And perhaps that was why it was so easy to let go.
With a strained gasp, she fell to the ground, clutching at her throat as the miasma began to slip away.
[[ Exiting to Death Solo! ]]
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Name: Nkosazana HP: 0/25 Kingdom: Silver Rank: Wild Card Rank Ability: Change Miasma Color: Silver Status: (Previous) Defending for 3. Blessing: Appearance: Nkosazana is a very tall humanoid-looking female, coming in at a perhaps daunting height of 6'3". Her skin is rather dark, with violet eyes and dark hair. She wears rather rustic looking clothing, perhaps making her obviously Silver.
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 12:14 pm
Sharra had been on the battlefield long enough to detect the pressure in the air, the way each step seemed to sap the life out of him. With a growl, he curled fingers into tight fists, stubbornly trying to stave off the poison that was in the very air. He might have been able to hold out for a good while, the Orychanian's constitution was, after all, nothing to laugh at...
...but then Marosa crumpled to the ground, and Sharra found himself kneeling at his side, curling finger's about the Ganerie's own as warmth left them. Taking in a long, shaky breath, the blond smiled ever so faintly, realizing somewhere that his limbs were shaking, that his life was being sapped away.
He no longer cared.
"I love you too." He murmured, leaning down to press his forehead to Marosa's own. And that was how he finally collapsed onto the unforgiving battlefield, eyes lidding...and Sharra had no intention of opening them again
Amrita stayed put until every trace of Sun vanished. It was the least she could do, really. A nice little send off for someone who probably deserved it. Sure her staying here meant she'd likely be wasting a lot of time in annoying the Black King some more, but let's be honest; he happened to be a rather large creature, and easy to spot in a crowd.
She'd be fine.
Regardless of this, she booked it out of the battlefield as fast as she could, taking off towards the Tower and Aymet
EXIT TO TOWER
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Name: Amrita, "Eldritch Advisor of the Black Kingdom" but also kind of a Traitor now. Current HP remaining: 26/60 Damage: N/A Blessing Points: enough Target(s): Aymet Rank Ability : Overpower - *Used* Kingdom ability: Misfortune Telling - *Unused!* Character Kingdom: Revenge Character's Miasma Colour: Black Character description: A shadow creature with glowing yellow eyes. IDK SEE AVATAR
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:10 pm
[ enter ] Vaska was ready for battle, ready to take on what he could. This is what his whole life had been built for, fighting, and protecting... and so here he was, on a battlefield that was madness and craziness abound. And though he reached to gather his sword, beginning his duty for the kingdom he now supported.
But he felt almost instantly weak here... like when he'd gotten the miasma flowers... it was so heavy like..
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Name: Vaska Current HP remaining: 25/5O Damage/ Healing/ Defense done: --- Target(s): --- Rank Ability : --- Kingdom ability: -- Character kingdom: Silver Character's Miasma Colour: violet? Character description: a small, lithe, tan man, with white hair cut in a bob, and a long sleek ponytail. His eyes are completely black asides from his iris'. He carries a large fluffy stole, and has little bone wings.
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:48 pm
Rex nearly jumped as the very world around him seemed to shake and crumble. He may have, but he didn't, instead he only fell into dumbfounded silence, his jaws falling open as he slid to the ground, allowing himself to fall away from the white king his jaws had been wrapped around only a moment before.
The viciousness and aggression of the hungry raptor suddenly faded into a meek confusion, the fear of a predator who suddenly realized he was the prey.
What..what was happening? Who was speaking? Why....why did he suddenly feel so weak, as he were falling apart along with the world around him. He didn't know anymore, in truth he never had.
OMG THE SKY WAS FALLING!
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Current HP remaining: 10/20 Damage/ Healing/ Defense done: -- Target(s): -- Rank Ability : pawn, unused Kingdom ability: misfortune telling Character kingdom: black Character's Miasma Colour: black Character description: Rex is a shadow raptor monster with bright red highlights
blessing: 3
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:55 pm
Rex shook his head. He didn't understand, and what he didn't understand he tried to eat. Eating, it was his answer to everything, if he were faced with a problem he could not comprehend or a book he could not read, he would simply eat it. That would teach it to confuse him!
But though he searched, though he ran across the field sinking hit teeth into whatever he could find, he could not bite whatever had caused the world to crumble, that thing that had confused him.
The raptor roared in frustration, a roar that was quieter than it should have been. His body was growing weaker, and soon he found he could no longer run or even stand. With his strength gone, the raptor fell, a final roar, a desperate cry as one stuck in a pit, trapped in an inescapable mire. He would struggle until the last, his jaws snapping at the air itself until his life faded and he at last fell still, snuffed out of existence.
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Current HP remaining: 0/20 Damage/ Healing/ Defense done: -- Target(s): -- Rank Ability : pawn, unused Kingdom ability: misfortune telling Character kingdom: black Character's Miasma Colour: black Character description: Rex is a shadow raptor monster with bright red highlights
Lumikki stood there she had watched Mitsu fall, she had watched countless others fall on both sides and now she stood watching Roch fall in battle. Her mouth opened in a silent scream. There wasn't anything she was able to say or do, she just stood there completely dumbfounded how could this be happening.
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Name: Lumikki Current HP remaining: 9/40 Damage/ Healing/ Defense done: -10 for RP Reaction Target(s): Rank Ability: The blessing - unused Kingdom ability: adaptability I AM USING A SPECIAL ABILITY: no Character kingdom: white Character's Miasma Colour: white Character description: Lumikki is a fox girl six tails and completely clueless at this whole fighting thing. She's carrying a pouch with medical supplies and a small lazer pistol. Blessing Points: 2/3
Erintis glared slightly at everything falling around her. This wasn't the way that she felt her kingdom should act. Let alone the way that she should act. Sighing she turned to see a young girl on the battle field, she just looked so innocent so out of place. It hurt to see her on the battle field.
OOC Erintis
Name: Erintis Current HP remaining: 10/20 Damage/ Healing/ Defense done: -10 for RP Reaction Target(s): Self Rank Ability: The blessing - unused Kingdom ability: unused I AM USING A SPECIAL ABILITY: no Character kingdom: violet Character's Miasma Colour: violet Character description: Erintis is wearing ancient greek robes and seems to be unarmed Blessing Points: 0/3
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:39 pm
Lumikki felt her eyes welling up as she fell to her knees. The skies had started to turn black, her breathing getting shallow.
"Wh...what is going on..."
Her mind slowly drifting as she thought about home, her kingdom, her room on the ship. Her time with Roch,
"Roch...I...I'm sorry."
She knew that he had already died, and was gone but she felt that she had failed him, and even her commander. Closing her eyes she drew one last breath before laying down, praying for a quick death.
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Name: Lumikki Current HP remaining: 0/40 Damage/ Healing/ Defense done: -10 for RP Reaction Target(s): Rank Ability: The blessing - unused Kingdom ability: adaptability I AM USING A SPECIAL ABILITY: no Character kingdom: white Character's Miasma Colour: white Character description: Lumikki is a fox girl six tails and completely clueless at this whole fighting thing. She's carrying a pouch with medical supplies and a small lazer pistol. Blessing Points: 2/3
Erintis watched from where she was standing something broke inside her as she saw the girl fall to her knees. Rushing forward she held her as she drew her last breath. The girl didn't notice her she was already gone, but Erintis was aware. She knew that this girl had done nothing but follow her king, just as she had. Closing her eyes she quietly said a prayer, her own movements slowing as her head lolled forward,
"my king..."
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Name: Erintis Current HP remaining: 0/20 Damage/ Healing/ Defense done: -10 for RP Reaction Target(s): Self Rank Ability: The blessing - unused Kingdom ability: unused I AM USING A SPECIAL ABILITY: no Character kingdom: violet Character's Miasma Colour: violet Character description: Erintis is wearing ancient greek robes and seems to be unarmed Blessing Points: 0/3
Was it... disrespectful to her king, to be so high above the battlefield?
Agsil had bolstered herself on the flight from her kingdom. She could fight. She could prove how real this place really was. But on the approach, she was able to see how the world was beginning to crack. Fade. Even keeping herself in the air was... draining.
Yet she could not land yet. She could see no suitable target, nor... a familiar face. The idea of walking the grounds turned her stomach to ice. So on the wing she remained. Not... too high however. Heights did not scare her. The idea of falling did not phase her with her wings' muscles flexing and relaxing in tandem against her back. The sky above her however... it was not a darkness she felt comforted by. Swooping lower towards the earth, she could not help but wonder if it was possible to fly too close to that sky... and fall into that....
Description: 5'4" pale girl with long dark hair, purple eyes, and large black and tan wings.
Face your demons rolled 2 8-sided dice:
8, 4Total: 12 (2-16)
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:11 pm
Everything had become some kind of twisted nightmare-- did Shadows even dream? Amarus watched the sky distort through glassy eyes, shadowed mouth shut, and then mouthing something instinctively: My King? she wondered, silently. As if pleading for guidance. As if wishing she had a way out of whatever had begun to happen.
Zel was gone. Justice: without Justice, Judgement served no purpose; how could it? Judgement merely discerned the difference between good, and evil. She walked sure of herself, and sure of her course.
And without her King, without her Justice, she had none.
What she did next was the action of the near-desperate, the air sapping energy from her even as she moved to exact whatever revenge she had left in her.
Amarus shot the lantern half of her meteor hammer into the air, slicing it towards her new airborn opponent. It was not the first time she had fought a flying enemy, during this battle. The shadow-flame of its lantern end left a trail of glowing blue behind it as it hit its mark.
Amarus
Name: Amarus Tarot: Judgement Kingdom + Rank: Black ... Dark Herald (Pawn) HP: 30/40 [[sapped -10 for the sorta toxin effect]] Blessing Counters: 3 Target: KAILEY'S KID Action: Attack Damage Done: 6 Defense Done: 0 Healing Done: 0 Kingdom Ability: MISFORTUNE TELLING - Unused Description: Amarus-called-Judgement is a humanoid Shadow creature, whose face is covered mostly by an elaborate cloth mask embroidered with pink-purple highlights. She wields a meteor hammer, at one end of which there is a blue runic shadow-flame: her ability in combat.
Tomoko's hand found his once again and his thoughts began to clear.
Anger had never been an emotion Erebus was used to. It scared him how it could cloud his mind so much that he was willing to go to lengths he was normally conflicted against. What if he did kill this illusion? What then? He would have to live with the memory of killing someone who looked like his brother. And what if... and this was the more plausible thought, what if the Gatekeeper killed him, like he did to Ash?
...And Tomoko would be there to see it. And he wouldn't be able to protect her.
He had remembered his silent promise to Remi and he squeezed her hand back, exhaling a deep breath he hadn't realized he had been holding in. "I think we should go to the source of this." His steps had halted and he turned to look towards the Tower. To where the one who had taken his brother resided. This Gatekeeper was merely a creation of the Voice. If they could strike at it then maybe they wouldn't have to go through a fight with the Gatekeeper.
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Current HP remaining: 50 Damage/ Healing/ Defense done: ~ Target(s): ~ Rank Ability : Rook -->2d12 -6 to heal -- UNUSED Kingdom ability: Reflection --> 3d10 -- UNUSED Character kingdom: Violet Character's Miasma Colour: Violet Character description: Cerberus demon. Black ears, tail and bone structures upon his arm, he is dressed in Victorian style. Rolled up sleeves reveal a intricate key marking along with one of a white flower.
Bodies fell, and bodies vanished. Cold violet eyes surveyed the lands, silent as she beheld... no. The dead had nothing to fear from the battlegrounds. It was such no longer. A battlefield held the dead from combat, honorable dead. This was... slaughter. This was a graveyard, maw open wide and waiting for the bodies to drop. Evaporate, dissipate, feed the monster.
Each beat of her wings, and her muscles began to ache. The pain was dull, a throb that never ceased. Ebbed through her body and flowed through her veins. It was peaceful in the air. Now and then she could coast along the air, glide slowly towards the ground, before pushing herself back up high. Never to the height she'd previously been able to obtain though. This became clear to her quickly. The strength necessary to regain real altitude was lost to her in the cycles. She began to fly on sensation alone, lids slipping closed for longer periods of time.
Instinct was all that pulled her from her limbo as an object whistled through the air. Eyes open, her wings fanned out as she drew herself to as much of a halt as she could in the air. She tried to push herself upward, or perhaps it was to the side... her intentions were lost by how jumbled her limbs moved and sputtered through the air. Haphazard movements that only served to steer her straight into the meteor hammer. A roar alien to her lips sparked from her chest as the air was shoved from her body.
Tumbling towards the earth, Agsil managed to regain enough of herself to pull out of the free fall. Her stomach was ice. She felt weak. Her side throbbed. Was something broken? With how each breath pained her, it was possible. Below, close, she could see a female. The one who attacked her.
She managed a snarl, hanging in the air for a moment. She had so little energy now, so little strength... each movement, and she could feel it seeping out of her. A chime at her wrist, and she glanced down. The key swung through the air from one of her bangles still. Her gloved hand grasped it. A light came across her face, smiling down at her assailant. "Tell me. Do you fear the battlefield? Do you fear the dead?" Without another word, she ripped the key from the purple ribbon and opened a gate before her.
A key to unlock everything. Chains unbound, the dragon roared. Her strongest memory, her only memory, manifested before her. Her mother. The Keeper. The woman who would likely have gone to her death for her inability to protect the tomes Agsil had gone to retrieve once more. Dragon in humanoid form, powerful wings took the woman towards the one deemed Judgement, her daughter beside her once more.
It hurt. She wanted to cry. She wanted to hug her mother, apologize. But the battle took over. She unleashed the attack on the girl, and for a moment as she hung in the air before Judgement... she felt at peace.
Her wings failed, her body fell. With a laugh, the dragon left the skies for good. And smiled as her body dissipated from this world.
To be honest, Tomoko was the last person you wanted to recruit for any sort of murder. Squeezing Erebus' hand back, she turned to look towards the tower that loomed through the cracks in the sky, frowning lightly. "If we go there..." she bit her lower lip, "will we find Thackery?" The real one? But what if that....
She hesitated, looking towards the imposter who still sat in the grass, talking to the black king as though they were old friends, in some twisted way. Then she looked back to the tower.
Her ears flicked back, uncertainty draping over her shoulders like a cloak trimmed in panic. "Do you think...going to the source will help...?"
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Current HP remaining: 50/50 Damage/ Healing/ Defense done: ~ Target(s): ~ Rank Ability : Bishop --> Evade -- UNUSED Kingdom ability: Reflection --> 3d10 -- UNUSED Character kingdom: Awoken Character's Miasma Colour: Violet Character description: Dainty golden kitsune in a white chiton with purple trim. She wears a silver circlet and has eight tails with blue flames at the end. On the back of her hand is a white flower, along with an elaborate looking key marking.
Face your demons rolled 3 6-sided dice:
6, 4, 1Total: 11 (3-18)
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 7:11 pm
In the midst of her bad dream which would not end, the life draining from her with each movement she made, Amarus fell back on her Kingdom's ability: the sweet familiar faces of their Tarot. Amarus targeted the first she could see still standing, Dakota.
"I know what the future has in store for you, stranger who opposed the Kingdom I serve-- if it is anything as grim as the future I predict for myself, we will soon both be in the grave," Amarus stated, her face blank even for her Shadow-self.
She drew 3 cards: The 3 of Wands, The Knight of Swords, and The Emperor.
The 3 of Wands stood before her, proud and steadfast. They were facets of her own strength against her opponent: reflections of her surety in herself and her cause. They would absorb the pain that she could not, stand in her place so that she could continue to fight for her King even those last few seconds she was conscious.
The Knight of Swords, who strikes without emotion. Surely, swiftly and mercilessly the violence and drive of the Knight would deal out her Justice in the place of her companion. Amarus felt something constrict within herself. "Justice travels with me, even now..." she mumbled, closing her eyes longer than she should have. Just for that moment.
By the time it came for her own blessing, for the healing relief, she had nothing left: "The hand of my King washes my suffering away," she finished, as she felt just a tiny sliver of her agony ease into nothingness. The Emperor.
Her King, and her partner, were still with her. That was all she could have asked for, and more than she could have dreamed of.
Amarus
Name: Amarus Tarot: Judgement Kingdom + Rank: Black ... Dark Herald (Pawn) HP: 15/40 [[sapped -10, -5 DMG from Agsil]] Blessing Counters: 4 Target: Dakota Action: Kingdom Ability Damage Done: 4 Defense Done: 6 Healing Done: 1 Kingdom Ability: MISFORTUNE TELLING - Unused Description: Amarus-called-Judgement is a humanoid Shadow creature, whose face is covered mostly by an elaborate cloth mask embroidered with pink-purple highlights. She wields a meteor hammer, at one end of which there is a blue runic shadow-flame: her ability in combat.
'If we go there then the illusion will end." That was what he felt, anyway. "And I somehow doubt that even if we destroy the Gatekeeper, Thack will magically appear." That seemed too easy to him.
"The Voice was the one who took him, right? Took all of them." And even though Erebus didn't know the other Kings, he wanted to help save them too. "So I think going there's our best bet." People were still fighting around them, still dying. Tomoko shouldn't have to stay here.
With a determined nod, he set out towards the Tower. It was time to end all this.
[[Exit]]
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Current HP remaining: 50 Damage/ Healing/ Defense done: ~ Target(s): ~ Rank Ability : Rook -->2d12 -6 to heal -- UNUSED Kingdom ability: Reflection --> 3d10 -- UNUSED Character kingdom: Violet Character's Miasma Colour: Violet Character description: Cerberus demon. Black ears, tail and bone structures upon his arm, he is dressed in Victorian style. Rolled up sleeves reveal a intricate key marking along with one of a white flower.
