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RWBY - Haze

I'll wait a bit longer for Hero, and post if I feel like it's not gonna happen in a timely fashion...

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Right, Ryu is correct.

Since this situation is handled, I won't say much more on it, but I can say that you're free to move around the two you've already introduced in a limited fashion. Have them take a stone if you want to, but only those two, and they'd have to leave our group of people before long.

At this point it's just weird for them to be sitting there in the woods when the goal is RIGHT THERE, but I'll leave that up to you.

And yes, we'll try to be a bit more clear in the future. I tried to give some rules earlier if you'll recall, but I'll try to do better moving forward. I'm trying to find that fine line between restricting you when it's supposed to be a roleplay, and being too loose and watching everything implode. :P

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-Amalger & Enyo-

The two stumbled out of the forest, looking a little haggard. Well, Enyo did; Amalger looked no worse than he did when he first dropped into the forest. After all the fighting, keeping up with the longer legged boy was a pain in the ass. So... many... ursa... When a king taijitu had shown up, they'd given up on fighting back and just got the hell out of there. Why were there so many grimm in the forest? Was this normal? If it was, Ozpin was a dick in Enyo's opinion. That or her luck was truly terrible today... well, maybe it was getting better now.

"Looks like we've gotten to our first stop, finally," Amalger said, cracking his neck. Nothing seemed to phase him.

"Ugh, you made us take too long! We're not even close to the first people he-" Enyo's angry complaint was cut off when she saw Felix. Felix had beaten her there. She shut her eyes tightly and bit back a tirade full of swears. She let out a long groan and just stormed forward, past those who had already arrived.

-At the Treasure Circle-

Randy looked up when the first pair arrived, though she and Felix were ignored. Well, she'd get their attention once they finished picking their relic. She stood up in preparation, but before she could speak, two others arrived. A short girl, and a tall boy with large weapons on his arms.

"Uh..." Randy wasn't sure what to say at this point. The girl just stormed past, looking quite angry, and looked over the rocks.

"Really? Treasure?" The girl, Enyo, scowled. She looked at a porous, darker stone. Well, they were just dumb rocks. What did it matter? There was no choice that was any more exciting than the others.

"We're sent in to become pairs, and there's two of each rock. Seems obvious where this is going," the tall boy, Amalger, said. Enyo's hand froze, centimeters from the porous rock. She looked at another boy she didn't recognize who had just grabbed a rock, it was shiny and black. She looked back at hers, and then noticed that it was all alone, its partner already having been taken. She turned around and saw that one of the girls, one with red hair, was holding it. She also noticed that girl was Felix's partner.

"Ugh, this is so lame," she let her hand fall. "I don't care anymore, you pick!" She stomped away from the rock, and Amalger brushed past her to peruse the stones. A few seconds later it seemed he'd made his choice.

"How's this one?" Enyo turned to see that Amalger had chosen the one she'd just rejected. Enyo's eye twitched.

"You did that on purpose... didn't you?" Enyo glowered at him, her gaze shifting back and forth between their stone and the one belonging to Felix and his partner.

"I have no idea what you mean," Amalger said casually, shrugging as he pocketed the scoria stone.

At this point, Randy forced herself to speak up.

"Hey, so, since there's a bunch of us now, can I have your attention?" Randy raised her voice, but tried to keep a pleasant tone as she did so. "It sounds like we've all figured out how this team thing is going to work, and regardless this isn't a race. How about from here we all stick together on our way out? If you want, we can even wait to see if anyone takes the stone that matches yours... err..." Randy looked at Nevin, but she didn't actually know his name. "Eheh, I guess I should introduce myself. I'm Randy, Randy Riley! My partner here is Felix. How about all of you?"

"Amalger Brandt," Amalger spoke up first. "Quite possibly your new teammate. Your other potential teammate here is Enyo Allaway-"

"I can speak for myself!" Enyo shouted at him. ". . . and yes, that's my name." At this point, everyone turned to Nevin and Aurelia, awaiting their responses. Amalger decided against introducing Nevin as well, because while he knew more than enough to give a thorough introduction, he had reason to believe he was officially not on the boy's team and thus decided it wasn't his place.

Felix stayed quite throughout the whole exchange, glancing from speaker to speaker as they all introduced themselves. Recognizing Aurelia, he gave her a halfhearted wave of greeting from his position behind everyone else. Somehow she looked less nervous than she had before. Good for her. He wished he could say the same about himself...

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Excellent! I will get a post up later today after work!

Edit: Let the next round of posts... COMMENCE!

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I was waiting for Hero, personally.

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That's fine. But keep it to just that one NPC, no more after that, k?

Well, until we're out of the forest that is.

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-Felix & Randy-

They had long since lost track of the beowolves chasing them, but just to be safe they had kept running, not feeling like gambling with their lives. Finally it seemed that they had even made it free of the forest. To the left they saw a circle of pillars and-

"Wait, wait, wait!" Randy shouted, screeching to a halt. "Umm, think we're safe?" Felix also slowed to a stop, though he glanced about nervously.

"I... can't say anything for sure..." He shrugged, shoving his hands in his pockets, his eyes still occasionally darting around as his anxiety ate at him.

"Well, I think we're good for the moment at least," Randy crossed her arms and smiled like she had an exciting secret to reveal.

"OK..." Felix said, glancing at her. After a few moments passed he shifted his weight. "Umm, why are w-"

"Look!" Randy grabbed his shoulders and spun him to face the pillars.

". . . Oh." Somehow he'd missed that. How embarrassing. "The... treasure?"

"Probably, let's go!" She would have dragged him, but Felix seemed to have an aversion to being touched, so she just made sure he was following her. Inside they found many pedestals, all with various stones atop them. "Wow, yeah this has to be it! This is way too abnormal!"

"Umm... they're... rocks," Felix frowned in confusion. Treasure? Some of them weren't even impressive at all, being white and rough.

"Ohhh, I know what these are!" Randy's eye brightened. "I think these are volcanic rocks! This black glass looking stuff is obsidian, that white stuff is pumice... and... well I don't know what the rest of it is, but it's probably volcanic still!" Besides the glossy black rock, the porous white rock, there were two other kinds. One was like the pumice, but much darker in color, and one other was a smooth, lightly colored stone, but not glossy or slick like the obsidian.

"Err... so... we take one?" Felix asked ,glancing around. How much did it matter which one they took? Was this a big decision, or-

"I like this one!" Randy grabbed one of the dark, porous rocks, a scoria rock, not that Randy knew its name. "I feel like it's familiar but different." Well, it seemed it was out of Felix's hands. He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. How long was this day going to last? He wanted it to be over now. This Randy girl was just... so... difficult, and he barely even knew her yet. Would she get better or worse as that changed?

Suddenly Randy sat down and leaned against a pillar. Felix tilted his head in confusion. Was she... what was she doing?

"Ran... dy?" Felix spoke quietly, as usual, with a hint of confusion in his voice.

"Join me! We should take a break after all that running. Besides, this is the first goal. Look, none of the other rocks have been taken, meaning everyone is still headed here. Eventually we're going to be a team or four, right? So there's nothing wrong with waiting for more people and then having some help on the way out. It's not a competition after all." Randy idly tossed the "treasure" up and down as she spoke. She was actually quite relaxed, somehow. Also she made a surprising amount of sense.

"Oh..." Felix looked around one last time, before sitting at the base of a pillar opposite her. Well, he was a little winded he supposed. She'd impressed him with her plan, so he'd follow along for now.

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Gonna make that post I mentioned tomorrow. (Technically today, but... yeah, I'm going to bed.) Time now for things to be getting serious and stuff. Muahahahaha!

EDIT: I posted! Also, I made a slight edit to an older post. Originally I said there were 12 student taking the test, but I changed it to sixteen. It won't much affect your posts most likely, but I figured I should let y'all know just in case.

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How is it that Abel, arguably the most humorless character in this RP, is the one I find most amusing? Lol.

Once Abel and Gwyn meet up, I'll make my next post and advance things along to the next phase.

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Still standing on the cliff where the students had been launched minutes ago, Ozpin and Glynda looked down at the device in Ozpin's hand. His personal scroll allowed him to view the students from special camera's that were programmed to hone in on the students from a safe distance away. Otherwise a nevermore might... eat the surveillance equipment.

"It seems we have a number of partnerships formed already," Ozpin mused, flipping through various camera views. It was hard to say there were surprises, as it was all completely random, but he was pleased with some of the developments. There were some much worse pairings that could have formed. Like that Felix kid who had almost bumped into Aurelia... there was too much talent in them for them to be getting each other killed because of their nervousness. Then again, their combat scores were nothing to scoff at. He was interested to see how a pair of nervous wrecks like them would fare in the end.

"Indeed," Glynda replied tersely, as if something was bugging her.

Ignoring that, Ozpin went back to his scroll. No, instead Aurelia had found Nevin. He pulled up a second screen, containing all the data he had on Nevin.

"Hmm, Flare academy. A waste of hot air if I've ever seen one," Ozpin mumbled, shaking his head. He caught a huff of agreement, he thought, from Glynda. "And if I'm not mistaken... ah yes, Amalger Brandt. Flare number one. Two in one test, eh? Then again, scores like that at a place like Flare don't mean nothing. A school like that which focuses on numbers and prestige only produces more expensive meat to be butchered, but I guess we'll see if they can break the mold." He flipped to a slightly different angle. "And Enyo Allaway is with our number one student... did you ever find anything more on her?"

"No... clearly a fake identity, it's too perfect. It must have been made through official channels," Glynda told him. "It seems to be legal, but I can't say anything else about her unless I want to make the law angry."

"I see. Completely bland, but then suddenly entered into combat school. And now breezing through our entrance exam like it was a first grade math test," Ozpin narrowed his eyes. He was curious, but whatever there was to find there probably wasn't too significant in the grand scheme of things. "But how will you fare against monsters?" He moved on. "Ah, someone who has faced real monsters, Abel-" He was about to continue muttering to himself, pondering how each student would handle the test, but Glynda interrupted him.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" the woman asked, a deep frown on her face.

"Whatever do you mean, Glynda?" Ozpin adjusted his glasses, putting the scroll aside and turning to face her.

"You know exactly what I mean," she began to raise her voice. "You know I trust your judgement, everyone at this academy does, but this is just risky!"

"Ah, but of course. You're referring to the unusual number of grim in the forest we just threw twelve children into." Ozpin shut his eyes and sighed. "Well, it's nothing entirely unusual. If the test is a little harder than usual, then we'll get to properly see what they're capable of, it's nothing so serious. They chose this life, after all."

"You said it yourself, they're children! There's being harsh, and there's being unfair! They don't even know what's going on!" Glynda argued.

"Of course it's unfair, and we told them that there would be no help if they got into trouble," Ozpin replied and turned back to the forest, looking back to his scroll. "But I assume you have people in place just in case anyway, right?"

"Yes, I have teams of veterans ready to intervene in the case of undue threats upon their lives." She nodded, sighing as she prepared for his retort.

"Just as I requested. See, Glynda? I'm not so cruel. I won't waste their lives. That's all on them." Ozpin smiled in amusement. Yes, everything was proceeding just fine. He had a feeling another pair would be forming shortly.

-Enyo & Amalger-

Enyo was doubled over, panting. Her arm was starting to ache.

"H-how many arrows did I put into that thing again?" She asked, shaking her hand and trying to keep it from tingling.

"About ten," Amalger replied looking at the fallen ursa around them. "In the span of about twice as many seconds. Not bad. You know, the part where it tried to eat you after you blew its arms off was especially scary."

"You could have helped!" Enyo growled, baring her teeth as she did.

"I was dealing with my own problems." Amalger shrugged. "My weapon got stuck in this one's spine I think..." He lightly kicked another dead ursa, that still had most of its limbs.

"I'm a ranged fighter! You're supposed to protect me you giant idiot! What good is all that scrap metal on your arms if you don't use it right?" Enyo berated him. Ten arrows for one, giant ursa. And about twelve for the one before that. Plus a handful of smaller ones. It didn't make sense, these were ursa, not beowolves. They weren't supposed to run in packs. She'd had to start using explosive arrows on the damn things just to kill them faster.

"Oh please, you're fast enough. Just be glad they're big and easy to hit." Amalger sighed and motioned for her to get moving. "Come on, we have a test to finish." Enyo just grit her teeth, resisting the urge to remove his arms.

-Felix & Randy-

[i']-UUUUUUUUUCK!'[/i] Finally he gave up. He had bigger issues.

Randy glanced at Felix nervously, he looked like he was breaking into a cold sweat. She'd noticed he was a bit... uneasy, but this was the absolute worst time to have a panic attack.

Felix was breaking into a cold sweat. He felt a panic attack coming.

Before Randy and Felix were grim. Not too many, just three beowolves, but Randy wasn't sure she could fight and protect Felix at the same time. If he couldn't handle a fight, why was he even here? And why'd she have to deal with it? She grabbed her weapons from her hips, sliding them over her hands. She held them up, ready to cleave the face off of the first one that got too close.

Felix had never seen a grim in person before. The black fur, the bony armor, the red eyes, and the clear unmistakable desire to see him dead were more than he could take. This wasn't his anxiety or his stupid delusions tricking him, he was really about to be killed. His hands shook uncontrollably, but he managed to make them move. Finally, his fingertips brushed the stock of Fin de Larmes. His hand wrapped around it, and suddenly everything that had been moving too fast slowed down and felt just about right.

"Sorry, let me handle this," Felix apologized. He could tell his appearance had made her nervous.

Wait, who was that? Oh, it was Felix? So that's what he sounded like when he spoke. Randy was almost more startled by him finally speaking than the fact that he'd just asked to handle this himself. He, who had been shaking like a leaf. Well, in the end, it wasn't really up to her. The first beowolf led the charge, and Felix responded in kind.

The first beowolf looked ready to pounce on Felix, but he lifted his shotgun as it prepared to jump... and blew its face off using both barrels. As it slumped, he loosened his stance and let the recoil move his body. He spun quickly, seeing the next beowolf almost upon him. Using his momentum, he swung the giant bayonet at its jaw. It stumbled back, it's lower jaw hanging by threads. He then finished it in a similar fashion to the first.

The final beowolf leapt over the falling body of the second, and Felix had no time to aim. He ducked under a slash from its claws, and then raked his own gauntlet across the beast's stomach. It barely even phased the beowolf, which then tried to bite him, but he jumped back. He had no time to lift his gun unless he wanted to get torn apart, so he turned and ran.

"Slower... NOW!" He'd left a mark when he'd slashed it, and could feel how close it was to catching him. He slowed down to let it get closer, and then jumped up, rebounding off of a tree and landing behind the beowolf as it slashed, but only hit tree bark where Felix had been a second ago. It quickly turned to attack him, but Felix lunged, plunging his bayonet into the beast's mouth, and pinning it to the tree. It was probably dead, but he thought he saw it twitch, so to held get his weapon free, he gave it the double-barrel treatment, removing the top of its head.

He lowered his weapon, panting. He wasn't tired, but his weapon didn't kill his anxiety, it just let him move through it. His heart was pounding, but at least now he knew he could fight the grim and survive. He wouldn't freeze up nearly as much in the future.

"WATCH IT!" Randy suddenly shouted. Felix looked at her, and then followed her gaze in time to see a fourth beowolf rise out of the bushes nearby. BANG! A bullet slammed into it, cracking the bony plate on its head. BANG-BANG-BANG! Three more bullets slammed into the beast, rocking its body and tearing holes through it. It fell over, now quite harmless.

Felix looked at Randy again to see that one of her gauntlets had split open, revealing two large gun barrels. Whatever caliber she was packing, it was definitely rated for grim. The gauntlet closed up again, the barrels retracting and the weapon reverting to blade mode.

"I got your back, don't worry!" Randy grinned. "You're a lot better than I thought."

". . . thanks," Felix muttered, disappointed in himself for letting his guard down at the last second. He walked back over to Randy, about to put his weapon away, when both froze, hearing noises in the foliage around them. From the direction the last beowolf had come from, red eyes could be seen in the shadows. Suddenly, a half dozen more walked out of the bushes, teeth bared and claws ready.

"Uhh... I say we work together this time..." Randy suggested, and both raised their weapons once more.

"Yeah-" Felix was about to agree, when yet more appeared. Including a much, much larger one. An Alpha.

"On second though... you still want to do this?" Randy gulped, glancing from one beowolf to the other. She couldn't think of any good plans that let them win this fight unscathed and both alive. Her eyes nearly bugged out of her skull a second later.

"N-not really." Felix began to slowly back up as a second Alpha, with escorts, showed up.

"How's your cardio?" Randy asked, starting to sweat nervously.

"Uh, decent I guess," Felix's eye twitched, just waiting for the grim to charge them. They wouldn't hold back much longer.

"Good, because we're running! Let's go!" Randy's right gauntlet split open, revealing the under-barrel launcher. She fired a chain-bola at one of the Alphas, tying its legs together before it could react. She had no idea how the grim thought, but she hoped disabling one of their leaders would slow them down. Whether or not that worked, she didn't stick around to find out. They ran.