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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Nikolai grits his teeth, temper rising when the shark bites Az. For a second another Ascended is in the Demi-god's place. Nikolai refuses to lose another part of the family to this creature.
He steps in front of Az, hoping to guard them from the shark's next attack. His upgrades metaphorically itch under his skin, urging him to action. Nikolai activates his energy shard upgrade once more and attempts once again to strike the shark. He wants this thing dead yesterday. And as no other plan seems to be working, keeping up the pressure with constant attacks seems like his best bet.
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Nikolai moves to stand between Az and the shark and attempts to hit the creature with his energy shard upgrade.
Type: Offensive | Level: Basic
Energy Shard | Through an upgrade in the wrist, the user can propel knife-shaped bursts of energy, up to 10ft
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There are times when the unseen can be even more dangerous than what our eyes behold
Luck is not on Azrael 's side as they begin to channel their abilities. Instead of creating a strong net capable of restraining a landshark, their magic produces an incredibly delicate (but beautiful!) version that looks as though some steel spider might have made it. In short, it's pretty, but useless.
With Nikolai being the only one not pressed up against the tree, it's him that the surfacing landshark tries to attack. However as the shark rises it does indeed get caught in the root system of the trees (read: rolls a critical fail). As it struggles, all attacks against it easily succeed, doing more damage given the shark's aggressive efforts to free itself. Blood pours from the creature as the light in its dark eyes gradually becomes dull, then flat, then altogether gone.
The creature is dead. Whether or not this is the same one which killed Bastien we'll never know. Maybe you've gotten justice for a friend or maybe you've killed an innocent creature. Either way, you will walk away with your lives, and each with a good assortment of landshark teeth if you want them, which can be fashioned into weapons.
Congratulations! You have killed the landshark and escaped with your lives! Feel free to leave a parting post if you like. Last person to post please put a FIN on it.
This thread counts as an RE encounter, a rare creature encounter, and a PQ+.
Darkeye looked at the dead animal and is glad that the fight has finally come to an end. "Is everyone okay?" Darkeye looks around to see how the others are doing. "That was not an easy fight. I think we should take the carcass back home and use it as we see fit. We can make jewelry or weapons out of the teeth and good clothes out of the skin. Bones, depending on how strong they are, can always be put to good use." Darkeye starts to bandage his wounds and takes a short breath. Then he brings the animal back to the Grounds.
04-28-2022, 09:07 PM (This post was last modified: 05-02-2022, 06:14 PM by Nikolai.)
Nikolai
Not all truths Belong to the light
Nikolai grins with satisfaction as the creature goes down. Even if they don't know for sure if it's the individual that killed Bastien, it was still a threat. A land shark in the Grounds was unacceptable. There were people here, members of his family, that wouldn't stand a chance against one if caught unawares. Heck, there were four of them here. And they'd barely managed to kill it. If one person was caught alone? They'd be dead like Bastien. Unless it was someone like Wessex that is.
Nikolai turns to the others, "I'm good. Everyone else ok?" As the others pull themselves together he approaches the shark's body and takes a few teeth. He'll let Darkeye take the shark back, but Nikolai prefers to take his share of the spoils now.
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Nikolai takes some teeth and lets Darkeye do what he wants with the rest.
