From being an Abandoned who had rarely left the Hollowed Grounds, to embracing the call of adventure, to dying and being reborn first as an Ascended and then as an Ancient, Maea has gone through quite the amount of changes in her life. One thing remains common, though, in her attempts to find out just where she belongs; she’s always had a craving for knowledge which has brought her to so many places and to meet so many people here in Caido. We can’t wait to see what else is in store for her!
Congratulations, Maea!
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Court of the Fallen was created in October of 2018 by Odd, Honey, and Crooked.
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"Be careful--" Isla frowns softly to Azrael, even as they attempt to bribe the green dragon with a toy. They're a sweet kid, but Isla has been around the block enough for LongNight monsters to slither under her skin and choke her from the inside out, so she's not entirely as trusting. "They don't look as though they're going to be much trouble..." Especially the fat green dragon.
"Listen, we're not going to bother you, but we really have to find someone." Something? She's not sure what the Prince counts as. Unless otherwise stopped, Isla will try to step past the dragon with Azrael and continue to follow the trail of slime.
Isla tries to step around the green dragon with Az to keep following the slime trail. She still has her scalpel blades out.
Type: Grey
Prosthetic Scalpel Blades | Three sharpened scalpel blades made of an unknown lightweight metal have been embedded in the pads of Isla's fingers. By flexing certain muscles in her arms and hands, the blades can extend and retract.
She - i.e. me - also belatedly remembers her citizenship ability:
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“Yeah?” Nate calls after the purple dragon after yet another little hissy fit. “Bacha ma culo, scaly!” His arm crackles away into nothing again, Nate confident enough with the two little dragons to shift his focus back to their ragtag group. A soft smile spreads over his face as he wraps a shoulder around Azrael and gently starts to tug them in the direction of the slime, the task at hand suddenly remembered, when the ground shakes, and the aforementioned hissy fit takes on a more sinister slant.
Nate stiffens and all but drags Azrael along, his eyes focused in the direction of the shifting and his body carefully placed between it and the others. “We should keep moving, yeah.” He sucks his teeth and narrows his eyes at the dragons, suspicious of them all over again. “We don’t want to meet whatever that is.”
Nate agrees that they should keep moving and drags Azrael along with them, he does not wanna meet the big thing
A pinwheel? Snorffeling its way toward Azrael, the green dragon stretches out an ethereal claw towards the shiny trinket. Just before taking it however, it seems to reconsider. Tapping Az with a claw, the demigod will feel a jolt (which Nate absorbs half of, and luckily as you'll see). Wrapped in its tail is Az's can of monster spray. Interested by this, the purple dragon abandons Nate and floats toward Az. Tapping them, Az....disappears with painful bzzzAP!
Oops. (Az is now about 100ft away, entirely alone with no notable landmarks. Everything is just white in every direction).
In the distance, the big thing lumbers closer.
Welcome to the Relic KQ!
Because this has plot ramifications, it (and all subsequent relic KQs) will be scaled based on level and more difficult than normal). Remember to include a summary at the bottom of your post with all action taken. If weapons/upgrades/abilities/items/shifts/etc are used, please include their desc. from your profile at the bottom of your post as well. If you don't do this, they won't be taken into account!
Your randomly assigned order is: Azrael, Isla, Nate You have 48 hours to reply.
They offer the trinket to the green dragon, about to stand and move past with Isla and Nate, when the green dragon almost reaches out to take the pinwheel. They prod Azrael instead and it’s a zap unlike anything they’ve felt, sensors flaring off the charts and it has a gasp arising from them, a slight stumble when they try to stand.
The purple dragon zips over to them and with one touch they’re alone and their sensors are sparking and they’re panicking, torn between picking a direction to run in the hopes it’ll bring them closer to the safety of the group or staying put. So they opt for a bit of both, a few hazardous steps toward where they think the group is, though they can’t see anything, and the immediate activation of their healing to try and get the sensors to quiet down.
Azrael takes a few steps toward where they think Isla and Nate are but stops to activate their healing!
Magic: Repair | Summons an electrical field from Azrael, Ascended within 60ft of them are repaired 30pts.
Type: Light | Rank: Mastered
Say, times are hard, you get this far, but it ain't the way that you want
Isla isn't fast enough to catch Azrael as he's zapped - twice - and completely disappears. With wide eyes, she casts a sidelong glance at Nate. "Apparently these things aren't trying to be friendly," she half growls. That's fine, though - it means that Isla doesn't have to pretend to be either.
Raising hands already tipped by claws, she takes a swipe at the green dragon, fully intending to reciprocate the blow dealt to Az. Speaking of which... "Azrael!" she calls into the ether, hoping they are just... elsewhere, rather than having been evaporated or something.
Isla swipes at the green dragon with her claws and calls out for Azrael!
Type: Grey
Prosthetic Scalpel Blades | Three sharpened scalpel blades made of an unknown lightweight metal have been embedded in the pads of Isla's fingers. By flexing certain muscles in her arms and hands, the blades can extend and retract.
She also has:
The world is new to you, and you to it. During PQ/PQ+/KQs/Drops, you roll with advantage on luck-based rolls and receive an extra name during drops. (In order to use this, make sure to note the ability at the bottom of each post)
The first jolt surprises Nate almost as much as it enrages him, a sharp “Hey!” leaving him as he steps towards Azrael. The second jolt just enrages him, the young Demi-god vanishing.
There’s nothing he can do to get them back, Isla already calling out into the misty void. Even angry as he is, Nate thinks better of adding more to the echoing around them, concern about the rumbling swimming in the back of his mind.
What he can do is snatch at the reptilian purple fuck, holographic arms appearing and trying to take a firm grip of it. If he can pin its wings and its head, he can keep it from escaping, or chirping, or breathing more of that fucked up lightning.
Nate summons his extra arms and tries to grab the purple dragon, specifically focusing on pinning its wings and ‘muzzling’ it’s snout
Magic: Finger in Everything | Nate possesses the ability to create four extra arms in the same style as the Voice’s holograms. The arms share Nate's strength stat and can be summoned/dismissed at will. They are able to reach a radius of 30ft.
Type: Dark | Rank: Mastered
Azrael heals, and in the distance, they'll be able to hear Isla 's voice.
Swiping at the green dragon, Isla 's claws will strike through the air, just as Nate fails to grab onto the purple dragon. Both creatures seem to laugh at the ascended's misfortunes, before lunging out at their respective attackers. Licking Isla 's hand, the Remedy will find herself suddenly vanished, reappearing 100ft in the opposite direction. Now Az and Nate, and Nate and Isla are 100 ft apart (with Az and Isla now being 200 ft apart). The purple dragon does its best to coil around Nate 's arm, but the demigod is too quick.
The lumbering sound grows louder.
Only Nate can see the slime trail.
Az will have some idea of which direction Isla (was), but Isla will have nothing to guide her.
Welcome to the Relic KQ!
Because this has plot ramifications, it (and all subsequent relic KQs) will be scaled based on level and more difficult than normal). Remember to include a summary at the bottom of your post with all action taken. If weapons/upgrades/abilities/items/shifts/etc are used, please include their desc. from your profile at the bottom of your post as well. If you don't do this, they won't be taken into account!
Your randomly assigned order is: Azrael, Isla, Nate You have 48 hours to reply.
They heal and they breathe a sigh of relief with it (something that’s more learned than it is instinctual, from spending time with their father), and as they reassess their thoughts and what to do next, they hear Isla’s call. Their head shoots up immediately and their body begins to move while their mind catches up and soon enough, they’re in a sprint where they’re aiming to try and get to where they’d heard Isla, assuming Nate is nearby.
“Isla?! Nate?!” They yell out – perhaps the loudest they ever had, in an attempt that if perhaps they can’t find them that they might be able to be found. All the while, panic starts to settle in their gut and all they can do is keep moving, hoping that they manage to get in the vicinity to see their group.
Azrael hears Isla’s call and starts running toward it, yelling out to Nate and Isla hoping that one of them can hear them!
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Say, times are hard, you get this far, but it ain't the way that you want
A snarl leaves Isla's throat - a rarity to be sure - as she's suddenly nowhere near her group. Promising herself that she's not going to give mercy to any dragon, purple or green or otherwise, in the near future, she glances around and attempts to get her bearings. And there's nothing to see, really, so she's forced to rely on her hearing instead.
And she hopes what she hears is the sound of a voice distantly shouting (and gods, but she hopes it's in the right direction). "Nate? Az!" she yells back, keeping her claws out and her footsteps as quiet as possible as she hurries back towards the group. Or deeper into danger. Or both, maybe.
Isla tries to follow the sound of Azrael's voice.
Type: Grey
Prosthetic Scalpel Blades | Three sharpened scalpel blades made of an unknown lightweight metal have been embedded in the pads of Isla's fingers. By flexing certain muscles in her arms and hands, the blades can extend and retract.
She also has:
The world is new to you, and you to it. During PQ/PQ+/KQs/Drops, you roll with advantage on luck-based rolls and receive an extra name during drops. (In order to use this, make sure to note the ability at the bottom of each post)
Another zap, and then he’s alone with a duo of mocking reptilian faces and some unknown threat coming closer and closer. Nate grits his teeth, his nose wrinkling with the force of the snarl that spits out of him. The green dragon isn’t as much of a threat, the purple one though? That’s the one he reaches for again, no longer concerned about restraining it. Now he just wants to grab it out of the sky and slam it to the ground until it’s too broken to try any of its shitty little tricks.
“Don’t shout!” The word roar out of him with a growl he has to swallow back down. “Just come to me, okay?” His tone is more even this time, the growl replaced with a grim seriousness. He’s the only one by the trail, and even if they don’t need it for the Prince they still need it for getting the fuck out of here. A whistle leaves him, a two edged weapon that makes him a beacon and activates his arrow, one that he sends hurtling for the purple dragon’s wings.
Nate tries to grab the purple dragon and slam it to the ground, tells Az & Isla to shut up and come to his voice/whistling, and whistles to try and send his arrow through the purple dragons wings.
Magic: Finger in Everything | Nate possesses the ability to create four extra arms in the same style as the Voice’s holograms. The arms share Nate's strength stat and can be summoned/dismissed at will. They are able to reach a radius of 30ft.
Type: Dark | Rank: Mastered
Type: Dark
Everywhere Arrow | A sleek, obsidian arrow. Controlled by whistling, the arrow is moved and directed via a mental link with the user. Range of 15ft, works with Ascended only.
Azrael runs, and runs. They make it until they're about 40ft away from Nate. Similarly, Isla will make it 40ft from Nate as well, or 80ft from Azrael.
As Nate swipes at the purple dragon, the whispy creature slithers out of his grasp before wrapping itself around his face and zipCHOIN!K finds himself face to face with the thing that had been making all the noise. Where he is in relation to the others he won't know. All he'll see is an expanse of white, and one large fucking dragon staring down at him. A sickly yellow colour, the dragon opens its jaws and spews a stream of acidic gas in the direction of the ascended, which Nate is able to dodge.
Welcome to the Relic KQ!
Because this has plot ramifications, it (and all subsequent relic KQs) will be scaled based on level and more difficult than normal). Remember to include a summary at the bottom of your post with all action taken. If weapons/upgrades/abilities/items/shifts/etc are used, please include their desc. from your profile at the bottom of your post as well. If you don't do this, they won't be taken into account!
Your randomly assigned order is: Azrael, Isla, Nate You have 48 hours to reply.
They run and run, hearing Nate’s voice in the distance and they’re nearly positive they’re going in the correct direction. So they keep it up, their voice bit back behind their teeth, hoping to catch up with Isla and Nate, unsure where to go from here if more dragons kept deciding to zap and shock them into different places.
Perhaps they should have taken Wessex up on that offer. At least maybe they’d be a bit more useful. At the very least they have healing, but it’s kept locked within them until they need it again, or perhaps one of their group mates will.
Azrael keeps running the same direction hoping to meet back up with Isla and Nate!
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Say, times are hard, you get this far, but it ain't the way that you want
Just come to me, Nate says, and although the demigod isn't actually where his voice last sounded, Isla does her best to follow his instructions regardless. With her claws still bared and frustration marring her expression, she tries as best she can to peer through the fog, engaging in her optical upgrade as well, however useless it might be. (3ft is still better than nothing right?).
"Don't touch the purple dragon," she mutters to herself, though if she comes across any other coloured reptile in the mist, she'll absolutely take a swipe at it. Her eyes are peeled, too, to try and locate the trail of slime they'd been following at the beginning of this whole mess.
Isla engages her optical upgrade (lol?) and tries to find Nate and Azrael, heading in the direction of Nate's voice. She'll try to avoid the purple dragon, but if she encounters any others she'll take a swipe at them! She's also trying to find the slime trail.
Type: Grey
Optical Enhancement (Upgraded) | Allows the user to see in both x-ray and infrared to a depth of 3ft.
Type: Grey
Prosthetic Scalpel Blades | Three sharpened scalpel blades made of an unknown lightweight metal have been embedded in the pads of Isla's fingers. By flexing certain muscles in her arms and hands, the blades can extend and retract.
The world is new to you, and you to it. During PQ/PQ+/KQs/Drops, you roll with advantage on luck-based rolls and receive an extra name during drops. (In order to use this, make sure to note the ability at the bottom of each post)
“Are you fucking serious?!” Nate’s not even upset about finding the source of the fuck off rumbling, not as much as he is upset about losing the chance to wring a scaly purple neck. He dances out of the way of a stream of yellow gas and lets the gears in his head click together for a moment before they spin, though whether they’re actually connected to anything is something else entirely.
He steps back, careful to stay ready to move at a moments notice, and looks up at the great dragon, bright eyes narrowed suspiciously. “Are you the fuckin’ Prince?” It’s a thiyght that seems less likely the more he thinks on it, but he doesn’t know how else the pieces they have fit together. “Even if you’re not, can you be goddamned civil? I really don’t wanna have to kill you.” He will though, he has a stolen shift under his skin just begging to come out and a boiling over pot of rage in his chest.
Nate shouts once, then asks the dragon if it’s the Prince and if it can be civil, but he is ready to dodge again/shift
