Bittersweet Candy Bowl

(The other one was too full already. Snooths has a point)

Previous thread.

Also known as the part where stuff happens

She continues to walk along with the group listening to the other speak about how paulson was going to distract them,she wasn’t sure if it was a good idea,but she didnt have a better one at the moment.

Paulson sighs. Look guys, rearranging a river is not exactly going to be quiet. So maybe a bit of a distraction will help.

This time he talks only to Paulson, in order to not give others ideas to not let him go. He imprints into his mind:

They would be alerted even if you were there. I understand that you want some time by yourself, so stop making up these excuses.

(( Ok people. I’m dropping out as Mollith for the most part. Rukral & Bribri have control of the innocently savage girl. It’s been an interesting ride, and if Ruk has something he desperately wants me to post, I will. But till then, I bid you all adieu, and wish you all the best of luck with your game. ))

(Gotta go for a few hours. Keith will follow Paulson with his mind, making sure he is safe when infiltrating. In kase of danger, he will shield him, and in kase of emergensy, pull him out of there. Auto privileges to Paulson, and anyone auto-ing Paulson.)

She came to a stop at the edge of the woods, only a thin line of trees keeping them from the open view of the guards around the resting grounds. The river cut through the the barren land, the rapid waters quite audible to everyone around. The air seemed to have a cold, foreboding chill to it. Heads turned nervously as every so often faint whispers could be heard above the gurgle of the river. The sun had begun to set, casting a shadow towards them from the hill they hoped to climb. Despite the eerie nature of this all, Lieselotte stood confident, Makar and Mollith at either side.

The plan is simple, Amaja will reroute the river to flood the area around the hill. Once the guards have been carried off, she will reseal whatever paths she creates for the flow. Paulson, those guards are to attack people on sight, you distracting them is too risky for you to try it. We make our move on the resting grounds. If any guards remain, we do what we can to take them out, with as few casualties as possible. We search the camp for information, and try to stop whatever may be up there.

Lord Makar nodded, bravery shown deep in his eyes.
Lieselotte… He wispered.
Looking at the vampiress, he smiled confidently.
… Let’s both survive… ok?
The knight’s voice was soft, but serious at the same time.

(I can’t take the pain in my eye any longer. I’m going to the hospital now. Rukral and Bribri can control Lord Makar as well. I just hope to don’t miss too much in the next 10 hours or so.)

Delilah bites her lip.

I think I can help, a little, but only if the water is calm enough; its too hard to do on rough surfaces.

She shakes her head.

And information means we don’t kill people if we can help it. Dead people don’t talk, remember?

Delilah gives a stern look at a few of the more trigger happy party members.

Paulson looks crestfallen at the news that his plan will not be used but goes along with Lieselotte’s. He prepares for battle, reading his bow and watching the camp closely.

I hope I know what to do after this battle, those girls are going to want an answer.

He gulps quietly to himself, more worried about his fate after the battle than during it.

((Auto Paulson for now, He will fight bravely and protect Theresa and Jasmina equally. Anyone can autoplay Paulson except for the two mentioned above and no love triangle development unless dubbed by Ruk. Later gators.))

Amaja stood a few paces behind Lieselotte and company. Listening keenly to what the vampire ordered to the group. When everything had been set in stone, she looked over her shoulder faintly to her friend. Turning back to face the river that flowed nearby. Taking a deep breath she made her way towards the further point from the group, trying to hold an air of her confidence in her stride so others couldn’t see how nervous this whole ordeal was truly making her. Feeling a safe distance to perform her geomancy without involving the others, she took another deep breath as she slowly rose her hands from her sides, sleeves barely over her fingertips.

Closing her eyes she focused her thoughts on the rushing water beside her, the depth of the ground beneath it, the flow of energy that was always present, and then something else, a strong essence she’d never felt before that seemed to flow from the earth into her and back. Opening the lids to her eyes just faintly to look at the ground before her, she rose her hands over her head and brought them back down to the earth in one swift motion. The ground before her imploding into the earth with the water beginning to pouring in, in an attempt to fill the now void section of earth. Throwing her arms to the river, she weaves her hands swiftly as if guiding the water into the abyss she’d created. Sufficiently filling with enough water, she begins to move her hands rhythmically around her body and in front of herself, the water beginning to move and gurgle in response to her motions. Feeling the flow of energies throughout her body she struggles to maintain focus as she moves the water quicker and quicker in a spiraling motion in the pit till it creates a funnel in itself, slowly sucking in its surrounds as it eroded the surrounding walls. Taking in a deep breath she squat low to the ground throwing her hands into the water before tugging at the spiraling torrent, the massive water structure bursting from its hold and spiraling through the air.

As the tornado of water rose from the earth, several of the nearby guards stopped their patrol long enough to see a massive shadow on the ground, to turn around momentarily and point in the direction of the cyclone of water before it slammed into the ground taking them along with it.

The water hit the earth with an ear shattering slap as the area began to fill violently with a deadly wall of surging water. Washing away anyone that was not on high enough ground.

Moments passed and the water began to settle on the barren plains, covered in water, but quickly receding after the geomancer’s barrage. Smiling lightly to herself, she panted heavily dropping to her hands and knees. Soaking wet from ears to tail, she looked up meekly at the water draining from the area and laughed softly to herself. She sat up from her hands and plopped back onto her butt with her hands now behind her back holding her up, taking in a slow breath trying to regain her composure after everything she’d just put into this stupid task.

The knight grits his teeth in the back, grinding his palm on the hilt of his rapier, eyes narrowed as he is waiting for something, anything to happen.

Is the geomancer even doing anything?

He grunts impatiently, before Delilah shushes him.

Watch…

She murmurs to him as the spiral of water reaches up into the sky. As the waters crash down, Delilah shudders a little from the force of the impact on the men; with such force, she’s sure that even water can kill. As the water flows away from around the hillside, Albert can take no more. Striding forward confidently with his rapier, he begins to splash across the soggy ground, gesturing with his weapon for his comrades to charge after him.

Albert!

Delilah calls, but the warrior seems intent on his mission.

“Stay back Delilah, we can handle this!” he shouts back at his pregnant wife, the ragamuffin mix looking despairingly after him

Walks forward and is ready to protect anyone that needs protecting

Not much i can do here until the battle is over.

Unphased by the spectacular display of water and earth that had just occurred, she strides confidently through the muddied remnants of the barren field around the hill. Mollith squealed with glee as she watched the guards wash away, hugging Justardanious tight before returning him to her shoulder. She tapped her pendant, which grew to her full length scythe and skipped closely behind Lieselotte. Makar, simply speechless at what just happened remained in place for slightly longer, until Molliths giggles as she skipped snapped him out of his daze. He pulled out his sword and quickly ran after the pair.

Any remaining guards are quickly dispatched by soft thunks of a crossbow

Paulson, eager to close with the enemy, seeking solace in combat to clear his mind, follows closely behind the charging vampire, his paws squelching against the ground as he runs, leaving his shins brown and mucky as he half-runs, half-staggers across the now-soaked terrain, stringing his bow as he goes. Sir Icarus has his sword out as well, following closely behind Makar; the nondescript knight seemed to have been all but forgotten, but he is like a shadow to the Hero of Light, matching him stride for stride as his hand clenches tightly around his weapon. Albert slows to let the rest of the group catch up, wading ahead through the muck and keeping to the front, rapier in one hand, knife in the other.

Delilah runs over to the exhausted geomancer to check on her, relieved to see she is alright. She crouches next to her and puts an arm across her shoulders, looking out across the watery waste the geomancer has created grimly, but she manages to force a smile for the tabby’s sake, though it does not touch her eyes, which are tight with worry.

As she reaches the dry hill, she turns and beckons the others to follow. The unnerving whispers grow louder as the climb, unintelligible in their otherworldly language. She reaches the top, four abandoned tents circle around a dark swirling void in the center of the hill. Not a soul can be seen, and the air has a sharp bite as temperatures drop around the void. Mollith seems entranced by the dark void, but Lieselotte grasps her hand tight to prevent her from approaching. The light from Makar’s sword seems to be sucked into the void itself as he stares uneasily at it’s swirling depths.

Keep your weapons ready and search the tents. There must be something here for us to find, and for your own wellbeing, stay away from whatever that is.

She points to the darkness before entering one of the nearby tents.

Sword in hand, Konar stays back with Delilah and Amaja. Not to worry, I’ll make sure both of you make it through safely. Taking the lead, he motions them to move forward.
Making his way up, he spots the void in the center of the hill. What the hell…?

She slowly makes her way up the hill and manages to not get so dirty from all the muck

What the hell…it’s so cold here

She shivers slightly as she also enters a nearby tent

The group of warriors, so confident before, slow their pace as they climb the hill, feeling the tug of oblivion. Paulson’s bow is held taut with an arrow nocked as he watches for any signs of activity, while Albert approaches the tents cautiously, flicking his knife back and forth in his free hand while holding up his rapier defensively, as though something might strike at any moment. Icarus is curious about the void and begins to walk towards it, the paladin feeling its pull on his body, mind, and soul. Albert shouts

No closer! It means to devour you!

Icarus stops short, coming to himself as he feels the swirling darkness try to tug the sword from his grasp.

The long-eared knight shakes his head at Icarus, then goes into another tent near Lieselotte, flicking open the flap with his blade before venturing inside.

RP IS PAUSED DUE TO SHIT TIMING, EVERYONE LEFT FOR THE EVENT. PLEASE DO NOT POST IN CHARACTER UNTIL UNPAUSED.

WELL I
I WANNA BE YA LOVA BABE
I WANNA BE YA MAAAAAAN

Amaja exhaustively leans her full weight into Delilah, closing her eyes once more and taking long deep breaths as she began to recuperate from the fatigue that just put upon her. She glances up to Delilah momentarily as she’s leaning into her, thinking for a moment before shuffling further down the ragamuffin and places her cheek and ear to her stomach. She smiles lovingly as she just listens to anything that might be heard from the little one one the way.

((Lawl bet you saw Amaja x Delilah for a second ;D PSYCHE!

P.S. I was trying to post this before the pause :I distractions aren’t helpful


:: PAUSE:: ))

AND I
WANNA BE THE PEAR TREE
I WANT YOU TO CLIMB ALL OVER ME
TRY MY FRUIT AND TASTE MY SEED

boy do i hate that song

Hahaha Snooths thank you, your silly nonsense is making me smile

turn that smile upsidile

I guess this means I’ll very likely wont be here when the game unpauses, so I’m gonna miss the ending. NUUUUUU!!!

Oh well… if I’m not here… full autoplay privileges to Jasmina (and some to Makar and Lieselotte).

(Well I’m here now at least so I guess I can wait with the rest of you.
yaaay can’t wait)

[[Well, seeing as how I’ll be out most of the day, autoplay privileges go to Paulson, Lieselotte, and Amaja in that order. Just try hard to not get me killed.]]

(Well huh.I guess I’ll try to get on a some point in the next two days to check on this but no promises. Continue auto play as before.))

(I totally called Carter missing the fight. Welp, hope I don’t look like too much of an idiot appearing again out of thin air when the game’s unpaused.)

(Haha my character has one hallucination, and now he has a weak soul? Come on guys! Everyone was terrified at that point! You can’t really blame him!

Also, TD, you have given me reason to carry on.)

(Guess like nothing happened while I was away. Good, I revoke autoplay rights. Hahaha.)

((I’m revoking rights like Keith. Guess I’ll hover for an hour or three.))

((…Sad I missed the Suenami, though.))

((Geez, wtf happened here? I was having such fun reading this))

((Once we actually have a good amount of players online I will unpause it. As stated above, I paused it as everyone bitched about not advancing the plot and when I did almost all the players left when we actually needed them. ))

No one advances Plots like Gaston!
BUMP ta Dump te Hump.
Gaston enters the void like the crazy SOB he is.

hey you,shut the fuck up gaston yeah you,stop trying to be edgy

(Wow, DJ being remotely productive o.o

Welp, first for everything )

(Yeah, I’m gonna be busy until late tomorrow. Family from out of town, need to visit with them, being torn away from the computer, yadda, yadda, yadda. Glad to know the SAG’s still paused.)

((Please let me know in IRC when you are ready. When we have enough players active at the same time, I will unpause the SAG))

[[What’s the criteria? Do we need certain people on? If not, how many are needed to unpause?

[If I might make a Recommendation~

Given that so many people are busy (myself included to some extent) if anyone has a particular scene, or situation that they want to role play out that doesn’t involve moving the plot forward (IE going to the shrine to kick butt and such) it might be a practical idea to simply PM those needed for the scene you have in mind on Skype/IRC. Having your own little role playing session on a channel in either chat. Posting the log here for all to enjoy.

It’ll help get those odds and ends situations people have been itching to do role played out, without having to wait for the Unpause to take place.]

((That’s it, I want this RP to end already, it’s driving me insane. Unpaused, just do your shit so we can end this horrible smoking trainwreck ))

Delilah blushes as the tabby moves her head down to listen to the pregnant ragamuffin’s belly, but smiles and looks down at the geomancer, gently holding her head in her hands, stroking Amaja’s other ear gently even as her friend listens to her belly. She purrs quietly, the trouble temporarily forgotten as her friends and lover search the tents on the sodden mound.

Dave walks down to the closest tent whilst minding the void in the middle. He cautiously enters through the front and begins to search its contents