Pachamac

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Yeah, I think it might be cool to have a few rounds with our characters having a general breather and exploring/regrouping before we reach the finale. It should be good!

I just caught up on all of the posts so far and I have to say you guys outdid yourselves. That was all a terrific display of writing and I. Am. Pumped! I have to especially give Kei credit for her post, which was both exciting and utilised the bosses perfectly as they were envisioned, which I can imagine was really hard considering you weren't here when those bosses first appeared, but you used them accurately and perfect. Good stuff, everyone!

Rex, I'm both sorry and glad to hear about your gym job situation. Not so much about the mum yelling >< Hit me up on facebook when you can, okay?

Short posts aren't a problem, Kathi XD, so long as they're over 150 words and give everyone something to respond to, then it's good!

Thanks again everyone for being so good ;w;)b

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I've not caught up on the ICs yet, but I'm not fussed either way. We could have them seperate to begin with and give our characters a short breather and then have them find and meet up again as they explore the Tower? This section is going to be Fox's forte, so it's up to her.

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Taerinn said
Fight scenes aren't really my favorite thing (which is totally a 'me' problem, because of my characters is a non-fighter and the would probably rather be a pacifist) so I get a little overwhelmed, and we've essentially been in a string of fight scenes for a while.

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention earlier. I loved the detail in your last post of Lisette taking aim and just firing at the Firon, Tae. Very small, but a nice showcase of Lisette's development. I enjoyed that.

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I took the liberty of doing a tally of everyone's posts since the chapter started, just to give everyone a rough idea of how consistent they've been etc. I don't want anyone to feel pressured by this or start counting how often they post etc, this is merely meant to highlight how there's room for some improvement. This chapter has lasted about a month or so, now, and so... yeah. There's been a bit too many breaks, I think, lols.

How well did you do OWO

Pach: 32
Fox: 28
Buns: 28
Danni: 26
Rex: 24
Tae: 23
Kei: 23
Kathi: 18

Notes: One or two of mine, such as today's, have been double posted. Same with Fox, some of her Colliseum/Gardens stuff were double posts. Kathi has had a string of exams lately but this shows why Aria's interaction levels have been a concern.

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Rexcalibur said
I'll alert about it again a week in advance, but it shouldn't interrupt my posting frequency since I like to post during breaktime.

I'm lucky enough that I don't have to go to school anymore and do exams etc, but this is a sentiment I like and encourage. Studying for tests is, of course, incredibly important, but breaks are important too, right? And... a small post during said break would be great as well maybe? @_@

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Oh neat! I'm actually meant to be going out with my family for dinner tomorrow, so that should be nice 8D I hope your sister has a really nice birthday!!

Y'know, I've felt the same way too some days @ apathetic posting. I do wonder if maybe that is because posting has gotten lax. I know when I used to be stricter about it I was more involved, engaged, and engrossed in posting daily. Hmm. I mean, I don't want to be a hardarse on it and I do welcome the freedom for people to be able to miss a day without feeling pressured or stressed because of the rp (for myself, as well!), but it's definitely gotten a bit too inconsistent of late. ^^;

Which does bring me to ask if anyone is genuinely struggling with daily posting for this rp? I don't want this to be stressing anybody out, but at the same time it is for the most part required, and if anyone's having a difficult time with that then... maybe it should be discussed and options considered?

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Was it your sister's birthday today as well, Tae? Regardless of if it was or wasn't, I hope she has/had a nice day! And she's older then you? :0 For some reason I kept thinking she was younger, lololol

And I think Danni's right, and I'm okay with Danni not posting this round. But honestly, daily posting has started to get a bit lax from everybody lately, I think. I'm not an absolute stickler for it but I think I'm starting to see some people becoming a bit more consistent with missing posting then they are actually posting, and this is something that's concerning me. It'd be really helpful if everyone strived for daily posting, or to at least post way more often then they don't. Even in exam seasons now, I think. I'm starting to see instances happen a lot where's there's a lot of consecutive non-posting and it's actually stalling the rp in some ways. I don't know, I don't want to pressure people and I don't want to keep repeating/reminding this (which I feel I've done a lot so far?) but it's starting to happen again. I'd just like to see more consistency, even if it is a short post (and so long as it's over 150 words). Something is better then nothing.

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Thaum: Group A: Estelle, Marcus

“Estelle Fenix…” Cold mist exhaled from out of Lucifer’s black lips, evaporating into the air. The ends of his mouth curled into a wide smile, the tips of his white fangs glistening. “You and I have such unfinished business to take care of…”

“Shut up!” Estelle’s reaction was loud, hot, and immediate. Without waiting to let him react or take control, her arm, and by extension sword, was already swinging. The Fireblade she had been given by Tagress’ Guildleader Tiberius was already aflame, the length of its metal ensconced in scorching heat and fury.

It struck out across Lucifer’s chest and arms, carving a deep cut inside of him and licking him with the touch of its flames that continued to kiss upon his wound. As Estelle was dropped to the ground, the vampire’s body was already working to mend and rejuvenate its wound, his flesh and muscles regenerating and sewing itself shut. However the burn delayed the process, and made the pain that much more arduous. Whilst the shattering of Estelle’s Magitech Sword made it impossible for her to use Magispheres anymore and summon the brief use of any element she had on hand, her new sword could summon and ignite itself in flame whenever she desired. In some ways, it was an improvement. In this instance, the ability to catch her foe off guard, and keep him reeling from the attack.

“Impossible…” Lucifer scowled. “How many times must you defy me? You… little more than a child?”

“Depends,” Estelle began to reply as her feet touched the ground. “How many times are you going to keep underestimating me? Or maybe you’re not really as tough as you like to make out.” Her head lifted to the sky above, her irises reflecting the flames flickering from her sword. “Perhaps you’re more bark then you are bite.”

The vampire’s body was nothing more then a black blur, disappearing from the air, and reappearing low along the ground. Within the blink of an eye he was upon Estelle, his obsidian claws’ sharps tips mere centimetres away from raking the swordswoman’s face and ripping flesh apart.

But his body was halted, caught in the grip of something else. A tremendous force of power that gripped him from above, and slammed him straight into the ground, paralysing him. Lucifer gasped more in surprise then in pain, and hissed when he discovered that trying to stand up again was no easy task. His hands tried to push him up, but some force, some unknown, unseeing force, was pinning him down. Not that it would last. He would get up, and he would kill, he would tear and rip and maim and slaughter, and it would be sweet, oh so sweet and…

Estelle was struck in disbelief as well, unable to understand or believe how Lucifer came to such an undignified position, but before she could say or do anything, she was gripped by the arm and roughly tugged away, into another run forwards. Estelle’s eyes flitted to her partner and friend, to Marcus, who stared ahead of them, at that never ending tower, and the sweating grimace that adorned his face.



“Marcus,” Estelle spoke. “We… we have to go back. Don, Selan, Trixie, we need to-”





“We’re here!!” Don wailed, leaping over a bundle of crates with both women in his arms, as another lance of pure energy ripped through the landscape and destroyed the streets parallel to Estelle and Marcus’ run. Gaoh was already back up and attacking. “Run, run, run, run, run…!” That was the only thought on Don’s mind, as the five continued to race on, and on, barely staying one step ahead of certain death from behind them. “We’ve got to keep running, keep… …!!”

From the sky came a gigantic shape somersaulting through the air, pieces of brick, masonry and wood falling apart and raining in its trail. Don’s eyes widened in horror, his mouth opening and bracing for a scream, at the sheer impossible image of a building raining down from the sky towards them. What was wrong with this world?! Across the other side of Thaum, the monstrous mutant Oren had caught up to the group of Dylan, Lucien, Xandra, Amy and Lute, and was ripping apart and launching the houses of Thaum in all directions with the aim of slaying his fleeing prey.

“Hold on,” Marcus called out quietly, raising his right hand up, outstretched. Energy snaked around his body, slithering out from his chest and around his arm, until it reached his palm. He then clenched his fist together tightly, and swung his arm out. The falling house responded in kind, being shunted aside to crash into another building, as if being swatted away. Don and Estelle still had to pay mind to dodge and skip the falling pieces of rubble and debris, but they and Selan could not believe their eyes.

“Don’t feel relieved,” Marcus’ face was drenched in sweat now. “Doing that exhausted my hold on Lucifer.”

“Lucifer?!” Don and Selan yelled as one, and as if in response to his name, they saw a black figure streak up into the sky from an eruption somewhere in the murky violet fog filled streets behind. This was one impossibility after another. A sheer nightmare, one that just had to end…!

“There!” Estelle’s finger pointed down the way, at a clearing where the houses finally ended. There at last was the destination they vainly sought, the end of their escape… or so they hoped. It was the tower that Marcus had insisted he believed held the answers to this world filled with chaos and nightmares. The place where they could seek to bring all of this to an end.

“Almost… there…” Don huffed and he puffed. Another beam of light erupted from Gaoh’s cannon, destroying more of the buildings they passed behind them. Overhead, Lucifer flew closer, swooping down to capture and kill his hated adversaries.

Don and Estelle closed their eyes, their feet continuing to move for them. As the world went dark, they braced themselves for whatever might happen next. And what happened next was…

Calm. Silence.

Opening her eyes, Estelle had to blink rapidly to get used to the murky darkness barely illuminated by the overhead, flicking lights. She looked around her, spying all of her friends, safe and sound standing or collapsed and gasping for breath beside her. Looking behind, the outline of a metallic door that they had ran through, now closed and sealed shut. And no Gaoh or Lucifer.

They had did it. They had reached the Tower. They were safe… or were they?

A shiver ran up Estelle’s back. She could only hope that the rest of their friends were safe. She couldn’t shake off the horrible worry and unease that things were just going to get worse…

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Rexcalibur said
ANYWAY SORRY FOR MOANS, PACMAN

I didn't end up buying anything ^^; I managed to resist in the end |D

Got a Don post up, and I'm going to start working on an Estelle segment. I think we can have our characters reach the Tower this round, and possibly have a short breather moment, before Fox picks up the reins with setting things up for the conclusion of this chapter. :)

EDIT: And up. I apologise for the length >_<; And sorry if there's any elements there that are confusing. If there is, please let me know and I'll do my best to explain/fix it up. Hope everyone's having a good day!

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Thaum: Group A: Don, Selan, Trixie, Gaoh

“Don, just go!” Selan pleaded, her struggles proving vain in attempting to remove herself from Gaoh’s ever tightening grip. Don watched on, more and more pieces of him breaking as he saw Selan’s anguished expression, his father one tiny moment away from killing her… just like he’d done to his mother. He took a step forward, but as he did Gaoh’s hold grew tighter, and the glow from the Magitech Cannon pointed at Selan’s head glowed a little bit brighter.

He couldn’t run away. He couldn’t abandon Selan, not to die at the hands of his monster of a father. But at the same time… he wasn’t in a position to do anything. There was nothing he could do to rescue her, and with Trixie still held slumped over his shoulder, unresponsive… he had to protect her too. But… but how?

This was all his fault. He knew it was. Somehow… somehow his father was here because of him. And it was because of him that Selan would-

“Why on Ddaear would I marry you?” She said, venom spitting from her lips. She took a step forward, one hand outstretched, her finger pointed towards Don accusingly. His feet automatically started walking backwards. “You’re the last person in the world I’d ever marry.”

“I’m doing you a favour, boy,” Gaoh’s eyes widened menacingly, as if reading Don’s own thoughts. “Just doing what you don’t have the stones to do yourself.”

Something within Don snapped, and he screamed as loud as humanely possible. To Selan and Gaoh’s own bewilderment, Don’s body seemed to smoke, wisps of light and smoke curling from his body and rising into the air, as if something was beginning to possess him. Gaoh’s eyes narrowed, watching and waiting as he observed his son, reading to pull the trigger on his cannon the second Don made a move towards them. But Don didn’t. He remained rooted to the spot, not taking a single step forward. Instead, he raised his foot into the air, and with a deft, high powered swing…

It all happened so fast. The building’s roof imploded as his heel struck the slate tiles and eviscerated them. Everyone’s bodies began to sink immediately, Gaoh caught unawares by the sudden action and unable to react. He didn’t see what came next.

Another kick swung out, hitting Gaoh in the face and sending him reeling backwards, to collide into and through another series of buildings to the side. At the same time, Selan was fortunate enough to have been released, and caught in Don’s free arm to land safely enough on the ground. Don’s gaze followed Gaoh’s trajectory, and the damage and devastation he had made. A brief thought flitted through his mind… comparing the savagery and destruction he had made to that of his fathers’ own. They were more similar then Don would like to admit. But he was better then that. He wasn’t his father. He wouldn’t allow it.

“C’mon,” Don turned, and began running as hard and fast as he could along the line of houses that Estelle and Marcus had been running along the rooftop of. “That’s not going to slow him down for long, we…”

Don sighed, and with a quiet voice, said: “I’m sorry, Selan...”