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Post by Shaa Rhunn on Sept 10, 2022 23:07:30 GMT -5
Shaa had been in town for several days for one of the many festivals that Darkveil City had to offer. This particular festival was in celebration of the kala fruit. A wonderful, bright and delicious fruit that was only found here and was only available for a week before they went horribly rotten. To celebrate the harvest, there were tons of activities. There were singers, dancers and performers of every kind. But the real stars of the show were the culinary artists who showed off every way to cook a kala fruit. They turned them into pies and tarts, ice creams and cakes, a dizzying array of delights for every pallet.
For Shaa, the one thing that he looked forward to more than anything else, was the Kala-sicle. A popsicle with chunks of kala fruit, crème, moja berries and a run of sweet syrup right up the middle. There was only one guy in the entire city who made them AND you had to buy a ticket a year in advance to even get one. The 4 minutes of bliss it took to eat one made the entire trip worth while.
Shaa looked at his ticket and smiled. He had already scouted out and reserved a nice bench overlooking the square but out of the way of foot traffic. The weather was nice and cool, not too melty. This could not have gone better. Shaa walked over to the small stall where chef Karmath made his magical creations. A tiefling by birth, a genius through effort, Karmath held a small smile while his assistant took tickets and he handed out joy on a roughly hewn stick.
Shaa handed over his ticket, paid for next year, and then headed back to the bench that held a card that said RESERVED on the front. He flipped down the card and sat on the bench, saying a small prayer to Ginma for bringing him this day. As he was about to enjoy his treat, when he caught a quick motion out of the corner of his eye. He managed to move his head out of the way just in time as something flew past. When he looked back, his wonderful treat lay in a messy puddle in front of him. A feeling of shock and confusion came over him. Why? How? He looked up and saw a stranger staring in his direction.
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Post by Edward Ardent on Sept 11, 2022 13:15:53 GMT -5
Edward was running through the streets of Darkveil, looking for the demon that escaped from the ritual that he disrupted just a couple minutes ago. The demon was cunning enough to disguise itself in different mortal forms, transforming into a minotaur and hiding itself in one of the many festivals that the city holds.
Edward would’ve liked to have join in the celebrations but allowing the demon to escape into the city could spell disaster for many of the innocent civilians that live here. Looking around, he found that there are barely any Minotaurs in the festival that the demon hid in. He searches through the crowd and saw that there was a Minotaur that was in front of a Kala-sicle stand who looked like an exact copy of the minotaur that the demon disguised himself as.
Edward summons a bolt of light in his hand and throws it at the Minotaur, which bolt misses and accidentally hits the Kala-sicle out of the Minotaur’s hands. “Halt there demon, come in peacefully or I will to take you in forcefully.”
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Post by Shaa Rhunn on Sept 11, 2022 14:05:51 GMT -5
“Halt there demon, come in peacefully or I will to take you in forcefully.”
Shaa had been called a lot of things over the years but demon usually only after some sort of drinking contest. Shaa examined the stranger and didn’t seem to recognize him from anywhere. Nope, it was just some random dude who had decided to rain on his parade. Shaa looked down at the gooey mess that was formerly his popsicle, congealing on the pavement. It just wasn’t fair. He had waited a whole year. Trekked across the stupid desert to be here and now it was gone. For a moment, he even considered licking it off the sidewalk but he couldn’t bring himself to stoop so low.
Maybe it was a misunderstanding? Maybe this guy was really ok and not some popsicle smashing monster. Most people gave him a chilly reception when they first met, that wasn’t new. From the looks of him, it didn’t seem he was quite done with Shaa. Well, if he wasn’t getting a popsicle, he was going to get some entertainment out of this mess.
Shaa stood up to his full 7ft hight and smiled broadly at the stranger. He then picked the bench up over his head and hurled it directly at him (bulls strength) Eat this you popsicle smashing son of a @#$&*.
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Post by Edward Ardent on Sept 11, 2022 14:45:30 GMT -5
Edward gets into a running stance, brandishes his staff, and rushes towards the Minotaur. He sees the Minotaur grab a nearby bench and throw it at Edward’s general direction. Edward considers dodging but decides not to since the bench might hit bystanders. His right hand grasping the staff glows with golden light and he lifts his right hand. A golden wall of light rises from the ground, blocking the hurling bench. Edward senses the presence of the wall inside his mind and wills it to move forward. He shouts, “All civilians, get out of here. There is currently a demon within our midsts.” He moves forward behind his wall as he gets closer to the Minotaur and slides out to the left side of the wall as soon as he is right in close range with the Minotaur. He pivots and swing his burning staff at the back of Minotaur’s knee, hoping to knock him over.
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Post by Shaa Rhunn on Sept 11, 2022 18:49:45 GMT -5
As soon as the wall of light emerged and started pushing towards him, Shaa got on his guard. He wasn’t expecting a spell like that. The bench was now in pieces which was just fine for him. All that meant was more weapons to throw at this guy. As the wall pushed close, the stranger slid out the side of the wall and swung has staff at Shaa’s leg. Shaa jumped back at the strike but not far enough away to avoid it entirely. As the end of the staff ran across Shaa’s thigh, he felt a scorching sensation run up his leg.
Owtch! Mother’s biscuits! He cried patting down his flank, brushing off the singed fur. That was no regular staff. He would have to be more careful. He picked up a broken leg from the bench.
Hey buddy, You look tired. Here, have a seat!
Shaa forced earth energy into his hoof and stamped hard on the ground. The ground around them started to tremble upheaving everything around them. Shaa watched carefully as how the stranger would handle this little wrinkle. This might give him an opportunity.
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Post by Edward Ardent on Sept 11, 2022 19:21:25 GMT -5
Edward’s confidence grew as he felt his fiery staff hit the Minotaur. He begins to swing again at the Minotaur’s head when he felt the ground shake fiercely in the area he was standing at. He was caught off balance and slips forwards. Edward thinks for a second, taps his staff hard on the ground so that his momentum is shifted, and falls flat on his back.
He felt his breath leave his body as he impacted hard on the ground, wheezing for air for a second or two. Seeing his opponent towering over him, Edward realizes that he is in a tough situation. His legs don’t seem to work properly at the moment and he’ll need some time to get back up onto his feet.
He raises his right hand from his staff and directs it at the minotaur as golden light coalesces into a small golden dagger of energy. He wills the dagger to move and it shoots straight at the Minotaur’s torso. Edward takes the opportunity to try to stand up while the Minotaur is dealing with his dagger.
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Post by Shaa Rhunn on Sept 11, 2022 20:39:52 GMT -5
What in the …. Using the bench leg as an impromptu dirk, Shaa manages to block the bolt of light but shatters the bench leg in the process. With the block, he is able to keep his forward momentum towards the stranger. Seriously what was this guys issue? If he didn’t take him out soon, who knows what other nonsense he would throw at him. He didn’t have time to figure it out though. He needed to focus on taking him out.
As the tremors started to subside, Shaa leaped at the stranger and attempted to pound on him with a hammer fist before he could stand up. If he could keep him on the ground, he might be able to finish this quickly. At the same time, he swished his tail around to the side. This was going to be a tricky maneuver but it just might work. Shaa steeled himself for the strike.
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Post by Edward Ardent on Sept 11, 2022 20:57:14 GMT -5
Edward slowly rises up from the ground using his staff to support him. With his legs still feeling numb, he struggles to move forward towards the minotaur. He sees his opponent use the bench leg to block his radiant bolt and charging forward towards him. Edward spots the Minotaur’s tail getting ready to strike at him. Edward knows he can’t dodge this and wills his wall of light to slide in front of him.
As the Minotaur smashes his tail against the wall, the wall begins to crack under the impact and manages to hold back the tail strike for couple seconds before it shatters into hundreds of shards of golden light before it all dissipates into the air. Edward uses this as an opportunity to reposition his staff to the front of his torso and jabs the fiery end of his staff in the direction of the abdomen of the Minotaur. After jabbing at the minotaur, Edward closes his eyes, takes a breath, and wisps of bluish white mist begins to flow out of his back.
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Post by Shaa Rhunn on Sept 11, 2022 23:49:50 GMT -5
As much as Shaa liked a good brawl, he was having trouble wrapping his horns around this one. How in the world did he even wind up here? All Shaa wanted was to enjoy his popsicle on a bench, see some guys juggling knives or something and call it a day. What was wrong with that? Did this guy have something against happiness? Now he was getting stabbed by some random dude with a fire stick. Well, he was going to regret that one. Owww fir the love of Ginma!
As the stranger jabbed his staff into Shaa’s abdomen, Shaa grabbed it with his hand, locking the man in place. He could feel the fire course through his hand but he grimaced and refused to let go. With his other hand, Shaa balled up his fist and prepared to smash the man right in the face. If he hoped to dodge the blow, he would either have to release the staff and dodge or take the hit. Shaa’s hands were like clubs so a punch to the face at this range would be devastating.
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Post by Edward Ardent on Sept 12, 2022 10:13:58 GMT -5
With his eyes closed, Edward focuses deep within the darkness of his mind and tries to find the gateway between this world and next. In his mind, a small glowing mote of light within a sea of darkness drifts around the sea and eventually, touches a silver doorway with ancient glyphs etched around the frame. Bluish white mist begins to pour from the seams of the door way.
Back in reality, the Minotaur grabs the end of the staff with one hand and punches at Edward with the other. The silver door in Edward’s mind opens with a loud screech and a large silver armored plated hand reaches out from the silver doorway into reality as the silver hand grasps around the Minotaur’s fist to stop the attack.
A tall silver armored figure begins to form from behind Edward as the bluish white mist consolidates into this spiritual being. Edward takes his left hand from his staff, raises his palm up into the Minotaur’s chest, and golden light alongside with the bluish white mist condenses and forms into a pulsating bolt of gold and white energy the size of a short sword. Then Edward jams his palm holding the bolt of energy towards the chest of his opponent.
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Post by Shaa Rhunn on Sept 12, 2022 11:08:45 GMT -5
When the man only had one hand on the staff, Shaa shoved hard to throw him off balance. No sooner he does so however, the man creates a light sword in his hand and stabs it towards his chest. Shaa twists to the side and the light blade leaves an ugly gash across his chest.
Ughhh! Burned and bleeding, this was not going as well as he had hoped.
As the fight was during a festival, there was increased security across the city. With strong drink and fighters from all around, there was a zero tolerance policy for any shenanigans. Several sentries notice the fight in the square and have approached them from behind. Between the panicked tourists and the guards, there was currently a lot of chaos in the streets.
Hey you two! Stop right there, you are under arrest for disturbing the peace!
Man! It’s the fuzz! Now look what you’ve done. Shaa reaches down and picks up some dirt and gravel and tosses it towards Edward’s face. Not waiting around for anyone, he takes off down a nearby alley way towards a different part of town, running his hand along the wall as he goes.
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Post by Edward Ardent on Sept 12, 2022 18:28:01 GMT -5
Edward was about to take a stab at the Minotaur when he heard the guards yell at him. “Hey, you two! Stop right there, you are under arrest for disturbing the peace.” He was about to turn around to look at the guards when he got a handful of gravel and dust thrown in his face. The minotaur ran into a nearby alleyway while Edward was distracted.
The two guards attempt to approach Edward with manacles as he was rubbing away at the dirt in his eyes. But the massive silver figure interposes itself between the guards, even though it can’t attack as dictated by the ancient pact it was bound by, the guards don’t know that. After Edward done rubbing, he quickly tries to spot where the Minotaur is at. Thankfully, Minotaur are huge and they have unique footprints for Edward to follow.
He runs into the alleyway that the minotaur took and finds him 50 meters ahead off him in the alleyway. Edward lifts his left hand from the staff and fires a bolt of radiant light that streaks towards the Minotaur’s direction, growing in size the more distance it covers.
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Post by Shaa Rhunn on Sept 12, 2022 19:01:48 GMT -5
Shaa looked back down the alleyway and smiled. As he had planned, his new buddy was following him down the tight side alley. What he hadn’t noticed however was that as Shaa had been dragging his hand along the wall, he had been casting rumbling tremors into the walls themselves. The walls were now starting to drop brick and mortar all down the path behind him and hopefully on the popsicle smashers head.
Shaas smile was short lived however as he saw another bolt of light streaking down the alleyway. How many of those things do you have! He shouted as he skirted around a corner, barely avoiding the blast.
That wall collapse should hold him for a minute. He said to no one in particular.
Having a moment to breathe, Shaa takes out some ointment and a bandage from his Medical kit and wraps it around his burned hand. Ssss….I’m going to feel that tomorrow.
He takes a second to look around. There are several people, a cafe with chairs and a small fountain set in the center of it all. To his surprise, he also sees another Minotaur standing by a tree. A Minotaur that looks very familiar for some reason. Shaa trots over to him to see what’s up. When the Minotaur turns around, Shaa is shocked to see his own face! What in Ginma’s beard?! The doppelgänger looks Shaa up and down and starts to laugh. Shaa is completely creeped out at seeing his mirror image. All except the eyes. His double has deep red eyes.
With no warning, the double takes a deep breath and blows fire in Shaa’s direction. He has just enough time to dive into the fountain to avoid the blast. I might have been better off just getting arrested… he groused to himself.
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Post by Edward Ardent on Sept 12, 2022 21:28:09 GMT -5
Edward was pursuing his target when the walls of the alleyway began to tumble and fall on top of him. He raises his arms above him and chunks of stone pelts him like a snow hailstorm. After bracing through the rain of stones, he was finally able to get through the alleyway, although his body feels sore and would probably be bruised all over in the morning.
However, unbeknownst to him, the demon doppelgänger began to shift forms right after blowing fire at the Minotaur into the form of tall pale blonde female elf covered in scorch marks, using their fire breath as a distraction to change shape and to move by the fountain. The newly disguised demon begins to scream out and point at the Minotaur inside the fountain, “Help me, please. This foul demon just breathed fire on me. Somebody, save me.”
Edward, after just exiting the alleyway, sees the woman covered in burns screaming and pointing at the fountain and sees the minotaur trying to hide inside the fountain. He rushes over with his staff behind his head and swings downward towards the head of the minotaur.
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Post by Shaa Rhunn on Sept 12, 2022 23:27:58 GMT -5
Still underwater, Shaa waits for the flame to dissipate. What in the world was that thing? Some sort of crazy mimic? It did not sit well with Shaa that some thing was going around with his face. There was something going on around here that didn’t have anything to do with popsicles…probably. As Shaa looked up, the flame was gone and he could hear some muffled yelling from underwater. What if he was attacking someone else?
Shaa started to raise out of the water only to see a staff coming down on his head. With a quick flick of his head, Shaa knocks back the staff with this sizable horns. I have had just about enough out of you! Why don’t you go smack the Minotaur that’s spewing fire all over…. It is only then that Shaa notices the fiery Minotaur is no where to be seen. There is only a crying blond elf with scorch marks on her…and blood red eyes. She is giving him a subtle smile.
It doesn’t take long for Shaa to do the math on what was happening and it wasn’t adding up to anything good. That crafty little booger. OK, options. He could attack the elf but then Mr Sunshine would smack him with his fire stick. He could attack Mr Sunshine first bur then the mimic, doppelgänger whatever thing would just take off again. And the guards were still back there somewhere so they couldn’t just hang around here. It was time to do something no one would see coming.
Shaa leaped out of the fountain splashing water at Edward’s face. He landed next to the “elf” and grabbed her under his arm like a sack of potatoes and took off towards the cafe. As he reached the cafe, he snagged a couple of metal chairs with his free hand and flung them at Edward. Not looking to see if the chairs landed or not, he bulls into the cafe, being sure to smack the elf’s head into the doorframe as he passes.
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