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Archer


Archer regarded the stones for a moment as his Master held them out. "An interesting bit of magecraft I suppose. I'll set to work placing them immediately while performing my own reconnaissance." With that Archer snatched up the stones and hurriedly exited the abandoned house, using his superior agility to leap quickly to the roof and then maneuver his way across the area from the high ground while being as unobtrusive and stealthy as possible, though he doubted the ordinary humans of this age would have the sense to look up and see him at the speed at which he was moving. As he did he both laid out marked stones at what appeared to him to be inconspicuous spots that offered an overall accurate view of different sections of the city and examined the area for himself.

Things certainly had changed since his day, even if this was a foreign land. As far as he knew this city was considered relatively small compared to some of the bustling metropolises of the modern age, yet towards the main streets and what appeared to be the center and lower portion especially the buildings rose to a height that dwarfed anything constructed by mortal hands during his own lifetime. He supposed that if he were inclined to care he might even feel some pride in these obvious signs of humanity's progress, but those days were long past. The thought filled him with a certain bitter longing, so atop the roof of one of the taller buildings he paused for a moment to look up to the moon wondering at what might have been.

But only for a moment. Once the stones had been placed in what seemed like a satisfactory surveillance network and he had scoped out much of the area there was only one thing left to do. He dropped down into what seemed like a small shopping district and slipped inside a clothing store easily evading the so-called 'security' systems in place. Once inside he stripped some clothing from one of the fake men, then visited a few more and repeated the process. When he was done he had acquired a fine long red and gold coat with serviceable fringes of fur, high platformed riding shoes as befitted a member of the noble warrior class and a broad-brimmed feathered hat to keep sun and wind from his face as he shot. With his own personal jewelry atop it he deemed himself properly dressed for the modern age.


Mamoru Hayashi


Finally, Mamoru was ready. It had taken ages longer than it should have to prepare the summoning ritual for the grail war, but with Galatea acting as his hands in properly preparing it even while he personally oversaw each step he couldn't be too careful. Everything had to be precisely placed, and with hands other than his own doing much of the work the young man had had to take what seemed to him like an eternity. One mistake would cost him incredibly dearly after all. This was Mamoru's one chance to prove himself to his family that, despite his physical difficulties, despite his young age he could still be of use to them. From the wheeled chair in which he sat in his rather comfortable hotel room he allowed himself a small smile as his more-than unusual maid Galatea ensured that the last preparations were completed and he began the chant. Hopefully the Servant he planned to summon would be enough, not just to do all of that but to prevent this new Grail from falling into evil hands that would misuse its' power. But regardless, now was the time!

"You, seven heavens clad in three words of power, arrive from the ring of deterrence, O keeper of the balance ―――!"

Yes, finally, Mamoru Hayashi, discarded and pitied son of his family, was ready.
Luckily for August his attempt at peacekeeping had been successful and in fact people seemed quite happy with it, or at least happy with the free drinks he'd provided for the bar. The patrons even launched into a weird, multi-varied version of the Gaston song, and apparently that particular character was a hero in the wider multiverse which August personally found strange.

Before long though, the bubbly Japanese-looking woman who had angered the Godzilla girl previously wound up thanking him. "It was nothing big really, I just didn't want anyone to get hurt and in almost anything I've seen free drinks at a bar cheer people up!" He might have absolutely no money for a while but it was all still pretty worth it. Someone else had even congratulated him for what he'd done and he smiled sheepishly in response and sat back down at the stool he'd been on throughout, trying not to call too much attention to himself otherwise.

That was partially why when someone cried out "HELP ME!" he was more than glad that many of the bargoers rushed out to answer the call for heroics. August and his shard advisor both briefly considered it, but considering so many others had already gone both felt it was better not to get in the way and August figured that if he needed to be there the Narrative might conspire to make it so anyways. Instead both stayed as August sipped at what was left of his sarsaparilla and tried to just enjoy his time off without any trouble.

Luckily enough since things got relatively quiet at the formerly bustling saloon the nice but energetic woman apparently named Ran who'd thanked him before seemed to have recovered enough to properly introduce herself. August took her hand and shook it enthusiastically while returning her grin with one of his own. "Nice to meet you! My names August Lim! I'm just a multiversal traveler and occasionally sort of a swordsman, not much of a hero really though, I just wanted to make sure everyone in the bar was safe!" That much was the truth at least.

That was nicely handled with that violent girl, but you do realize that woman just referred to herself as a sorcerer of some power? It would be best to keep your guard up, boy.

Huh, she did? Well, I doubt anyone this nice is gonna want my blood for use in dark rituals or anything, 'Rari'!

"So what brings you to cowboy world, miss Hoshigane?"
Well...things certainly did get tense awfully fast. In a situation like this there was only one thing he could think of doing that could diffuse an entirely different sort of bar brawl from erupting here, potentially along with a lot of innocents-incinerating nuclear fire. It would cost him dearly, perhaps even cost him everything. But for the good of the bar and all of its' patrons and for the sake of peace itself it had to be done.

"FROM HERE ON OUT EVERYONE DRINKS FOR FREE!"

August slammed his entire not inconsiderate coinpurse down on the bar, manipulating the metal of the coins within subtly so that the sound of coins hitting the wood jangled out audibly but musically and rather pleasantly to everyone in the room, hopefully shocking them out of their rage with surprise if nothing else. At the same time he jumped up from his stool with a calm, flat little sort of smile on his face and positioned himself as directly as possible between everyone else with his hands on his head to show he was completely non-hostile.

"Now, we can get into a fight and obliterate the entire bar and likely get a lot of innocent people killed in the process and waste a lot of paid-for drinks or we can all prove we aren't so bad by just sitting down and enjoying some free drinks." Addressing the Gojira-girl specifically he gave a wary little smile "It's fine if you just wanna be left alone, I can respect that. But obliterating the bar and the people in it just leaves you without a place to drink. So...let's just sit down and talk this over."

Already the bodyguard in his shard had noticed that there were two metal trays nearby and he could potentially jerk them over to serve as shields if people's attacks did wind up being unleashed to increase his chances of survival, but August hoped it wouldn't come to that.
Tomorrow I'll try and post a thing defusing the fight/tension if somebody else doesn't stop the fight before I do and then you can have people to talk to in a way that won't involve trying to nuclear annihilate or growl/scream at the other characters hopefully.

anyways, last post I'll be able to manage for the night.
Well, we can hopefully try and resolve this before it slows things down much and I'd love to discuss all the misconceptions and miscommunication that seem to have come up regarding how the scenes and characters have been handled but due to health problems I've really barely slept for more than a few hours if at all over the past two to three days and I really need some rest.

@Lmpkio

See, I guess I can understand where you made your mistakes and why, but the one person who actually reacted to essentially say 'this isn't the time or place to be hostile' and went out of their way to specify that they meant it in a very pleasant tone caused her to fly into a potentially building destroying, innocents-killing rage over...some girl ordering a glass of milk in a slightly-too-sunshine-y way that nobody else was bothered by. If anyone was acting like that on earth or anywhere else I'm pretty sure nobody'd want to interact with them even if they weren't a seven-foot-tall radioactive lizard girl who just beat up some other monstergirl for publicly announced reasons that...sorta, maybe unintentionally sound like a really weird, improbable form of multiversal racism in terms of 'Why are you doing this, I give up, I did nothing personally to you' being responded to with 'All of your kind deserve this!' I mean, it makes sense in context maybe but no one else knows that.

It's basically like the multiverse equivalent of a HUGE SCARY MAYBE WHITE-SUPREMACIST-BUT-YOU-DON'T-KNOW BIKER DUDE walking into a bar full of average people after just committing a violent gang beating and proceeding to growl and evil-eye everyone in the bar, then shout at some girl for being too preppy. Everyone's either trying not to notice in the vain hope that you don't start shit or getting ready to call the cops/stop you from trying to kill someone, so it'd take someone waaaaay overly nice to think 'well maybe they just need some friendship!'

Granted, I can try and be that person and it's in character for August to try and stop the fight if you don't wanna retcon the rage, but I dunno how it'll go.

I really do want things to work out, but you've kind of created a REALLY difficult first impression to get past and I think that's what's making people uncomfortable and I'm not sure anyone else actually GOT that it was just from her fight and that there was a possibility of normal dialogue with her.
Edit: Nvm what I said. How can we go about this without killing anyone here...

All I really wanted was some kind of action or anyone talking to Goji-san... but it then came to my turn to try and make something up as everyone else was uh... kinda ignoring her from the scene completely... Thank god Im being careful and placed a warning about that post and allowed objections to it.


See, I respect your commitment to the classic idea of a saloon bar brawl, but the fact that it almost involved the entire bar blown up by nuclear fire along with potentially everyone inside and it started over...reasons I honestly don't understand, those are my issues with it and I'm glad we were able to bring this up.

Also, I kinda think that maybe the fact that Gojira's been kind of mostly expressing solely emotions based around rage and annoyance at the people around her and seems to be a hairline away from bursting into nuclear violence is what's making people hesitant to interact with her potentially both IC and OOC. We potentially can fix that, or even get into a fight that doesn't kill everyone if that's the only thing we can think up, but I'm a little confused about what direction you're trying to go in with the character since you want interaction but she seems to be playing the 'sullen loner who'll bite anyone's head off' game?'
Edit: Nvm what I said. How can we go about this without killing anyone here...

All I really wanted was some kind of action or anyone talking to Goji-san... but it then came to my turn to try and make something up as everyone else was uh... kinda ignoring her from the scene completely... Thank god Im being careful and placed a warning about that post and allowed objections to it.
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See, I respect your commitment to the classic idea of a saloon bar brawl, but the fact that it almost involved the entire bar blown up by nuclear fire along with potentially everyone inside and it started over...reasons I honestly don't understand, those are my issues with it and I'm glad we were able to bring this up.

Also, I kinda think that maybe the fact that Gojira seems kind of like they're mostly expressing solely emotions based around rage and annoyance at the people around her and seems to be a hairline away from bursting into nuclear violence is what's making people hesitant to interact with her maybe both IC and OOC. We potentially can fix that, or even get into a fight that doesn't kill everyone if that's the only thing we can think up, but I'm a little confused about what direction you're trying to go in with the character since you want interaction but she seems to be playing the 'sullen loner who'll bite anyone's head off' game?'
Honestly I feel like the whole bit you're doing is kind of completely out of left field. The only thing that was actually said to Gojira was 'Hey, how about we don't fight in here?' and her immediate reaction was 'GRR, you're all terrible for talking to each other in a social setting that I chose to enter! let's fight in here!!!!!' which combined with attacking MUTO while they screamed 'WHYYYYYYY' makes them seem just...kinda like an unstable rage monster but I'm not sure if that's what you're going for?

And anyways, if you really wanna do a fight thing super-bad, you could at least listen to the suggestion and move it outside the enclosed space full of civilians. That could potentially all be annihilated by nuclear fire. Perhaps a foolish thought but it's there XD.
"Right then, I'll take your word for it on the jacket and I'll...look for someone like that! My name's August by the way! Multiversal traveler and wandering swordsman extraordinaire!"

Augustus, you know there's a war on boy. Shouldn't we be doing something other than returning a lost pet?"

Like I said 'Rari', the situation will reveal itself in time and besides, building up allies among the traveler community can only help us in the long run...plus would you look at him!? Isn't he the cutest little snowman...dog...bug drill-nosed...thing you've ever seen!?

I don't think I have ever seen one of those. Your faith in your crowbegotten Narrative Causality theory aside, just find the thing's owner so we can get back to the war effort.

If only to stop the grumbling voice in his head, August went back over to the bar and tapped on the shoulder of a Japanese woman who seemed just as excited as he had been to be in cowboy world. Maybe she was Plue's secret owner! More importantly she was drinking a glass of milk! So he addressed her, putting on a tough facade as he did.

"It takes some serious guts to order milk in a place like this. So which is it, naive country dummy or secret wandering butt-kicker? Also, is this your Pluedog?"

As August mentioned Plue he picked the snowman thing up and held him up for inspection, although careful not to stab anyone with Plue's unnaturally sharp nose.
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