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 Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:34 pm
More running...Sherry just kept running.
((Because I forgot to roll. xD ))
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Grifferie rolled 1 100-sided dice:
83
Total: 83 (1-100)
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:38 pm
And Sherry kept running.
She almost didn't notice when the ice underfoot was more stable.
But it was. She looked back for just a moment, and wondered how she ever made it out of there.
Then she turned and continued forward.
((Safe))
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:04 pm
Sled rides were all kinds of awesome and fun when you didn't know what was going on.
Ofelia still hated the cold.
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Tamawolien rolled 1 100-sided dice:
75
Total: 75 (1-100)
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:43 pm
Tedan had trudged out after the others some time later, the bandages having done their work a while ago - but he'd also fallen asleep, and been ... pretty damn slow to get up again. It was cold here, and that also sapped what little energy he had left. As such, he'd missed a lot of the action, eyes going a bit wide when he finally reached the others. His gaze darted around, noting tentacles, sleds, injured trainees everywhere ... s**t. What had he missed by lagging behind? He'd heard the sounds of fighting up ahead a few times, but he'd always gotten there just a few minutes too late to see what was going on - just following tracks in the snow.
Before he had too much time to think about it, the ground started to shake underfoot. Uh oh. Looking around wildly, the Sun trainee spotted one of the sleds and ran after it. "Sorry I'm late!" he called to those nearby.
They hadn't been going for more than a few minutes, though, when the ice cracked below him. Tedan yelled at that, trying to go faster but it was too late. Screaming now, he fell and bounced on something squishy. Ew ew ew ew! He figured out after a moment that he was on top of a giant eyeball. Oh this was so gross, he had to get back to the ice .... come on ...
(( HP: 40/40
If it's not okay to just jump in like this let me know D: Real life got busy @w@ ))
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Tamawolien rolled 1 100-sided dice:
48
Total: 48 (1-100)
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:50 pm
The ground was still shaking ... Tedan could feel the ice breaking under his feet. He pushed himself, trying to run faster, get away, get off the cracking ice. He dodged from side to side, attempting to figure out which way to go. But nothing seemed right, the cracks getting louder, sounding almost like gunshots now. He glanced back - a mistake - and saw nothing but water and chunks of ice. s**t s**t s**t!
The ice disappeared from underneath him. Tedan screamed and jumped for the next ice shelf but the edge of it crumbled under his feet - and the Sun trainee just barely managed to grab onto it by the tips of his fingers. He couldn't fall. No no no ... grunting, he somehow pulled himself up, glanced back once more, then kept on running.
(( HP: 40/40 ))
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prolixity rolled 1 100-sided dice:
26
Total: 26 (1-100)
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:54 pm
The ice bucked beneath their feet, rose, cracked with series of massive cannon-shot sounds. The titan was sinking, taking with it the artifact they needed and one of the strongest Hunters in Deus. Jordan sunk the spike on the end of Ferros's haft into the ice and hung onto the weapon to keep his balance as the ice heaved beneath him.
The stretch of ice he was on broke away from the main mass with a horrifying crack and a whoosh of waves, sinking dangerously low to the icy water. It was large enough that Jordan didn't think it was going to sink immediately, but he needed to get off the berg right now, before it drifted away from the surrounding ice.
Something came rearing up over the edge of the ice. Something black and white and large. The last remnants of penguiny thought processes went into a flailing panic, and Jordan raced for the edge of the ice without thinking about it. KILLER WHALE OH s**t.
When the whale's weight came walloping down onto the ice, the floe tilted wildly and sent him sailing into the air. He gritted his teeth and hoped desperately that he'd land on ice instead of water.
It was a close thing, but he went sprawling onto the edge of another ice floe, breath knocked out of him by the impact.
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Tamawolien rolled 1 100-sided dice:
18
Total: 18 (1-100)
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:55 pm
This was insane! Tedan found himself yelling fairly random things as he raced across the ice, not even sure where anyone else was anymore. Most of what he was screaming was obscenities of one form or another. They got especially loud when the piece of ice he was on started to tilt. Oh ******** no. Darting forward, he jumped across space and icy water to land and skid forward on the next piece of ice.
(( HP: 40/40 ))
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Tamawolien rolled 1 100-sided dice:
54
Total: 54 (1-100)
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:58 pm
But that piece of ice started cracking under him too and Tedan finally just shut up to concentrate on running. Once again, he was forced to grab onto the next piece of ice by his fingertips, feet dangling inches from the water.
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Tamawolien rolled 1 100-sided dice:
86
Total: 86 (1-100)
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:00 pm
Once he scrambled up onto that piece of ice, Tedan stumbled forward a few more steps before he realized something was missing. Cracking. The sounds of the ice cracking ... they'd stopped. Or rather, they were all behind him rather than right under him. He stopped, almost confused, and turned to look back. Blue eyes went wide as he saw floating chunks of ice everywhere, mixed in with darker blue water, here and there trainees still running, jumping, trying to make it to ... where he was now.
Stable ice. Safety. Looking forward again, there was nothing but white. Where ... did Allan go? And the others? s**t. Taking a deep breath, Tedan headed for the closest group of fellow trainees and started walking behind them, slowly catching up. He didn't know where they were going, but maybe they would find something. Hopefully.
(( Safe! ))
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:13 pm
Sasha hadn't really been zoned in - she'd been sitting on the center of her little personal iceberg just kind of... existing. There hadn't been a reason to do anything else. There wasn't anything really... going on upstairs - she hadn't even really responded to Nona's calls, frantic and shrill. If this was how it all ended, at least she'd been able to be here with people she cared about. Sasha had been able to make friends, experience fear, bond with Nona.. and learn more about a part of her she hadn't known was there. The doctor had nurtured that little piece of Sasha - and she'd taken flight in the short time since her rebirth on the island. There was nothing right now, only numbness, and the young woman didn't even look up - let alone move - when her ice floe wibble-wobbled as Jerry clambered aboard.
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prolixity rolled 1 100-sided dice:
24
Total: 24 (1-100)
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:16 pm
The whale was persistent. The situation would have been funnier if it hadn't been quite so life-threatening.
It'd be funny later, Jordan mused as he landed on the next stretch of ice and took off running again.
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prolixity rolled 1 100-sided dice:
34
Total: 34 (1-100)
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:19 pm
I could eat it, Ferros suggested thoughtfully.
I'm pretty sure that's actually a normal, meat-sack type of whale. At least mental arguing didn't waste any breath.
I could still try.
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prolixity rolled 1 100-sided dice:
71
Total: 71 (1-100)
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:22 pm
The weightless feeling of falling as Jordan's next landing spot cracked and broke under him was ridiculously terrifying. He landed on something soft. Something spongy and slimy.
He looked down.
He wished he hadn't looked down.
Not thinking about it, just dodging tentacles and scrambling up the jagged side of the pit in the ice. No, really, not thinking about it.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:23 pm
Jerry lay still, just clinging to the ice flow for some time, his shoulders shuddering silently before he managed to drag himself up into a sitting position. He wiped his eyes and attempted, sadly and slowly, to clean his glasses. Warily, he glanced up and around... There, the flailing tentacles and shattering ice and leaping whales in the distance... and here, just behind him, was Sasha. Wobbling a bit in place, and not quite sure about his own mental state, he scooted to a more stable spot on the ice-flow, he sat beside her, staring off where he went. His voice hoarse from screaming, he rasped out softly, "There ain't no grave can hold my body down There ain't no grave can hold my body down When I hear that trumpet sound I'm gonna rise right out of the ground Ain't no grave can hold my body down. Well, look way down the river, what do you think I see? I see a band of angels and they're coming after me Ain't no grave can hold my body down There ain't no grave can hold my body down. "
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prolixity rolled 1 100-sided dice:
73
Total: 73 (1-100)
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:28 pm
The edge of the pit crumbled as Jordan hauled himself up, and he landed right back on the eye.
STILL NOT THINKING ABOUT IT.
Instead, as he fended off the thin whippy tentacles and made his way up the wall again, he wondered sourly why the tentacles seemed to like him so much.
I could offer a sugg -
SHUT UP, FERROS. SHUT UP.
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