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medigel rolled 1 8-sided dice:
8
Total: 8 (1-8)
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 Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 6:43 pm
Her first impulse was to throttle up to Gale's position, but she curbed it. The rush of energy she felt from being in complete opposition to his words took her by surprise, close to anger but not quite: it was more neutral, like adrenaline, giving her the strength to pick up what she had dropped off previously.
Stormy took to the air, almost expressionless form how much attention was spent finding the closest thing to a c***k in the thing's armor as she could in a short amount of time. In a sudden rush she flew forward, angled down as the throttle was let off, and embedded the greatsword into one of the glowing spots on its chest.
The howl was almost deafening, but the titan completely ignored Gale and snapped at her.
"You're special to me, Gale," she said over the noise, surprisingly calm despite feeling her hand twitch and her body tense as she made her get away, feeling the titan's cold breath at her heels. "Remember that and stop saying you're not good enough." She couldn't go into further explanation and it bothered her, but once the titan was down she would make up for it.
HP: 40
Defending Gale for: 8 hello more IC dice /o/
Charge: 3/3
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kuropeco rolled 2 12-sided dice:
11, 3
Total: 14 (2-24)
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:08 pm
All he could see was Jack's smirking face in his mind.
Was he really this pathetic? One thing had happened, one ex had appeared and he had abandoned all of his previous self assurance that he would be with Stormy for a long time. But Stormy had an ex; he did not, which was just further proof that she had more experience in dating than he had ever had in his life.
Why had she and Jack broken up? Because she was here, and he had not been? What had happened between them? If the only reason they were no longer together was because Stormy was "dead" in the real world, then what would happen if presented with the opportunity to reunite?
Why was Jack here?
His mind was refusing to settle, in spite of the opposition it was facing, in spite of the reassuring words from Stormy in his head. A headache was beginning to form, pushing against his temples, and Gale let out his breath in a low hiss, firing off several more shots against the creature's back. His attacks were getting weaker; perhaps because his mind was not entirely focused on the task at hand.
Focus, he told himself. Get rid of the creature first.
"I don't like it," Gale muttered, and there was a surprising amount of strength to his words; a dark sort of vehement anger that spread out of his chest. "I don't like him here."
HP: 51 / 60
DMG: 8
TITAN HP: 29 / 75
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medigel rolled 1 8-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-8)
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:16 pm
"I don't either," she answered, and fed off that darkness. Almost glaring at the titan at this point, she whacked at its jaw with the flat of her blade when it was losing interest and ran as fast as her legs could carry her as it pursued--whatever it took to keep it on the ground.
"He brings out the worst in people." There was a new bitterness in her voice. "The worst of himself. It's no way a person should live." Nevada smiling to bare her teeth, Gale shaken and unsure . . . The fact that he had rallied several people around him at his fight (friends? friends?) bothered Stormy on a deeper level than she could reach right now. But it certainly touched on a more territorial aspect about those close to her she hadn't displayed before.
HP: 40
Defending Gale for: 5
Charge: 3/3
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kuropeco rolled 2 12-sided dice:
7, 11
Total: 18 (2-24)
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:05 pm
He was surprised by the strength in not only his voice, but Stormy's as well; a strong, dark bitterness that ate away at him, made him realize that the potential for getting back together with her ex was less than he had thought it was.
The creature rumbled ominously beneath him. Gale let loose a last volley of bullets and then he was airborne once more, soaring through the air until he landed with a crash back on the ground, immediately ducking into another somersault. He pushed himself to his feet and twisted around; the titan gave a raging roar and stomped forward several steps, its massive head swinging from side to side.
Gale reached out, found Stormy's arm and pulled.
"Let's go."
HP: 51 / 60
DMG: 12
TITAN HP: 17 / 75
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medigel rolled 1 6-sided dice:
1
Total: 1 (1-6)
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:15 pm
Part of her wanted to resist. The titan was a target: a nice, big, monstrous target. It wasn't a hunter and it wasn't a dummy, the perfect animal to vent her feelings onto. And Stormy realized there was such an amount inside that she didn't know how they hadn't come out before--nor what would happen if she was careless about letting them air out.
For one terrible moment she thought about staying rooted to the spot and being caught in the explosion, if only to have a reason to scream.
But as ever, the physical world was stronger than her. Gale's tug jerked her to her senses and, tightening her hold on his hand, she nodded. "Don't let go," she warned him with a kick to the stabilizers to disengage them, as if somehow his doubts might weigh him back if she didn't remind him. And then she raced forward.
xkurotomato ty stormy 4 not sucking this time
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kuropeco rolled 1 6-sided dice:
1
Total: 1 (1-6)
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:28 pm
For the split second that Stormy hesitated, Gale nearly felt his heart stop.
But then she turned and her feet were moving, her fingers tightly wrapped around his, and he heard her speak, the words sinking into him like a brand, warming his chest.
Don't let go.
He didn't want to let go, not anytime soon, and memories flashed in front of Gale's face, quick and succinct - Stormy, standing on the balcony of a ship, her hair blowing across her face - Stormy, laughing as she patted the side of a snow dog, her cheeks pink with cold, her gloves covered in snow. Stormy, lying in the infirmary, her face a mask of surprise as he pulled away from that first, unintentional kiss. The two of them at his house, curled up together, his arms around her, a smile on her face as she leaned up to kiss him, her lips warm against his, his stomach fluttering with a combined mix of pleasure and nervousness.
And with a jolt, he realized he was remembering. The memories that had been taken from him now slammed into his thoughts in full throttle, and Gale felt himself slowing down, a stitch in his chest. They were far enough away from the titan now that it was safe to stop, safe for the both of them, and Gale stopped walking entirely, turning around to look back at Stormy. He drew in a sharp breath, and then without a word, yanked on the hand in his and pulled her towards him, his mouth covering hers in a startling firm kiss, his other hand tangling in her hair.
When he pulled away several moments later, he was breathing slightly erratically, Gale's eyes still closed, his forehead against hers, and his voice was low, rough, edges of an anxious desperation touching the corners of it.
"I don't want to let go of you."
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medigel rolled 1 100-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-100)
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:02 pm
There had been nothing meaningful going on in her mind at the time: just the instinct to survive where there had once been the crazy thought to stay behind. It took effort both to watch her feet and to keep herself together, because that startlingly insane thought made her realize that she had more issues about this situation than she thought. Thankfully Gale kept up with her and nothing happened on their flight, and when he started to slow down she was happy to follow suit as well, her breath coming in audible pants.
There was something exhilarating in thinking about crazy stunts; she wondered if that was healthy.
< < It simply means you are building your confidence. Only the strongest can laugh in the face of danger and survive. > >
That didn't sit quite right in her head, but Stormy let it go. Her sweat-slicked hand slid from Gale's as she bent to catch her breath, but that didn't last long at all. He was walking to her, and she was straightening to look professional again, and he was pulling her again, and she was opening her mouth to say something (she didn't know yet), and then quite suddenly they were kissing.
She wasn't sure if the roar in her ears was from her own mind, or if the titan had decided to implode at that point in time.
It had felt like it had been an age since that kiss behind the umbrella, and that the world had been as gray and cold as the titan. But it was almost frightening how easy it was to dispel fears and doubts with one little action, or how quickly she leaned into it. Food went to the starving child; affection went to Stormy.
By the time she remembered she had hands and not dead weights at her sides he pulled away, and she was embarrassed to be gasping her breath, her heart not having completely recovered from their escape. "So . . . So don't," she told him, flushed and feeling stupid and turning mumbly, which she figured erased any progress she had tried to make at looking tough. "Simple as that. Just because he's here doesn't mean he has to mess anything up for us."
Although she still couldn't quite say Jack's name so openly.
kurotomato emotion_kirakira emotion_kirakira Also Nyx asked and since the wording here is odd, anything 75 and under is a fragment~
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:56 pm
He slid his arms around her waist and held her tightly, his lips pressed against hers, and he didn't care that they were both exhausted from the combination of fighting and running, didn't care that they were both sweaty and breathing heavily and that Gale was currently a tangled mess of emotions that he would need to sort through and organize sometime soon. Stormy fit into his arms so perfectly that for several moments Gale said nothing at all, merely stood there and let himself lean against her.
He didn't want to see Jack anytime soon, he didn't want to even deal with the ex right now - but problems did not go away just because he didn't want to deal with him. Stormy was not his, because his implied that she was property, and she was not that at all, but a fully capable, functioning human being; but she was his girlfriend, which meant that he wanted to stay right where he was.
He pushed himself away from Stormy and paced back and forth, his fingers pressed against his temples where the headache was pounding, making him feel slightly nauseated. "I'm just..." Gale closed his eyes briefly. "I'm a stupid teenager, is what I am. I never thought about it before, never thought that I would even have to deal with this sort of thing, because who knew that he would end up here."
There was a bitter tone to his voice. "But I'm not as strong as everyone thinks I am. I'm still just a kid, I can't even deal with one little thing like this. I told myself I was as mature as everyone else, but throw one ex into the picture and I lose everything."
He lowered himself down to the ground so that he was crouching now, his arms wrapped around his legs, his forehead pressed against his knees.
"I'm just a stupid kid after all."
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kuropeco rolled 1 100-sided dice:
56
Total: 56 (1-100)
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:57 pm
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 10:25 pm
She restrained the impulse to stop his pacing with a tight hug and another kiss and let herself catch her breath, watching him go with knit brows. Not only was Gale emotionally distressed, but he also looked a little physically ill, and her own stomach turned over in sympathy. Helpless sympathy and the lingering butterflies from the kiss.
"I dropped the bomb on you out of nowhere," Stormy pointed out, wiping at the sweat on her brow. "And then I let you stew on it for a few days without explaining a thing. I'm surprised you're not more angry with me . . ." Describing it aloud made her realize it had been a stupid idea to leave him alone under those circumstances; she knew all too well what places a wandering mind went.
Setting herself before him, she bent at the waist and took the rare opportunity of kissing the top of his head. "You're not stupid, Gale. This is just a new kind of issue. It's not a mission you can go in and finish and it's done. He's not a monster you can just kill . . ."
< < Are you certain about that? > >
Stormy paused, then did her best to shrug off the comment. "C'mon," she said gently, offering a hand. "Let's retrieve some fragments, drop them off at the labs, and talk."
xkurotomato we could make a new rp that will probably turn into 10 pages again because I'm awful ouo
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Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:24 pm
He felt not only sick at heart, but actually physically sick. Perhaps with the stress of everything colliding on top of him, pressing him down, that he was genuinely catching something - and this was simultaneously annoying and frustrating all at once because the very last thing he needed was to get sick.
Stormy's voice floated above him, and Gale's arms curled a little more tighter around his midsection. He wanted to say that he wasn't angry at her, not really, but the words wouldn't come, swallowed back in his dry throat. A hand touched his shoulder and then he felt her lips against his hair as she kissed the top of his head, and a flush crossed Gale's cheeks, red and burning.
With effort, he slowly unfolded himself, but he wasn't looking at her as he reached out a hand and took hers, pushing himself to his feet. He swayed a little unsteadily and then gave a silent nod, lips pressed together.
<< Hang in there. You'll be all right. >>
Will I, though?Ol-j-man o u o o w o I see no problem with thisalso have a closing tag
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