Streets XX

[Lord Iames Osari]

Look, streets! They go places!

[Nightwing]

Sausage inna bun!

[Dartonus]

Megaman continues searching for the people the pigeon told him about.

[The_Chilli_God]

...Which should be easy, considering the great flame-winged dragon silhouette where the confrontation is.

MURK continues jumping up and down, trying to swing at the tattooed dragon-man with his double-axe wielded in one hand.

Megara actually notices that this thing is pow-er-ful, and steps back a few just to make sure that, should it do anything too explosive, at least there's a better chance of her surviving.

[Dartonus]

Megaman uses a chip and the ground turns from pavement to grass in a 30 foot circle around him. He then uses another chip, and his form flickers briefly. He begins to charge his buster, keeping an eye on Megara.

[Goblin Music]

the elf who is no longer covered in gems takes a step forward grinning

[Veg Sorbet]

Zilbipaetrum, A tiny, ancient-looking monk supporting himself on a tall, gnarled wooden staff, wanders out of Inari's, and wanders the streets at a slow pace, almost shuffling, rather than walking.

[Dartonus]

The buster is fully charged, and he fires at Megara. a 5-foot diameter Mini-tornado is created where she is standing.
I deleted Alpha and I'll defeat you!

[The_Chilli_God]

Megara knew that this new fellow intended to join the battle, either because he's a Guard member, or just a random thug.
She expected him to keep an eye on her. After all, she's a half-drow.

However, attacking her directly instead of either of the two people who are actually fighting, caught her severely off-guard. The tornado rips into her, having full effect.
Megara decides to play the innocent. She falls down on her knees and cowers before Megaman. "Please, don't hurt me! It's that flaming dragon-man, he challenged my friend orc to a fight!"

[Lord Iames Osari]

Iames hears the noise of the battle and heads toward it.

[Dartonus]

Shut your mouth and go to the station! Or, if you don't go, remember I'll be watching you.
His buster begins glowing again, as he glares at Megara.
Half-drow... how did that marraige ever happen?
Megaman's woodbug kicks in, and he is surrounded by a pulsing green shield.

[The_Chilli_God]

Ignoring the marriage quip for the sake of the act, Megara plays up a little bit more, forcing tears to fall for her pain and stress at the fight between MURK and the tattooed man. "B-but! What about my orc friend?! I don't want him to get hurt! Won't you do something?"

[Dartonus]

I will.
G2g for a small while.

[Veg Sorbet]

Zilbipaetrum wanders towards the fight, and takes in the scene. He scowls slightly when he sees people fighting.

[Goblin Music]

the elf fires 10 shots at the battling pair (murk and the other guy) (these bullets travel at double the speed of sound) 5 at on 5 at the other. if they hit the victim falls uncontentious.

[The_Chilli_God]

((Doubt that the tattooed guy will get hit by any of them, Vael said that he's uber-epic or some such.))

MURK gets thwacked with about 3 of those bullets and, having been worn down already by the fight, plus not being entirely resistant to Mach-2-speed bullets, he'll fall unconscious (if that's what you meant).
Megara gasps at the sight of MURK slumping and falling to the ground. Turning to the elf, she half-yells at him through her distraught, "You! W-what have you done to him?!"

[AmberVael]

The tatooed man comes back from dead time and ceases to exist while the bullets and axe fly through the space he occupies.
He reappears as soon as he is in no danger of being harmed, then glares at the elf and megaman.
This is an honorable, planned duel. No interference was necessary.

[Lord Magtok]

Magtok leaves the volcano base and heads for the station. He seems oblivious to the battle occuring.

Damnit, I can't get involved in a single battle against Good no matter how hard I try. We fired at the station, the Tavern, and some other place, and still no reaction! Maybe I should just march right in there and shoot someone. Then they'll pay attention to us!

[Goblin Music]

nothing shoots her to
(yea, my spellchecker sucks)

[The_Chilli_God]

...
Megara, being frail and ripped by Megaman's tornado chip, also falls unconscious.

((Whoo, nothing to do anymore.))

[Lord Iames Osari]

Iames reaches the site of the battle and watches.

[AmberVael]

The tattooed man glares and then raises two hands, holding them perpendicular to each other.
A massive, deadly torrent of flame launches towards the elf.
((As in, enough flame and heat to turn anything that isn't immune to fire into ash))

[Goblin Music]

(just for a minuet:P)
there sir all are ready for you sinks in to ground befor the flame reaches him

[Dartonus]

...
Megara, being frail and ripped by Megaman's tornado chip, also falls unconscious.

((Whoo, nothing to do anymore.))

Actually, wood styles have tornado as the fully charged buster attack.

Megaman tries to drag Megara to the station.

[The_Chilli_God]

((Eh. I haven't played MMBN3 in ages, so.))

Megara most certainly does not resist, herself, being unconscious and everything.

[AmberVael]

The tattoed man moves in front of megaman.
Excuse me, but you are not needed here. This was an honorable duel- surely you have no laws against that?
Even should you- this woman was not part of it.

[Goblin Music]

(i am sure he is gone)

[AmberVael]

The tattoed man's arms are crossed, and he is glaring at megaman.

[Lord Iames Osari]

((Megaman, look in police station thread))

[The_Chilli_God]

MURK's still lying unconscious on the ground, just in case anyone forgets.

[AmberVael]

The tattooed man reaches down and touches Murk on the shoulder, using his psionics to first transfer Murk's wounds/problems to himself while simultaneously curing himself of them.

[The_Chilli_God]

MURK wakes up from the tattooed man's assistance, and looks at him with an odd expression.
"Flamey man beat MURK," MURK says. "MURK..." he searches for the right word. "...Give?"

[Veg Sorbet]

Zilbipaetrum shuffles on, away from the area.

[AmberVael]

Concede? Withdraw? Award? Acclaim?
The man tosses out the first few words he thinks of.

[The_Chilli_God]

"MURK concede," MURK says, picking the first word just so he didn't have to listen to the others.
The orc gets up by himself, picks his double-axe up, and dusts himself off.

[Goblin Music]

Weeeeeee! a gold sphere zips by the two

[AmberVael]

The man nods.
Very well. You were a more worthy opponent than many I have fought. I congratulate your skill and wish you well, Murk.
He turns away and begins to walk off.

[The_Chilli_God]

MURK puts on a silly smile at the tattooed man's compliments, and waves as he walks off. MURK turns to try and find Megara, and--

"Wait, where Meg go? MURK find Meg!" He starts looking around, trying to find Megara.

[Veg Sorbet]

Zilbipaetrum returns to Inari's.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Iames watches the tattooed man walk away, then shrugs and follows the little old guy to Inari's.

[Goblin Music]

that way says a toad pointing to the police station

[The_Chilli_God]

"Ooh! Toad!" MURK says as he picks it up and attempts to eat it.

[Goblin Music]

Ah! i turns in to a bird and flies away

[The_Chilli_God]

"Wait! Come back!" MURK calls after the bird as he chases it.

[Goblin Music]

it lands on his shoulder yes?

[The_Chilli_God]

"Yay! Food come to MURK!" MURK attempts to grab the bird and eat it.

[Goblin Music]

ac! flies of to the police station trying to get murk inside.
(GTG)

[The_Chilli_God]

MURK follows happily.

[Dartonus]

Megaman slips out of the station.

[Ms_Elaneous]

Vedran appears in the alleyway not too far from Trog's. The whistling he was doing seems to have beat him there as it echoes through the street. He looks around, trying to decide where to go next.

He rather decides that a visit to Mr. Lykan is in order.

[Chaotic Bob]

sRizzen strolls out of the station, bracelet free and whistling. One of his tendrils casually throws a would-be pickpocket through a nearby window. sRizzen appears to take no notice and walks about aimlessly.

[The_Chilli_God]

MURK is the next one to wander out of the Police Station, still rather lost and trying to figure out where to go.
...Where to go to find Meg, that is...

[Therarde]

There's a bright flash in the middle of town, and when it's gone, there is a small rabbit with moose antlers sitting there.

[Uberblah]

Atok and Rye return from patrol and head into the station.

[The_Chilli_God]

MURK jumps in excitement. "Bunny!" He starts to chase it playfully, even though, judging by him holding a double-axe in his hand and being a big, strong, vicious orc, he certainly doesn't appear playful.

[Therarde]

The rabbit turns around just in time to see the giant orc rushing towards him. He lets a startled Eep! and quickly starts running in the other direction.

[Chaotic Bob]

sRizzen happens to be walking by and tries to grab the rabbit to spare it from the orc, possibly using his tendils.

[Therarde]

The rabbit is indeed caught, and begins struggling to get free.

[The_Chilli_God]

MURK stops running just a moment before he might have bumped into sRizzen. "Wavy man caught bunny." MURK points out the obvious.
He stares at both the bunny and sRizzen, waiting for a response.

[Chaotic Bob]

sRizzen tightens his grip to keep hold of the rabbit, but not enought to hurt it.
Wavy man, huh? Surprised your mind even classified me as a man, let alone alive.

[The_Chilli_God]

MURK looks at sRizzen blankly, not replying, wondering if being alive meant that you could still find yourself able to talk and grab bunnies out of the hands of orcs with tendrils.

[Therarde]

The rabbit struggles a bit more, then it stops. It concentrates for a moment, and a nearby NPC loses a sock. In the meantime, a large sock should be covering the battleaxe quite nicely. He turns towards sRizzen. Now, let's talk.

[Chaotic Bob]

sRizzen shakes his head at the orc and looks down at the rabbit in his hands, no surprise evident on any of what can pass for his facial features.
Please tell me you can speak more than one coherant sentence.

[The_Chilli_God]

((Dangit, you really need to update your characters' profiles, deBunny.
Also, did Therade mean a sock covering MURK's double-axe? Or is there another battleaxe handy?))

[Therarde]

Indeed I can. And I suppose you can as well, correct? ((Also, I meant MURK's axe.))

[Chaotic Bob]

((I believe it would be MURK's axe.
I assume you mean I need a profile for sRizzen? Yeah, I'll get onto that right now))

I've spoken a few in your very presence. Now can you grace me with a name?

[Therarde]

The rabbit gives a smirk. I am Xyq'gkoe, although I suppose you can call me Xy. I have powers most can only dream of! I am a God!

[The_Chilli_God]

((Sweet))

MURK pauses to look at the new sock covering his double-axe. The orc shrugs and puts the weapon back onto its holster on his back, sock and all.
"Bunny and Wavy man talkie-talk, MURK no talkie-talk. MURK tired, MURK sleepy."
MURK walks over to the very nearest servicable sleeping spot, and falls snoring right on the spot. The sound of two crazed feral cats fighting each other with metal claws on a tin roof (known to most people as 'snoring') can soon be heard throughout the streets.

[Chaotic Bob]

sRizzen shakes his head at the orc once more before offering his full attention to the rabbit.
A god you say? I can't say I quite measure that high. Though I do have power of my own. What brings you to this Town, Xyq'gkoe? (yes he can say that....even if I can't)

[Therarde]

((Actually, the guy himself can barely say it. :p))

The rabbit looks a bit sheepish. Actually...I think I was trying to make breakfast. He blushes a bit.

[Chaotic Bob]

sRizzen raises a rather non-existant eyebrow and lifts the rabbit to eye level.
This is a peculiar place to come to for nothing more than a meal.

[Therarde]

I agree. It was a bit of an accident, you see. I'm still trying to get used to these powers. The rabbit blushes a bit more.

[Warpfire]

((How does a rabbit blush? :P))

[Therarde]

((Um...very carefully? Besides, he's a god! >_>)) Xy is enveloped by sock-shaped dead time.

[Chaotic Bob]

((I have no idea, but please excuse the slow posting, I'm trying to get that profile up))

Hm...how long have you been a god for exactly?

[Nightwing]

sausage innna bun! sausage inna bun!

[Lord Iames Osari]

Lyrak comes out of the Temple of Iames and waits for Tehanu.

[wxdruid]

Tehanu walks out of the Temple of Iames, she smiles at Lyrak and slips one arm around his waist.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Lyrak smiles back and puts an arm around her, heading toward Trog's.

[wxdruid]

"I'm already feeling better. I think I just needed to get out."

[Lord Iames Osari]

Lyrak smiles and kisses her on her cheek. I'm glad. They reach Trog's, and Lyrak opens the door for her.

[wxdruid]

Tehanu walks inside with a rustle of her skirt. She brushes one hand along Lyrak's chest as she goes by.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Lyrak follows her in.

[Castaras]

El Susto Negro wanders out of the tavern, and pauses, seeing some big, mean looking cats. One of them saunters over.

{feline}What do we have here? The Garfield imposter?

It swipes at Jack. Jack arches up and hisses and spits.

{feline}Ssssstay back, you bastard!
{feline}Woo...someone's stressy.

The two cats grab Jack's paws and drag him into an alleyway. After much screeching and hissing, the two big mean cats saunter back into the slums, leaving behind the dead body of a small, cute kitten.

[Castaras]

The dough golem stumbles out of Trogs, carrying the she-wolf.

Wonder what it isss...

[Exachix]

The She-Wolf goes limp.

[Castaras]

The golem looks at the she-wolf.

It broken?

It shakes her gently.

[Exachix]

The She-Wolf stays limp.

[Castaras]

It broken...

The golem looks at the she-wolf, squeezing slightly, before walking to the volcano base.

[Exachix]

The She-wolf urks slightly as it squeezes... unsure what to do.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Lyrak comes out of the Tavern and goes to Alarra's.
[hr]
Lyrak comes back to Trog's from Alarra's.

[Therarde]

Xy breaks away from dead time and the deadtimed sRizzen. He looks about and wanders around for a bit.

[The_Chilli_God]

MURK breaks out of Dead-time only to find himself in Sleepy-time.

**ZZZZZzzzzzzzSNORT!ZZZzcckckkckthibl
SNORT! *Chainsaw* ZzzzzZZZZZZzzz **

[Therarde]

Xy prepares to run, but then remembers that he is a god! He looks around nervously and remembers that there is a sock over the double-axe right now. He continues on his merry way.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Lyrak and Tehanu come out of Trog's and go back to the Temple of Iames.

[Fenric]

A man dressed in rather silly looking torn red robes with gold trim, covered in leaves, bits of stick, and other forest debris stumbles into town. He glares around, positively glowers at the Temple of Inari, and then heads off toward the darker end of town.

[Therarde]

Xy shrugs and walks over to the most interesting looking part of town. Which is just a random place on the street.

[Rebonack]

An inky black beast is currently hanging around outside chewing an NPC off of a large spine. The creature seems to be nothing more than an amorphous mass of ebony matter with hundreds of tiny spheres of color swirling around inside it.

It's also surrounded by an unnatural aura of pure dread. The sort that leaves people on the ground gibbering with insanity instead of running.

[Warpfire]

The wizard appears above the beast, floating in the air. "What the hell are you?"

[Rebonack]

The creature responds by saying 'hi'. Or, at least, that might be what it meant by lashing out at the wizard with three barb covered tentacles, two pincer, a fang filled maw, and a be-taloned claw.

All of the previously mentioned limbs simply burst forth from the creature's mass, apparently composed of the same strange substance as the being itself.

Between the fact that light seems to be making a concerted effort to avoid the thing, the miasma of shadowy particles around it, and the underlying amorphous nature it might be hard to figure out where to aim at.

[Warpfire]

The wizard teleports away from the attacks, and momentarily considers the beast. He points his staff at the creature's general area, and a meteor swarm flys out of the orb at the end.

[Goblin Music]

a Drow walks out of the Police station and sinks in to the ground.

[Rebonack]

The spheres of flame impact the creature and blast it apart, spraying its vaporous mass all over the streets.

You won!

The inky fragments begin drifting up toward the wizard, rapidly recollecting into the monster's formless... form.

Huh... apparently the victory was a little bit premature.

It then goes about another attempt to rend the orange wizard apart via a plethora of assorted pointy bits.

By now that aura of unnatural terror will probably be bothering the old fellow.

[Warpfire]

Over his many, many, many years of existance, the wizard has seen a great deal of things. The aura of unnatural fear does effect the wizard, but he is able to ignore his fear and continue on.

The wizard, caught just a little offguard by the reforming of the beast, teleports away a bit late. A fang-filled maw takes a chunk out of his leg, and he curses.

Considering the beast's shadowy nature, the wizard shoots a large ray of incredibly bright, burning light at the monster. A normal person would be hurt pretty badly, and if the creature is sensitive to such things its going to hurt a lot.

[Rebonack]

At this point the wizard will probably feel a very unpleasant crawly sensation on his leg.

The ray of light burns a pretty sizable hole clean through the thing, which causes it to make a very unpleasant sound which would be best described as the unholy consummation of radio static and the a person rubbing their fingers across an inflated latex balloon.

Oddly enough, much of the light diffracts, scattering off the creature's surface and burning pockmarks in the street.

Hundreds of the colored orbs migrate to the surface of the thing, forming an 'eye' which begins to focus on the wizard. It then does something devious.

With little more than a low thrum that one feels in their chest more so than hearing, the air around the arcanist suddenly comes alive in a maelstrom of wrenching, sheering force. Apparently some kind of strange spatial distortion.

To make matters worse several human sized insectish things drop from the underside of the monster and skitter off into Trog's.

[Warpfire]

"What in the names of the uncaring deities above is going on here?!" The wizard looks down at his leg, trying to identify what is causing the sensation.

The aging spellcaster struggles through the distortion and slams his staff down into the air with a resounding thud, as if the staff had hit against some kind of wooden surface. Red magical energy spreads out from the bottom of the staff, attempting to dispel the strange spatial distortion around the wizard.

[Rebonack]

The icky feeling is probably caused by all the little black maggot looking things currently attempting to burrow into his flesh, presumably for the purpose of eating him from the inside out.

The distortion ends, whether due to his magic or having a one round duration it isn't really clear. What is clear, however, is the fact that there's currently a barb-covered tentacle the size of a tree about to swat him out of the air.

The gods, being generally uncaring, don't shed any light on the situation.

[Warpfire]

The venerable magus curses and teleports away from the tree-like tentacle. He strengthens the flames that cover him, attempting to burn away the maggot creatures.

[Rebonack]

They burn exceptionally well. Or... well... they don't really burn. Rather they fizzle out of existence as they throw of sparks of black and white energy.

The giant tentacle smashes some random knight who was riding up to help the wizard. He dies very very well. The appendage soaks back into the monster moments before another volley of mouth tipped tendrils launch from its depths.

A whole bunch of those colored orb things begin to migrate toward the surface again.

[Warpfire]

A ray of light similar to the previous one shoots out of the orange-robed wizard's staff and towards the approaching tendrils. A second beam splits off from the first one and heads for the main body of the beast.

"Too bad about that knight fellow. Could have been helpful..." The wizard shrugs.

[Uberblah]

Atok walks out of the station with Rye in hand. With his free hand he reaches into a pocket and pulls out his Flyte Charm. He jumps up and takes off, flying around Town on patrol.

[Goblin Music]

i sense magic says the Drow raising out of the streets just enough to show his head.

[Uberblah]

Atok swoops down and then rises back up before continuing circling the entire Town.

[Warpfire]

Atok may be suprised to find while he is patrolling a large shadowy beast duelling a flying orange-robed wizard that is on fire. Then again, if he's been in the Town for long, he probably isn't too suprised.

[Rebonack]

Several of the projectile mouths get burned out of the air by the beam, fizzling out of existence just like the maggots. The main mass of the monster is likewise torched by the light.

The remaining lots of teeth are now a whole lot closer than before. Dodging might be a good plan.

[Goblin Music]

(FYI the Drow is close to the battling arcane users)

[Uberblah]

((oh well that could be considered just a swoop to scan the streets especially if i do a quick edit))

Atok comes back around to the streets to go over to the other side of Town when he does see the fight ensuing. He swoops down again and flies above them.
STOP!! CEASE AND DESIST!!

[Warpfire]

The wizard teleports, and reappears standing next to the main body of the beast. "FIRE IT UP!" He screams, as a massive wave of flame forms and moves towards the beast. There's about enough flame to bathe the entire creature in fire.

((I've been wanting to have him say that since I made him :smallbiggrin:))

[Rebonack]

The vaporous monster shudders as the flame sweeps over it, filling the air with a cacophonous crackle as bits of it fizzle away into nothing. The thing doesn't retreat, however. Instead it attempts to completely engulf the wizard.

Oh, and it doesn't cease and desist.

[Uberblah]

Atok turns to the wizard.
DID THIS CREATURE ATTACK YOU?

[Warpfire]

The wizard doesn't respond, as he is busy being engulfed by the shadowy thing. As the beast begins to close in around him, the wizard creates a wave of combined flame and burning light extending outwards from himself in all directions in an attempt to repulse the creature.

[Rebonack]

The vaporous mass explodes again, much as it did when he nuked it with the meteor swarm the first time. It begins to slowly reassemble itself. Much slower than the first time.

[Uberblah]

Atok decides to ask questions later. He sends rays of light at the creature to test if it's a shadow creature or not.

[Warpfire]

The wizard floats into the air, and begins chanting words of magic. The orb on the end of his staff begins to crackle with red and orange energy. The energy spreads down the staff and onto his body, soon surrounding him in a crackling orb as he continues to chant.

[Rebonack]

While it isn't a shadow creature it doesn't seem to like getting blasted with the light ray. It responds to this by having a large chunk of its mass sizzle out of existence.

Now the monster does something different.

It splits apart into dozens of fragments, each of which dart into nearby homes and businesses.

Screaming shortly ensues.

[Uberblah]

Atok quickly follows and blasts light rays at each creature in the building. He makes sure they're gone before moving to the next building. He does this until all the fragments are erradicated.

[Warpfire]

The wizard ceases chanting and the energy stops. With a loud curse, the wizard floats to the ground. He looks down, inspecting his various injuries. Mainly, the large chunk of missing left leg. He looks up again, watching the mosnter split apart and dart into different buildings. "Now what..."

[Rebonack]

Sure enough, the wispy critters are all burned away. Not before doing unpleasant things to a whole bunch of NPCs, however. Most of them look dazed and gashed, as if they had been clawed at.

[Warpfire]

The wizard limps around the street, looking for any errant fragments of monster.

[Uberblah]

Atok retraces his steps and heals all the NPC's he finds and searches for any missed fragments.

[Rebonack]

No fragments are found. And the NPCs get healed up.

At about this point a half-dozen people in full body armor identical to Regiji's begin to be in the middle of the streets. They don't teleport.

Rather, they're simply there now while previously they weren't.

One begins conversing with the others. After a few moments of this they fan out and begin scouring the streets of fragments of the monster.

Fragments that had either buried themselves or were too small to see. They clean them up pretty well. The cleaning mainly involves flame-throwers.

[Uberblah]

Atok nods and goes over to the orange-robed wizard.
What started this? I need to make a report.

[Warpfire]

The wizard looks over at one of the people scouring the streets. "Who are you people?" He shoves his staff back into his robes.

The venerable magician then turns to Atok. "This thing killed some poor bastard. I came out here, it attacked me, and you know the rest."

[Uberblah]

A pad of paper and a pen form at Atok's shoulder and starts writing. Atok looks at the wizard.
I see. May I have your name for documentation? And do you know who the person was that the monster killed?

[The_Chilli_God]

MURK once again comes out of dead time. Fortunately (since dead-time is a lot quieter than sleepy-time), he also wakes up.
MURK stretches. "Good MURK sleep!" He then looks around at what's happened recently, assuming that whatever it is has happened anywhere near him.

[Warpfire]

"I have no name," proclaims the wizard. "And I don't know who the person the monster killed was. Some NPC."

[Rebonack]

"A clean-up crew," replies one of the fully armored people as he or she bustles past the wizard and heads into one of the buildings where the monster had attacked some NPCs. The voice is hard to guess the gender of due to the fact that it sounds digitized.

Now, when I say armor I don't mean medieval full-plate. I mean something with a distinctly sci-fi 'powered armor' sort of look. And no goofy green BMX bike helmets, either. The plating has a dull nickel finish to it and the joints appear to be composed of some strange dark gray fibrous material. On the pauldron is an odd white symbol that hums with internal light. On the right is some blocky script that doesn't belong to any alphabet native to the Realm.

[Warpfire]

"Hmph. Looks plot-ish." The wizard sighs as he watches the sci-fi person pass him by.

[Uberblah]

Atok nods and the pen keeps writing then stops as the pad snaps shut and floats into Atokad's hand.
Thank you sir. If you don't mind, in my report I will call you the Orange-Robed Wizard.

[Warpfire]

The wizard shrugs. "Alright. Or you could just call me The Orange Wizard. Whatever."

[Uberblah]

Atok nods again and heads to the station. Rye all of a sudden reappears in his other hand as he had been forgotten about for the sake of ease in battle.

[Warpfire]

The wizard disappears.

[Goblin Music]

the Drow's head starts to bob around the streets (he is walking but with only his head above the stone)

[Rebonack]

The sci-fi troopers begin to re-group in the middle of the street. The sound of anguished wailing can be heard from several of the houses they had went into.

A woman rushes out of her home, screaming at one of the troopers.

"You killed him! You killed my husband!"

"I'm sorry, miss, but he was already dead."

[Goblin Music]

the drow (still mostly under ground) walks to the police station and enters trough a wall.

[Rebonack]

After a few more minutes of beratement the contingent of troops simply cease to be in the streets.

[Kyrian]

Rafael steps out of the Workshop, holding Signy safe in his arms. He looks around, then smiles down at his daughter.

[AmberVael]

Signy smiles up at him, waiting for him to take her to the guild.

[Kyrian]

Shall we walk....or should I fly us over there? Rafael grins.

[AmberVael]

Signy nods excitedly when he suggests the second.

[Kyrian]

Rafael smiles, and a wing, that looks quite like Signy's folds around them. The other ruffles a bit from behind Rafael.

[AmberVael]

Signy smiles up at him, waiting.

[Kyrian]

Rafael holds her close and takes to the skies, climbing above all the buildings and slowly flying out towards the church.

[AmberVael]

Signy pulls her wings around herself but out of her sight as she watches the ground pass under them with wonder in her eyes.

[Kyrian]

You like it? Rafael smiles as they get closer to the church.

[AmberVael]

Signy nods, then turns her attention to the church.

[Raistlin1040]

Chazz teleports into the streets with his new sword and begins to cast some spells on it.

[Kyrian]

Rafael watches her with a smile as he just found the thread, and flies closer.

[wxdruid]

Alena carries Alex as they soar over the streets, finally Alena beats her wings and starts gaining altitude.

[Hawkeye]

Alex rests his head on Alena's shoulder.

[wxdruid]

Alena twirls happily in the air as she takes them higher. She stops before Alex gets cold, Doing all right Sweetheart?

[Hawkeye]

Alex grips a little tighter and rubs his cheek against Alena "Doing fine"

[wxdruid]

Alena kisses his hair before she turns to look upwards, she opens her mouth and sings for him.

First I get cold and hot
Think Im on fire, but Im not.
Oh, what a pain Ive got,
It must be love!

Theres nothing I can do,
All that I want is you.
Look what Im going through,
It must be love!

It must be love, it must be love.
I fall like a sparrow and fly like a dove.
You must be the dream I been dreaming of,
Oh what a feeling, it must be love!

Something is wrong or right,
I think of you all night.
Cant sleep til morning light,
It must be love!

Seeing you in my dreams,
Holding you close to me.
Oh, what else can it be?
It must be love!

It must be love, it must be love.
I fall like a sparrow and fly like a dove.
You must be the dream I been dreaming of
Oh what a feeling, it must be love.

[Hawkeye]

Alex sighs, he leans up and lightly kisses Alena's cheek.

[Flabbicus]

Throughout the streets a haunting melody (http://www.radioblogclub.com/open/141738/dragonforce/DragonForce%20-%20Sonic%20Firestorm%20-%2003%20-%20Fields%20of%20Despair) can be heard.

A man garbed in loose fitting rags walks into the streets of the town, singing.

"Can you feel the pain inside sometimes, in your mind?
In the land of loneliness the seas of blood run cold
Is the feeling lost inside within the sins of all mankind?
Time after time we stood united on we go...

Fly! - Far away don't let the world pass you by
Live! - For the day when we must stand and survive
Now we face the judgement day our souls will feel the pain
Hear the screams of my world through the rain

Silent fields of despair; my tears in the rain
Pain in my heart bleeding through
One day we'll be back for one moment in time
Endlessly searching for you...

Who can cure my emptiness inside for this time?
Suffering from loneliness, my dreams and hopes will die
No more feelings left inside my blackened heart I can not hide
Time after time, our souls divided on we cry

Fly! - Far away don't leave your own past behind
Live! - For the day another year passes by
Now we turn to face our fear there's nothing more to say
Still your dreams and my nightmares remain

Silent fields of despair my tears in the rain
Pain in my heart bleeding through
One day we'll be back for one moment in time
Endlessly searching for you...

Silent fields of despair my tears in the rain
Pain in my heart bleeding through
One day we'll be back for one moment in time
Endlessly searching for you...

Hoo oo oo oo
Hoo oo ah o
Hoo oo oh eh ooo
Hoo oo oo oo
Hoo oo ah o
Hoo oo oh eh ooo"

Dust billows out behind him and he slowly approaches Trog's Tavern.

[wxdruid]

Alena smiles at him and holds him tightly to her warmth. Every day I thank Jovah that I met you.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Svadris comes out of Trog's and heads down the street, not heading anywhere in particular.

[Hawkeye]

Alex smiles up at Alena "I don't know what I've done to deserve you..."

[AmberVael]

Aesa comes out of the portal to her realm, muttering to herself as she heads off towards the OmniShop.

[wxdruid]

Darling, I simply know that I love you and I would do anything for you.

Alena smiles as she lifts her voice to the heavens and sings.

One look at love
And you may see
It weaves a web
Over mystery,
All ravelled threads
Can rend apart
For hope has a place in the lovers heart.
Hope has a place in a lovers heart

Whispering world,
A sigh of sighs,
The ebb and the flow
Of the ocean tides,
One breath, one word
May end or may start
A hope in a place of the lovers heart,
Hope has a place in a lovers heart.

Look to love
You may dream,
And if it should leave
Then give it wings.
But if such a love
Is meant to be;
Hope is home, and the heart is free.

Under the heavens
We journey far,
On roads of life
Were the wanderers,
So let love rise,
So let love depart,
Let hope have a place in the lovers heart
Hope has a place in the lovers heart.

Look to love
And you may dream,
And if it should leave
Then give it wings.
But if such a love
Is meant to be;
Hope is home, and the heart is free.

Hope is home, and the heart is free.

[Flabbicus]

The man enters Trog's, glancing over at the vampire suspiciously.

[Hawkeye]

Alex sighs contentedly and snuggles up in Alena's arms.

[AmberVael]

Aesa goes into the OmniShop.

[wxdruid]

Alena smiles down at him, I don't want to wear you out on your first day out. Would you like to take a rest on the beach?

[Lord Iames Osari]

Svadris spots an NPC and goes over to him. After a brief conversation, the two of them go into an alley.

[Hawkeye]

Alex nods "Yes please"

[wxdruid]

Alena kisses his hair and slowly spirals down towards the beach.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Drake comes up from the slums and goes into Trog's.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Svadris emerges from the alley alone, wiping some blood from around his mouth. Smirking, he starts wandering the streets.

[AmberVael]

A woman steps out of the portal from Mist Spire and looks around calmly, almost coldly.
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She hefts her staff and then heads towards Inari's.
[hr]She nears Inari's and senses a lack of heat. Recognizing dead time and sleeping people, she walks back to Trog's.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Svadris makes his way to the outskirts of town and transforms into a wolf. From there, he goes to Gwen's house and lurks around outside her garden.

[Rebonack]

Several dazed looking NPCs shamble out of Trog's and into the streets.

They then explode like little bombs filled with black soot. This fills the air pretty quickly, causing anyone unfortunate enough to be outside to get a lungful of the stuff.

[The Geomancer]

Melach runs after the ZPCs. He places a fine stone mesh over his mouth to keep the soot out. He looks around trying to find more ZPC's

[Rebonack]

The soot seems perfectly fine with attempting to eat through Melach's skin, which it attempts to do with great vigor.

No more ZPCs ((lawl)) are left since they all exploded. There are, however, plenty of NPCs busy writhing about in agony as they get devoured from the inside out.

[AmberVael]

Idis comes out onto the streets and looks around, then starts to make her way to somewhere more interesting.

[Kyrian]

Vaj watches Idis from the shadows of an alleyway.

[AmberVael]

Idis notices Hookah Hanks and recalls it from the memory echoes that Aesa gaver her.
She goes inside.

[Kyrian]

Vaj looks around then follows.

[Rebonack]

Several of the NPCs infected by the sooty substance burst apart rather messily. Not with more of the inky miasma, but rather into the large, hard armored bug-hounds that attacked the tavern last night.

They just stand there amidst piles of flesh and entrails, apparently not interested in assaulting anyone at the moment.

[The Geomancer]

Melach screams dead time away.w He is screaming because there is soot eating at his skin. I hope you can appreciate how painful this is.

In a last ditch attempt to rid himself of the soot, he causes the ground itself to swallow him up. Underground he uses his magic to scrap the soot away.

[AmberVael]

Svala leaps out of Trog's second story and flies off towards the woods.

[Kyrian]

#1

Romulus flies out after her. "Svala!"

[Rebonack]

While the scraping does indeed remove some it won't remove any that may have already dug under his skin. A Remove Disease spell would probably be a good idea right about now if any did manage to get inside the geomancer.

The ebony bug-hounds continue standing around in the streets, almost as if they're waiting for something.

[The Geomancer]

Melach bursts out of the ground still screaming. He covers himself in a see-through quartz shield to protect himself from any more soot attacking him. If I wasn't so lousy at non-specific magic this wouldn't be a problem! He screams, cursing himself.

Melach runs into Trogs.

[The Geomancer]

((I edited myself into Trog's))

[Rebonack]

((I noticed *shakes fist*))

[Raistlin1040]

Chazz teleports somewhere.

[Lord Iames Osari]

An avatar of Iames appears outside Trog's.

[Nightwing]

*Paul blood walks down the street*

[Lord Iames Osari]

The avatar of Iames waits for Warpfire777 to come out of the door of Trog's.

[Rebonack]

The gathering of ebony bug-hounds watch Iames in a very non-committal sort of way.

[Warpfire]

Warpfire777 charges out of the doorway, and explodes violently. But not before screaming, "I AM THE WARRIOR!"

[Nightwing]

*Paul starts to whistle as he leans on the side of a building. he then stops and looks at warpfire777*

keep your voice down. some of us are trying to relax!

[Lord Iames Osari]

Iames ponders this development. Then, aware of his prime's entrance into combat against the ebony bug-hound in the interior of the tavern, he floats over to them and activates an energy burst (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/divine/divineAbilitiesFeats.htm#energyBurst) of positive energy.

[Warpfire]

Paul probably has a hard time looking at Warpfire777, considering he just exploded.

[Rebonack]

The monsters just sit there as the shockwave of divine power washes over them. If it caused any undue distress they don't show it. They do, however, respond in an unfavorable sort of way.

Dozens of white beams of radiant energy and contorted bolts of distorted space begin to fill the air around Iames. And by around Iames I mean on a collision course with him.

[Nightwing]

*Paul Takes a knife out and starts spinning it around*

[Lord Iames Osari]

Iames conveniently ceases to be in that location, cursing his lapse of memory. He moves back, and a sphere of intense electricity (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/energyBall.htm) appears in the middle of the largest cluster of them.

[Nightwing]

Paul starts to wonder if the police are ever going to try to arrest him. but he decides they are so incompetent that they probably wont.

[Kyrian]

NPCs begin to think that Paul's not very smart, as there are no police out here currently. Iames isn't a police officer.

[Nightwing]

( Since when can npcs read minds?)

[Rebonack]

Just to make Paul feel wanted one of the bug-hounds attempts to leap upon him and fill his torso with several brand new holes.

Unfortunately for Iames, and fortunately for the monsters, the biggest cluster amounts to three of the things. The collapse to the ground, smoldering and riddled with pits of lost mass.

Most of those still standing continue to launch projectiles at him while a handful of them melt into the ground.

[Nightwing]

Not in the mood.

*He teleports away*

[AmberVael]

Idis comes out of Hookah Hanks and looks around, then starts heading towards the portal to Mist Spire.

[Lord Iames Osari]

The avatar schisms as well and sends paired sets of electric energy missiles at the creatures, continuing to dodge the projectiles by choosing when and when not to exist.

[AmberVael]

Idis goes into Mist Spire.

[Rebonack]

The electrical missiles burn into the monsters, though with a noticeably lessened effect from before. Where as before they were getting maimed pretty well now chinks are betting annihilated out of them. Almost as if they're becoming increasingly resistant...

While the dozen or so still moving around down on the street continues to fire on Iames, unperturbed by his dodging, what appears to be a basket-work of interwoven strands of the monster's strange substance lifts out of the ground.

In the middle of the mass dozens of multi-colored orbs spin wildly as they rotate around each other.

This new threat is about fifteen feet across and is currently doing nothing more than hovering ominously above the ground.

[Lord Iames Osari]

More of Iames's avatars appear, and together they create a massive blast of destructively harmonic sonic energy aimed at the "dozen or so" creatures.

[Warpfire]

An aging orange-robed wizard appears, floating above the shadowy mass. He gets out his staff and looks down at the thing, considering.

[Rebonack]

The dozen or so monsters explode quite spectacularly in a shower of black tar.

The larger, significantly more ominous looking being suddenly causes a rippling flash to emanate from its central 'eye'. This in turn causes the air around each of Iames' duplicates to suddenly come alive in a roiling mass of distorted space. The actual damage in this case would be caused by getting ripped apart by the spatial sheer.

[Lord Iames Osari]

The avatars are destroyed.

However, Iames himself now appears, though in another part of the sky.

[Warpfire]

"Hmm..." The aging wizard points his staff down at the ominous looking creature. An extremely large fireball emits from the orb at the end, heading for the monster.

[The Geomancer]

Melach walks out, and sees the larger monstery thing. Faantastic. He says sarcastically. He lifts his hands in the air, causing giant stone hands to erupt from the ground, and attempt to grasp the thing. This time around the stone hands are heated almost to their melting points.

[Rebonack]

Apparently the creature doesn't feel like being desecrate when it comes to trying to remove Iames from the picture. This becomes clear when it proceeds to collapse the space around the deity in a bid to crush him into nothing.

The fire-ball explodes against the monster's flank, causing a portion of the jet-black mesh around it to fizzle away. It responds to this by launching a trio of tendrils into the ground of all places. This causes the wound to being healing over at an alarming pace.

It may be important to note that all the splattered remains of the monsters Iames popped have likewise sunk into the street.

Several more barb-laden tentacles lash out from the creature's surface and attempt to reduce the encroaching hands to rubble.

[blackout]

Something moves through the alleys. It isn't human...no, it isn't elf either, so shush...it seems to fly through the alleys at low altitudes...it is obviously avoiding being seen. The armor it wears is red...the armor is that of a Crisis Suit...Nukular jumps up onto a building and aims for some random NPC civilian with his rockets....he fires...and the civilian is now a pile of goo.

[Warpfire]

The orange-robed wizard immediately turns his attention to the tendrils in the ground. Realizing they must be somehow healing the monster, he throws the miniature planar portal at them. He follows this up with a burning ray of light aimed at the three tendrils.

[The Geomancer]

The stone hands crumble as any stone would, ((Assuming this thing is that strong that is)) However the process may damage the beast due to the intense heat of the stone. Melach pulls his hands back, and an alarming amount of street rips itself out of the ground, not only revealing whatever is happening underneath but giving Melach lots of stone to work with. Melach clenches his hand into a fist, and all the stone in the air reforms into cruel stone spikes. He then gestures at the beast and thousands of spikes fly through the air in its direction.

[Rebonack]

((Blech! I must go!))

The miniature star that gets born at the base of the monster completely obliterates its loathsome 'roots'. Apparently not very happy about this, the whole thing bursts in a massive shower of tar.

Said tar doesn't hang around, however. Instead it retreats deep into the ground and disperses every which way at an alarming pace.

[The Geomancer]

Melach sinks into the earth.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Iames decides to be elsewhere.

[NecroPaladin]

Deckard meanders through the streets, eventually finding Trog's.

"See! Dex sees him a tavern! Tavernsa good place tah find jobs!"

"Or trouble."

Deckard opens the door cautiously, and steps inside.

[Chaotic Bob]

sRizzen wills the dead time from his form and looks at his now empty hands.
Hm, I was going to eat that too...
He shrugs and enters Trog's.

[Uberblah]

Atok leaves the station with Rye and walks about the streets a bit. He goes to reach for his Flyte Charm when he notices a rather large sign that reads:


TOWN ANONYMOUS CHURCH

Congratulations to Valkey and Rizzen/Crystal and Ishmale and good luck! Wedding tonight! All are welcome!

Atokad pulls his hand out of his pocket and shrugs with a smile.
Ooo.. Sounds fun. I'll just sit in back.
He slips into the church.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Drake comes out of Trog's, a bit tipsy.

[Chaotic Bob]

Just for the sake of something to do, a small pothole suddenly moves in front of Drake.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Drake stumbles over the pothole. Getting up, Drake goes into an alley and teleports.

[Chaotic Bob]

The pothole doesn't laugh and move somewhere else.

[Uberblah]

Conrad and Akil walk out of The Town Anonymous Church followed by Atokad and Rye. Conrad and Akil head towards the woods while Atok and Rye head for the station.

[metakirb]

A small Waddle Dee comes running down the streets, he finds an empty section and starts building something

[AmberVael]

Fenix comes out of Trog's and pauses as he considers the different locations in Town.
He looks over the Town and finally sighs and sits next to Trog's, wondering if he was meant to fit in- if he was able to.

[metakirb]

Waddle Dee finishes his wooden hut, looking pleased he runs inside and starts covering shelves in various objects

[AmberVael]

Fenix heads off towards the docks, wondering if he'd find the shipmaster there.

[metakirb]

Waddle dee runs off out of his hut, leaving another waddle dee in charge

[AmberVael]

Maal comes from the docks, his expression cool. He walks into Trog's.

[Gnrlshrimp]

The rogue creation walks through the streets, looking very confused. It sighs and walks over to Trog's Tavern.

[Xaspian]

The Pigeon flaps out of the Station, and goes up on patrol.

[metakirb]

Waddle Dee runs out of his hut and sits down near the tavern, smiling to himself. A few minutes later metakirb runs out the tavern and goes the other way, missing him completely. Waddle dee jumps about but then sits down again

[Gnrlshrimp]

The rogue creation walks out and heads in Waddle Dee's direction. "Hmm. A little wooden hut, should only take a few hours to find."

[metakirb]

waddle dee notices something shiny, he walks over to pick it up

[Gnrlshrimp]

The rogue creation notices the sudden movement. "Well, there he is."