[h3]Ash’s Party[/h3] [quote=System:Danny] Skill Gain: Meditate I By concentrating and calming oneself, increase the regeneration of Magic Power and Stamina. This skill cannot be used in battle. Any distractions in the environment will drastically decrease the effectiveness of this skill. This skill cannot be used in conjunction with other skills. [/quote] [quote=System:Reoth] Skill Gain: Charisma I Like other charismatic skills, your personality is almost a magical charm unto itself. You’ll have greater luck convincing others to go along with your suggestions, but only within their own natural reasoning. This skill may not work on those with stronger Wills. [/quote] [hr] [h3]Bonfire Party[/h3] [quote=LOOT] 19 Mana Crystals remain. 2 Flame Touched Crystals remain. [/quote] [quote=System:Asteria] You created an item! [Broken Fanged Lizard Jawbone (???) + Fanged Lizard Venom (???)]x2 Your Crafting Skill has kept the quality of the item from degrading. Your Dextrous Skill has provided a slight boost to this item's quality. You made: Poisoned Bone Needle (???) (x4) [/quote] [quote=System:Oberon] Skill Gain: Mana Dart I A focused magic projectile that deals non-elemental Magic damage and Piercing Damage. Higher cost than Mana Orb but increased range, speed, and damage. However, its smaller size makes it less accurate. [/quote] [quote=System:Rain] You are experiencing a fast rate of Skill Progression. [/quote] [quote=System:Digbie] [color=red][b]Yo! You have reached the Demon King's Prayer Hotline. Please hold, your prayers are NOT important to me. I kindly request that you STOP IMMEDIATELY. Do not EVER pray to me again. Prayers are for deities and I don't want that kinda fuckin' responsibility. This is an automated response system, do not reply to it or I'll send somebody to fuck you up. --Beep-- Update: As of [8 days] ago, if you're one of my Damned Heroes, this is for you. If you can prove your strength to me and survive, find my Palace. Protip--it ain't in that shitty cave. Try the Dungeons.[/b][/color] [/quote] As Rain continued to practice what she hoped would be a poisonous breath skill, she found that pooling venom in her mouth and then drawing in the air to breathe it with made it much harder to avoid swallowing and choking on her own acid, but it did cause the poisonous liquid to evaporate more quickly and produce those fumes from earlier. Inside the enclosed space of her mouth, those fumes became concentrated, and when she blew out she created a small cloud around her. From the rocks below her feet, where the poison seemed to condensate most heavily, she could hear sizzling, but only for a few seconds. The fumes quickly began to dissolve in the air. Maybe this might work on an enemy in her immediate personal space, but it still wasn't what she wanted. Was it the strength of her breath or lung capacity that needed to increase? The amount of the poison? Its potency? What could she do to push this skill further...? As Asteria and Ed worked on their bone needles, mud camo, and dirty foxholes, Mother Rat joined them with a quizzical squeak. She decided that her offspring must be trying to hide her scent for some reason, and thus flopped down into the mud puddle herself. After a messy rolling session, Mother Rat stood up and shook the heavier clumps from her fur much like a dog, splattering the other two. Asteria's crafting efforts seemed to go more smoothly this time, but she still couldn't be sure of the quality of her items. When she focused her sight, however, she would soon be able to make out about as much about the goblins as Digbie and Ardur did originally--she knew they were out there in numbers, but she couldn't make out many specifics aside from the torches, which not all of the Goblins seemed to be carrying. As she, Mother Rat, and presumably Ed took up positions in their foxhole, the mud on their coats did a good job of matching the ground, rendering them nearly invisible even to each other in this darkness if not for their recognizable scents. Oberon's new spell activated with a blip of the system, just as his new projectile drilled a deep hole into the stone. If that had been a flesh and blood creature like himself, it likely would have gone all the way through. It seemed to have even more penetrating power than those stones the green slime was fond of launching around. But as his efforts finally paid off, it seemed like most of the group around him was starting to take up positions--whether for ambush, or a preemptive assault. Digbie received a very odd yet entirely definite answer to his prayer. The Demon King's voice had that same sort of personality as when he had first heard it in the afterlife...and yet, there was also an air of seriousness, maybe even urgency, to his request that he not be treated as a deity. And that part about "fucking them up" didn't sound like an empty threat either. And then he requested his character screen, and a sound like the world's most fucked dial-up split his skull as pain became his everything. [quote=System:Digbie] Note: System Lag. Update Required. [hider=Digbie the Shovel Boy] [center][u][b][h3]TRIGGER WARNING[/h3][/b][/u] Seriously, there's hecka dark material ahead, my dudes. Venture at your own risk.[/center] [hider=The REAL Digbie The Shovel Boi][center][color=00aeef][h3][b]"I'm good at diggin', and not much else."[/b][/h3][/color] [hr] [color=00aeef][b]Name:[/b][/color] Digbie the Shovel Boy [color=00aeef][b]Themes:[/b][/color] [url=https://youtu.be/E72yDpAfrgY](Common)[/url] [url=https://youtu.be/JYFU_RiefKk](Rarely)[/url] [color=00aeef][b]Gender:[/b][/color] Male [color=00aeef][b]Species:[/b][/color] Goblin [b]Appearance:[/b] It's your standard goblin, though he has a far weaker chin than most goblins. Honestly, he just looks like a really short human with green skin, a long and pointy nose, and pointed ears. He has hair, but it's only growing right above the middle of his head like a mohawk, and it refuses to spread anywhere else on his head. It's actually kinda long. (I'll be doing art of this boy in time). [b]Goals:[/b] Help whoever needs help (namely the Demon King), and find a legendary shovel to help people with. [b]Past Life:[/b] Digbie didn't really have a life. It was more or less just a collection of him existing and being somebody that he couldn't tell people about. His dad said something about how his mom was still around and he loved her, but Digbie never saw her. He suspected that she was in the back room of his old house, where it smelled, was obnoxiously cold from an under-draft, and always buzzed like flies, but he wasn't ever allowed in there. Early on in his life, Digbie liked to play around in the backyard with his trusty shovel, digging around everywhere and getting into gardening (though he was never any good at the latter.) When he wasn't at school, he was probably digging a hole in his backyard. It helped him cope with the skulls of people in his room when his dad was apparently 'done' with them. Digbie couldn't understand, and he didn't understand why he came home sometimes to find his holes covered up. At first it scared him, but he grew out of it. He was around 14 or so, making somewhat respectable grades at his school and a pretty smart fellow at face value, when his dad got mad at him. He made a low grade in his history class. His dad yelled at him and cast him to the bathroom while he thought about how to punish his bastard of a son. Digbie was scared, but Digbie was also smart and didn't break the bathroom to worsen the punishment. His dad settled on turning his hobby into a punishment, and after feeding him a good meal, sent Digbie to the backyard to dig a hole and find a bone in the backyard, but he had to find a bone in a spot of the yard where he had never dug before. Digbie began to dig a hole on Sunday. The authorities found his body in the hole two Saturdays later. He actually got pretty far. [color=00aeef][b]Abilities:[/b][/color] - Use Light Equipment - Tremor Sense I [i]"Your past life as one in tune with your Dwarven side makes you very good at diggy diggy. One part of that, though, is knowing how to avoid cave-ins. You can feel vibrations through the earth within a 30 foot radius or so around you, whether they be footsteps, tunneling creatures, etc."[/i] [color=00aeef][b]Transformations:[/b][/color] Nothing yet! [color=00aeef][b]Inventory:[/b][/color] The Windy Shovel - A shovel made out of pure air. [/center] [/hider] [/hider] You are suffering from an intense migraine. [/quote] Mother Slime rolled slightly back and forth, as if she were nodding now that she seemed to understand what Asura had in mind. Though it was much harder for her to try and look inconspicuous, she followed Asura in trying to stay out of sight. Though with the hubbub coming from several of the others, that might soon become difficult... Ardur watched the chaos from up above, now with a somewhat better view of the goblins. They seemed to be progressing forward quickly, but Rattleskull also seemed to be hanging back, perhaps to conserve his strength or order his minions around... As Jason made his preparations, he could just barely make out shouting up ahead. And then there were some lights, like magic--unless he missed his guess, a flock of what were probably wild pixies seemed to have swooped down on one group of goblins. But a few flashes later--three of which didn't look like the pixie's magic--there was more goblin screaming, and it sounded triumphant. If he had any sort of sensing ability that would let him actually see his targets, rather than just Tremor Sense, this might have worked better. Tremor Sense was even becoming somewhat overwhelming and confusing, thanks to all the stomping around these greenskins were doing. But at the least it gave him an idea of his distance, and he could see just well enough to make out their shadowy forms. With his focus and careful aim, he lined up a shot... [hr] [h3]Mourningstar[/h3] As Mourningstar began to blink, the two Wisps stopped and looked to each other in confusion. Then one floated towards the direction Mourningstar had indicated, and soon let off a bright flash like a red exclamation point, complete with sound effect, of alarm. The other wild Wisp soon joined it, and now it seemed they had become distracted from dealing with Mourningstar as an intruder. Other wisps began to approach, however, but their lights seemed more calm and, if anything, curious. Then, a larger light appeared. It was extremely bright, so much so that looking directly into its mass made you see spots for a few seconds after closing your eyes. The color was a bright, neon pink, and darkened around the edges more towards a sort of lavender. This larger Wisp headed towards all the hubbub to see what was going on... [hr] [h3]Orchid and Goblin Party[/h3] As Orchid led her group towards the east, taking them in a different direction than they had originally intended, they came across the Hammer Team just finishing off a small group of pixies. The lead goblin here, the one whom Rattleskull had given the Stone Hammer, turned towards Orchid's approaching party with a snarl. "You s'posed to go DAT way!" he pointed. "Don't leave no gaps for mobs t'get troo!" More focused on the task at hand than berating the female, he turned back to his group and yelled at them to keep going. As the three of them moved forward, however, Orchid's group could see a group of fluttering things coming down from the ceiling--it looked like the Hammer Squad had come upon a whole nest of Pixies. There wasn't much time to help them, however, as Orchid's own team was soon discovered by a Dire Rat that poked its head out of its den, only to hiss fearlessly at them and leap to attack one of the torch bearers! While Orchid was dealing with that, the Hammer Team dove into the fray with gusto. Further to the east the shouts of the Brawny Team could be heard, but it seemed they were cries of victory rather than pain or fear. The Hammer Team seemed to have either learned skills of their own, or perhaps even leveled up over the course of this battle--as Orchid and her group were dealing with the Dire Rat (and probably making short work of it granted their equipment and numerical advantage) they heard all three of the hammers shout "SMASH!" at different points. But while all of this was happening, Crispy and Rattleskull were moving too. Rattleskull seemed to be bringing up the rear behind the Hammer Team, since they had cleared the most area at this point. Crispy's team stopped just to the west of Orchid's group. "What you doin', youngling?! You said you was gonna scout dis way! We gots to capture territory all da way to da walls, or somethin' might slip through and get behind us!" Like the Hammer goblin, he gestured back towards the other side from where Orchid had directed her team. "Oi!" Rattleskull's voice boomed to the left of Orchid's team. "Youngling, send one o' yer shieldboys to dat team! Dey just lost one!" Sure enough, against what seemed to be six pixies--three of whom were already dead despite all of them seeming to focus on keeping themselves shielded--one of the Hammer Goblin's minions had fallen. THe other two, however, once again cried out the activation of their skills and took to bludgeoning the rest of the fairies. In moments the battle would probably be over in the goblin's favor-- Although just then, the second minion got beaned over the head by...a rock? It had been moving almost like a bullet! It didn't kill the goblin, but it certainly did some damage and knocked him to the ground, blood trickling over one eye. "Keep movin' forward! Stay low, dere's someone throwin' stuff at us!" shouted the Hammer Goblin as he crouched and helped his companion up. [hr] [hider=MAP] [img]https://i.imgur.com/0iAjFUK.jpg[/img] ORCHID'S TEAM - B6 > C7 (SPACE FULL) HAMMER TEAM - C7 > D7 (SPACE 1/2 FULL) BRAWNY TEAM - B8 > D8 (SPACE 3/4 FULL) CRISPY TEAM - A7 > B6 (SPACE 3/4 FULL) RATTLESKULL - A6 > B7 (SPACE 1/4 FULL) 15/16 GOBLIN FORCES REMAIN --- JASON AT H-7 ASH AT F-29 (SPACE-FULL) OBERON AT K-11(?) ASTERIA AT J-11 RAIN AT H-13 ARDUR AT E-11 ABOVE DANNY AT F-30 ASURA AT I-12 (?) MOMMA SLIME AT I-12(?) DIGBIE AT J-9 ORCHID AT C-7 (SPACE FULL) ED AT J-11 MOTHER RAT AT J-11 SCOTT AT F-29 (SPACE FULL) NAJI AT F-29 (SPACE FULL) COLCHAIN AT F-29 (SPACE FULL) REOTH AT F-29 (SPACE FULL) [/hider]