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Post by Leandros Aurthurian on Sept 3, 2023 17:51:28 GMT -5
The fellblood would suddenly see an ethereal lion surround him, the purple mist splashing off of it and keeping Javal safe. Leandros would spin his halberd to block out the spray. With the threat covered, Leandros hoped that his partner would continue the follow through and eliminate the beast.
Tension remains in his shoulders for a moment before he relaxes seeing the beast finally taken care off. Alone that would be a tough fight, but it was relatively simple between the two warriors. Still....something or someone brought that thing here and whatever did was a significant threat.
"Good work...I told you without spells was the only way I was able to beat you." Leandros smiles and chuckles softly. "One day we can have a battle with spells and see what happens, but for now....let's be careful....well more careful than we have been."
Looking around the room, there wasn't much left to it. The beast seems to have made it into its lair, but everything else has been picked clean. He glanced around once more, peeking out into the hallway, before looking up after hearing the sounds of scuttling.
"Well...seems like whatever is on the next floor has already heard us....Ready?"
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 4, 2023 12:45:05 GMT -5
Javal braces himself with his arms across his chest expecting to feel the brunt of the Choldrith’s attack but he finds nothing happens.
He looks up and suddenly sees a weird ethereal lion around him as the wounds just bounce off of him.
“Woah, what is this?”, he exclaims looking at the lion confused about what just happened.
Javal then turns to face Leandros and says, “Thank you Leandros although I am limited by our space here so once again I’m limited in my ability to adapt".
His eyes then are filled with excitement at Lee’s remark, “I am very excited for that day whenever it happens, I’ve gotten a lot stronger than I was last time. And yes we have to be careful. I'm sure that Choldrith isn’t the nastiest thing in this spire. No wonder it was here though this place is so ruined perhaps it was just looking for a home”.
Javal nodded at Leandros and said, “Ready”, before suddenly hearing a loud wailing and screaming above them.
His eyes shot out and he sprinted to the nearest stairs panicked at the thought that someone could be in danger.
He slowed down as he entered the floor not seeing anybody, just countless caskets on the floor, “Hello there is anybody there? I’m here to help”, suddenly The crying noise turned to laughing as the caskets started shaking and glowing.
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Post by Leandros Aurthurian on Sept 6, 2023 21:43:57 GMT -5
Slowly the pair would clear this second floor, careful to look after every single door even if it was broken down. For Leandros, seeing how rundown and decrepit this tower was left a small bruise on his heart. It was hard to see The Black Spire like this, perhaps he would make another petition to city leaders to take up renovations efforts after this.....or at the very least ward this place to keep ne'er-do-wells from infesting this place every other month.
"Let's maybe not announce ourselves to each..." and it was too late. The cackling in the caskets was quickly followed by a line of skeletons breaking through and springing towards the two.
Leandros steps in, the holy energy in his halberd helping the blade cut clean through the skeletons with ease. The real trap was what followed as after the skeletons sprang out and were quickly turned into dust, the casket pieces cobbled themselves together in a wooden golem.
Obscured by the bone dust, a wooden fist came smashing through to hit the knight with a loud thunk! Leandros was certainly surprised, but his training meant the blow did little damage. Still, it wasn't like he wanted to be standing around and tank more of those.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 7, 2023 3:20:55 GMT -5
Javal looked over in surprise as he saw that the glowing caskets broke open and skeletons poured out from them. The skeletons quickly surrounded the two adventurers and charged right at them.
“Darn it, I have been made a complete fool, I’m so sorry about falling for their tricks Leandros”, he says as he ducks from a skeleton swiping at his head
He jumps away from Leandros to give himself space to fight these foes and lets out a long breath as a group of skeletons surround him before whispering, “Javal Style: Blade Circle”, as he spins with his blade slicing all the skeletons around him into halves.
He was in the middle of slashing another skeleton that came rushing at him before suddenly seeing all the caskets merge into a wood golem.
Javal yells out as it punches Leandros, “My friend I don’t have any fire spells to beat this guy at all”, he then gets an idea as he charges ice magic into his hand, “Just keep him distracted for a second”, he says as he condenses the energy into a long spear and then he yells, Leandros duck”, and shoots out a large ice spear (1) into the casket golem’s chest.
1. Ice Spike
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Post by Leandros Aurthurian on Sept 9, 2023 14:57:11 GMT -5
"Of course not, that would make things too easy for us." He gives a little laugh before parrying the next punch aside with his halberd. Leandros throws the golem's guard open just enough to let Javal get his attack in.
The knight then pivots to the hammer side of halberd, swinging hard for the midsection. Large wooden splinters break off as the ice spear sinks into its chest. The golem stumbles back a moment, off-balance from the attacks before righting itself and charging at Javal.
"It has a core somewhere, aim for the head!" Leandros calls across the room as the floor shakes with each step of the golem. It raises its fist ready to come crashing down into the fellblood.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 11, 2023 2:27:26 GMT -5
Javal’s slight smile on his face widens into a large grin as he hears his friend’s reply to his apology and says, “You know what you’re right Leandros this will make it all the more fun”.
He shakes his hand off the frost on his fingers after throwing the ice spike at the golem’s head, relieved as Leandros follows that up with a halberd smash of his own.
“Looks like we’re doing some decent damage but why won’t this guy quit he just keeps pushing through”, he thinks.
His eyes widen as he sees that the beast in its anger charges forth toward him, he then shouts, “Thanks for the heads up my friend I got this” he then transforms into a serpent made out of the water as the golem punches phases through him.
He then wraps itself around its arm and ten shifts himself to his chest wrapping tightly before shifting back to his regular form and taps his cuirass and blows fire from his mouth straight at the beast's chest.
“Leandros I’ve got him busy This is the perfect moment, finish him off”, he says with a smile jumping back to give his friend space for his maneuver.
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Post by Leandros Aurthurian on Sept 12, 2023 21:12:20 GMT -5
"So you did have some fire magic? Did you forget or just wanted to keep it a surprise?" Leandros lets out a breath as the fire burned the wooden golem slowly started to crumble and weaken. Eventually, the flames licked away enough of the strength of the wood it collapsed in on itself.
The wood golem seemed unable to hold it together anymore as it grugled and groaned before dying out completely. Splinters clattered to the ground as the monster stopped moving. Leandros tamped out the flames and embers under his boot until the flames were mostly out, nothing dangerous to the structure at least.
Leandros shoulders the halberd once more and surveys the damage in this room. It seemed odd to hold coffins and skeletons in here, but....well if a necromancer was looking to make a strong hold this would be the way to start.
"We should hustle to the top and see about getting to whoever is hiding here. No reason for us to search every floor, we will be here for days at this rate."
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 13, 2023 3:11:52 GMT -5
Javal shrugs in embarrassment as he walks over to the defeated golem’s corpse, “Sorry that’s a new cuirass I recently got in the mail. Strangely it was signed off with a letter apologizing for not giving it to me earlier. I think it might be my father’s or one of his old adventuring buddies since my mother said that it’s his old cuirass. That was the first time I used its fire breath ability in actual combat before".
He chuckles, “I’m sure I’m not the only one of us to pick up some new techniques or weapons am I? I’m pretty confident that you got some new tricks in your arsenal right?”.
Javal nodded and said, “I agree wholeheartedly, Let’s get up there as fast as possible. Why don’t we have a challenge as we go, my friend? Let’s see who can make it up to the top the fastest".
He quickly touched the bottom of his feet with cold magic and swiftly said, “1-2-3-GO” before he sprinted towards the stairs ahead of the two.
”Try to catch up my friend", Javal says looking back as he’s jogging up the stairs and onto the next floor he then suddenly feels that he’s run into something in front of him as he enters the next floor.
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Post by Leandros Aurthurian on Sept 13, 2023 20:37:29 GMT -5
"There's a difference between rushing and picking up pace." He laughs softly as the fellblood is already off and running.
Leandros makes no effort to sprint after him. He didn't agree to the race and speed was not his forte. Rare is the body that can perfectly balance speed and power, more often than not one is favored over the other and it was clear which one Leandros took to.
Besides that he wanted to make sure his heavier footsteps would not take him through the rotted wood. The higher they got, the more unstable some sections seemed to be. Wood beams groaned under the weight of the rest of the tower as rot, both wet and dry, had taken their toll.
As Javal climbs higher and higher, the fellblood will start to be able to hear some grunting and huffing. It would sound like a dog scratching at the door...if the dog was the size of a horse. Before the swordsman can warn his friend below, the wall bursts into a spray of splinters as a massive Baloth bursts out from whatever room it was in. The beast was going for the closest blood it could smell and threatened to take the man out.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 18, 2023 1:26:05 GMT -5
As Javal happily climbs higher he hears faint noises around his right side; he thinks nothing of it considering the current shape that the building has taken. It was only when he began hearing the loud scratching of the wall that he slowed down to try to hear better.
He turned back to try to call out for Leandros’s thoughts on it but as he turned his head it was far far too late as suddenly a giant beast came crashing through it and tackled Javal to the floor below.
Its grip was firmly on the young fellblood’s shoulders piercing it with its powerful talons, Javal’s form quickly melted away into water (1) hitting the floor below the Baloth and slinking around gaining some distance from the beast before rematerializing back into his regular fellblood form.
Javal coughs as the baloth crashes into the floor and focuses his attention on the fellblood; a loud blood-curdling roar fills the room as the creature barrels forth attempting to crash into Javal.
He steadies himself as he opens his mouth, sending out a large cone of ice breath (2) at the beast before yelling, “Hey Leandros wherever you are, come here quick I don’t think I can do this alone, not yet at least”, he mumbles as he says the last part.
1. Liquidate 2. Ice Breath (Drake Gland)
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Post by Leandros Aurthurian on Sept 19, 2023 11:02:15 GMT -5
"You sure? I was just thinking about taking a break." The heavy footsteps of the knight are already charging up the stairs as he talks. His plate armor makes enough noise to draw the baloth's attention for a moment before it gets blasted with the ice breath.
The reptilian head whips back to Javal with a hungry growl. Ice bites into the scales, but its thick hide holds together as it shakes the icicles off. It begins to lumber towards the fellblood with a roar as it makes a lunge.
Right before it can land it suddenly stops short with a yelp of pain. Javal can see that behind the beast Leandros has caught up and driven his halberd into the tail of the beast. It was only thanks to his massive strength that he could hold it off, but it was only temporary.
The baloth whips around and tears its tail free, seeming unconcerned about the wound on its tail. The massive claws swing for Leandros who is just able to get his halberd across in time to block as it tries to throw him aside but fails.[1]
"Attack the underside if you can, the scales are weaker." He calls back to the fellblood to rally him as they confront this beast.[2]
1. Immovable Bastion 2. Battle Cry
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 20, 2023 2:55:56 GMT -5
Javal’s face quickly shifts into a smile of relief as he hears the loud sounds of armor clanking behind him and the beast, “Thank goodness friend Leandros is coming if not I would probably be made Baloth food”.
Javal then placed his best scowl and was ready to jump or side-step away from its charge and retaliate as best he could before suddenly stopping. He heard the beast whelp and saw his friend behind it with his halberd in its tail. He suddenly feels energized and filled with even more power and energy than before he thinks it strange but it seems that Leandro's cry has empowered and invigored his spirit.
He shouts back, “Of course, my friend I shall try my beast” he then charges forth sprinting as fast as he can toward the beast.
He slides under the beast's body as it shifts its attention toward Leandros in its anger and places his bright light-blue glowing hands on the floor beneath the beast. Suddenly a large wall of ice (1) rises from the floor and elevates the monster into the air quickly, Javal then places his hands on the floor once more this time glowing green as he whispers, “Vine Style: Tundra Tomb” and the floor around the wall and the elevated baloth is surrounded by sharp thorns and vines (2) from the ground in a ten foot square around it.
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Post by Leandros Aurthurian on Sept 24, 2023 10:01:43 GMT -5
Amidst the chaos of the ice and vines, there is an odd moment of silence. The baloth seems to be encased in the trap as thorns poke and tear at the scales. Something gnaws at the back of Leandros' mind a moment but before he can condense those thoughts the Baloth is suddenly moving again.
It claws through the vines without a care for the damage being done to its body. Large wounds tear across its scales as it aims for Javal, a sickly green venom dripping from its jaws. As it jumps, Leandros curses himself for not recognizing it earlier in his haste to protect Javal.
"GO FOR THE HEAD, IT IS NOT OF THE LIVING ANYMORE." He holds his halberd out, the blade firing a pulse of holy energy that impacts the side of the creature's head and slams it into a wall rather than Javal.
The holy energy from the beam leaves a burning and smouldering wound on its face. It's the first wound this creature has seemed to care about as it can actually feel this one.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 26, 2023 2:09:14 GMT -5
Javal breathes a sigh of relief as he sees his magical trap manage to stop the Baloth and he places his hands behind his head looking at his work. Suddenly his attention is turned from observing his work to a quick horror as the beast manages to somehow break free and rise from its trap simply ignoring the damage of the trap the fellblood had set.
“What, what is this thing? How is it doing that it should’ve been trapped and stayed like that but it just doesn’t care?”, the fellblood exclaims in confusion raising his blade in response.
He panics before steeling himself ready to charge at the beast's head as he sees it lunging for him before suddenly seeing its head getting hit by a beam of light smashing it into a wall. The creature pulls its head from the wall and shakes off the blast roaring out in pain, it seems to be the first time that the creature had a negative reaction to the adventurer's attacks.
Javal quickly charges forth again remembering Leandros’s words of advice against the seemingly undead monster he swings his blue and white glowing sword behind him saying, “Javal Style: Double Divine Tide”, and slashes his sword twice at the monster’s mouth.
The light of his blade seems to hit the beast as it reels back in pain, spotting the nearest opponent and slamming his claws at Leandros in fury.
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Post by Leandros Aurthurian on Sept 28, 2023 20:46:39 GMT -5
Before it can get close enough to pose a threat, Leandros drives his halberd down through its head. It thrashes and flails, its massive tail almost cracking Javal in the head. The knight kept it in place as the holy energy of his blade slowly burned through it, eventually catching the whole baloth in a warm glow. The body gradually turns to ash as it burns away.
Leandros sighs as he pulls his blade free, "Well....time to find out who or what is responsible for bringing back something like that. It could not have been easy to transport...nor resurrect."
The knight takes one last look around this floor, waiting to see if anything else makes its presence known. The tower has gone quiet except for the occasional groan of the wood, the usual noises you would here from an old building.
"You all right to finish this off?"
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