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[Training] I don't care about you (Not-Shu/Zane)

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Meegane

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 10:58 am


The petite Death huntress stood near the shore of the Princess Island, most of her face was covered by the hood of her hunter coat. She had her arms folded in front of her chest, blue eyes spaced out and stared idly at the infinite ocean. Looking like a doll in white from afar, her outfits seemed to be too big for a small frame like that.

The sea breeze brushed over her face didn't disturb her at all, as if she was only a soulless object. A closer examination would tell one otherwise, the huntress was actually listened to some music via her headsets. Yet, her thought didn't seem to be on the song played.

So Naturally she turned her head, lowered the hood of her hood and stared at the late comer. "Mr. Zane Walker, you're late for about a minute." Only her voice told people she wasn't a statue or else, her tone was calm and non-accusing, just stating a fact. She slowly put her pocket watch carefully back to its original position.

The Death huntress didn't introduce herself, she moved from her spot and walked past the trainee taller than her. "Let's meet with our princesses first, is this the first time doing this course?" While asking, her eyes were not looking at Zane. Honest speaking, she hoped the answer is no then she could skip the explanation.

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Moon Hunter
PRINCESS ISLAND



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General Information
Maintaining a superior defense is the pride of the Moon Division, defending even at the expense of attacking. However, this can be hard, especially for trainees who just got new magic weapons full of glowing and powers. Thus the Princess Island. At the center of the island sits a princess who will do absolutely nothing to protect herself, and it's up to you to build defenses that will withstand shadowling attacks so she she doesn't die in a horribly realistic manner.

There's four main paths for shadowling's to travel through, and you have 3 types of building materials to create your defenses from: straw bales, wood, and bricks. The sturdier the material, the sturdier the barrier, but the fewer you can build in the allotted time. After a set amount of time, the princess will crush a pumpkin pill, attracting varying amounts of lurking shadowlings. You get to watch helplessly from the observation station, without getting to attack yourself.

These creature are extremely weak and ill formed, coming up against a solid defense they will disperse, but in turn they also weaken said defense. When a defense goes down, they go right to the princess and attack her. Should she survive the wave, you get to go back down, rebuild, and do it again.

If you fail: the princess has died, horribly, and you've wasted a lot of time on this only to look fairly incapable. All things considered? Most pleasant course to fail.

If you win: peen points and bragging rights go to those with the healthiest princess and lasted through the most attack waves.
If you choose to go beyond 5 rounds, switch the enemy dice roll to 4 d20s.


    Mechanics
  • Your princess has 20 hp
  • First, roll the strength of you defense, using the dice for whichever building type you choose.

    Brick: 4 d12
    Wood: 8 d6
    Hay bales: 12 d4

    The order of the die determine the HP for each barrier location. For example, with bricks, rolling 5/6/8/1, would mean that path 1 has 5 HP, path 2 has 6 HP and so on. With a wood roll of 3/3/3/1/2/5/5/2, the first 2 dice would equal the amount of the first path. Brick would be the least math-y of the building materials (you lazy asses.)
  • Roll 4 d12 for the attacking forces. Once again the order of the dice correspond with the path being affected. Then do the math to determine the status of your defenses and princess.
    Example:
    My defenses are 5/6/8/10
    The attackers are 3/7/3/8

    The result defenses are 2/-1/5/2
    Negative numbers are taken off the princesses HP, leaving her at 19 HP.
  • Go back and rebuild your defenses in the same manner as before, you'll be building on top of old defenses so you add the new defense HP to the remaining defense HP. Negative numbers = 0 HP for the defense, not negative HP.
  • Minimum rounds to complete the course is 3

    Bonus Mechanics
  • Their defense expertise allows them to build slightly sturdier barriers. This applies to all paths that start at 0 hp. They do not stack. So if you are re-building on a barrier that lasted from an existing round, this bonus does not apply, as it is already still in effect.

  • Trainees: 0 hp bonus
  • Moon Trainees: +1 hp bonus to each path
  • Hunters: +1 hp to each path
  • Moon Hunters: + 2 hp to each path




Status

Wave: (current wave number)

Path 1 HP:
Path 2 HP:
Path 3 HP:
Path 4 HP:

Princess HP: /20


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[size=14][color=#00BFFF][b]Wave: (current wave number)[/b][/color][/size]

[b]Path 1 HP:[/b]
[b]Path 2 HP:[/b]
[b]Path 3 HP:[/b]
[b]Path 4 HP:[/b]

[b]Princess HP:[/b] /20
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Nuxaz
If you can't decide someone to be Zane's princess, check out this list for some names: http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?page=1&t=22616027#329914229 biggrin
PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:42 am


Zane was late, by a few minutes, but he hadn't thought it would have been that big of a deal. Still the sternness in the chick's voice had him almost wincing when he offered her a lazy grin, hands finding their way into his pockets.

Whomever she was, she was straight to the point and he couldn't decide if he liked that or didn't in that moment. Still, he shrugged.

"First time ma'am," he replied, offering respect in hopes that it would make up for his lateness. "Still getting a bit acquainted with things." But he was trying, which was more than could be said for his life pre-hunter.



Meegane
sorry for the wait <3

Nuxaz


Meegane

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 12:04 pm


Her voice felt unbelievably young, despite her unruffled blue eyes suggested she might have experienced a lot of things. She gave him another expressionless glance hearing his reply and began to say things in her soft young voice while walking upslope. "Briefly speaking, you're gonna be trainned your defense here. Each of us will be assigned a princess, she - they would stand there and it's our job to build barricade along the four paths to stop the shadowlings later from reaching the princesses."

Taking small steps to reach the peak, she unwillingly recalled that course she did with Leslie. That was when she learned his kindness underneath the rude languages. He was now a teenager kid but she guessed he might be happier, it might be what he truly wanted. When she realized how long she had absorbed by her memories, a few minutes passed.

Shu pressed her lips into a thin line and spoke again, "You've got three kinds of materials, straw bales, wood, and bricks. Choose wisely which you want and work on the barriers. After a certain of time, you have to stop your work and move to the observation station over there and check the result. You're not allowed to intervene the process."

The huntress was about to say something else but as she noticed her own princess, her eyebrows knitted together deeply like a trench. She was a short girl with small frame, wearing a very sweet innocent smile and blinking her big round amber eyes. A strapless ruffle little dress in peach pink, fluffy cake-like multiple layers of laces decorated with a lot of ribbons. Her smooth dark brown hair docilely laid behind her back, noticing someone was looking at her, she turned around and gave them the brightest smile she could make.

Was it a joke? To be forced to face herself like that. Shu wanted to rip the smile off the golem's face, it felt so disgusted and irritated as if she was mocking her. Shu quickly realized her breathe became rapider, she wanted to scream and destroy everything. Her mind was messed up like a pool of mud the moment the golem's smile went into her eyes.

"Don't look at me, bring your princess here and start your work." She said with difficulty to Zane, sounding unwell and slightly suffocated. Shu grabbed the fabric on her chest very tightly, her heart was aching badly.

Nuxaz
Her princess is her past self, which I imagined like this. You can roll in your next post, roll the corresponding sets of dice will do!
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