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 Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 9:09 am
Amarus was in the middle of doing very important things. Very important things... which she honestly could not remember. She missed her friends, and was trying to struggle through the relatively new emotions she had to deal with-- Amarus had always wondered what it was like to feel things, and now she knew. It was vastly unpleasant, peppered with some good moments. Curse the jackdamned Lotus blossoms of Conquest-- and, thinking that, she suddenly felt one of her new emotions: regret, because those lotus blossoms were gone now, weren't they?
Dismissing the bitterness and irritation she felt following the regret, Amarus pushed herself off the couches in the ghost dorm where she'd settled, and headed outside. It wasn't such a bad day, if she could just remember... what she wanted to do? Amarus closed her eyes, and let her Lotus aura spread out. Calm. She just needed to remember her own essence, and she could think clearly again.
Useful trick, which she had direly missed during the events of the past on the horsemen isles. She had yet to visit the lost clan reserve, really. Standing in the doorway of the ghost dorm, her eyes shut, she suddenly heard a weird sound somewhere between spitting and hissing.
A wild alpaca had ambushed her.
Amarus prepared to do battle!
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kuropeco rolled 2 8-sided dice:
8, 2
Total: 10 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 9:29 am
"Oh, for heaven's sake - "
Following the amazing appearance of the acrobatic alpaca that had somehow made its way around to the ghost dorms, there appeared a very irate horseman with a disgruntled expression on his face.
"Come back, you damn thing - "
He managed to sideswipe the creature, and in his irritation, did not notice the young ghost ghoul standing several feet away.
[ Mengyao HP: 40/40
Damage: 2
Alpaca HP: 28/30 ]
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Face your demons rolled 2 8-sided dice:
6, 1
Total: 7 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 9:35 am
Amarus saw the stranger approached, recognized he was likely a horseman, and he ... seemed reminiscent of Conquest, really. Amarus was about to address him, but the Alpaca spit in her face and, as she wiped it off, her aura flared out.
"Alpaca.. this is not a good day for you to pick on the student exiting these dorms. In the name of Lotus Eaters, I will vanquish you!..."
Then, pausing, she added to the stranger, "Well, actually I'll help you wrangle it back. I don't really want to kill an Alpaca today..."
[[OOC:
HP: 25/30
DMG: 1
Alpaca HP: 27
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kuropeco rolled 2 8-sided dice:
5, 2
Total: 7 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 9:53 am
"Oh," said Mengyao, just now noticing that there was someone else - a student from Amityville - standing just outside the dorms...and was wiping what looked like alpaca spit from her face.
"Well, I welcome the assistance," said Mengyao, and made a lunge towards the alpaca again, and feeling more than a little ridiculous.
Especially since the alpaca headbutted him in the arm.
"Damnation you infernal creature - "
[ Mengyao HP: 30/40
Damage: 0
Alpaca HP: 27/30 ]
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Face your demons rolled 2 8-sided dice:
5, 4
Total: 9 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:02 am
This alpaca packed quite a punch. In fact, she was beginning to fear that the Alpaca would floor her before she could even do enough damage to it. What the jack was up with this fluffy beast?
Amarus would not dignify it with a kuji-kiri! She lashed out with one coiled foot.
Following which it promptly bit said foot. Jackdamned Alpaca! VENGEANCE WOULD BE HERS.
[[OOC:
HP: 30/40
DMG: 3
Alpaca HP: 24 / 30
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kuropeco rolled 2 8-sided dice:
1, 2
Total: 3 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:04 am
Alongside the ghoul - whoever she was - Mengyao grabbed his fan, folded it together, and proceeded to throw it at the damned thing.
It was too bad he missed entirely.
[ Mengyao HP: 25/40
Damage: 0
Alpaca HP: 27/30 ]
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medigel rolled 2 8-sided dice:
2, 3
Total: 5 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:06 am
(( WILL SHIKOBA'S DICE DERP AS HARD AS THEY DID IN HIS LAST FIGHT? ))
The sound of wingbeats heralded the giant's arrival, though sprits knew he did not want to be there. Alpacas? One of their first major tasks is to wrangle alpacas? Shikoba wasn't so much displeased as he was disappointed: he longed for something more testing.
Well, the creature kicked him upon landing. That was something.
"Need some assistance?" he asked, putting just a bit more distance between himself and the thing before it could also spit.
(( YUP ))
HP: 35/40
Damage: 0
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Face your demons rolled 2 8-sided dice:
5, 6
Total: 11 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:14 am
"Can't you hit the jackdamned beast?" Amarus asked the clansman, before a 2nd individual appeared. Who also missed.
Amarus tried to punch the thing in the face. Its teeth hurt. "If I die because neither of you have an effect on it, I will be distinctly irritated. And I do not like being irritated." Amarus took a deep breath, not out of necessity but rather some habit from her previous life as... well, something alive. Calm. She let her aura flare out over her, taking another breath.
Having at least succeeded at punching it in the face, it seemed slightly dazed, and wobbled sideways.
[[OOC:
HP: 25/40
DMG: 5
Alpaca HP: 19 / 30
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kuropeco rolled 2 8-sided dice:
2, 5
Total: 7 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:19 am
"My darling student," said Mengyao, in an extraordinarily irritated sounding voice as he dodged yet another blow from the creature. "Kindly do not presume that I spend my time fighting alpacas. My skills lie entirely elsewhere, and I should not think that I would waste them on such a thing as this."
That being said, Mengyao turned to face the newcomer.
"Feel free to do what you want," he said serenely, and all but stepped aside.
[ Mengyao HP: 20/40
Damage: OH COME ON
Alpaca HP: 19/30 ]
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Face your demons rolled 2 8-sided dice:
5, 6
Total: 11 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:28 am
"Maybe you should go light some incense and pray we do your assignment for you, then," she replied, watching him step aside for the other stranger.
She attempted to punch the wobbling alpaca, feeling absolutely no sympathy for the beast even though it was looking distinctly dazed. She was feeling the strain, as one of the bites it had given her pulsed threateningly.
The punch connected, and as it bit onto her arm and bleated (or whatever that sound was), Amarus kicked its front legs out from under it with one sweeping motion.
[[OOC:
HP: 20/40
DMG: 5
Alpaca HP: 14 / 30
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medigel rolled 2 8-sided dice:
5, 4
Total: 9 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:32 am
"Hmm." And yet again he was reminded of the other reason he didn't want to step on campus: the students. This was the sort who visited his beloved Isle? The will fight on was impressive - the attitude was not.
Shikoba was forcibly reminded of the two times he and Yuzhi had fought the beasts in the Weeping Forest and how much trouble they had had fighting. Their FEAR was diminished, and the students were more trained than they were at the moment. Ah by the Queen, he disliked knowing that so very, very much. "I'm sure you don't," the horseman said plainly, summoning his dagger out. "I suppose you could take it yourself then."
And if one of them fell dangerously low, he could heal.
When the alpaca was distracted he managed to prod its hindquarters and was rewarded with a swift kick.
HP: 30
Alpaca HP: 13
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kuropeco rolled 2 8-sided dice:
2, 3
Total: 5 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:46 am
For some reason - maybe he was just too tired or something - Mengyao could not stop the laugh that rose in his throat, and he shook his head, lifting his fan to his face.
"Ahhh, looks like someone has fire in their spirit," he said, with a sidelong glance at the other horseman.
"Too much of it, methinks," added Mengyao, a bit dryly, and dodged yet another kick from the alpaca - only to have it kick him in the back as he moved.
Well, that was unfair.
[ Mengyao HP: 15/40
Damage: lolno
Alpaca HP: 13/30 ]
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Face your demons rolled 2 8-sided dice:
6, 2
Total: 8 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:51 am
It was probably the "darling" that had bothered Amarus, and the clear irritation in the horseman's voice. Besides, it wasn't like she had asked either of them to help her, but it was the horsemen who'd be claiming the alpaca and returning it to its rightful place anyway. It seemed like the new horseman didn't much care for her either, and she had absolutely no idea what he was trying to say when he told her that he was sure she did not like being irritated. ... If she interpreted him literally, of course she did not like it, she had just said so.
Amarus had no desire to reply to either of them. Yes, she could probably take it out alone, and maybe even capture it-- but that was not the point. Silently, she focused her attention on the alpaca. She'd spent her entire time in Conquest failing nearly every task and being stared down by Invictus reproachingly; she had hoped the horsemen had thicker skins than this.
Some part of her, recently awakened, chimed in: They just lost their home, go easy on them. But she dismissed it; yes, it must be hard, but Amarus' nature wasn't a coddling or sympathetic one. She just couldn't step up to that kind of treatment. Treating them as though they should be fine was her only way of dealing with them; coddling, to her, was insulting. So she didn't coddle. Even if they took that the wrong way.
She, too, could potentially heal; not for much, mind. If it got to be such a problem. But it wasted valuable time, and effort, for very little results. At least the horseman had laughed, which eased her mirror-blank expression into a hint of a smile. "May it never be said I am easy to stomach," Amarus told the horsemen, aiming a distracted blow at the wobbly Alpaca.
[[OOC:
HP: 15/40
DMG: 2
Alpaca HP: 11 / 30
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medigel rolled 2 8-sided dice:
7, 2
Total: 9 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 11:03 am
Shik attempted to feint before stabbing in hopes of getting away with a knick or two, but even a dazed alpaca seemed capable of aiming a nasty kick at his legs - to be fair, they made up most of his body. "The only thing hard to stomach is this thing's wiles," he commented with a frown as it spat in his general direction and, thankfully, missed. "If you can laugh, Two-Tone, you can fight. Or at the least defend yourself."
It appeared Mengyao had just received a new nickname.
HP: 25
Alpaca HP: 10
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kuropeco rolled 2 8-sided dice:
7, 2
Total: 9 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 11:15 am
Mengyao shrugged at the dark-skinned horseman, clearly not at all bothered by the fact that he was standing around doing nothing while the other two were slowly whittling away at the indignant alpaca. Instead he directed his comment to the ghost ghoul, a smile playing on the corners of his lips as he replied, "But who is, really?"
He did not know where "Two-Tone" had come from, but he rolled his eyes at the ridiculous nickname, scowling a little. The creature headbutted him in the back again, sending him staggering forward several steps, and Mengyao leaned around, whacking it across its nose.
"This is ridiculous."
[ Mengyao HP: 10/40
Damage: 1
Alpaca HP: 9/30 ]
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