Was someone watching him? It felt like someone was watching him. A lot of someones. It was unnerving, it was annoying. Liom felt like screaming from the intensity of the sensation. But he held it in and kept going.
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*optional image of your character here if you wish* Character name: Liom Character appearance: A male shaped shadow with a red heart, a pendant hangs around his neck. Is that.. a tie? Link to Heart Log[ x ] Current HP 28/40 Current weapon equipped Simple Protection
*optional image of your character here if you wish* Character name: Liom Character appearance: A male shaped shadow with a red heart, a pendant hangs around his neck. Is that.. a tie? Link to Heart Log[ x ] Current HP 28/40 Current weapon equipped Simple Protection
He felt a pressure on his ankle again, grabbing him, pulling him and not letting him go. Liom tried to fight it but the force was too strong. He teetered, flailing his arms until he was off the edge of the platform.
falling...
falling... nothing to stop him.
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*optional image of your character here if you wish* Character name: Liom Character appearance: A male shaped shadow with a red heart, a pendant hangs around his neck. Is that.. a tie? Link to Heart Log[ x ] Current HP 28/40 Current weapon equipped Simple Protection
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:59 pm
Falling, so much falling. Liom was sure this was going to be the end of him, falling into nothingness.
Until something caught him. Or at least broke his fall, there seemed to be only a little bit of gentleness the stop his steady descent to the checked floor below. He still hit it pretty hard, but alive none the less, something he could be thankful for.
And more when he saw the three glittering blessings waiting for him. Achievement. Liom grabbed one with a grin.
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*optional image of your character here if you wish* Character name: Liom Character appearance: A male shaped shadow with a red heart, a pendant hangs around his neck. Is that.. a tie? Link to Heart Log[ x ] Current HP 28/40 Current weapon equipped Simple Protection
The broken angles of the Spires draw the attention every which way. It's almost hard to focus; for a long moment it seems like finding anything whole, anything that makes sense in this chaos, would be a miracle.
And then something resolves out of the brokenness. A path... or the remains of one. Going down through the cracks in the earth is a slow, twisting corkscrew of floating islands, if they can even be called that. Ten feet wide at most, the fragmented platforms seem to follow the path of an ancient spiral stair, except the staircase itself is long gone. All that remains are these unlikely pieces suspended in air, but they go down and down until they are lost within eddies of fog.
The descent seems to be the last reminder of order, broken though it may be - a way out of the chaos of the Spires. But is what's beyond the fog better or worse than just staying put?
Only one way to find out...
Stage One: Broken Faith
The first few steps are stable - the platforms don't move at all when you put your weight on them, though some of them make vaguely alarming creaking sounds and a few of them lose bits off the edges. The bits that crack away fall like stones into the abyss. Not exactly reassuring...
As you continue, the fog becomes more prevalent, curling in eddies to wash across the path at random. You might avoid one - maybe even two. But eventually, you get caught in a swirl of fog and your mind falls, even as your body crumples into an unsteady heap on the platform. Your mind is filled with a powerful memory that blots out everything else...
Leia began to walk on this path, the Fragment Descent. Throughout this entire walk, she thought of the confusion that was brought upon her. The Spires always brought upon confusion. The spires point out to everything, and everything was in chaos and in madness. There must have needed something else to fix it. And then, the path, brought out some clear thoughts compared to the area it was in.
A path... or the remains of one. Going down through the cracks in the earth is a slow, twisting corkscrew of floating islands, if they can even be called that. Ten feet wide at most, the fragmented platforms seem to follow the path of an ancient spiral stair, except the staircase itself is long gone. All that remains are these unlikely pieces suspended in air, but they go down and down until they are lost within eddies of fog.
The descent to Leia seemed to be the last thing of order, a clear conscience even. Yet, even through the fog, something didn't seem to make sense to her. Could it be like a calm before the storm?
She walked down the path. At first, it was calm. None of the pieces were moving from their places. Sure, a few pieces fall off some of the sides, along with a slight squeak. Not all that assuring to the girl.
Then, sooner or later, the fog seemed to become even thicker. She wasn't sure what she was supposed t be dodging at the time, but she could feel something. Yet, she got caught up in the fog. Her mind was falling, and what also seemed to be herself, in the fog. She feel into a heap on one of the platforms while a memory begins to play in her mind.
2 - The Coward: They blotted out the horizon. He shuddered, his weapon rattling in his grip - no, no, he could not face them! He did not want to die! All around him his fellows stood, staring straight ahead, still and stuff at attention as if they were already dead, dead and propped up to wait for final judgement. With a moan, he dropped his weapon and ran through the silent ranks, feeling sick and worthless-
Leia could feel the terror that came from that memory. She didn't want to be here anymore. She could face whatever it was. And she felt ashamed. Even more ashamed than she had felt when she had not completed the one task the way she wanted. Losing a battle even. And now, this memory was going to haunt her, at least for the time being.
Longing
Character name: Leia {Alice} Character appearance: A small figure of a girl, aligned to Longing. Link to Heart LogHere Current HP 40 Current weapon equipped Broken Wings [2d8-6]
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:05 pm
{Alice - Leia}
Stage Two: Echoes of Battle
As you stumble further down, your mind awash in emotions not your own, you realize that the fog has faces in it. Did it have faces before? Maybe you simply couldn't see them before being touched by the memories of the past. The faces are varied - some are frozen as if screaming, others glare at you in hatred, and still others are contorted as if in mid-battle. They shift and vanish and re-form constantly, and it seems like there are hundreds of them. Just faces, though.
So far.
There is a larger platform below, which looks like a good resting place - but as soon as your feet touch the cracked surface, red light blazes from grooves set into the suspiciously even floor. As if the light was a summon, figures swarm out of the fog. They swirl for a moment at the edge of the platform before one evidently makes up its mind and steps free, becoming not just a face but a full humanoid figure carrying a sword, its details indistinct other than its face, which bears the same emotion you are feeling right now. Could this be the one whose memory you felt so strongly?
Something seemed even more different in the fog this time around. There, in the fog, were faces. She knew they were not there before. But, it could have been the effect of the memory showing. But they were all different. Some of them were screaming. Some full of Hatred. All of them staring at her, all in the midst of battle. They were just faces for the time being, right?
Wrong.
She quickly saw a platform that seemed like a good resting place for her, so she quickly jumped down to it. As soon as she had reached it, A red light had begun show glow from the some-how even ground underneath her. A figure began to swarm out of the fog, and as if began to have a mind of it's own, came out of the fog. It had a full body, a sword, and had shown the same expression and feelings that she too was feeling.
This can't be, she thought, it can't be the memory. Why would it become like this? Leia thought, before she prepared for her own battle, just her and the figure, to see who would be victorious.
GAME START!
Longing
Character name: Leia {Alice} Character appearance: A small figure of a girl, aligned to Longing. Link to Heart LogHere Current HP 40 Current weapon equipped Broken Wings [2d8-6]
She sprinted towards her opponent. The only way she was going to overcome what she had done, was to do what one had to have done: She had to go headstrong into the battle.
Apparently, her opponent must have sensed what she might have felt, and was able to block her attack just enough to only give himself a scrape on the face. He quickly pushed her back, having to quickly get back up to prepare herself for another attack.
DAMAGE DONE TO OPPONENT: 7 - 6 = 1! HEALTH OF OPPONENT: 20 - 1 = 19! CURRENT HEALTH OF LEIA: 40 - 3 = 37!
Longing
Character name: Leia {Alice} Character appearance: A small figure of a girl, aligned to Longing. Link to Heart LogHere Current HP 40 Current weapon equipped Broken Wings [2d8-6]
chiickadee rolled 1 6-sided dice:
3Total: 3 (1-6)
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:13 pm
Igny didn't want to descend the cliffs. Of all the challenges she'd faced, this one was her least fondly remembered. It gave her strange feelings, distorting her mind both times.
Yet it was what needed to be done. No one said becoming a goddess would be easy.
As she took the first few steps, her stomach churned. She could see the mist coming from her, eager to transform her. Fog overtook her, the same as it had done before.
When she returned, she was determined. She would get the blessings even at the cost of her life. Nothing could keep her from protecting the others- her resolve had only been doubled.
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Character name: Igny Character appearance: A very small shadow that appears to have small, four petaled flowers coming out of it. A somber blue heart in the center of her chest. A bright red spiral on her forehead. Link to Heart Loghere Current HP 40/40 Current weapon equipped: Sorrow and Rage
She breathed for a moment, thinking of something that might help her in this situation. If he would be feeling the same that she was feeling, she had to do something different.
She then just waited for it to attack first, and with patience waited until he was close enough, and at full force, to be able to attack him. She was able to stab him in his chest, but she could tell, he was going to continue fighting.
DAMAGE DONE TO OPPONENT: 14 - 6 = 8! HEALTH OF OPPONENT: 19 - 8 = 11! CURRENT HEALTH OF LEIA: 37 - 3 = 34!
Longing
Character name: Leia {Alice} Character appearance: A small figure of a girl, aligned to Longing. Link to Heart LogHere Current HP 40 Current weapon equipped Broken Wings [2d8-6]
Syusaki rolled 1 6-sided dice:
1Total: 1 (1-6)
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:15 pm
She found herself walking down a familiar pathway and jumping down familiar platforms.
Ahhh. They were coming. This she knew for sure, but what delighted her was knowing that they were coming because of her. Lips twisted into a gleeful grin. Yes, all for her. As regretful and guilty she should've been, there wasn't a single drop of it in her body. None at all.
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Character name: Lectoa Character appearance: A shadow, just like anyone else. However, it seems she possesses a pair of horns on her head and beast-like claws. She stands at an average height and possesses a red core. Link to Heart Loglink Current HP 40 Current weapon equipped Simple Destruction
One platform before her looked sturdy. It wouldn't shatter. . It shattered. Red arose from the cracks, glow filling the air with the call of battle. Igny's emotions played across her face, firm resolve showing.
A salvo of bullets bombarded the enemies, tearing down as many as she could wherever she could. They would not stop her. She would be victorious.
[ Boss HP: 11 ]
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Character name: Igny Character appearance: A very small shadow that appears to have small, four petaled flowers coming out of it. A somber blue heart in the center of her chest. A bright red spiral on her forehead. Link to Heart Loghere Current HP 37/40 Current weapon equipped: Sorrow and Rage
"I. Will. Not. Fall." She said when she looked him straight in the eyes. She could still sense the fear of being a coward inside her, but she knew that when you are fighting to live, fighting to protect, you must give it your all to accomplish you task.
She blew him off, and began to go towards him, her weapon in hand. But he was able to dodge her attack, while attacking her from underneath her. She flinched in the wrong moment, and feeling to proud in herself.
DAMAGE DONE TO OPPONENT: 4 - 6 = 0! HEALTH OF OPPONENT: 11 - 0 = 11! CURRENT HEALTH OF LEIA: 34 - 3 = 31!
Longing
Character name: Leia {Alice} Character appearance: A small figure of a girl, aligned to Longing. Link to Heart LogHere Current HP 40 Current weapon equipped Broken Wings [2d8-6]
Igny ripped through enemies, pushing herself downwards and using gravity's momentum to fuel her fight forward. She still had to climb downwards, she couldn't bother herself with every enemy that bombarded her.
The only direction was down. A figure appeared in front of her and she shot it, running through the mist of their remains. A fierce determination had ignited in her, and it wouldn't be put out.
[ Boss HP: 3 ]
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Character name: Igny Character appearance: A very small shadow that appears to have small, four petaled flowers coming out of it. A somber blue heart in the center of her chest. A bright red spiral on her forehead. Link to Heart Loghere Current HP 34/40 Current weapon equipped: Sorrow and Rage
"Mymy~ It's youyou again?" Lectoa wondered aloud as she hopped onto a rather large platform. She pointed her blade at it. "Okay then!"
Boss: 16
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Character name: Lectoa Character appearance: A shadow, just like anyone else. However, it seems she possesses a pair of horns on her head and beast-like claws. She stands at an average height and possesses a red core. Link to Heart Loglink Current HP 37 Current weapon equipped Simple Destruction
The enemies had figured out her strategy. They moved, swelled around her steps, keeping her from delving further down the cliffs. They formed a wall, stopping her motions.
She shot where she could, but it wasn't good enough. The wall of figures was too tall, too overwhelming. What did she do?
[ Boss HP: 3 ]
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Character name: Igny Character appearance: A very small shadow that appears to have small, four petaled flowers coming out of it. A somber blue heart in the center of her chest. A bright red spiral on her forehead. Link to Heart Loghere Current HP 31/40 Current weapon equipped: Sorrow and Rage
