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 Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:55 pm
The beaches were closed. It was insult upon injury, trapped here like rats. Not bunkers but still torment, too much proximity and no escape. He was at his wits end, living out of his hoard, mostly putting on an indifferent face. He didn't smile at them, that would be too obvious how strung out he was, but he was pretending, every lazy insult, every time he acted normal, it was all an act.
< Welcome to being me. >
He'd tried to put some distance between himself and the rest of Deus tonight, the sun setting in a blaze of blood and magenta, tingeing the tree silhouettes in black.
He slumped to sit on a fallen tree and put his head in his hands.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:16 pm
Harrison, with quiet patience, followed.
He didn't like to stray too far. He was the one that was out of familiar territory.
And they didn't keep up with him.
So he alternated between Rep and Jordan. He didn't eat beside them, but he ate when they did, in an out of the way corner. Sometimes it felt like stubbornly hanging on to a lifeline that wasn't attached to anything. But he did it.
Sometimes he just liked being near them, even if it was at a distance.
He walked carefully, between the trees. It was easier to hide with more cover, but also harder to keep track of Rep.
He almost didn't realize he was right on top of him.
He shrunk down, backing away, and the foliage crunched under his feet.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:22 pm
There were no animals on the island. It was something he'd found out early on, much to his dismay. But it also meant that when he heard the foliage make a sound that rather than assume it was some errant animal, he paid very rapt attention.
He looked up from where he sat, suddenly tense and anxious. It could be the shadowy figure again, shadowlings or worse besides, he wasn't far from HQ or the dorms but he was far enough to be in danger. He got up, his voice sharp and cold, ready to summon Tracey at a millisecond's notice.
"Who the <********> is there?" he snarled. "You get two ******** seconds and then I cut down every ******** tree in this area and find you."
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:31 pm
Harrison froze.
Jackdamn.
Not like he was trying to get the drop on Rep, just...
"Me," he volunteered, gruff and quiet. "It's me."
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:37 pm
Somehow it was worse than if he'd run into some kind of Halloween creature.
In fact, he had run into a ******** Halloween creature hadn't he? That was what he ******** thought he was. It made him angry, deeply angry all over again, a type of panic which twisted into fury, he'd been living in fight of flight mode and had been locked into flight, but now there was nowhere to run, he'd been ******** followed, his privacy ******** over.
Tracey appeared in his hands, absolutely black in the low light, his runes blazing like a heartbeat.
"What the ******** are you doing ******** following me?" he snarled. "I already ******** warned you what would happen if you didn't get out of my face and stay out of it."
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:46 pm
There was an answering shock of swords in the approaching evening dim.
But the reply was just a nervous, "Sorry."
Harrison stepped back.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:53 pm
"No" he snarled "Sorry doesn't ******** cut it. Sorry's just a ******** word! I don't even know you any longer, if you were sorry you wouldn't be stalking me, you wouldn't be trying to rub this s**t in when I already can't handle it. You said before you didn't ******** need me, if you don't need me, get the ******** away from me."
He tightened his grip and hefted Tracey off the ground. "Or so ******** help me I'll make you. I'll ******** knock some sense back into you, or if you are something else, I'll make sure you can't have his ******** body any longer." A few days ago he'd told himself it was crazy talk to think that he could be possessed, that he himself had thought he was Blue for a while and it had all apparently been in his head. But it didn't seem to want to go away for Harrison at all, just lingering toxicity that was slowly killing him and his relationships.
"I'm ******** done."
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 7:14 pm
He was sorry he'd broken the tenuous terms, that he wasn't ignorable. But right now, Rep didn't want to ignore him.
"There's plenty I need. I said I didn't expect anything," Harrison said, and he wasn't sure leaving was an option. Both their movements were broadcasted by the light. He moved cautiously to the side. "Was I wrong?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 7:21 pm
"No. You weren't ******** wrong, I need my Ace. I need life to be normal again, but you can't or ******** won't give me it. So no, I'm not ******** giving you anything. Jordan might have been happy to try and talk you through it, give you therapy and prop you up. I'm no."
The anger twisted him up inside, wrong on so many levels when he'd sworn he'd never lay a hand on him. But this wasn't him, it wasn't. Where he longed for that comfort and nearness, the feeling that he could fall and there'd always be someone to catch him there was only wrongness. It hurt and made him feel inadequate every time he was nearby.
"I might no be some ******** shitty fire breathing lizard, but I can still ******** trounce a ******** monster when I see one."
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Toshihiko Two rolled 1 10-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-10)
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 7:50 pm
Harrison set his shoulders, and something in his chest hardened.
B0nez made a nervous ???
It was one thing to say...but he'd never said- it hadn't come to that. Not yet. But all it would take was once, especially here. Letting the other slip- but it'd be fooling himself, thinking otherwise. He was going to die here, alone. And he was never going to see them again.
"Mage."
HP: 60
Defending: Self
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Baneful rolled 2 12-sided dice:
10, 9
Total: 19 (2-24)
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 7:54 pm
"Well I know what I do to ******** mages." he snarled.
Tracey hissed, thinking intently about B0nez.
"Same thing I do to all the other abominations."
And with that cold and twisted finality, the confirmation that he was dealing with something, some delusion that wasn't his Harrison, that wasn't anyone he knew, he leapt forward and swung.
And the twist of fear almost hurt.
I'm sorry B0nez.
HP: 60
DMG: 13
Charge: 1
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Toshihiko Two rolled 2 12-sided dice:
3, 11
Total: 14 (2-24)
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 8:00 pm
The electric rush, powerful and sharp, was distinctly B0nez.
B0nez was fine with getting SOME PVP, there had been no tech on the island period, so he appreciated it as a bro, but...
"That. That was. Your...your Fear," Harrison said, stumbling back from the clash in confusion. It wasn't a Fear he was familiar with, or had ever felt. Dark, sweet, heady. Like a rich and poisoned wine.
"Who...? You're not-"
It was the first thing Harrison had felt to horror. He knew it was Fear. It as the first really and truly familiar sensation he'd had. But it wasn't him. It wasn't Rep.
HP: 52
DMG: 8
Charge: 2
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Baneful rolled 2 12-sided dice:
6, 2
Total: 8 (2-24)
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 8:13 pm
Rep narrowed his eyes, Tracey's giddy delight coursing through him like a drug, there was nothing sweeter, nothing he liked more than when he could get his fangs into B0nez' fear. For Rep it was a harrowing reminder that there was more than just Harrison at stake here, he had no idea if B0nez was fine or not, locked inside Harrison's insane and delusional mind.
He was doing this as much for him as anyone.
"It's not my ******** fear. I'm a human. I'm not made of fear. It's Tracey. Just like your fear is B0nez."
He shifted his weight and effortlessly picked up the axe's momentum, swinging it in a massive sweeping arc which last moment he twisted, bringing the serrated feather edge of the blade around to try and throw him off balance. He was at the disadvantage here, B0nez could get in close, and with two weapons he could only effectively fend off one.
HP: 52
DMG:2
Charge: 2/3
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Toshihiko Two rolled 2 12-sided dice:
9, 4
Total: 13 (2-24)
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 8:34 pm
I feel you on the student thing since. Halloween faction represent.
"You're not- you're a familiar."
Yeah well no. You're human...like he said. I'm a ghost. Tracey's a demon.
"What-what happened to you?"
Upgrade.
"What's he mean upgrade," Harrison demanded, coming back in within Rep's swing.
HP: 50
DMG: 7
CHG: 3
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Baneful rolled 2 12-sided dice:
2, 8
Total: 10 (2-24)
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 8:45 pm
"He MEANS." Rep snarled as B0nez sliced away another chunk of his shield. "That we took him and made him into a ******** weapon. Upgraded. We take them and we make them into something we can use. A partnership."
He leapt forward, bringing Tracey down in an overhand.
"No that you'd ******** know anything about partnerships."
Tracey lit up with an odd static crackle of energy by his side.
HP: 45
DMG: 4
Charge: 3/3
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