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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they should have checked the ashes of the women they burned alive
That’s so fucking cool was a passing thought and whim. What an awe-inspiring sight. Melita could probably admit, much later on, that she was mildly envious of Evie’s shark riding capabilities. Jaw slackened slightly, before recalling, remembering, what they were actually here to do. Perhaps the mage would have an ability to control it or something, make it easier to maul. Or just a lot more feasible vantage point.
Regardless, from the Honeybee’s current position, she notched another arrow, electric this time, listening to the snap, the sizzle, the crackle in her hands before pulling the strand, aiming for the landshark once more. And then, of course, she narrowed her eyes, offering a whisper of channeling. “Ludo, could you help us?”
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Melita shoots an electric arrow at the landshark and channels Ludo for assistance.
Accepted Channeling: Allows an Accepted to channel a deity or lesser spirit during a time of crisis (1x a season)
Type: Light | Rank: Upgraded
Type: Light | Style: Offensive | Level: Basic
Bowstring Bracelet | At first this bracelet appears only as a length of intricately braided bowstring. But with an arrow in hand, upon miming the action of knocking and drawing it, the user will feel a bow beneath their fingers, as if it was there all along.
Type: Dark | Style: Offensive | Level: Basic
Fire/Lightning/Ice Quiver | A magical quiver with two compartments. In one, it turns any arrow placed within into a flaming projectile when shot. In the other, the arrow becomes imbued with electricity. (Made by Remi)
because it takes a single wild ember to bring a whole wildfire to life
Evie has wrangled sheep, sulky brothers, and magical training dummies. That has in no way prepared her for riding Caido’s biggest landshark. But once you’ve stuck your foot that deep in the shit, you might as well call your pants a loss and shit those too.
Okay crassness aside, Evie does what anyone would naturally do. She pulls another knife, tries to stab it as deep into the flesh at the base of the fin as possible (given her companions are shooting in her general direction, she’d like to avoid the fin itself), and holds on with all her might and body weight combined. Hoping the landshark’s intrinsic body motions will cause the dagger to tear and rend as Evie slides. Preparing to let go and utilize her earth magic the second the landshark appears ready to dive to try and get the hell off it.
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Evie pulls another dagger and attempts to stab it into the base of the fin/spine area and hangs on, hoping the landsharks movement will cause the dagger to tear as she slides. She prepares her Earth magic to rise up and catch her if the landshark tries to dive (and her regional bonus for good measure).
Earth Manipulation: Can manipulate the earth. Must be within a 30ft radius. Control is excellent.
Type: Grey | Rank: Upgraded
Halo has hardened you against her weather and her terrain. Once per PQ/PQ+/KQ/Drop, you can ignore an environmental effect that would otherwise hinder you (rough terrain, cold, wind, etc).
"That probably isn't going to end well." Safrin muses from just behind Maeve. With a lavender laugh, the goddess shoots a look toward the Landshark and sends two bolts of starlight towards it, aiming for the creature's eyes.
Running her fingers through the Nightshade's hair, Safrin winks and vanishes.
"Heeeeey, I was called first!" Ludo absolutely was not, but for the purposes of being petulant, it will say whatever it needs to say. It, of course, appears not in a bEaUtIfUL gOwN or a spray of stars, but draped around Melita's shoulder like a dirty rag.
"I can do that too. Get 'em, sharkies!" And, summoned by the herald, the spirits of the three landsharks that Daddy Landshark has just eaten rise up and snap at its body. Even Stevens and all that. With its task completed, Ludo pats Mel on the head and disappears again.
LUDO
Braved the forests, braved the stone
Braved the icy winds and fire
Braved and beat them on my own
There are times when the unseen can be even more dangerous than what our eyes behold
Well aren't you intelligent little beans? Safrin Safrins, Ludo Ludos, and neither Melita nor Maeve have time to notch or release arrows this round (sorry, ladies). It's with a keening shriek that rumbles and trembles across the desert that the strike to Daddy Landshark's eyes hits true, disorientating and blinding it.
Which is where Darkeye's landshark blood comes in very handy. It's only a smidgen of blood and it isn't a long way that he can throw it, but it's enough to stay the shark from attacking this round - it's too busy blindly following the scent.
As for Evie? By the skin of her teeth, her dagger strikes true, though in the large scale of things the shark thinks of it as little more than an irritation. It's a bit busy.
Good thing she's managed to hold on, though, because she'd not have had time to prepare her earth magic this round. And unfortunately, falling from a great height does not constitute an environmental effect, so the regional feat would have been useless too.
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Darkeye's training against the dragons gets him thinking. The question is could he apply it here? There was only one way to find out. The shark was blinded, so he ran towards it and got ready to jump right into the shark's eye and work his way from there into the shark's throat. It was a huge risk but there was not much he could do. He had neither a ranged weapon with him nor was he a great help to the others, he should just stand by. But he decided against the plan - he was no longer the man he used to be. He took his dagger and threw it in the direction of the shark he just wanted to make him bleed as much as possible. Sharks were cannibals. If he bled enough, the place would soon be crawling with land sharks.
Darkeye stays at a distance and tries to keep the distance the same and throws his dagger.
Safrin appears in a twinkling of stars and her voice is sweet in her ear, fingers brushing through the Nightshade’s hair with a sigh. ”Thank you, Safrin.” Maeve breathes in relief as the starbolts lash out and blind the Daddy Shark in a flash. The Nightshade draws back her bow after activating her bangle, releasing it in a rush as Aidon swoops down for another attack against the Daddy Shark now that he’s sufficiently distracted.
Making sure to move out of the path of the Landshark to ensure she doesn’t end up in its line of attack. Maeve grabs her next arrow from her quiver and prepares for her next attack. ”Evie, get out of there!”
Maeve shoots at the shark with her normal bow, activates her bangle, and moves out of the way.
Aidon uses his fire breath attack and flies out of reach after attacking.
Type: Grey | Style: Defensive | Level: Basic
Starlight Bangle | When worn, gives the user +2 to a dexterity roll during a PQ+/KQ. One post cool-down.
I'm undone about to burst at my seams 'Cause I am picturing you beside me So let me be everything that you need
they should have checked the ashes of the women they burned alive
“Thank you Ludo,” as the deity swept by, unleashing revived landsharks, for the moment, a semblance of pride and contentment welling inside her. And then it all dissipated again, leaving them back to business. Maeve’s warning prompted her to deliver a second one towards Evie, as she began pulling back along her bowstring, snagging at a favored arrow. “And out of the way!” Because they were going to be unleashing once more, and Melita had already been through a stint of deadly, friendly fire before, thank you very much.
She had no need to feel guilty over a damned landshark.
The snap and crackle of the electric arrow sizzled along the strand, and she pulled, tugged, aimed, and then loosened, permitting the armament to fly amidst its brethren, striving to hit the massive beast.
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Melita yells at Evie and shoots an electric arrow at the landshark.
Type: Light | Style: Offensive | Level: Basic
Bowstring Bracelet | At first this bracelet appears only as a length of intricately braided bowstring. But with an arrow in hand, upon miming the action of knocking and drawing it, the user will feel a bow beneath their fingers, as if it was there all along.
Type: Dark | Style: Offensive | Level: Basic
Fire/Lightning/Ice Quiver | A magical quiver with two compartments. In one, it turns any arrow placed within into a flaming projectile when shot. In the other, the arrow becomes imbued with electricity. (Made by Remi)
because it takes a single wild ember to bring a whole wildfire to life
If she wasn’t holding on with all her might, Evie might waste breath shouting back that she’s not exactly wanting to be on the massive landshark. But seeing as this time - as made evident by Melita’s yell, which is massively helpful when Evie can’t see past the flying dirt and huge fin - aerial attacks are coming into play, the Evergreen decides now is the best time to jump for it.
Abandoning her knife she rolls onto her back and lets go, hoping to slide down the back of the landshark to get as close to the earth before she’s inevitably bucked off. Calling in her earth magic again she bids it to rise towards her feet in a formless lump to try and cushion the blow - not exactly a pillow, but any distance she can minimize means less of a chance of breaking something. The others can attack for now, Evie uses her turn chance to try and get off the world’s worst surfboard.
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Evie rolls onto her back and lets go of her knife, attempting to slide down the landshark’s back to get as close to the ground as possible to minimize distance, and uses her Earth magic to try and get a dirt-pillar of sorts closer to her to break her fall sooner with less damage.
Earth Manipulation: Can manipulate the earth. Must be within a 30ft radius. Control is excellent.
Type: Grey | Rank: Upgraded
There are times when the unseen can be even more dangerous than what our eyes behold
Darkeye does his best but unfortunately his dagger misses the mark this round. Maeve fares a little better, at least, and her arrow strikes true, a shiver rippling across Daddy Shark's rubbery hide. Aidon, too, is successful at his little attack, but he's not able to move out of range and attack at the same time. It's lucky that the landshark didn't target him this time around.
It's at this moment that things go to shit. MelitaROLLS A 1 which results in a comedy of errors, and her electrified arrow strikes Evie in the right shoulder, burying deeply into her flesh. By a literal stroke of luck, she's already sliding to the safety(?) of the ground, and her magic allows her to reach the sands without incident.
She is bleeding now though, quite a bit. It doesn't escape Daddy Shark's notice, and he turns to snap at her. It goes wide for now (its size likely works against it), but how long she can stay lucky remains a mystery.
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Since his only dagger missed its target despite the size makes the situation more difficult. In addition, the fact that Evie was also hit by an unfortunate accident and the shark now has her as a target makes the situation more difficult. He would now try to aim his spear at the eye of the shark. A good timing for this was important. But as before a mistake and that would have been it he throws the spear of Kor on the one eye and hopes that he hits. After that he got only one weaopn left. He dident come prepared. A Mistake that he hopes never will hapen again.
Darkeye hurls his spear with a powerful swing towards the eye of Daddy Land Shark.
Maeve lets out a breath of relief as her arrow strikes true and Aidon manages to get a hit in too, but that's where her relief ends. The Honeybee girl fires next and while the arrow hits, it isn't the intended target, sinking into Evie's shoulder as she falls to the sand. Aidon cries out, torn between going for another hit as Maeve's voice cuts through his mind, Get out of there, Aidon. It's too dangerous! He hesitates, but draws back enough to get out of range while giving her a birds eye view.
Hoping to at least distract Daddy Shark, Maeve looses another arrow in his direction with her bow, cursing the fact that she hadn't been able to get her new one yet. They could really use the extra damage right about now.
Aidon gets out of range and Maeve shoots Daddy Shark with her bow again!
I'm undone about to burst at my seams 'Cause I am picturing you beside me So let me be everything that you need
they should have checked the ashes of the women they burned alive
Okay, well, in Mel’s piss-poor defense, she had warned her.
But it still wore away at her nerves to see her arrow become friendly fire, pinpointing Evie’s shoulder instead of the main damned target. And for that she grimaced, notching another as she called out over the terrain. “Sorry!” Because she was, and needed to be better, at least for accuracy’s sake.
Taking another breath, watching as Darkeye…Darkeyed, and Maeve shot off another, Melita lifted her own bow, notching the same elemental figments on her preferred weapon. Maybe with a whisper of prayer, for it to strike true and not volley off.
Before pulling the strand, and launching it off towards the landshark.
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Melita apologizes to Evie and tries to hit the landshark with another electric arrow.
Type: Light | Style: Offensive | Level: Basic
Bowstring Bracelet | At first this bracelet appears only as a length of intricately braided bowstring. But with an arrow in hand, upon miming the action of knocking and drawing it, the user will feel a bow beneath their fingers, as if it was there all along.
Type: Dark | Style: Offensive | Level: Basic
Fire/Lightning/Ice Quiver | A magical quiver with two compartments. In one, it turns any arrow placed within into a flaming projectile when shot. In the other, the arrow becomes imbued with electricity. (Made by Remi)
because it takes a single wild ember to bring a whole wildfire to life
Her yell of pain is gratefully swallowed by the sand and soil as she slides safely down to it. Small mercies there, at least. One hand rises in acknowledgment of Melita’s yelled apology, teeth gritted too hard for anything else.
But now she’s bleeding, and blood attracts sharks. Goodie. It narrowly misses her, too wide to turn, and Evie wastes no time. She sprints - and as she does, she gets her hand around the shaft of the arrow as well as the bloodied scrap of her shirt and rips both off and out at the same time. It leaves her with a shredded shirt, but her dignity is the least of her worries. With the object out of the way she sets her magic to work healing the wound to stop the bleeding, dropping the arrow and bloodied fabric behind her as she continues running. Placing her trust in the others to continue attacking so she can gain some distance.
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Evie grabs the arrow shaft and her bloodied shirt in one hand and rips both free/off so she can heal the wound without anything in the way. She drops it behind her as a scent distraction and runs.
Healing: Can heal 20pts worth of injuries per post.
Type: Light | Rank: Upgraded
