RuneScape Forum Archive

Feb

2017

very mad guy

Posts: 7,715 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

"so i can forsake my defenses for further assault and vice versa? sounds like a useful tool"

*i pocket the milestone*

"i might do wonders with this. better test it"

*i use the stone to up my physical strength then punch a nearby stone wall with full power, completely obliterating it*

"i see. its a powerful tool indeed"

*if possible, i revert to average strength and defense*

"now, do you know where i can find a good battle? i havent moved at all the last couple pages"

They see me rollin', they better run...

11-Feb-2015 22:11:42 - Last edited on 11-Feb-2015 23:02:21 by very mad guy

Mar

2011

Ignitheus

Posts: 598 Steel Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Pyro's Hellhounds licks their lips at the odd fish. They looks at Pyro for permission but he shakes his head. He cuts a rift in the air with his scythe, reaches in to pull out a chunk of obsidian, and shapes it into a ball. Pyro drops the ball, making a loud THUD; one hound shakes its head and gives an irritated look at Pyro.

Just because I'm a hellhound, doesn't mean I have the same interests as a dog.

The other hound however looses complete attention to the stranger and interacts with his new toy. The resistant hound glares at the other.

...Although, I am concerned about this one...

Pyro takes a milestone, inspects it curiously and tosses it into the rift; the rift closes.

Personal Rift-Bank, or P.R.B. As far as I know, only my race uses this.

12-Feb-2015 04:12:42

Sep

2023

Enheduanna

Posts: 16,566 Opal Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Sir Duncan88 said :
EDIT-Thank you, Magery, for reacting to Ash*in like that. because now i know how to get you angry, and if I can get you angry, I can probably work out how to get your character angry. Which, for some reason, I get the feeling, wouldn't exactly work in her advantage...basically, it looks like her emotions are her weak spot. I might be wrong of course.

...wouldn't it be obvious that most people would get angry when their integrity is questioned?

That said, it's fairly easy to make me mad. Just ask Wayne or Eno - they know the most blatant of my triggers. Though I do wish you luck with exploiting that one!

Also, Natasha has been fighting angry this whole time (didn't you notice from the way she's been speaking? She's normally condescending to everyone, but she's been positively venomous recently).

She's also been losing.

So yes, you would be correct if you said her emotions were a weakness of hers. There are others--some I've tried to make more obvious than they usually are--but she's certainly not someone who gets better when she's angry.

---

Now I have to figure out what to do with her. She takes Faylne's attacks, gets blind-sided by Yuriel before she can even do anything about the fact she can't use one arm and is missing fingers on the other... but what to do next?

Decisions, decisions.

---

Yes, Eno, the following is exactly who you think she is.

I guess I just liked her character concept too much to leave her sitting around until we got in the business too.

12-Feb-2015 12:54:49 - Last edited on 12-Feb-2015 14:57:29 by Enheduanna

Sep

2023

Enheduanna

Posts: 16,566 Opal Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Interlude: The Night Lily of Sayuriyo

The first sign of her presence is that there isn't one.

Yuriel of Light is an assassin--the second-best he's ever met--and for all that he's focusing on Natasha, he has an AI of the grade that, once, governed an army of hundreds of billions plugged into his brain. There is very, very little that escapes his gaze; so when out of the corner of his metaphorical eye, he notices that there is a perfectly innocuous patch of reality that appears to be entirely unaffected by the raging battles surrounding it, he is suspicious.

Driven by an impulse he can't quite explain but has learned to trust anyway, he directs a single bullet toward that patch of should-be empty air.

When it is slashed almost lazily out of the air, he knows something is wrong. Not because something has defied the mathematical impossibility that is a Micro Oblivion--that happens far too often for his liking--but because it doesn't make any sense.

They could have just dodged the bullet, and it wouldn't have given them away. Well, it would have, because the AI in the bullet would have been able to sense the air currents of their movement, no matter how slight it might have been, but there was no way for the target to know that.

The Twin God's Empire hides its secrets well, most especially when it comes to the Shadow Guild and its ilk; it was, simply put, inconceivable for anyone to be able to identify his bullets for what they were and react accordingly; especially given the technology he used to make sure they arrived as close to point-blank range as possible.

There is a sound like shattering glass, and a woman steps forward from a space she hadn't previously seemed to occupy.

Well. Not a woman.

A girl.

A teenaged girl, to be precise.

Yuriel's sensor array includes a set of time-based detection units - and they are telling him that everything about this girl (physical, mental, and spiritual) began sixteen years ago.

12-Feb-2015 13:09:17

Sep

2023

Enheduanna

Posts: 16,566 Opal Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

To the electromagnetic spectrum, she seems perfectly harmless; sure, there's a rapier in her left hand, but it's held so loosely it looks like it'll fall at any moment. As for her other arm, well, she doesn't have one; her dress--the frilly expanse of pink that it is--simply flares out slightly around the shoulder before settling again somewhat less than tightly against her torso, hips, and legs. It's a princess' dress, not a warrior's, and it matches the way her hair hangs down past her thighs, a deep, shimmering black like the facets of an onyx. A red scarf, the colour of human blood (he's not exaggerating; Yuriel knows the exact shade, and that's what he's looking at) is wrapped around her neck.

The feeds from Yuriel's more... esoteric sensors, however, reveal a rather different story.

Some sort of force-field, most definitely magical in nature, hugs her body so closely that anyone who struck it would genuinely believe they'd hit the girl underneath. Her sword glows with suppressed power; the patterns match some of Yuriel's notes on the more... vicious sort of enchantments known to some of the TGE's arcane-inclined assassins.

All that, of course, pales in comparison to the raw energy that leaks from her skin; Yuriel can detect fire, air, earth, water, and, for some strange reason, metal in her aura, and that's not even mentioning the way death seems to lay upon her soul.

That's not what worries him, though - rather, it's the feedback his Shaman array is picking up. Around the girl--in a radius of exactly five feet, and isn't that strange--the world seems almost terrified .

And if the very spirit of the Tower--an imposing construct of steel and stone, with a history both ancient and noble--is afraid to be near her... Yuriel doesn't particularly want to know what it would feel like to him. Or anyone else, for that matter.

A nano-second passes (the third since Yuriel fired his bullet), and she is identified.

12-Feb-2015 13:09:29 - Last edited on 12-Feb-2015 13:56:00 by Enheduanna

Sep

2023

Enheduanna

Posts: 16,566 Opal Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

I thought we'd have more time than this, he thinks to Sarah. We got the tip-off from Jane, who said she got it from the top.

Fun fact: in the whole of the Holy Covenant of Sparkadia, one half of the Twin God's Empire, there are exactly two people ranked higher than 'Commander' Jane Shepard. One of them doesn't officially exist, and the other is Divine Lord Magery, the Covenant's ruler.

I'm not actually surprised, Sarah replies. K**the's probably too busy assassinating galaxies to bother with the likes of us, and you know why both Magery and Marcus can't interfere.

Fair point. But, seriously, if somebody had to try and kill-steal from us, couldn't it at least be someone incompetent? Considering her rumoured skill-set, the Night Lily probably has the advantage over us in actually killing the Shadowforger.

Back on the Tower, the aforementioned Night Lily--and isn't it interesting, that a teenaged girl has a reputation and title known and respected by one such as Yuriel--is ambling her way toward Natasha, the fingers of her only hand tapping a merry little tune against the hilt.

Amazingly, despite the fact she's bleeding from her shoulder, can't move her right arm, is missing two fingers from her left hand, and her armour--and, later, the flesh behind it--is being torn to shreds by Yuriel's bullets, Natasha still manages to turn, darkness rising around her to form an instinctive shield.

Every bullet that strikes it is reduces to nothingness--even an Absolute Zero cannot calculate an entire plane out of existence, not in such a limited form--and when it fades away, Natasha is no longer behind it.

She's no longer anywhere, it seems, according to Yuriel's sensors.

"Oh, the hurt lady's gone!" The Night Lily's voice is sweet, like the piping sound of a flute. "And to think I was just coming along to ease her pain."

12-Feb-2015 13:09:37 - Last edited on 12-Feb-2015 14:26:15 by Enheduanna

Sep

2023

Enheduanna

Posts: 16,566 Opal Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

"I'm sure she'll be back," Duncan says, voice halfway between curious and confused as he studies the girl who appeared from nowhere.

He does not know who she is, where she comes from, or what she wants, but the fact she seems so non-threatening and almost childish immediately has him on edge. This is a battlefield, and everywhere upon it are the sort of men against whom even armies break, like waves upon a rock.

So then, why, of all places, would a teenager--and a one-armed teenager, at that--be here? Why would she be so obviously unbothered by bullets streaming from empty air, by a woman with a sword sticking out of her shoulder , and by two warriors--he and Pyro--who, for entirely different reasons, look like they are comprised entirely of fire?

"Oh," the girl replies, pouting cutely. "That's annoying."

"She usually is." Then Duncan realises something. "Wait, why is that annoying? You said you wanted to ease her pain."

His suspicions--grown now upon a second consideration of the girl's very specific wording--are not betrayed by his voice, or even upon his face.

"Because then all of you will be here too! Honestly, it'll be so embarrassing to have all of you watching me. I do my best work when nobody's looking."

Okaaaaaay, Duncan thinks. Now she's just messing with me.

"Assassins often do," he says.

"Are you calling me an assassin?" she gasps, her hand--now conspicuously rapier-less--pressed against her heart in what Duncan assumes has to be mock surprise and hurt - assumes, because her acting is flawless . "This little Hannah? Why, sir, how could you say such a thing!"

"Because I very much doubt a doctor would be running around after the Shadowforger, and, while I'm not entirely sure, I think she probably wouldn't want anything to do with a priest."

He then steps to the side, avoiding the rapier that skims past his neck from behind, on its way back to its mistress' hand.

"And there's also that."

12-Feb-2015 14:27:52 - Last edited on 13-Feb-2015 08:42:28 by Enheduanna

Eno Remnant

Posts: 5,832 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Yuriel blinks. And again. And then one more time, because the Rule of Three must be respected.

"Well, this job just went from impossible to 'I won't even be a martyr. Just an idiot.' Sarah, pull us back to Alpha Base. Observe Cole Protocol variant designate 'Being Chased By Magery', just to be on the safe side."

"Transitioning..."

Yuriel blinks, and he's in the palace at the heart of Civitas Magna, the captial city of the Ascendant Kingdom and one of the two capitals of the Twin Gods' Empire.

"Good to be back home. And as far away from that mess of an All as possible."

"Won't hear any arguments from me."

----

One does not battle both the Night Lily and the Shadowforger if they value their lives.

13-Feb-2015 06:37:03

Eno Remnant

Posts: 5,832 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

A quiet, peaceful stroll through the palace. Guards bowing, Rangers nodding their respect, Nyx’Laus inclining their heads in a fashion so minute that only the most observant could tell it was a show of recognition – and the Nyx’Laus recognised few. All in all, it was an incredibly soothing sensation that always left the Prime Wetboy of the Shadow Guild feeling refreshed.

But then Magery was there.

“Afternoon, Yuriel of Light.”

Internalising his annoyance, the young Australian bows to the god—just low enough to toe the line between respect and derision—platitudes jumping to his lips on instinct.

*Hallowed by thy chaos, glory to thy kittens. What brings the attention of the Divine Lord Magery upon this humble vessel of the GodKing’s will?”

The slight, tender emphasis on the word ‘GodKing’ was a clear-cut message. He was a servant of the Ascended God, not the Kitten God. Even if they both ruled the empire he served. There was no way the Divine Lord could miss the hint.

And in true DLM fashion, he ignored the hint and ploughed on.

“I’ve got a contract for you, Agent Light. That friend of Ash*in’s, the prisoner formerly held in the cell adjacent to the cell formerly occupied by one Natasha Dæmondöttr.”

There was a moment of confusion, before Yuriel recognised the name. It was listed as the Shadowforger’s real name, which was about as much information as the wetboy could eke from the pitiful intel he had been supplied.

Fortunately, that was about to be remedied. In addition to his dwindling funds. Which weren’t really dwindling, but giving the impression to you were down on your luck meant that contractors were more likely to offer you the big-pay, high-risk deaders. He stood from his bow, a casually calculating look in his eye – as one would expect from a professional assassin.

13-Feb-2015 10:51:57 - Last edited on 13-Feb-2015 10:53:12 by Eno Remnant

Eno Remnant

Posts: 5,832 Rune Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

“Since you’re the one offering, Lord Magery, that would make this a state job. Which means you’ll need to pay me my usual rate. Double, actually, given the infamous Night Lily is pursuing a target (she was no Exigency assassin; the honour of the term ‘deader’ was not one he extended to her) in the area and is as such a competitor I must deal with. And… double that again: the Shadowforger is no longer my target, making her an obstacle of significant threat.”

Now that look was in the deity’s eyes. That same look Yuriel was sporting. The one that promised shrewd and harsh haggling. The best kind.

“No can do, Yuri-chan,” He was clearly resisting a smirk. The Ascendant agent would have paid any amount of SET to watch the GodKing slap him right now. *Based on the reports I’ve seen, the Night Lily is after the Shadowforger. Since you’ve abandoned her as a deader, she’s no longer in competition with you. As for the threat of the Shadowforger, she doesn't even see you as a threat. I’ll pay you the double flat.”

Now the assassin had to resist a smirk of his own. Magery was playing hard ball, which meant this job was definitely worth something to him. Unlike the times he’d tried to pay Yuriel with kittens. Soft, fluffy, adorable… Head out of the clouds, Yuriel, you’ve got haggling to do.

“Apologies, sir, but that just won*t cut it. She may not see me as a threat, but the Shadowforger remains a threat regardless. As does the Night Lily, whether we’re pursuing the same target or not. And given the nature of the deader, I may draw the ire of a number of Forum Fighters. And you know what that kind of attention could do. Three point five times my regular rate, and the Gods’ Eyes Only intel on the Shadowforger, so that I have some actually useful intel to go on.”

13-Feb-2015 10:52:08 - Last edited on 13-Feb-2015 11:11:24 by Eno Remnant

Forums

Forum Fight!

very mad guy

Ignitheus

Enheduanna

Enheduanna

Enheduanna

Enheduanna

Enheduanna

Eno Remnant

Eno Remnant

Eno Remnant