Muttonhawk

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Sabine barely brought up a ward in time against the dragon's next shout. Even then, the ear-splitting shockwave physically exerted enough to send Sabine flying onto her back and knocking the wind out of her.

By the time she spun up to her feet and coughed her breath back, Sabine saw the dragon airborne. It was leaking blood from its pierced wing membranes. Still it lifted.

It was too big to force down with telekinesis. It would soon be moving too much to launch spells that did not travel as fast as lightning. Sabine neither could manage a powerful stream of lightning like Meesei could. She let magicka stream into her left hand as it swirled with a roiling mist. It gathered such power that it sprayed flecks of snow out from its spinning mass. Sabine pushed her palm forward and released a cone of dagger-sized, razor sharp ice shards speeding in a scatter up at the ascending dragon. Most would glance, more would hit.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

The light of the fire obscured Sabine's movement for the dragon's entire breath. It streamed out in a vicious flume lasting a long moment, but when it passed there remained a bright blue shell surrounding Sabine. She was now braced with one foot back and her staff forward, projecting a broad, shimmering ward that bisected the pattern of new flickering flames on the ground around her.

The ward fell with Sabine's arms steaming and freezing a layer of bright rime frost. She brought her hands up and forward suddenly and each projected speeding spears of ice at each of the dragon's wings.

Sabine's face was a worried brow and a clenched jaw. However, the staff gave her a confidence she did not think she had.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

Urteverm

@Antarctic Termite

At first I thought 'they're cute, I want one.' But then as I read on I realised Heartworm just wanted to one-up Slough on the creation of the cockroach by making them literally cancerous.

Damn it, Heartworm.

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nuuuuuh i'll get to it eventually.

@Antarctic Termite

-_-

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

A sinking fear tugged at Sabine's jaw muscles. She breathed shallowly.

She poke so quietly that the dragon at first may have had trouble hearing. "Is that all you care about?" Her airy voice lifted slightly higher. "Strength?"

She stepped back several paces, looking up at the dragon's eyes. She was not sure whether the next question to come to mind would end the beast's temper. "But if I defeat you, what will you do after? How will you defeat the Dragonborn?"

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

Dude, I'm loving the sheets, but while you're at it you'd do well to dunk that stuff into wiki pages as well. You don't have to edit them, or at the very least if you feel the need you can do it after you've finished with your ongoing sheets. Having stuff on the wiki just makes it much easier to reference.

You don't need to make them properly referenced and bloated out like BBeast and I do. I think we just get excited about our pages.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Sabine quirked her head. She was under the impression that the Dragonborn was in Skyrim somewhere. She chose her words carefully now that the dragon spoke Cyrodilic.

"We are not here for greed," she said. "Rather, chasing someone else who came here for greed. Or glory. Likely both. He carried something important to our quest." Sabine nervously fell back on manners, holding one hand to her chest. "My name is Sabine. These are my companions, Do'rhajul and Yerig. May we know your name?"

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

The dialogue so far was tense, as far as Sabine could tell. A foreign language and non-humanoid body language left no easy hints for her. The fact that Yerig was not engulfed in fire at least gave some hope. When the dragon's first thu'um reverberated around them, Sabine flinched. She had expected something more visual. Then Yerig's previous warning about the dragon's capability to detect life through its shouts came to her mind. The large spined head of the dragon was not looking at anything past her and Do'rhajul.

It did not take longer than a few seconds for Sabine to conclude their hiding spot was compromised. Sabine emptied her lungs. There was no good to be had from staying put. She nudged Do'rhajul with a finger. "Stand up with me," she said.

Sabine looked ahead and slowly stood into view. She carefully stepped out from behind the foliage with her staff firmly in her grip. She was ready to raise a ward at a moment's notice, but she lifted her other palm non-threateningly. Her fingers were shivering in spite of the determined look on her face.

Sabine glanced at Yerig. She had no idea what the dragon was saying.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

@Antarctic Termite Hmm! Thanks, I may have to try that.

Although I think next year I'll probably not have any exams. I'll just have to plan around full time work instead...

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

@Antarctic Termite Okay, I don't know why no one has said it yet, but GOD DAMN CONGRATULATIONS, you skaggy bint!

You did the Nanowrimo thing with a day to spare. That's something to be proud of.

I've always been scared of Nanowrimo because I haven't really written a piece that big before, let alone in the span of a month, let alone in a month I normally have exams. Maybe I'll have to harden up and try it.

By the way you describe your novel, it sounds like something along the lines of Cloud Atlas, but better than the movie version. Don't know about the book though; haven't read it.

(Btw if you're from Perth you're allowed to be profane. It is known, Khaleesi.)

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

>See BBeast's flurry of activity on the wiki
>Try to get back to finishing that hain article I set up
>See the sheer wall of subheadings I laid out for myself
>mfw