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((The Advance guard and the remains of the Plague Army are not getting inside until they fight the reinforcements that are coming up through the Causeway. That's the reason why it's opening in the first place... I'm all for some action, but please do not rush ahead when you require a post from me.))

((The Causeway was not yet fully open. As of this post, you can now try to enter the city.))

The Wilders above do not have time to watch the unfolding madness below. Their eyes trade glances between the annihilation of the foes below, and the Lord Cain's descent in madness. The tops of Andalusia's towers emanated such heat that the air around them rippled in waves. As The Causeway rumbled open beneath them, booming with the battle roars of the first of tribes to answer the horn call, they were echoed by the shouts from above. "FOR LADY AZUR! GLORY IN HER NAME!" Telara and Uskarr emerged at the front of the ascending vanguard, as Uskarr's mighty falcon pierced the air with its predatory call and swept up through the air and out of the causeway. The scarred Reaper's call screamed back to his hawk, who plummeted from above and down over the remaining infected. Its talons found two, ripping the creatures from the ground to drop them from several stories higher. The Ranger's bow was in hand, and upon its string one metal arrow gleamed in the fiery dawn. Uskarr raised the bow to face the encroaching enemy, and bellowed as he fired.

"BLACKMANE, BRING YOUR FIRE! "

As his arrow tore upwards through the sky, his call was answered by fire. It exploded out from the tops of the towers, each outpost erupting with two long lashes of seething flame the width of an oak's trunk. The sounds of battle were momentarily drowned out by the rush of fire that swept down upon the dunes, cutting swathes of ash into the ranks of the plague soldiers and leaving slithering trails of fresh glass over the dunes' surface as they passed.

Above, Uskarr's arrow flashed with the brightness of a flare, and split into numerous projectiles. As it did, each dove back towards the sands leaving streamers of smoke behind them. Where they fell, sand and putrefied flesh was blasted into the air in pieces. The Reaper's arrow carpet bombed the front lines. In the moment after, Telara blew forward on a gale of wind. Suspended two feet above the air, arms extended before her as blades shimmered into frenzied existence all around her, she was an exemplar of lethal grace. She flew behind one of the towers' incendiary coils, dancing through the air around those who had survived. They did not much longer, as her shimmering swords of wind and force reduced them to spitting sections of poisoned meat. "LORD OF ERNYA! RETURN TO YOUR LADY! WE SHALL HOLD THEM HERE!" The Kokoro looked at Cain as she passed him. Her eyes say something different there, but she said nothing further. A disturbing look of peace remained on her face as she kept her attention on the savage task at hand.

In the midst of all of this, the wilders behind them had fanned out to surround The Causeway's entrance. Spears were leveled on all sides, leaving a perimeter of stabbing steel as more packed into the Causeway's tunnel, too close together to pass through. All eyes and weapons faced forward, ready to strike, forcing any foe that thought to enter Andalusia to face a wall of furious, hate filled and bloodthirsty tribesmen.

"WE SOW THE SAND WITH SEEDS OF BONE! WE WATER THE EARTH WITH BLOOD! WE REAP YOU FROM OUR LANDS!" Their defiance was total. If Vincent's soldiers were to make it into Andalusia, they would have to make it to the Causeway first, slay the scores that blocked their path, and then scale the mountain of bodies that would barricade the way.

From beneath the dunes, in the darkness of the Causeway's interior, echoed the feral howls of beasts made of men. More were coming... and they were not human.


SKILLS USED:
Telara

Cycling Blast (Used on Self)
Rank: D
A swirling blast of air is fired out to attack your enemy up to 25 feet away.

Levitate
D
A skill once learned becomes passive outside combat. Using telekinetic powers, the user levitates themselves into the air and can fly around. While outside battle, there is no cost as oppose to inside combat where the user must give up E rank energy per post. Once master rank, the user no longer needs to give energy as he/she is much stronger in their abilities then before.

Continuous Attack
C Rank
This is basically a never ending attack on the opponent and is an improvement to the Fury of Blades skill. Basically the user uses all of their energy blades at once and attacks the opponent in one long rapid attack. (this lasts for two posts)

Vortex
C Rank
This can be used a few ways. The user slowly controls his weapons and makes the spin around him in circle or spiral. It lasts for the whole post, it can be used a defense or offense.

Telara = 890 / 1000 Energy

Uskarr
Energy Shot: Blast
The user charges an energy shot like normal, but this one is different. Upon impact, it explodes into a fiery blast.

Energy Shot: Volley
The user fires an energy bolt straight up into the air. When the shot reaches it's peak, it explodes into a rain of energy darts. This skill is very difficult to dodge, though it doesn't do a lot of collected damage

Uskarr = 880 / 1000 Energy

THE TOWERS:
FIRESTONES ACTIVE
The equivalent of B Ranked Blaze Whips with the thickness of Inferno's fire pillars. 3 post duration; 10 post cooldown.

"Break way!" Liliana roared at the thick wall of bodies before her. "Your allies come to your aid!"

The pads of the Kokoro's feet touched the ground long enough to spring her body backwards to dodge the testing weapons of the plague guard. Their pressing advance was interrupted by hacking blades of wind, sending infectious ichor and mutant limbs tumbling over the sand. She glanced behind her long enough to command, "Open the way!" and empower the gale of guillotine edges that slashed about their forward foes with frenzy. With the mass of wilders that swept to her flanks to give Cain and Liliana birth, the descent into the causeway was more fortified than before. As their spears and axes buried themselves in the sickly flesh before them the tribes called the names of the ancestors.

As they gifted their kills to the names of their ancient kin, Uskarr's dire hawk echoed its Reaper master's falcon cry. As the giant raptor ripped down through the clouds its scream ripped over the front lines of the enemy forces. The mutant and the once-dead monsters of the Plague Army were halted then, and those that did were laid low by the onslaught of the wilders' relentless counter-assault while Ernya's Lord and Lady were given clear passage into the fray, under the incendiary cover of the lashing flames from the towers.

From the shadowed mouth of the Causeway echoed a long and baleful howl. Then, Adellos erupted from the deep. He leapt over heads like a ravenous beast, his claws and fangs descending towards the densest cluster of foes. This blood-soaked battlesong would help to ease his mind...

SKILLS USED:

TELARA
Fury of Blades
D Rank
This skill is pretty cool, by using your blades you attack with great speed for this post with all your weapons, slashing hacking and staging all in one movement.

Continuous Attack - Post 2 of 2

Levitate - SUSTAINED - 10 Energy

TELARA'S ENERGY = 860/1000

USKARR
Roar - 60 Energy
Your pet lets loose a mighty roar, causing other animals and people of lower rank to stand frozen in fear for 1 post. If the victim is an RPC, they may choose to be frozen or run away.

USKARR'S ENERGY = 820/1000

Liliana rushed forward, staff in hand as her glow culminated into the release of Alewar in all his ascended dragon glory. "I let slip the dragon Alewar!" she roared as Alewar trumpeted into the air. An erethral glow started to gather above them in the sky as fire blazed Liliana's staff to start launching out the trademark fireballs for the Megid spell.

10125-20-200=9905 remaining from Alewar use

9905-250=9655 remaining from use of Megid

The Advanced Guards who remained (which weren't many at this point) all turned to the Lords and Lady who emerged from the undercity. "Dessssstrrrroy the pilllllarrrrrssss!" came an almighty roar as more creatures, some they hadn't even seen before, rose from the horizon to attack.

((Think lots of mutated monsters. I don't have time now for the nitty gritty info so I'm just throwing scores of them at you for fodder to help delay you.))

ADELLOS

Howl
E - 10 Energy
The chilling howl of the were-beast or roar if you are a boar or what not, causes the opponent to stop for 2 posts. You cannot use this to kill another player or the attack will affect you instead.


Full Transformation - ACTIVE

ADELLOS' Energy = 890 / 1000 Energy