Orpheus

The Midnight Train to Nowhere

My group peeps, you're all amazeballs! Dang, those posts! Thanks for all the help, guys! Let's break this sonuva-

*realizes that I'm playing the orc*

.... *weeps in the corner*

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Group C

Lute skidded away to the side with Xandra’s arm firmly in his grip, and when the hail of brick and stone caused by the monster’s arrival finally subsided he gathered the courage to look up. The thing roaring at them… It seemed like a bear, but so much more … Twisted. “The… Bearon?” Is that what it was called? Hell! Every single alarm in his body rang at full volume and Lute was rapidly falling into panic mode, but apparently the mutated mega-bear wasn’t all they had to worry about. Another noise distracted the group and they turned to see a massive spider on their other side. Lute quickly thanked the gods (if they exist in this plane) that he didn’t have arachnophobia. Okay, okay, don’t panic. All of them were spread thin and nobody was in prime condition, but they could at least dole out enough tricks for a successful getaway, right!? There couldn’t be anything worse than this!

Cue the appearance of that goddamned freak of nature over Thaum’s wall.

So many things going downhill and it isn’t even his birthday yet!

“Fate just loves proving me wrong,” Lute groaned and resisted the urge to break down and sob. He got up from the ground with Xandra and tugged her along as he ran to where Dylan and Lucien were. The constant tremors plus the way the monster trio snarled at them kept Lute constantly distracted and he tripped a lot on the scattered debris. With the Bearon, the big spider and that other thing around them… Man, they’re screwed. Not that he was going to say it out loud.

The matter artist looked like he was about to cry and Lucien just had this stunned expression on his weary face. “Get up! Come on! Don’t give up now!” Lute’s voice grew strained as he attempted to drown out all cacophony coming from, well, everywhere; he was still too tired from that ‘almost’ coup de grace earlier to use his abilities, plus the Bearon’s footsteps getting progressively louder was NOT helping. “If you give up now, we’re seriously going to …” Beep, searching for a more persuasive form of the word ‘die’, “… eat dust!” Nobody was moving. Lute finally got annoyed and he forcibly pulled the matter artist up on his feet, rinse and repeat with Lucien. “I watched you all die once, and that’s not going to happen again. Not on my watch,” The virtuoso growled darkly and he glanced at Amy. "Miss! C'mon!"
“Let’s go! Just keep running, everyone!” He exclaimed and pushed Xandra gently. It was hard getting them to move, but… At least…

“Stop giving orders… You might just get them killed.” The same voice from earlier whispered and Lute froze, just at the exact time the earth shook again. He shook his head and regained his stride, running along with the metallurgist. He looked over his shoulder to see how everyone else was doing but…?

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Hey guys, I'm typing a post! Tomorrow's my third exam, then Finals on Wednesday. I should not be this chill.

Anyway, this is Lute basically in his post:

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Hey guys, took a short break from reviewing. Lemme see what's going on.... Although judging from the earlier comments... <.< *readies panic room*

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Thaum?: Group C

The hole was void of light. If he really had to describe it, he would guess that it was a black capsule, and that he was on the very bottom. He forgot when, but at some point Lute decided to just give in and curled up with his knees against his chin like a child huddling from the cold.

“Pet… Stay there… Can’t hurt… Anybody-” Was it just him, or did that voice sound like Delilah’s?

Lute cringed when something touched his arm. He looked up to see that girl from earlier, and that the dark space around him was gone. The darkness was replaced by fog, though… He continued staring up at Xandra with his eyes narrowed, expecting her to self-combust or for some faceless warrior to burst in out of nowhere and behead her. He felt oddly relieved and comforted that she remained fine after a few minutes.

He got up to his feet and nodded. “I am… fine.” How ironic; he was fine, but everyone was either murdered or decapitated. “Are you?” Lute asked silently as they started walking together. In time, they finally found the others, mainly because it was so quiet that it was hard to miss Lucien’s incoherent, teary babbling.

Amy, Dylan, Lucien, Xandra. He turned to the girl by his side and then returned his gaze to the group, a pained expression on his face. Maybe a heavy weight would fall on top of them all… That could be the reason why Xandra wasn’t dead yet. He shook his head at the thought and then stepped closer to their circle. “Does anyone have any injuries?” Lute asked just to make himself feel less alienated from everything. Hell, he’d sing if that would make him forget the things he saw earlier and make him stop associating those events with the people standing right here and now.

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Posted.

Hey Tae and Rex, are you guys still okay?

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For a bunch of humans that were supposed to put up a fight, this group was awfully meek. Well, no matter. Their submissiveness would only serve to make it easier for the orc, R’ktash, to gather them all in one fell swoop for today’s dinner.

One of the humans started sending spires of ice towards him, and while the cold sensation biting against his skin was slightly unpleasant, all orcs were born with thick skin and the attacks barely stung. R’ktash snarled and advanced towards the pesky ice mage who kept moving away from him, only to have a pair of good-sized fireballs slam into him.
As the smoke dissipated the humans watched as the remnants of Riley’s attack was sucked into the orc’s armband. Unlike the usual magic accessories so commonly features in games, his bands did not have the gems that they could have deduced to be the source of his power, therefore rendering the orc’s current immunity to magic unbreakable. He flashed his prey a toothy grin before stomping once. The ground shook and some of the humans fell. Another stomp and chunks of earth burst everywhere. Small trees were uprooted and fell over one after the other, but apparently that wasn’t the start of everything.

R’ktash’s colorless eyes focused on Hakuren and he advanced, his sword trailing on the cracked ground. As he got nearer and nearer the mage he charged, the very forest shaking with every step the orc took. Unfortunately Leon was in the way, and while at first it looked like the human was going to end up a bloody mess of guts and flesh, the orc skidded to a stop and used his shield to bash the human away. Leon flew away a few meters and crashed against a tree.

Just as he was about to attack both Hakuren and Lesley, seeing as how the latter was still cowering behind the mage, a tree of considerable size fell in front of them. It was both their barricade and a roadblock, seeing as how they were cornered against an even bigger tree there was no foreseeable method of escape, and almost as if R’ktash knew this he began slashing at the log to cut it in two.

So busy was he in his wood chopping activity that he left himself exposed.

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I'll be posting in a few. By the way guys, I really would not mind if you gave the orc some serious shit up there, okay? Throw whatever you can at me because it makes it really hard to reciprocate, just like right now seeing that only Hakuren and Riley did something concrete, I am seriously up to my neck trying to post something that would not look half-assed.

I am not criticizing any of you, I am doing my best and asking for your help so we can proceed with the story as planned. Because I feel really bad that Michi's group is done and we still aren't, plus I'm pretty sure you guys want to get a move on too.

Thanks. ^ o ^ /

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Whoa, Tae, Rex, hope you guys stay safe! ouo

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Hey guys, I'll be (even more) invisible this weekend. Gonna review for my third exam and the finals!