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 Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 8:27 pm
"Peyton. I believe it," Fredrick replied, giving a quick smile back. He straightened a bit at the praise, clearly a bit proud he'd managed to help bring one situation to an end. When her smile slipped off though, so did his. He glanced around again as well, felt the heat of the desert bearing down on him. "Is it...always going to be like this? Is this what it's like?" He knew he should have been more specific, but...Wait a minute.
He turned around to stare at the tents in horror, backing up a step. That hadn't just been the desert heat! "Was anyone in there!?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 8:29 pm
And then a third of them appeared, it seemed like an endless amount, and they were all different all red and unusual and almost human shaped with too many writhing insect legs and long mandibles jutting from where a human head should have been.
"Hurry," Lin whispered, whether to the others or to Lawr was another question, "Hurry, it's close. She's close."
But before he could ask whom, the third centipede, the same deep red colour as Lawr's hand, made an unnatural hissing noise that escalated to a piercing shriek-
Red acid, venom sprayed all directions, less poisonous and more irritating, as the carapace was cleaved in neat halves. Immediately, both other victims slumped to the ground, the red tattoos leaving their hosts as they regained their centipede forms, eager to escape quite suddenly-
- And then there was a face Lawr could not forget an equally familiar weapon cut through the red, as they shrieked and writhed and dissolved to the weapon's light humming.
Now, there was just him left.
"Your hand," the Death lead said.
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 8:31 pm
She was making a concerted effort at consciousness. Cee stirred where she lay suffering and sweating and thankfully the harsh whispers in the back of her mind had ebbed enough for her to get to her own thoughts. " Fa-fahck-" She cursed, trying to move if she could and her hand genuinely feeling along her waist for her shoes... her ******** shoes. -------- HP: 35 Status: Poisoned - Need 5HP
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 8:36 pm
Lawrence just needed a little bit more, and here in the chaos it was so very easy to do. No one would even know what was happening.
He turned and looked in the direction of where the others were but was started back to Lin when everything was cleaved to pieces, noticing Aiden but seeming barely to consider him a threat yet, set to grab him as soon as he found himself another target to follow up with afterwards.
He tensed up completely, resisting the urge to put his hand behind his back because doing so would be admitting that he knew it was somehow wrong.
"Why?" he asked, his tone cold and clipped as he glared. "Why?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 8:49 pm
But there was fire and chaos and so, so many victims, and it seemed like Lawr's familiar friend wasn't as much of a conversationalist as he was made out to be, as verified by nobody ever.
He maybe had time to reconsider his options one more time and then-
- He was in some sort of room, white and empty, and there was this woman, or she looked like a woman, with a long dress and olive skin and flowers, so many blue flowers, and she beckoned him as he uncontrollably moved forward, step by step, experiencing a similar loss of control his victims had -
- And she took his hand, the new one, the borrowed one, and her own hands were cold and he could feel them, could fee as she buried her nails into them and drew blood-
- Searing pain. Worse than he remembered. A memory could never come close to certain reality, after all. At some point, as the illusion broke, Lawr had extended his hand, the new one outwards, and he didn't even see what had been done to it before he realized it was missing, cleanly cut down the center, cutting through more flesh than where the red had extended. Then came the blood, thick and viscous, dark red mixed with watery light, and he could see through everything, through skin and flesh and bone and it hurt all over again with a pain even his Fear shield could not keep up with. His severed hand dissolved almost immediately, returning to bone and then sand.
And that was that. The Death lead left, and it was difficult to tell if he had ever been angry or upset. In fact, it felt like Lawr had almost been...
Useful. Toshihiko Kingsley is back to normal. You can also keep their tattoo if you'd like, it is just a black centipede tattoo on their forearm. Prolixity Lin is back to normal! You can also keep their tattoo if you'd like, it is just a black centipede tattoo on their leg.
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baby_gwing rolled 2 8-sided dice:
6, 6
Total: 12 (2-16)
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 8:50 pm
"Loook out!"
Turning towards where the voice was coming from, Alicia smiled when she saw the other hunter leap into the fray and vanquish another one of the darn centipedes. He looks cute too. She would definitely have to get his name at least so that she could thank him properly later.
"Thanks! I'm Alicia from the Sun Division. What's your name?"
She called out to the other hunter as she shot her grapple hook towards a pair of centipedes which ended in their dissipation.
HP: 25/40
Damage: 6
Charge: 2/3
Centipede HP: 10/30
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:03 pm
Lawrence resented losing control more than anything else and though his first desire was to resist the woman, to fight back with everything he had, it turned out that he had no traction and nothing to fight against her with, when she dug her nails in he felt it.
But that was nothing compared to the absolute agony that met him when he snapped back to sanity. Pain was something he could usually endure but sometimes it was too much even for him, too much to deal with, a primal pain that had him on the sand curled in a foetal position cradling his wrist and with the bright red blood slowly seeping through the pristine and perfect white of his shirt. It was almost impossible to speak or think of anything but the pain and the very urgent amount of important fluids he was losing to the sand.
He had no shield, he had nothing to stop the bleeding, and he didn't think he was in very good company to get any sort of help.
Tyra looked on in horror at what she'd just witnessed and then very quietly started to cry.
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:08 pm
Bradley chuckled, a sort of rolling laugh that caught him for a moment. "Well, there's a bunch of larger centipedes running around. Some of the senior Hunters are trying to dispatch it with one of the new trainees, who fell on me, and.... a tent is on fire? It's a ********' mess is what it is." He wasn't quite sure what to do now, but leaving her by herself seemed like the wrong option. At least if she still saw walking corpses and magots and all sorts of dark things.
Yza seemed to smirk and he glanced back at Kara again for a moment. "Do you think you could ignore the corpses long enough to fight the giant centipedes? The sooner we kill them, the fast we go home. I think." Bradley would not leave her to be eaten alive by the beasts, but Kara was newer to this than he was and he felt.... protective of the two girls.
Reminded him of Eva he supposed.
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:09 pm
Released from the cold, cold nothing of being trapped within herself, frozen and unable to react, Lin tried to back away, breathing hard, not whimpering, not crying. She tugged frantically on Tyra's hand. She had not yet noticed the tattoo coiled around her leg.
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Cheekiebirdiee rolled 2 8-sided dice:
7, 5
Total: 12 (2-16)
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:09 pm
Burning, something was burning. Artemis tried to shake off the scent currently stuck in nostrils, didn't bother to look for it. No for the moment his tiny attention span was focused on the monsters and the girl. She spoke and he flashed a toothy grin before swinging away at another monster, "Artemis! I'm sun too!" It was kind of thrilling now, now that he was actually watching them fall under the hits he delivered. She praised him, it felt...nice.
HP: 30/40
Damage: 6
Charge: 2/3
Alicia Centipede Mob HP: 4
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:11 pm
Oblivious to everything that were happening to her fellow hunters in the other parts of the desert and the tent, Nellie finally got up and dusted herself off as soon as she started to feel somewhat better. And that was when she heard a scream which sent her running towards Henry's position, arriving just in time to see him dissipate two of the same centipedes that she had been fighting off herself moments earlier.
Jogging to reach his side, she called out to the other Mist hunter. "Henry? You alright?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:16 pm
Everything was happening so damned fast that Camille couldn't seem to get a fix on what was happening. Fire was everywhere, the creatures sprang from the sand as quickly as they were shot down, and there were towering, angry, feral ones looming over them all. She wasn't looking for Lawr but she damn near tripped over those who had fallen around him due to his choices. His treachery. But all she could see were tears and blood. So much blood. Without even thinking about it she whipped off her coat and immediately began to press it against the wound. She knew nothing about first aid, how to heal, or that you even could do such a thing. All she knew was that he was losing blood and he didn't deserve to die here. Nobody did. "Hang on. Just...hang on." Lifting her head she looked around, helpless, paralyzed.
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poke mattix rolled 1 12-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-12)
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:16 pm
It didn't take long for Jason to spot the injured party, the girl laying on the sand covered in what appeared to be large blisters. He rushed over, kneeling down to get a better look. He couldn't see a outward injury but she was sweating profusely. Considering they were dealing with large centipedes, he could wager a educated guess it was some sort of poison. "Hold on, this should help." He opened his coat, pulling out the bandages and wrapping them around and over the most inflamed area. He didn't know if the runics would help, but at least they would boost her FEAR shield. "How do you feel now?" He asked once he was done. HP: 25 + 5 = 30 Heeling Cee for: 5 Using standardized bandages
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baby_gwing rolled 2 8-sided dice:
1, 2
Total: 3 (2-16)
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:18 pm
Oooh. So Artemis was also a Sun hunter like her huh? Well, that would certainly make tracking him down and coming up with things to work together on much easier for sure.
"Are you new as well?"
Somewhat distracted by the temptation to check out the other hunter as he hacked and slashed at the remaining centipedes, it was little wonder that the next shot that was fired went wide and missed its intended target entirely.
HP: 25/40
Damage: Miss
Charge: 2/3
Centipede HP: 4/30
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:21 pm
Aiden relaxed a bit when Caelius showed up to take care of the problem, giving the Lead a respectful nod even if he doubted the other noticed, slicing through the bugs like they were nothing. He moved to check on the two victims who had hit the ground as the Death Lead dealt with the Life Hunter but he wasn't a medic, wasn't a Moon Hunter himself so as far as he could tell the two were alright. However the Life Hunter was now bleeding out as his hand, the one that had been red, was cut off. He almost moved to try and help but another female Hunter joined the group to try and stop the bleeding and he figured she at least had as much medical training as he did, read none, so he left her to it and went back to checking on the others. "Are you alright?" He asked the crying Hunter( Tyra).
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