He traveled further down, for this is his second visit here. He already know what to expect; the fog looked like they have faces.
He reached the small arena. As before, his step into the small circle sent a red pulse across the flat ground, making a humanoid shadow appeared.
Unlike the one bearing the thick, heavy sword before, this one wielded a thin, long sword. He can guess it was for stabbing from the stance it was in...
Although your heart has been more powerful, you must stay careful., the weapon said to him as it materializes in his hands.
"I know."
Without a judge or jury, referee or spectator, the match begins.
Boss Count!
HP 19/20 AutoDamage/ turn: 3
OOC
Name of character: Eir Damage done: 7 - 6 = 1 CURRENT HP OF BOSS: 19/20 Current HP: 47/50 Special ability: Wild Card [not usable here] Species Ability: Ghost: gain 2x loot first 3 successful battle (3/3 used) Current weapon equipped: Agony's Twin TARGET:BOSS
She cried out, the scream tearing her throat like a blade, but still she could not stop. Grief overwhelmed her like a wave, an avalanche, something so powerful that nothing could stand in its way and remain unscathed. Everything she loved was dead or dying, from people to her home to her very way of life. There was nothing left. She screamed and screamed and in that scream was a plea for death, that she not outlive the last vestiges of everything she was-
The Spire was stranger even than he had imagined it might be; after the comfort of The Ruins, even away from the acidic rain, it made his skin crawl.
A sensation of dread settled onto his scrawny shoulders like a physical weight, and it shoved him down, until he crumpled, and the memory shot through him in the curious, instant ways that memories did.
He lay on the ground, shaken, with his face to the earth and his shoulders heaving with the effort of the scream he had not screamed.
For a long time he did not move. Why bother? Why bother, after that?
OOC
Character name: Amity Character appearance: A thin and stretched-looking thing that trembles gently and has the taut, nervous energy of a caged animal pacing. His yellow heart seems hungry, and he wears a blue pendant around his neck. Link to Heart Logx Current HP 30/30 Current weapon equipped none
Rejam rolled 2 6-sided dice:
6, 3Total: 9 (2-12)
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 12:21 am
But he did, eventually. With leaden arms he hauled himself up, feeling grief so acute it was a physical ache, and he dragged his uncooperative feet forward. Maybe whatever was at the next platform would be another memory, something to replace this one. Anything would be better than this.
He was only dimly aware of the swirling faces. After a certain plateau of loss environment became an idea more than a concrete thing. Awareness came at a price, and so it was better discarded.
What he could not ignore, though, was the sword-armed figure.
"Please don't," he begged it.
With tears streaming--not the aesthetically pleasing glossy streams down unblemished cheeks but the snot-soaked unpleasant visceral sobs of someone with nothing left to be ashamed of because everything was gone--the figure swung, and he stupidly, without thinking, caught the blade in his bare hands and felt it bite into his skin. He shoved it away, and pushed the figure away, hard. It spilled onto the ground, but clambered back up relentlessly.
"Please don't," he repeated.
OOC
Name of character: Amity Damage done: 3 CURRENT HP OF BOSS: 17/20 Current HP: 27/30 Special ability: Bishop's Blessing Species Ability: Reroll one failure (Death Hunter) Current weapon equipped: NA TARGET: BOSS
It moved for a lunging stab. He moved for a side thrust. It moved despite injured. He moved to follow up.
It went for close combat. He ducked and goes under. With an uppercut he countered Large gash immediately opened.
Boss Count!
HP 11/20 AutoDamage/ turn: 3
OOC
Name of character: Eir Damage done: 14 - 6 = 8 CURRENT HP OF BOSS: 11/20 Current HP: 44/50 Special ability: Wild Card [not usable here] Species Ability: Ghost: gain 2x loot first 3 successful battle (3/3 used) Current weapon equipped: Agony's Twin TARGET:BOSS
Rejam rolled 2 6-sided dice:
3, 2Total: 5 (2-12)
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 12:27 am
Maybe it was a test. He stood still, and let the figure swing, closed his eyes as much to shut out the image of the grief-wracked face as to steel himself for the blow. It bit deep into his side.
So it was inevitable. He had to fight, then.
Then he'd fight. Shoulders heaving, he wheeled.
OOC
Name of character: Amity Damage done: 0 CURRENT HP OF BOSS: 17/20 Current HP: 24/30 Special ability: Bishop's Blessing Species Ability: Reroll one failure (Death Hunter) Current weapon equipped: NA TARGET: BOSS
"Please stop," he begged it. He realized it was much because there was an aching relief in saying the words as it was a genuine plea; it was the mindless, meaningless babble of a hysterically-crying child.
OOC
Name of character: Amity Damage done: 0 :T CURRENT HP OF BOSS: 17/20 Current HP: 24/30 Special ability: Bishop's Blessing Species Ability: Reroll one failure (Death Hunter) Current weapon equipped: NA TARGET: BOSS
Rejam rolled 2 6-sided dice:
6, 3Total: 9 (2-12)
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 12:31 am
It couldn't be helped. He mustered his strength; tried to control himself. In the space between breathing, in a moment of isolated calm-that-wasn't-calm but only a different sort of mourning, he sank his fist into his attacker's gut.
It kept coming at him, just exactly as if he'd done nothing at all.
OOC
Name of character: Amity Damage done: CURRENT HP OF BOSS: 14/20 Current HP: 21/30 Special ability: Bishop's Blessing Species Ability: Reroll one failure (Death Hunter) Current weapon equipped: NA TARGET: BOSS
"I'm tired of fighting," he said, and he'd have been ashamed that it came out as a whimper, if he'd had any emotional room to feel something as petty as shame.
He swung out again, and the contact was grazing, but successful.
OOC
Name of character: Amity Damage done: CURRENT HP OF BOSS: 12/20 Current HP: 18/30 Special ability: Bishop's Blessing Species Ability: Reroll one failure (Death Hunter) Current weapon equipped: NA TARGET: BOSS
The match is running single-handedly. Yet at some point, Eir puts down his stance.
He was looking straight to the non-existent 'eyes' of the shadowy humanoid figure.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?
Boss Count!
HP 11/20 AutoDamage/ turn: 3
OOC
Name of character: Eir Damage done: ?? CURRENT HP OF BOSS: ??/20 Current HP: 41/50 Special ability: Wild Card [not usable here] Species Ability: Ghost: gain 2x loot first 3 successful battle (3/3 used) Current weapon equipped: Agony's Twin TARGET:BOSS
Something else he'd have been ashamed of, if he'd had the room: how badly he was fighting.
OOC
Name of character: Amity Damage done: 1 CURRENT HP OF BOSS: 11/20 Current HP: 15/30 Special ability: Bishop's Blessing Species Ability: Reroll one failure (Death Hunter) Current weapon equipped: NA TARGET: BOSS
Rejam rolled 2 6-sided dice:
2, 5Total: 7 (2-12)
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 12:41 am
It had become rote, at this point. The mechanical, unfeeling swings. It was impossible to emotionally invest himself in the fight: everything was bogged down by an enormous, gaping, all-consuming sensation of loss that wasn't even his.
He felt no satisfaction at the glancing blows, nor real pain at the ones he received.
OOC
Name of character: Amity Damage done: 1 CURRENT HP OF BOSS: 10/20 Current HP: 12/30 Special ability: Bishop's Blessing Species Ability: Reroll one failure (Death Hunter) Current weapon equipped: NA TARGET: BOSS
Decyl frowned at the fogging mess he had walked himself into. He has no clue where he was aside from it was somewhere located in the spire, but hey look a path! Let's go!
As he traveled, he can't help but feel a little warily of his surroundings. The fog is creepy for some reason, but he couldn't figure out why...that was until one blows right throw him with a memory not of his own.
Quote:
The Cruel: He tore off his opponent's limb as easily as breathing - oh, she was dead now, or would be soon, but she could still feel pain and thus he was not yet done with her. Red mist filled his vision as he contemplated what he would inflict on every soldier that stood before him. Flaying, gutting, every kind of pain, so exquisite, so delightful. It made him shudder and ache with longing at the same time. He reached for her-
A strange sense of bloodlust runs through Decyl's body.
OOC
Character name: Decyl Character appearance: A being of average height and seems to just blend into the crowd, Decyl does not have any distinctive features currently. His heart glows yellow. On his being, a new feature has appeared in the form of a shiny pin. Link to Heart Log: Here Current HP: 40 Current weapon equipped: Simple Destruction
Rejam rolled 2 6-sided dice:
3, 1Total: 4 (2-12)
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 12:45 am
In a moment of being overwhelmed, he stumbled backward, and he received the next swipe of the blade without even trying to retaliate.
OOC
Name of character: Amity Damage done: 0 CURRENT HP OF BOSS: 10/20 Current HP: 9/30 Special ability: Bishop's Blessing Species Ability: Reroll one failure (Death Hunter) Current weapon equipped: NA TARGET: BOSS
He sat down in front of the advancing sword. This was inevitability. Peacefully, almost gratefully, he let the attacker swing.
OOC
Name of character: Amity Damage done: 0 CURRENT HP OF BOSS: 10 Current HP: 6/30 Special ability: Bishop's Blessing Species Ability: Reroll one failure (Death Hunter) Current weapon equipped: NA TARGET: BOSS
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