??? 2010/11/28(Sun)12:21 No. 260437 ID: 69bee4
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My mind begins to pick through the random bits of knowledge I still hold in my head of the things in front of me. My hands roam at the expectations of my captors, silently grasping each weapon in turn, taking a calm familiarity with the tools of death. Though clumsy at first, my body quickly reacts. I hear the incessant indecipherable chanting of my captors in my head, and my mouth moves to meet their chant, a surge of their blessings making me stand more assured and tall as I weakly damn them.

Their voices command that their avatar choose, and I cannot refuse. With only my hands and my clothing, I reach for my chosen set of tools with loathing.

Katar set (Scissor and ‘Standard’) A very direct and short set of weapons at an extension of about two and a half feet at their longest. Ornately inlaid with some gold and an insignia upon the handle and blade, it almost seems ornamental, but that feels wrong. Both weapons are at least functional both with slashing and piercing. The scissor katar is well designed for disarming any single handed weapon, and is somewhat defensive as a result. The standard katar has more armor punch than the thinner scissor weapon. Although both weapons are short ranged, they’re both a relatively unknown set of weapons and faster, and this inexperience has left more than one unlucky person in deaths grace.

Longsword and Kite Shield: A very defensive set I recall, though a fairly standard set of weapons wikth a blade of three and a half feet, however; true use of a sword requires much skill, and as my arm reflexively begin to balance the blade, I wonder if I could hold this talent. The sword has a relatively long range, and its somewhat ubiquitous use allows much more ability to find a weapon of a similar class but with varying styles I can remember hearing… something about. Few shields fare better than the kite for overall defensive utility without the cumbersome size of a tower shield.

Axe and Round Shield: The Axe is an arm-length weapon borne in one or both hands, with a length of about three feet held single handedly, but held at the end more effectively towards four feet if needed. Its haft instead of metal it appears to be a thick and sturdy sort of wood, comparably heavy, but still can be worn. Compared to a sword swing, it delivers more cleaving power against a smaller target area, making it more effective against armor, due to concentrating more of its weight in the axehead. However, it allows much less precision than a sword does. A smaller shield reflects a style with slightly more speed than a more full sized kite shield. For power versus defense, the shield can be removed and the axe wielded with two hands. Unlike a sword, there are really only so many ways an axe is made, and diversity is limited, although the weapon itself is plentiful.

What weapon to hold, in comfort wood, iron, or steel cold? What do I do, as these fool’s fake avatar I am to behold?

>>260437
Axe and shield. It's a pretty solid combination. Both can be used offensively and the axe will make short work of most kinds of opposition.

Standard Katars, simply for the cool factor.

[just to make it more clear, as only in hindsight did I see this. The Katar set is 1 Scissor, 1 Standard taken as is. There is no set of two of each type to take.]

Axe and shield

>>260459
Still voting Katars!

Voting axe and shield.

NaiveOne 2010/11/28(Sun)20:08 No. 260558 ID: 69bee4
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>>260439
>>260458
>>260488
>>260507

As I hold the wooden haft of the axe once more in my hand, I find an odd sense of agreement in my mind. Some interest in the more unique aspects of the Katars sublimated. I quickly and fluidly begin equipping the small, round shield as the tray holder backs to meet his fellow sadist robed compatriots.

A few moments later and I feel a familiar set of weight in both my arms, swinging the haft of the axe and feeling the force of the weapon pull down. However, as the chanting now ends and the faces of my robed captors turn to a more expectant silence. Removal of the blessings and hope causes my arms to sag with weight, the pain of the only recently bleeding marks on my arm becoming much more apparent. My mind beginning to lose the luster of the thrall.

One of my robed captors, holding a knife he once used I recall to cause some of these marks I now find limiting myself turns and speaks to me.

Oh avatar of the great Nihlo, we give you this body as promised! Deliver to us the truth we seek, lead the forlorn into your way! Let us take the truth!

I find some relief from the incessant threat of headache at least from the chanting ending. But as my body begins to sag, the feeling of expectation begins to become overwhelming. I want to both attack the fools for thinking there is a god in what is an about to sag human, and yet the expectation is so high I at the same time want to spout promises of grandeur and truth, lead them into their foolish...

... let this curse leave another option...

"Let me lead you to the truth! Nihlo speaks to his exhalted students" I shout with vigor, feeling the strength of being ones avatar flow.

not... not again, it feels too eerily familiar

What...

What do I do?

>>260558
You are their avatar. Nihlo is the true God of Nothing. Give them the Truth only the avatar can give.

Pluck out their eyes, carve open their mouths, and slay all but the high priest.

>>260558
Gather your focus and wait for the proper time. You're armed, but you don't yet know where you are, how many of them there are or where you could go from here. Be what they expect until you can gain the maximum amount of advantage from doing something they don't expect.

Show them the meaning of Nihlo. Remove all of their senses.

??? 2010/11/29(Mon)19:39 No. 260735 ID: 69bee4
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>>260580

I begin to scan the area and call up what I remember. Having been here approximately a day, I have never seen anyone except these six people in that time, and the Monolith they were chanting at previously is the only major landmark. At least one is armed with the dagger used to inflict some of these wounds, but judging by the strange reactions of the monolith when they were chanting, I have no real idea what they are capable of.

My arms and legs hurt like hell without the focus of before, though its nothing too severe... and the axe lays heavily on my arm. Although armed, it does dawn on me I have no real idea how to use this weapon or shield properly that I know of. I could easily take one by surprise, but I'm not even sure if they would die in that swing... and yet...

>>260601
>>260574

I stand tall in front of the fools that will soon cower before the greatness of Nihlo, now willing fully to give them what they have so asked for. My sense of weakness fading slightly as I fill with conviction in my mind.

"You who dares to speak to me, the embodiment of Nihlo, you stand down for now while I deliver the blessings you have begged for! I deliver THE TRUTH!"

I can feel a stunning silence overtake the robed ones, only the assuming head priest, the one bold enough to speak to me bowing slightly down on one knee before me.

I consider how to deliver the gifts of Nihlo, how I can deliver the loss of senses that accompanies the death, the true nothingness. When somewhere in my mind, I... feel words come to my mind. Answers from Nihlo itself maybe! I know to deliver death that these words... Logic, Fire, Night must be called. Yet I also know Night to be wrong for this task for this moment, with no real reason why this would be so. but its too faint to fully call upon now, I feel it needs something more, I need only focus on one to deliver this judgment.

What word do I focus on to deliver Nihlo's judgment? or do I do something else with the respect now given to me?

Logic, as cold and as brutal as the Avatar of Nihlo must be. Logic of the grave.

>>260735
That respect needs to be reinforced. With cold hard logic.

Honestly I gotta agree. Logic would be best. It is universal and hard to argue against

??? 2010/11/30(Tue)10:08 No. 260871 ID: 69bee4
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rolled 1 = 1

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>>260806
>>260767
>>260748

Paradigm: Logic

I focus on the truth that only logic can bring, feeling the other words fade, but not disappear from my mind. The world becomes, distant and I...

...

My body begins to tense, the pain it once felt disappears as rage disconnects me from that form. They will pay for what they have wrought... for what was taken from me

...

GIVE ME BACK THAT PEACE! WHO AM I!?!

With a set of flowing steps, I build momentum as I effortlessly lift up the axe high into the air and bring its full force down onto one of the standing robed figures. I feel resistance as his skull begins to crack violently from the full force, fragments of blood, flesh, and ichor along with bone now plastering my own. Refusing to allow the momentum to break, I finish the cleave through his former skull while the other figures stare in a palpable disbelief.

Taking this opportunity, I garner my rage and flow my bodys movement with the axe, smashing shield first into the closest robed figure. His body falls down most satisfyingly, his definitely unarmored body giving a satisfying set of sounds between pain and almost certainly fragmented bone.

Regaining my footing rapidly, I turn to face where the still kneeling figure now separates me from the other three I have promised to revel in Nihlo's undying rage.

However, I note that one seems too stunned by the display of violence to act, while the other two are attempting to gain some distance and reaching into their robes. One of whom, taller than the other, I know to have held some sort of polished stone while I was captive.

What is the most logical approach now?

rolling a D20, low will be good in this case.

>>260871
To master your emotions and use them. Let the rage fuel your motions and make you immune to the pain, just don't let it control you.

Now you have two threats. As tempting as it might be to take down the big one immediatly with the reasoning that he the most dangerous that's not what you should do. Instead try to tackle them both and disrupt them, finish off the smaller one and then focus your anger on the big one. The benefit of taking out the weakest one first is that you can give your undivided focus on the one who presents the highest threat afterwards.

The stunned guy is hopefully going to remain stunned for long enough. He might not know all we need to learn, but he should hold enough information to make him valuble, for a while. We shall see what his fate will be.

Logic: Take your ax, heft it proper, and let it fly into the taller one's chest, cleaving his ribs and heart and lungs in twain.

Shift the shield to the dominate hand. Toss it, as a flying disc, to the other one, while we reach to pull the stunned one up as a human shield, dragging him towards the Ax.

Or, perhaps, use the NIGHT to bend into the chaos, slitting throats will hard LOGIC until only the head priest remains.

>>261021
If the shield can not be thrown, move in faster after we have thrown the ax to get the hostage. Find anything sharp on him and us that as a thrown weapon.

??? 2010/11/30(Tue)20:17 No. 261039 ID: 69bee4
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rolled 3, 4 = 7

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>>260895
I consider my situation. It is odd to say the least, my mind at the moment does not feel much of this rage that obviously grasps my body right now. It is certainly useful at the moment, and my body's actions seem to have much more sense of how to use the weapon then I actually do. Ive honestly never felt anything like this before though, and right now there are more pressing matters.

>>261021

An idea occurs to me, but I loathe to relieve myself of my weapon right....

Before I fully grasp the thought, my body reacts. Lifting my axe, I hurl it towards the taller one's body, as I lift myself onto the back of the one kneeling, and vault over him to bypass his physical presence. Upon landing, I carry the momentum into the closest and and still immobile cloaked one... He speaks and attempts to move away from my assault.

"MY LORD! don....


He is quickly silenced as my shield bashes horizontally into his chest and I grab onto his neck with my right and formerly axe wielding hand. Placing my body behind him, I begin to survey the effect of throwing my axe onto my more distant foes as I continue to grasp his throat as my shield.

It appears the attack was quite successful, the taller hooded figure clutching with his left hand at a profusely bleeding right arm. On the ground lays the stone I had evidenced him holding earlier in my captivity. And nearby on the ground, at the figures feet lays my axe, only the top part of the blade appearing to have been bloodied. I surmise that the attack was only somewhat correctly done.

What is the logical thing to do with my new found human shield? Do I remove my hand from his throat, or kill him now while hes at my mercy? Do I find a new way to attack, or engage in a new manner?

>>261039
Push forward to the last one standing. Tell him to surrender or die. Unless he answers immediatly then push your human shield into him and follow up with an attack from the shield. Retrieve your axe and then restrain the both who are still alive. They're going to be made to answer some questions, and if the answers don't add up they're going to wish that they had.

NaiveOne 2010/12/06(Mon)23:00 No. 262626 ID: 69bee4
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>>261081

I attempt to push the robed one now held, slowly dying within my grasp forward. It is difficult at first, but as his body begins to resist less, the forward push becomes easier. I yell out to the final uninjured one

"Surrender now or die! Your judgment has come!"

"I...I.. What? I.

I cut him off there, attempting to throw the body held against me towards the unanswered one. However, I believe I may have thrown or held too hard, as the body of the person I held, instead of barreling forward, instead crumples to the ground at my feat, face first.

It is at this time I notice that the one I had injured previously appears to be reaching down, either for the axe or the gem he was trying to grab, I am not certain. Blood however is certainly still falling to the ground from his body. It also appears the uninjured one is, surprised by the suddenly dropped comrade of his, he has sucessfully pulled something out from his robe, but it is small and held in his hand, and I cannot determine what it is.

>What is the most logical way to proceed, as I may soon have two fully functioning opponents to face? They are some distance away, twenty feet maybe, but it is closable.
>Though the one on the ground could be just pretending, should I deal with him further? he is within striking distance.

>>262626
You're going to kick their fucking asses, because in the end your victory is inevitable. This next part is going to be somewhat tricky. Throw the shield towards the head of the uninjured one, should distract him even if it doesn't hit and give you the time you need. Then rush the injured one immediatly. Knock him over, pick up the axe, finish him off with a chop to the head and then turn to face the last one again.

rolled 2 = 2

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rolling a D10, high is good.

NaiveOne 2010/12/07(Tue)18:54 No. 262804 ID: 69bee4
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>>262659

...YES..... YES! Victory will be mine I say! Its so clear... the beauty, the inevitable victory. IT SHALL BE GLORIOUS!

I begin to pull the shield off my left arm as I dash towards the presently uninjured enemy.

However, despite my resolve, what happens instead is that the shield as I attempt to pull it off flies off my arm and to the ground, nearly causing me to trip. I however recover swiftly and begin my rush towards towards the injured...

A wave... I feel... a wave? and what is this... smell? familiar in some

I fly back, collapsing near the person I had previously used as a shield. The smell of cinders reaches my nose, and I see through hazy eyes that the tatters of my clothings sleeves are now completely gone, burned away. I cannot... feel much of my arms, but what I can feel is definately summed up in the word 'pain'.

Whatever just happened, it came from the injured robed figure, the uninjured one now looking his way. Grasping the gem in his hand he was reaching down for, I sense nothing but a bloodlust as strong as my own in his eyes.

>What is the logical thing to do as I am on the ground and injured? How can I turn this fight back to Nihlo's command, as I know this to be.
>Logically, whatever just happened may happen again, what can I do to counter?

>>262804
You do the logical thing when encountered with superior firepower and no real good way to fight back or escape. Surrender, submit to their wishes. They seem to have some purpose for you that requires you to be alive, another chance will present itself.