Bittersweet Candy Bowl

She looks at everyone else and turns to makar and simply says

This is your fault.

And with that she pulls out a daggar and stabs herself in the stomach.As blood puddles at her feet she falls to the ground in a heap.

Paulson jumped back at McCardell’s sudden appearance but when Jasmina began speaking to him, he gave the dog a polite head nod before turning to the girl.

Jasmina I want to talk to you for a minute. He nervously rubbed the back of his head, not sure how to continue.

Well ya see, I know that we got to know each other on the boat, but we didn’t talk much after that and I was just kinda wondering why you loved me.

He sighed deeply after he finally got out the question that had been nagging his mind for the past day.

(Yeahhhh~ For the sake of keeping things sane I’m just going to shift Jasmine to NPC mode. Sorry there Paulson. Think you’re going to have to wait for your other girl *cackles*)

(Oh my god what hell? Well then I guess she doesn’t love me. LOL)

(Watch this)







Jasmina wakes up from her little daydream while walking with the group.



Oh my god,why the hell would i even think of doing that..

(auto play)

Hannibal strides along with the rest of the group, his blood saturated with alcohol, his mind buzzing with thoughts of the promises of the princess should he and the rest of the group succeed.

[[Gone for 8 hours. Auto goes to anyone that won’t get me killed.]]

As Dave is walking with Albert’s body, he begins to truly realize the horrors that the child and her demonic doll have caused and he now understands the meaning of the word “Fear”. He opens his eyes to see a dark room filled with screams of agony, when suddenly torches light up all over the room revealing blood on the floor and walls. There are also a plethora of torture devices scattered throughout the room. Dave is now paralyzed with fear and cannot move. He feels an arm grab onto both of his shoulders, yet no matter how hard he tries he cannot move. He can now see the arms are skinless bones and tries to scream, though no sound comes out. They begin to drag him to the far side of the room towards a rusty iron maiden. They place him into the device as he finally manages to scream upon seeing the true face of death. As they close the flaps of the iron maiden, Dave’s eyes open wider than he had ever had them open as he realizes it was all just a fear induced day dream.

Shit…shit,shit,shit! As soon as we’re done here, I’m done with adventuring. Maybe I can find a wife to settle down and live my life with, father some children and live the rest of my life in peace.

Konar looks at Albert when he helps Dave carying him.
You can’t give up sir,i know that you can do it.

Start to look a bit serious
He have a full life to live…Diferent from me in a way…

(Assuming you were all RPing the woodland travel section.)

Susanna stands back, impressed by the care and elegance that had clearly gone into the design of the hidden imperial passage. Flicking her quill into her hand, she is unable to resist making a rapid sketch as the doorway reveals itself: every leaf and snail shell, every tiny molecule of dirt, melting away into a marbled pool, which then dramatically twists and peels apart, revealing a stairway of subtly masoned granite below.

Following the princess below ground, Susanna tucks her drawing away and watches the completion of the opening ritual, noting the pulse of high-frequency magic at Lily’s touch. The best magicians clearly did work at the Palace. Or at least… once did.

Susanna is snapped out of her thoughts by Lily’s words. She nods. “Although given how you specifically told me about the straightness of this tunnel,” Susanna adds, “It’s going to be quite a bit faster than walking.”

Entering the tunnel itself, and repeatedly glancing between her journal and the floor, Susanna quickly sketches out a figure on the floor in ink. A surprisingly simple design, almost rectangular, it takes up at least forty feet of the tunnel. Odd curls and a pattern of perpendicular lines converge near the middle. She turns back.

“Everyone, spread out over the quadragram. Try to keep a little space between you, but you shouldn’t need much. Are we bringing Albert to the other end?” she asks quickly. After hearing their decision, she nods again. “OK. Get him on the right side of the line. We’ll leave in a moment.”

With Albert safely positioned, Susanna walks to the centre of the design. With a snap from her sharpening flint, sparks fall to a tiny pool of dust at her feet, which bursts into flame and is instantly consumed. A smell of heady incense fills the air, making it seem thick - indeed, physically thick. Everyone within the quadragram feels the surrounding air turn almost to incredibly slowing sponge. Angry eyes flicker to the magician.

Then the world turns sideways.

The slug of spongey air shoots down the corridor. Lily was true to her word; the few inches of margin Susanna gave the bubble are indeed totally unnecessary, as the carefully built corridor remains exactly the same size all the way along.

Susanna amuses herself for the majority of the fall watching the warriors’ shocked responses to their sudden drop. There really were advantages to being Dark sometimes.

In fact, the only people she could see from her position - those ahead, no, below her - who were unsurprised were Amaja, who was well aware of the plan and dropping elegantly, and Lily, who’d worked it out in moments.

As the passage ahead began to show signs of foreshortening, Susanna released the spell, gently retuning everyone to their original relative positions, minus a little well-sponged momentum. Given the swords abounding, she was glad she’d added that.

“So did everyone have fun?,” she grins.

Flails around, grabbing a wall for support.
“What the hell just happened?”

Amaja landed with a soft pat of her feet to the stone floor after the sudden rush through the corridors with Susanna’s magics. She spun around to face the group and smiled brightly, having enjoyed the trip. Hopping lightly over to her friends feet she stood on her tip toes and pulled Susanna’s face closer to hers, embracing her in a soft gentle kiss. Blushing a deep pink, she let go of her friend and set her hands behind her back, twisting her fingers between themselves. She knew how she felt towards Susanna, though hadn’t quite found a time to express it and thought now was the best. She didn’t know what lie ahead but at least she got what felt like her feelings out to her friend.

(Ah. Good Both Sue and Theresa are here. I believe people wanted to finish up the whole Shipping thing with you guys? Thumbs Up Yappy)

Well there’s a difference between being KNOWING what was going to happen, and being ready for it. Such a high speed spell was hardly something Lily had ever experienced before. The Tunnel seemed to flash by with alarming speed she managed to keep her footing…

but her eyes were still quite wide, and her smile just as much as the excitement flowed through her.

But of course the ride had to come to its end. Lily stumbling a bit with it, a few moments to regain her composer before letting out an estatic laugh

“Oh I’d say I very well did my dear! It’s moments like this that I -wish- I had chosen a more dramatic style of magic. No better way to get my spirits up! My dear I think I should….” A brow was quirked as she stared Sue’s way to find her other wise occupied with a certain Tabby much to even Lily’s surprise. She shrugged, gave a smile, and looked around at the rest of the group.

“Come now then. Gather yourselves quickly… there is no more then a thirty minute walk from here to our destination… and then things get -quite- serious. If you have anything left to discuss do it -now- as the girls have politely gotten to already! We’ll be far too busy killing that bastard adviser, and saving this kingdom and everyone in it for it! After that? Lets hope we’ll all be too drunk out of our minds in celebration to care!” She gave a wave of her arm and started to march down the tunnel at a steady pace, others no doubt following.

After Susanna’s spell is complete ad everyone comes to a stop, Icarus staggers a little, drifting toward a wall for support.

“Ugh… Careful next time…”

The paladin tries not to hurl as he regains his equilibrium.

(Also, nice soundtrack choice Bribri.)

(Paulson gives the lesbians thumbs up.Lol)

The started Archer quickly regains his balance and dusts himself off as Amaja shows her true feelings. Smiling a bit to himself, he walks over to Hannibal and pats him on the back.

Better luck next time, He whispers to Hannibal with a slight head tilt towards the Amaja and a playful smile on his lips. I think she has different interests in mind though. He straightens himself up as he causally walks towards Theresa.

Hey is there something you wanted to talk to me about? He asks the rouge. You never finished your story earlier.

Still riding on the few moments of high after casting such a huge spell, Susanna’s natural instinct to be embarrassed and shy away is somewhat lacking. So at the fall of Amaja’s butterfly lips on her own, Susanna’s shock and surprise are instead drowned by an overwhelming desire to let go and enjoy it.

She does.

As Amaja rocks back and colours, Susanna sees her own hands reach out to the tabby. Just to feel her fur, her warmth, her kiss… just once more…

Surprised, her shoulderblades being gently clasped by her Burmese adoration, Amaja is pulled back to exactly where she always wanted to be. Their lips meet once more.

Slightly stunned by the suddenness of even Susanna’s actions. She unfurled her fingers from behind her back slowly, as their lips entwine together once more. A brief moment of surprise is in her eyes, but slowly falls into a loving gaze, wrapping her own arms tightly to the Burmese’s back holding her close as she closes her eyes. Her thoughts clouded with nothing but her admiration for her friend, or what ever she may be to her now only time would tell. Her cheeks flushed from everything that had just happened, she reluctantly pulled her lips away smilingly coyly up to her friend. She briefly buries her face into Susanna’s chest and mumbled softly into her fur, something only Susanna could hear, possibly making her blush if she weren’t already. She steps out of her embrace but takes a firm hold onto her hand trying to guide her to follow the rest of the group. As much as she wished she could stay like that forever, they still had things that needed to be done like Lily had said.

After Susannas magic travel.
Uh…that was…interesting.
Looks at Dave
Don’t lose grip of him ok?

Dave was still recovering from Susanna’s magic
Don’t worry I got him, I got him.
He looks over to Susanna only to see her kissing Amaja
Wow, thats…awesome

Blushing immensely at Amaja’s mumbled words, but agreeing wholeheartedly, Susanna feels finally free of some great pressure upon her, one she’d never even noticed before. She can finally relax.

The thought of flicking a certain digit at McCardell springs to mind, but with her rational thought gently returning, she decides against it. Instead, reluctantly releasing the beautiful tabby from her embrace, she walks with Amaja after the disappearing Lily. Her left hand feels welded to the furry warmth of Amaja’s right.

Paulson watches in amusement at the shenanigans of Amaja and Susanna. Well at least one couple will be happy by the end of this stupid trip.

He sighs before turning back to Theresa and waiting for an answer to his previous question.

Oh my..amaja and susanna..well at least they’re happy.

She stumbles around for balance until she finally found her footing.She looked over to paulson and theresa and walked up to paulson and once again pushed theresa out of the way.She kissed paulson on the lips with a passion like never before.She didnt know what came over her or why she did this exactly but she liked it.She pulled away from him for a second.

I wasnt lying
Is all she said as she stood there,waiting for a response.

The stunned archer blinked in surprise at Jasmina’s directness, that was something he liked about her. He smile as he gently placed his hands on her shoulders and sighed.

You are one hell of a kisser I’ll give you that. He joked before his tone turned serious.

But you still never answered my question from earlier. Why do you love me?

You’re always so nice to me,i dont know about other people.You’re also so brave in battles…well except for…that one time..Recalling their first encounter with mollith

And before this trip you were always looking out for me when i met you.
She blushed red but looked him in the eye.

Paulson smiled as he gave her a tight hug and a quick peck on the cheek. Thanks, I needed to know that. But if this is really gonna work, you have to let me and Theresa talk for a bit without interrupting her and slamming her into a wall, okay?

He smiled as he gave her a wink.

Oh I’m sorry about that..i just wanted to tell you how i feel..

She looked over to theresa and apologized for her actions,she chuckled lightly.

[Right then. Going to be moving on soon. Do you two want to wait for Theresa? Or should I go straight to our dramatic final battle? Either or is fine with me]

(Hmm if TCN wants to hurry up and post her story then we’ll wait but if he doesn’t hurry up then we need to move on. So wait 10 more minutes or so?)

[That’d be 10 minutes up]

(Then away we go!)

(I should probably wake up some time soon shouldn’t I?
Not much use in a fight unless I can use my drool to kill someone)

(hooray

Ninja’d
also albert is still dying technically,just not as fast )

(He is?
Didn’t Makar’s La God-mode potion cure me up?)

[Yup. Typing up dramatics now. Give us a bit. Feel free to Rise and join the fight if you want to join Albert ;p]

(Not all the way it just slowed it down alot,i mean you can still fight though)

Delilah was hovering around her half-dead husband the whole time; she barely even reacts to the spell being cast or ending, watching him with scared eyes. As Amaja moves, she thinks her friend is coming over to speak to her, but instead the tabby stops in front of Susanna. She watches with a bit of surprise as the geomancer stands up and kisses Susanna… and her other friend reciprocates. The dancer blushes a little and smiles, at the memory of her own desperate passion before the party had entered Reinhild’s castle, but the thought brings tears to her eyes at the thought of Albert dying in Dave’s slack-jawed grasp, Delilah trembling as she wraps her arms around herself, even as she smiles at her friends’ newfound romance.

Alberts long silence is quite suddenly broken as he begins groaning and moving around a little. His eyes slowly open and he’s sees the world once again, though slightly blurred for the time being, and begins to attept walking, staggereing around for the first few steps. He looks around as he see’s his companions, already appearing to have enough drama without him being around
I’m… I’m alive?
I thought when the ghost touched me he’d drained out my soul.
I just felt so weak and just couldn’t hold on any longer so I blacked out. I thought it was all over.
But… I’m alive this is great!
Soon enough his vision clears and his first sight is that of his love Delilah. He smiles as he see’s her givs her a hug, shedding a few tears as he does
I was so worried I’d left you alone again.
I couldn’t bare to think you could get hurt without me here to try and keep you safe.
He gives her a kiss and then pulls himself a little off the ground, drawing out his rapier from it’s sheath and using it to help him keep balanced.
Wherever we’re headed I hope theres someone in need of being punished on the way. I’ve gotten a lot of rest and I’m in the mood to punish the wicked who’ve done this.

Right then Right then. Lets finish this shall we? As our heroes admit their feelings to each other the group gets closer and closer to their destination. Lily making sure to give a certain rejected thief a pat on the shoulder, noting she’ll get her chance again someday.

But as the ivory doors that lead into the palace come into sight the group goes silent. Tension rises as Lily places her hand upon them, the familiar shimmer flowing through them as they open up for she of Royal blood. The Group one by one walk in silence into the deserted Shrine, the stealth experts first, then the warriors, then the mages each keeping a keen eye around them.

The place is a perfectly clean world of white. The walls, the floors, rows of Columns near the walls. All made of the finest Ivory and white-marble stone. The shrine behind them depicting an elaborate snake like dragon and a holy fountain around it…. All be it now with a large door at its base thanks to our heroes entrance.. Steps to the Marble floor before them.

But as the group starts to relax, eyes looking for their next step they hear a slow and patient clap.

From behind one of the columns a man in a golden robe steps out. A blue Jay to be specific with a smug smile on his face. As her grins the soldiers come in next: Countless of them forming a line between our heroes and the aloof avian who still gave his slow clap. All armed with Broad-swords and spears. Pointing them in the obvious direction.

Beside him four robed hedgehogs enter the room standing behind the wall of Those of magic and sorcery recognizing them as mages in an instant…. But of what sort they can not be sure.

Last but not least there is the king. A hedgehog man whose age I clearly shown by the elaborate white stash that hangs bellow his nose. Despite his age you can see through his robes of violet a man of strength, scars across his face and neck showing a man who has seen many battles. But despite all this… his face seems dulled… tired…as if he barely knows he’s there.

But it is the Blue Jay who speaks first. His voice dripping with superiority as Lily grinded her teeth, and clenched her fist at the sight of him “Bravo, Bravo Princess. I was wondering when you would arrive…. Oh… such a look.. It’s been so long… haven’t you missed you dear Uncle Dramar?” He waved one hand across his face

“Of course you haven’t. How could a woman who conspires to kill her own BROTHER with filthy foreigners no less care for such things?… My lord can you believe her gaul?” He looked towards the king. Who answered simply

“… I can not….My own sister…This is not something I can forgive.” the ‘Emperors’ gruff voice sounding as tired as he looked.

Lily sliced the air with one hand “You DARE talk to me of treachery! I’d call you a weasel but I happen to like the adorable little creatures. It’d be an insult to them! I’ve not come to kill my brother! I’ve come to kill YOU traitor!… Don’t you see what he’s done? He’s addled your lords mind!”

The Soldiers just stared.. Only a few looking uncertain at Lily’s words…. But no where near enough as they kept their swords high.

Dramar just scoffed shaking his head “They will not be fooled by such tall tails ‘Princess’. Oh…? Ou’re wondering how we knew I’m guessing? That’s simple enough… we knew of your betral, and the emperor knew of your knowledge of this ‘secret passage’…once we put two and two together…. It wasn’t a hard guess. But Enough of this…. Why don’t you all just make this easy… surrender…you have no chance here. We out number you….”

With each word he spoke those before him could feel their spirits sink. He was right wasn’t he…? They had them now… their fate was certain… death would come soon… better it be painless right? Better they not fight It. Finding themselves lost in his eyes….surrender was their only option…
Suddenly those feelings vanished suddenly. Our heroes standing up against confused seeing Lily standing with one of her glowing cards apparently countering the mans spells. Her eyes shooting daggers at the Advisor “Oh no. I’ll not let you use your enchantments on US!…. Come on then..! All of you! Keep the soldiers back as best you can… watch out for the mages… and most importantly of all: Kill that bastard and free my brother!”

The Advisor Scowled glancing to the king “… give the order my lord….”

The King nodded simply… “….. Kill all the traitors…. Every last one.”


And thus the final battle begins!


The Setup:

Okay then. The group stands atop the Shrine. The Warriors in front, Archers, and Mages behind.

Bellow them a large group of warriors advances on them. Individually weaker then our warriors but their numbers are many, blocking their path beyond. For the Sake of simplicity we will split them into four groups from left to right (Group A, B, C, and D)

Behind them are four mages of unknown types all preparing spells to unleash on our heros. For simplicities sake we will label them from left to right as well (Wizard 1, 2, 3, and 4)

Lastly we have the Adviser and the Emperor behind them. The Adviser will be unable to take any action as Lily will be continually countering his enchantment spells for this battle…. though Lily will be similarly occupied (To prevent me from having a DMPC hogging the glory)

It should be noted that the secret tunnel is still open behind you. The injured can be dragged back there to safety if need be but it’ll prevent you from taking part in the fight.

Primary Goals:
-Make sure the Warriors do NOT break the front line. If they swarm our casters they will have a very hard time defending themselves.
-Make sure the Wizards do not get too many spells off. Other wise they will tear apart the front line and ruin our chances of victory. Remember that the Warriors stand in your path between them though!
-most importantly of all: Kill the god Damn adviser. His death is the only way to be victorious in this battle.

(assume this post happened right as the group entered this room)

Delilah’s quiet sobs prevent her from hearing her mate slowly come to behind her. As she hears his words, she turns to see who is talking, only to have him fall over on top of her. As he holds her in his arms, she hugs him back tightly, squeezing on his shoulders as though she’ll never let him go. At his kiss, she cries even more, rubbing her cheek against his, her fingers gripping his fur.

You stupid knight… I thought you were going to die… Oh Albert… don’t leave me alone again like this…

The dancer is trembling like a leaf, but eventually, Albert lets her go and tries to rise and she reluctantly lets him do so. As the knight leans on his rapier, however, she shakes her head as the thin blade bends as it is meant to, giving him a hug from behind, helping to support him.

You stubborn man! You can barely stand and you’re already trying to fight?

The pregnant feline fusses over her husband, but though her face is still damp with tears, her smile is impossible to hide. The clap, however, interrupts their moment as the dancer whirls to face him, fear but also steel in her eyes. As she sees the large group of armed men, she lets Albert lean against her, half supporting her weight as they begin to form up around them. The dancer pulls her dagger from her sash - the dagger that Albert gave Sunday, that Sunday gave Delilah. Gripping it with white knuckles, she watches the large group of foes form up against them.

No one is allowed to die.

She glares at the party, as though her words could make it so; her lip is trembling, but her hands are not.

The White mage stops talking and stands there quietly,listening and watching everything around her,focusing intently on the mages in the back.She prepares for the last battle.

Paulson listened to the Adviser’s speech with a grimace on his face, quietly fingering a arrow in his hand. As the soldiers begin their advance on the group. He tries to proved the most help he can by quickly aiming his arrows towards the mages.

Lily,He whispers harshly before he fires. Do you want us to hurt or kill? We might be able to only hurt the warriors but if unless you guys know some lip locking spells we won’t be able to not kill the mages.

Angry at this sudden disruption in their plans, Susanna casts up a basic, though effective, shield around the group. After a moment’s reflection, she turns it transparent, too.

“That’ll hold off incoming projectiles for a while. I can’t promise very much against melee attacks to it, though…”

Konar takes out his sword and stares at the foes.
I have defeated many foes before,so this will be piece of cake.
The swordsman takes grip of his sword with both of his hands and stares seriously.
I don’t know if i survive this battle thougt so i will say this for the last time…
A small aura cover the swordsman,is the same aura he emantes when he’s going to fight seriously
The name is Konar,the evil slayer!Let’s get it started?

Lily grinds her teeth, clearly not liking this prospect her body shivering as she spoke it

“…..Aim to disable if you can… an arrow to the arm can break a wizards concentration easily….. but… if you have no other choice….”

She takes a breath “… They’ve all sworn to die for their countries safety…. let their deaths be on my conscience not yours.”

[Try to post actions here guys. Saying you get ‘ready for battle’ doesn’t tell me much. Even if it’s ‘I prepare to do X if Y happens’ works fine. Specify what Mage/Soldier group you’re clashing against as well, it DOES matter. Idle and Auto-ed Characters will be able to cover the holes some (Since they do exist you know?) but not as well as actual posters]

Albert smirks as he sees the group of soldiers around him, no longer using his Rapier as a walking stick but once again as his blade
Hehehe I’ve missed doing this for quiet some time thanks to those ghosts.
I hope I didn’t get rusty while I was asleep.
He turns to Delilah and stands up as best he can to stop putting anymore pressure on her
Please try your best not to get hurt. I wouldn’t want what happened to me happening to you too.
without any more hesitaion he charges towards the knights and begins attacking them, laughing a little as he once again gets to enjoy the combat he has missed for some time
(guess that means attack group A)

The moment the soldiers begin to advance he takes a backwards step and fades out of sight, his crossbow loaded, he moves as stealthily as possible along the walls and columns towards the rear of the advancing horde

After listening the emperor’s last words, Makar held his sword tightly and advanced, ready to counter the attacks of Group D’s guards if they attack him.

She starts chanting(whatever ok shut up) and soon she casts a spell on the group that will make them temporarily invincible(20 seconds) and protect them,for hopefully the rest of the battle.The Protection will mostly be for harmful spells and poisons.
Ahh..I hope that will hold up,it should.
She pants and refocuses on everyone.

If you die, I’ll never forgive you!

Delilah watches Albert run off towards the knights, but her eyes are drawn beyond, to the wizards in the back. She knows they will be trouble if they can reach them with their magic, and begins to step along, a strange, erratic dance which makes wisps flicker and vanish around her, seeming to distort the air slightly. She steps down following her husband, keeping towards the back of those who are confronting groups A and B, her dance disrupting all other magic in that region, including that of any allies who may be there or trying to help.