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Vrangr Wayne

Vrangr Wayne

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You keep up a steady rhythm, the schhhrt schhhrt scraping sound of the polishing tool against the degenerate edge of a trusted ally is a familiar friend- an anchor point for a being who has spent most of her life shifting forms, bending time, and rending flesh in first one Realm and then another at the behest of her Empire.

It is already as sharp as physical space permits – hell, it had been so before you had drawn it – but still you run the dense quark matter in one stroke after another, following the contours of the edge like a lover tracing the muscles of their beloved.

This tool had a history with you. Mom and Dad gave it to you on the eve of your consecration as a Firstborne child- an heir to the oaths that bind Elda together and maintain the Empire’s grip on her populace. A promise that formed Technomancers from mere Elf children.

In the years that followed, you would pour yourself into the knife. The simple yet entrancing process giving you focus akin to what the monastic parts of the Order seek in their imperfect meditation.

Your craft now mastered, you could make better equipment with hardly a thought- you could conjure a dozen knives akin to this one with a flick of the fingers. You could even manipulate this one and transform it into anything.

But you don’t.

You cling to it as one of your prized possessions. A reminders of the days before the Order…

Of the years before the war with the Oceani…

Of the hours before meeting Him at that investiture.

Faron had been the other constants that bound you to some semblance of reality.

Now, the knife is one of the only things that remain to keep what was left of your sanity from being overthrown.

At least, most of the time.

16-Jan-2015 09:02:36 - Last edited on 17-Jan-2015 07:32:07 by Vrangr Wayne

Vrangr Wayne

Vrangr Wayne

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With a sigh, you dispel the ‘stone’ and examine the edge, noting tiny flecks of the blade you needlessly sacrifice to your inner demons time and time again. Clarity lent to you by the simple task is muddied as the world around you asserts itself with growing strength.

Who, precisely, of Natasha’s numerous enemies had finally managed to cage the Raven isn’t your main concern.

Rather, your mounting worry stems from the discovery that when she had disappeared, so did an anchor you did*’t know existed.

You’d never admit to anyone still living, but Natasha is the last thing you have resembling a friend. Of course your people, the Elda are still back ‘home’ in All #23.

Yet all they seem to see you as is a tool- and a perilously damaged one at that.

They won’t help you, they’ll lock you away and strip what little dignity you’ve gained from your ravaged mind.

“Firstborne are tools to be used and then expire on their own.” They would say. *Not to defy their design and go traipsing off in the footsteps of the First well beyond their expected lifespan.”

That, and you’d also never admit how long it took you to find Natasha, Least of all to her. It was embarrassing, really.

You carefully slide Reis back into its sheath, the knife disappearing from sight as the suit integrates the blade once more, leaving a smooth surface where a handle had just been jutting out.

You repeat the process with your spear, inspecting Natasha as the two of you observe in silence. One awaiting (likely impatiently as ever) freedom (or at least entertainment) while the other debates giving her just that- and what it would mean for the time remaining for a disposable soldier of mass destruction.

16-Jan-2015 09:03:31 - Last edited on 17-Jan-2015 19:10:19 by Vrangr Wayne

Vrangr Wayne

Vrangr Wayne

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You think you faintly hear a door higher up in the prison, and you settle in to wait a bit longer. You had known that sooner or later Nat’s jailor would check on their prisoner, and then you can finally test how well perfectly sharpened degenerate matter can convince them to talk to you before Natasha figures out some way to end her captor.

Breaking the silence, you address Natasha.

“So, Pinata, what’d you do to this one? Take their candy? Kill their parents? Eradicate their civilization? You always have met the most interesting people.”
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My crack at second person, while waiting for an opportunity to fight someone. Should nothing come up, I'd be happy to engage in lexical battle with you M1. (and even if something does come up I'll probably be interested.)

16-Jan-2015 09:05:01

Enheduanna
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Enheduanna

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"Would you accept 'all of the above'?" you ask, since, strictly speaking, it's true - for a broad definition of candy. A very broad definition indeed. You're not entirely sure how she feels about your more... carnivorous tendencies, or even if she knows about them. It's not like you advertise how close you sometimes are to taking up her offers of 'bite me'. Though you probably wouldn't like the taste; alcohol and you have never agreed, and it'd be just like her to replace her blood with vodka the moment your fangs came out.

"Why am I not surprised?" Her voice is light and lilting, and this--for want of a better word--concerns you. Even her most scathing lines are usually delivered in deadpan, something that always amused you. For that to change is unusual, to say the least, and you have never got on well with 'unusual'.

There is a way that Creation should be, a fixing of facts and a continuum of certainty, and you do not appreciate when it is disrupted.

That said, you could be entirely imagining things. It is not as if you are the best at deciphering social nuances, or interpreting the behaviour of others. You are a sword, not a psychologist.

And, of course, even if you were right, you wouldn't know the first thing about what to do. You have lived your entire life by a maxim not dissimilar to 'might makes right': if a problem cannot be solved through violence, try harder. Yet, for some reason, part of you quails at the thought of laying a hand on her - with intent to kill, at any rate.

So, instead--though instead of what, you're not entirely sure, given you're still chained to this pole--you speak.

"Because you've spent more than five minutes in my presence?"

"That'd do it," she says, almost laughing. "So, those chains. How do they work?"

You smile. It is a savage thing, all sharp edges and sadism. "Oh, they are most fascinating . My captors were very keen on mind-games; mostly because it was beyond their ability to harm me."

16-Jan-2015 11:45:35 - Last edited on 16-Jan-2015 11:48:36 by Enheduanna

Enheduanna
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Enheduanna

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"They decided that I, being the savage, mindless beast that I am, must have no friends, or even allies, in the whole of their universe. It was quite quaint, really; they don't even know that the multiverse is more than a theory. So they bound me in the greatest shackles they could conceive, and, in truth, the only thing they had that could hold me.

These chains are very special, dear Aly, very special indeed. I am the only person in the whole of history who can't remove them! Truly ingenious, no? A mad, malignant monster such as I... why, they and their petty little morals simply could not believe that anyone would ever want to release me."

Your second smile is even sharper than the first.

" I will tear their kingdom down around their heads and feast upon the ashes. "

It never crosses your mind that she could refuse to remove your chains, but for the life of you you do not understand why.

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So yeah.

In case nobody had managed to realise yet, Natasha is not a nice person .

She is petty and vindictive and arrogant and the only thing that stops her from being a psychopath is that she's actually capable of making and maintaining close attachments.

16-Jan-2015 12:01:51 - Last edited on 16-Jan-2015 12:07:27 by Enheduanna

Vahlok
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Vahlok

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Wayne, should you want to try a duel, I would be glad to, though I find that the main thing that's been preventing Forum Fight from being as it once was is the lack of development . Not much has changed, because why would it, we have all found our places, and as such most of us have moved on to other characters.

I must be one of the few veterans who hasn't made a new character, just additions to the story...

All the same, if I were to duel as M1, the story would be the same, as it sadly always is. I think I would prefer it if I used a different character, like Cannon, or even one of the Pata***s. Having a character of less well defined strengths would allow for some flexibility, some change.

M1's character has started to suffer from stagnation, as any character that literally represents something like Balance would be fated to. That is not to say I'm making a new one, no. M1 will always be 'Me:' but change is essential to keeping this thread enjoyable to participate in*

**;dr I would duel anyone, but not as M1, not this time.

16-Jan-2015 20:09:17

Sir Duncan88

Sir Duncan88

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Outside a large, concrete building in the middle of a bustling city, there is a burst of flames and two figures appear; one of them collapsed and covered in burns, the other standing, clad in a green cloak. The other arrival half carries, half drags the injured one into the building.

Inside, several people wearing lab coats who are most likely medic rush to the victim.

“Another one?” one of them asks. “Where are they all coming from?”

“A couple of guys are going round killing random people, as usual.” I reply.

“Ah.”

“Oh, I’d be careful - the one clutching the charred dessert is fine, but one or both of the other two might be assassins or mercenaries. Thanks, by the way.”

“Oh it’s nothing.”

I walk out of the building and teleport back. One thing you forget when you try to throw people into a pit of flames when there’s a flame-teleporting person hiding nearby is that when you expect to see nothing but scorch marks where your victims were before, that’* exactly what you’re going to see.

Wait...what’s this? I think to myself, noting the arrival of the veteran fighter.

Letting my curiosity get the better of me, I summon the flame falcon armour and shoot toward the giant rock, landing and kicking up a cloud of crimson dust.

“Ash*in.” I say by way of greeting, *What brings you here? And how did you get - oh, there’s no point asking, is there? I expect there was a ladder somewhere.”

Although I don’t expect Ash*in would know my character, and of course Pyro won’t recognize me with the several centimetres thick helmet of solid fire covering my face.

17-Jan-2015 18:56:41

Ashlin107

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Ok time for my responses.

*I turn to Duncan who isn't expecting me to recognise him.*

Me: Well Duncan I entered the underworld through an elevator actually. As to why I'm here... Well it's best i just show you. Any way I could ask you the same question since you have voluntarily entered hell.

*I pull out a hologram projector and replay what I said to Pyro and Very Mad Guy when I was asked a similar question a couple of pages back.*

Duncan: Ok so your here to look for some prisoner down here and free him. Then what?

Me: Well I'll help Pyro find his way home. It's the least I could do after he helps me. Ohh and one quick thing Duncan.

Duncan: What is it?

Me: I believe there might be something in the prison that might interest you. You remember the Shadowforger don't you? Well it turns out she's down here. So when we find her you can settle any unfinished business with her when we get there. Ok lets go.

*I point to where I detected the prisoner and the Shadowforger. The party then moves forward and "Highway to hell-AC DC" starts playing in the background.* The statement below is false.
The statement above is true.

18-Jan-2015 13:16:01

Enheduanna
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Enheduanna

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I am very... curious as to how you managed to sense Natasha.

She's bound in chains that seal her power (otherwise she would have escaped about half a second after she was captured, obviously); it's not there to detect.

Trying to sense her as she is now is effectively equivalent to staring into a star and isolating one of the quarks making up a single hydrogen atom (before it undergoes nuclear fusion) in its core... when all you think you're doing is looking at something bright. Since, y'know, you have absolutely no reason to believe she would be down there or to be looking for her .

Plus, if her power hadn't been sealed, to quote her wiki article: "Strictly speaking, the saa (the black fragments of shadow that slither under her skin)...preventing any outside force from actually detecting her actually using her powers--or her presence in general--unless she has a direct effect on a part of reality they are capable of observing."

So... yeah.

How'd you manage that one?

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I mean, it doesn't really change anything, though I would have been more entertained by seeing people's reactions if they didn't know she was there until they physically saw her, but it is somewhat annoying.

Of course, if it was supposed to be annoying, well done! XD

18-Jan-2015 14:06:01 - Last edited on 18-Jan-2015 14:06:41 by Enheduanna

Sir Duncan88

Sir Duncan88

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It sounds like Natasha having been captured would be a big deal. I'm pretty sure word would've gotten out, especially to a veteran such as Ash*in.

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Generally, although I would normally want to help out in this kind of situation, seeing Pyro's destructive ways and realizing how brutal Mad Guy can be to strangers has made me unsure whether or not to trust them. However all of that is overshadowed (dudum-tsss) upon hearing that the Shadowforger is here. Now an opportunity like this, I can't refuse.

"I hate it when people convince me to do things." I say, following the rest of the party.

"Cool soundtrack, though."

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This is starting to put my char. in a difficult position, since I consider Mad Guy an ally (even if in loose terms), but also the people I pick fights with have usually just done something terribly brutal to someone who may well be innocent. Great. Obligatory character development.

18-Jan-2015 18:23:14

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