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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:21 am
Darshendros the Eternal "Kill them all." A Vrock, an eight foot tall winged demon that looked like a giant, nightmarish demon bird - suddenly appeared in front of the mausoleum door. The fiendish bird-thing emitted an ear-splitting, stunningly loud screech, which may or may not stun all of the guards remaining. All the guards that would be stunned would likely be ripped to shreds as the Vrock tore through their ranks in a bloody, berserk rage, spewing masses of spores from it's body as it swung it's claws and pecked with it's sharp, pointed beak, and bit at the guards. The stunned guards were either cut to pieces, or knocked back against walls by the the massive forces unleashed by the creature. The guards arriving on scene quickly fired on it with their guns, some tossing grenades, and others pulling out the heavy artillery like rocket launchers. The guards on the rooftops let loose with whatever they could, and tried to aid the others in their assault. As the creature advanced, the guards backed up, some running back as they continued to fire their automatic weapons at the creature and hit it with the rockets and explosives, trying their best to stay out of the way of the creature. "Eagle Squad, we need backup in the Mausoleum Section, over!" A steely voice came through the radio in responce as the men fired on many of the spores that flew towards them, some of them being confined and damaged by their effects, others narrowly missing them. "Roger that Gamma, assistance is on the way..."As the men continued to fire at the beast, a few thousand feet away, a squad of three eagle-eyed snipers had prepped their weapons, and prepared to fire them at the target, completely hidden from view. Tech The M107 .50-caliber long range rifle is semi-automatic and is being fielded to infantry soldiers. It can engage targets to 2,000 meters with precision. At 29 inches long, the frame mounted, bolt-action XM107 weighs 28.5 pounds with optics. The XM107 is a rapid-fire; man portable, shoulder-fired, recoil operated semi-automatic system utilizing military standard .50 caliber ammunition. The primary components of the system consist of a rifle, day optical sighting system and hard carrying case(s). It is capable of firing over 5 rounds downfield in less than 10 seconds. The three snipers steadied their aim, and prepared to fire on the large target, completely out of sight...
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:47 am
"...TSUH!"
All the spores would stop and be disintegrated, almost instantly. A man with what looked like a black ninja outfit on stood, having apparently made that sound. The soldiers would notice a thin dust was suddenly falling and blowing all around them and coating them. To be specific, they were metallic particles, were they the cause of the spores obliteration?
"TSUH!"
The man appeared in front of the soldier ordering back up, black eyes meeting the soldiers with a sadistic grin.
"Take your men and go help people evacuate."
The man disappeared again until-
There was a high-pitched whistling as his fist shot out, punching a hole clean into the beast's face as if it was soggy tissue paper. The hand stopped however, when it reached it's brains, the pinky red goo dribbling down his arm.
"TSUH!"
The man disappeared again, the dust still hanging on everything and everyone.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:49 am
((First to save my character from having his hand blown off))Quote: They were immune to fire, flames fed them, so anyone who tried it would find burning was out of the question. The only problem, Yarneth had lost control over them, they would now act on instinct, doing as they pleased unless Yarneth devoted a good deal of energy to harness them. Yarneth hand was actually powered by a thin veil of intenselt pressured metallic hydrogen, if the bullet was mad of steel, impurities from the cold would shatter it, if it were of obsidian or another metal, Yarneth's energy moving through the superconductive metal hydrogen would repel the ammo, sending it away harmlessly. ((Next to deal with this fortified stone wall which you are all so fond off.))Yarneth smiled sadisticly as his ice sheilds protected him from enemy fire. Now that wall was infused with his power, the next move was simple. Yarneth stared at the wall, raising his arms. "Come to life, O great wall!" he screamed, "Come to life!"attack Stone Golems- Yarneth can summon up to 100 golems, each 100 meters tall, to attack his enemies. Though each golem holds 1% of his power. That power returns to Yarneth when the Golem is destroyed. (20cp)(1post ct)(Condition= Yarneth out of battle until all golems destroyed or disbanded. 10cp returns to Yarneth upon the golems destruction.) CP remaining Only 2. The wall itself provided the perfect material for this attack. Any gaurds would here a rumble, then a massive earthquake before the golems bursted from all along the frozen section of the western wall, leaving nothing of it left. And, as previosly conceded, these bitches weren't brittle. The first ten golems, at over a hundred meters tall, thirty meters thick, fifty meters wide, and reinforced by the extreme cold, would take fire from the tower without so much as flinching. Yarneth's power was through the entire wall of Lament, turning the wall into golems from the point where Yarneth had first stared it down, and then outwards to the extreme northern and southern edges of the perimeter. Fifty golems had been created from the wall itself and the obsidian stone in the ground. They advanced at Yarneth's command, ignoring the tower to attack the half circle of wall that remained to protect the west side of the city. "Let's see what you people think of you precious wall now," Yarneth screamed.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:47 pm
EdwardYaitsIII Yarneth smiled sadisticly as his ice sheilds protected him from enemy fire. Now that wall was infused with his power, the next move was simple. Yarneth stared at the wall, raising his arms. "Come to life, O great wall!" he screamed, "Come to life!"((Yarneth takes a crippling blow to his hand, possibly resulting in its loss. This is due to an OOC discussion on the matter. Now, to post.)) And Yarneth would wait. And wait. And wait some more. His words would echo into the realms of memory as they faded from the field. If the battle was taking place on a Western Battlefield, a tumbleweed would roll by, blown by a gentle wind. For Yarneth had made a grave miscalculation about what composed this mighty wall. His spell would have called for stone golems, beings made from the supposed rock and ground that he believed made up the wall of Lament. However, it seemed that in all his mighty cloud brained wisdom, he hadn't noticed that the wall was made of METAL. There wouldn't be any stone golems forming from this massive chunk of protective, and recently fortified, metal. The concussive shock trauma alone from the exploding artillery shells would be more than enough to turn the slugs into microscopic bits of goo. The shells that had fired towards the ice shields would ALSO not act as Yarneth had expected. The penetration power of the shells was tremendous. Their weight, momentum, and inertia only added to this property. The shells were capable of burrying themselves into the ground several feet before exploding if there was nothing to prevent them from hitting it, such as the body of an enemy weapon, or advancing army. This would mean that the mere 1 meter thickness of the ice walls would do next to nothing against the shells. True, the shells would detonate after digging into the ice, however, the intense force from the shells would obliterate the ice shields surrounding Yarneth, and leave him open for the next volley, especially because it took MINUTES for the ice sheilds to reform, where as the guns could fire every ten SECONDS. This meant that the fire from the cannons would effectively be able to hit and pummel Yarneth before he could reform his defense.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:06 pm
Ernie the tumbleweed! He was there, this was his proudest moment! He rolled and rolled and rolled.
...then got killed in a matter of nanoseconds.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:51 pm
Up on the wall, Lt. Steele saw tha valliant tumbleweed fall in battle, and honored him with a heroic cry.
"Ernie! NOOOOO~!"
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:43 pm
As he lay there, bullet wounds everywhere, a small cry broke through his lips.
"...before this moment, did I ever truly see the world?"
And with that, the little tumbleweed passed on.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:54 pm
Yarneth would do no such thing, if the wall could not be formed into golems, the power would divert into ground, which was obviously loaded with very cold obsidian or at least a comparable grade of volcanic rock. The golems would rise behind the wall, along the entire western edge of the city instead. ((And since when did the western end of the wall sudenly change to metal, and what type of metal would this be, magically sheilded titanium immune to all attacks, eh?))
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:10 pm
((On the other hand, this attack is bogus))
The stone golems, if they ever even had a chance to form, crumbled to dust, what remained of the zombie army vaporized into poison gas. Yarneth, sans left hand, also went poof, rematerialing in some dank basement beneath Yaits city. Would he ever be heard from again, considering that his flesh was decomposing from his wasted efforts, probably not for a long time.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:18 pm
There would be several clunks as the gas suddenly seemed to be encapsulated into hundreds of tanks, hitting the ground with a comparatively quiet, dull thunk. The usual toxic/poisonous warnings were imprinted in the tanks.
He left.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:30 pm
As all of this took place, the sun was rising, and the GNN news copter was flying overhead to get a good look at the wheather for the northern regions. As it passed by, it spotted Lament, and the cameras started rolling on a live feed being broadcast to every major city on the Main Gaian Continent.
This is Leonard Johnson reporting for GNN. We interrupt our regular wheather report to bring you this shocking view! It seems that sometime overnight, the City of Lament has come under attack by a force of some sort! The signs of the battle are everywhere! The city's cannons seem to be firing on a massive Ice Giant of some sort, there are corpses of the invading force strewn all around! We're getting a closeup now...
The body of Yarneth would be clearly visable for a few moments before he dissapeared. As he vanished, the Golems panned into view as they crumbled into nothingness.
The carnage can be seen all across the plains ladies and gentlemen... Craters, bodies, smoke from fires, its a horrible mess... The enemy army seems to have been defeated, however, who would have attacked this place? We'll do our best to look for more information on this subject! We'll return shortly with your weather...
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:34 pm
Of course, the body of Yarneth would look nothing like Edward Yaits the third, more like a disintigrated old man nearly ground into pulp from over excerting his power.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:53 pm
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Reguardless, the report would be sent, and many people would wonder who the attackers were. In the meantime, the city of Lament began to repair itself. A few phonecalls would be made, and appointments scheduled as the city began to move on, clearing away the dead, saying their prayers, and beginning to return to thier normal lives.
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:44 am
Fa had somehow made it out of tower during all the excitment. To his knowlage no one even knew that he had escaped yet. Yet he hoped that someone had at least found those guards he had traped. Ruhin assured him that it was not his problem and that those people deserved whatever they got, for leaving him in a prison like that. Fa was not sure about this, but he decided not to worry about it any more.
As for where he had been during this time. The truth was that he had been hidding out in an alley way inside the city proper. He was staying in the middle-class area of the city, saying out of sight and waiting until things got back to normal.
Now, though, that the clean up process had begun. Fa was walking the streets again. His goal was to leave the city in any way possable. Fa would head for the main gate first, seeing as he had no money for a train ticket. He hoped it would be open so that he could just leave. Otherwise he would have to stay and find some way to make money to get on the train. Fa walked through the last section of the Outer City on his way to the gate...
((Ryugi would the gate even be open?))
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:34 pm
"Is everyone accounted for?"
Captain Endin spoke loudly and clearly amongst the debris of the scattered golems that had risen up for mere seconds before the attacking force had retreated. He stood atop the body of one of the fallen monstrocities, speaking to the assembled troops before him. Most of them appeared unharmed... this was true, as they had not seen combat today, but had instead been the subject of an underhanded maneuver that left them in a worsening situation.
Four men lay dead at the back of the group; having been retrieved from the tower by melting the ice that had formed around them. They were frozen stiff, dead without the shadow of a doubt... though it wasn't just those that had been affected. Even the men who looked unharmed and had made it through to safety had felt the chill; some were still shivering from the cold, some had frostbite on their extremities and from their armor. One man would need to have his right leg amputated from where he had fallen, because the cold had been that overwhelming.
In the back of the group, one man stood beside the bodies of the dead, leaning on a rifle like it was a crutch; his face and neck bloodied. He had been the unlikely survivor... one of the men that had fallen behind in the east tower that had been presumed dead. From the looks of him, he hadn't made it through unscathed by a long shot, however.
"I'm proud... of each and every one of you. You have all showed courage today. You have all showed committment. What happened to our fallen brothers is unfortunate, but know that they gave their lives in defense of their city... Our city. These men are heroes, and we will honor them that way."
Captain Endin stepped down from his pedastal, and after a dedicated salute by the assembled troops, they broke formation and began the trek back into the inner city. Endin had other immediate plans, however; he would help to carry the fallen home.
"Captain, sir." The battered troop saluted as the Captain approached. Already he had been wrapped in bandages in several places, covering bleeding gashes that had apparently been caused by skin that had torn off when it touched his frigid armor.
"It was an honor to serve with you today..."
"The honor was to serve with you men," the Captain replied.
"Ah- Captain!" the troop stated, attempting to draw the man's attention again.
"Private... Chester, was it?"
"Sir, just Chess."
"What do you need, Chess? The medical tent? It's-"
"Oh, no, nothing like that, sir," Chess replied; trying to wave it off with a smile that showed he was not only bleeding on the outside, but he had blood in his mouth, as well. "I just... well. I'm trying to write a letter to my girl, and, well... it's pretty embarassing. I just can't find the right words. I was hoping you could take a look at it for me since..."
Endin was a bit taken aback by the request, and it showed.
"...since...?"
"Well, since you're so popular with the ladies. I've got to know! How do you do it!"
"Oh... ha... ha..." Endin laughed as a diversion. He really hadn't heard anything about this before, or at least he didn't know that it was common knowledge. He'd trained his troops too damn well, it seemed, one of them must have been spying on him.
"Right, then- ah..." the Captain rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "How about you come by my quarters later tonight, and I'll see if I can't help with your letter. No promises, though, I'm not a miracle worker."
"Oh, thank you, sir. I'm really worried about this, we've been a little rocky lately and- oh, I'll tell it later. Thank you, Captain!"
The troop and Captain both saluted, and went their separate ways.
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