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oi oi oi, really fucked up the formatting on that one. all fixed now, though

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De'kae, the Druid

De'kae noted that several potential allies had scattered to the sidelines in order to assist the woman with the big armor next to her. Hopefully that would pay off! The swordswoman did her best, but was caught up in the spider-beasts many legs. Fortunately, the druid elf's barrier protected the warrior enough to stave off the spider-beasts ravenous blows. The barrier exploded and seperated the two of them. As long as Saria didn't land on her neck, she should be healthy enough to jump right back into the fray! Someone tossed a spear into the beast, and that someone would pay for their effort. The monstrosity focused their efforts on the girl. Kay yelped in surprise as the thing shot out webs. She didn't expect that! A woman came to the archer's aid. She had a mirror, and looked like an adventurer.

Before the abomination could attempt to finish off the woman it had ensnared, Kay once again activated her Structure ability. Infront of Katelin a ten foot by fifteen foot green barrier appeared. Hopefully it would be enough to cease the spiders onslaught and give the archer enough time to escape. "Get outta there, quick!" Kay yelled, her voice full of fear and excitement. Her tattoos once again began to glow as she channeled the energy of the world through herself. Her large elven ears were vertical and scanning the room for any other threats. The druid elf was on high alert. Right now all she could do was support her allies the best she could. With one hand focused on the barrier, Kay used the other to fire a weak wayward blast of green energy toward the spider, in order to distract it away from the woman it had ensnared.

Natalia

Natalia's icy gaze scanned the duo that had approached her. The two of them looked like they had been plucked from a story book. A dwarven master of mechanics and some kind of suave potion seller. Curious. She truly had been transported to another world. Was this result on her research? In her attempts to pierce the veil and gaze into the abyss, had the abyss stared back? There would be more time to reflect on this later.

As the two approached, they would notice a dull blue-green glow emanating from the woman's chest. From underneath an obvious outline on her tanktop, a cylindrical glowing tube had been inserted directly into her chest and went out the otherside. It thrummed with energy. The light dulled and increased at the same frequency as a heartbeat. This was Natalia's energy reactor, and her artificial heart.

"The golem," Natalia said coolly, adopting the dwarves terminology, "has an activation switch on it's back. First, I need it to be flipped over. Then, I can crawl ontop of it and activate it." She said. Most likely the pair had already intuited that Natalia was incapable of walking. The dwarf seemed to be some kind of fantastical engineer. Most likely his devices were strong enough to get leverage on her Powered Armor and flip it over. Natalia spent most of her attention on Ariamis. She spared only a passing glance to Leon. Unless that man had some sort of hidden ability, she thought, most likely the dwarf was most suited to assisting her out of this predicament.

Natalia leaned over and got a glimpse at the action occuring behind them. Intense stuff. In this situation the most logical action would to be to assist her new allies in defeating the monster. In order to do so, her new allies would need to help her get into the golem. This excercise would most likely build trust between them all.

🌠 Once Upon A Time 🌠(Concluded)

Annabelle Lafeyette

Annie nodded. "Thanks, Andy. See ya around," she said, giving a wave. She would have to call child protective service. No kid should be homeless like that. Sighing, she continued on her walk. Annie also payed some attention to the car across the street. Some guy was talking to a little girl, and the kid looked uncomfortable. Narrowing her eyes Annabelle decided she would take a little detour. This was exactly the kind of thing she was worried around. She didn't want to be judgemental, but that guy did not look like that kids father, and that kid was all by herself on a school day.

So, better than safe than sorry. Doug didn't mind. Annabelle decided to cross the street to get closer to the car. Nobody minded a woman walking her dog. It was the perfect excuse to walk wherever she wanted. It took a bit of getting there, but eventually Annabelle was just outside of earshot of the girl and the person in the cars conversation. As Doug walked around Annie cast a "sneaky" wayward glance toward the conversation to see what was going on. There were some sick people out there. Maybe she was just paranoid because of the conversation she just had but homeless kids with no support are extremely vulnerable.

A Blade's True Test (Mercenary Company Sci-fi RP that actually has an ending)

oh well, i guess that does just happen sometimes.

was pretty fun while it lasted tho

edit: This is me dropping out of the RP, by the way. Another one I'm interested has recently been created and I don't want this one to take up a "slot" for my RP's, as it were. Thanks for the story, some pretty cool ideas here

A Blade's True Test (Mercenary Company Sci-fi RP that actually has an ending)

this still going? @Nawmaing hasn't been online for almost a month

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@Randomness Up to you! There are quite a few of us. I don't think it'd be a bad idea. Maybe you even even label them as minor and major updates

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Well, I'm sure Natalia will be super totally grateful for the help, lol. I'm sure Aramis and Nat can swap details, though I think the inner workings of their stuff might be a little different. And Katelin can probably just help Nat crawl onto the back of this thing once Aramis helps flips it over with his cool gizmos.

We can only post once per world update right? If so, then it'll be one world update of preparing to get ready, and then the one after that the armor will be able to step in and really start to fight.

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Ooookay! My post is up! I like my characters so far. I decided to make Natalia a little helpless at the start. That way she's forced to interact with somebody herself. Right now she can't do anything until her armor is flipped on it's back, but it would be kind of hard for one of the others characters to guess that considering she hasn't asked for help.

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De'kae, the Druid

Cold. Something cold was digging into her bare spine. Furrowing her brow, Kay crinkled her nose and sneered. Her eyes were closed and she had been breathing rhymically just a few seconds ago but it was clear something had disturbed her slumber. Sleepily, her eyes opened. Ouch. She was wearing a crop top, and the natural curve of her spine wasn't enough to prevent it from being jammed by rocks. Sitting up, she rubbed her head and glanced around. She hunched into her shelf and grimaced, shuddering as she heard an abominable shriek. Glancing upwards she caught a glimpse of the horrific woman-beast above her. She scrambled away just in time, running away. There were others around here, but Kay's mind was reeling. What the hell just happened? Where was she? Wasn't she in the middle of something? She was carving a staff to go with her traditional garments, right? Well, that was long gone. Not like it would be much use- without a magic crystal it was just a stick. Someone, a woman in red, told her to get up and Kay had no intention of disobeying. Especially since she spoke with such a commanding prescence. Maybe she knew what was going on?

Kay, breathing heavily, glanced back towards the spider. The woman in red armor was lunging toward the beast. An ally! Kay had never seen such a creature before, but she had read stories of half-person, half-beast abominations that roamed the hills. She had even met some before. The snake men of the eastern swamps were particularly nasty. The centaurs weren't so bad though. They reminded her and the Druid Elves.

Shaking her head of this distraction, Kay got back to the moment at hand. "Uhhh!" She shouted. She had hoped to say something cool like the sword woman but instead she just made a loud, confused noise. Well, whatever!

Raising her hands, she summoned a protective Structure barrier around the sword woman Saria. It would not restrict her movement at all, and in case she was overcome by the beasts strength it would deflect some of the damage, depending on how much was done to her. The tattoos on Kay's body, particularly on the arm she had raised and pointed at Saria, began to glow a dull green. This sucked! Kay was afraid and confused, but she had a fighter's instinct nonetheless. Normally, however, the battles she fought made sense. This made no sense at all.

Natalia

Natalia had woken up only a few moments ago. Staring up at the ceiling, she saw the spider beast above her. A dream? It certainly felt real. Using her arms, she grunted and pushed herself into a sitting position. Slowly, she scanned the room around her. People, of all different shapes and sizes. Curious. Beside her, her Powered Armor. Dull. Empty. Powered off. A useless pile of junk, right now. Right now, she felt she was in danger. The beast shrieked. Those around her began to battle it. Natalia did not dream often.

Someone told her to get up. That person did not know that Natalia was missing her left leg from the knee down. That swordwoman also did not know that it wouldn't matter, because Natalia's legs were paralyzed. It had been a while since Natalia had to crawl on the ground. The Powered Armor next to her was a hulking gray behemoth, standing eight feet tall at least. Unfortunately, it was laying on it's back. Natalia could only enter the Powered Armor via it's back. The entire thing would open up and she could crawl inside. Usually, she would have the help of several other smaller drones. Now, she was by herself. The beast was closing in.

Suddenly, there was a green surge of energy all around her. Natalia and the Powered Armor were slid along the ground by some kind of glowing verdant scooper. Ten, twenty, thirty feet away. Natalia tried to keep steady but she ended up rolling and flopping around. Her and the Powered Armor slid to a stop well outside the combat zone.

"Sorry!" A cosplayer shouted an apology at Natalia. She was dressed as a fantasy character, with fake ears and everything. Let's be logical here. If the spider beast is real, than it stands to reason the elf woman, and everyone else in here, is real too. Perhaps, Natalia thought, she had been kidnapped and taken into another dimension. Or it was a dream. Either way, she needed to get into the Powered Armor.

"Abi," Natalia said. Her voice was low and monotone. "Activate Powered Armor." She said to the suit. Nothing happened. As she suspected, the armor would need to be turned on manually. Otherwise, it would already be on. The power to this thing was completely off. If Natalia remembered correctly, she had the suit connected to her home's power supply when she was looking through a telescope. At the time she was sitting on her wheelchair, the back wheel was brushing up against the suit's foot. Perhaps she was fortunate to have the suit available to her at all.

Either way, she lacked the strength to lift the suit. While Kay wore her fantastical verdent outfit, Saria had her armor, and the others in the room were decked out in various ways, Natalia was wearing a grey tank top, and some jeans. The left leg of the jeans was hemmed shut just below the knee. She hadn't anything resembling a warrior's frame. All of the ruckus had caused her grey tank top to ride up a bit on her torso, revealing her flat, soft midriff that matched her unmuscled bare arms. From a single glance a warrior could tell she had never been in a fight before. Despite being totally vulnerable and useless, in a life or death situation, Natalia was remarkably composed. Her cool eyes, light blue, almost gray, watched the encounter dispassionately. The sooner Natalia could get inside her armor, the better. Most of the people in the room were most likely distracted by the hybrid creature. Still, if they looked over to the far right of the room they would see Natalia with her right arm draped over the chest of her Powered Armor, leaning on it for support.

Tales from the Spider-Verse: Spidroin [redux]

Clara Cabello and Alejandra Jonas

September 9th

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Alejandra glanced around, scratching at her beanie. The two girls had woven into the crowd, moving from person to person to get to the front. AJ had Clara by the hand was leading the way, excusing and pardoning herself forward. She wanted to hear what was going on, and be closer to the event. Standing on the outskirts meant she might as well not even be there. It was showing her support, sure, but why not actually hear what was going on, too?

Clara didn't think it was worth it at all. She would have much preferred to stay on the outskits. All these people around her, with no stealing allowed? It was making her claustrophobic. She stopped and turned around, her eyes scanning the faces behind her.

AJ, who was dragging Clara by the hand, was forced to a stop. "What is it?" She asked. Clara wrinkled her nose and shook her head.

"Nothin'," Clara responded idly. For a moment there she felt like she was being watched. But there was nothing but a sea of people who hardly even noticed she existed. Anonymity. Clara loved vanishing into crowds. So why was she so on edge? Maybe it was because the last time she was in a place she didn't belong, she puked up blood. Either way, the young thief was on edge. AJ, being omniscient and all powerful, noticed this.

"You have to relax, Clara. We're here to pay our respects." AJ said.

Clara shook her head, scratching the back of her neck. "I dunno, AJ. Maybe you're not thinkin' this through. Ain't you the one who said other people could have new powers? What if they showed up here, too? What if they find me?"

AJ considered this and furrowed her brow. "I don't- I don't, I don't think that'll happen. How could they know? That, look, that doesn't matter. Just chill out for a second. We're here to show solidarity."

Clara frowned. "I don't feel solidarity. I feel too crowded," Clara complained.

AJ tsked her tongue, letting that one slide. "We're here to show support. Lots of people lost someone, and lots of people almost lost someone, including me. You said you would do this, remember?"

Clara rolled her eyes and then looked down at her earnest sister. "Yeah, I did. For you, I guess." With that, she shut up. AJ smiled and found a small clearing. Then they stood there, waiting for the event to start. Clara crossed her arms and put her weight onto one leg. AJ was right. She just needed to chill out. Nothing was going to happen. Everything would be fine. It would be rude and disrespectful to do anything other than mourn. Sighing, the young thief began, for the first time, to genuinely think about the attacks and the negative pyschological effect it had on her. Was she traumatized? Would this memorial help her heal? Clara didn't feel traumatized. The gas attack did suck, though. A lot. The worst pain she had ever felt in her life. Now imagine all the kids her age choking on that stuff, and not getting superpowers, or even waking up again. That was pretty sad. Clara wiped her right eye and cast her eyes downward, kicking at some grass growing between the concrete.