LimeBreaker 2013/07/28(Sun)00:01 No. 528633 ID: 5a5dd4
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You listen intently to locate the monsters of the ruins.


Oh, there's one.

LimeBreaker 2013/07/28(Sun)00:01 No. 528634 ID: 5a5dd4
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And there's two.


This is far too many giant, man-eating monsters to keep track of without some way to refer to them.

You name the first newcomer One-eye, for the gaping hole where its left eye should be. The second shall be Swordface, for the sword stuck in its face.

LimeBreaker 2013/07/28(Sun)00:01 No. 528635 ID: 5a5dd4
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Your good friend in white will be Fuzzy, for lack of a better name.

You don't hear anything besides the immediately obvious within the ruins, so you guess that's all of them.

they have collars, that means they used to be owned by someone.

Good, you only have to fight one of them. Drop the girl and prepare to dodge a pounce. Counter with a hit on any of its limbs. Slowing it down is pretty important.

Are you any good with a sword? That one stuck in swordface looks pretty big, you could try yanking it out and using it, if you can get ahold of the thing. Then again, it might be quite stuck. Probably too risky, unless you lose your axe.

(Fuzzy the Fluffy Fuck, to use his full title).

...well. We're kind of boned. Swordface has seen you, is blocking your path, and you don't exactly look like you can outrun him.

Unless there's some mystic way to request safe passage or pay tribute or get the beast otherwise stand aside, or attack Fuzzy instead, you're gonna have to fight it.

well one eye is keeping Fuzzy company so there's that at least.

I say back up a bit and head down south following that wall you're next to and as soon as you come across a corner that will let you turn back to the main road take it. the idea here is to just zigzag through the ruins to try and keep as much distance between you and all three of the monsters and just make it to the temple. Or if you can out run these things just hit the main road and run like hell. whatever one works best.

LimeBreaker 2013/07/31(Wed)22:31 No. 530128 ID: 5a5dd4
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You drop the Kobold and ready your weapon.

Swordface rushes forwards.


A moment later, your axe is firmly lodged in the beast's arm, you are winded by a headbutt to the stomach, and you are wrestling Swordface by the sword.

Oddly enough, for how big it is, Swordface doesn't seem to be all that strong. Or all that heavy, by the feel of it.

An illusion!
Also, that sword is probably pretty legendary.

>>530128
Twist that neck around. Flip the fucker on his back, and either yank the sword out or retrieve your axe. Then grab the kobold and start running again because you can bet your ass that Fuzzy is going to fare rather well against his opponent too!

Not heavy or strong? And it's got this big lever attached to it's face.

Solution is kind of obvious, I think. Throw / flip / slam Swordface with his own sword. Preferably in the direction of the other monsters.

yes twist that sword! ether throw it or snap it's neck.

>>530128
It's probably an escaped pet of the gods, judging by the collar.

Just yank the sword out.

>>530129
Ah, I don't think they're illusions. I think the beasts are starving. They're light and weak, it makes sense. They're also up at an odd hour (desperate for food) and they can't be handling this weird weather especially well either.

They probably have next to no stamina. We could easily kill this one and use the extra reach on the sword to fight Fuzzy, taking advantage of One-Eye acting as a distraction. After the fight, One-Eye will likely be completely exhausted and an easy kill as well.

how good are you with swords. because I believe this kind beast just gave you one. Twist it and rip it.

Wait
Use the sword to flip yourself onto it's back.
Ride Swordface like a raging bull into the Fluffiest-Fuck.

That should get it attacked by the outsider beast, causing it to gain Swordface's aggro and allow the Twins to deal with the Fluffiest Fuck long enough for you to gtfo!

They're feathered, so they might have hollow bones like birds.

LimeBreaker 2013/08/04(Sun)00:26 No. 531299 ID: 5a5dd4
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From what little you know about illusions, it seems far more likely that Swordface's weight is a result of starvation or general birdiness. Or maybe both.

It takes a bit of effort, but you flip the beast, plant a foot on its head, and rip the sword out.


The sword appears to be a simple, unadorned zweihander. Aside from the blood, it seems to be in decent enough shape.

Despite the freshly re-opened headwound, Swordface is still alive. It's barely moving and blood is gushing from the wound, but it is still breathing.

LimeBreaker 2013/08/04(Sun)00:26 No. 531300 ID: 5a5dd4
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With Swordface at least temporarily incapacitated, you turn your attention back to the other beasts.

...

You don’t think One-Eye's going to offer much help against Fuzzy.

It bleeds!!

get your bold and keep running.

leave swordface for fuzzy and get out of there, Also how is Rayne doing throughout all of this?

>>531300
I think it could be time to start running again. Fuzzy is big, and thus there are alleys it won't fit into we could escape down.

Or do you think you could beat Fuzzy with the added reach of the zweihander? You have fought it before.

Err, if we start running again, take a moment to retrieve your axe and slip it into your belt or wherever you keep it.

>>531311
Yes. It might well be literally the last axe in the world.

...well, looks like fluffy is coming for you, next. At least you've got a bigger weapon with more reach.

Where's the bold? Put yourself between her and the monster, or else she'll be snack. If she snaps out of it, at least you'd have a caster behind you. That could help, if she knows any spells useful in combat.

Not sure you can outrun the fluffy fuck, either. How did you manage to escape the first time? Unless fluffy stops to eat the monsters, then you've got a chance to grab your bold and run.

LimeBreaker 2013/08/04(Sun)23:06 No. 531588 ID: 5a5dd4
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Raine is being a useless lump in the snow where you dropped her.

You trudge around to the other side of Swordface and try to rip the axe out. It's stuck deep, but without Swordface struggling against you, you manage to dislodge it.


It looks like One-Eye got a few hits in before getting mauled, and with the added reach and heft of the sword, you think you could probably kill Fuzzy. On the other hand, Fuzzy's still an angry mess of fur, claws, and teeth, and you aren't sure that you'd be able to fight it without taking a few hits yourself.

Alternatively, you could just grab Raine and run. Fuzzy looks content to keep munching on one-eye, but that might change if it sees you trying to run away. It also might not change, in which case you'd be feeding the fluffy abomination two giant feathery treats in exchange for a clean getaway.


So, do you fight, or do you run?

If you run, do you head straight for the main road, or do you weave through the buildings?

>>531588
Fight. It is choosing to eat rather than fight you, so eating might be making it stronger! Kill it before it can do that!

Try to use terrain to your advantage. There are trees nearby you can use to limit its movement.

get your bold and run.

grab the bolt and slowly back up and turn a corner. that way if it decides to attack you you can just throw the bolt again and deal with fuzzy, and if not you can get the hell out of here.

I can't help but think that these two aren't quite down yet. The screams of their victims kept you up at night? These guys were way too easy. I vote a tactical retreat, before something weird starts happening.

Run with the bold, weave through narrow passageways.

Grab your kobold and BOOK IT!

>>531588
fight it. this might be your best and only chance. it will come after you if you don't. get raine to get a grip and help you from afar.
try to get the element of surprise, perhaps jump down on it from a nearby wall?

>>531605
I second that, considering how those guys were walking around with normally fatal wounds like a sword straight through the head. It is possible they ran low on power when the gods left, but it is also possible it just takes a bit of time for them to get back up. (And doesn't it sound just like dickish gods to 'test' pilgrims with monsters that can 'die' in a fight then get up again in time for the next mortal to come along?)

Oh, I have an idea. If Fuzzy has to eat, then it probably has some sort of similar biology to normal creatures.

Perhaps we can poison it. If there's any poisonous spices in the soup, we could maybe coat a blade in it, or poison this here corpse with it for when Fuzzy eats it.

>>531906
Or just leave the bowl on the corpse, Fuzzy is stupid from being new to reality.

alternately, we could have the soup in one hand, get close, yell a challenge, and when Fuzzy open's it's mouth, pretend it is a dodongo and throw the poison soup in.

LimeBreaker 2013/08/09(Fri)01:10 No. 532866 ID: 5a5dd4
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It's certainly odd that the rumoured monsters of the ruins went down so easily, but you aren't going to get another chance like this.

You are going to kill Fuzzy.

You heft your weapons and charge.

LimeBreaker 2013/08/09(Fri)01:11 No. 532867 ID: 5a5dd4
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You do not appreciate being dumped in the snow.

you could be getting ate. anything weird about the twins happen? because right now they were pushovers.

by the way your fuzzy friend is attacking the white one now so if you want of help with magic now is a good time to do just that.

>>532867
Well you froze up. At that point you're spare baggage. If you wanna be treated better during combat you gotta prove you can do something.

Is that soup you have poisonous?

>>532867
you're in the middle of a fight, lady! get up and look around. are the twins dead? try to help the dwarf against the white monster if they are.

>You do not appreciate being dumped in the snow.
Better than being eaten, which is what would have happened if he hadn't grabbed you before.

Look around. What's happening?

>>532870

Of course it's poisonous. That's what gives it body and flavor! Why do you ask?

Shoot a bolt at that fuzzy, or if you can find anything sharp-looking, telekinetically launch it at him- I'm guessing you couldn't lift anything heavier than what you could lift normally- so go for velocity and aim for the eyes, if the dwarf isn't in front of Fuzzy there...

LimeBreaker 2013/08/12(Mon)22:51 No. 534007 ID: 5a5dd4
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Alright.


Uh.

Right.

Torren's fighting the white fluffy thing.

One of the twins is half-eaten and very dead. The other is in a pool of blood, weakly flailing its legs. You think it’s trying to get up.

You don’t know how poisonous the soup is; it’s not something you’ve ever really had to worry about before.

Of the few spells you know, the only one you could use offensively is the stun bolt, and that’s useless against anything larger than a housecat.

Your telekinesis is really only good for the levitation and manipulation of small objects. You’d be better off throwing something normally than trying to sling it with telekinesis. Even then, the only sharp thing you have on you is your knife, and you aren't sure you’d want to throw that.

>>534007
It sounds like any direct combat actions you could take are all totally useless against the Outsider.

I think it would be better to distract it at a critical moment, or try to get it to swallow a jar of soup. Wanna try testing a little soup on the almost-dead beast? You could dip the dagger in the soup and stab the beast in the back, to see how it reacts. It'd be safer than trying to get close to its existing wounds.

Um. Make snowball. Pour some hopefully poison soup into it. Attempt to land poisoned snowball directly in Fluffy's mouth or eye. ...does Fluffy have eyes?

>>534010
no, it modeled itself as like, anti-torren.

anyway, stun bolt actually can work. not to hurt, but distract, if fuzzy focuses on you for a second then it isn't paying attention to the more dangerous thing. letting torren get a free shot.

Your implication that her soup is implicitly poisonous is both unfair and racist! I bet she hasn't had the spices for soup in weeks with this unnatural winter! Unless your spices keep well? Where do you get them anyway?

No, you're going to want to drip your own blood into the soup, or better yet onto a snowball that you then strategically lob into the creature's mouth.

OK realistically you could try the soup, see if the other twin can't tolerate spicy food. Finishing him off would be a mercy at this point. If that doesn't work though, then only the liquid in your veins has the power to make things keel over.

even if the stun bolt doesn't stun the fluffy thing could it still get it's attention, as in if the thing is trying to block one of the dwarf's attacks or even attack the dwarf could you shoot a bolt at it and throw it's aim off?

Hmm. But, what is magic? Is it like the power of the gods? If the power of the gods can repel the void that's consuming the world, and this creature is "made of" that void, then maybe magic will affect it more strongly than it normally would?

LimeBreaker 2013/08/18(Sun)02:08 No. 535342 ID: 5a5dd4
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Between the soup and your blood, your blood is almost assuredly more poisonous.

But.

You kind of like your blood where it is.

And there's really only one way to get it out.

You think you'll try the soup first.

You have two more jars, and it's not like you're going to need the soup if you get eaten by a monster, so you decide not to fuck around with snowballs.

You keep the knife in hand, heft the jar, and approach the wounded beast.

It's managed to roll itself over despite the grievous wounds and the pool of blood it's now lying in.

LimeBreaker 2013/08/18(Sun)02:09 No. 535343 ID: 5a5dd4
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It screams.

Toss the jar right in its mouth.

throw jar, run.

>>535342
Why do you want to risk going near the downed monster again? And losing one of your three glasses of soup in the process? That seems like a low risk, medium cost, no reward operation and I'm quite firmly against those.

>Look how you friend is doing. You might have to hurry away at a moments notice depending on how that fight goes. The still living and moving creatures is a for more important foe to keep aware of than the one lying in a pool of its own blood as well.

...wait, why are we going after swordface, again? I thought we were going to throw the soup at fluffy. Swordface is already down and out. Er, unless you just pissed it off enough to get up by approaching it.

throw soup towards it's jaws or the wound in it's face. Also why are we going after this one again? Is it to test out just how deadly the soup is or something?

It's not downed anymore, guys.

Save the soup! Hide!

LimeBreaker 2013/08/21(Wed)01:50 No. 536270 ID: 5a5dd4
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You're doing this because you thought it'd be a good idea to test out the poison and to stay out of Torren's way and to finish off the twin in case it was going to do something exactly like this and this is really not how you imagined this going.

You throw the soup.

LimeBreaker 2013/08/21(Wed)01:51 No. 536271 ID: 5a5dd4
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It snaps the jar out of the air. The glass shatters in its mouth.

It begins to lumber towards you.

Alright, keep it occupied, draw it away from Torren's fight. Head towards an alleyway or something.

Right, uh, keep the hell away from that thing, and hope the poison kicks in, soon.

Maybe throw a stun-blot in it's face as you go. It's too big for it to ordinarily work, but maybe it's been weakened enough? Or it'll distract it a little as you retreat? (Not sure how vulnerable casting makes you. If you have to stand still and focus for a bit instead of running, probably not a good idea).

If you get a chance, glance how things and going between Toren and Fluffy.

and now we play the wait and try not to die game, so since your small and that thing isn't try find small tight space that you can easily fit though but not so much with that guy to try and stay out of it's way before the (hopefully) poison soup can kick in.

SOUP TOSS IS GO NOW RUN FOR YOUR BOOBS I MEAN LIFE

Plan Soup Toss is go! Run, run, run! Get into the ruins and lead it away from Torren. That is, unless you can lead it around so it'll come at the Fluffy Fuck from the side opposite Torren.

You better hope that whatever you put into that soup is extra poisonous to non-kobolds, 'cause that jar is looking mighty small compared to the body mass of that beast. Hopefully the glass opened up a wound in its mouth that let the soup directly into the bloodstream.

LimeBreaker 2013/08/24(Sat)21:46 No. 537279 ID: 5a5dd4
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You turn tail and sprint quickly trudge through the snow.

Ahead of you, Torren and the white beast are locked in combat. Both of them are covered in blood, but you don't think either of them has been significantly wounded.


As you approach a corner to flee deeper into the ruins, you glance back at the twin.

Its steps are slow and heavy, its breath is ragged and wet, and blood drips and flows from its mouth and wounds, but it continues to lumber down the street, ignoring you, and heading towards Torren, the white beast, and the dead twin.

could you use your magic throw voice to warn Torren that one of the twins is still alive and coming at him? If so do that, if not throw some stun bolts at the surviving twin to try and get it's attention on you since it seems you can just out run the thing.

Don't distract Torren. Distract the near-dead thing with stun bolts.

>turn tail
...do you have a tail?

>>537289
Yeah, worth a try. It might be weak enough to work, or at least draw it's attention. Aim for the face, or eye if you can.

LimeBreaker 2013/09/01(Sun)02:32 No. 538778 ID: 5a5dd4
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You dig through your bag for your focus, ready a stun bolt, and sling it at the twin.

On impact, the beast visibly shudders and coughs up more blood.

After a moment, it keeps walking.

Yell at Torren that the last twin is coming from behind him and he should try to maneuver so that the fuzzy beast is between him and the twin!

...hit it again? I mean, it's close to death. It can only stop, shudder, and cough up blood so many times before it falls.

Well, it stopped for a moment. That's what we need, you know. To slow it down. Hit it with more stun bolts.

>>538808

What part about "stun" bolts don't you understand?

Do that again, to the big fluffy thing! That might give Torren the edge he needs to significantly wound it! The living twin is both their enemy, and yours, so just stay away from it!

keep hitting it. it's close to death, a few more bolts and it should drop.

Is there a particular limit on the number of times you can cast that? Do you get really tired or something?

LimeBreaker 2013/10/08(Tue)20:05 No. 543458 ID: 078f92
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You think you can do this.

Your copy of "an Introduction to Magic" had all sorts of warnings about overexertion, but.

It doesn't look like you really have much of a choice here.

You can do this.

You can do this you can do this you can do this you can do this YOU CAN DO THIS

LimeBreaker 2013/10/08(Tue)20:06 No. 543460 ID: 078f92
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YOU CAN FUCKING DO THIS

>>543461
Oops. That's not good. Let's hope Torren is in good enough shape to carry you to safety.

Whoo! You badass, girl.

...pity about collapsing and losing your lunch, though. At least you have spare soup.

How do you feel? Can you move at all?

well good job but I really hope fuzzy is doing better.

>Let's hope Torren is in good enough shape to carry you to safety.
On the plus side that probably won't be very hard with kobold tinyness.

>>543461
I hope that was just soup..

Was that blood or vomit?

>>543737
Probably vomit, Blood's darker...but still, ew.

LimeBreaker 2013/10/12(Sat)01:17 No. 543888 ID: 2ecbc0
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In the days following the end of the war, you spoke with a madman.

He claimed the end was coming.

He said the Gods would leave.

He said everything would be lost.

LimeBreaker 2013/10/12(Sat)01:17 No. 543889 ID: 2ecbc0
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But he told you that he could fix this.

That he could fix everything.

He told you that he could make the world whole again.

LimeBreaker 2013/10/12(Sat)01:18 No. 543890 ID: 2ecbc0
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And most importantly, he told you exactly how he'd do it.

He told you how to harness the power contained here.

How to harness the power contained everywhere.

LimeBreaker 2013/10/12(Sat)01:18 No. 543891 ID: 2ecbc0
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He said he would use that power to bring back the gods.

He would turn back the sands of time and undo the atrocities of man.

He would save the world.

He may have even succeeded in his goals, if the church hadn't executed him for spouting heresy.

LimeBreaker 2013/10/12(Sat)01:19 No. 543892 ID: 2ecbc0
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You have to admit, there would be a certain poetry in taking up his torch, in seeing the madman's prophesies to fruition.

Perhaps you'd even get to speak with him again, once it was all over.

But you can't.

You won't.


You aren't going to save the world.

LimeBreaker 2013/10/12(Sat)01:19 No. 543893 ID: 2ecbc0
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You are going to make things right.

Forsaken Chapter 2 END.

>>543902
So there WAS a mer hiding somewhere there?

>>543934
the ?/3 is probably hiding the fact that despite not finding them they are still alive. we have all the active threats neutralized so they are safe.

Did you just EAT the fuzzy's soul?