Terminal

TTL: The Final Hazard OOC

@Terminal

I hope that even with the changes going on in your life that you're doing alright man. Take care of yourself.

@Bright_Ops

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What changes?

There have been no changes in my actual living situation or life. My being forced to abandon The Twelve Labours and The Final Hazard was due to other events, outside the scope of this subforum but within the scope of the actual site, which preclude me from operating as a contest moderator. I am still an active roleplayer.

The Twelve Labours: General Discussion

And that, as they say, as that.

The Iteration cannot deteriorate any further - omission at this point would be instant death. So The Final Hazard, and by extension, The Twelve Labours are now over.

May You All Live On In Song and Story.

The Final Hazard

...And the world devolved again, the sun vanishing once more just as the pavise knight fired his crossbow. Kael was left hanging in the air as gravity abandoned him and the traction afforded by having his two feet planted on the ground vanished, with little in the way of moving in time to evade the attack.

If he had been expecting the ability to transmit from one place to another to return, he was left disappointed. If he were to recall the epiphany he had discovered upon his initial exploit of the ability, he may have remembered that it was independent from the state of the world itself and tied instead to some aspect of his own being - which the Allineator had somehow altered.

The Final Hazard

"If you want this to end, return me to where I came from. Tell me how to return, give me a clue of what I was and am supposed to do! Otherwise, I'll fight against the end for as long as I'm alive. No matter how bad things get, the consequences of what could happen can't get enough worse than they are now for me to stop trying to make things better."

@Cruallassar

"What I wanted..." The pavise knight said as they leveled their crossbow yet again. "Was to use the Allineator for myself once all of you scum were dead. Now even that is denied me. I am a creature of its own nature made - even having lost everything, I will still destroy you."

The crossbow seemed to twitch-

Cancellation - The Twelve Labours

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.

TTL: The Final Hazard OOC

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.

The Twelve Labours: General Discussion

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.

The Final Hazard

"Responsibility, sure. Avoidable consequences, no."

@Cruallassar

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."

The Final Hazard

"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?"

@Cruallassar

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.

The Final Hazard

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"

@Cruallassar

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.