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Post by Percy Rhyssina on Sept 18, 2023 18:14:23 GMT -5
All the recent jobs had Percy traveling a bit more on land than he liked, but thankfully he found himself back on the isles. At least here he could be near the sea even if he didn't own a boat yet. The triton sighs to himself as he sits outside one of the dockside bars with more than a few bottles of rum at his table. Did he pay for any of those bottles? Who knows, why are you asking so many questions, what are you a guard? To say he had a reputation was putting it lightly, but Persias wasn't known for paying the tab. It was just easier to let him get away with it than get some poor guards injured for a few solars. Plus he did work great as an impromptu bouncer if someone did get a little bit too big for the breeches. Percy kicks his feet up onto the table and tilts back another swig from the bottle. So far it seems like today will be one of the days where he doesn't have to bloody a nose. Solaria knows he will likely still end up doing just that, but he doesn't have to today, that's the important part.
Quest Name: Honey, someone shrunk the heroes Participants: Two or more Location: Anywhere Post Requirements: 5 post per person, 200 words per post Reward: +1 Renown Description: Charon has been plagued with counterfeit potions over the past few months, the Golden Consortium doing its best to put a stop to the production of these fake elixars. However, as one operation is put to an end, three more pop up, making it a gamble to buy potions from any source at this point. You have found yourself the victim of one of these fake potions, thinking it to be a potion or drink of some other kind. Unfortunately, its a fake, made somewhere in a back alley by scoundrels. Instead of the potion having its intended affect, it has instead shrunk you and anyone you shared the drink with, making you the size of an ant. The effects of this potion will only last for four post, making you normal size after its duration, however, you will have to survive in a massive world filled with giant bugs and plants all prepared to kill you. The task is simple, don't die.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 19, 2023 2:21:43 GMT -5
Javal had just finished completing a job on the Crescent Isles; he had saved a group of youngsters from a dangerous wild wolf in the wild forest. He had thankfully gotten out of the citation with only a couple of scratches and a bite mark on his shoulder from when the wolf bit him as he was shielding the kids from it. He managed to defeat it and leave it whimpering as he walked the kids home back to the main city where their parents who had initially hired Javal were worried sick.
He smiled widely as he was paid for his time and walked away proud of himself for getting such an important job done. With today’s workout on the way he decided it was best to get some rest and relaxation to treat his wounds. So he made his way towards a bar that one of the parents recommended to him telling him that he knew the owner and had heard that they had a special limited edition drink that he was going to try.
He then made his way towards the directions the fellow gave him and after about a twenty-minute walk he made it. He walked over to the barstool and waved his hand motioning a waiter over to take his order.
He smiled and said, “Hello there may be one of those secret specials I’ve been hearing about, I heard a friend of mine wanted to try it”.
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Post by Percy Rhyssina on Sept 22, 2023 8:44:36 GMT -5
Percy keeps a watch on outsiders from his spot on the patio. The fellblood approaching with such confidence was certainly hard to miss. Another one of the adventuring types that were crawling around Charon it seemed. Percy took a deep drink from the bottle of rume he had as the man walked past.
He's actually ordering the special? Well, that confirms he's not local. Percy isn't entirely sure what the special actually is, he just knows that no one ever actually orders it. Some people say it's actually a deadly poison, others say it is the same beer, but she just lies to upcharge people.
"Are ya sure ya be wanting the special deary? I have to say we aren't liable for any sort ill-effects you may feel, it's a strong brew." A kindly, older half-orc woman behind the bar smiles softly at Javal. If he likely insists on still trying the drink she nods and heads back towards the kitchen.
She disappears through a wooden door for a few minutes. When she finally reappears, a pretty traditional and normal looking clay mug with a gently overflowing head is served up to the fellblood. It appears and smells to be an entirely normal beer.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 26, 2023 1:25:32 GMT -5
The bartender appears quickly with a gentle smile as she finishes cleaning some glasses with a piece of cloth and asks him if he is sure that he would like to order the tavern’s special.
Javal replies with a smile as he places his arms on the bar counter and says, “Why of course my dear barkeep this fellow that I helped out suggested that I try it, that it was a great and pleasant experience everyone had to try at least once in their lives. I’m ready to try some strong brew and prepared to face the effects of this special tasty drink I heard about”.
“After all what could go wrong”, he ponders out loud as he taps his fingers on the bar counter while he waits for his drink to be prepared.
Javal turns his face in curiosity as loud banging noises and whooshing noises can be heard coming from the kitchen.
“Woah, whatever this thing is has to be tasty and delicious if this type of preparation is required”, he thought as he placed his hand on his chin.
The orc woman then appears only a couple of minutes later with an honestly unordinary type of drink he smells it not sensing any particularly interesting scent, for all he can see it looks like an especially boring cup of bear.
“Hm”, he ponders before looking around the bar and saying, “Hello there fellows of this tavern would any of you like to try some of the special drink I’m about to have it seems to be just a regular beer so I’d hate to just waste my money by myself”, he then waits a little expecting someone would try the regular beer with him, he hopes he meets a new friend today at least.
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Post by Percy Rhyssina on Sept 27, 2023 20:40:28 GMT -5
Everyone in the immediate vicinity is trying not to chortle or giggle as they know what is about to happen. It has been too long since someone had done this, so they were all waiting for the show.
There were, of course, no takers for the fellblood, but he would start to feel the effects take place. The room would spin and wobble gently as Javal slowly shrunk down smaller and smaller. When he was finally down to size, the barkeeper snatched him up and put him underneath a glass.
"All right boys, let's hope we get another one and have ourselves a fight. Come on then, I got this one, one of you other boys find me someone."
The conversation and laughing drew Percy's attention into the bar. It usually meant some sort of gambling could be going on. He idly leaned against the bar and took Javal's drink unaware it was the magic one. Once more the crowd grew quiet, astounded not only was someone foolish enough to buy the special, someone was dumb enough to drink it without knowing.
Soon, Percy felt the same effects, but as the bar keep went to grab him he bit down on her finger and drew blood.
"OI NO FECKIN TOUCHIN....You....feck are ye doin in a cup ye tiny little shite?" It seems the triton is unaware he is also tiny for the moment.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 28, 2023 1:53:54 GMT -5
After seeing no one respond to his offer the fellblood was a little saddened and chugged down his normal-looking beer by himself at the bar. The bar tasted okay enough, it had just an average beer flavor, Javal himself was neutral on the beer and was disappointed it wasn’t stronger, had a cool taste or flavor to it, or anything.
The fellblood slammed his cup down on the counter about to order a cup of sake before suddenly feeling his body change almost in an instant. He suddenly felt like the chair around him was beginning to make him sink into it. Everything around him started to get bigger and bigger before suddenly everything around him was a giant size.
He then looked down to look at his hands realizing that he had been shrunk, “Hey is this part of the special?”, the fellblood exclaimed, “If so this is much cooler than just a glass of beer”.
Suddenly he was grabbed by the barkeep and shoved under an empty polished wine glass. He looked around and all he could see were giant people laughing at him. He was about to try to smash his fists into the glass walls before another small figure like himself was shoved under the glass across from Javal.
“Uh, hello there, tiny fellow! Do you know what’s going on here? Why are these giant fellows chanting, pointing at us, then laughing?", Javal says waving at the new triton man.
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Post by Percy Rhyssina on Oct 2, 2023 13:42:04 GMT -5
Percy had actually avoided being trapped due to biting the ever loving hells out of the barkeep. Instead he was bounced down onto the bar top hard, which really wasn't any better. He scrambled to his feet with an incredible rage in his eyes.
"The feckers want to make us fight, but feck that. Normally, I wouldn't give a shite about kickin yer ass, but I ain't keen on bein told what to do. So, what's to you? Ye wanna fight me or fight off the feckin arseholes responsible for this."
The shark dodges some of the hands still trying to shove him under the glass. He brings his mace down on someone's fingernail leaving a sick bruise. They may be small, but the mace was still heavy enough to feel like getting slammed in the wagon door.
"COME ON YE BIG FECKIN SHITEGOBS IF YE CAN'T BEAT A MAN THE SIZE OF YER FECKIN SHORTHAIRS THEN YE MIGHT WANT TO CLEAR OUT CAUSE THE FECKIN SECOND THIS WEARS OFF I AM CHUMMING THE WATERS WITH WHATEVER IS LEFT OF YE WHEN I AM DONE."
To Javal it is a furious cry up at these larger folk, to said larger folk it is a squeaky and hard to understand screed into the wind.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 3, 2023 1:46:46 GMT -5
Javal placed his hands on his glass prison and yelled trying to be heard over the chanting and yelling, “I agree I do not appreciate being used as somebody else's toy. I am not keen on fighting you on such strange terms however I would like to challenge you to spar another day. I would fight alongside you to take down our giant-sized captors for entrapping us in such a tiny state. They shall regret making enemies of us two strong fellows, now may I please ask for someone to help me out of this wine glass trap, this is unfair".
He glanced around at the giant fellows who seemed to be laughing, pointing, and laughing again very amused by these two small fools. The barkeep woman whom Percy managed to bruise their fingernails shrieks in agony as she rips her hand back from Percy’s location.
“You sloppy little crap stain, I treat you well and this is how you repay me you deserve to be a small little man now”.
Javal started slamming his hands on the glass trying to break free himself with little to no luck, whatever was in this kick had to be some of the strongest material known to Charon, unknown to him it was not instead it was one of the cheapest glass cups known to Charon.
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Post by Percy Rhyssina on Oct 3, 2023 18:18:33 GMT -5
Not that Percy understood the science behind it, but he was actually much better equipped to free Javal than he knew. At their size it would be hard to cut through glass, but glass has always been pretty vulnerable to smashing. The only reason Percy thought about this was because he liked smashing things, there was no altruistic motive behind his next move.
"HEADS UP!" And so the triton just launches his mace at the glass. Massive, relatively speaking, shards of glass fall, but now the fellblood has freedom. If Javal does go to grab the mace, he will notice it is obscenely heavy. Too heavy to be wielded as a weapon one would think.
While his tiny compadre figures out what to do, the shark grabs two shards of glass to wield like daggers.[1, 2] Any hand that comes within distance gets stabbed and poked. The crowd was slowly growing less amused and more angry as the playful gambling game has now turned into a brawl. In the distance a small fight starts to brew, but up at the counter weapons are drawn.
"Shite....Hope ye got somethin' real feckin' clever in yer gob their horn man." This was going to hurt in the morning.
1. Hands are Weapons 2. Improvised Weapons
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 4, 2023 2:34:37 GMT -5
Javal reached into his waistband to pull out his blade from its sheath and raised his katana over his head about to slash into the glass to try to escape but quickly let go of Theseus as he heard Percy exclaim to watch out. He picks up his blade from the ground, jumps back, and stands at the other side of the glass Percy was smashing with his mace covering his face with his arms. Soon enough after a great sound of crashing can be heard as Percy brings his mace down.
Javal quickly sprints forth escaping the glass and jumping out the counter ahead he takes out his katana once again waving it around at the mean giant bar fellows that had trapped him and Percy.
Javal looks back at his triton companion and says as he looks around the menacing figures looming over them with weapons drawn ready to pulverize the two into drinks themselves, “I do not need anything clever to get us out of here Mister. Eyepatch. I just need my trusted blade and a friend to beat down hooligans as brutish and dishonorable as these".
Suddenly a pair of two giant and burly arms smash into the counter trying to crush the two, Javal barely has time to sprint forward to avoid the attack he looks around to see if his small compatriot is okay.
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Post by Percy Rhyssina on Oct 4, 2023 21:53:43 GMT -5
"Call me Mister again and I'm usin yer body to smash in their faces." Percy lashed out with another tiny little glass cut. Little drops of blood quickly became crushing weights above them. Splashes that meant nothing to the full-sized people were giant waves to those unfortunate enough to be shrunk.
When the arms come down, they seem to slam into the wood all but crush Percy. The arms strain though as it slowly raises back up, underneath a large(relatively speaking) Wereshark pushes back the arm. The rough shark skin scrapes against the arm above him.
"I warned ye feckers that this was gonna get bloody if ye didn't fuckin back off." He growls at those above him.
The threat doesn't mean much as they are still tiny. At least...so they thought as the wood beneath starts to creak. Much more suddenly than their shrinking, Percy bursts to full size shattering the portion of the bar he was on under the weight of his wereshark form.
Now that he can see eye to eye with bar patrons, Percy can see the fear in their eyes. He grins, "Best get yerself to full size there Horns, I ain't gonna be able to keep on eye on ye in the carnage."
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 5, 2023 2:09:45 GMT -5
Javal nods his head as he hears Percy complain about his use of the word Mister before shouting, “Understood friend although I will say that using me as a human weapon me indeed prove useful against these goliaths”
He then looks around in the aftermath expecting Percy to be right behind him or behind the fists entirely but is surprised to see some sort of figure resembling Percy fighting back against the arm skillfully.
It appears to Javal to be a Lycanthrope of some sort, “Is he a wereshark?”, the fellblood exclaims in his mind excitedly, “I’ve some a couple of people afflicted with the werecurse, a werepig, werebear, weresquirrel, but never a wereshark, this is incredible”.
Javal is suddenly even more surprised at Percy as he shifts back to his normal height, “Woah”, Javal in his tiny voice exclaims.
“I shall try friend although I don't have something as excellent as you”, the fellblood ran pulling at his back taking out his lightning empowered polearm (1. Lightning Spear), and chucks it towards the nearest tavern goon striking them in the eye with the small force of lighting which although tiny did pack enough of a punch to send the goon to the floor holding their eye.
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Post by Percy Rhyssina on Oct 7, 2023 11:20:58 GMT -5
What was supposed to be a fun night of tricking some idiots and making them fight has now turned into utter chaos for this bar. Absolutely no one is really all that excited to fight a wereshark and rightly so. Unfortunately for them, the wereshark is excited to fight everyone.
Percy immediately swings out with a right cross to knock out the nearest guy immediately. In a panic another patron charges from behind to break a chair across Percy's back. In response he wheels around and grabs the man by the neck and chokeslams him into the splinters of the bar.
A heavy webbed foot steps on the face of the man Javal knocked over as Percy moves back to try and get a better eye on everyone inside. Most of the regulars had left, so all they had to fight were the really dedicated (or drunk) people. Punches and kicks are thrown wildly in the direct of the sharkman, but he has some actual fighting sense.
His style might just be brute forcing his fists through people's bones, but Percy seems to have some instincts when it comes to fighting. He traps on man's arm when he throws a punch and proceeds to mercilessly beat into his face until the man goes limp, unconscious but still standing as Percy holds him up. People may actually die if Percy isn't stopped.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 8, 2023 0:47:39 GMT -5
Javal held his hand out awaiting his lightning spear to return to him as it made contact with his hand and he tightened his grasp on it he felt a strange feeling wash over him.
He holds his head as his body feels woozy and his vision goes dizzy the fellblood is barely able to hold himself up before he looks down to see his feet enlarge and his vision grow in perspective before he is now standing on top of the bar counter holding his lightning spear in his right hand and now back to full size.
Javal jumps down from the counter and quickly rushes forth swinging his sword to the nearest bargoon. Cutting their chest diagonally causing them to reel back in pain kneeling to the floor and holding their bloodied wound.
He looks around as he notices that the bar has cleared up and only the drunken bar fights are left filled with booze-fueled rage.
He ducked down barely missing the quick swing of a dagger to his head before jumping back up and headbutting the man’s forehead and hitting him in the back of the head knocking him down to sleep. He glanced over wildly noticing almost all of the bar folk trying to pile on the wershark.
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Post by Percy Rhyssina on Oct 8, 2023 12:09:44 GMT -5
As Javal comes to full size, he will see that Percy's threat of using other people as weapons was not just talk. He grabs one man's wrist as he comes in and starts to then use him as a flail.
There is a lot of crunching and cracking sounds as ankles meet jaws. There is also a lot of screaming, oh Solaria the screaming. The weaponized man lets out a loud yelp as his shoulder becomes disjointed while being swung around.
Percy casually tosses him through the door and out onto the street. The screaming starts to subside and is left with only the dull moaning of people writhing in pain on the ground. Unfortunately for them, that doesn't seem to be the end of it.
"What the hell?"
"Did that guy just come out of the bar?
"Call the guards!"
People outside seem to catch wind that something is wrong as they all start shouting for the guards. Percy seems to grin wider as he can hear the guards coming.
"Good...let the shites come, I'll take out this whole feckin town!" Percy cracks his knuckles and grabs his mace. The wereshark heads for the doors ready to meet any guard head on.
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