Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:35 pm
by Shoolis
NOTICE: This is Enternum's side of the attack. This warning is so you don't get confused and such.
The desert seemed to go on forever. Although his outfit was pure white, the heat was almost unbearable. It must have been weeks since he first turned his back from the green grass of his home, but he couldn't turn back; not after the mistake. He couldn't let that happen again. Not ever.
Suddenly, movement. A flash in the distance. Sand was swirling all around. He knew what that flash came from. Weapons were being drawn. Blood was going to be spilled. The sand meant elementals. Whoever was out there didn't know how weapons were ineffective against Earth Elementals.
As he neared the battle, he saw the person who needed help. It was a girl. She was injured, but holding her own against two elementals. However, it seemed she didn't have a way to end the fight, and she would wear out fast. Without thinking, a card came out of his sleeve. The five red diamonds started glowing, and soon a sphere a pure water poured out of the card and gathered above him. Pointing his arm at the elementals, the sphere seperated, and quickly formed into long spears, which froze. The frozen spears flew off with incredible speed right through the two daemons. As the spears went through the coarse sand, the figures became immaterial and faded back into the sand.
As the girl stood shocked at what had happened to her newly fallen foes, she looked up at him. She muttered "Oh, uh, thanks..." before she slumped to the ground.
He knew he couldn't leave the poor girl out in the middle of the desert. He had to protect anyone he could from the terrors of the world. He quickly dressed her wound, slung her over his shoulder, and started off in the direction her quickly fading footprints came from.
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 11:45 pm
by Sleauxbreaux
Zang, Palenque, WouldYouKindly, Koeqepp, HisanTakura as:
Zang/Pharoah, Palenque, Bill/WYK, Qepp, Jason
Zang is eavesdropping in a bar when he hears a crash from a shed outside. He finds that it's Palenque's makeshift workshop and that he's dropped a shelf on himself. After helping him, Zang touches a device Palenque was working on which basically explodes. Palenque, being on the run, decides to leave with Zang, since the explosion undoubtedly drew attention. After Palenque takes something from the wreckage of the device, they begin their trek toward Windmon. After arriving, they go to an inn for the night, and at some point their room gets broken into by Bill (Who is, at the time, WouldYouKindly). He gouges himself on Palenque's switchblade and wakes them both up. Throwing him out causes WYK to hit his head, becoming Bill again. After explaining how he changes, Zang and Palenque decide to take Bill with them. As they're leaving, they see a large fire next to Windmon's windmill. The fire is a crashed ship belonging to Qepp (Koeqepp), who introduces himself and asks for help finding the keys. Palenque quickly agrees, finding a seemingly mechanical being fascinating. Having found help, Qepp sacrifices his ship to put out the fire, then proceeds to explain that he needed to keys to fight a demon plaguing his people. Zang reluctantly agrees with Palenque to take on Qepp and they decide to rest for the remainder of the night. Palenque builds a shelter out of Qepp's ship debris, as well as a sort of futuristic bazooka that fires electricity.
Jason (HisanTakura), outside the windmill, runs into Pharoah (Also Zang), who offers him a deal: If Jason brings the Keys to Pharoah, he will grant Jason's every wish. Jason, on the grounds that it would make an interesting story, accepts, and a symbol signifying the pact is seared onto his hand. Jason decides he'll be travelling with the group in the makeshift ship-shelter.
Morning arrives and the group ventures into the windmill, the door ominously slamming shut behind them. The room fills with zombies, which they dispatch quickly. Floating above the visceral debris is the first Key, and as soon as they became aware of it's presence, a massive demon appears. Qepp, fueled by raw hatred for demons and glowing with energy, launches himself at it, and the others follow suit. Palenque readies his bazooka, which has inadvertantly collected excess energy from Qepp's suit, and fires a massive blast of lightning, temporarily blinding everyone in the room and causing absolutely no damage to the demon, as it was ethereal. Jason, who had been in a room below, runs into the room just in time to find himself blinded by the light as well. He realizes the demon's weakness after regaining his sight: a small crystal circlet around the demon's head, but the the demon, in retaliation, summons the spirits of all the warrriors who had fought him and failed. Zang convinces the spirits that their attack would only prolong their suffering, and they fade back into the walls and floor, and as soon as they have their opening the group attacks together, destroying the demon. The Key appears in it's place and dematerializes into Qepp's chest. A symbol of a key appears on his chest. As the dust settles, the group greets their new ally, but Zang sees the symbol on Jason's hand. Jason shrugs it off, as though it were nothing, and the party accepts him.
Electric Goat, bagofnuts, Squigzog, Odds, Game Angel, Unbalanced, Mr. Mander, Shoolis as:
Dominion Rod, Saint/Will, The Sneak, Animak, Angie, Peter, Trainwreck, Enternum
Dominion Rod (Electric Goat) is sent to Darnor by the Middleton authorities to infiltrate and observe. While sneaking around, he bumps into Saint (bagofnuts), who talks his ear off. After a misunderstanding, Saint hovers off and runs into The Sneak (Squig) who immediately kills him and throws his lantern out a window. DR flees back to Middleton.
Sneak goes back to Animak (Odds), who is in the process of being forcefully removed from the last welcoming bar in Darnon. Animak is apparently Sneak's "Master". A mysterious hag appears and informs them of the keys. Animak, having nowhere to go, decides to go after them, and Sneak follows.
Nearby, a young medic is passing a tower when Saint's lantern hits him on the head. He blacks out, and when he comes to, Saint has possessed him. The combination of the medic and Saint creates the androgynous Will, who is immediately confused by Animak as a beautiful woman. Will swoons over the attention. Dominion Rod, who has been kicked out of Middleton for failing his mission, is sneaking around Darnon as a raccoon and decides to stalk Animak, Will, and Sneak, not knowing Will is his former acquaintance, Saint. Sneak catches DR following them and during Animak's attempt to eat him, Angie flies into the fray on Peter's (Unbalanced) back, landing tiddies-first on Animak. Will, infatuated with Animak, intervenes and is quickly stabbed in the butt by Sneak, jealous of the attention his master is getting. Will retaliates and they battle then and there. Animak brings an end to the fight on the grounds that he's hungry.
Meanwhile, Peter and DM decide to leave Darnon together. They later blow up Mangaton with the powers of upstanding members of society and rainbows. Not really.
After a trip to an octogenarian eatery and an arm-twisting of a local merchant, the party aqcuires BESSIE 2.0, a mechanical horse powered by arcane magicks, which is immediately destroyed by Trainwreck (Mander), who had previously run over the Great Forest Elder and gained the ability to ride the rails of rainbows (those events are not related). Animak, furious, brings Trainwreck into his employ, which works well since Trainwreck has been looking for a new "evil master" after being fired by his last one.
They depart from Darnon on foot for now, and almost as soon as they leave, they are attacked by bandits. Angie steps forward to defend the party, but her aesthetic magicks malfunction after being run into by Animak. She now wears a suit unknown to her (yokosuit), but quickly discovers this suit is equipped with guns. After dispatching the bandits, she switches to a more preferable suit and turns to Animak. Enraged, she tells him off, then storms away. The group, now lacking Angie, climbs into Trainwreck who departs via rainbowtravel. Some time later, Trainwreck informs the passengers that he has run out of rail and that impact is imminent. They brace themselves as Trainwreck lands somewhere a few miles away from Mangaton.
Angie, alone now, ventures into a desert and is attacked by two earth elementals. She fights valiantly, but ultimately fails to defeat them. Fortunately, a man in a white coat witnesses the battle and disposes of the elementals. Angie thanks him before passing out due to injuries suffered at the hands of the elementals. The man in white is Enternum (Shoolis), and after ridding himself of the demons, picks up the unconcious Angie and begins walking the way she had come.
Alexandy, Guyperson as:
Alexandy, Perry
Alexandy had caught a ride on a wagon from Middleton to Mangaton. After arriving, he runs into Perry (Guyperson) who questions him about the keys. After stealing Alexandy's food, Perry ninjas away toward Mangaton's clocktower, which he assumes holds one of the keys. Alexandy coincidentally assumes the same thing and heads into the clock tower as well. They run into each other once again and ascend the clock tower together. Upon reaching the top, they are greeted by a titanic, hideous creature called the Wiabu, which seems to be a massive round of humanoid flesh, filled with pressurized blood. They had discovered this after Perry had thrown a poison-coated shuriken and, in turn, been thrown backwards by a wave of blood caused by the wound. Fortunately, the Wiabu heals quickly. Perry, realizing they can't wound it, fills a rice ball with explosive capsules and forces it down the Wiabu's throat. Alexandy then uses a nearby clock gear and a bit of fire magic to pierce the Wiabu's stomach, lighting the capsules. The Wiabu is no more, and the room is coated with it's blood and parts in it's place. Perry takes the key, with the Wiabu's hand still attached, and the clocktower begins to collapse around them due to the lack of whatever force the Wiabu had been utilizing to make the clocktower retain it's shape. Perry, thinking quickly, unsews his rucksack and re-sews it into a makeshift air balloon, which Alexandy fuels using his fire magic. As soon as they are safe of the clocktower, they decide to sail to Futuh. Upon arrival, Perry sews the balloon back into a bag and Alexandy immediately sets forth to trick some poor sap out of his cheddar so they can eat. Perry absentmindedly comments on the irresponsibility of Futuh's residents and is quickly corrected by a passerby, who informs him that Futuh is powered by a futuristic powerplant that is guarded by some manner of creature. Alexandy, having recieved his cheddar, informs Perry that the powerplant is, in fact, powered by one of the keys, and that taking it would destroy the towns only source of power.
Head of the Brothel, WhiteCrestAngel, The Idiotic Oracle, Sleauxbreaux, duhrdotcom, Deiphobus, gigoergong as:
Ralkar, Great Forest Elder, Queenie, Phineas, the Watchdog, Paul, Clampert
Ralkar (Head of the Brothel) was burning down a forest, much to the dismay of the Great Forest Elder (WhiteCrestAngel), who forces him to go search for the Keys in exchange for an Enlightenment Fruit. Ralkar, assuming he'll get more quests after eating the fruit, accepts and immediately proceeds in the wrong direction. Somewhere along the way, he comes across a line of mushrooms on the ground, which he reasons was built by faeries to contain something evil. He crosses the line and notices a woman in the distance, who he assumes must be in distress. Feeling heroic as always, he approaches her and offers to help escape the evil the mushroom line must have been keeping in, not knowing it was there to contain her. Queenie (The Idiotic Oracle), with the promise of one of the Keys, leaves for Porton with Ralkar in tow. Her method of travel proves unreliable, however. Her teleportation malfunctions and drops the pair into Porton from above. Ralkar, thinking quickly, discards his claw and reaches into his pack to grab a rope with a knife attached to one end, which he deftly flings at a nearby bridge. It catches and the duo is stuck, swinging underneath the bridge. Fin (Sleauxbreaux), having heard Ralkar's claw hit the water, hurries to help the pair. He pulls them to the top of the bridge and, after introductions, ponders how to retrieve Ralkar's claw.
Nearby, the Watchdog (duhrdotcom), who had just shifted back into the current timeline, notices a bullet lodged in one of his clocks, restricting his timetravel.
Elswhere in Porton, Paul (Deiphobus), after watching his favorite show starring Clampert (gigoergong), invades his dressing room and offers his companionship if Clampert wishes to search for the Keys. Clampert accepts.
Back at the line of mushrooms, the Great Forest Elder, being connected to the forest, senses that the line had been crossed. She mourns for the world, now that Queenie had awakened and, with one of the Keys in hand, decides she must stop her.
Airigh, lyrasen as:
Ciel, Greylin
Ciel (Airigh) is between cities, travelling on a delivery, when Greylin (lyrasen) materialized in front of her. Ciel is unafraid, and they talk about the Keys together, and about how Ciel is lost, searching for Futuh. Greylin has been there, but since she travelled via shadows, she has no idea how to GET there. She decides, instead, to travel with Ciel, by foot.
BANANA as:
Kemlli
Kemlli (BANANA) is walking through a thus far unknown area. Snow falls around her. She contemplates her journey, noting that, if this search is fruitless, her hard work will have failed her for the fifth time. But as she begins to fall into hopelessness, she sees what she desires. One of the Keys floats just atop a hill of snow. After finally getting to the top, she discovers that there is nothing there, but her hope has been renewed. An unknown force has shown her the key as a waypoint. She is going the right way. She thanks the force and continued.
Tatzel
Also at some point, Tatzel's character(s?) who I cannot seem to find sank into a desert outside of Sandan and fought a dragon in an underground ruin. They acquired a Key, then disappeared into a portal. We have not seen them since.
Other Characters
George and Charlotte (Tales) are currently traversing a desert, perhaps near Angie and Enternum.
Anita (John Craft) is looking for her dad.
Henry (Zink) is looking for the Technobear.
Potential Plot Points
The glowing red tree that Peter saw.
Animak's past as a slave figher in Mangaton.
Perry's war between ninjas and pirates.
Ralkar's baldness.
I apologize right now if I misinterpretted anything so far and will correct it if you let me know. Also for the MASSIVE WALL OF TEXT, but I think it was called for.
Also, let me know if I forgot anything.
I do love this thread.
