"About how much men have done to you - to me - to US this entire time?!"
Each shot was directed at Freya's heart, and the bullets hit home, targetted like a bullseye.
But with each shot, she sent out a volley of her own, refusing to say a word in response to the taunts.
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Character name: Freya Damage done: 11 CURRENT HP OF BOSS: 9 Current HP: 45/60 Special ability: Kings Regret: : If you KO, instead of dissipating, you restore yourself to half your existing HP. You can only use this ONCE per encounter. Once you have used it to revive, you cannot use any other abilities (weapon, species, special) period for the entire encounter, including any that double HP, etc etc. You can only auto attack after revival. Current weapon equipped:Limitless TARGET: Boss
Nio Love rolled 2 12-sided dice:
2, 2Total: 4 (2-24)
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:06 pm
Nega Freya surged forward, slamming the butt of her gun onto Freya's head. It sent the girl tumbling down to the ground, where she was pinned under the curved heel of Nega Freya's very dangerous boot.
"Shh, shh, it's okay, screechie." The girl whispered. "Don't cry. Really. I can end all of this. All of the pain. All you have to do, is die."
The heel dug into her body.
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Character name: Freya Damage done: 0 CURRENT HP OF BOSS: 9 Current HP: 45/60 Special ability: Kings Regret: : If you KO, instead of dissipating, you restore yourself to half your existing HP. You can only use this ONCE per encounter. Once you have used it to revive, you cannot use any other abilities (weapon, species, special) period for the entire encounter, including any that double HP, etc etc. You can only auto attack after revival. Current weapon equipped:Limitless TARGET: Boss
Freya wasn't moving. It was a triumphant moment for the creature that tried to make her succumb, because she knew she was stronger. She knew she was smarter. She knew she was the one that deserved to survive this encounter.
"I promise you. When you die, I promise you this one thing."
She leaned in, and dug the heel into Freya's stomach harder. "I won't take Kettil. No, you don't have to worry about that. I'm not as stupid as you."
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Character name: Freya Damage done: 0 CURRENT HP OF BOSS: 9 Current HP: 40/60 Special ability: Kings Regret: : If you KO, instead of dissipating, you restore yourself to half your existing HP. You can only use this ONCE per encounter. Once you have used it to revive, you cannot use any other abilities (weapon, species, special) period for the entire encounter, including any that double HP, etc etc. You can only auto attack after revival. Current weapon equipped:Limitless TARGET: Boss
Nio Love rolled 2 12-sided dice:
11, 9Total: 20 (2-24)
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:08 pm
Freya could have enraged if the shadowling had promised to take Kettil. Maybe her jealousy would have exploded her in anger. But she didn't. No, she wanted nothing to do with Kettil - or any other man. And that made Freya feel nothing but a giant swell of pity.
Because that had been her. For so long.
She put her hand on Nega Freya's ankle, and lifted, until the shadowlings body flew into the air, and crashed on the floor nearby. Then she stood, stringing her bow with three very big, very nasty looking arrows.
And smiled.
"I'm really glad yehr dead." She whispered, firing directly into those slowly widening eyes.
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Character name: Freya Damage done: 14 CURRENT HP OF BOSS: dead Current HP: 40/60 Special ability: Kings Regret: : If you KO, instead of dissipating, you restore yourself to half your existing HP. You can only use this ONCE per encounter. Once you have used it to revive, you cannot use any other abilities (weapon, species, special) period for the entire encounter, including any that double HP, etc etc. You can only auto attack after revival. Current weapon equipped:Limitless TARGET: Boss
When the fog dissipated, leaving her with nothing but a pretty blue key and a single little trinket, Freya picked them both up and gave a look to what her former self left behind.
A single white tear.
Fitting.
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:18 pm
Kettil didn't hesitate as he wandered toward the window and touched it. He watched in wonder as the window pretty much adjusted itself to his vision. The sight was of a beautiful waterfall within a deep forest, a secret place where he liked to go fishing or think to himself when the world got a little too much. It was nestled securely near his hometown.
That wasn't all that the scene held it also had Freya within it. She was looking at everything with her face alight with a large smile and eyes full of wonder. In fact the scene focused mostly on her and Kettil had a smile on his face. It was gentle and reminiscent. They had gone swimming in those waters, and even though he had to carry her through the water because of her drenched wings, he was glad that he had shared his secret spot with her.
The place where she could always, always find him no matter what.
The vision went away and he let out a small sigh. A key was pressed into his hand and he gave the Gargoyle a smile, "Glad I could make ya happy, Friend."
Then he exited the room.
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Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:27 pm
There was a door just past the locked one, a faint light present beneath the crack at the bottom where it didn't quite meet the floor. Thackery tilted his head to one side, then the other, wondering why it didn't shine quite as brightly as the other had.
He adjusted the plastic crown and slowly wandered towards the door, opening it and stepping inside without a word.
Purple sky and lilac clouds. He smiled, in spite of the darkness, ears twitching towards the sound of a voice. She seemed kind of lonely, and wanted to see stuff he'd seen. Sharing was fun! He liked to share!
"I'd love to show you some stuff!" he said, reaching towards the window. His fingertips brushed the surface, and everything was muted violets and greys and lilacs, softer images of the world they were standing in.
There was a lake in the middle of a cavern, reflecting a pale lilac. Several paths led away from it (or towards it, perhaps), but one was more prominent than the others, a path towards large gates of dusty marble, flanked by impassive statues with glossy eyes.
Beyond the gate was a kingdom, multi-layered with walls and gates and increasingly lavish decor. There were gardens spread throughout, from wildflowers to violets to purple roses, and one of them was clearly tended to more than the rest - a portion of a river filled with lilac iridescence flowed through it, and a single bench was placed by the waterside.
The walls rose higher towards the interior, but none rose as high as the tower in the middle. It stretched precariously towards the top of the cavern and appeared to be randomly assembled, but somehow managed to be sturdy nonetheless. The most intricate of (the visible) gates stood before it, waiting for the worthy.
Thackery could have stared at it forever, but the gargoyle sighed and complimented the vision.
"Thank you." He smiled and took the key that was offered to him, more gently than he'd taken the rest. His fingers curled protectively around it. "It feels like home."
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:27 pm
"well we are a kign and queen are we not?" He laughed and shook his head, dislodging the small crown that they had put around one ear. His crown was smaller, but thats okay. It fit earlier into his pocket as well.
One of the doors intrigued him once more, stepping through it and gasping out. The window was HUGE. He could practically feel the breeze through it...
"Oh?" He asked, as the Gargoyle finally piped up. He wanted him to show him something? But what could he... okay why not. Rubbin his hands together he reached out to place a palm against the pristine glass.
Radiating out from his palm the whole glass suddenly turned a black. As if ink were bleeding out from his touch.
Taking his hand away, he almost seemed disappointed. His ears pricked backwards... but that was when something happened.
Slowly, in the corner of the window, something started to shine. Something that looked oddly like a blob... but soon turned into some sort of vegetation. A mushroom? It glowed a faint whitish blue. It wasn't bright, it was faint... as if you could only really notice it as your eyes adjusted in the darkness. As if the spark was set, here and there others answered the call. A faint glow started and spread through the window like a canvas. It brought other things, not glowing, to life.
The scene was a giant, untouched, forrest. Tree's canopied the whole area, not letting any light through their dense foliage. Not even the barest flicker. It seemed those plants adapted and somehow found their own way to live without sunlight, they made their own. Moss and other green streamed from the entire area. A faint flicker of light off the water signaled a small stream flowed. Boulders were here and there, but the entire feeling the place gave off was green.
Once more? The entire area was blanketed in fireflies.
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Name of character: Remi Damage done: CURRENT HP OF BOSS: Current HP: 60/80 Special ability: King's Regret: If you KO, instead of dissipating, you restore yourself to half your existing HP. You can only use this ONCE. Species Ability:Demon: Nulled by Weapon Current weapon equipped:Refraction TARGET: Boss
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Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:35 pm
Feeling a bit more wistful than usual, Remi smirked at everyone before fitting the next black hey into one of the holes.
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:35 pm
Kettil meandered forward to insert his black key with a small content hum after he had left the room. It was nice to have a lovely memory to go on.
When Freya exited the room and returned to her friends, she looked bruised, battered, and more confident than ever.
She combed her bangs out, wiped her face clean, and shoved her blue key through the lock.
Then she got up on her tiptoes and planted a great big kiss on Kettil's lips without warning.
"I loves yeh." She told him. Because he needed to know.
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:41 pm
As he emerged from the room, Thackery skipped over to Remi and tried to kiss the smirk right off of his face. When it turned out that wasn't a thing that could happen, he looked towards the door instead.
"I wanna do the key thing!" he insisted, placing a key in to one of the remaining keyholes.
Thinking wistfully of forgotten things, Efflo mostly ignored the rest of them, and placed his key into the last lock.
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Name of character: Efflo Current HP: 44/50 Special ability: Wild Card Chance Current weapon equipped: Crescent Haze (2d12-6)
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:44 pm
Floor 5
To reach the fifth floor, you must have the keys to open the locked door:
The Fifth Floor
A black door with the soft clinking of coins behind it.
You enter the room to find it filled with treasure. Piles of golden trinkets and jewels tower above you, glinting and sparkling in an enticing display. Beside you, someone clears their throat, and you look down to see a small, rotund gargoyle in a white shirt, tie, and glasses. In one hand it holds and abacus with a distinct air of menace.
"Leave or be useful," it greets you pleasantly. "And by useful I mean wrangle some of the coins down. Damn things get the idea to float around sometimes and collecting them back again decreases productivity by..." the beads of the abacus are snapped aggressively, "...5%. Unacceptable." It gives you a stern look and snaps the abacus again. "Don't damage anything. Except yourself. That is an acceptable loss."
Gathering the Floating Coins
Gather 10 coins!
Roll 1d8 1 - you awkwardly jump from one pile of treasure to another, collecting 1 coin 2 - you leap up to grab a coin but fail to reach it and land badly, you're crushed by falling treasure and lose one fourth of your full health 3 - you manage to do a barrel roll, collecting 2 coins 4 - you can on what appears to be a platform of ice and lose your footing, you also lose one fourth of your full health in the fall 5 - you find and eat a mushroom, it causes you to hallucinate growing into a bigger version of yourself, somehow you collect 3 coins 6 - you are swallowed by a plant, losing one fourth of your full health 7 - you find and wear a raccoon tail, it makes you feel confident in your leaping like you could fly, you manage to collect 4 coins and ignore the gargoyle's furry comments 8 - you find a small castle, but fail to find a coin or princess within it. You proceed to mope
When you successfully deliver the coins, the gargoyle tosses you a black key and waves you away without a word of thanks.
A black door that somehow seems black than all the other black doors, as black as the bleak desert nightscape that it your soul.
Writing Prompt:
The room is painted black. All the furniture is black. The window is covered in black-out curtains. Squinting you can just barely make out the figure of a gargoyle, staring off into space. It has a black scarf, glasses, and wig all artfully arranged to appear very deep and also deeply mysterious. And a little sad. Miserable even. Something about its emotional pain draws you in, sparking something within you that answers with a similar sort of misery. "Yes," it sighs as you approach, "...I suppose you would be here in this den of sorrow. Not that it matters. I'm sure you're here to use me, just like everyone else in this wretched stone wasteland." It holds up a black key delicately in its claws, "You can have it, I don't need material possessions, they just lead to suffering for worldly vice. But first I need to know you're like...a kindred spirit, you know?"
That feeling surges up within you, something both vulnerable and embarrassing. You open your mouth to ask what it means, and what spills out instead is poetry. Darkly emotional poetry that's probably not very good, full of purple prose and the adolescent angst of your previous life. When you're done, the gargoyle sighs and looks away, "Oh well...it's not like I had hope for better." It drops the key in your palm with another sigh and goes back to staring into the dark abyss of its life.
A green door that shudders and groans as something fierce screeches from within.
You're barely in the door when a talon swipes at you. Enraged the hippogryph lunges, its beak tearing into you with ruthless abandon.
You are fighting an Insanity Hippogryph! HP: 30 Auto Attack: 5 Extra: You have been poisoned! Every post you make costs an additional 1HP of damage.
Loot (1d4)
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In its death throes, the creature moves to strike at you one last time, but dissipates just before snapping its beak around you. A green drops to floor with a loud clatter.
Efflo wasn’t sure his soul was a bleak desert nightscape, but it was sure a bleak something. It seemed that there was just door after door, and the longer that he was stuck here with the married couples, the more the urgency inside him grew to complete the task at hand, and the whole quest, so he could go home, back to his other half.
Breathing a heavy sigh, he opened the bleak-looking black door, and found himself unsurprised that everything within seemed to be black as well except for the faint outline of a grey gargoyle, perched drearily in its chair. Efflo stared at it as it moped on about things he didn’t care about, but his attention sharpened as it held up a key. But of course, there was a catch. Efflo opened his mouth to protest, but what came out was entirely unexpected.
"Efflorescent skeleton, Whose bones bloomed from where they naught Ought to be, His flesh alive with fluorescent maggots Nurturing the flower of his soul, Cultivating the roots of his body.
But he wishes only to wilt, to rot and decay, To return his corpse to the soil from whence he came."
Efflo shook his head when he could finally close his mouth against the horrible word vomit erupting from it, agreeing wholly with the gargoyle. He closed his hand over the key, and left the gargoyle to his thoughts, not wanting to hang around in someone else’s misery. He had more than enough of his own.
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Name of character: Efflo Current HP: 44/50 Special ability: Wild Card Chance Current weapon equipped: Crescent Haze (2d12-6)
