troydenite
Ultimate Forumgoer
Defender of Justice
Posts: 232
|
Post by troydenite on Oct 28, 2012 4:45:14 GMT -5
Kay blinked, before looking down in some disappointment. "Oh."
"I don't know the numbers... or where home is..." she finally whispered.
|
|
|
|
Post by Rain on Oct 28, 2012 7:40:10 GMT -5
"Do not treat me like a child," Baijiu hissed, gliding forwards and spinning. Overly flashy, impractical, and of no real reward? Most likely, but it was a remnant of her proper style's penchant for misdirection. It wasn't as if skeletons could keep up and analyse her moves with any efficiency, either. Subsequently, one skeleton's spine was pulverised and the two halves went careening into a wall, powdered.
Diving into the melee, the martial artist began to strike with abandon, ignoring the lines of pain that their swords traced in her flesh. Bone? Bone was nothing to her. They would be nothing but powder when she was done.
|
|
|
|
Post by dblade26 on Oct 28, 2012 13:20:54 GMT -5
Round One - Roy and Dollstop
"U-umm, right! Thanks Mr.Roy!" Dollstop wondered whether he should remind the man that he had wanted to talk to August before they'd started talking, seeing as he was wandering off without August having gotten back yet.
He also just then realized that Roy hadn't said a single thing about being his father or not and had distracted and tricked him out of asking with moral lessons instead. It wasn't like that was something he could just ask August about, since the swordsman probably would have told him if he wanted him to know.
|
|
|
|
Post by stratofarius on Oct 28, 2012 13:24:08 GMT -5
"So, Dollstop, do you know why August is taking so much to... wait, where has he wandered off to, anyway?" Roy said, raising an eyebrow. "I need to talk him about... something, but I come here and I find you waiting outside. And you're always with him, so... what exactly is he doing?"
|
|
|
|
Post by Psyga315 on Oct 28, 2012 13:30:48 GMT -5
And when Baijiu was done, that's all that they were: powder. Yuna came to inspect the remains of their enemies. "We better be careful. Who knows what lies further ahead..." Yuna said. She then got up. She looked to Baijiu to see if she would continue going.
|
|
|
|
Post by Rain on Oct 28, 2012 13:53:33 GMT -5
"Nothing worse than I have faced," the martial artist said solemnly, hands coming to rest by her sides and the remaining scratches healing up. She really wasn't very good for cheerful conversation, but she made an excellent meatshield for heading into dangerous dungeons, with her ability to dodge traps, endure traps, and powder things.
|
|
|
|
Post by Falkon on Oct 28, 2012 17:33:01 GMT -5
"Oh..." Horatio scratched his nose, "We'll just have to look at this as a puzzle, then!"
He pulled a piece of jerky out of jerky out of his pocket, and handed it to Kay, before grabbing another for himself. "How long..." he paused to chew, "...Has it been since you were home?"
|
|
troydenite
Ultimate Forumgoer
Defender of Justice
Posts: 232
|
Post by troydenite on Oct 28, 2012 18:30:53 GMT -5
Kay accepted the strip with faintly trembling fingers, before tentatively munching into it, her face still downcast and slightly scared.
"I... I don't know, Horatio Daiskander Chodenji Nibelithingy," she admitted, mumbling with her mouth half-full.
"I try to remember, but I can't... I can't remember these co-or-din-ate things, or what home is called..."
"I don't know what to do..."
|
|
|
|
Post by dblade26 on Oct 28, 2012 18:59:16 GMT -5
"Master said that he was going on a job too dangerous for me to be with him on. When that happens he usually leaves me here or with grandpa or a babysitter or something. But umm, he should be back soon, so I was waiting for him here since his usual room's the first place he'd come back to."
Dollstop looked up at Roy as he leaned against the wall. "So...what did you want to talk to him about?"
|
|
|
|
Post by Psyga315 on Oct 28, 2012 19:29:50 GMT -5
Yuna travelled on ahead until she came to another area. The stench of gas-like oil overwhelmed her. "Uuuuuuugh!" She said. She wasn't aware of the lit lantern hanging over the oil on a single, fragile thread, nor the hidden blades that would slice the rope if one foot went onto a pressure plate right in front of Yuna.
|
|
|
|
Post by stratofarius on Oct 29, 2012 6:58:07 GMT -5
"The usual things." Roy said. "Ask your father how he's been doing... and of course, offer him a spot in the Brotherhood once more. But most importantly..." I'm here to check if there aren't any Demon Sword related problems with him. he added mentally, looking down. He always worried that it would come the day when the Witches would somehow find out about August and try to use him to their advantage. He needed to keep a constant eye on him, to make sure that never happened.
"... talk about WBX." He completed. "They're just a small group causing a bit of trouble in the Multiverse. Not much to worry about, I mean, we can take care of them before they turn into a major threat. Dollstop... you're your father's Meister, right? Have you ever felt something... wrong? Like... like somehow his or your behavior was being twisted by something?"
|
|
|
|
Post by Rain on Oct 29, 2012 10:45:13 GMT -5
Baijiu brusquely continued onwards, staunchly refusing to give into the foul smell. She, who had waded through the viscera of a thousand battlefields, was NOT going to be stumped by a little oil. Naturally, this triggered the pressure plate and therefore the lantern fell... right into the redhead's hand as she jumped into position, sliding the rest of the way across the room with the hot glass in her grasp.
"This room is safe now."
Surely there couldn't be much more to this dungeon?
|
|
|
|
Post by dblade26 on Oct 29, 2012 11:32:47 GMT -5
Dollstop could've sworn he'd heard of WBX before somewhere, and he wasn't sure they were something so unimportant if Roy had really come here and waited just to talk to August about them. Then again, Roy always seemed to be popping in to ask odd questions and stuff like that, even his suddenly asking about being a Meister just now seemed sort of random and off-topic.
Thinking of being off topic, Doll also couldn't help but notice how many times Roy was emphasizing that August was the small boy's father, probably because he was uncomfortable with the earlier part of their conversation.
"U-umm...n-no, not at all!! Well..." there were those times when he had 'episodes' so "Well...sometimes I...like to cut things too much..." He hung his head and slumped against the wall guiltily
|
|
|
|
Post by stratofarius on Oct 29, 2012 14:37:28 GMT -5
"Like to cut things too much?" Roy repeated, raising an eyebrow. "What do you mean by that?... Does August act like that too?"
|
|
|
|
Post by dblade26 on Oct 29, 2012 15:14:18 GMT -5
"U-umm, Master's usually not effected even when we try to have Resonance during fights. Sometimes he can make me stop too...but...u-umm I...I think it's just something wrong with me. Master and mama both say that I can stop it if I try really really hard." Dollstop continued to sink down lower to the floor and stare at his feet, obviously guilty and embarassed.
|
|
|
|
Post by Psyga315 on Oct 29, 2012 16:44:47 GMT -5
To Baijiu's possible relief, there wasn't more to the dungeon other than a coffin in the middle of another large room and treasure surrounding the coffin. There was so much treasure there. Golden coins, golden bars, heck, even the coffin was gold! Yuna tried to look for a spherical object of sorts, but she couldn't see it from far away. She walked towards the coffin. Suddenly, WHAM!, the coffin's lid flew off as a person who was long dead got up. Its flesh was rotten off to the point where some of his limbs actually have chunks of flesh missing, showing only bone. From the way the guy was dressed, it was like he was an Egyptian Pharaoh. That might explain the lavish treasures. "  " The zombie growled out a very dead language. [HP=50/50] |
|
|
|
Post by stratofarius on Oct 29, 2012 18:52:01 GMT -5
"You should listen to them." Roy said, and then he noticed the boy was feeling guilty. He placed a hand on his shoulder, leaning forward, smiling. "But you don't need to feel guilty." He then slung his arm around Dollstop, bringing him closer, and ruffled the boy's hair. "You shouldn't feel guilty for something like that. It's a part of you. Part of your personality. What you can't do is let it get out of control. Not feeling guilty for it doesn't mean you can let it roam freely."
"How about we make a deal." He said, holding out his hand. "Until the next time we meet, you'll try to control those little incidents. Whenever you feel like it, you're going to hold back and use your brain. And if you can't control it, and you do find yourself with the urge to cut something, you're going to make sure you won't do too much damage. Start slow and small. And the next time we meet, if you show me some real progress, I'll... give you a badge. A reward for your good job. An official Brotherhood badge."
|
|
|
|
Post by Rain on Oct 30, 2012 9:19:14 GMT -5
Baijiu looked at the rotting corpse with distaste. Pathetic; a relic of the past trying to defend its tomb when it couldn't even keep its body in shape. The redhead's response to its ancient challenge was something equally ancient sounding, if from a completely different world: "▄▄▄███ !"
|
|
|
|
Post by Falkon on Oct 30, 2012 10:02:43 GMT -5
"Hurm..." Horatio took another bite out of his jerky, "Howsabout we walk in a straight line until we get out of the trees, and then systematically map this world until we can figure out what world this is!"
|
|
|
|
Post by dblade26 on Oct 30, 2012 11:49:33 GMT -5
Dollstop's expression immediately brightened up as soon as Roy mentioned the deal.
"R-really?? You'd do that!? I'd like that a lot! I promise to try my best and work really really really hard! Thanks a lot Mr.Roy!" Dollstop immediately followed this up with a hug, though he was obviously much shorter than Roy and could only really latch onto his leg.
|
|
|
|
Post by Psyga315 on Oct 30, 2012 12:30:41 GMT -5
The zombie roared back as his flesh seemed to glean of that of ebony now. Yuna flung a fireball at the zombie, hitting him, but only slightly annoying him it seems.
[HP=46/50]
|
|
|
|
Post by Rain on Oct 30, 2012 12:38:40 GMT -5
Baijiu's response was to slip into a defensive stance, unlike the casual path of destruction she had made through the enemies earlier. Now, if only she had the full measure of her skills... but that was the entire point of this, was it not? To restore her lost capabilities to the point where this decaying corpse was chaff before the storm.
|
|
|
|
Post by Psyga315 on Oct 30, 2012 14:10:04 GMT -5
Soon, the zombie's hands lit on fire as he flung a swarm of fireballs towards Baijiu and Yuna. Yuna tried to dodge, but one of the fireballs hit her leg, burning it as she fell to the ground.
[HP=46/50]
|
|
|
|
Post by stratofarius on Oct 30, 2012 14:46:23 GMT -5
Roy was surprised by the hug (but then again, this child had been raised by August, the most hug-prone person in his life) but kept on smiling. "No need to thank me, Dollstop. You and August are two very important people in my life, so I'm ready to do anything that'll help any of you."
He looked at the door, thinking about what he just said. He knew that right now, August couldn't join the Brotherhood. He had to take care of Dollstop and Tangelo. Him joining the Brotherhood would be a great move against WBX, yes, but it would also deprive two kids of its father. And that single thought made him think about the Elrics.
What if, by trying to bring August back to the Brotherhood, he was dooming Dollstop and Tangelo to go down the same path as Edward and Alphonse? It was far-fetched, yes, but his journey through the Multiverse taught him that anything could happen. And the images that followed that thought made him shake his head. "Dollstop, I'll... I'll be going back to the Hardship. Need to take care of some Brotherhood business."
He stood up, putting his beret back on. If WBX became a threat to entire Multiverse, August would obviously help him defeat them. But for now, he needed to be with his kids. "Say hi to your father and mother for me. And don't forget to spend some time your aunts. Mischief loves to pinch your cheeks for some reason."
|
|
|
|
Post by Rain on Oct 30, 2012 14:58:19 GMT -5
Baijiu could have dodged. She could have, but didn't. She didn't just let it immolate her, either. Risky as it was, she wanted to try something. Focus key to her hand, and... punch! If she'd done it right, an instantaneous burst of ki would reflect the fireball to its origin. If she'd failed... well, her arm would now be on fire, which was harder to deal with.
The burst collapsed halfway. She didn't know if that would be enough.
|
|
troydenite
Ultimate Forumgoer
Defender of Justice
Posts: 232
|
Post by troydenite on Oct 31, 2012 10:06:40 GMT -5
Kay looked up, the last of the jerky still in her mouth. "...I think that might work..."
Getting up slowly, she looked around nervously. "But it's so dark... and a world is a really big place..."
|
|
|
|
Post by Psyga315 on Oct 31, 2012 12:05:01 GMT -5
Baijiu was successful in knocking the fireball back to the zombie mage, hitting him square in the face. He let the flames hit him on purpose, however, as the fire soon turned into a sort of cloak for him to wear. He was still hurt from the force of the reflect, but other than that, he was now encased in flames, and was now running towards Baijiu.
[HP=42/50]
|
|
|
|
Post by Rain on Oct 31, 2012 12:20:24 GMT -5
Baijiu snorted as she heard it running forwards. Idiot creature... no sense at all; running straight at a martial artist. The instant it was in range, she struck, fist aiming for its head and all her abilities going into strengthening that one punch. Sure, she'd wreck her hand, but chances were the zombie would have its head knocked clean off to shatter against the wall.
And she'd be on fire. It'd be a small problem, though.
|
|
|
|
Post by Psyga315 on Oct 31, 2012 12:38:44 GMT -5
As she punched, the cloak exploded into a burst of flames, softening the blow and giving Baijiu some fire on her. The zombie felt the blow though, but it wasn't he head shatterer that Baijiu had hoped. Yuna got up to see this. She then cast Water to stop the fire from getting worse for Baijiu, but it had a strange effect on the Zombie. It seemed to burn him like a sort of acid. The pain was too much. The zombie had enough. He put his two hands together and created a large fireball. He then fired the stream of fire towards Baijiu and Yuna.
[HP=22/50]
|
|
|
|
Post by Rain on Oct 31, 2012 12:42:53 GMT -5
The flaming martial artist looked more and more annoyed as she reached charring arms forwards and wrapped them around the zombie. So what if it had fire? She'd just have to snap its spine in two... and then slam it into the floor with all the force and technique she could muster. Head first.
The redhead proceeded to attempt this.
|
|
