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I have been writing as a hobby for longer than you have been alive. I have been a regular member and roleplayer of no less than fourteen different online forums during that time (including the old RPG), five six eight of which no longer exist.

I was previously a regular on the Homestuck forums, but I became so sick of thread turnover there that I asked around and eventually found the Guild. Since joining, I have exclusively only participated in Advanced RPs. Before Mahz gave NRPs their own subforum, I used to be an NRP regular in the Advanced Subforum. I am a Guildfall survivor, and know/regularly write with a few others.

If you ask anybody who has written with me in previous RPs, they should tell you that I have a generally open schedule, I post regularly and in a timely fashion, and I never drop an RP once I join unless the thread dies. Some of them may tell you that I have extensive expertise within the realms of Biology, Psychology, and Physics, which I will make no effort to validate since there is no way I can provide hard proof of aforementioned alleged expertise to anybody over the internet (though I am happy to try and answer any questions you send my way).

My favorite fandom is the Myst franchise, which seemingly nobody other than me has ever heard of.

I was a Contest Moderator for the Writing Contests Subforum for just a little bit over two years. I wrote the Moderation Policy for that subforum and I ran a contest called the Twelve Labours; you can still go there and see all of them and the entries people wrote for them in the Contests Section and the Victory Archives.

I have been quadruple secret banned from the guild discord. That is not a joke.

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I am sorry to have to announce that The Twelve Labours is, from here on out, canceled. This includes both the upcoming Second Labour of Series Two, as well as any continuation of The Final Hazard. For those of you watching The Final Hazard pages, know that I will finish up the first Iteration of the Final Hazard due to it having been drawing to a close in any case, but no future Iterations will take place. My deepest apologies for having wasted the time and effort of those involved in the project.

Due to issues beyond the scope of Writing Contest subforum, I am no longer a Contest Moderator and can no longer efficiently manage the contest. There are no plans to replace or continue the contest, barring whatever members of the RPG community may devise. This development was neither anticipated nor welcome, and I apologize for having disappointed the expectations of those who were expecting a continuation of The Twelve Labours.

The status of the various awards and trophies still pending from previous Labours is currently unknown. I will see if I can still have them awarded, but I am no longer in a position to make promises on that front.

May you all live on in song and story.
I am sorry to have to announce that The Twelve Labours is, from here on out, canceled. This includes both the upcoming Second Labour of Series Two, as well as any continuation of The Final Hazard. For those of you watching The Final Hazard pages, know that I will finish up the first Iteration of the Final Hazard due to it having been drawing to a close in any case, but no future Iterations will take place. My deepest apologies for having wasted your time and effort.

Due to issues beyond the scope of this subforum, I am no longer a Contest Moderator and can no longer efficiently manage the contest. There are no plans to replace or continue the contest, barring whatever any of you might devise. This development was neither anticipated nor welcome, and I apologize for having disappointed the expectations of those who were expecting a continuation of The Twelve Labours.

The status of the various awards and trophies still pending from previous Labours is currently unknown. I will see if I can still have them awarded, but I am no longer in a position to make promises on that front.

May you all live on in song and story.
I am sorry to have to announce that The Twelve Labours is, from here on out, canceled. This includes both the upcoming Second Labour of Series Two, as well as any continuation of The Final Hazard.

Due to issues beyond the scope of this subforum, I am no longer a Contest Moderator and can no longer efficiently manage or administer the contest. There are no plans to replace or continue the contest, barring whatever any of you might devise. This development was neither anticipated nor welcome, and I apologize for having disappointed the expectations of those who were expecting a continuation of The Twelve Labours.

The status of the various awards and trophies still pending from previous Labours is currently unknown. I will see if I can still have them awarded, but I am no longer in a position to make promises on that front.

May you all live on in song and story.
"Responsibility, sure. Avoidable consequences, no."

The world shifted again.

"Nothing is late if intentionally so." The pavise knight intoned as he reloaded his crossbow. The sun, casting its cold light, reappeared in the darkness above. Kael's shadow was cast a cobblestone path that bled from nothingness like colored ink behind him - and gravity, or at least a semblance of it, return. The archer's feet once more fell firmly planted to the ground, and the sprayed solvent he had been about to drift through hung in the air above him. Most alarmingly, the bag containing the remaining solvent continued to drift upwards out of Kael's reach, coated wholly in metal.

"There was only one choice you made that mattered, you degenerates." The pavise knight muttered as he leveled his crossbow at Kael yet again. "End this. If you carry on, they will continue to draw back. The veil of your world shall return and you will be undone. One way or another."
"A game? Toying with people's lives? How about ours? I didn't choose to come here, I didn't want to make enemies, but when you try to kill me, what do you expect to happen but us responding in kind? Don't you understand the concept of cause and effect?"

As Kael fumbled within the bag to retrieve the solvent, he realized a crucial complication: His arms no longer had the range of motion to apply the solvent anywhere. He could probably just manage to point some of it back at himself if he held each can just-so, but the process of ridding himself of the metal was not going to be a quick one.

The pavise knight finally turned to look directly at Kael.

"Cowards." He said flatly. He raised his crossbow and pavise once more, the former peeking over the edge of the latter - shielding himself from the possibility of Kael throwing anything from the bag or his person. "Take responsibility for your choices."

There was a metallic twang as the next crossbow bolt was fired dead at Kael.
Chicken? He could play that. Kael ignores the shot, intent on typing out his next command. How nice of the knight to take his time with quips and flairs as he gives Kael lots of time to finish his plan...
"Alter time Entity VII accelerate 100x"

The bolt hit Kael directly across his chest, at a slight angle. The cylinder-tip erupted in a burst of iridescent light, and Kael was treated to an oddly pleasant sensation of warmth spreading across his chest as both his shirt and skin were plated with silvery metal - its spread continued even as he typed, reaching up to his neck and seizing the motion of his head, as well as encompassing his shoulders and locking the angle of his arms in place in an odd, hunchbacked posture.

Absolutely nothing hurt and he appeared to be uninjured, which was good. What was bad was that no matter how hard he tried, he could not seem to shift or crack the metal at all.

>Entity VII [4167067] Kael Arvindr accelerated to one-hundred times current velocity.

Without any further notice, Kael's face slammed downwards, his indestructible cranium tearing through the computer screen and obliterating the keyboard, sending the delicate nacreous keys with their ornate emerald typeface spiraling through the empty world along with a thousand tiny shards and fragments of broken pewter and rent brass. Glowing ciruitry and cables from within the monitor flickered and sparked before turning dim and dead.

Kael's entire body continued its end-of-end tumble, until his head slammed directly into the surface of the monolithic stone slab the computer had been housed in - and this time, he bounced, his momentum drastically reversing and flinginh Kael's body in the opposite direction, sending him backflipping through the void behind the machine. He appeared to have already slowed down somewhat from the impacts and shift in direction, so the one upside appeared to be that he was not stuck at one-hundred times acceleration.

"The Allineator, much like the world, was adopted to suit all your needs. It accommodates some more than others though." The pavise knight remarked of nobody in particular and he casually reloaded the crossbow once more, drifting forward to approach the shattered remnants of the keyboard and display screen, looking with faint interest at the tangle of now-severed cables drifting through the air.

"That will take me ages to fix with the world like this. You witless heels. Did you think this was a game? Do you enjoy toying with peoples' lives?" The knight muttered to himself, an irritated expression crossing his face.
He wills one of the small rubber balls in his pouches to appear outside said pouch and shoot at the knight, that would be a nice nuisance for him.

...But nothing happened.

In a quick frenzy of movement, his fingers reach out and tap the keys as fast as he could, just in case the knight wasn't bluffing.
"Shield Entity VII from harm"

>Entity VII [4167067] Kael Arvindr marked invulnerable.

"Bluffing is boring anyway. How well does he play chicken?" The pavise knight quipped to the empty vacuum again as he swerved through the air to Kael's right a scant three meters from the machine, his pavise still raised in protection. With a metallic twang, his crossbow fired the cylinder-tipped bolt loaded in its till at Kael.

Kael had plenty of forewarning of the attack - from the predictable trajectory of the knight's gliding motion through the void to the verbal challenge immediately prior, and being able to see the crossbow fire. He could easily dodge out of the way.

...Which would take him out of reach of the keyboard. The pavise knight was close. What might happen if he reached the keyboard himself?

On the other hand, the computer screen's readout was telling Kael that he had been marked as invulnerable. Did he even really have to dodge the crossbow bolt...?
@Terminal

Kael moves himself over to face the keys on the machine, typing out the word "reset" on them to see what happens. Then the explosion sounds and he twists around to view the last of his comrades...and the erstwhile murderer...expire. Lovely. So much for saving anyone else then. "You know, this situation might seem a hell of a lot more hopeless if you were doing less trying to kill everyone and convincing everyone of the fact. As it is, I'm inclined to disbelieve you." He notes the detachment of the knight's shield...interesting. So he was still vulnerable to the metal bolts. Kael wills the knight's crossbow to explode as an afterthought as he hastily returns his gaze to the machine's screen.

>Resetting all valid entities.

Just as the knight's bolt exploded in an iridescent flash of light, the command Kael had entered in the machine took grasp of what little was left of the world and reshaped it.

Kael found himself without the accouterments he had picked up since arriving in the limousine, and all that he had arrived with had been restored - and the Knight was suddenly standing tall in the dark pitch of the world, with a new pavise strapped to his left arm. His crossbow was raised, a new cylinder-tipped bolt placed neatly in its till as though nothing had happened.

Kael immediately noticed - he could no longer see the conduits that bound the machine and the knight together, nor the strange internal passage through space within the machine's interior. His sight had gone.

The pavise knight shook his head, a wry smile on his face.

"If he touches the keyboard again I'll just shoot the Allineator." He called out again, floating off to the side of the machine in order to get a clear shot off again at Kael, his pavise raised in anticipation of another attack.
I'm not sure why that final act of violence was necessary, but fine, Andy is dead.

Which does bring a question to mind. @Terminal, when a character dies in an iteration, can that character be used again in another iteration or not?

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I thought that was the goal as well, but people are free to play how they want it. The RP would have been more fun and probably survivable for more if we all would have worked together to defeat the enemies and find a way out. Especially since the RP is not a 'the last man standing will win' kind of RP, at least that's not the impression the parameters of the final hazard gave me.


You are free to reuse the character if you see fit.

I will also say your impressions are correct. Keep in mind that this ultimately boils down to all of you versus me, after a fashion. That said, you are also all free to roleplay however you like.
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