AwesomeZero5

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Who is still around?

@Dark Light

Here. It's @Calatrava go I think.. probably going to take a bit due to detail

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Alright, left a post with one of the witches having the attack landing for now then

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@azoicsiren I don't want to assume to be safe. So, may I ask whether or not the Witch was hit by the attack, or should I just assume it the attack did land?

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“Silver stag? Oh, you mean the jerk guy. Also considering the context of the story and the fact we’re the side characters that usually for the best. It usually ends up in some tragedy where nobody listens to the ‘fool’ or ‘prophet’ character despite them being 100% all the time when talking about characters other then themselves. If I had to say it was like a story or something, I guess I would bring it closer to the marriage of the moon daughter and the demon price or something along those lines. Although probably best not to talk about that one, considering the way it ends but it’s the best that comes to mind right this minute.” Paine tried not to envision the somewhat brutal ending to that tale.

“I guess there’s also the wise man, but they tend to know things that the protagonist would figure out on their own anyhow given time to use their own cunning but that’s more in some ancient myths rather than modern story telling.” Paine would scratch at the back of their head and stick their tongue out, trying to concentrate or change topics a bit.

That was when he noticed Enzo testing the water. It didn’t seem like something to be approved of, though in small doses it probably wouldn’t make someone sick or have parasites, Paine hoped. The worried expression on Enzo’s face put Paine on high alert, although he was already in a state of worry and caution to begin with.

“mambabarang? That sounds vaguely familiar and pretty bad. Feels like it’s connected to baba yaga somehow. Oh!” Paine’s face briefly shown worry, but not for himself in particular but for the others around him. The expression didn’t last long as an excited grin was creeping onto his face at a fair paced crawl, it was clear he was trying to fight it but his curiosity and interest was getting the better of him overall.

“Nea-, I mean oh no there’s a witch. Reasonably that is a terrible, terrible thing and can put many lives in danger and the like.” Paine nodded along, trying his best to sound worried and or scared. It was probably coming a lot more as faked overall, since his voice was warbling a little and struggling to maintain a constant emotional tone.

“Well, if they learned how to disguise themselves, maybe it’s a spy, maybe it’s just a rogue student who’s actually evil, perhaps they managed to get here from the ocean and used other smaller demons to hider their scent, perhaps they turned into a fish and swam and blended in.” Paine would respond to the question as to how a witch could have possibly made it close to academy grounds.

“Maybe someone ate or got infected with other demon stuff and turned into a witch. Okay, that’s the last one I got there.”

Paine noticed as one of the attacking Kappa got relatively close to them. They had just briefly focused their barriers in front of them to observe and block the attack, but the situation was already handled by a suit of armor appearing. None the less interesting, and all four barriers went back into their main defensive positions.

“Well that’s pretty neat, probably has plenty of uses I’d think.”

“Oh, of course the pond is off limits. It’s already been infested by demons, I don’t think there would be much more need to close it off than that outside of whether or not it was a training practice. Also, I’d recommend a thrust to the head if at all possible, or straight through the center perhaps to break the spine. It may keep less bugs from spilling out and shut down the body from moving, but it also may not but worth a short instead of having to cleave through an entire body and possibly deal with bug…. Bug spray.” Paine laughed. “Bugs spraying on you.”

Paine turned around briefly to help Rei, although by this time. There was already blood mixed into the pond water and Drakus had shown up to pull her out. Great, the less he had to deal with the both of them. That being said, there had to be something that had caused her to bleed initially or attacked her in the water, and there was no particular time to hesitate on the matter.

“Enzo, don’t get yourself infected while my back is turned. If you need help just, scream.” Paine said as he proceeded to sit down and curl up. He was able to thicken his barriers further from taking up less space himself and giving full coverage for the time being and adding an additional barrier above his head that was more sharp than it was thick, with just enough room for additional oxygen and maybe something the size of a finger squeezing in. A monster who approached carelessly would probably get a good cut or hopefully held off. It did take a second or so to set this up though.

He turned the handlebar into a thin (by his own standards) but rather sharp blade and began moving it at a diagonal angle in order to try and cut through whatever was near the blood pool. The now blade was extended to be roughly 9 and a half foot in length, and about half a foot in width. It would be moving about as fast as a standard sword strike and would be as sharp as one too, seeing as Paine’s focus was more on moving and attacking whatever was in the water, rather than Enzo’s situation. It would be rather uncomfortable to maintain this position for long though.

The attack would slice into the Witch's back and keep moving forward. It was likely going to either cut her in half if she wasn't able to get free or leave a nasty scar.
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@AwesomeZero5

Okay,
I understand
I will also work on my communication
Intentionally it was meant to be THE witch but if Calatrava's post said otherwise I would have accepted this and played off his decision and actions via post. This is my example of play by post style. so basically, one witch turned into two witches turned into a coven.
Did it turn into a coven of witches? if I'm not mistaken @calatrava

Also I liked lecturing AssHat better than Jerk xD @AwesomeZero5

@azoicsiren

I thought cursing may have been a bit too much, wanted to be careful o:

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@azoicsiren
I apologize for being a bit of a lecturing jerk. Again, it's mostly the person taking over another character that was really what set me off but I guess that does change in other RP environments. As long as you agree it's another witch or get permission from Calatrava to use theirs, I will shut up about the matter.

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Yeah, Drakus so far as he's interacted doesn't seem that interested in most people around him at the moment. So him having a hero moment seems baffling, unless you mean killing the demons on the way.. xD

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@azoicsiren
It was the matter of which you took control of someone else's character in an unapologetic manner both beginning and afterward that essentially was pointing toward strong plot point with no second thought about it that disturbed me for the most part. There was no mention of the witch being at the scene, and given the context it appeared to be a mystery about the witch possibly being among their own ranks or somewhere else setting up the traps. I would understand perhaps another witch or monster you created showing up (but this was not the route you aimed for, nor did you ask permission or mention this to anyone else beforehand) , but taking it over and then saying the witch 'wilted' as a character smiled down and swam away implies decaying away and dying, not survival though I will admit this is a misinterpretation on my end.

I'm not saying you have to plan for everything but be considerate of others and wary of your own characters abilities and weaknesses. You could create new demons, new traps, new troubles, new plot points, new events and new characters to get involved if you want to surprise someone. You can pull something out of your backstory, maybe your character has a strange realization that they need to share, perhaps they found something interesting or something in their backstory comes up for the rest of the characters to experience, you can do a lot of stuff it doesn't need to be planned point by point. Heck, ya had a kappa or creature of your own trying to lure ya into the water at the beginning (which worked) so you could've kept going with that.

As for powers, personally it seems incredibly overpowered that you could turn an entire pond to pure acid within a singular post (not to mention assume someone survived that after mentioning them withering). Also, literally everything is made of chemicals and chemical compounds, but that wasn't my call that was Hitman's, on top of your other powers of hypnosis, injecting people with venom and being able to control toxic or poisonous substances along with turning non-harmful elements into lethal substances which can then be manipulated (so really you can manipulate the nature of just about anything that isn't magically protected and make it healing or lethal) which is now argued to be chemical compounds , which again is literally everything. Unless you edited that power (seeing as it was edited seven days ago). There is also no mention of her being immune to her own power and no mention of especially being immune to pure acid for that matter or even being able to affect things on such a scale on her character sheet. Immunity is less the point that I'm upset about and more the point that she was capable of doing this on a large scale in an element that not only she was weak to, was she surprised attacked in, didn't have time to prepare, and was running out of oxygen.

One could argue she only turned the water around the witch into acid (though depending on how much it could spread, but that wouldn't be an issue), which would be an effective argument rather than downright immunity to an entire pond full of acid.

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@azoicsiren @Calatrava@Dark Light
So... is there now two witches? Cause that seemed kind of unfair/cheap to just... kill someone else's (especially in a single post), especially without the statement of the witch being there. Not to mention I still want to know how Rei is alive, if she literally turned the entire lake into acid... an entire lake, while being attacked, and having limited air supply. That seems extremely strong, especially if 'water' is under your weaknesses that doesn't seem to make sense...

Edit: @Dark Light Paine would probably be off to help Rei. He'd probably be focused on that, though could attack a few for himself. Ya still have to show up at the scene, so worry about that a bit more. There was never a specification as too how many kappa their where or their locations specifically just that 'more' bloated corpses were rising...

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@Hitman

Are you okay?

@azoicsiren

I forgot to ask. Is the knife gif from a show or is it just a random gif you found?