Welcome to Gaia! ::

Duellist raised an eyebrow, and leapt into the air, becoming the dragonoid he had used to devour Kasumi. With an idle snap of his fingers, the ground under Kasumi started to be probed at by the dead souls that so covered this park. "I have better things to do than fight you, fledgeling."

One major mistake all combatants make when they challenge Duellist is that they think he'll fight. He most likely won't. The vampiric assassin had less respect for most other creatures on the planet than he did for the common cockroach. He's much more likely to just summon forth some undead and have them deal with the challenger. And keep doing that until the challenger goes away.

And if he does decide to fight, he will always use those strategies that kill the enemy fastest, and keep him safest. Thus, in this case, if Hakan had just rushed him for close combat, the assassin would have flown off and zapped him with a deathspell. If Hakan had followed, the vampire would have turned around and ripped apart the nuisance's wings and watched him plummet, then use a deathspell. Of course, the assassin had hundreds of other strategies (you don't make it as an assassin without them) but he rarely had any interest in fighting long enough for them to matter.

Hakan had just unwittingly challenged the one enemy who saw other lifeforms as little more than nourishment, who viewed the rules they used to govern combat as worthless toys, and who rarely cared enough about people to kill them. As such, Midori should take the fact that she was A) allowed to live, and B) given a chance to have a proper fight, as the highest compliment.

Besides, Hakan was stupid. If you want to kill someone, you don't say 'prepare yourself'. You sneak up behind them with a dagger and stab them repeatedly until they stop twitching.

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Bertram, on the other hand, favoured those tactics that kept him safe, period. Wraiths may be the heavyweights of the spiritual world, but a coward's a coward. "No! Go away!"

((i take it your all in the theme park yes?))

Karn signed in on the guest registration book as her surename 'Karen Ashcroft'. The soft thud of her boots sounded off the floor of the lobby as she made her way back towards the door, she exited, and went towards the theme park. Both, her slayer's instinct and women's intuition told her to stay away from the Tilt-O-Whirl, so instead, she wandered the ferris wheel hoping to possibly have one slay before she called it a day.

Bertram made a sound best described as 'mommy.' He turned, and ran through the wall to the other side of the building, glad to have something in between him and Midori. "Go away! I'm not hurting anybody! I just want to ride the roller-coaster!"

"But I want to talk to you!" She would shout, in a pouty tone. She even went as far as to clench her fists and stomp her foot. No, Midori never truly acted like this, but how was Bertram to know? He'd only seen her once or twice. So, what exactly was Midori planning? An elaborate plan to crush Bertram!

][..... ninja ][

((Outkastic, if your slayer so much as touches a hair on Taryn or Duellist's head, he'll suffer.

Oh, and all those people are the dead. You did know that, right? It's 8:00 pm, Gaia Time... No one living is there. I find the idea of a slayer at this park stupid in the extreme anyway.))

The wraith looked up at the moon, and made a quick judgement call. He suddenly grabbed another passing wraith and threw him over the building, before running away.

((If Hakan touches Taryn, though, Duellist stops being friendly. And starts being himself. A very angry, very sadistic, and very cruel vampire.))

][I had the feeling you'd get interested by my dandy little weapon. 3nodding I had a hard time explaining it, did everyone get the over all idea though?][

"Hakan Gorotsuki." A name in which would literally translate to 'Rebellious Flame.' "I'm simply here to prove that I'm the strongest in Gaia." He would state, afterwards his black lips would curl up into a devilish smirk. He wasn't going to brag, but he'd held his own against various opponets, including something interesting. Some stuck up b***h who claimed she was better then him, simply because she was a dragon. ..That was when he was human too.

He would give a bored yawn himself. Talk just wasn't what he was about.. He preferred to get right down to business. "So, Alexander. Let's cut the small talk and get started, ne?"

As for Midori, she had gotten rather tired of waiting for Bertram to come out. She wouldn't put too much hard work into crushing the fool. Oh, no.. She'd simply move onto other matters. She would begin to look around for the two little children who had been stalking her. "Hey, kids!"