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Blade Kuroda

Militant Raider

PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:33 pm


TEAM SHRUGBIRD.GIF's SANDCASTLE.


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TEAM MEMBERS: Riley, Malodore, Jericho, Junko, Spectrae
Nio Love, Sosiqui, Blade Kuroda, Eight, Zoobey


GENERAL SANDCASTLE STATS


TOTAL HP: 0
TOTAL OFFENSE 0
TOTAL DEFENSE: 8
TOTAL STABILITY:2
ENVIRONMENT ITEMS USED: Seaweed, moat, driftwood


SIGNATURE and BONUS items


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DAILY STATUS EFFECT
DAILY STATUS EFFECT MARCH 11TH TRIALS CONCLUSION PART 1:

The kraken left very few castles alive: and even those that survived looked ready to fall apart any second, hanging on by their bare foundations. At last, seconds, minutes, hours later, the attack receded, as each tentacle, even the beaten and bludgeoned ones, retreated back into the ocean.

A moment of silence and then:

"All participants and spectators! The Trials of Famine portion is now closed and judging has commenced! All spectators can now take a thirty minute break before they will be promptly ask to return to their seats for the scoring results. All students in the trials will be returned to their regular - ahem - size and may also walk around, pat each other on the backs, and of course, assess the damage. Be mindful as you walk around of the judges that are looking at each structure. Don't forget to buy some last minute refreshments before you leave, now half prize until the end of the hour!"

True to the announcer's words, the students thankfully, found themselves returned rather happily to their normal compact humanoid forms. From their size, the damage to their castle looked even more abysmal: in fact it was a miracle that some of the structures even stood. That really, only a scant few structures stood.


OOC: REMAINING DAMAGE TALLY

- IF YOUR SANDCASTLE REMAINS STANDING, but you are out of turns and the kraken's HP is not at 0, before it left, its tentacle swings one particularly nasty blow as your castle simply COLLAPSES (INSTANT KO)! If you have a sea turtle you can save your castle, but unfortunately a pearl does nothing.


OOC: ALL


SPECTATORS:
- ALL SPECTATORS CAN NOW WALK AROUND and talk to the participants (By visiting any thread in this subforum marked OPEN). IF the thread is marked CLOSED, please do not enter it! Also please note which characters are entering an EXITING the thread. IF you are ENTERING the thread, please post at the top in bold, if you are EXITING the thread please do so as well. Make sure to quote whomever you are talking to!

TRIALS PARTICIPANTS:
- A few of you have survived three waves of onslaughts, though many of you have persevered to try your best! Congratulations! An overall tally will be made tomorrow, and points and rankings will be giving out ICly for each group. This will determine the advantage they get in the next Trials
- The next trials will not ICly be happening until MARCH 13TH 2012, so participants please take a few days to take a break, stretch, and enjoy that OOC world. I will post results tomorrow, once again, to which your student can post a reaction to IN THE SPECTATOR THREAD.
- After results have been posted, all TRIALS threads other than the SPECTATOR ONE will be closed off and archived to make way for the next Trials.
- At this point in time, students are welcome to show off the... remains (or not!) of their castle or wander around to see others. Simply post OPEN to open your thread to visitors, and EXIT and ENTER threads as you need to!
- IF YOUR CASTLE SURVIVED, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO EDIT THE FIRST POST OF YOUR THREAD AS IN BOLD RED SOMEWHERE: THE REMAINING HP VALUE OF YOUR CASTLE.
- ALL OTHER THREADS PLEASE UPDATE THE FRONT POST OF YOUR THREAD WITH THE REMAINING HP VALUE (0) OF YOUR CASTLE THANK YOU.
- IF team members have not rolled yet, subtract -5 HP from your kraken AND YOUR CASTLE for EACH time the team member did NOT roll. Apply the result, do the damage to your castle as necessary and update the first post with the FINAL HP.
PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:58 pm


Malodore's first, and so far most enduring impression was that the Human World's sun was completely ridiculous. Also, it wanted to capture, examine, and analyze All The Things. Instead... it was being forced to construct a sand castle.

... There were no words for how underwhelmed it was.

The plague doctor adjusted its hat for maximum sun protection and gave the sand an extremely skeptical look. The only time it had ever experienced a beach had been on that accursed Island; while this beach was very, very different, the sand was still fairly annoying. It was going to be washing grit off of itself for weeks, it just knew it.

"So... where do we start?" it asked, glancing back at its team as it paced around the flag marking their little patch of sand.

Sosiqui

Enduring Muse


Blade Kuroda

Militant Raider

PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:02 pm


Jericho enjoyed the sun actually, seeing how he was a fan of warmth in general. It was a bit bright here, but whatever. What concerned him more was that they were in the human world of all places. Hunters could easily reach them here! Then again, there were a lot of horsemen here. It'd be a bit foolish to try and strike.

Or would it?

Regardless, he was not sure what to make of their first task. Making. A. Jacking. Sandcastle.

"If we must build a blasted castle we should make it a jacking bunker or fort. Make sure nothing can breach its walls! NOTHING."
PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:23 pm


Riley normally enjoyed the sun. Unfortunately, wearing black clothing that covered almost every inch of your skin was not conducive to a fun time at the beach. As such, she walked down the sand in boots that were not made for walking, a large, round rimmed pair of sunglasses, and an umbrella to shade herself. The umbrella was every color of the rainbow, and looked startlingly out of place with the rest of her.

She planted herself on the sand nearby and stared dejectedly out into the water. She hadn't said a word about it, but her failure at the first puzzle was a hard hit to her already bruised ego. She just wasn't thinking clearly nowadays.

A fort. Impenetrable. Riley agreed to Jericho's demands, without looking. And grandiose. She took a deep breath, and finally turned to look at the sand. Perhaps this could redeem her. If she made something fantastical, perhaps she wouldn't feel like a total failure.

Prepare the base. We shall exceed their expectations.

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Sosiqui

Enduring Muse

PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:38 pm


Malodore sank to its knees and started scraping at the sand, though its long thin fingers weren't the best tools for earthmoving. It frowned. "Ah, Jericho, perhaps a bit of... natural-form digging would be most effective," it said, after tossing a few handfuls of sand to the side. Most of the grains streamed through the gaps between its claws.
PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:59 pm


"Can't shift here," Jericho said with a grunt, "But I can still dig."

Taking in a deep breath, he found a spot to get started on. Then, crouching down, he began to shove sand aside with both his arms and his wings. Needless to say, his wings were able to do a little better of a job pushing the sand away. Though his hands had a little more control.

Regardless, he continued to set up the area to be the foundation.

Blade Kuroda

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:52 pm


Upon seeing the hard work of her teammates, the Nergal - who had happily simply followed Riley and company the entire way, apparently neon black and green was a ninja colour, took a moment to observe what was happening.

They were moving! They needed.... bandages.

She held out the bandages for Jericho for the better of a minute, though the dragon seemed to have other ideas entirely. Seeing that unfortunately, maybe bandages were probably not an all-purpose problem solver at this point, Spectrae simply mimicked the red dragon's actions, and began to push herself into the sand head first.

In fact, a few minutes later, all that stuck out of the sand a little to the right of what would be considered smack-dab of their working area was a pair of happily lashing and rather sharp tails.
PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:20 pm


...

"Ah... is she quite well?" Malodore asked, after a moment's staring, as tactfully as it possibly could. It dug its tailblade into the sand as a terrible makeshift trowel and started moving sand as well, casting worried glances at the lashing tails every so often.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:49 am


Riley turned and stabbed the sand with her umbrella, then crawled under it and began to help dig. She only caught the tail end of Spectrae's hide and seek game, but when she realized those were her tails sticking out, she just went back to work.

No. Riley answered. I do not think she is well at all. Then again, who am I to talk?

Was she currently trying to make a long, twisting, turning tower, without actually having built the base of the castle yet? You bet.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:17 pm


Jericho continued to dig for a little while, until he realized what Spectrae was doing. He paused for the moment to stare. What in the name of Jack was she doing? Well. Apparently she was digging into the sand. Burrowing. Seeing how all he could see were her tails now.

Right.

Shaking his head, he fixed his sleeves a bit, then continued to work on building up the base of the castle. It needed to be structurally sound! Hm.. perhaps they should utilize some of the items lying around the beach too.

Blade Kuroda

Militant Raider


Sosiqui

Enduring Muse

PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:44 pm


"Just as long as she doesn't topple the castle when she comes out," Malodore said, packing sand down and slicing the edges smooth with its tailblade. It supposed there was a chance that the nergal ghoul was shoring up the foundations with her own body - that would certainly be spirited - but somehow it doubted that was the case.

"Perhaps introducing a few additional materials?" It got to its feet and padded down to the water's edge, lifting its coat primly and wading in a few feet. Then it bent down, scooped something up, and came back. "Plants? Seaweed, I suspect, though it doesn't bite," the plague doctor proclaimed, mildly disapproving. It dumped the armful of rubbery leaves and stems on the sand, surreptitiously tucking a small sample away in its sleeve. Then it knelt down again and began to work some of the leaves into the construction.

((This is my last post until later tonight, possibly until the round is over - just FYI! *has a thing to go to this evening* smile ))
PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:24 pm


Junko was working on putting her hair up and keep all the sand out of it when she noticed their additional teammate being the most helpful little thing ever. "...As long as she doesn't suffocate in there, the tails add atmosphere?" She blinked, watching the tails wiggle and sway. Malodore seemed to be taking care of the materials, Riley was doing...

...A tower with no base.

She'd just..oh! She'd help make it pretty! Yes! That was her specialty after all, aesthetic design! Junko set about adding the seaweed Malodore had brought back, placing it and sticking it in various places to make the sandcastle more awesome.

((;; I'MSORRYWORKANDSLEEPANDWORKANDSLEEPBUTIGOTONEPOSTINOHGOOOOOOOOD))

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:38 pm


Everytime Riley made a tower, it crumbled to the ground. She kept trying, however, until finally her fifth tower crumbled in her hands, and she let out a vicious, snarling growl, before she stood and started stomping around, threatening to destroy everything they'd made. She got an inch from standing right on the sturdy structure that had started to form, no thanks to her, but she stopped before slamming her foot down, and backed up. Then she flopped down on the sand, with a huff of frustration, and crumbled up next to Malodore. Her head jutted out slightly, butting the flat plane of her face against it's robe and brushing against it, before pulling away again and slumping uselessly.

We will not be of much use to you, in this venture. She whined - whining sounded so out of place in her voice. But eventually, she crawled closer, and got back to work on making the windy towers just between the moat and the castle, if only so she did not feel so useless.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:42 pm


Well, at least Spectrae wasn't whipping their creation. Jericho continued to work hard at constructing the sand castle. He had never really made one before, but that really didn't matter. IT NEEDED TO BE SOUND.

Safe from attack. From birds. Water. Wind. Hunters.

Glancing over at Riley, he frowned as she gave up on making a tower. He doubted she would sit out for long. And as he thought, she got back to work.

Quickly, the dragon ran towards the water to gather some seaweed and wood to add to their construct.

"We might be done... maybe...." he murmured. Well. They still had this starfish. But he didn't know where the hell to put that.

Blade Kuroda

Militant Raider


Zoobey
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Magical Incubator

PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:35 am


Meanwhile, underground, well ninety-percent underground, Spectrae had discovered a tiny colony of clams that was slowly building a nest in her hair. This was absolutely okay.
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