NuttsnBolts

Artifacts of a Lost Civilisation - ( Kitsune & NuttsnBolts )

If Fraya used Glare, and Alyon's leg is paralysed?
Does that mean the Wood Spirit is a Pokemon?



On another note, dunno if I can post later today/tonight as I'm heading to my cousin's for his 30th. That also depends on what time we'll get back home.

NCQuest: Smith's Rest

Madison Cole

If it wasn't for the fact that the Mad-e was anchored securely into the ground, the force of the shells hitting the NC would have knocked the unit onto it's back and put it into a very precarious state. Still, it's own rigidity actually hampered it's defences as the second barrage of attacks cause some major damage. Madison was plunged deep into the dark with the second hit as the cockpit shut itself down due to an electrical shortage, most likely from when part of the auto-cannon barrel that had been ripped from the torso.

"What the hell was that?" she spoke out in absolute surprise as she tried to feel her way around the cockpit, pressing any button in order to get a response. The screen then suddenly lit up but instead of the usual start up procedure, it looked as if it was doing a hard reboot.

> Running Boot Sequence
> Error: C̶̕o͏r̢r̸u̢͟͡ṕ́͏ti͝o̴̢n̢̨ ̵̧͘found in OS
> Error: Corruption found in Aưḑ̷͠i͘o̡͠ ̶̴D̷r̡͟i͡҉v̷̴̕e͝r̢̧s͏̀
> Error: Corruption fo̸u͟n͠d͟ i̶n͡ ̧Cerebral Link
> E͟r҉r͠òr̢͢͞: Corrup...

Madison watched with each new line of code that appeared on the screen, another error message would tell her that another system was failing. She reached over and swung the security code keypad in front of her body and began to type in a few lines of code. "What the hell did you guys do to my NC?" she growled as she typed away, following the commands given.

> System Restore Requested
> Please select OS to boot from:
1: OS 6.98_5 - C͏ó͜ŗ́͟r͏͏̀u̧p̵̸t̴͝i͏͘on̢͡ ̡̀ļ̡é̶v̡e̛͏͞l 100̸%
2: OS 5͜.̷7͏3_͞0 ͝- C͜o͡ŗru̡p͜ti̡ǫn level 60%
3: OS 4.36_1 - Corruption level 20%
> _

She reached over and press the number 3 on the keypad, knowing that there was no time to test out an OS that was running at less than 50 percent capacity. Only to receive a series of more error messages.

> Warning: Unrecognisable Drivers
> Unknown Communication/Audio Driver
> Unknown Cerebral Link Driver
> Continue? Y/N

"Holy Fuck! This is god, damn, bullshit!" she yelled as she hit the keyboard Y button on the keyboard, forcing it to enter into a reboot status and initialise the cerebral sync. With no music to act as a regular pacing device, the system would have to rely on Madison's heart rate and thoughts which at the moment were racing due to the frustrated anger that she was feeling.

> Initialising Mad-e System Software
> System: Failure
"Override!"
> Admin command accepted
> Weapons: C̸͘h̢҉̵ę͡͞ć̛͝͏̧ķ͞
> Ammunition: 99%
> Power: 97%
> Cerebral Resonance: 7%
> Cerebral Resonance Failure
"Override!"
> Admin command accepted
> Brain Mapping Sensitivity reverted to 100%
=̩͚̜͇ͅ ̳̲͚̮̥̩͡A̭͇̘̪̱̹̣̟͝l͉̤̬̥͝l͉̘̘̫͇͔͖͟ͅ ̶̮̬̦̼̱͜S̮͖̯̜͘y̛҉͈s̪̯͉͓̦̀͞ţ̛̼͇͠è̜̠̤͙͙͈͡m҉͎̖͙̬̙̮̯̪̱̕ś̶̗̘͕͇̣͇̻ ͚̣͎̤̲̕͞O̜̮̙͝͡͝ṕ̗̺̼̖͞e͏̸̢̲͇̳̦͈̖̯̥̞r҉҉͏̹̙͍a̢̧̜͍͜t͈͓͎͞i̵͈̗̯o͠҉̦͎̝͙͎̖̪̦n̸̩̳̝̟̙͢ͅͅa͏̧̦͇̫͖l͙̗͉͡͠ ̴͉͚̮͈̥̩̲͢=̢̢̦̞
"Welcome [New User]"

As soon as the welcome message appeared and the screen lit up with the outside world however due to the use of a previous OS, the screen occasionally flickered and lacked many of the tactical information that a pilot would need to make any targeted attack. Madison flipped the handlebars into their joystick position and slammed them as far forward as possible. The wings of the Mad-e sprouted open and accelerated to full speed as the 60 tonne NC began to speed across the landscape on a beeline towards the Denver-Vegas Siege Tanks.

Artifacts of a Lost Civilisation - ( Kitsune & NuttsnBolts )

Ok, posted.

I haven't really got anything planned so make use of the situation as you will. If you want to change things up or want to follow down a certain path then I'm completely cool with the idea. So don't feel that I'm trying to force a certain direction which will sideline your character or your choice of decisions. :)

Hope you find the post interesting. xD

Artifacts of a Lost Civilisation - ( Kitsune & NuttsnBolts )

For what felt like hours Alyon got dragged over the dirty forest floor before being whipped up into the air as she dangled by one leg from a high tree branch. She rapidly looked around to see where she was but the night darkness made it too difficult for anything to be made obvious except for her imediate surroundings. Through the silent air she heard a creaking and groaning sound of heavy, thundering footsteps as a being grew closer to her. Alyon attempted to slowly swing herself towards the nearby tree trunk, but with every bit of movement that she made, the vines wrapped around her leg tightened.

She looked forward towards the source of the footsteps and could see a large shadowy figure that stood about 3 meters tall, carefully inch closer before it lowered it's head down to examine it's freshly caught prey. It's strong, woody face came into focus as it approached Alyon and it started to light up a glow from deep inside it's fractured skull.

Hider

"A woodland spirit..." Alyon whispered as she remembered folklore tales of beings that lived in the forest as living trees.

"And another treacherous human," it replied as it examined the girl that it had captured. His eyes glowed with an orange light that was both hypnotic and fearsome. "You creatures are nothing but thilth! Needlessly chopping down my brothers and sisters, burning us in your fires, turning us into your weapons of war, and leaving our home scarred and empty."

As it spoke Alyon could feel the spit of sap come from the creatures mouth and land on her body. She held up her hands in a way as to try and reduce the amount of tree slobber that landed on her face, but it did very little. "No, no, I'm not like that. We don't want to harm your home! We're only heading to the Ryhmbrook Crypt, to look for person that went missing before winter." Alyon tried the excuse that Fraya suggested earlier of being a part of a search party that was looking for a missing individual. As she expressed her concern she could feel her body rotating while it was suspended in mid-air. From the expression that Alyon saw on the woodland spirit's face, she could tell that it didn't seem to go well. The woodland spirit instantly grabbed Alyon by her limp leg and began to wander off with her in it's grasp. Crap, wrong answer again?

"That human was after the Stone of Blight. I will not allow you to enter that cursed land and spread that disease!"

NCQuest: Smith's Rest

Madison Cole

"Ahh, lovely, our comrades have arrived. This is Akula 1, how are you mercs doing? Ready to hunt Denver-Vegas dogs? We arrived not too long ago ourselves, we've been talking about god knows-what for the past half-hour. Can't wait to crack some tough nuts!"

"Hell yes!" Madison replied through the intercom as her NC approached the Volkov meeting point. This was the first time that she had used her VTOL and the sensation was a bit unsettling to start off with. Unlike the thrusters systems where you had a real sensation of flying, the VTOL had a bit of a hover feel to it and required a bit of forethought in order to change direction. It didn't help that her NC was a lard arse with it's armour plating and weaponry but this system was more energy efficient on the Mad-e.

Madi sat comfortably in her reclined seat with both hands gripping two joysticks. The joysticks were actually a part of the torso rotation handles but instead of sitting horizontally, they were turned up vertically. On her digital readout she could see Swarm making his first move as he ascended into the skies in order to drop his secret payload. Knowing full well the direction he was taking, she decided to flank around to the Western side, both as a distraction away from him and spread the attackers around so that it would be harder for the enemy to target them.

Madison found a hill that she was comfortable with and lowered her NC onto the surface. As she dropped to the ground and felt the hydraulic legs take a hold of the Mad-e's weight, she flipped the joysticks down into the original position and heard the propellers of the VTOL begin to wind down and cease operation. "Initiating artillery assault mode," she announced over the intercom back to home base as she typed in the security code for the artillery system.

> Code accepted
> Artillery mode activated

The Mad-e's body torso lowered itself into the legs into a somewhat squat position in order to absorb the recoil, while at the same time opening up several ports around the ankles and sending a series of anchoring wedges into the ground. The HUD display lit up with the available targets, and an approximate trajectory for her to use.

"And on today's menu we have Denver Dog served Vegas style with a side of BOOM HEADSHOT!!!" Pulling the trigger on the handles she felt the NC fire off the warhead and saw the cloud of dust it kicked up from the ground around her. The warhead flew towards it's targets on a steady arc before splitting off into a cluster full of dozens of individual grenades.

NCQuest: Smith's Rest

Prob post up this afternoon or evening.

Artifacts of a Lost Civilisation - ( Kitsune & NuttsnBolts )

Thats OK. When I do my next post I'll build upon it a bit more and it should make some sense.

Artifacts of a Lost Civilisation - ( Kitsune & NuttsnBolts )

"Still half a day to go? Why is the crypt so far away from the town?"
Alyon had picked up her bowl and cupped her hands around it before answering Fraya's query. "Sometimes grave sites are built on sacred ground where people believe the spirits will protect their bodies and souls; it could have been the resting place for a famous leader and built as a place of honour and respect; or occasionally when the local inhabitants move, let's say from the bottom of the gully up to Ravenwall, they keep using the same place of burial out of tradition and old habits." She took a sip of her meal and felt the warm liquid flow down her throat into her belly, "Burial and death might be a bit different to us when we compare it to your kind. For us, death is completely permanent. No one has ever survived past the end of their life, or even reawaken centuries later."

The two sat there for a moment watching the night life dance amongst the treetops. It was both peaceful and beautiful to watch with the subtle glow of the stars lighting up the sky. Fraya spoke of how beautiful the world was and Alyon completely understood where she was coming from, that was until she dropped that bombshell of a question.

Alyon began coughing and spluttering as she was halfway through a gulp and felt the liquid tickle her windpipe. Why do we hunt her kind? Was she referring to the Artifacts or something that happened long ago in the past? Did humans do something terrible and cause the extinction of her civilisation? "Why do *hack* we hunt your *cough* kind?" She breathed in, gave a firm cough before attempting to answer the question with a better response. "I don't think anyone alive has even seen your kind before. I don't understand, how are we hunting you?"

Alyon licked her lips for a moment, with a little confussion. The residue of her meal in her mouth had suddenly changed flavour as it became tarty and woody. She looked down at her bowl and began to see the colour darken to a deep green from the edge where her lips touched. Quickly, without warning, she reached over and grabbing Fraya's arm in order to pull her hand and bowl aside so that she could have a look at her meal. No colour change? As she let go of her arm, Alyon reached down and scratched a slight itch that had formed on her lower leg, pricking her finger as she did so.

"Ow!" she yelped, glancing down to see what had cause the pain. Her eyes opened in fear as she saw a vine carefully wrapping itself around her leg, using the thorns to pierce the skin and dull her sense of touch. "What the hell is this!" she screamed as she attempted to stand not realising that by this point her leg was completely numb. Alyon fell, and rolled onto her back to see vines that held her leg captive extend out deep into the forest. My sword! Where's my sword?! She looked around frantically and saw it next to her pack where she left it as she was making dinner. Using as much strength as possible she pushed up with her hands and attempted to make a frog leap for her weapon, however upon hitting the ground she felt the vine tug against her body and suddenly retract back into the forest it came from.

"Fraaayaaa!!!" she screamed as she saw the light of the camp fire rapidly diminish into the distant with the rush of dirt and leaf matter whipping past her faster than galloping horse at full speed.

Artifacts of a Lost Civilisation - ( Kitsune & NuttsnBolts )

I think things would go bump in the night, especially in a built up area of woodland. What sort of ideas did you have? Whenever I think of creatures I tend to come up with a bit more of the gruesome side, eg the monsters out of Devil May Cry.

Edit: I think I may have an idea. Mwahahaha!

Artifacts of a Lost Civilisation - ( Kitsune & NuttsnBolts )

Oh totally. I dunno why but I'm waiting for Fraya to start meowing like a cat for some reason. xD

Internet is back up so thankfully only a day. Will say that this post does feel a bit like a filler as opposed to anything substantial. Wasn't fully sure what direction to go, so I think for the next lot of stuff we'll end up at the crypt and find out what mysteries it holds. Still haven't fully thought of what should be there besides a few light ideas but if you had any preferences let me know. :)

TL:DR... let's roll in some action. ;)