through me. Satisfied that my preparations are complete, I turn my attention back to the battle at hand.
Unwilling or unable to wait any longer, Shin charges the approaching Eodai. Winding up his strong right arm as he closes the distance, he throws a powerful straight punch at the Eodai being held by Osmium's tendril. Sadly the Eodai saw this attack coming from a mile away and quickly goes ethereal just as the punch is about to connect. Killing two birds with one stone, our zombie friend frees himself from Osmium's iron grip and avoids our big bruiser's punch at the same time. Damn, these guys are smarter than they look.
Following Shin into battle, Tirvan charges in incanting a spell as he closes the distance. His sword's blade turn wispy clear as Tirvan makes a downward slash at the Eodai that Shin just failed to hit. His new weapon obviously capable of hitting ethereal opponents slams into the zombie doing some good damage. Interestingly little trick he has there, it seems that our friend has more than a few tricks up his sleeve.
A bit frustrated with his current situation, Shin goes on the mind link and asks Klavion is he has had any experience dealing with ethereal beings, more specifically how to fight them. Klavion responds with some general helpful hints, not that it does Shin any good. Left with few options, Shin appears to be waiting for the Eodai to solidify so he can put the hurt on him.
The other Eodai stumbles towards the battle. Judging from his movements, I take a wild guess that Nalivir's earlier spell managed to blind him. Pretty powerful spell too considering it's still in effect. He takes a swing at Tirvan, but Tirvan manages to barely duck under the attack. Two on five right now and one of them is blind, so far it seems that we have the advantage. Of course as I'm thinking this the one we thought Shin crushed with the flying building suddenly walks out from under the rubble, clearly ethereal himself. I think at this point every single one of us was thinking, 'Fuck!' A few of us even said it over the mind link too.
Nalivir, determined to be more than just a bystander begins casting another spell. Suddenly a wall of light appears between Tirvan and the blind Eodai. Defensive magic, the specialty of the light element. It seems that the good Senator isn't as helpless as she first appeared to be. I suppose I should feel a little guilty about how happy I am that Nalivir is being forced to use her magic, but at the same time I'm having too much fun analyzing her spells and determining the limit of her abilities. These spells are a lot more interesting than the simple furniture conjuring spells she was using earlier. Yeah, you could say that I'm in a very good mood now despite the shit I was just forced to deal with. These spells she's using are just fascinating.
With two enemies ethereal and one trapped behind a barrier, I don't have a clear shot on any of them. Well, no matter, this spell I have in mind takes some time to prepare anyways. I begin gathering some mana and molding it as I wait for a clear shot. As I'm waiting Osmium moves closer, looking for an opportunity to present itself so he can murder these zombies.
None of us have to wait too long as the two ethereal Eodai solidify, but before they can act Shin throws a quick straight punch at the Eodai with a broken neck. The Eodai managed to dodge slightly, but still got nailed in the arm and got sent flying backwards into the rubble. Sliding, bouncing, and tumbling across the ground for several meters clearing a path as he rolls. Looks like Shin made his presence felt, though he doesn't look too happy that the Eodai managed to avoid the brunt of that attack. The Eodai himself while he looks terrible now, still appears to be moving.
Seeing one Eodai down, but not out I decide to leave him to Shin and turn my attention to the guy who we thought was burried under the building. Hey, now doesn't he look familiar, he's that bastard who knocked me flat on my ass earlier. Yeah, well now we're playing my game and payback is a bitch. Judging from how effective some of our previous attacks were, it is obvious that these things won't stop just because we broke one or two of their bones or stabbed them in the vitals. Hoping that losing his head will do the trick I call on one of my most powerful and sacred flames, "The roar of time, from the heavens up above where the dragons dwell. Descend now to this mortal plane and smite these unbelievers with your divine might." A small golden white flame appears in both of my hands as I incant this spell. Making a wide sweeping motion with both of my arms, leaving a trail of golden white flames where they passes, I trace the outline of two perpendicular circles. A small flame appears in the center of the two circles and begins to expand and grow until it fills the interior of the two circles which have now become a sphere of golden white fire. Upon completing my incantation I take aim at my poor target and make a pushing gesture with my right hand, hurling this ball of holy fire at the Eodai zombie that nearly knocked me out earlier. My aim is true and I hit him right on the nose. His head is engulfed in holy flames that burn his head clean off his shoulders, the now headless Eodai drops lifelessly onto the ground as his neck smolders. I smile seeing very favorable results, 'This is why I love ranged combat.' Oh yeah, that worked out nicely.
I catch a look of surprise on Shin's face as he notices a ball of fire fly by and destroy one of the zombies. He glances back at me and I can tell that he now realizes that my threats of killing him weren't that far fetched. I suppose that's a good thing, maybe now he'll listen to me when I tell him not to do stupid things. Well, one can hope at least. Shin doesn't have long to admire my fireworks as the zombie he knocked down gets back to its feet and charges him swinging wildly. So wildly that he misses a Val sized target, now that takes real talent. Good job zombie dude.
The other blind Eodai blindly swings at Tirvan, only to connect with Nalivir's force wall. I'm actually surprised that his attack didn't break through and start wondering if this is due to the strength of the barrier or lack of strength on the part of the Eodai. In either case both Tirvan and Shin are spared much pain as it seems that these zombie's combat abilities have rapidly diminished in the short time it took us to retreat to this distance.
One down, one blind, and one on the verge of re-death. I guess that there isn't much for Nalivir to do offensively as she decides to tend to my wounds. Casting some sort of healing spell, she repairs the damage that I previously took. I once again thank her in Faerihalirianthyrianial and continue to watch the battle, looking for another good shot at these zombies.
As impressed as Shin might be with me, I'm also rather impressed with him at the moment. That red glow whatever it is seems to give him a tremendous boost to his offensive capabilities. Perhaps this is what he used in our first mission that caused him to become useless after it wore off. Given the difference between him now and the previous battle I observed, it would make sense that he is now pushing his body beyond his limits which would warrant the previously observed rebound effect. As I'm busy admiring Shin's booster ability, he's busy trying to uppercut the nearly dead again zombie. I'm not sure how but he somehow managed to uppercut the zombie's leg. I guess that he misjudged the distance or something. Either way that still looked like it hurt, but sadly it doesn't seem as if the zombie cared.
Tirvan being the ever interesting individual he is begins incanting another spell and his sword suddenly turns bright blue. He makes a slashing attack against the almost dead again zombie and connects. It appears that this new enchantment on his weapon is a lot more effective, that or the zombie finally reached the limit of its physical endurance as it collapses as Tirvan cleaves his blade through it. And then there was one.
Osmium advances his position a little more and conjures another shadow tendril to attack the zombie behind the force wall. Once again he does his best to squeeze the life out of the zombie with little success. It appears that these zombies are a bad opponent for our shadowy friend as his attacks don't seem to be doing a whole lot of damage. I sense a faint feeling of frustration as he notices that his attacks aren't doing nearly as much damage as they should be.
Suddenly Juno arrives, flying in at the speed of whoa. Taking aim at the only remaining threat, he fires some sort of red magical blast from his shoulder. This being the first time I have actually seen Juno in a fight, I am intrigued to notice that his abilities appear to be the result of magitek and not sorcery. His attack, whatever it was scores a hit on the zombie's leg, though unfortunately it doesn't appear to have much effect.
Shin eager to end this does a flying leap over the force wall, twisting and turning in mid-air landing behind the zombie. Feeling rather confident that this will be the final blow, Shin screams, "This is finished!" as he throws a straight fist at the back of the zombie's head. I'm not sure just how strong Shin is now that he's fully powered up, but that last attack hits the zombie right smack in the middle of the back of his head. I guess it was too surprised to react like it did with me, or being blind it probably had no clue what just happened. The zombie's face is smashed into the force wall, which flares brightly for an instant before shattering as the zombie goes flying through it. Tirvan, in the direct path of the flying zombie screams, "Oh fuck!" as he dives out of the way, the zombie passing harmlessly through his after image as Tirvan narrowly avoids getting hit by one of Shin's flying corpses. An event which seems to happen a lot more often than it really should. I wonder if Shin has ever heard the term friendly fire. The corpse continues to fly across the street and manages to break through at least two more walls before I lose sight of it. Damn, I think to myself, what a hit.
Looking around the now dead battlefield, I can't help but think to myself, 'Damn... That wasn't that bad at all. What the hell happened earlier then?' It is clear that many of us were using our most powerful abilities and our overwhelming victory is the result. Glancing around with a new respect for several of my allies, I watch as everyone starts to power down, or feel the after effects of their powers. Shin falls down looking completely exhausted while Tirvan lets his sword dissipate. Cutting the flow of mana to my spells, I stop glowing as the flames that surrounded me flicker one last time and then fade away as the wind blows. Juno lands next to us as Osmium walks over, not looking all that happy at the moment. Yelling over at Shin and Tirvan I ask if they're ok. They both respond that they're alright. I'm about to check to see how Nalivir is doing when Osmium starts yelling at Shin, continuing from where he left off earlier. Well, so much for trying to avoid talking about Shin's latest act of stupidity. Looking over at Osmium, then Shin, then Nalivir, I sigh. Yeah, this is going to take a whole lot of explaining.
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To be continued.
Hopefully I'll have the last segment up by sometime tomorrow assuming my internet doesn't decide to give me the finger again, but no promises. This last part I have sketchy notes on because again, mostly dialog that I didn't have time to copy down.
