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Ignitheus
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Pyro's hounds reach to the tower where a huge hole in the wall is visible; the same wall he was slammed into. The hounds grab Pyro's attention away from the hole and in the direction to where the duo found the strangers.

Ready your scythe sire, but don't show aggression to them.


Pyro creates his scythe and shoulders it. He decreases both the flames on his weapon and surrounding him to a gentle heat, in an attempt to appear neutral.

06-Feb-2015 02:25:20 - Last edited on 06-Feb-2015 02:25:44 by Ignitheus

Ashlin107

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Well it's time I post. I probably should have mentioned the clones were holograms but it doesn't really affect my strategy or anything really. :P
_________________________

*As Duncan rescues me from this blaze of plasma I look to him and place my hand on his shoulder.*

Me: Thank you although it wasn't entirely necessary. You see the key to a good trick is to make the audience...

*The me Duncan rescued disappears. Everyone then turns to face me sitting on top of the wall.*

Me: Look the wrong way. Any way now that I've fully recovered.

Sf: You've only delayed your death. I won't miss next time wel*.

Me: Well we all have to die sometime. Now lets see how long.

*I jump down and notice on my scanners that my attack wasn't as ineffective as the Shadowforger is leading on. After all one's vitals never lie. Even when they have no organs like a golem. I know now's the time to attempt to deliver another crippling blow. I raise my sword into the air and it releases a bolt of lightning into the sky. However the Shadowforger braces herself for the strike.*

Sf: Do you really think I'll be hit by the same attack twice?

Me: Ohh... Sorry this one isn't meant for you.

*Before anyone can respond lightning rains down upon me. Almost like waterfall of electricity. If one was unprepared they'd most likely be injured. However my armour absorbs the electricity. At the end I shrug off the lightning which is still visibly surging through my armour.*

Me: Time to activate one of my armour's most deadly weapons. Armour activate hyperion protocol.

"Activating hyper mode. Good luck sir."

Me: I make my own luck.

*All visible joints in my armour and my armour's eyes glow in an electric blue. I start moving around on the spot in a rather jerky fashion. I then stop and let off a rather loud roar. Before anyone can react I seemingly disappear.* The statement below is false.
The statement above is true.

08-Feb-2015 10:55:48 - Last edited on 08-Feb-2015 11:19:06 by Ashlin107

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*As I fully enter hyper mode time has seemingly slowed down as all of my senses have been supercharged. I am currently moving so fast that only a few people whom are present would be able to see me move. Even then it would only be a blur.*

*I see Faylne's shot spinning through the air getting ever closer to its target. I run around the arena till I am behind the Shadowforger. I then run towards her driving my sword through her heart although she probably doesn't have one (no pun intended. :P ).*

*With a combination of enhanced speed and strength my sword manages to tear through her armour and flesh as if slashing through air. I then slash my sword across her body. I then flow this up with a low sweep. However she has stuck her blade out in attempt to use the momentum to slash me. However I jump back and unload some soul shots into her.*

*I then stand atop the wall waiting for a counter attack. I also deploy hundreds of clones around the top of the tower.*

(Ok now that bit of overpowering is done. Onto more overpowering.) The statement below is false.
The statement above is true.

08-Feb-2015 10:56:06 - Last edited on 08-Feb-2015 11:17:17 by Ashlin107

Ashlin107

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Ok this probably a bad idea challenging Magery to a overpowering showdown. But meh may as well have fun. So now time for a little bit from the prisoner and maybe even reveal if that's actually his name. :P
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I look around noticing even more factions join this battle. We have the FFA, Technomancers, The agency of light, the SADIST's, a bunch of freelancers and my organisation the black sun council. Who next? Does it really matter? All I know is I have mission to complete. I remember back to when I was given this assignment...

I remember the the grandmaster giving me this assignment and handing me this weapon. It is some kind of shoulder mounted device.

"Arkin you have proven yourself time and time again. I now give you your next assignment. There is this S class convict I want you to apprehend. Do you think you can handle it?"

I grin at the grandmaster as he tells me this.

"I believe you already know the answer to that. Who am I hunting? Ending, the Destroyer, Magery..."

"Natasha Dæmondöttr aka the Shadowforger."

I look at the weapon.

"That is the Megas XK13, a positive energy beam. The beam is at an absolute zero temperature. It was designed for the soul purpose of killing your target. You've earned the right to wield this Arkin. Just remember to hold the beam steady."

"I'll hold it steady but how can I say the same about my target?"

"She's chained in a prison in the underworld. Don't worry we have a plan in place to get you in the cell near her's, plus we have a plan in place to break you out. Plus even if she does set herself free I'm certain there will be others wanting to take her down."

"When do I start?"

"Right now!"

Everything goes blank afterwards and now here I am. A box teleports nearby containing the weapon. I pull it out and aim it at the Shadowforger while she's down. I then charge it and fire. I also have some back up weapons ready should this miss. The statement below is false.
The statement above is true.

08-Feb-2015 11:22:20 - Last edited on 08-Feb-2015 11:51:18 by Ashlin107

Enheduanna
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Heh. The Agency of Light? Eno Remnant said :
"Yuriel of Light, Shadow Guild Agent designate 'Light', Head of Public Relations, Head of Operations, Head of Exigency, Prime Wetboy. Authorisation code [REDACTED]." would be incredibly insulted to be associated with those godless heathens!

---

Perhaps I need to clarify something about Natasha, and, more specifically, her armour.

There is a difference between not being able to find something, and it not existing.

Back in the old thread, Toph couldn't feel Natasha's heartbeat. That's not because she doesn't have a heart (she does, physically speaking at any rate) - it's because Toph can't feel something that's not there.

I realise that sounds contradictory, so I'll give another few examples.

Ash, yes, your sensors wouldn't be able to find Natasha's organs, and yes, you would have been able to gather some of her vitals anyway.

That's because her left hand--including the veins that run through her wrists, thus letting you 'feel' her pulse--is exposed, out of her armour, since she can't shadowforge otherwise.

Actually, let's run with that for a while. I'm sure some of you have noticed the fact Natasha always shadowforges with her left hand, and the fact that her left hand is always exposed, even when the rest of her is covered in armour (including her helmask, as I believe I the portmanteau was).

Let me tell you now that the reason she always shadowforges with her left hand--she might be left-handed, but that's not relevant to her powers--is because it is always exposed .

She cannot forge with her right hand while wearing her armour, because of the way her armour works .

I've tried to make it clear, what with her shrugging off anything that penetrates her armour, but with Faron being able to cut off her wrists after he broke her bracers, and with Jane's advice, but subtext hasn't worked.

So my upcoming posts will try to make it more obvious .

08-Feb-2015 12:38:01

Enheduanna
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The blade punches through your shoulder; or, at least, where your shoulder should have been. There are no gaps in your armour--it's not quite moulded to your flesh, but you suppose it would seem that way to others--only places where you're not wearing it, and at the moment that's only your left hand. You feel nothing from the impact (how could you, when there's nothing there to feel it?), but the sheer force necessary to penetrate your shoulderplate rocks you regardless, sending you stumbling to a knee.

It gives Duncan the time to leap now from your other wing, and pull out his sword - the blade is entirely eaten away, though not by sunlight. Rather, it has been consumed by negative energy, by the absence of light and life; there is little in this universe, living or not, that can survive the raw power leaking from a plane like Shadesmar.

He pauses, perhaps taken aback by what little is left of his sword, and it is in this moment that you strike, the fingers of your right gauntlet lengthening as you spin. You are a predator, after all, and it is only natural that you should tear his throat out with your claws.

Until you freeze, half an inch from his neck.

"You’ve gotten your wish, Nat-nat. I, Aylss Galadhir, Elderdaughter of Rhosye, and Companion of Faron Ayverinson have drank my last draught- and it was one of bitterness."

Aylss dies, and your whole world breaks .

You do not move. You do not even breathe.

A second stretches into two.

Then four.

Then eight.

The light that has been building around you--slowly, slowly, like the sea receding into the tsunami--creeps past your feet, your calves, your hips, your shoulders, until you are framed by a corona of bright, burning gold. The air hisses and crackles around you.

You are framed by sound and fury.

It signifies nothing.

You define yourself against your enemy.

But you've killed the only one who was ever worth it.

What now?

After all... to kill her was to kill yourself.

08-Feb-2015 12:39:44

Enheduanna
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Your glory fades, ebbing away like the tide, the light slipping away and your eyes dulling from bright, burning gold to a washed-out emerald; the colour is almost like seawater, except it doesn't shimmer in the sun. Even your skin--what little of it your bared left hand reveals--is paler, as if you are somehow less than you were.

For a moment, your hand twitches toward the gun on your hip.

It would be a fitting end.

But no. You cannot. Natasha--as a defined, self-identifying concept--may no longer exist, but your life has never been yours to take.

In the distance, Ash*in channels lightning and grandstands, but you ignore him. His words wash over you like wind - you can't even tell if you don't notice what he's saying, or if you just don't care. For all his bluster--though, really, it's a fault they all share--if he even manages to hurt you, let alone kill you, it'd probably be by accident.

Suddenly, he blurs, tearing toward you at the speed of lightning; your eyes can barely follow, and your body certainly can't keep up. Not in this form, at any rate. He attacks, once, twice, three times, slicing through your armour, flesh, and bone as if they're not even there.

Well.

One out of three ain't bad.

Truth be told, you barely even feel his attacks. He's moving so quickly, and slashing so swiftly, that his blade has been and gone before your mind can quite register his movements. Without that recognition--you've been hit, so you should feel pain--there's nothing to bring on the memories of the thousand similar wounds you received before your ascension.

The soul bullets are a more impressive effort, and so you decide to reply in kind, your left hand coming up and batting them out of the air, coated in a dark, roiling miasma of energy.

You're considering whether to bother killing him when a bullet skims past your hip and shatters your gun to dust.

"It’s time to reunite some estranged family, don’t you think, O Scion of Vindication?"

What.

08-Feb-2015 12:39:54 - Last edited on 08-Feb-2015 16:41:32 by Enheduanna

Enheduanna
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You turn, Ash*in forgotten, and see an elf.

She looks like Aylss.

She walks like Aylss.

She talks like Aylss.

But she isn't.

Your sword snaps into your right hand almost before your fingers flex out of their fist, and your world narrows like the sights of a gun.

The gun the imposter is holding, to be precise. Because that's not her gun. That's Aylss' gun. You remember when you first found the matching pair, looting them off the corpse of some lesser creature whose species you can barely even remember killing. The names amused you, and you remember that friends were supposed to give each other presents.

So you kept one for yourself, and gave one to her. She would still use it, some of the time, even when she could flash-forge something infinitely greater in an instant. In many ways, the two of them were tangible markers of a friendship that should never have been.

And now yours is broken, and hers is in the hand of something wrong.

" What are you? " you snarl, lips curling in a way that bares far too many teeth.

Behind you, the prisoner tries to fire some sort of weapon at your back, but it blows up in his hands.

Probably because positive energy is by definition greater than absolute zero, and, no matter how great the Black Sun organisation may be, they're not quite up to the level of a Paradox forger like Balance.

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Maybe because it's 3am and I get crabby when I'm tired, but I just... couldn't deal with the Megas.

The literal definition of positive--mathematically--is greater than zero. I cringed when I read those two sentences one after the other.

I know I've also made many a mention of how Natasha's shadowforging occurs at absolute zero or below, and that she's capable of harnessing positive energy naturally, and I've definitely hinted enough times that it's called shadowforging because it forges into and from the shadows of things .

The Megas is the worst possible weapon to use against her.

08-Feb-2015 12:40:13 - Last edited on 08-Feb-2015 17:10:41 by Enheduanna

very mad guy
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((ive been afk for some time, so sorry about lack of attendance))

*i scan the battlefield, trying to figure out what to do*

"hmm, i know nothing about the shadow-forger and the fiery skeleton is rather questionable. should i tag with someone or go by myself now?"
They see me rollin', they better run...

08-Feb-2015 22:22:01

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