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Post by Javal Zarrias on Jul 5, 2023 0:18:16 GMT -5
Javal had just arrived in Darkveil city after being sent a message via owl-delivered mail. It was a letter that read, “To whom this may be addressed we at the Darkveil City Society of High Art are seeking help from any powerful and intelligent adventurers to help us in a matter of great importance. One of our most popular and gifted artists, Jean-paul Vaugh Marick, has created one of the most beautiful and impressive works of art. After drawing this painting of a wonderful forest setting alongside animals and plants, he thought of a genius idea. He figured out a way to magically enhance the painting g in order to let the viewer enter the beautiful world inside. However, although Sir Jean-Paul may be a prodigy and genius in the fine arts he was not gifted with magical abilities so although the interactive painting worked at first once he himself and two fellow artist friends entered the spell shut off and trapped them inside please help at once travelers to save this generation of Charon’s greatest painters”.
He arrived at the town square looking for the person who addressed the letter; the town square was filled with artists and paintings. It wasn’t until he found a group of artists crying over painting and wishing the artist was a better mage that Javal found what he was looking for.
“Hello there my name is Javal Zarrias, I would like to attempt to save this Jean-Paul fellow from his self-made prison”.
One of the weeping artists, a large goliath man with painter's clothes on approaches Javal and says, “Hello there good sir yes it appears my letter worked, I am Jean-Paul’s assistant and student, Pierre Kiltharts please help us save Jean-Paul,”.
“I will try my best," Javal says smiling brightly.
Pierre sniffles and says, “I can open the portal to the painting for only an hour with the help of all the artists here. You are to rescue Jean-Paul and his two other fellow artists from the painting. It is filled with dangerous beasts and dangerous plants that Jean-Paul himself drew”.
Javal nods to Pierre and then opens the portal with great effort using all nearby painters' magical abilities to reopen the portal into the painting.
Pierre yells, “Any other adventurers feel free to join in this rescue mission” and Javal jumps into the portal ready to save the painters from danger and bring them back".
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Post by Ai Sool on Jul 8, 2023 22:11:49 GMT -5
Freedom has never felt so good. After a rough stowaway trip, the half-dragon had finally landed... well, definitely somewhere as far as she was aware. From her home in the sands to the chaotic time with Adam in the golden city, wherever she landed was quite different from the places she was last. Ai spent a majority of her time exploring this new city, most of said time with her head buried in the map she "borrowed" as she tried to decipher where exactly she ended up.
The overall mood of the city she was in appeared to be on the distraught side. The chatter of the streets held mention something of paints and magic. Ai's interest was piqued as she approached a random couple discussing over the said subject. "Ah, 'scuse me. What's this talk of paints and the like? Someone drop a pretty picture?" The couple in question were a pair of halflings. One in a rugged blacksmithing outfit with the signature apron and greasy looks, though keeping a prideful stature. The other held the appearance of a high end job: A regal suit with gold accents and golden jewelry to boot. Ai had to hold a back a snicker or two at the sight of a monocle. The two stared at the woman in front of them, surprised to see a rare creature like it was nothing. The blacksmith was the first to answer. "Uh, watch it lass. City's lost a great man recently. 'Er, not quite lost in the sense of death. More so in a literal sense." "Oh sorry, was just curious. You happen to know how?" "Best if you saws it yourself. Wouldn't believed me even if I told ya's. Head to town square if you're interested." She nodded and waved goodbye before heading out to the designated location. As best as she could at least for an outsider.
A good deal of trekking and questioning others for directions later, Ai arrived to some sort of crowd with people that looked like artists. There were a few weeps crying out among them followed by a discussion. She scooted through the crowd, wanting to get a better look and hear of what was going on before a voice called out within.
“Any other adventurers feel free to join in this rescue mission.” She raised her hand, jumping to be seen. Pierre points towards Ai, the crowd now parting to let her through. "Yo, I'm down. Wha-" Before she could ask what was the problem, she spotted a certain fellblood jumping into a portal. Never having seen this before, her excitement peaked. "Woah! How'd he do that?! Is that what I'm joining?! I'm so in!" "Ah, thank you my dear. Please enter quick." Without any further questions or hesitation, she sprinted with a jumping leap into the portal.
The feeling was weird, being transported via magic was not at all what Ai expected for her day to go. By the time she found herself on the other side, she immediately regretted going full speed into the portal as she crashed into someone's back.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Jul 9, 2023 1:50:01 GMT -5
Javal appeared on the other side of the portal painting and he stood in the middle of a strange and giant forest. He stretched a little bit and looked around to catch his bearings, the environment that the genius painter had painted was a wild and lush jungle-like tropical forest. He was about to sprint away to start the search for the missing painter before he suddenly felt somebody crash into his back knocking him down on his feet.
He quickly gets up a bit uneasy, fearing that he was already caught by the forest’s dangerous creatures before seeing that the figure that had crashed into him seemed like a fellow adventurer. He quickly gets back up and stands up straight and bows deeply towards the newcomer.
“Hello there I’m assuming you're a fellow adventurer here to rescue the missing painter so am I. My name is Javal Zarrias, President of the Drakon Security Company, former Dragon Prince of the Black Dragon Pirates, and pupil of Sir Ronrik Emeraldcutter. Would you like to be my friend"?
Aftering hearing Ai’s response Javal turns to look at the forest around them he then asks, “Hey Ai do you have any tracking abilities or something to be able to find this genius”?
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Post by Ai Sool on Jul 10, 2023 0:36:20 GMT -5
The half-dragon rubbed their temple, getting up slowly off the floor. "Ah, gods, sorry about that. Probably shouldn't have jumped in head fi-" As she looked up at the poor soul who took a headbutt from her, she reeled back a bit, surprised at the appearance of the new person in front of her. She had never seen someone's skin tone in such a color, much less one as nice looking as he was. Ai stood up a little awkwardly as Javal bowed and give his introductions. "Um, Ai Sool. Just Ai is fine. Not really uh, super special or anything. I don't mind being friends." She joined him in gazing over the tropical forest. The view was quite pretty, the sky seemingly in a permanent dusk orange which contrasted the vibrant green flora surrounding them. Many different flowers and fruits spotted the greenery.
Something amongst it all caught her eye. Leading from where they were to deeper into the forest, subtly apparent destruction one would cause by cutting through the shrubbery. It wasn't quite obvious as to what could've done it but it was a start. She pointed it out to Javal. "Don't got any tracking stuff but that looks like something. Lets try there first." Without any further hesitation, she led the way, following the trail.
A good deal of trekking gave Ai time to adjust to the new situation and new friend, prompting her to start the rousing tradition of getting to know someone. "Sooooo, you're a president, a former prince, and uh-" She eyed the sheathed sword. "A swordsman? That sounds like a lot. Bet you know plenty about Charon right?" As she threw out the questions to the fellblood, an unnerving feeling took over. There was something odd. A fantastical forest supposedly created from a painter and yet... she has yet to spot nor near any sort of creature. Despite this, there was a clear distinction of eyes being on the two. She couldn't quite place it but... she took note, opting to open her empty bag slightly in preparation just in case.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Jul 10, 2023 23:41:13 GMT -5
Javal nodded in agreement to Ai’s suggestion to follow a path with signs of destruction, he followed behind Ai cautiously keeping his right hand on his waist ready to pull out his signature katana in case they were attacked.
Javal tried his best to keep his senses sharp while still conversing with his new friend AI.
“Yes and also no”, Javal answers Ai’s question, “I have traveled all across the land and sea and seen many things in my 21 years of life. However just because you’ve seen a lot doesn’t mean you know a lot but I know a couple of things to put it simply. Why the question? Is there anything you’d like to know? I'd try to answer to the best of my knowledge”.
After hearing Ai’s response Javal suddenly hears a loud booming roar coming rushing from behind them. He pulls out his sword and clashes against the mysterious figure revealing itself to be a giant lion. The lion runs back into the forest only to remerge, crashing at the two adventurers and Javal jumps in the way, clashing against the lion matching his strength with his sword against its teeth (1).
“I’ll hold this lion in position Ai if you have any magic or weapons you can use on it now would be the time I might not be able to hold it for much longer”.
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Post by Ai Sool on Jul 17, 2023 22:12:11 GMT -5
Ai laughed a little awkwardly. The answer to his question was a bit loaded and held some personal information. Even still, she could just word it a little differently. "Well, I haven't been able to go out very much. This is actually the second new place I've been. I'm pretty curious about the outsi- er, Charon in general."
As the two continued, that overwhelming feeling of being watched was becoming over more prevalent followed by the oncoming rustling of forestry. 1In defensive reaction, Ai held a palm over her empty bag as it filled completely with water. Getting into a warding stance, she crouched a little as the deafening roar echoed across the jungle and the giant lion made its attack.
The leap caught her off guard even with her preparation as she let out a small scream before Javal clashed with it. As the two contested in a show of strength, Ai heeded the words of the fellblood and took action. 2Clapping her hands together, a small sphere of water formed in between before quickly coating them. She flicks both towards the giant lion as the water now stretches from her palms and whips the face of the creature. Instead of leaving bloody gashes, however, the wounds where the water whips struck made seamless cuts into the monster. In fact, flicks of liquid that were a remarkable brownish yellow that matched the coat of the lion flew off the face where it was hit. Ai took questioning intrigue in this. Is it not living?
The lion, like a stubborn dog, kept its toothy grip on Javal's weapon despite receiving blows to the face. 3Opting for a different stratagem, Ai bent her fingers as the water whip left her palms and encircled the head of the lion. Reaching behind her, she made a lifting motion as the spawned building block of life seemingly flew from her bag. With a light wave of a finger, the water flung itself to the lion, the water that spun around it now closing it as a sphere covered the entirety of the maw. She held her hands close together, as if forcing the water to stay densely compact around the lion's mouth as it now writhed from its sudden inability to breathe. It finally let go of the katana, now batting at the magical chokehold with its paws. "Now's your chance!"
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Jul 18, 2023 12:37:15 GMT -5
Javal slowly was pushing back the tremendous lion he had to give the Jean-Paul fellow some credit. This lion was extremely realistic looking even his lion breath smelled atrocious.
“Good job Ai”, Javal says as he saw her perform a water whip attack he was a water mage and was always delighted to meet fellow sea domain spellcasters.
Javal held his blade between the lion’s teeth holding it with his right hand as he tried to push him off of his blade with his left. He needed his blade to end this battle quickly before any more beasts within the forest heard the commotion and attacked them.
He was completely impressed by Ai’s creativity and magic ability he yells over to her as she allowed him to attack, “Thanks Ai now leave the rest to me” he steadies himself feeling his celestial patron Uriel’s power flow through him (1), he then slashes diagonally at the wide open beast's chest with the whole power of his glowing blue blade (2).
The lion stumbles a bit before falling to the floor with a thud left with a huge dark yellow and red mark on its chest due to Javal’s water rune.
Javal stands over it with a smile on his face, “Alright let’s continue forward but stay vigilant”.
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Post by Ai Sool on Jul 29, 2023 11:57:33 GMT -5
Ai approached the felled creature with caution. She looked it over, placing a hand on the body. Despite this place being an unstable creation of magic, this lion felt real. From the soft coat and warmth of a living being, Ai wouldn't be able to tell if this creature was merely a painter's design. However, there was a stark contrast to the genuine thing: The lion didn't bleed per say, rather it appeared to almost melt where it was cut. The wound was losing its solidity as, seeping into the dirt, brownish yellow paint. "Hm... looks like these things are fakes. Not sure how someone could make all this by themselves but whoever did must be pretty powerful. That or they used something they shouldn't have." Rising back up, she continues to follow Javal on their journey to find where Jean-Paul went.
"So, you've been a lot of things in 21 years. How'd that all happen?" Being that Ai has only now been able to do things, her curiosity was high. After his response, she would follow up with "Have you seen other people like me? Like, half dragons. Namely, have you seen anyone who looks like a taller, more mature version of me? My uh, mother is looking for me."
Some time passes with very little change. Nothing had approached the two yet thankfully but as they continued, the tree line broke into a clearing that revealed some sort of destitute ruins. It was a simple, broken down stone structure dressed in forestry and overgrown plantation. The area didn't seem remarkable but still, wouldn't hurt to check. The half dragon sauntered up to the building. "Maybe they cooped up in here. Looks safe enough." Unbeknownst to Ai, vines silently pushed out of the dirt behind her, rising as flytrap mouths formed. It loomed over her as she continued to walk.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Jul 31, 2023 1:41:14 GMT -5
Javal kneeled over the melting slayed lion on the ground and bowed before its body, holding his hands in the air.
He then gets up and salutes the creature giving it some respect for their battle although it was artificial.
Javal then says as he counts to lead the two of them forward, “Yes, it appears that whatever means that this Jean-Paul fellow used to concoct his painting that it was too powerful for his good".
Javal stays vigilant as he answers Ai’s questions, “Well I was born alongside four other siblings to two adventurers, a human and a fellblood that settled down to run a tavern. I trained with the greatest swordsman of Thorock and my father went missing when I was young. I was lucky to meet with a good man named Wilford Wyther who let me join his pirate crew. From then on I traveled around the seas exploring the world of Charon from far and wide".
Javal stops and scratches his head to think about Ai’s follow-up question, “Hm, well I do know one, he’s my sworn brother Torin he’s an intense traveling bard fellow. As for seeing anybody that looks like you, I don’t believe I have. If you want young Ai I can try to help you look for her. When was the last time you saw her or your father for that matter? How long have you been alone, young one”.
Javal cautiously approaches the ruins holding his katana out unsheathed ready to strike if any danger presented itself.
Javal tried stopping Ai as she carelessly passed by but she was too distracted by their end goal in sight.
He jumps in front of her and pushes her away from the two forming Venus fly traps; he is barely able to hold the mouths from biting down on him with his katana and his strength (1).
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Post by Ai Sool on Aug 14, 2023 14:03:10 GMT -5
The sudden push knocked her to the ground as she looked up at the giant flytraps biting down on their companion's blade. "Javal!" 1Ai quickly responded with bringing out her water whip and forcing around each of the stems of plant monsters. Tugging with all her might, she yanked the two closer to her and the ground. Focusing the water whip around her a single hand, she reached behind herself with the other and pulled out... an umbrella?
She held it over her head as if meaning to stab the plant, pressing some sort of hidden button on it as a sharp point springs out the tip of the umbrella. She stabs at both of the stems, holding the creatures in place and now gripping her weapon with both hands. It thrashed, struggling to break free as the earth appeared to tremble. Breaking free from the crust of the earth, what appeared to be even more plant-like monstrosities: Carnivorous flowers with oddly grown teeth around the bulb, more giant flytraps, and appeared to be a human shaped mossy figure.
Ai jumped away from the newcomers, unfortunately having to unpin the flytraps as she leapt towards the ruined building. "E-excuse me, are you here to save us?" A voice called from behind a rotted wooden door. "Huh?! Um, sure I guess if you're stuck here too. Just stay inside until we deal with these things." She looked towards the half fellblood. "Javal! I think I found one of the guys we were looking for!" As she said that, a thorny vine swatted at her, threatening to damage her face. Barely noticing this, she aimed her umbrella at it and clicked another button on her weapon. The umbrella unfurled and opened up, acting as a small shield as it took the blow of the whip, sending her back momentarily into the door.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 15, 2023 0:57:33 GMT -5
Javal smiles slightly at Ai as she calls out for him as he continues fighting to keep his sword and his body between the two flytraps trying to slam their mouths shut trapping him in.
He then shouts over to Ai trying not to show how difficult it is proving to hold his position, “It’s okay Ai, I trust you can figure something out”.
He is then quickly impressed to see her use that water whip ability of her’s again causing the flytraps to stop their attempt to eat him and get pulled towards Ai leaving him free to fight them now. He is amazed at Ai’s movements and surprised appearance of some sort of strange umbrella blade but his guard goes all the way up as suddenly a large group of fly traps surrounds the two all seeming to have their attention on Ai.
His face becomes more serious especially when he hears Ai speak to another faint voice he pushes through his shock especially now that he says Ai gets attacked.
“Don’t worry I shall finish this quickly”, he shouts before closing his eyes and suddenly coating his blade with his other chilling hand (1). He then says, “Theseus, let’s finish this quickly”, and slashes (2) every flytrap around him vertically cutting most of them from their stems in a single slash leaving only two who were too far from his reach.
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Post by Ai Sool on Aug 27, 2023 23:46:59 GMT -5
"Ugh, can't believe I'm saying this but I'm starting to hate plants." The half-dragon pulls herself from the door, coughing heavily from the sudden strike. She looked over at Javal, worried about how he was faring. Though that worry soon washed over as she watched him cut down the ones around in a single swing. "Woah... I can see that training with a master paying off."
She turned back to face her opponent who was readying their next attack. "Alright, lets wash the paint off this canvas." 1Ai flourished her umbrella, keeping it open while forming a water whip in her other hand. 2She let out a cold breath, the mist visible as the bottoms of her desert sandals began to coat in ice. With a quick inhale, Ai began skating forward towards the flytraps. Long vines erupted from the ground next to them as a handful launched at her. "Outta my way!" She swung her umbrella as the vines clashed against it. This time, however, Ai planned her defense differently. Rather than full on blocking the attack, the open umbrella batted the weaponized plant-life away. Quickly, she retaliated with her water whip as she shot her hand out, lethal hydration following through. It struck true as the stalk of one of the flytraps received a laceration. She continued this song and dance as she skated forward towards it, parrying each blow with a swing and a spin as well as sending one of her own back at it. Before the monster knew, Ai had already closed the distance. Closing her umbrella, she slashed with the tip of her blade through the already given cuts. The flytrap fell, dissolving to a paint that matched its colors.
The final carnivorous lurched over the half-dragon as it swooped down to take a bite. Ai pulled her weapon close to her before thrusting it forth into the mouth of the beast. However, it refused to yield as it pushed against her umbrella blade, forcing her to crouch from the weight.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 28, 2023 3:47:55 GMT -5
“It does in many ways, thank you for noticing”, Javal manages to shout as he hears Ai’s faint voice over the snarling and smacking Flytraps.
He was completely impressed and felt almost a sense of pride from seeing the young ones handle themselves so well in combat it almost reminded him of those days he was a young apprentice pirate and running from cannon fire and other attacking pirates”.
He was about to step in but he saw that she quickly defeated it. He was about to cheer and high-five here but saw the last Venus fly trap attacking Ai pushing her into the defensive position.
He grits his teeth and says, “Don’t worry friend Ai I gotcha”, he runs and tackles the flytrap to the floor grabbing it by the teeth and hurting his hands but he pushes forward as he throws it into the air and charges some cold energy (1) into his right hand and throw it into the flytrap’s open mouth as it fell to the floor.
It perched over and dissipated leaving a green paint-like substance to fall on the two adventurers, Javal then looked around and said that the rest of the flytraps had turned into green paint on the floor.
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Post by Ai Sool on Sept 3, 2023 13:19:35 GMT -5
Ai sat down on the ground with a loud sigh of relief. "Gods that was awful." As she spoke, the door of the ruins creaked open, a male drow walking out in a messy painter's garb. "I-is it safe? Are they gone?" She turned to the guy, giving a thumbs up. "All clear. Now, you wouldn't happen to know where the rest of your friends are would ya?" "No, they got pulled deeper into the jungle. We split up after running away from these things. I lost track of the two after cooping up in that building. Though, I could hear yells coming from that way." He pointed out to a direction in the forest, a looming stone tower in the distance. Ai looked excited. This was near-exactly like the books she read. "We'll take care of it mister... uh..." "Olsen. Olsen Marick." The half-dragon stands back up, flicking the paint off her umbrella. "Right. We'll go save the rest. Honestly, it'd be safer for you if you stayed in that building. We'll go pick you up after we rescue the other painters."
She sheathed her umbrella, placing it onto a hilt over her back. "Cmon, Javal. Times running out." Ai began walking in the direction the dark elf pointed to. Olsen looked to Javal before he left. "Be wary. I was certain I heard loud footsteps and trees falling. I'm not quite sure whats in here but for something sounding that big, it must be dangerous. Oh and thank you for coming to our aid."
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 3, 2023 23:58:01 GMT -5
Javal lets out a large sigh of relief as he walks around the green liquid-filled area stretching out his arms and legs after such a tough workout from the battle.
He responds to Ai’s comment, “I would agree with you on that one Ai, that sure was a tough encounter, makes me wonder what type of crazy minds would make such a strange part of this painting”, he then glances over at the drow follow as he slowly opens the door.
Javal lets out a big sigh of relief and stands around stretching his arms and legs after such a hard workout from the battle.
“I would agree with you on that Ai, That sure was tough what type of mind would make such a thing”, he looks over to the drow behind the door.
Javal went on the alert as the drow fellow informed them of where his friends went.
He waved at the man and said, “Well then Olsen Marino stayed in this rusty building and my friend here got this. We will bring you and your friends back into the real world, you have my word".
Javal listened to the man’s warning and remarked, “Will check that out, and no problem, that's what us heroes do to save the people who need saving”.
Javal nodded at Ai's request to hurry up and said, “Yes I agree let’s hurry”, he then touched breaks out into a sprint heading straight toward the forest.
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