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middleofsomewhere2020-09-21 05:44 am
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Entry tags:
- !mission eight,
- cassie cage [ou],
- edge [ou],
- inigo [ou],
- katsuya jonouchi [au-crau],
- lea [crau],
- little one [ou],
- madoka kaname [ou],
- persephone [ou],
- piccolo [ou],
- ple two [ou],
- reno [ou],
- romeo [crau],
- seto kaiba [ou],
- sonya blade [ou],
- taiki [ou],
- tidus [ou],
- trunks brief (future) [ou],
- xue yang [ou],
- zelda (oot) [ou],
- ~x~10 vigilant gaze purges the horizon,
- ~x~ai haibara [ou],
- ~x~alfredo martini [ou],
- ~x~curufin [crau],
- ~x~fai d flourite [ou],
- ~x~gen asagiri [ou],
- ~x~itsuki myoudouin [ou],
- ~x~jessie custer [au],
- ~x~mami tomoe [ou],
- ~x~minako aino [ou],
- ~x~nerdanel mathaniel [ou],
- ~x~nita callahan [crau],
- ~x~roland crane [ou],
- ~x~satou kuroneko [crau],
- ~x~senku ishigami [ou],
- ~x~tangle the lemur [ou],
- ~x~thea queen [crau],
- ~x~tsubomi hanasaki [ou],
- ~x~webmind [ou],
- ~x~whisper the wolf [ou],
- ~x~yuri tsukikage [ou]
Adventure On: Finale and Conclusion
Blue
The Mountain
Once they get close enough everything is storm, ice swirls around them, stabbing them like knives. Winds seem to be actively pushing them away, no matter what direction they approach from. Still the crystal wolves walk on, heads down, paws silent, climbing upwards.
The higher they climb the colder it becomes. So cold that ice forms on eyelashes, that air seems to freeze as it leaves their mouths. So cold their chests hurt. They would not be wrong to assume that the only reason they can withstand this at all is because of the SCA around their wrist.
Ice tumbles down around them often, shaking the ground. The crystal wolves know the way and they keep going, steady on the path. They have spaced themselves out, to be in sight of all those who follow.
The Summit
As they finally reach the top of the mountain they reach a calm space, outside of the swirling storm. Domed across the summit is a fire cage, larger by far than any they have seen before. In the middle of the giant fire cage sits a dragon. White and blue, scales that look as if they were made of ice themselves. Their head was bowed, eyes closed but they are breathing, breath escaping in clouds of freezing mist that evaporated in the heat of the cage.
Around the cage itself are ice elementals, outside the storm these can be seen by the snow they whirl around inside them, each is about three feet tall but fly in a whirlwind as they attack. Like those in the storm they try and push people around and attack with shards of ice. These corrupted spirits seem to have no reason to their attacks, they are just as likely to push a combatant closer to the cage then they are towards the raging storm.
They can be fought, fire works well against them just as ice and cold magic works well against the fire cage itself.
A Sovereign Freed
Eventually the cage stops fighting, fading away into the snow before them. The crystal wolves spring forth, nuzzling at the dragon until they raise their head. Piercing blue eyes look over the group and the dragon bows their head once. They take a deep breath and breathe out over those assembled, cold fire washes over them, healing any hurts that they have, easing their fatigue som
The crystal wolves bow their heads too, a thank you. Aerlie flaps their wings, rising high into the air. Another breath of cold fire flies out around the area, clashing with the storm for a moment before overtaking it. Around the mountain the storm calms, the ice elementals stop and seem to sink into the snow or fade into the air. The mountain descends into a calmness.
The crystal wolves will approach all those who helped free them, nuzzling into their hands, a personal thank you before a shimmering gate opens for the adventurers to step through.
Red
Final Siege
It’s been a tiring three days of protecting the crystals from the creatures that sought their power. But now, as their power is fully recharged it is time to return them to the border. That is going to be a tougher job than getting them to the volcano’s heart in the first place!
They thrum with power and that power is a siren call to the creatures of the area, fire dogs, lizards, fire sprites. Just as the mountain attacked inside the heart, here the spirtes join with the rivers of lava to flood pathways, block routes, making it harder to cross already treacherous territory, or even driving them into traps of waiting fire dogs.
The heat is oppressive, heat from around them, heat from the crystals seems to sap the energy from those carrying them and so the duty is best shared.
Eventually though they arrive at the border, a mess of melted ice and frozen lava. Each of the crystals need to be replaced.
Restoring the Border
Replacing the crystals is a little more complicated than taking them was. Each one needs to fuse with the holder it sits in. It doesn’t take any skill, just someone to hold it in place for a moment whilst the two fuse together and the magic is channelled into the ground.
Holding a crystal in place is a little more difficult when being attacked by the creatures. The fire creatures keep up the attack until all of the crystals have been replaced.
The Land Repaired
When the last crystal is in place there is a ripple across the land. An invisible line, an ancient magic, connects the crystals, seperating the two lands. Ice recedes from lava and the melted snow refreezes. The borderlands of slush undergo transformation as the two elements separate from each other once more. A land of fire and a land of ice, with a pulsing magic separating the two.
The firedogs and lizards retreat, fire elementals calm and join with the lava streams once more. A shimmering gate opens.
Orange
An Important Message
The Huma birds have been carrying crystals and helping the harvesters, protecting them from the blighted birds and encouraging them to work hard.
But those returning to the floating islands on the afternoon of the eleventh day of Horseshoe come bearing black cloth bags in their talons, each has a scroll attached. The Huma birds will make it very clear they are to read the scroll first.
DO NOT OPEN THE BAG UNTIL NIGHT FALLS
Inside this bag are rare crystals. When they are exposed to the light of the sun they will cause the islands to sink back to the ground. After the sun has set tonight please distribute these evenly around the islands and then depart back down to the land below before sunrise. The lands natural magic will do the rest but we do not recommend being on the islands when they fall.
Thank you for your hard work.
The Adventurers Guild
With a long night ahead they may wish to rest for the remainder of the day.
Distributing the Crystals
If they do as they are asked then it will be a long night, there are many chunks of islands and a lot of crystals to distribute. The darkness makes it harder and the blighted birds seem even grumpier in the cover of darkness.
The wind sprites also are not resting and indeed seem delighted that playtime has been extended into the hours of night. Placing crystals is difficult when the Voidtreckers find themselves swept up into the air to dance around the trees.
Getting down by sunrise may be a little trickier than placing the crystals, especially if they have used up their flight potions, but hopefully there are enough people to help everyone get to safety.
Islands Fall
The sun rises, as the first rays of light hit the island they begin to vibrate, shudder. Then one by one they begin to fall, rapidly and chaotically. It is perhaps wise to not be anywhere near the crater as they do so.
They land in a crash of dust, which obscures the area. When the dust clears however they will see a perfect undamaged land. The pieces have fit back together, exactly where they should be, despite the chaos. The land is repaired and whole once more. Huma birds call excitedly as they dart through the air, their land restored.
A gate opens, for them to step through if they wish.
Purple
A Cure
It is day ten of Horseshoe when the first Huma birds fly into the village, they carry crystals either in bags in their talons or in their beaks.
The villagers clearly know what is going on for they welcome the birds and take the crystals thankfully. Anyone not currently fighting or purifying crystals is brought in to help distribute cures.
Actually curing someone is easy, it just requires the crystal to be touch an affected person or creature. The crystals are only good for one cure so those curing the blighted will be required to carry a few and run them to the villages.
Others can take crystals out into the woodland, looking for blighted animals to help.
A Final Fight
All but one of the golems have been found, defeated and restored. The final one has been elusive, not approaching the village or even the nearby woodlands.
The restored golems are back to standing vigil in each village, ready to deal with any attack that may occur.
But when an attack comes, it is not on a village, but on the shrine in the centre. A golem, three trolls and a host of animals, some blighted, some just angry. They attack in the early morning, the villages awoken by shouts and sounds of battle.
Luckily the blighted creatures can be healed, angry animals can perhaps be soothed. The trolls cannot be soothed though and will indeed try to rile up the animals again, to cause as much chaos as they can.
Peace Once More
Once the final golem is taken down, the crystal restored and the trolls defeated there is a quiet comes across the villages. Those who were blighted are cured, the golems are back in their place as guardians of the village and thanks to the adventurers the villages have gotten through this time with minimal damage.
The villagers thank the adventurers, tell them to come and visit whenever they are in the area. A gate opens, for any voidtreckers who wish to return to Royal Lake Hill.
Royal Lake Hill: All Teams!
They return to the tavern, each to the inn that they set off from. The town is a little busier now, more areas have recovered from the blight and it has brought more trade into the town. Everyone is still relatively elderly or young, non fighters. But the market is bustling, there is even a puppet show going on in the square.
Around midday a beeping of their SCA will show a dot on their map where the Voidtrecker Express has landed, not far out of town, and a message. You may remain here until sunset.
It is up to them whether they wish to return to the train or spend the rest of the day in the town. For those staying in town they will find word of their deeds have preceded them and they will find no end of young, wide eyed, budding adventurers ready to buy them a drink or two in exchange for stories.
The Mountain
Once they get close enough everything is storm, ice swirls around them, stabbing them like knives. Winds seem to be actively pushing them away, no matter what direction they approach from. Still the crystal wolves walk on, heads down, paws silent, climbing upwards.
The higher they climb the colder it becomes. So cold that ice forms on eyelashes, that air seems to freeze as it leaves their mouths. So cold their chests hurt. They would not be wrong to assume that the only reason they can withstand this at all is because of the SCA around their wrist.
Ice tumbles down around them often, shaking the ground. The crystal wolves know the way and they keep going, steady on the path. They have spaced themselves out, to be in sight of all those who follow.
The Summit
As they finally reach the top of the mountain they reach a calm space, outside of the swirling storm. Domed across the summit is a fire cage, larger by far than any they have seen before. In the middle of the giant fire cage sits a dragon. White and blue, scales that look as if they were made of ice themselves. Their head was bowed, eyes closed but they are breathing, breath escaping in clouds of freezing mist that evaporated in the heat of the cage.
Around the cage itself are ice elementals, outside the storm these can be seen by the snow they whirl around inside them, each is about three feet tall but fly in a whirlwind as they attack. Like those in the storm they try and push people around and attack with shards of ice. These corrupted spirits seem to have no reason to their attacks, they are just as likely to push a combatant closer to the cage then they are towards the raging storm.
They can be fought, fire works well against them just as ice and cold magic works well against the fire cage itself.
A Sovereign Freed
Eventually the cage stops fighting, fading away into the snow before them. The crystal wolves spring forth, nuzzling at the dragon until they raise their head. Piercing blue eyes look over the group and the dragon bows their head once. They take a deep breath and breathe out over those assembled, cold fire washes over them, healing any hurts that they have, easing their fatigue som
The crystal wolves bow their heads too, a thank you. Aerlie flaps their wings, rising high into the air. Another breath of cold fire flies out around the area, clashing with the storm for a moment before overtaking it. Around the mountain the storm calms, the ice elementals stop and seem to sink into the snow or fade into the air. The mountain descends into a calmness.
The crystal wolves will approach all those who helped free them, nuzzling into their hands, a personal thank you before a shimmering gate opens for the adventurers to step through.
Red
Final Siege
It’s been a tiring three days of protecting the crystals from the creatures that sought their power. But now, as their power is fully recharged it is time to return them to the border. That is going to be a tougher job than getting them to the volcano’s heart in the first place!
They thrum with power and that power is a siren call to the creatures of the area, fire dogs, lizards, fire sprites. Just as the mountain attacked inside the heart, here the spirtes join with the rivers of lava to flood pathways, block routes, making it harder to cross already treacherous territory, or even driving them into traps of waiting fire dogs.
The heat is oppressive, heat from around them, heat from the crystals seems to sap the energy from those carrying them and so the duty is best shared.
Eventually though they arrive at the border, a mess of melted ice and frozen lava. Each of the crystals need to be replaced.
Restoring the Border
Replacing the crystals is a little more complicated than taking them was. Each one needs to fuse with the holder it sits in. It doesn’t take any skill, just someone to hold it in place for a moment whilst the two fuse together and the magic is channelled into the ground.
Holding a crystal in place is a little more difficult when being attacked by the creatures. The fire creatures keep up the attack until all of the crystals have been replaced.
The Land Repaired
When the last crystal is in place there is a ripple across the land. An invisible line, an ancient magic, connects the crystals, seperating the two lands. Ice recedes from lava and the melted snow refreezes. The borderlands of slush undergo transformation as the two elements separate from each other once more. A land of fire and a land of ice, with a pulsing magic separating the two.
The firedogs and lizards retreat, fire elementals calm and join with the lava streams once more. A shimmering gate opens.
Orange
An Important Message
The Huma birds have been carrying crystals and helping the harvesters, protecting them from the blighted birds and encouraging them to work hard.
But those returning to the floating islands on the afternoon of the eleventh day of Horseshoe come bearing black cloth bags in their talons, each has a scroll attached. The Huma birds will make it very clear they are to read the scroll first.
Inside this bag are rare crystals. When they are exposed to the light of the sun they will cause the islands to sink back to the ground. After the sun has set tonight please distribute these evenly around the islands and then depart back down to the land below before sunrise. The lands natural magic will do the rest but we do not recommend being on the islands when they fall.
Thank you for your hard work.
The Adventurers Guild
With a long night ahead they may wish to rest for the remainder of the day.
Distributing the Crystals
If they do as they are asked then it will be a long night, there are many chunks of islands and a lot of crystals to distribute. The darkness makes it harder and the blighted birds seem even grumpier in the cover of darkness.
The wind sprites also are not resting and indeed seem delighted that playtime has been extended into the hours of night. Placing crystals is difficult when the Voidtreckers find themselves swept up into the air to dance around the trees.
Getting down by sunrise may be a little trickier than placing the crystals, especially if they have used up their flight potions, but hopefully there are enough people to help everyone get to safety.
Islands Fall
The sun rises, as the first rays of light hit the island they begin to vibrate, shudder. Then one by one they begin to fall, rapidly and chaotically. It is perhaps wise to not be anywhere near the crater as they do so.
They land in a crash of dust, which obscures the area. When the dust clears however they will see a perfect undamaged land. The pieces have fit back together, exactly where they should be, despite the chaos. The land is repaired and whole once more. Huma birds call excitedly as they dart through the air, their land restored.
A gate opens, for them to step through if they wish.
Purple
A Cure
It is day ten of Horseshoe when the first Huma birds fly into the village, they carry crystals either in bags in their talons or in their beaks.
The villagers clearly know what is going on for they welcome the birds and take the crystals thankfully. Anyone not currently fighting or purifying crystals is brought in to help distribute cures.
Actually curing someone is easy, it just requires the crystal to be touch an affected person or creature. The crystals are only good for one cure so those curing the blighted will be required to carry a few and run them to the villages.
Others can take crystals out into the woodland, looking for blighted animals to help.
A Final Fight
All but one of the golems have been found, defeated and restored. The final one has been elusive, not approaching the village or even the nearby woodlands.
The restored golems are back to standing vigil in each village, ready to deal with any attack that may occur.
But when an attack comes, it is not on a village, but on the shrine in the centre. A golem, three trolls and a host of animals, some blighted, some just angry. They attack in the early morning, the villages awoken by shouts and sounds of battle.
Luckily the blighted creatures can be healed, angry animals can perhaps be soothed. The trolls cannot be soothed though and will indeed try to rile up the animals again, to cause as much chaos as they can.
Peace Once More
Once the final golem is taken down, the crystal restored and the trolls defeated there is a quiet comes across the villages. Those who were blighted are cured, the golems are back in their place as guardians of the village and thanks to the adventurers the villages have gotten through this time with minimal damage.
The villagers thank the adventurers, tell them to come and visit whenever they are in the area. A gate opens, for any voidtreckers who wish to return to Royal Lake Hill.
Royal Lake Hill: All Teams!
They return to the tavern, each to the inn that they set off from. The town is a little busier now, more areas have recovered from the blight and it has brought more trade into the town. Everyone is still relatively elderly or young, non fighters. But the market is bustling, there is even a puppet show going on in the square.
Around midday a beeping of their SCA will show a dot on their map where the Voidtrecker Express has landed, not far out of town, and a message. You may remain here until sunset.
It is up to them whether they wish to return to the train or spend the rest of the day in the town. For those staying in town they will find word of their deeds have preceded them and they will find no end of young, wide eyed, budding adventurers ready to buy them a drink or two in exchange for stories.
if madoka is heart can she too get a monkey?
Thankfully Tidus at least made sure she wasn't going into this without any ability whatsoever, but that doesn't make her any less nervous. She hasn't used it much before now! What if she screws up? What if she makes all this just harder on the rest of the team?
But despite the heavy beating of her heart, Madoka runs over all the same so she's close to the boys, frantically looking between them and the sprites seemingly hovering everywhere.
"I-- I can't do much about them!" Better to admit to that first before anyone expects her to pull out a no-longer-existent bow!! "But I.. I'll make sure no one gets blown away!" Or try to. Anyway.
wait i never watched captain planet, is there a water
Whatever this team up is, they don't go unnoticed by the sprites. The one stopped by Romeo's line blasts ice shards in an attempt to break it. Another two have come out, swirling in their own miniature storms, getting closer to Tidus, Alfredo and Madoka. Hovering high up, they blast wind at them to try and throw them off balance!
It's a strong gust, and though the protective barriers Tidus put up for the kids (and himself!) before helps to keep off some of it, the combined forces of the two sprites are strong!
And for Tidus, his barriers are always weakest from the back. And he's turned from the sprites as he tries to keep attacking the cage with water. The force knocks him onto his knees.
I've also never seen it ALAS
"Mister Tidus! Do you want me to make you invisible again?"
If the sprites couldn't see him he should be able to attack the cage without them attacking back!
"Line!" That was an attack, towards a sprite that was getting close to Madoka.
Same here, though I can confirm there IS a water and Tidus can be it!
"... Invisible?"
That might be a good idea, as long as none of the rest trip over him!
i can't believe i'm surrounded by heathens
The girl reaches out. It looks as if she's just trying to help Tidus up with the way she's suddenly grabbing a hold of his arm. And sure, she is doing that, but it has the added benefit of making sure he doesn't get blown around by the sprites while he's down thanks to the use of the device he gave her for now.
She keeps a hold until he's got Tidus back on his feet, and it's only then that she cautiously glances around at Alfredo and Romeo to make sure the two other boys are still okay too while waiting for Tidus to answer Romeo's question.
it was all about transformers for me
"What about you three?" What would be too hard on Romeo? Easiest? "I don't mind being a target-- but you three, you try knocking them down! Use snowballs! Let them come for me, I'll defend myself! Okay? Madoka," and he looks at her as he says her name. "You can jump with the grav-con--but be careful if you do, alright? Don't get blown into the cage!"
He'd shown her how to jump in theory, but just for a while, a simple flip of the switch in the other direction. But it hadn't been more important than keeping to the ground. ...other than being fun when it was safe...
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No Madoka had another name as well... Did Alfredo? He doesn't know... But he's seen Madoka's name on the roster enough to know there was a second bit. Kan...Me... Maybe.
He's still trying to watch out and make sure nothing got to Tidus but he's also getting ready, this was going to be some tricky spell casting!
Because I know I'll forget otherwise-
Given his own somewhat last-minute studying of the Roster, maybe he could help.
"I know Madoka doesn't, and I have two as well-"
The same question/worry that had struck Romeo struck Alfredo as well, but he pushes through it, because these friends need him!
"Madoka Kaname, right? And I'm Alfredo Martini. But- Romeo, what about you?"
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So instead she ducks down, grabbing snow and balling it up in her hands. It's not the perfect snowball, since she's rushing, but the snow sticks together enough for her to throw it at one of the approaching sprites, trying to keep them away while half of them are busy figuring out Romeo's spell-- or magic, or whatever exactly he's trying to use. She's already ducking back down to grab more right away, determined.
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"Here, take this too!"
Tidus takes his attention off from the cage to reboost their barriers, extra fortification on top of what Romeo had to offer. If winds were thrown their way, perhaps a Shell--surrounding each of them briefly, one after another--would be able to deflect some of it.
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"Alfredo Martini, Umbra! Madoka Kaname Umbra! Ringoki Umbra!"
The three of them disappeared from sight.
"Okay! Let's stop these bad spirits!"
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Tidus' shields, however small, exuded a presence, an energy - but being invisible felt different even from being shielded with magic!
... This also answered his question. Ringoki.
Something to ask Elfnein about, no doubt.
With the added protection, Alfredo went on the move again, looking for remnants of ice spikes to add to snowballs.
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But before she can say anything else, Madoka glances over in the direction of the cage and gasps.
"Tidus! Look, the way to the cage is clear!"
For the moment, anyway. It seems all of the elementals are distracted by some of the other fighting people, leaving very little in the way between them and the cage. There's no saying though when the elementals will start moving again though..!
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This might end up hurting, but Tidus was willing to give it a shot. With their invisibility, they weren't entirely free of danger: There were the ice and winds the sprites were throwing at other fighters they can get caught up in by. But Romeo's skills were for the most part doing the trick. They couldn't be seen, so they weren't bothered - and so if they wanted to throw their snowballs at the cage or at the sprites, payback was harder to deposit.
Tidus attempts to go back in big. The winds chilled him through his clothes, the fire burning hot at his front. Trying to keep his balance by getting on his knees, he goes for a not-so-different, but more prolonged spell. Putting his hands on the ground, he concentrates, and brings up a water spell, geysering up from where the spell calls it.
But he keeps it going, doesn't break it. Trying to push more power into the spell so it reaches higher. It lasts a few seconds, but the attempt -- something never done before, the fact he wasn't quite ready for it -- lasts for just a few seconds before his concentration breaks.
It doesn't mean he won't try again. But the sprites are paying attention to him again - and without getting close, a volley of icy shards are being shot at him!
pls save
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Tidus might not be able to see Romeo but he has been keeping an eye on Tidus, letting the other two deal with throwing snowballs so he could keep his borderlines up.
He's exhausted, especially with having the umbra spells up. But a borderline springs up between Tidus and the incoming shards.