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Post by Javal Zarrias on Jul 4, 2023 17:33:32 GMT -5
Javal barely got a single look at Ak’ka’s injury before he was quickly launched into the air and kicked across the battlefield into the edge of the Deadwood in a small clearing lit by the moonlight.
Javal picked himself up from the floor before seeing the undead hero quickly sprint over to where he landed and attacked him with a strange short black katana. He had barely enough time to block with his trusty katana, “Shield” before the zombie’s attack hit. Even blocking the block Javal still felt great pain over his body this zombified former hero had formidable physical strength even in the state of the undead.
Before Javal stood a tall triton with white and red hair in bright rusted vermillion armor.
The figure looked at Javal’s blade and start laughing, “Is this the person who has inherited my legendary blade of the hero Setheus” and started walking forward to Javal.
“That blade is mine fellblood, hand it over it is not yours I left it in the hands of a friend. You are not worthy enough to wield this blade. You haven’t even awakened its full power yet”.
Suddenly the undead triton hero quickly disarmed Javal and held his katana in his hands, “Let me show you this blade’s full power, and maybe just maybe if you survive I’ll let you leave with it”.
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Post by Ak'ka the Bonegrinder on Jul 9, 2023 21:41:58 GMT -5
Looked like Ak’ka was gonna get the chance to test out this new arm of hers sooner than she thought.
They had to be getting close. That was what she kept tellin’ herself. Long battles were no walk in the park, no matter how many times you dealt with it. But the good news was that Carmine, the asshole, was startin’ to look ragged as well. Especially as he summoned a minion that split the ground apart, shaking the dead woods beneath her feet. Ak’ka raised her arms, fists clenched and ready to punch the lights outta whatever popped from the ground. Behind her, she could hear Javal talking with whatever other undead Carmine summoned to take care of him.
The woods fell quiet.
Then -
THUD.
THUD.
Felt like something big and heavy was walkin’ through the ground. No, that wasn’t right - it was more like something was knocking against the ground as it was trying to break free. Battle instinct was the only thing that saved her, as she dove out of the way just as a giant, fleshy hand pulled itself out of the ground. And another. And a big fuckoff giant made of rotting flesh and decay rose from the ground, staring down at her with milky eyes.
It opened its mouth in a roar that shook the birds from the trees.
Spit flew from its mouth, foul breath stinking up the air. Ak’ka cracked her knuckles, feeling more excited than fearful. Loads of little enemies were more of a threat than this. She was used to people throwin’ bigger and badder threats to be the ones to finally take her down. None of those guys managed before. They sure as hell wouldn’t win now.
“You know what they say. The bigger they are, the harder they fall… in a forest where no one’s around to hear it. Fuck it. You know what I mean.”
The giant swiped down a meaty hand to grab Ak’ka, but for once in her life she had the advantage of bein’ smaller and faster than her opponent. Not to mention she knew the best way to break any number of limbs. With a roar that rivaled the undead hill giant’s, Ak’ka spun around and grabbed one of his fingers by the knuckle before bending it in a directions fingers ain’t ever supposed to bend. The giant screamed in pain. She doubted it expected its food to fight back.
“One down.” Ak’ka uttered as she twisted the finger like the stem of an apple until the snapped bone and rotted flesh came apart and detached from the hand. She tossed it to the side, black blood spilling all over her in a shower. “Nine to go.”
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Jul 10, 2023 11:57:00 GMT -5
Javal looks back to face the undead giant, the monstrous new threat that has emerged from the deadwood ground itself.
Javal turns around and gets ready to sprint and says, “Sorry undead hero guy, I have to go help Ak’ka against a stronger threat than you”.
The triton suddenly jumps in front of Javal blocking his way he chuckles and says, “Come on kid don’t think you’ll be let out of here alive. If you wanna go help your friend over there you’ll have to get through me and you’ll find me difficult to beat especially wielding my original blade", he then drops his black blade to the floor.
Javal takes out his lightning spear from his back and gets serious, “All I have to do is get through to you no problem”.
Javal then swings his lightning spear at the undead hero as the undead hero brings his sword downwards creating an intense clash of strength.
The Undead Giant of York roars in pain from Ak’ka’s devastating destruction of his finger, he then jumps onto the deadwood floor creating massive shockwaves across the ground. He then charges up aimed squarely at Ak’ka.
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Post by Ak'ka the Bonegrinder on Jul 12, 2023 20:18:07 GMT -5
“Javal! Aw, hell.” Ak’ka grit her tusks as steel against steel sparked in the corner of her eye. He was dealin’ with some kinda triton swordsman or something, not that Ak’ka could see all that well, considerin’ the big fuckoff giant blocking her path. This thing was big enough that it could wreak some serious havoc on her. She didn’t doubt the little guy was strong, but the Hill Giant of Yore would crush Javal into a powder if he got too close.
“Stay back!” She barked, voice harsh - scarin’ him off from that foolishly noble shit like coming and helping her. Ak’ka was a big gal. She could handle this herself. No one but her needed to get hurt.
She could take it.
Good thing she could, too. As she was distracted by Javal tryin’ to make his way over to her that she missed the injured giant shrugging off the pain and pulling himself to his full height, charging at her. She gasped, bracin’ herself at the last minute, all four arms raised in the sky to catch the fist the beast raised in the air before it came barreling down at her.
Ah, yeah. That was gonna leave a mark in the morning.
A weight unlike anything she’d ever held before pressed down upon her, threatening to flatten Ak’ka into the ground. Bones and joints creaked, muscles straining as her arms shook. A battle of wills. The giant versus the Bonegrinder. When it came to will, Ak’ka ain’t ever lost to someone else before, and she wasn’t gonna start now. This asshole might’ve been bigger, but Ak’ka would be dead in the ground before she let some undead fuck be the one to kill her.
“Not today!” Ak’ka screamed, gripping to the giant’s fist with her own hands so roughly that she could’a torn the skin right off if she yanked. That wasn’t her goal now, though. No, Ak’ka’s plan was much more simple. A gal like her didn’t need to think. All she needed to be able to do was break bones. And she was damn good at that.
Ak’ka grunted, shifting the weight of the fist to her shoulders and bracing her legs. Her vision went white as she yanked, wrenching the giant arm at an angle that arms weren’t meant to bend at. Joints and ligaments snapped all the way up to the shoulder, the force of Ak’ka’s blow popping it from its socket. The giant howled in pain, its grip slacking on her to give her enough purchase to release her grip on the fist and roll out from under it.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Jul 12, 2023 22:43:44 GMT -5
Javal was about to strike the undead hero in the chest with his sword and quickly try another attempt to escape and help Ak’ka face the new undead giant monster until he heard her command to stay back.
He hated it he had to help Ak’ka it was against his code to let a friend face a strong enemy alone but something inside him told him to stay calm and believe in her to be able to finish this monster off without him. He was barely able to sidestep a quick forward slash from the zombie triton.
Javal stood and swung his lightning spear, “Zeus” let’s show this fellow what we can do”, the triton fellow quickly jumped in the air and kicked Javal in the side of the head.
He landed behind Javal about to launch another sword swing with his ill-gotten blade before Javal threw the lightning spear directly towards the zombie’s chest.
The zombie took its head on leaving a large hole in the middle of it only to respond with a loud laugh, “Is that all you got kid? I’ve seen more combat prowess from children back in my day, come on give me more. Show me that you’re worthy of this blade and the power that comes with it. This sword is mine. I've beaten countless world-threatening opponents with it. I'm not just gonna leave this to some silly court jester imp”.
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Post by Ak'ka the Bonegrinder on Jul 14, 2023 12:03:04 GMT -5
She could hear the sounds of talking on the other side of the field. Lotta noise. Sounded like Javal and that zombie were havin’ a conversation. She and this damn giant were talkin’ in the only language that beasts could understand - violence.
And it wasn’t happy that she’d fucked its arm up real bad.
Ak’ka didn’t have time to gloat. She knew better than to celebrate a victory too early, especially when her enemy was still up and kicking. The giant roared, stamping its feet hard enough to leave footprints in the ground. With its free hand, it reached down and swiped at her. Ak’ka braced herself again, expecting to hold off another one of its fists, but it opened its palm up and scooped her up instead. Ak’ka grunted as she was lifted off the ground against her will. She thrashed, but no matter how hard she resisted, he gripped tighter like he was trying to squeeze her like a pastry and he was trying to remove the filling.
And then it opened its mouth and tried to throw her in.
Ak’ka was heavy, but not heavy or small enough that she didn’t fit in this guy’s jaw as it tried to eat her. She grimaced at the smell coming from the decay and rot that hung in the crevice, even worse than the outside. Even worse was the blunt teeth that were determined to mash her into a powder.
“I ain’t about to let myself get eaten!” She grabbed onto one of the giant’s gnarled teeth with one set of her hands, pulling herself to her feet and bracing herself against the movement of the jaw. As the giant clamped down, she grabbed onto his top jaw, preventing him from closing down on her.
The giant pressed down harder, determined to mash her into paste. At the same time it tried to nudge her out with its tongue, but Ak’ka was waiting for that. With her spare pair of arms she let go of the tooth that was grounding her and grabbed the tongue, letting go of its teeth and pulling the tongue as she dove out of the mouth at the same time.
The force from her pulling at it and its own jaw, already mid-bite, severed its tongue clean in two. Ak’ka dropped to the ground, covered red in blood and viscera from the wound. The giant let out a gurgling roar, staggering backwards. It didn’t feel pain, but Ak’ka had sure as hell crippled it. Now she just had to deal the finishing blow. Somethin’ to really tear it up inside.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Jul 15, 2023 23:29:48 GMT -5
Javal stood by, impressed at his work the undead hero stood there, his katana in hand with a giant spear-shaped hole in its gut with a smile on its face.
Javal holds his hand out calling his spear back into his arms and gets back into a defensive position in case the hero would try a follow-up track since Javal was unarmed.
The undead hero chuckles, “So what kid? You think that’s all it's gonna take to take me down. Although I’ll admit you're not the worst guy I’ve fought so that outta count for something”.
The hero charges at Javal once more only to be faced with another clash between the lightning spear and Javal’s katana. The two clang and go blow for blow with their weapons filling the entire area with loud clanking metal sounds. Javal had even received a few cuts to himself as although the hero was old that didn’t mean he was an easy opponent.
Javal received a large slash across his right arm while he landed the finishing blow towards the hero, a straight swipe diagonally across his body surfing with electricity.
The undead hero laughs heartily, “You did it, you beat me kid, and proved your worth, you’ve received my blessing to use this blade. My name is Theseus and that shall be the name of your blade as my spirit shall leave this feeble rotting body and enter into your blade until the day you awaken its full power. For now, I shall leave you with a gift, a small step towards awakening".
His body begins to scatter to ashes as a bright blue light enters Javala’s sword and the blade surges with blue runes and a small hook grows from it.
“Woah”, Javal exclaims, “I did it! I now need to check up on how Ak’ka’s doing”, and he then sprints holding his injured arm looking
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Post by Ak'ka the Bonegrinder on Jul 17, 2023 13:39:43 GMT -5
Ak’ka whipped out her tree from her back, gripping the trunk with all four hands. Instead of swingin’ it, though, she let out a guttural, blood-curdling roar as she swung the tree in an arcing movement. Pine needles flew through the air, a wall of pure force that slammed the giant in the chest. Already on unsteady feet from all the hurt Ak’ka did to it, the giant staggered, losing steam. And it started oozing black blood from its chest where the tree needles pierced it.
And, unable to support its own weight, the fucker went down. There was a big THUD as the injured, undead hill giant hit the ground, and an earthquake that would’a knocked a lesser person off their feet, and then the zombie didn’t get back up.
Good.
Ak’ka’s chest heaved up and down. Damn, how much longer could she keep up with this? She wiped a bit of blood from her face, turning back to Javal. Even better. He’d taken care of his opponent, but she didn’t see a body around. Just some ashes. Huh.
She offered Javal a hand, hocking a wad of spit on the ground next to her feet that looked more like blood than saliva.
“Come on.” She grunted. “Let’s finish this.”
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Jul 18, 2023 2:37:34 GMT -5
Javal sprinted over to the direction of the blood-curdling roar although the battle with the undead hero Theseus left him weakened; he wasn't just gonna stand around and do nothing. He only was able to arrive once the giant slammed backward into the ground shaking the entire area above.
He ran over to where Ak’ka was and said, “Ak’ka are you alright? Woah where’d this guy come from the earth itself? Oh and now the soul of that zombie guy is in my sword and he almost beat him turns out he was some sort of ancient hero whose body yearned for battle”.
The pair walked over to where Carmine was sitting having four notebooks opened around him scrambling to write things down.
He looks up to see the adventurers only a dozen feet away and sighs, “Woah you two really are some interesting specimens, possibly the most fascinating that I’ve seen yet. Oh yes, I can see it now Patchwork 2: Undead Orc and Patchwork 3: Devilish Samurai Oh how dastardly this shall be maybe then even the elders of the council shall respect me and give me the funds I so desperately require".
He then notices the two get closer and closer and chuckles, “Oh my my, it seems I got ahead of myself let’s finish this and get going".
He places his hands on the ground the entirety of the deadwood shaking and rumbling. All of Carmine’s previous undead minions begin to shake and rumble to life and soar into the air coated in magical light. All of the monsters combine and shift into a colossal undead monstrous dragon that was the size of the entire deadwood.
Carmine screams as he steps atop to ride the dragon, “My test subjects I present to you my magnum opus, the climax of my research and the apex of undead magic, Patchwork One: The Great Undead Dragon King”.
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Post by Ak'ka the Bonegrinder on Jul 18, 2023 7:18:06 GMT -5
Ak’ka grunted, rolling her shoulder to loosen the muscle. They were both exhausted at this point but the war wasn’t over yet. She wouldn’t rest until the job was done. Wouldn’t stop. Couldn’t stop. “Fine.” She said, staring at the sword Javal was talking about. “Whoa. You sure you ain’t… evil now or something?” Eh, it was probably fine. Good or evil, there was one language all folks understood, and that was the language of the fight. The battlesong. It united people as much as it divided ‘em - and in the battlefield, everyone was equal. Even this zombie guy now hitched to Javal’s sword.
“Guess if it ain’t causin’ trouble, it’s fine.” Ak’ka shrugged. “Now come on. We gotta kick some ass.” But when they got to Carmine, the smarmy bastard was just scribblin’ something in his notebooks, calm as a cucumber. Ak’ka raised her fists, cloth wraps over her knuckles busted and covered in dirt and blood and scraps of undead flesh. Her ice-covered arm glittered under the light peeking through the ash clouds. A reminder that he could knock her down all he wanted and she’d still get back up to to kill him. He paused his insane muttering when they approached, still laughing like he had the upper hand here.
“You done? Or are we gonna have to do this the hard way?” She demanded. “Cus let me tell you somethin’. All that was just a warmup for me.”
A bluff - but Carmine wouldn’t be able to tell. Ak’ka was as stalwart as ever.
“Is that so?” Carmine let out a noncommittal hum. “Then perhaps what I have in store for you next will prove a suitable challenge.” And then he pressed his hands to the ground and started cast in’ some spell she couldn’t place. Not that Ak’ka needed to know what he was doing. Before their very eyes, every single dead enemy they’d killed so far picked themselves up and started… movin’, stitchin’ themselves together like a patchwork quilt. Scales and wings formed, molded from the undead clay. And what was left behind was an umbral dragon, black as tar and bigger than anything Ak’ka’d ever fought in her life.
“Aw, hell.”
Ak’ka didn’t feel any fear, but she still suppressed a shiver at the sight of that great beast. And then she broke out into a grin.
“Magnum opus. That means this is all you got left, yeah? We take this out and you’re defenseless.”
She had to move quick. Ak’ka knew her strengths and weaknesses, and she wasn’t gonna be any help when that thing took off from the ground. “I’m goin’ after it!” She yelled, breaking out into a dead sprint. The dragon swept its massive tail at her - Ak’ka ducked, hitting the ground hard enough to skid dirt along her arms as she slid. Then she picked herself back up and kept running, leaping at the dragon’s torso with reckless abandon.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Jul 18, 2023 15:12:17 GMT -5
Javal chuckles, “No I don’t think so at least that guy didn’t seem evil just kind of weird” Javal raised his sword to Carmine as he continued with his grandiose speech.
He flies into the air riding his new undead dragon, as she ran into attack him the dragon roared shaking the entire woods.
Carmine screams out, “This baby here is my life’s work no one’s ever beat it not that samurai guy not that giant no one and you clowns will just follow in their footsteps”.
The dragon then opens his mouth and sends out a giant wave of black flaming breath towards the two adventurers.
Javal quickly summoned down rain (1) to douse the rain but he was too late; the flames were going to hit them any second now.
Javal quickly slashed forward his new glowing blue blade, feeling the old hero’s power slicing the flames apart and leaving him and Ak’ka unburnt.
“Woah”, Javal says, “This is like a brand new weapon now”
He then turns to face Ak’ka as the dragon circles the two readying for another attack, “What do we do now”?
The dragon stretches his arm out and sends a large rain of skeletons to hit the two adventures on the ground.
1. Drizzle
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Post by Ak'ka the Bonegrinder on Jul 23, 2023 19:54:31 GMT -5
Ak’ka didn’t stop when she saw the fireball chargin’ at her, determined to take the brunt of the damage head on and keep runnin’. But then Javal called rain down and sliced down with his sword, cutting through it like it was a real, solid thing. Ak’ka’s brows rose, making a grunting sound in the back of her throat that sounded vaguely impressed. “Damn. Nice.”
The beast wasn’t done yet, though.
Ak’ka cracked her knuckles, tryin’ to think of the best way to go about this. “I think we gotta ground it by breakin’ its wings. We ain’t got much ranged attacks, so it won’t stand much of a chance when we can hit it.”
But then the dragon roared, spilling out corpses that composed its arm, and Ak’ka leapt over to grab Javal. “Get down!” With two arms she wrapped around his torso, kicking the ground with one of her legs. A wall of ice jut from the ground at an angle, protecting them from getting hit by the skeletons.[1]
Hell. This wasn’t good for them. They didn’t have any more stamina to keep handling waves of monsters. Ak’ka growled, watching the beast circle the skies. She sighed. Tired. “… Alright. I think I can fight this thing if we can get up there, or get it down. Got any bright ideas?” The skeletons ambled around them - Ak'ka grabbed one of them and slammed it into the others, knocking them down. 1. Glacial Wall
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Jul 24, 2023 13:59:42 GMT -5
Javal remarked quickly back to Ak’ka, “Thanks this new sword is a godsend hopefully it’ll be enough to help us defeat this dragon and finally bring down Carmine once and for all. ]
Javal turns to face Ak’ka, “So how do we even manage to hit that thing down much less bring it down? I mean I only have a handful of spells and my lightning spear and it seems that that thing up there won’t even let us get the chance".
Javal was about to cast another drizzle trying to douse out any more flame that the dragon set before he got tackled by Ak’ka to the floor. He was about to shout questioning Ak’ka until he saw the skeletons dropping from the dragon’s breath.
He breathes heavily trying to catch his breath thinking of anything they could do before a sudden idea hits him, “Wait Ak’ka I have any idea this might be a longshot but it's all I can come up with. What if we use the small puddles that my drizzle spell made to teleport on the dragon with the large amounts of water on it? Either that or maybe I could use my hydromancy to spray water on the beast maybe?”
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Post by Ak'ka the Bonegrinder on Jul 24, 2023 17:17:08 GMT -5
A portal, huh? Ak’ka wasn’t sure how good it would work, but she guessed it made sense. Water on the ground… water on the dragon…
She looked at the rest of the skeletons around them, then back to Javal, and shrugged. “Worth a shot.” She figured. With Javal’s permission, she kept her grip on him, searching for the nearest body of water, then dove for the ground with the force of a boulder dropping through the air.[1] Ak’ka squeezed her eyes shut, not wantin’ to see what was happening with the magic, but at one point down became up and up became down and she was all turned ‘round. Ak’ka opened her eyes to the roar of the wind, partially emerged from one of the puddles in the scales on the dragon’s back.
Aw, now they were talking.
Ak’ka hoisted herself and Javal up to the dragon’s back, digging her hands into the scales to keep her footing. The big boy sensed the added weight on its smelly, undead back - at once it turned sharply to throw the two off, but Ak’ka held strong, hoping Javal would be able to hold on okay. “Start slashing at it with yer fancy sword!” She yelled. “Our best bet is to ground it!”
And Ak’ka? She didn’t have any of those fancy weapons, none of those swords that could cut through flesh. But her fists were weapons, and right now, she’d do what she did best. She’d smash shit ‘till it was ground to a bloody pulp, starting with the wings. And she’d rip and tear till the job was done. Ak’ka launched herself at one of the big guy’s wings, holding onto the place where bone met scaled, tender flesh. Better start with the right one then move to the left…
Bone SNAPPED under her hands. It was always a satisfying feeling. 1. Puddle Portal - cast by Javal
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Jul 25, 2023 2:53:39 GMT -5
As the skeletons begin to crowd the adventuring duo Javal plunges his hand into a dirty puddle nearby at first he feels nothing but soon the puddle makes a loud noise and before the two appear a bright dark blue abyss ready for them to enter. He steps aside letting Ak’ka jump in first, keeping guard before jumping in behind her. He felt extreme nausea and was about to hurl since he felt like his stomach was doing flips but was shocked when he realized no it wasn’t his stomach doing flips he was on top of the circling dragon. Soon he felt the ever-familiar hand of Ak’ka help them climb the dragon’s back. Javal smiled realizing it was almost over before his grin was turned upside down as he felt his surface area begin to slip and shake as the dragon grew enraged at its new guests on its back. Javal loses his grip and fails a couple of feet behind Ak’ka but manages to barely hold on stopping himself from falling with only willpower and grip power alone.
Javal nodded at Ak’ka’s orders and started climbing over to the beast’s left wing, the opposite wing that Ak’ka was on.
He drew his sword and started stabbing over and over the surface area of the undead dragon’s wings.
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