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dont know where the lights are taking us but something in the night is dangerous
HISSY isn’t wrong. They don’t know what they’re doin there. They’re just blindly following orders, like good little soldiers. They don’t know what’s on the other side of that portal. Could be anything. If the Voice hasn’t gotten out in over 300 years, how does she know whats on the other side is still the same? What if she lets something in that could wreak havoc through her people again?
No. They should know. Isn't that what the Voice has been telling her for the past six months? Be sure before you act. Or some variation on that.
“Then call your friends off and I’ll do the same with mine,” the Queen demands, “And tell us what exactly it is we’re doing.” Fully aware that her bargaining power comes from her ability to threaten LEROY and keep HISSY from being able to do anything, she does a quick reassessment. Easing up on the blade’s edge, she still keeps it right at LEROY’s throat. “Look. Good faith.”
She lets that sink in for a brief second before adding “But if you try anything, I’ll stun you again and kill you both.” And that’s really not what Wessex wants to do. But she will, if she has to. She will, and she won’t look back.
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Wessex tries to negotiate a cease-fire so the Fae can tell them 'what they're doing there.' But also low key threatens to kill Hissy and Leroy if they try to pull anything over on them
Sam's knife hit the mark, but he did not feel any victorious pleasure. No, as the Cleric's voice rang out all he felt was cold horror; especially when it did not yield the result he'd wanted, his ankles still trapped in the vines. "Because you trapped me here!!"
It was a blessing that the peace suggestion was made, as he'd really run out of ideas. Watching Wessex carefully, ready to follow her instruction, he laid still where he was.
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Sam waits to see how this peace chat is going to go!
silver is your groan. her laugh. twin voices, twin vices
two sets of arrows
She can hear the saw beginning to work, but the roots are so fucking big and she can barely move, and just in time for her eyes to lift for her friends – her family, Wessex has taken a hostage and Samuel is rooted much like herself. She can hear the Fae screaming at one another, Wessex’s own voice booming over them, and then suddenly there’s a flash of striped fur and teeth.
And she’s fucking stuck there.
Teeth meet her arm, the one she’s been using to saw, and while she doesn’t feel pain it’s far too much of a habit of this new body of hers, that she can’t help but to emit a shriek of frustration toward the fae. She tries to get her other hand tree, trying to guide the flame to Kitty, hoping it’ll cause more harm than good, and that the fae might stay far away from her. She can feel the fluid of the arm with the saw begin to pour from the bite wounds, and she grits her fanged teeth with a feral intensity of anger and frustration.
She trusts her flame, but she doesn’t trust the fluid in this body to not ignite with it. She remembers the burning feeling of her magic trying to flee when she Ascended. She doesn’t want to die because she’s combusted herself. How shitty of a way to go out, huh?
Here was the chance Amun had been praying for. The chance to get out, unscathed, the chance to leave this madness far behind him. It would be so easy to run away from all this. It was the smart thing to do—this wasn’t his fight, voice in his head calling him child notwithstanding—and it was all his instincts were clamoring for him to do.
So he should do it.
But his thoughts flashed to Wessex, and what might happen if it got out in the Hollowed Grounds that he’d abandoned the queen. Beyond that, if she survived this fight, then she’d probably punish him. And if she didn’t, he’d have a lot of explaining to do. Then he thought about Blue Eyes, who’d taken a hit for him and then whose back he’d abandoned. About the dead guy, who hadn’t even had a chance to defend himself.
On the flip side of that coin, it was always better to ask forgiveness than permission, and if the rest of these folks somehow survived this ordeal, he could probably talk them around. He was weak, not a fighter, and didn’t know what he was doing here, and if he’d known what was to come he would’ve stayed far away to begin with. That had to be explanation enough. Plus, he couldn't die, only be killed, so he'd have many lifetimes to get past this day, assuming he survived that long. That didn't seem likely if he stuck around this fucking tree for much longer. ”Alright, I’ll go. Thanks mate. I really appreciate it.” He ran past the unarmed man, trying to get as far away from this insanity as possible.
Wessex should have stunned them again. She absolutely should have. For all the queen's planning and cleverness, she forgets (or perhaps simply overlooked) the fact that the fae all share an attuned bond. All the while the pair have been speaking, planning. Though it is LEROY who controls fire, it is HISSY who controls stone. Swiftly, the pair do this: HISSY creates a flat rock-edge around the blade Wessex holds while LEROY tugs at the fire using his magic. Should the queen loosen her grip the fae will try and fly away from her, though assuming she keeps it, he'll merely try and target the flames in her direction. Meanwhile HISSY tries to anchor the queen to the ground with stone on her feet.
"Because you knocked me out! And..you...you bit me!" CLERIC replies in a shocked and hurt voice, staring at Samuel. Giving Sam a look and then pausing as if hearing something, CLERIC leaves Sam in the clearing and rushes to KITTY.
SMASHY watches Amun depart with a grunt before turning back to guard Sam.
Rexanna 's plan is a good one. Unfortunately her control of the fire wobbles just enough for KITTY to be able to disengage. As CLERIC appears, the big cat backs up to defensively protect the healer as pure white light pours from his hands onto the Mathair.
Your randomly decided order of initiative is: Wessex, Lucas, Sam, Rex, Amun. You have 48 hours to reply (if not faster, please). Include a summary at the bottom of your post.
LEROY attacks WESSEX and HITS
HISSY attacks WESSEX and MISSES
REXANNA attacks KITTY and MISSES
CLERIC HEALS the MATHAIR.
Defeat or kill the fae guards!
Closing HP
Mathair: 200
Kitty- 50% health
Smashy - 20% health
Leroy - 30% health
Hissy - 90% health
Cleric - 60% health
dont know where the lights are taking us but something in the night is dangerous
There’s an immediate reaction: Wessex flinches, dropping back from the flames, the shock of being burned causing her to simultaneously (reflexively) lashing out with another pulse. Then another, once she realizes what’s happening - in case the first one doesn’t work. A double whammy, to make sure they aren’t going anywhere.
Yeah, she had a moment of stupidity - of thinking the Fae were honorable, or perhaps at least operate on something like that, but this is war. Words only go so far and not everyone is like her (don’t worry, she won’t underestimate them again). Winning is the goal, and now they’ve given her an excuse to kill, for not heeding the warnings. As much as she could use Leroy’s fire-blood for the tree and it might be prudent to keep him alive, she’s pissed and he’s closest and perhaps easiest to reach, assuming her pulses struck true and he can’t fly off.
Without an inch of remorse the Wraith snarls, releasing both sets of claws and swipes viciously at the fire-wielding Fae, aiming to behead, but satisfied with anything that strikes true and draws blood. And then she comes for Hissy - leaping, darting towards him, arms outstretched to thrust up and into his torso. Trying to run the hopefully stunned Fae through with her claws, to show him that their stone and fire are no match for the Voice's upgrades.
She warned them. They should have listened.
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Wessex does a superquick double biopulse! Tries to behead Leroy with a swipe of her claws and also impale/run Hissy through with them.
09-30-2019, 05:50 PM (This post was last modified: 09-30-2019, 05:50 PM by Samuel.)
SAMUEL
Stretch out my life
And pick the seams out
Sam could have continued to argue with the Cleric, but it wasn't going to lead anywhere - while he was not usually good at self control, he managed to focus his attention on the vines around his ankles. He tried to pull at them, hoping that while the Cleric was distracted going over to their friend the spells intensity might lessen.
As he watch the fight continue (so much for peace talks) he couldn't help but notice The Voice had asked them to help her, but was now absent. It was becoming rather clear this was a difficult task, one that even Wessex, who he thought of as almost invincible, was finding difficult. They'd lost two members already. Looking towards the Mathair, where they had last seen any sign of the Voice, he would try to yell: "Lady Voice, please help us!"
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Sam tries to tug the vines off, then attempts to call to the voice for help
silver is your groan. her laugh. twin voices, twin vices
two sets of arrows
Oh no, no, no, no.
She thinks, grappled as she is. Her fire misses the striped fae before her, and with it, she can see the white light of the fae it protects, and she hisses through her teeth and bleeding shoulder. Eyes immediately drift for Amun, who’s departed into the darkness. But Sam is there still, and Wessex, and Rexanna begins to wonder if these are her true friends in the end of it all, before she focuses on the tree again and the Cleric.
Sam calls for the voice, and Wessex begins to move for what she can only assume to be the reason she’s called the Wraith. And Rexanna, herself, finds she’s proud of them both despite their predicament. So instead of focusing her draining power on Kitty, this time, she aims it toward Cleric, aiming to stop the healing, aiming to distract, while she tries to wiggle herself out of the tight grasp of the roots.
Rexanna tries to wiggle her way out of the tree roots and directs her fire to CLERIC.
With Wessex stats constantly increasing, the queen hits both of her targets with her bio-pulse, once again rendering them dizzy and nauseous. Despite LEROY'S struggles, the queen holds him fast and with a quick slice of her blades, lifeblood drains like dark water in the moonlight. HISSY's earth magic might have saved his friend had his attention not been strangled by the Wraith's bio-pulse, but there is no time to think of that now. As the queen lunges the fae tries to flail back. Conjuring an earthen wall as a shield, Wessex's claws strike through scraping painfully against his stomach as he stumbles back. Trying to tightly close his grip of earth around Wessex's arm to hold her there, his magic warbles and though tight, the queen will be able to pull herself free.
As Samuel calls out, the Voice responds in a strangled and distracted voice. I AM Sam! Get yourself out of there! She commands. Electricity sizzles from Mathair towards Sam, snapping at the vines around his legs and freeing him. Help the others! This will be over soon! It is the tree that needs to be defeated! KILL THE TREE Noticing this however, SMASHY advances on Sam, ax raised. Thrusting it down into the meaty portion of the ascended's leg.
Though Rexanna isn't able to break Mathair's hold of her, her fire does fly true. However with KITTY guarding the CLERIC, the fire strikes her instead. With a roar of pain, the fae is nearly knocked out of her feline body but stands her ground, adamant on protecting the healer at all costs. More light pours from CLERIC, giving strength back to the great tree.
Your randomly decided order of initiative is: Wessex, Lucas, Sam, Rex, Amun. You have 48 hours to reply (if not faster, please). Include a summary at the bottom of your post.
WESSEX attacks LEROY and HITS
WESSEX attacks HISSY and HITS
WESSEX attacks LEROY and KILLS HIM
WESSEX attacks HISSY and HITS
HISSY attacks WESSEX and MISSES
SMASHY attacks SAM and HITS
REX attacks KITTY and HITS
CLERIC HEALS MATHAIR.
Defeat or kill the fae guards!
Closing HP
Mathair: 240
Kitty- 50% health
Smashy - 20% health Leroy - 0% health
Hissy - 75% health
Cleric - 40% health
dont know where the lights are taking us but something in the night is dangerous
There’s her god-given direction, and Wessex wastes no time in obeying; pulling out from the earthen wall, she disregards Hissy entirely and sheathes her claws. Hopefully leaving him behind, she runs in the opposite direction, back to where her unseen comrades are… a little worse for the wear.
The Wraith swears under breath. Amun’s nowhere to be seen (and if he’s alive, he’ll find that the Queen doesn’t take kindly to being abandoned during a fight). Rex is tied up. Sam is there, but hurt - and the tree? The tree is being healed - or that’s what she assumes when she sees the white light pouring into it. Counting on the fact that Kitty maaaay not see her yet as she’s focused on Rex, Wessex pulls another two arrows out and aims for the Cleric. She lets them fly, hoping that they strike him (and if not him, then the cat). And then she’s on the move again - headed towards Rex and Sam - praying they can hold their own and fend off Smashy or free themselves or… something.
Anything. They desperately need to even the odds.
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Wessex leaves Hissy and runs back to the tree. Hoping that Kitty is distracted by Rex, she lets two arrows loose towards the Cleric/Kitty pair (aiming for Cleric, first and foremost). Then heads towards Rex and Sam.
The Voice freed him from the vines and Sam was ready to jump up and run into any fight for her, when suddenly there was an intense pain in his leg and he fell down with a shout, the wound hot and his eyes clouding over with instant tears. Turning, Sam saw Smashy standing over him - in an instant, perhaps inspired by the many swashbuckling adventure stories he'd read and fantasised about, he would try and use his knife to stab through Smashy's foot and into the ground, hoping the hard Deepfrost soil would fix the Fae to the forest floor long enough for him to get away.
If this worked, he would try to crawl (blinking away tears every time his hurt leg dragged on something) back to the main fight, invisible so he could see what was happening from the sidelines before immediately jumping in.
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Sam tries to stab Smashy's foot and affix them to the floor then tries to crawl back to everyone else.
silver is your groan. her laugh. twin voices, twin vices
two sets of arrows
The fire works, and she watches as it hits the feline fae, hissing once more under her breath that it had not been the cleric, whose white glowing hands still focus on the tree. She clenches her teeth, continuing to try and wiggle free when she hears the Voice, responding to Sam though they’re all can hear it, and her head snaps toward the tree.
Somewhere in the distance she can hear Sam’s scream, and her focus zones in on the tree, on the command from the voice, another attempt at sending her fire to the tree, praying that Wessex can keep them distracted and she doesn’t grow too tired. After all, she still has her last firework to send, and she tries her hardest to manage the exhaustion she can feel deep within her bones.
Rex sends her flame onto the tree and tries to wiggle out of the grasp again!
Conjuring a rock HISSY lobs it at Wessex. Though thanks to her speed in the darkness it goes wide. Unluckily the queen's first arrow misses CLERIC, but the second strikes him squarely in the shoulder. Spinning about, KITTY lunges for Wessex with her claws outstretched. Striking the queen in the chest KITTY's claws scrape against her armor and into her skin, though the damage is minute. Groaning, CLERIC falls to the ground, more healing light pouring into the tree. As this is happening, so close to the trunk, one of MATHAIR'S boughs sweep back and sends Wessex flying about 12 feet.
As Samuel strikes out for SMASHY his knife indeed goes through the leather of his shoe and into his foot. Though because it isn't a book, the fae is not held down by the blade. Instead, he strikes out at the retreating ascended, but as Sam goes invisible again, SMASHY's attack misses.
Rexanna 's attack strikes the tree with a red-hot flash and immediately she is let go. However creating fire so near to herself makes the fluid inside of her warble precariously.
Your randomly decided order of initiative is: Wessex, Lucas, Sam, Rex, Amun. You have 48 hours to reply (if not faster, please). Include a summary at the bottom of your post.
HISSY attacks WESSEX and MISSES
WESSEX attacks CLERIC and MISSES
WESSEX attacks CLERIC and HITS
KITTY attacks WESSEX and HITS
MATHAIR attacks WESSEX and HITS
SAM attacks SMASHY and HITS
SMASHY attacks SAM and MISSES
REX attacks MATHAIR and HITS
Defeat or kill the fae guards!
Closing HP
Mathair: 280
Kitty- 50% health
Smashy - 5% health Leroy - 0% health
Hissy - 75% health
Cleric - 18% health
dont know where the lights are taking us but something in the night is dangerous
She’d thought she was far enough away to necessitate an arrow attack, versus a knife attack, on the Cleric, but apparently she wasn’t far enough away to stay out of a tiger’s reach. And she’s getting sloppy. While Wessex doesn’t feel any of the pain from the Mathair’s easy toss or Kitty’s claws, she does feel weaker, like after all this running around, her body is taking a beating (and it has - all of their bodies have). “Lady!” she calls out as she scrambles up from the ground, “We need healing.” They’re fading - there’s too many Fae, the Cleric is reversing the fire damage, and Rex can’t keep using up her resources or she’ll burn out soon. Either that, or -
“ - or your electricity!” Now there’s an idea. Could the Voice send her electricity through the ground and into them, so they can send it zapping out to the Fae, to the tree?
The Queen doesn’t wait for an answer. If their Goddess is going to help, she can surely aid a briefly moving target. Running to Rex, she drops the adrenaline booster at her side with a quick “Not yet,” hoping the woman will recognize the device they found in the Infirmary and remember what it does. “Sam, you're up!” she yells to the invisible man, hoping he’ll have either the sense to pick up the arrow that missed the Cleric, or knock him out, or something, again. He’s done so well thus far, she thinks. He didn’t even run away. She’ll help him, however she can - maybe with a distraction? She doesn’t want to draw the tree’s attention again, so picking up some of the rocks Amun used, she hurls them at Kitthy to keep her focus on the two women.
But she hasn’t forgotten about Hissy or Smashy - Wessex has a biopulse ready, and if any Fae come close, she will let it loose.
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Wessex asks the Voice for either healing or electricity. Goes to Rex and gives her the adrenaline booster, then tries to distract Kitty with more rocks. Has a biopulse ready if any Fae come near her and Rex.
