PaulHaynek

The Witch's Servant (romantic tragedy)

@SaturnSenshi

Do you have a story planned out for Marisa and her familiar?

The Witch's Servant (romantic tragedy)

There are a few different images of my witch that I plan on using, and she is a character from a small indie game that I enjoy.

@SaturnSenshi

I don't think Touhou is small. It's pretty widespread to be honest.

Anyway, expressing interest here. I'll probably play as a disgraced samurai a la Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima but the character will probably diverge once I flesh him out.

What kind of premise are you expecting from Marisa's adventure in Japan?

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Riventor

~@Rune_Alchemist, @Lunarlord34, @Kuroakuma~

"I-Ibon I uhh...."

Will-O-Wisp

"Huh? Oh dear, what happened to you?" Ibon was alarmed upon showing cuts and wounds.

"Hey, hey! Come on, Will-O-Wisp, let me treat you before you go talking to anyone." The Liberi Medic stopped Will-O-Wisp before using her healing Arts on the Vulpo Operator. Within moments, all of Will-O-Wisp's injuries closed up and left her energized. Ibon produced some napkins and wiped away the blood stains left behind.

"There we go. You be careful next time, okay?" The Medic then patted Will-O-Wisp's a few times on the head.

"Privet, friend. We are simply some humble researchers from the Haynek Institute. Crash landed thanks to some bad weather and some of our operators missing. Mhm, and if I might inquire, my comrades here seem to smell something most foul! You wouldn't happen to know what that is would you?"

Zasada

"Finally, someone who wants to talk! I'm Will-O-Wisp! As Zasada says, we're from the Haynek Institute. Hey you wouldn't know anything about the strange happenings around here would you? First a weird storm, then this weird smell. Let alone the reports of other strange orignium happenings! Oh, oh are you infected? What's with your hands and feet? Did this happen as a result of the orignium reports of the other? Unrelated? Hey, why is everyone avoiding us? Also-"

Will-O-Wisp

"Oh, this?" The Archosaur boy gestured to his hands and feet. "Had 'em since I was born. Something about being a subspecies or something." He shrugged.

Listening to their experience of the crash and the missing teammates, the Archosaur replied. "Mmm, sounds like the forest got you." The answer raised some eyebrows from Wu and Ibon. "You probably don't know. The woods around this town? It's cursed. It's evil. Some outsiders before you insisted that there's probably just a super predator lurking there but don't buy that. The forest itself is the evil. I don't doubt that it probably sent that storm that made you crash."

"That sounds... superstitious." Wu voiced his thoughts.

"Hey, it's the truth. Whether you like it or not." The Archosaur shrugged. "And sorry about your other folks. They were probably taken by the forest. Not exactly an unusual occurence here." He continued.

"Taken? What do you mean 'taken'?"

"Taken. Spirited away. Disappeared. Gone. Poof. The forest is like that." The Archosaur shrugged. "Don't ask me where they're taken to. No one here knows but if you're lucky, real lucky, you come back. Usually in a bad state but coming back is lucky enough." He paused for a moment before continuing. "In the worst case scenario, the forest twists you into its servant. We call 'em 'savages'. You'll know one when you see one."

"Is there a precedent for getting... taken?" Wu asked.

"None, at least nothing concrete. But from what I've seen, it's usually got something to do with the mind." The Archosaur boy continued. "Again, nothing concrete. Take the owners of this house for example..." He stopped leaning on the dilapidated house and joined the others in looking at it. "There was once a family of three there. Wife, husband, son. They've been living normally for years now then one day, they just got up and walked straight into the forest. Never to be seen again."

When the Operators said something about the smell, the Archosaur glared at the group. "Ah, so some of you has the Sickness. You know, where the Cursed Rock grows on you."

"The 'Sickness'? You mean Oripathy? And I'm guessing 'Cursed Rock' is Originium?" Ibon replied.

"'Oripathy', huh? So that's what they call it out there." The boy then continued. "Anyway, there's something in this village that repels the Cursed Rock. We call it the 'Miasma'." The revelation made Wu's and Ibon's eyes widen. "The Miasma keeps away the creatures and the savages, thereby keeping Riventor safe despite the evil forest surrounding us. Don't know what it is exactly but whatever the Miasma is, it's coming from the mayor's mansion. It doesn't reach the village's outskirts though but there's something else there that keeps the dangers away."

"It may not keep away the forest's influence, but it's kept the rest of us alive. To be honest, I don't really trust it but I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth." The Archosaur said. "Anyway, those afflicted with the Sickness get nauseous because of the Miasma. Best that you leave the village as soon as possible. The closer you get to the mansion, the worse the stench becomes. Do you have anywhere here to stay in? I've heard that there's a radio tower near here that houses a military bunker or base or something."

"I'll let the mayor know you've come but it's best that you formally meet her someday. That way, you get the villagers' trust faster. They're not the friendliest bunch, I know, but they may have something that you'll need."

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North Riventor

~@LiverisGood, @TinyKiwi~

"Ma'am, are you alright? Let's move you away from that building in case something tries to collapse alright?"

Medivac

The woman paid no attention to Medivac, still rocking back and forth and uttering her mantra. ""Destroy the fire... Destroy the fire... Destroy the fire... Destroy the fire... Destroy the fire... Destroy the fire..." Since they were close now, Radiant and Medivac saw that the mad woman had a shiny key with her. With both hands, she held it just above her knees and stared at it as she rocked and uttered her phrase.

The key appeared too fancy to belong to her. Should Radiant or Medivac attempt to take it, they would find that the woman's grip on it was strong. Extraordinarily strong that neither Radiant or Medivac or both of them could take it by force. Extreme measures must be used to take the key from her.

Not much was left of the burned house save for its charred remains. The next point of interest was the house next to it. A very strong odor of poultry and chickens and droppings emanated from it. The two Operators could hear the bawks and the clucks of the chickens apparently living there.

*SLAM*

A door swung open and out came a small boy with a violin followed by an angry Kuranta woman who yelled at the former. The boy fled from the mansion and hid below a ruined farm tractor nearby. The woman did not chase and instead, went back into the house.

Medivac and Radiant were too far from the commotion though to see anyone in detail though.

The Epic of Beginnings - Fragments of a weathered scroll

The Journey Begins

~ Unknown Location ~

Interacted with: @ERode, @Pyromania99

Nick dug around the snow in search for a small piece of the mysterious black stone. He ocassionally rubbed his hands to remove the cold that came with burying fingers into the frost.

It took a while before he found something. He was about to give up when he got his hands on a black stone. "Yes!" Nick congratulated himself. He then-- Wait. This was not the same as the mysterious stone. Taking a closer look at it, he found that there were slight differences to it. Whereas the black stone was... stone, this one was more like glass. It was flat and shaped like a diamond. Inspecting it some more, Nick found a hole carved on top and an unknown letter in its center. It was of the same alphabet as the ones on the monuments but that gleamed little information.

Other than that, there was nothing to it. Except that Nick felt safe holding it. He should bring that up to whoever's an expert on this.

"Ahh!? Heh? Ahh, Isidore. Wait a bit! Th-the shapes on here are lighting up? I'm curious now!

Augusta?

Nick heard Augusta and made his way towards her and the black stone slab. Indeed, the swirling patterns engraved on the slab had glowed with a radiant blue color. "Whoa. Well, isn't that something." Nick was getting excited too at this development.

"How'd you do that?" Nick asked. "Whatever it is, keep doing it. Maybe it can tell us something." Hold on, Nick checked what he was feeling. No strange, anxious feeling. Alright then, this was probably safe.

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Skies of Kazimierz

~@LiverisGood, @TinyKiwi~

Radiant and Medivac were Operators of the Haynek Institure of Research and aboard the VTOL desginated Raven Two. They were part of an investigation of the strange presence of Originium in a remote village in Kazimierz called Riventor. There were three teams on the operation but originally, there was only supposed to be one team that did not include either of them but a last minute change by Mr. Haynek himself saw the addition of two more teams.

They departed from the institute's mobile base once it reached Kazimierz. The base would soon move away, however, since there was business elsewhere. Fortunately, the VTOLs would keep close by. Once they have delivered the teams, they would refit and refuel at a nearby Kazimierz city and wait there until the teams request extraction.

"It's a freaking storm out here!"

The three VTOLs, however, were caught in a bad storm that seemingly came out of nowhere. Despite the attempts to avoid it, Raven Two and the other aircraft entered extremely turbulent weather. The VTOL violently rocked back and forth, forcing the team to buckle up on their seats. Alarms blared as the pilots could be heard still attempting to evade the storm.

"It's following us!"

That was the last line heard when communications to the other VTOLs were broken. The doors to the aircraft suddenly opened as well as the doors to the cockpit. The team then watched as their two pilots jump out of the VTOL, without their parachutes, to their apparent deaths. The situation was so unbelievable that the team took a few moments to process what just happened.

The team leader, a Liberi man with short brown hair, ordered an immediate evacuation while he tries to keep the aircraft flying as much as possible. Parachutes were issued to the Operators and Radiant and Medivac were the first to exit, besides the suicidal pilots.

The thick clouds of the storm meant they never saw their VTOL or if anyone else jumped.

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North Riventor

~@LiverisGood, @TinyKiwi~

The two landed into the thick woods that surround Riventor. Fortunately, they were in the shallow parts of the forest and nearby the two houses north of Riventor. One was clearly burned down though, its charred remains could be seen as the Operators descended.

Medivac and Radiant landed safely to the forest floor. They could see the burned house past the dead trees and within a few steps, they would emerge from the woods. Upon discarding their parachutes and gathering their bearings, they could start moving and begin their next course of action.

If they approach the burned down house, they would see a fair-skinned Kuranta woman with brown hair sitting on the burned house's porch, or what remained of it. She wore the clothes of an average rural villager and she sat there hugging her shoulders, rocking back and forth. "Destroy the fire... Destroy the fire... Destroy the fire... Destroy the fire... Destroy the fire... Destroy the fire..." She repeated endlessly.

It appeared the house belonged to this woman, although interaction with her might be limited. Further beyond, on the other side of the burned house was a much larger house. The faint sound of a chicken's clucks could be heard from it.

Arknights: The Dark Woods

@Tojin

Eyup! Still looking for players. The link to the main RP is in the post with the dancing Amiya.

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@Travesty

I'd like to keep the timeline ambiguous since this will not be a hard canon Arknights RP. However, Rhodes Island does exist and can be known by the characters.

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@LiverisGood @TinyKiwi

Your characters are both accepted. Welcome to the RP!

I'll probably write a mini-update to get you two started.

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@Lunarlord34

Yes.

At least for now.

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@Travesty

Alright! The link to the main RP is at the top post.