Altered Tundra

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

Emiri took Jaakuna’s hand and she was up. She definitely was in a lot of disbelief, but Jaakuna didn’t know why. Did she use her ability? Jaakuna could guess all day long, but that wouldn’t do him any good. The fact of the matter was that the man-beast would soon get up and Jaakuna is definitely sure that the beast wasn’t too happy that Jaakuna was able to knock it down a few feet. Of course, nobody would be happy if they got knocked down and kicked on the side of the head. Regardless, Jaakuna knew that a strategy of sorts would be needed to get this beast down for good.

As Emiri brought up the idea of her and Nadeline distracting the beast while Jaakuna attacks when he finds the right opportunity, he agreed by nodding his head. He then would watch them go at the beast together in unison, even some of the things they would say would be as one. When they attacked, Jaakuna pulled out Demonsbane. He had thus put his two Blood Swords away. He wanted to test out his new toy and he noticed something about the ruins. He thought that it was odd that they were on there

I wonder.. Jaakuna thought as he was wondering if the sword acted differently to magick. He would soon find out as Jaakuna poured in his magickal power into the blade and he was right. The ruins on the sword started to glow. First, each respective color would glow that the color that they were, but then as Jaakuna influenced fire magick, the ruins began to glow more red and orange with hints of yellow thrown in there. White also was a color that was within the glow. Jaakuna smiled, and he would wait for the right moment to attack.

“There!” He said.

Jaakuna saw the perfect opportunity to attack when he saw that the beast’s attack was parried. He exploded towards the beast, his sword also exploding with fire magick. In his hand, Jaakuna was pretty much holding a sword of fire. He went forth, swinging upward, and the fire was released. In a matter of seconds, a vertical sickle of sorts was launched with shades of red, orange, yellow, and white all mixed in one. The amount of magick thrown into it could be described as Firaja. As it hit the beast straight on the front of its body, it was sent back about seven feet. It was groggy and beyond being able to tell where it was.

“Now’s your chance, ladies.” Jaakuna said as he was standing beside the ladies and staring the beast in the eyes, even if it wasn’t aware of where it was at.

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

After getting healed by Nadeline, Jaakuna stood up. He might be healed, but he still felt some slight aching from the hit that the beast gave him. Jaakuna wanted to hold back just to be sure on what he should do next. He watched as Emiri went for her turn. Perhaps she would have better luck than he did.

As he watched, he saw that she didn’t as the man-beast had caught onto what Emiri was doing and he had laid her flat on her back and ass. Jaakuna just shook his head. It was truly a foolish move, but she had to try. Granted, it failed miserably, but it was at least an effort on her part and Jaakuna couldn’t bad mouth her for that. However, Nadeline made it clear and vocal that it was a foolish thing, even saying that it was a page out of Jaakuna’s book. He just turned back to her.

“Well, at least she’s doing something.” Jaakuna said defending not only Emiri but also himself, as it was a clear reference to how foolish he was when he attacked the man-beast.

Jaakuna looked at the Man-beast and he saw that he or it was heading towards Emiri and Jaakuna didn’t think. His emotions guided his actions. He launched in a running dash, his speed reaching impeccable rates. He leaped and his body went horizontal as he had dropkicked the man-beast on the side of the head, sending it tumbling for a few feet. Jaakuna didn’t know what came over him. Perhaps what is was, was a need to protect Emiri.

Jaakuna put out his hand to help Emiri up. “You alright?” JAakuna said as he helped her up. “You have to at least go in with a small idea of what you’re going to do or what just happened to you will happen again.” Jaakuna said. He was worried. It showed in his voice. His face even showed it as the expressions his face was making was worry off the yin-yang.

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

Jaakuna was so happy that he had Demonsbane. To keep it out of the way for now, Jaakuna put it on a part on his back, crossing the Orochi Ninja Sword. It would at least be safe there, but Jaakuna just knew that more treasure awaited the further that he and the ladies went into the tomb, so he would follow them as they would walk through the door and into the presence of what it seemed to be a pedestal that they all encountered before they entered the Tomb.

Jaakuna stared it. “So, shall we ladies?” Jaakuna said.

He and the two ladies gathered around the Way Stone, as Jaakuna had heard Nadeline call it. Much like before, a bright light erupted and thus they were teleported deeper into the tomb. This time, it seemed that they were in a room of sorts. Jaakuna heard Nadeline say something about Scion of Darkness and it being the Protector of the Holy Realm. Jaakuna didn’t know what exactly that meant, but perhaps he was about to find out as he noticed the two pillars in the room erupting with fire as it came out of both of them. Jaakuna had a huge grin on his face. He didn’t know why he did, but it was there.

Looking further, there was a glyph, but beyond that it was much more. Jaakuna saw that the glyph then took the shame of a fire man-beast. Jaakuna didn’t know what it was, but he vaguely recognizes it from that book that Nadeline had shown him and Emiri back on the ship before they arrived at the Tomb of Raithwall. Jaakuna took out his two blood swords and prepared for what was to come.

Hearing what Nadeline said about it guarding something, Jaakuna knew what it was. “It’s the treasure of course. That’s all I need to fight this thing.” Jaakuna said as he ran straight for the beast standing in front of them. He rushed, hoping to get the first strike, but Jaakuna would be wrong in hoping that. The man-beast lunged at Jaakuna, aiming to impale him with his lance-thing. Jaakuna swerved to the right at the last minute, and he would go for a sweep with the blood sword in his left hand, but the man-beast would block Jaakuna with the its weapon. Jaakuna smirked, but then he used his other weapon to go for a horizontal sweep slash. The attack hit, but the skin of the beast was harder than Jaakuan realized. It barely made a cut. Jaakuna didn’t know what to do at this point and he was too late.

“OW!” JAakuna yelled as the beast used its other two arms to punch Jaakuna in the gut. Jaakuna was set backwards as he landed on the ground just about six feet in front of Emiri and Nadeline. “That hurt.” Jaakuna said as he held his abs. He didn’t have anything broken, but it still hurt like hell. Jaakuna got up knowing a different strategy would have to be used, but Jaakuna’s impulsive nature had to give it a shot. “So, yeah that didn’t work. Anyone have a different take on how to defeat this thing?” Jaakuna said as he saw the Man-Beast just stand there ready for what was to come next.

Are Co-GMs Useful?

Co-GMs, in my opinion, are really useful.

In large group RPs, such as Bleach or Naruto-based roleplays, there is a lot of ground to cover. You have the amount of people that will eventually join your rp and the amount of character sheets you will have to read. Then there's the fact that some people will get out of hand sometimes, so there's something that a co-gm could help with. There's a lot of little things that Co-gms could help with. Added to that, I think having someone to collaborate on ideas with is another great one, especially if you can't come up with some good plot twists and they do.

On the flip side of things, if you're in a small group rp, Co-gms can sometimes complicate things. If too many people are in on the grand scheme of things, like GM-wise, then there will be shit that will have to be explained or changed later on. Of course, I think having Co-gms just really depends on the type of rp and what the head-gm feels about the notion of having co-gms.

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

He couldn’t see for the life of him and Jaakuna was beyond pissed. He wanted to see but being blinded pretty much put a dent in that notion, and cause he couldn’t see, Jaakuna couldn’t see what he heard and what he heard was a bunch of sounds. Some of these sounds sounded familiar, and Jaakuna heard the Demon Wall cry out in pain and then he heard crumbling of rock. He didn’t know what was going on, but within a minute, Nadeline said a word and he could see again. “I CAN SEE AGAIN!” He yelled in disbelief and happiness. He did so by lifting his arms up into the air and jumping up and down, not even caring what the ladies thought of him doing that.

When he looked towards the direction that he heard the crumbling of the Demon Wall from before, Jaakuna was amazed and shocked. The Demon Wall was dead. He didn’t do it and it would seem Emiri didn’t either. So, that would mean that Nadeline would be the only one who could had done it. Jaakuna just nodded his head up and down in approval. “Good, good.” He said acting all weird and funny.

When Jaakuna looked more in the direction of the now dead Demon Wall, he froze, repeating the same word. “Treasure.” It got louder and louder the more he said it. It got to the point where he didn’t even hear Emiri ask him if he was alright. Jaakuna raced down to the treasure that he saw. It was a sword, and not just any sword, one of the rarest ones out there. “I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! I CAN’T BELIEVE IT!” He shouted, holding the magnificent sword known as Demonsbane. “It’s Demonsbane.” JAakuna just held the sword up as he admired its design and the ruins all around the sword.

Jaakuna then looked back to the girls, and he ran over to them, sword in hand. “DO YOU LADIES KNOW WHAT THIS SWORD IS!?” He asked them in total joy and excitement. His green eyes gleamed like they never had before. “This is one of the rarest swords in all of Ivalice AND IT’S MINE! ALL MINE!!” Jaakuna was laughing and quite loudly. The sound and volume of his laugh was probably borderline evil laugh, but he was just so happy. He finally obtained Demonsbane.

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

From when Jaakuna came back to the herd to wheen Nadeline and Emiri both used their own attacks, Jaakuna thought that they were doing fairly well against the Demon Wall. They were fending it off, dodging and blocking when they needed, and avoiding any unneeded injuries. Jaakuna thought there was nothing to worry about, even with the obvious time limit that they found themselves under. When the wall stopped, Jaakuna was with Nadeline. He had thought that they had won as well. However, he would soon realize that he was wrong.

Whatever sort of magick that the Demon Wall had used, it would seem that this certain spell casted a shadow over the three of them. Jaakuna could not see. All he saw was darkness. Try and try as he might, Jaakuna just couldn’t see. “Damn it!” Jaakuna said as he tried rubbing his eyes, but he still couldn’t see. “I can’t fucking see!” Jaakuna roared out. He wasn’t sure what to do. He couldn’t fight without sight. How was he going to figure this one out?

Jaakuna just stayed faced the same direction he was facing before he got blinded. He held his swords in a defensive position. “Does anyone have anything that can cure blindness? “ Jaakuna asked, not even knowing where the two ladies were at.

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

The decision was made, so Jaakuna knew what he had to do. He had to fight and he better not mess up or he might just wind up dead. The demon wall would waste no time as it would use its twin blade-hand things at the group. Jaakuna would dodge roll to the left and he would hope that the other two would do the same. Jaakuna would then pop up and lunge himself forward, and slashing as much as he could, he used his Blood Swords to somehow fend the Demon Wall back, and it was working.

The result of his duel-sword slashing pushed the Demon wall back just a few feet. It wasn’t enough to grant enough room for a long time, but maybe Emiri and Nadeline could get some hits in too. Jaakuna backflipped a few feet, and took a stance again. “Well, just don’t stand there, do something. It’ll really suck if we all die here.”

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

It was pretty damn dusty in the Tomb. Jaakuna was sneezing left and right. After a few rounds of sneezing, he finally got it under control and he just looked around, hearing Nadeline explaining to Emiri that there were probably a good variety of monsters within the tomb. Jaakuna just shrugged it off. Despite what Emiri felt about these creepy things, Jaakuna could care less. He would just kill them like any other fiend out there. He’s just focused on what lies ahead and that’s the treasure. Though, Jaakuna did wonder what sort of demonic entities were around.

Shrugging off any nerves that Jaakuna might or might not have had, he proceeded to walk forward with Emiri and Nadeline, moving their way through the beginning of the tomb. They went around something, and as they came to a narrow pathway, Jaakuna heard something. The sounds of metal, or something of the like. He turned to look to see what it was and it was…well, he didn’t know what it was. It looked like some kind of demonic moving wall. Jaakuna didn’t even know what the fuck it was, but he didn’t have the time to think about that. The thing was coming in close.

“Well shit guys, looks like we got company. “Jaakuna said as he pulled out his two Blood Swords. “We got two options here. We fight or flee.” Jaakuna said. “I much prefer to fight, but you know majority vote wins, so what do you say?”

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

After Nadeline turned down Jaakuna’s suggestion of breaking the wall down, he then went back to what could possibly be done about getting into the tomb. Jaakuna was truly drawing a blank. He really didn’t know what could be done. He honestly had no idea and it was getting him aggravated. Then, he saw Emiri go towards the pedestal. Jaakuna looked at it too, but he didn’t walk over to it, not yet at least. He then saw her as she touched it and something happened.

“A light…it’s bright!!” Jaakuna yelled as he saw the light engulf Emiri and she was gone. “Where’d she go?!” Jaakuna asked as he looked around and he didn’t see her. Jaakuna didn’t know where she went, but something was telling him that he should touch the pedestal. So, he did, and as he did that, a light erupted as well. He felt something weird gather within himself, and his body was warped. He found himself inside the tomb as Jaakuna had looked back and it was the same exact texture that the wall for the entrance of the tomb had. “Wow, this is trippy. ” Jaakuna said as he cocked his head to the side and an expression of shock and awe appeared on his face..

Operation: X-Men

And my second character has been posted. :3