Training we're not that innocent
Wessex Theskyra
the Wraith
General of the Hollowed Grounds

Age: 47 | Height: 5'8'' | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds
Level: 12 - Strg: 61 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 61 - Luck: 58 - Int: 2
LOKI - Mythical - Dragon (Energy Blast)
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#1
I've embraced the torch passed to me
owned what I've been called to be
A sacrifice in the name of research. Or something like that. While the Wraith is pretty damn sure no one will be dying today, she’d be lying if she didn’t think there might be just the slightest possibility of massive damage. Massive damage that she’d volunteered herself for.

Are we sure Neron’s the only masochist in the family?

There’s an eerie sort of dramatic mist floating knee-high off the ground this morning, the trees more bare than leafed as Leafchange starts to wane. Though she can’t feel a surge of adrenaline, there is some sort of anticipation, an energy buzzing in her limbs that she knows to be her own sort of not-nerves. Dressed to move, she’s still as barefoot as she was yesterday; her feet know the earth here, they were hard and callused long before she Ascended and there’s something about coming back to it that feels right.

When the Lullaby appears, he’ll be met with a fanged, eager smile.
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hello destiny
WESSEX
Remi Taliesin
the Bastion


Age: 31 | Height: 5'11 | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Torchline
Level: 15 - Strg: 68 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 100 - Luck: 93 - Int: 3
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#2
right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up
He's considered trying to sneak up on her but decides against it. For one, he thinks her senses are keen enough to hear him coming. More importantly though, were this for real, he'd hope that they'd meet face to face. Wearing just his magical t-shirt that allows his wings to easily stretch from his back (though they aren't out, just now), and a pair of trousers, Remi looks as if he's just stumbled into this chance encounter.

Remi offers the Queen a comparatively sweet smile. He's never faced an opponent like Wessex before and he'd be lying if he said that his predatory side wasn't entirely riled up at the prospect of taking her down. Who is stronger? Who is faster? Who is more clever?

Time will tell.

A massive manticore comprised of ghostly sinew appears behind the Queen, roaring defiantly as it charges toward her. Hoping its size will partially restrict where Wessex can run, the alchemist darts forward with hands turned into claws, aiming a swipe across her throat.

Let the games begin.



Magic: Ghost Shape | Can summon the ghostly echoes of his former shifts (lion, raccoon, octopus), non-mythical creatures in his current biome, and a manticore. These will last for 3 post per thread, cause fear and cold damage; the manticore ghost can also cause poison damage.
Type: Dark | Rank: Mastered
The Lullaby
Speaks with a thick Italian accent.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.
Wessex Theskyra
the Wraith
General of the Hollowed Grounds

Age: 47 | Height: 5'8'' | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds
Level: 12 - Strg: 61 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 61 - Luck: 58 - Int: 2
LOKI - Mythical - Dragon (Energy Blast)
Played by: Astor Offline
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#3
I've embraced the torch passed to me
owned what I've been called to be
Gods, she almost laughs at the saccharine innocence of his expression - almost - and only for a moment. If she were Attuned, she might have half-shifted, but as she is most definitely not, the Wraith tunes into the world around her, the familiar and the unfamiliar sounds, the disturbances in the air and the - yes the roar behind her.

Nothing good can come from that; Wessex doesn’t even wait to see what it is, assuming it has something to do with a manticore (and from Sunjata’s description, that’s a heavy nope on facing it). Better to take out the source of whatever it is, even if it leaves her back open to an attack.

Chop off the head and the body will follow.

Instead, Wessex full on sprints towards The Lullaby, releasing her own talons. She tries to lock claws - and eyes with him - then use her laser-laden gaze to stun the man. Unaware of his massive strength, she aims only for the element of speed and surprise - and this close range, she may or may not be hoping for some kind of heat damage to such a sensitive area.

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Magic: Angry Eyes | Can shoot laser beams from her eyes. Target must be within 30ft. Deals heat damage to soft surfaces, with a 50% chance to disorient characters if the light goes in their eyes (a dex roll on her part). Can also cut through small objects, and heat medium-sized objects.
Type: Dark | Rank: Upgraded
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hello destiny
WESSEX
Remi Taliesin
the Bastion


Age: 31 | Height: 5'11 | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Torchline
Level: 15 - Strg: 68 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 100 - Luck: 93 - Int: 3
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#4
right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up
Note: I'm rolling this spar for us as if it were official, so if things look like they're powerplaying or whatever, it's only because Astor and I know what hits and what doesn't.

It's metal on bone, and though the Queen is quite the predator herself these days, in moments such as this one the Lullaby is more than happy to surrender control to his more primitive nature. Meeting her claws with his and shrugging them off, it's perhaps this that causes her heated stare to go wide as his claws dig into her. Not before the burning white-hot of whatever is pouring from her eyes bores into him though. Somewhere deep down he can smell the singeing of his eyebrows and his beard, but it's muddled behind the bright pain of what feel like claws against his own throat.

But there's no blood. There aren't even any claws, seeing that he's thrown her off.

Hissing in a surprised breath as one of his hands moves to his throat, he glares with confusion at the Queen but only for a second before launching straight at her.

And I do mean straight at her. Aiming to collide directly into her, the Lullaby attempts to throw the Wraith's soul from her body.



So Wessex dodges the manticore's attack. Because it doesn't have HP, her splash-back does nothing. Remi's second attack hits for 30 damage. (Which splashed back on him for 60pts of damage)

Rolled a contested strength check since W tries to lock claws with R. He's easily able to shake her off.

Her attack hits for 20pts of damage, but she doesn't stun him.

That puts their HP at

Remi: 505/585
Wessex: 298/328



Magic: Soul Strike | If successful, knocks the soul out of the body. An out of body soul can't affect its environment for 1 turn during combat, or for 20 seconds in normal threads. (The attack is successful if Remi's STR stat is +10 greater than his opponents END stat. Based on the degree of failure, the target may experience numbness, dizziness, disorientation). Range of 30 ft
Type: Dark | Rank: Mastered
The Lullaby
Speaks with a thick Italian accent.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.
Wessex Theskyra
the Wraith
General of the Hollowed Grounds

Age: 47 | Height: 5'8'' | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds
Level: 12 - Strg: 61 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 61 - Luck: 58 - Int: 2
LOKI - Mythical - Dragon (Energy Blast)
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#5
I've embraced the torch passed to me
owned what I've been called to be
Pushed off - and so easily, too - her growl of surprise (or dismay?) comes as she’s rebuffed and then unable to block his next attack. As he breaks through her defenses she knows its coming and grins fiercely through his push forward as claws rake across her skin, drawing lines and leaving thin ropes of fluid flowing freely down her chest. It could have been bad - and maybe it is worse for Remi, but in the heat of battle such sensations are capped by adrenaline.

Maybe the element of surprise has given her a breath to collect herself; she spins to the right, narrowly avoiding whatever he’s trying to do by launching himself at her. Wessex responds by trying to hit him with a biopulse and then attempting to use his own shadow to trip him or tangle his feet.

An enraged screech echoes in the otherwise deathly silent area. It seems no one informed Loki that her bonded was going to be fighting for fun today and the little black dragon hurls herself with as much speed as she can muster towards the entangled demigods.

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Type: Dark
Bio Disruption Upgrade (Mastered) | A pulse that causes disorientation, rapid heart rate, dry mouth, dizziness, and an increased temperature in living creatures with a complex nervous system (humans, animals like dogs, horses, birds). Effects creatures in a 20ft radius, symptoms are more noticeable the closer the creature is to the upgrade.

Magic: Shadow Steal | Can control the shadows cast by fellow ascendeds (5 at a time), or other human-characters within 10ft of her. Not only can she move them, but they can also effect physical objects around her (within the natural range of the shadow, up to medium-height/weight).
Type: Dark | Rank: Mastered

Magic: Healing | Minor cuts/abrasions/bruising heal nearly instantly. More severe injuries (broken bones, muscle tears, etc) heal at 50% the speed. During PQ+/KQs, heals at basic levels, with a chance to heal at higher levels depending on injury/luck.
Type: Light | Rank: Basic

Loki has not yet entered the battle but is very close and can be considered fair game
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WESSEX
Remi Taliesin
the Bastion


Age: 31 | Height: 5'11 | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Torchline
Level: 15 - Strg: 68 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 100 - Luck: 93 - Int: 3
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#6
right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up
The air warbles and bends, and the alchemist can feel a vibration hum through his bones that is decidedly unpleasant. The cry from Loki above has his predatory instincts stirring, and though he's helpless to resist the shift, that doesn't mean he doesn't welcome it. Lurching forward as his body expands and changes, the Lullaby can feel himself relaxing into the powerful muscles that coil beneath golden fur.

Roaring loudly, the sound a challenge both to the dragon somewhere above and the queen with whom he's so easily matched, the Lullaby again tries to simply attack her with teeth and claws rather than by magical means. Will fluid taste as satisfying as blood? Will the Queen's bones crack the way animals' do? Can his leonine tongue peel the skin from her bones the same way he could any other carcass? In his right mind, whatever that is, the alchemist would never wonder at such things. But just now with his blood singing sweetly in his ears, the manticore within certainly wants to know.



Wessex's biopulse MISSES (it's a contested end. check to basically see if he shrugs off the effects of it since he's in its radius), and because Remi doesn't cast a shadow (it's one of his passive magics, I should have included sooner, sorry), her shadow magic has no effect! Wessex is able to heal herself. Remi's attack of her will narrowly miss.

That puts their HP at

Remi: 505/585
Wessex: 318/328



Magic: Shadowless (passive) | Does not have or cast a shadow
Type: Dark | Rank: Basic
The Lullaby
Speaks with a thick Italian accent.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.
Wessex Theskyra
the Wraith
General of the Hollowed Grounds

Age: 47 | Height: 5'8'' | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds
Level: 12 - Strg: 61 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 61 - Luck: 58 - Int: 2
LOKI - Mythical - Dragon (Energy Blast)
Played by: Astor Offline
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#7
I've embraced the torch passed to me
owned what I've been called to be
Without magic to copy, without something she can throw back in his face, the Wraith and the Lullaby seem to be stuck in a repetitive attack-dodge cycle, with neither of them able to really land something. She has no illusions about his strength, about what would happen if he catches her - so - perhaps the key is to go where he cannot? Or rather, where he least expects? Wessex tries to tell Loki what she wants the dragon to do, emphasizing that she had better be fast and come in moving so that the manticore’s tail doesn’t hit her. As she side-steps this time, narrowly avoiding the manticore’s claws and teeth, the Ascended disappers.

You know what’s funny about male lions? They’ve got big, dangling balls. They’re just… there. Hanging. Like fruit just waiting to be twisted and plucked.

She’s not going for the balls right now, they’re such a small target compared to the entirety of the abdomen, but it is what she might see when she tries to place herself underneath the manticore, head between its back legs, hoping that perhaps in the sudden confusion of her appearance there, of all places she can thrust upward with her talons and impale him.

Loki, in the mean time, attempts to act as a diversion, circling above Remi and then tucking her wings in tightly to plummet towards her bonded’s foe and hit him with an energy blast.

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Magic: Teleportation | Can teleport to any board that Wessex has already visited, OR can teleport to an adjacent board that she's visited with someone else. If used within the same board, requires a 1-post cool down period between uses.
Type: Grey | Rank: Mastered

Loki uses her energy blast!
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WESSEX
Remi Taliesin
the Bastion


Age: 31 | Height: 5'11 | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Torchline
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#8
right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up
It's a clever thing that the Wraith does. Whether it's cleverness or just sheer brute force against the odds of finally landing a hit that does it, hardly matters.

Wessex disappears, and though Remi knows he needs to be on the lookout for where she's gone, with a dragon circling and diving above, his attention is necessarily diverted. Loki's energy blast strikes him, not that he's made much of an attempt to move. What Remi thought was going to happen, given it's a tactic he's used himself before, was that the dragon was aiming to herd him into a trap. If he jumped back, surely that would put him right where Wessex wanted him.

Little did he know she'd already done that herself.

Her claws dig into his soft belly, and its more instinct than careful thought that guides what the alchemist does next. Knowing better than to move away for fear of her claws doing even more damage, the Lullaby instead all but falls on top of the Wraith. Attempting to corral her with his paws to keep her close against him, and then spin onto his back, his scorpion tail will try to sting her as he all but cuddles her against him.



Loki's energy blast and Wessex's attack hit.

Remi's grapple of Wessex fails.

That puts their HP at

Remi: 449/585
Wessex: 318/328
The Lullaby
Speaks with a thick Italian accent.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.
Wessex Theskyra
the Wraith
General of the Hollowed Grounds

Age: 47 | Height: 5'8'' | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds
Level: 12 - Strg: 61 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 61 - Luck: 58 - Int: 2
LOKI - Mythical - Dragon (Energy Blast)
Played by: Astor Offline
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#9
I've embraced the torch passed to me
owned what I've been called to be
Wessex’s immediate thought after stabbing Remi is that perhaps she’d misunderstood the name of the game (though that wildly jabbing scorpion tail says otherwise) and beat the shit out of each other meant everything up until trying to skewer someone.

But she knows she meant to do this. She meant to send Remi a message, albeit a coded one. She may not be able to pin him down anymore, but she is fast and she is clever and has been extraordinarily lucky lately. Luck is nothing to be counted on, but for now it helps her serve up a reminder. She is dangerous.

Now, remember those balls we talked about earlier? She attempts to keep her lasers on them, heating up terribly delicate flesh while trying to avoid getting her head stabbed. It's really the only part of her that can move now.

“Wanna call it?” she suggests from underneath his large, heavy frame, thinking that if Remi needed healing, he should probably get it sooner rather than later.
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Wessex uses angry eyes to try and burn Remi’s balls and suggests ending the spar.

Magic: Angry Eyes | Can shoot laser beams from her eyes. Target must be within 30ft. Deals heat damage to soft surfaces, with a 50% chance to disorient characters if the light goes in their eyes (a dex roll on her part). Can also cut through small objects, and heat medium-sized objects.
Type: Dark | Rank: Upgraded
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hello destiny
WESSEX
Remi Taliesin
the Bastion


Age: 31 | Height: 5'11 | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: Torchline
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#10
right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up
There is heat in places that demand care and concern for this level of danger, and for all the things Wessex is, careful of his balls she is not. For good reason of course, but still.

With a yelp that's entirely undignified but predictable, Remi scrambles off of the demigoddess, awkwardly shifting as he does so with his hands between his thighs. "-fu—c—" Hissing in a breath, entirely undone by this specific brand of pain as any man might be, Remi nods in breathless agreement.

"I'd say that was unfair but..." Through clenched teeth, the alchemist exhales a stilted breath. "..it wasn't." He finishes shakily, trying to flash Wessex as understanding and congratulatory grin as he can manage.

Finally able to stand, Remi extends a hand toward the Wraith. That they are on different sides of all of this is mere happenstance, and up until now, the Lullaby has had nothing but the utmost respect for the ascended. He hopes it doesn't change—on both sides.

~FIN
The Lullaby
Speaks with a thick Italian accent.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.


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