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 Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:25 pm
Grevious's voice shot through Zeno's mind like an arrow, throwing him back to reality. The Azerian had no idea how long he had been sitting near his pack, what Zeno was talking about, and why he had just allowed himself to sit completely still and think. Almost as if he had been under a spell.
Spell or no spell Zeno was awake and Grevious sounded urgent. "What are you talking about?" Standing up he quickly crossed the distance between Grevious and waited impatiently for an answer.
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:32 pm
"A city north of us is being attacked... I wasn't able to make out much but it seems like the city Reinsen is after... so we should hurry"
With that Grevious turned and picked up his pack and looked over his sholder at Zeno.
"one intressting thing though.... Sin is at the city... and if he's there then there's a chance that Issildia woman is there as well... we should find him and get his help with tracking her down... He's a fool but he's a powerful fool..."
He then turned on his heel and began to sprint off towards the north.
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:41 pm
Jan_Tanner ((nothing has happened on Grevious's and Zeno's end, but Issilida's group traveled out of the forest and got attacked on route to the city, After Sins.... theatrical escape from the battle the group made it to the city and pretty much spend the night there. Then in the morning the city came under attack by forces that Mikairyu Nocturnus has created... I think one of the four horsemen is at the western gate but I'm not exactly following, trying though, anyway, the characters are running around the city defending parts of it and whatnot, Sins being... well Sin, and Issilida's queen just died I think sweatdrop right now Sin and Issilida are at the northern gate and sin is just about ready to launch his next big attack, the first one being a horde of fireworks all along the eastern wall twisted oh and I think Reinsen's army came under attack as well as the city if I missed anything just say something everyone))
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:44 pm
(((Oh and btw, the first few posts of the RP have undergone a number of updates, there are new races, new NPCs, and even a new map. And Mikairyu I think I now have most everything for your plot line all set up in the first posts now. 3nodding )))
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:44 pm
"Damn," Zeno spat out as he ran back to his pack to collect his things. Within moments he had everything he had taken out back in and organized. It took him another four minutes to situate the pack on his back and secure it for flight. From there he spent no time stretching or other wise preparing himself for the flight ahead, instead getting a running jump and leaping into the air. It would take him a little bit to catch up to Grevious, but atleast he was still within eyesight.
If both Issildia and Reinsen were at the battle, then they needed to get there fast so that Zeno could capture Issildia and turn her over to Reinsen before the battle turned ill for his lord. It all seemed so simple.. though Zeno knew that it would be nothing like he planned it in his head. There was something familiar on the wind... he could smell it. A scent from his far past... though he couldn't think of its source.
The distance between Grevious and Zeno was slowly dissapearing as the looming city and plumes of fire grew larger in his field of vision. It wouldn't be long now before he could make out the source of the familiar scent from a forgotten time.
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:52 pm
Grevious was running at full pace when he suddenly heard screams comeing from off to the side a little ways. Turning and changeing his direction he saw what was makeing the screams. A group of people who had been trying to escape the city were surrounded by a group of soliders. Without breaking stride Grevious lept over the soliders and landed in the center of the cowering people. As he landed he slammed his palms into the ground and from under the feet of the soliders sharp spears of ice shot upwards and sliced though all of them. Standing up he looked about for survivors and, finding none, moved though the crowd and started to sprint for the city again. On pesant shouted to him as he left.
"Don't go that way! You'll be killed for sure! Don't throw your life away fool!"
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 4:00 pm
Zeno's eyes left Grevious as he neared the city, and when he tried to relocate him he found that it was a lost cause. Grevious was either moving to fast.. or he had moved from his previously chosen path. Zeno thought more of the latter.
Upon setting his eyes on the actual battle, Zeno forgot about Grevious and immediantly circled the city in search of Issildia dodging the many arrows that were shot at him.
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 4:02 pm
Issildia barely even granted Sin's words with a sign of hearing them as she ruthlessly drove her blade into the shoulder of an enemy soldier. With a sickening twist she tore the blade free and quickly turned, using her weapon as a counter weight during the maneuver. As she soon faced the opposite direction Issildia immediately launched a poison tipped kunai into the exposed throat of a maharan, then continuing on with the circular movement she once again faced her former opponent that she had wounded and came in for an angular attack while reversing the grip on her blade as to rend cleanly through both chest plate and flesh. The complete movement only lasting a matter seconds.
"Down!" she then ordered as her archers prepared to fire into the enemy ranks once again. At her word, both she and the azerian warriors fighting by her side dropped to a knee. The hiss of arrows passed over their heads as the archers' attack made contact with the advancing soldiers.
When their opponents fell back to avoid the forthcoming volley Issildia and the azerians rose and rushed forward to force them back more until they are doing battle within the very threshold of the gates. Once they managed to force them back behind the gates the altharie crystals that protected the city from invasion would take effect and keep their winged enemies from re-entering the city via other entrances...though there were still the gates to the south, east, and west to worry with...
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 4:23 pm
With a final flick of his finger Sin had finished the final seal and rushed back to the center of the circle. Slapping both hands together he brought them down into the center of the circle. With a flash of white light the lines he drew the night before flashed up and began to glow whit. The twelve symbols on the outside of the circle glowed brightest and it seemed like the light itself was being sucked into the air about each one. As the light was sucked in small white spheres began to form above the runes and each one had the light intensity of sun. With his eyes close Sin stood up straight and smiled. Raising his hands the lights began to rise and spin around, as they rose up above Sin almost a hundred feet Sin took a breath and opened his eyes.
"WHITE FIRE!"
As soon as he shouted those words the spheres stopped spinning and suddenly plummeted towards the ground in front of the battlements. As each one hit, creating a small explosion that sent enemy troops flying, they bounced upwards to the same height and came skyrocketing back down on the enemy lines exploding all over the place.
Walking over to the edge Sin watched as the balls of white light wreaked havoc on the attacking enemies, bouncing all over the place, yet never hitting too close to the walls of the city. With a silly grin on his face he walked over to the other side of the tower and looked down at Issilida shouting at her.
"What do ya think of white fire Issilida! Pretty Impressive huh?"
With that he jumped downwards and landed on top of a nearby building and watching the battle below. Now that they didn’t have fresh troops coming in from the gate Sin hoped that this section of the city won’t need him and Issilida much longer. The other gates wouldn’t hold out for much longer and Sin wanted to find what created that tornado of fire that appeared earlier.
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:12 pm
Issildia merely gave Sin a slight smirk as she brought her free left hand upwards towards the remaining enemy forces that they fought within the threshold. At that moment three lines of sharp bright light that bore neither the form of flame or idle moving water, shot forward along the ground away from her feet to disappear into the enemy ranks, for a brief moment nothing happened and the soldiers rushed forward. But as they moved in there was a bright flash of white light as a twisting column of energy rose up like a fire with oil cast upon it. Within a matter of seconds tendrils of the physical manifestation of the light that she commanded, reached out to grab hold of the nearby soldiers only to drag them within the twisting inferno the emanated a wintry chill. Though as quickly as it had come the spiraling column of light and energy faded leaving no sign of its prey behind.
With both she and Sin's attack they had managed to force back the enemy to beyond the gates.
"Close the gates and barricade them." Issildia said stoically as she retreated back behind the walls, her archers along with the azerians quickly sealing the northern entrance.
"Yes...much better Sin." Issildia said with a brief smirk while looking up at him before she turned her attention back to the archers and the azerians.
"We need to secure the remaining three gates, we can start with the west..."
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:37 pm
Zeno's eyes automatically went to the large circles of light and the bright flash that followed the odd ritual. He watched as a seemingly young woman sliced open more than a few soldiers, then succede in forcing a larger group of enemy soldiers back through the gates behind him. That was Issildia alright.
Quickly dropping into a dive he made his way through volley after volley of arrows, rolling in and out of the shots. When he reached the top of the walls he opened his wings, ripped off his staff and knocked an archer from his post, then landed with a thud on the wall. Not wanting to risk getting captured he quickly leapt into the air and using the distance from the top of the wall to the ground to take flight, flew straight to Issildia's exposed back.
Zeno's ears picked up a shout from behind him, its soul purpose to alert Issildia and those nearest her to his presence. In a fluid motion he slid his staff back into its ties on his back underneath his gear and began to speed his aproach. He opened his arms in an obvious attempt to make ''scooping'' up Issildia as easy as possible and flew straight to the heart of the group.
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:45 pm
((I thought the west gate was still shooting off fire works... course I could be wrong but I thought this was how it was..
North Gate-Issilida and Sin
Sounth gate- no one
West Gate-fireworks
East Gate- horseman of War
did I missplace everyone?))
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:47 pm
(((Do you really think that it is going to stop all the soldiers, not to mention the Horsemen leading them?)))
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:49 pm
((Zeno just flew over the South gate, speaking of which.. I didn't break any spells by making him do that did I?))
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:56 pm
DarkRaven1217 (((Do you really think that it is going to stop all the soldiers, not to mention the Horsemen leading them?))) ((Mabey not but the flares and fireworks suddenly stopping would be suspicous or something, and I didn't see any posts so I assumed that the area is pretty much a no-zone until someone posted otherwise sweatdrop ))
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