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Post by Mariana Eadburg on Jul 31, 2023 9:39:28 GMT -5
Mariana rushed towards the inky black, misshapen humanoid with her halberd spinning defensively and her head tucked low. The creature struck out with its claws twice more as she approached, using the halberd she was able to slice through one arm and deflect the other before planting the halberd's pommel into the wall and using it to shove herself across the room. Using the opening this created she was able to blitz past the creature just out of its reach. As she ran for the hole in the wall the monster's detached hand slithered back to it, leaving a trail of ink on the floor behind it. The thing's hand attached itself once more as it shuttered close behind her in pursuit.
Squeezing through the hole Mariana found herself in a small study of sorts, various sketches and art supplies as well as ledgers and journals were scattered about a large desk amid a handful of bookshelves haphazardly stocked. What stood out most to Mariana was that this room had no exits either... She turned to defend herself in a last stand, having little hope against a creature that could simply reform itself even if she did land a hit. She could only think of a last desperate gamble, trickery...
"Lord Boricelli!! Thank goodness you're here!" She looked over the creature's shoulder, hoping it would calm or at least be distracted by the prospect of its master's return.
The inky monster simply continued to stalk forward with its jaw unhinging and the mouth widening to encompass most of its torso.
"Ahh, well, at least I had a good r-" Her words were cut off as a screeching sound barely pierced the wall to her right.
Octavia! She had made it in time, and this must be an exterior wall!
"Octavia, charge!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, sending the ink monster into a frenzied rush.
Only a moment before the creature reached her one of the bookshelves exploded in a shower of wood and pages as a large Griffon rammed through the wall itself. The creature recoiled, shaken by the new intruder and further damage to its domain. This gave Mariana just enough time to leap atop Octavia's back as the beast continued it's charge. Mariana tucked herself close to Octavia's body as the griffon braced itself, slamming into and through the wall opposite the one it had entered through.
Octavia's wings spread open and the two hovered above what appeared to be a garden in the center of the house. Mariana hugged the griffon tightly around the neck and laughed loudly as her fear of dying faded.
"I owe you so many treats when we're done here! Anything you want, you glorious beast!" She gave Octavia a series of squeezes and kisses as the beast simply squawked back in sutiful tone.
"Wh-wh-what are you three doing!?!?!" A voice shrilly exclaimed from a balcony overlooking the garden.
Edric stood with his mouth agape and his hands ruffling through his hair as terror filled his eyes.
"Th-the study!! Th-the dining room!! Oh gods, oh gods, oh gods!" He stared down at Mariana, Flint, and Javal with a mix of rage and overwhelming nervousness.
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Post by Flint Caldwell on Jul 31, 2023 18:49:32 GMT -5
Flint closed his eyes as he laid on the soft grass of the interior garden, though this peaceful moment is cut short as the sharp pain from the multiple slashes across his body shoot through him. Another type of pain shoots through Flint as he realizes that he might have dislocated his shoulder from the fall into the garden. Flint clenches his jaw and winces as he slowly sat himself, deciding to deal with his shoulder first he ripped a pieces of his cloak off and bundled it together. Then placed it into his mouth to give him something to bite down onto, he then took a deep breath and braced himself. He gripped a hand on his shoulder and counted himself down in his head 3...2...1! Then with a jerk upwards he popped it back into place with a crack. For an instant he let out a pained groan before the relief of being able to feel his arm washed over him. He slowly brought himself to his feet, patting his hands around himself to feel where he was slashed, and seeing that it was nothing lethal he doesn't end up healing himself. Nonetheless it still hurts like hell.
Flint's head whipped to where he heard another thud, still in fight or flight mode he dodged backwards with his hands up. Then even more relief washed over him as he spotted the familiar horns and purple skin of Javal, and he seemed be holding his leg. Assuming he took the fall too he approached and kneel down placing a hand on his injured leg "Damn you look a little beat up, here this'll help." He joked despite looking the more damaged of the two, 1warm purple light transfers from his hand to Javal's leg as he heals the damage. "Also it's good to see a friendly face" he smirked as he helped him up to his feet.
Then his head whipped to where he heard the sound of wings flapping, seeing an airborne griffon above them "Oh shit, a flying monster." he groaned until he recognized the armored individual on its back. "Oh look! Another friendly face. Mariana, are you alright, do you need healin' and where in the hell did you get that?!" He shouted up to her with a hearty laugh. now with all three of them here Flint realized he looks the most beat up, as he has multiple slashes that are staining his shirt red. he shrugs as he's suffered worse so he still is standing by his decision to not heal himself. Then his head shot to the fourth voice even higher up than where Mariana is, "I don't know about them but I was tryin' to survive in this fuckin' house! What have you been doin'?!" He pointed accusingly towards him. "Also get down here you coward!"
"I-I've been trying to look for you three, hoping you all wouldn't have died in here!" he yelled back down as he paced back and forward on the balcony. something about his answer rubbed Flint the wrong way but we had other matters to deal with. "I'll be d-down there in one m-moment" he said he before retreating to a door behind him, then suddenly ending up walking through a door to the right of the group. "Either way we're getting close to the room with my master, hopefully he will forgive you all for the damage that you have caused his house" he motioned for the group to follow him as he started towards a door across the room.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 1, 2023 1:51:27 GMT -5
Javal runs over his legs observing the fall damage he received from his sudden surprise drop-down, nothing too dramatic; his feet just felt tingling. And Javal thinks it over tingling feet never hurt anybody and he jumps back onto his feet stretching his body out after that sudden fight against those puppets and looks around observing his surroundings.
He notices his friend Flint and hears him call out to him he walks over and lets Flint heal him after he asks, “Woah nice to see you too Flint enough about me what about you”, he motions his hands towards Flint’s injuries, “What happened? Where were you sent?”.
Javal looks up after falling to see Mariana safe and riding a griffon he says from earlier, “Hello there Mariana nice to see you not injured it appears this house is trickier and more dangerous than originally thought”.
Javal then turns over to answer Edric’s question, “I am standing up after falling from a door that leads me to the floor of this garden. I must say I found your master’s sense of architecture fascinating. I do wish that I could meet him one day and ask about how he came up with all of this. Don’t worry all of this destruction is in the name of saving your teacher just let us the professionals do our job”.
Javal then follows behind Edric as he leads the group hopefully to the final room of this mad magical ink house.
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Post by Mariana Eadburg on Aug 1, 2023 14:07:27 GMT -5
Edric let out a groaning scream of frustration as he left the balcony and entered the house once more, descending to the rest of the group.
While he made his way downstairs Mariana directed Octavia to a gentle landing near Javal and Flint, she donned her barbute helmet as she landed, realizing the mistake it had been to leave the thing behind in the first place. Flint's question reminded her that she'd never mentioned her most distinguishing feature, being Octavia's rider, to them.
"This is my partner and friend, Octavia, she just saved my life from a wild painting. I much prefer those that remain on their canvas. It seems you two have seen your own share of this Lord Boricelli's art " She made air quotations and shook her head at the word, it seemed a generous label for the murderous things hanging about the walls here.
"I'm glad to see you two are...mostly, unharmed." She added after a moment, with an honest smile.
Edric opened a door on the opposite side of the garden as the balcony he'd disappeared from, pausing for a moment as he realized he was sideways before beckoning them after him.
The stairwell they descended as a group had smooth gray walls and only the candle Edric had produced for lighting. It stretched farther than was sensical up into the house, yet she had a strange feeling they were actually descending all the while.
At the end sat a landing and a white door, little ornamentation adorned it besides an inscription in the common language.
'Silence, Grace, Respect, Honor' Listed plainly as if a set of commandments down the door's center pane.
Inside the room was a spacious, generously lit, simplistically decorated studio. A few empty canvases lined the walls and paint was splattered about the floor and walls. In the center of the room, with mage lights glittering clear pure light upon it, sat the strangest and most lifelike painting she'd ever seen. To call it realism would require calling the real world impressionism, the strokes breathed and flowed, giving each blade of grass and person treading upon it the appearance of life. It was nothing short of a masterpiece, a miracle, a god among paintings that made all others she'd seen appear as child's play.
The scene was avant garde, changing in mood and composition from left to right as it flowed toward a climactic scene in the top right corner. The image took the eye on a journey, from the fields of flower filled grassland on it's left most portion, through a forest of blue and white trees at the center, and finally into a tower of dark reds and black, who's base was lapped at by an emerald sea, tipped with a prominent golden glow. The tower appeared to be under assault by demons riding upon the waves, some fluttered with wings about the tower's surface, other's climbed it's stones, and more could be seen ascending it's stairs through portholes dotting the sides. The golden glow atop the tower, on closer inspection, was a man. He stood, screaming and waving his arms, and stared directly at them.
"By the gods..." She said in a low voice.
This was Lord Boricelli, she was sure of it...
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Post by Flint Caldwell on Aug 1, 2023 22:50:35 GMT -5
"I've already healed Javal and don't worry about me, I've taken worse" he joked as he flashed a thumbs-up towards Mariana. He then clapped a hand onto her shoulder 1as a warm purple light transferred from his hand into her, healing whatever damage was done "and now you're healed too so we're all good for whatever's next" he said as he walked past her and towards the doorway where Edric emerged from. Before fully reaching the door Flint took a moment and let out a frustrated sigh then reached into his bag to light another cigarette, seeing that he had lost the first one somewhere in the dining room. He took a drag of it and mentally prepared himself for what is hopefully the final room of this house of nightmares. Flint eye darted around the stairwell they were descending ... or ascending, Flint couldn't even tell the difference anymore. He didn't think any of the group know what was really happening, but he could tell that is wasn't just him who wanted out the house. He took another puff of smoke and purposly blew it towards Edric, hoping to get some kind of reaction. He snickered as Edric glared back up to him, although feeling a little disappointed that was all he did.
Once the group made their way to the white door at the end Flint had to fight the urge to bust this one down like the front door. He started to question if he had a thing against white doors or doors in general, however that thought was dismissed as they entered the spacious studio. Flint walked closer to the WIP paintings still not fully getting what the artist was going for. That was until he laid eyes on their masterpiece "woah, I think I get it now" he said in amazement placing his hands on his hips to inspect the work. Even with his untrained eye it was clear this was something other-worldly, that wonder soon wore off when he noticed the movement with-in the painting. "oh thank the gods he's still alive somehow, means the likelihood of gettin' a reward for this just doubled" he said with a smirk towards the other two. "well guess all that's left is to drag him out" he then rolled his shoulders, limbering himself up for combat, he then took a running leap towards the painting.
To say the sensation of going into the painting was unexpected would've been an understatement. As it felt like for a split second every cell in Flint's body separated and then reformed as his feet made contact with the painted earth beneath him. He doubled over and took a moment to recuperate himself, he might be reconsidering his decision to not heal himself after that but he shook his head and sprinted towards the tower. 2As he ran his right hand glowed a sharp purple light that quickly elongated into a spear, then like an Olympic thrower he hucked it towards one of the flying creatures "Hey! down here you ugly fucks!" he shouted hoping to take thier attention away from Lord Boricelli.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 2, 2023 0:35:49 GMT -5
Javal chuckled at the young man’s scream of annoyance from seeing the three just blow off his concerns about property damage.
“Ay young one you must calm down stress at a young age is not good for you it stunts your growth at least that’s what my mother says”.
Javal then looks over to see Octavia the griffin and says, “Woah I’ve never seen a griffin before, only heard of them from my old crewmates”.
Javal then answers Mariana’s question, “Yes I fought against three puppet warriors made of some sort of magical ink that tried to ambush me but I froze them in place. I entered a door and fell here”.
Javal follows behind the group acting as a defense if any other hidden trap tries to ambush the group from behind. Although Javal was delighted by his house he couldn’t let his guard down.
Javal’s jaw dropped as he looked over the painting that stood before them he’d seen art pieces before and never really got the appeal why draw when you can fight he thought. However, this painting may very well be the most beautiful thing he had seen in his life. A single tear comes from his right eye which he takes off with his free hand that isn’t holding his katana.
He then notices the Lord of this place and the one that they were here to rescue. He shifts his attitude and looks at the child, “Alright young one, how do we get in there and save your master”?
He then turned to look at Flint already halfway into the painting, "Well then, it appears that is how", he then rans behind Flint and into the painting. Javal sheathed his katana back into his belt and clasped his hands together creating a long water whip (1) and swing it at another one of these flying creaturues dropping to close to the group.
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Post by Mariana Eadburg on Aug 2, 2023 19:10:46 GMT -5
"Oh, they didn't hesitate at all!" Edric seemed stunned, looking quickly between Mariana and the painting.
"Of course they didn't. Unlike you they aren't absolute cowards, though I doubt you'd be alive if you were brave." She gave Edric a sarcastic smile as she lowered into a sprinting stance.
Two new figures now moved on its surface, fighting and moving towards the tower. She wasted no time running forward, halberd at the ready, and jumping into the painting with an excited whoop. Vertigo struck first as her movement shifted from forwards to downwards and her boots struck soil and grass. Javal and Flint had wasted no time attracting attention to themselves and so a small group of the creatures now charged towards them. Mariana rushed to catch up and join a makeshift formation with Javal and Flint, attempting to watch their backs as the two used their ranged abilities on the monsters during their approach. If only Octavia could have made it through the stairwell, they'd have a much better advantage right now if she was able to take the fight to the air.
A movement from the forest's edge sent her reflexes into motion, her halberd left her shoulder and she leveraged her forward momentum to pack power behind a leaping slash. She jumped forward towards Javal's flank just in time to intercept a blood red unicorn, with an actual sword for a horn, hellbent on impaling him. Her halberd's axe head sunk deeply into the creature's neck, causing it to stumble as a pained cry left its mouth. To ensure it was unable to harry them further she span, reaching the axe head out behind her as she continued to move forward and slashed clean through the unicorn's front legs below the knee. As it fell amid splattering blood she turned to face forward again, readying the halberd for further attacks.
"I can't attack anything in the air without Octavia but I've got your backs on the ground!" Mariana shouted to the group
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Post by Flint Caldwell on Aug 2, 2023 22:17:13 GMT -5
As Javal's water whip brought down on of the nearby winged creature, Flint took the opportunity to take a right hook to its head and launched it clean off. Flint let out a hearty laugh as he realized these creatures seemed relatively easy to beat but the problem here was the hoard of them that were descending upon Javal and Flint. As Mariana caught up with them Flint had already launched a few 1light spears into the airborne bat-demon looking things he could never get a good look at them before they bursted into chunks of dark paint. Flint grinned as a stupid idea came to his head and he looked to the other two "hey what do y'all think about this? who ever kills the most of these bastards or gets to the Lord first decides who buys drinks later" he joked as he popped another of the head off of one of the many bipedal wolf-demon thing that was seemed to surround the three.
He then looked over his shoulder to see Mariana absolutely decimate the unicorn from hell and he let out a chuckle "That was sick as hell, keep doin' that and we'll focus on the guys in the sky" He joked as he sends out two more light spears, missing the first one but the second sunk itself right between the eyes of one of the bat-demons. The three slowly fought their way through the hordes of painting creatures, and even with this group only having met less than a couple hours ago they worked around each other like a they had been fighting together for a while. The slow progress towards the tower started to make Flint impatient "Alright we need to speed things up, I'm switching to help with ground control." He said as he cracked his 2knuckles as his hands lit up a burning purple. Flint did was he does best, smash his way through seemingly unmovable things, as he started throwing punch after punch after punch. With his wild strikes he was able to start to clear a more straightforward path towards the tower and it felt like he was parting a sea of painted monstrosities.
Like the freight train that Flint was he pressed forward and eventually was able to break through the line of creatures. Then to his delight the only thing that kept the group away from the inside of the tower was just a simple, white, wooden door. Flint's grin grew almost manic as he made a mad dash towards it his fists still burning with divine light and just the door to the entrance to the house he splintered it with three haymakers this time. He then turned around to motion everyone inside "Alright it's clear to com-" his sentence was cut short as he was launched into an adjacent wall. Flint looked up from his crumpled position to see the biggest beast he's seen yet, a large minotaur with two heads and four arms, this thing seemed to be the final guardian of the Lord. Flint then helped himself up and took a boxers stance to prepare for a fight with this thing.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 3, 2023 2:26:34 GMT -5
Javal quickly separated his two hands apart and charged cold magical energy in his right hand that was not holding his katana and suddenly threw a large ice spear (1) hitting one of the flying creatures directly through the mouth and dropping it down to the floor.
As he turned back to hear what the loud ax crash was about he saw Mariana just slay a strange blade-horned Unicorn that was only a couple feet away from him.
“Thanks, Mariana I owe you now”, and he turned to handle the rest of the flying monstrosities that surrounded the trio.
Javal then sheathed his katana into his waist and took a strange lightning-looking spear and chucked it alongside the ice spikes he was creating with his other arm.
Overall Javal smiled, covered in strange ink that he assumed was the monster’s blood he was able to take down twelve of these flying menaces and it seemed that the group had managed to beat these guys into submission.
Javal swipes the ink from himself and looks over to Flint and Mariana, “Ay friend Flint and Mariana how many did you kill?”, he was hoping he was the victor of their fun contest.
Javal happily hummed along as the group progressed up the tower and was about to run behind Flint only to see him get launched behind him.
He touched the tattoo on his abdomen summoning an extra pair of arms (2) sprouting from his torso and touched the dragon tattoo (2) on the right side of his chest feeling his body increased in power and charged at the beast.
He unsheathed his katana and lightning spear wielding them in either bottom arm as the top two were ready to block any incoming blows.
He jumped into the air and slashed the beast in both shoulders only to receive a quick punch to the top of his body with him trying to block it with his upper arms. Javal was trying to hold on with his strength but the beast was strong and was trying to push Javal into the floor.
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Post by Mariana Eadburg on Aug 3, 2023 10:27:06 GMT -5
"You bet, it may even be fair at the moment since Octavia isn't here!" Mariana responded to Flint's challenge of seeing who could kill the most of the painted monsters.
With Flint helping out on the ground they made quick progress, cleaving a path of oily multicolored gore along the way to the tower. It seemed the creatures bled out in the color they'd been painted. Every color of the rainbow trailed behind them in splatters alongside corpses of the same colors lining the path. According to her count, competitiveness required it despite the dire situation, they were all nearly equal so far though she'd likely missed some of the ranged kills.
A group of macabre lovers, men and women painted together in kisses and embraces while simultaneously stabbing one another with knives, sprinted towards her and her companions in a mob. Their legs, despite the odd entanglement of each couple, managed to move quickly towards her. Mariana broke from their formation slightly and started to spin with her steps to gain momentum. With a primal scream she loosed a series of gargantuan cleaves that split bodies and couples alike. She moved through them like a scythe through a field, coming out the other side of the group with every color of paint soaking her weapon and clothing.
"I think that puts me ahead!" She yelled amid adrenaline fueled laughter.
The moment she finished bragging Flint and Javal each scored their own kills, bringing the tally close once more. She could get used to traveling with such competent fighters, it made combat much more exciting. They finally reached the tower and Mariana was about to sprint through the now destroyed door as a minotaur punted Flint away. She slowed herself and thought tactically about her next steps. Javal on the other hand leapt into action and engaged the beast, two powerful slashes and an extra set of arms of his own evened the clash but the minotaur seemed to be overpowering him. Mariana decided to try and weaken the beast while it was distracted. If they couldn't move past it the monsters closing in behind would overwhelm them.
She hefted her halberd and sprinted behind the beast while it pressed down on Javal. She put everything she had into a powerful swing aimed at the beast's right ankle, splitting the tough hide and splattering paint across the floor as the beast fell to one knee with a bellowing roar. One of the two heads turned and focused on her as an arm released Javal and swatted Mariana like a gnat. The impact flung her deeper into the tower, slamming her into a wall. Her helmet gave a resounding gong as her body hit the wall, her hair and the padding beneath it displaced the force enough to keep her conscious.
She rose on trembling legs, fighting through the pain of several broken ribs, in time to deflect a spear thrusted at her by a large knight descending the steps that lead up through the tower. His helmet was cylindrical, made up of 4 masks that rotated in and out of place with various expressions upon them. Mariana took up a defensive stance and worked to hold him back so her companions could fight the minotaur without his interference.
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Post by Flint Caldwell on Aug 7, 2023 22:26:45 GMT -5
As Javal and Mariana sprung into action Flint could feel himself slipping in and out of consciousness as he stumbled forward a little bit. He grinned and started to laugh as he wasn't worried, he was in a state he liked to call a "fighter's high" and where he consider his peak performance. His body moved on instinct as Mariana slashed the beast's ankle bringing it to one knee. he eyed his other leg seeing the best way to assist Javal in his struggle is to just demolish that one remaining knee, he took a dead sprint towards it and with a jump he does a full body drop kick. As his boots made contact with the beast's knee a loud sickening crunch echoed through the lower levels of the tower as it's shattered into tiny pieces. Then to continue his assault he rotated his body midair and sent a 1fiery fist right into the minotaur's abdomen, leaving a searing imprint as it bellows a cry of pain. However before he can hit the ground one of the two heads spots him and not unlike Mariana earlier he is swatted away by one of it's four muscly arms "Javal you've got it from here" he shouted as he flew further.
As Flint skidded to a stop on the tiled tower floor, he felt something metal touch his shoulder and looking up he recognized the armored figure in front of him. He slowly brought himself to his feet, he stood almost as shaky as her as he swayed back and forth. He let out a laugh as he eyed the living armor and the glanced over to Mariana "wellll fancy meetin' you here" he sounded a little unhinged from all of the damage but he still pushed forward, but he clapped a 2hand onto her shoulder as a warm purple light transfers into her. "Now you're at peak performance, like me" he said with a small laugh. "so which ever of us will take this bastard down will get the point right?" he asked gesturing towards the knight as one of it's face plates switched to a pissed expression and swung down upon them. Flint still moving on instinct kicked off the wall he was standing by to dodge and retaliate with a swift punch to the knight's plated head, letting out a deep gong with the impact.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 8, 2023 3:29:03 GMT -5
Javal smiled as Mariana swung at the beast’s ankle and allowed him to slip out of the beast’s hold. He rolls out of the beast’s hands and begins slashing at the beast’s already injured ankle trying to capitalize on Mariana’s attack.
The beast roars as it gets hit in both knees by Flint and Javal at the same time, Javal then jumps back facing the raging beast in the eyes. He smiles seeing Flint and Mariana hold off the knight and allow him to take the beast down.
He holds out his sword pointing it at the beast and lets out a large sigh suddenly his body changes and smoke begins coming out from his mouth. His sclera turns black and eye turns yellow and red markings appear under his eyes, he has entered his kill drive (1) state to defeat the beast.
He then charges at the beast with his katana and sends out a large and powerful (2) sword swing without holding back.
The creature roars back as its upper and lower body becomes severed and falls to the floor. The creature's ink begins to wash across the floor and Javal charges towards the knight trying to finish this battle at once.
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Post by Mariana Eadburg on Aug 10, 2023 13:43:06 GMT -5
Mariana stood near Flint as he stood shakily and deflected a blow from the knight away from her downed companion. As he rose she turned to him with a smile despite the pain, sweat dripping down from her brow and her breath ragged.
"It's a wonderful place isn't it. Come here often?" She retorted when Flint rolled next to her, blocking an attack from the knight aimed at him mid sentence.
As his hand pressed onto her and the healing magic restored her to full function she gave him a glance of pure surprise.
"Peak performance my ass! You needed that as much as I did, this points a shared one!" She laughed along with him, pushing forward now that her ribs no longer ached with every movement.
As Flint leapt up and landed a hard punch to the knights helm a roar echoed from behind them from the minotaur. Mariana glanced back to see it's body slide into two pieces and Javal standing with a fierce look at it's back.
These two definitely don't mess around, mercenaries were a tough breed but nothing even close to these adventurers. She'd moved into the big leagues for certain now.
Stepping forward to take advantage of the opening made by Flint's punch Mariana turned the halberd to make use of the spiked blade opposite the axe head. Feigning a blow to the knight's stomach she dropped the spike down to his calf, slamming the spike in at full force. A resounding crunch followed as the knight stumbled back and fell to one knee as the leg gave out. Allowing the halberd's momentum to carry it forward she hefted it high in the air and slammed the spike home once more, this time deep into the knight's collar bone. A spurt of paint splattered onto the stairs and the knight fell limp. Mariana had to jump the corpse as it rattled down the rest of the stairs.
"Let's keep moving, just a little more to go." She yelled, hoping they could make it the top and find some way out before the flood of monsters could overwhelm them.
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Post by Flint Caldwell on Aug 11, 2023 15:48:57 GMT -5
As flint dodged around the halberd and watched Javal and Mariana expertly dispatch the paint monstrosities. He could feel himself starting to get used to fighting with others, and possibly starting to see his lone wanderer day becoming a thing of the past. He then quickly tried to dismiss that thought, was the damage really starting to get to him to make him think that? He shook his head to clear his thoughts, he'll have to time to think about it later. As of right now he had to keep his head in the game as the knight's body rolled down the stairs towards him. "Right behind you." Flint retorted as he delivered a swift kick to the knight's body, sending it rocketing down the stairs. Each bounce with the steps let out a gong or clang of differing tone, making it almost sound like music with impact. "Eyes up Javal!" Flint shouted down as the the metallic mass of armor crashed past him and crushed some of the horde of monsters with a pop of paint as they were making their way into the tower. "I meant to do that." he joked as he started to make his way up the stairs a little bit behind Mariana using the wall as support to keep himself up. As the two rushed up the stairs as fast as they could, the sound of the horde breaching the entrance rang through the tower. Flint didn't dare look behind him, they were so close to getting the lord he didn't want to risk losing the momentum that the group was carrying. As they reach the very top of the spiraling stairs, Flint grinned as the only thing keeping the group between their final goal was a simple, white, wooden door. Flint didn't even bother lighting up his fists as he dropped his shoulder and crashed into it, setting it off the hinges and flying into the opposite wall of the room.
The room was just as about as extravagant as the other rooms in the house but flint didn't take any of it in, he was laser focused on the portly balding man dressed in a fine blue robe and a painters apron tightly fitted over it. he rose to his feet with a pained groan and rushed to the group. "Oh thank the gods, my saviors have arrived. Edric finally did something right for once. Please get me out of here at once!"
Flint crossed his arms and smirked "First let's talk payme-" he was cut off as the lord grabbed onto Flint's bloodied shirt and pleaded "Please! I'll give you anything just get me out of here!" He then looked between his companions, shrugged, then looked over his shoulder to see the horde making their way up the stairs. "I've got an idea y'all, follow me!" He said before throwing the lord onto his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and dead sprinted to the opposite window. He leapt through it as his 1free hand glowed a radiant purple light that extended to the size of a dagger. As he freefell for about 10 feet feeling the wind rush past him, he then stabbed the light dagger into the outside wall of the tower to try and slow his descent towards the ground.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 12, 2023 1:41:56 GMT -5
Javal rampaged throughout the battlefield brutally and efficiently disposing of nearby monsters every sword slash was calculated and fast, a large difference from his normal style of fighting.
Javal stood as Mariana and Flint finished off the strong knight trying to calm himself from his killdrive state. He breathed in and out focusing on positive thoughts like small animals in a field and his beloved sandwich and its memory. This shook him out of his state and thankfully so since if he hadn’t he’d be forced against his will to fight against his new friends. As he opened his eyes to observe his surroundings he noticed a large crashing suit of armor falling a few inches from him and hitting a large group of monsters. He jogged behind the two as they continued through the castle keeping the rear guarded in case of any more surprise attacks and or ambushes.
He walked up the stairs backward, slashing and kicking down any incoming monsters. This effort was exhausting for Javal but he grits his teeth pushing through and making sure the group could make it through without worry. As Javal entered through the doorway formally the door was scattered around the floor due to Flint’s punch.
He slowly and cautiously approaches the artistic-looking fellow and says, “Sir are you alright?”.
Before he could get a reply Flint suddenly states he has an idea and jumps out the window with their mission target.
He smiles following behind his friend and yelling, “Huzzah we are finally reaching the conclusion of this dreaded castle”.
He then leaps through the window then as he falls through the air he taps his sandals and suddenly they turn into boots with a nature design. He then is suddenly attached to the wall by the bottom of his feet and simply runs down the wall as if he was running on the ground until he made it close to the floor.
He then jumps off the wall and taps his sandals, returning them to normal; he then laughs and says, “That was fun and a good idea, Flint”.
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