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Alexander Krizak
The Ultimate Lifeform
Posts: 121
(6/7/02 11:26:14 pm)
Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round Four - Sponsors Only
Act Four, Scene One - Twisted Soul, Twisted Mind

Like the rest of the fortress, the great hall was built as a mockery of the castles held by those who aligned themselves with the light. The columns that held up the expansive ceilings were carved with horrific images, demons and monsters relishing in the slaughter of men and women, and the ceiling itself held a great mural of a woman clad only in a writhing snake, surrounded by fire and brimstone. The skeletal remains of human warriors littered the ground, and a bonfire burned merrily at one end of the hall with the remains of the latest victim tied to a stake in the middle of it.

In front of the fire were the bodies of several demonic creatures, clad in armour carved from the remains of dead beasts and men, their skin charred beyond recognition. Above them stood a hooded figure in black robes, who turned to the warriors who had just appeared, revealing himself to be the host. "Welcome, my friends, to Malorné. This is where the Sorceress resides in this world, building her dark army so that she may conquer this land and rule through power and fear. You now stand on the main level of her fortress, but she resides at the top, a hundred levels above. Your task is to find her, confront her, and stop her evil reign."

A long-haired man in a blue jacket looked around for a moment. "Hey... where did Ward go? It's not like you can miss him in a crowd..."

The host nodded slightly. "Those among you who have fallen have their own battles to fight this round. You won't cross paths with them in this fortress, but rest assured that you will see them again in the next location." With that, he turned and walked into the bonfire. The robes he wore caught flame and quickly burned, leaving nothing in their place...

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Sponsored Teams

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Baka - Ivan from Golden Sun (Enchanter) - Level 3 (53 XP)
Soujiro Seta - Kuroki Kaze from Final Fantasy: Unlimited (Ranger) - Level 2 (45 XP)
Sylphid - Vivi Orniter from Final Fantasy IX (Enchanter) - Level 3 (56 XP)

The Reluctant Ones
Kyo - Isaac from Golden Sun (Warrior) - Level 2 (38 XP)
Shizuyoko - Laguna Loire from Final Fantasy VIII (Adept) - Level 2 (32 XP)
The Virtual Cat - Yoshi from Super Mario World (Brawler) - Level 3 (56 XP)

Snow Falling Quickly Down A Hill
Cirrus Velious - Link from THe Legend of Zelda (Warrior) - Level 2 (38 XP)
Exeter - Delita Hyral from Final Fantasy Tactics (Warrior) - Level 3 (53 XP)
Kellios - Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy VII (Healer) - Level 2 (31 XP)

Thrill Seekers
Daigohji - Ryo Hazuki from Shenmue (Brawler) - Level 2 (28 XP)
Kojichan - Shadow from Sonic Adventure 2 (Adept) - Level 2 (32 XP)
Mintaka - Lise from Seiken Densetsu 3 (Warrior) - Level 1 (20 XP)

Two On One
Mithrigil - Scarlett Welles from Final Fantasy VII (Engineer) - Level 2 (45 XP)
Slipstream - Gilder from Skies of Arcadia (Ranger) - Level 2 (48 XP)
Tenshi Kain - Ramirez from Skies of Arcadia (Warrior) - Level 2 (47 XP)

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TOL-LOR-745: Malorné, Realm of Darkness
Start Time: 11:00 PM MDT Friday Night
End Time: 9:00 PM MDT Saturday Night
Special Rules: Dangerous Passage, Fate of the Living
Mini-Games: The Long Reign Ends

Malorné is both the name of the realm in which the Sorceress rules, and the name of the fortress from which she rules from. You find yourself in the latter, with a hundred floors separating your party from her. The climb up the tower will be a long and difficult one, not only because of the twisted and haphazard architecture, but because of the hoards of demonic creatures the Sorceress has stationed within Malorné. In your ascent, you will come across orcs, imps, trolls, goblins, ogres, dark knights, and pretty much any other traditional fantasy villain short of dragons. (The Sorceress has yet to master the control of dragons, so you will not encounter them here...)

Special Rules
Your journey through Malorné will be a Dangerous Passage indeed, and you never quite know what will happen in this dangerous place. I have ten different events, each one assigned a different number. Every Sponsor must choose a number between one and ten. The three members of each team must each choose a different number. If you do not choose a number, I will choose one randomly for you... except I will reroll should I land you on the best outcome. So it's in your best interest to choose a number for yourself. There is only one outcome with no negative consequences, and only one with no positive consequences.

Also, to climb the fortress of Malorné and face the Sorceress in only the Fate of the Living. Only Sponsors are allowed to participate in this round. Fallen have their own round all to themselves.

Mini-Game
The Long Reign Ends: Information of this mini-game will be posted later in the round. Note that until this mini-game begins, you may not confront the Sorceress in any way.

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Between sleep, work, and the acquisition of a new PS2 (which I have yet to even PLAY with), this round is really late. Bugenhagen's comment, however, is untrue, since I sort of lied when I swore on my grandmother's grave. You see, my grandmother doesn't HAVE a grave. :D

Edited by: Alexander Krizak at: 6/8/02 11:21:07 am
Shizuyoko
RTT::Laguna Loire
Posts: 91
(6/7/02 11:29:11 pm)

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Laguna Loire of The Reluctant Ones chooses the number FIVE



"I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors, but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor."

KojiChao
Customer
Posts: 41
(6/7/02 11:37:21 pm)
Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round Four - Sponsors Only
Gah. :D I can't choose 13... That's my lucky number. Well, I'll go with....8. Yesh. Eight it is...

(Bwhahas, I smell lots of fun in this level, especially if I finally made it to Level 2. x_X;)


Shadow is now equpped with, the letter 8


(I know 8 isn't a letter. :P)

Mithrigil
RTT--Scarlett Welles
Posts: 58
(6/7/02 11:38:52 pm)

Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round Four - Sponsors Only

Scarlett-- 6

Guess who Ms. Sexual Repression USA is playing in RTT?



Isn't the irony lovely?

Some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Mithrigil.
(this links to LT)

...

Kellios
RTT: Aeris Gainsborough
Posts: 51
(6/7/02 11:39:37 pm)

Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round Four - Sponsors Only
Aeris: 2

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"I'll come back when it's all over"~~Aeris Gainsborough

Sylphid
RTT - Vivi
Posts: 41
(6/7/02 11:39:51 pm)

Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round Four - Sponsors Only
Vivi shall choose the number... 10! (No, not 10 factorial, that'd be 3628800. ^.^ Just 10.)

Lady Luck, be kind!


Vivi has returned once again for Rurouni Taikai Tactics.
Member of Team ~Disciples of Wind~
Sponsored by Sylphid

Lord Sylphid - Master of Wind
Madness takes its toll... please carry exact change.

Shizuyoko
RTT::Laguna Loire
Posts: 92
(6/7/02 11:40:04 pm)

Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round Four - Sponsors Only
"A reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20: Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."

Oops?



"I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors, but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor."

TenshiKain
RTT :: Ramirez
Posts: 31
(6/7/02 11:40:29 pm)

Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round Four - Sponsors Only
Ramirez chooses 4, because that's the number Zack whispered into his ear.

Well, he said to nab that number of mini-something, anyway.

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Sponsoring Ramirez, Skies of Arcadia, Team Two-On-One.

Cirrus Velious
RTT - Link
Posts: 45
(6/7/02 11:42:28 pm)

Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round Four - Sponsors Only
Link of Snow Falling Quickly Down a Hill choses seve...no...too obvious....Link choses the number 3

Mintaka
RTT: Lise
Posts: 72
(6/7/02 11:44:36 pm)

Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round Four - Sponsors Only
....Sylf, I should shoot you. :P *can't even play Lunar2* ;_;

Hmm....

Lise choses... 2.

Sylphid
RTT - Vivi
Posts: 42
(6/7/02 11:46:12 pm)

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Sorry Min... ;_;


Vivi has returned once again for Rurouni Taikai Tactics.
Member of Team ~Disciples of Wind~
Sponsored by Sylphid

Lord Sylphid - Master of Wind
Madness takes its toll... please carry exact change.

Soujiro Seta
RTT :: Kaze
Posts: 30
(6/7/02 11:48:36 pm)

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Kaze chooses the soi...er..the number seven. Just because you know that Krizak knows we won't choose the number seven because it's so obvious. Or maybe he knows that we'll think it's obvious and choose it so he made it the worst outcome. Or since we know that he knows that we know....

It boggles the mind just to think of it.

"And the host, being not in mine sight, shall snuff it." :D

Cirrus Velious
RTT - Link
Posts: 46
(6/7/02 11:49:30 pm)

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hehe Soujiro, I was having the same mental battle myself :p

Soujiro Seta
RTT :: Kaze
Posts: 31
(6/8/02 12:05:20 am)

Round 4
Devil's Dance - I

Even the wind itself was foul and noxious, where Kaze stood looking to where the tower stretched toward a blackened sky, monument to those who found sweet and succulent the kiss of demons. It was a horrible place...somewhat fitting for a man no less horrible himself. Bereft of sympathy, he stood at the gates, taking in the ghastly scene. It was as if the presence of evil in the air itself would strip the living down the the brittle and bleached bones that littered the courtyard.

Not only did the air feel negatively charged, it was. Dark ether was gathered there, likely by the powers of the sorceress who reigned on high. Kaze fingered the handle of his large handgun, lifting and dropping the fingers in a relaxed cadence. Dark army? Maybe a dark army of one.

He caught a glance of the woman who had helped him repair his gun...and she was standing by that man, Gilder... A serious-looking man with a gleaming saber stood by them, furrowed brow scanning the crowd like the hand of death about to weed out the weak from the herd. His eyes at last fell upon the sight of a child in a drooping steeple hat and a young man with toussled blond hair stood bantering lightly back and forth between themselves. He had come to at last recognize the members of his own team, but in a place such as this, could he really protect them? But for a certainty, they had all come this far - they were able to take care of themselves. In truth, he was weaker than they; when he could not rely on the power of the beasts, he had only a gun and his marksmanship to rely on - a tenuous hold on an uncertain life.

But he was the cumulation of his choices; a will for power, an identity lost, an alias the only name he knew: Kuroki Kaze...the Black Wind.

Soon, the sorceress's armies would sense all of their presences. Like the burning coldness in the eyes of the man with the silver locks and blade, they would brutally weed out those who could not stand against their fury. All creatures the same; all seeking to eliminate all threats to their existance. Some whose powers and wills were bent to serve another. But thinking was now a luxury, both for him and his fellow contestants. To come out of the dark tower alive, flesh still wrapped around their bones, they would need to cast aside all random thought and focus entirely on whatever training and experiences had gotten them thus far; the ingrained ability to be ruthless and perfect. In that way, he questioned his own aptness the most.

Obtain power to survive...or survive to obtain yet more power?

It was a neverending cycle, given form before his very eyes as a massive black tower, adorned with statues who wept black tears. The wind blew shrill, whipping his cape's edges before him. But there was no hesitation in his mind; to enter was the only option, to be victorious the only recourse. The time for penance or adulation would be in later, more halcyon days, if such ever happened to one day arrive...

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Soil! My strength!

Mithrigil
RTT--Scarlett Welles
Posts: 59
(6/8/02 12:59:22 am)

And yes, her boobs are real

The first thing Scarlett noticed was that she was, at last, clean. Her hair was neatly twisted into the comb, her dress was smooth and properly set, and all of the blood was finally off her skin.

The second thing she noticed was that her breasts felt a good deal less heavy.

She glanced at the surroundings, and the aura of old death was nothing like the aura of new death she'd been privy to such a short while ago. The corpses had decayed, the blood had coagulated, whatever carrion lived here had pecked out the eyes and gotten rampant indigestion.

It was a kind of death Scarlett had never known.

A kind of uneasy contemplation settled over her as she looked at the skeletal and half-skeletal forms surrounding her. Until now, death had been an explosive moment, a great occasion, like a summon Materia bringing forth some great demon for barely an instant but causing so many screams. There had been beauty in the flash of life just before it was extinguished.

These corpses hadn't screamed for years.

She found herself twisting her hands awkwardly, a gesture her parents had tried to hammer out of her for years before they, too died. Her father's urn still sat in her stepbrother's family room, but her mother...wher was the last time she'd visited that grave?

I haven't, she realized. I haven't gone to visit her in Nibelheim. At all.

Her eyes settled closed and her head lolled slightly downward. Her mother had never asked to be buried, let alone there of all places. But Grandma and Villiard had insisted. And Scarlett hadn't even thought to pay a visit.

Come to think of it, I hadn't been to visit them at all since years before the General...

...

"Scarlett."

"Bahamut's testicles on a tea-cake! Do you have any idea what time it is?"

"Oh-three-thirty-seven hours and sixteen, seventeen, eighteen--"

"Shut the Hell up. Why. The Fuck. Is my phone ringing at this hour?"

"Ha. Get dressed and to the conference room immediately. Prez's orders."

"The phrases 'get dressed' and 'immediately' don't exactly coincide in a woman' mind, Cassius."

"Then only put on half of the suit. Nobody should mind."

"Bite me, catboy."

"Walked down THAT road already, Scarlett. Just throw something on and get down here."


Click.


...

"Scarlett?"

She jostled awake at the brush of a hand on her shoulder. "Mm?"

Gilder laughed. "C'mon, lady. If we're gonna make it to the top of this hellhole we'd best start by finding the stairs."

She mustered a smirk. "Or the elevator."

He adjusted his glasses and laughed with her. "Doubt you'd find one in a place like this."

"Explains why all the corpses are still here," she said before she could stop herself. "Nobody wants to lug one up a hundred flights."

I don't even want to be near them...


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Scarlett Welles
4 A-votes
6 R-votes
60 SP
Morbid, morbid, morbid.
Kya-ha-ha. Boo.


Guess who Ms. Sexual Repression USA is playing in RTT?



Isn't the irony lovely?

Some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Mithrigil.
(this links to LT)

...

KojiChao
Customer
Posts: 43
(6/8/02 2:28:54 am)
And yes, her boobs are real -Scarlet
(And now, for my post! You shall all tremble -- ... gah, this place is scary enough, we don't need a black Hedgehog ruining all the fun. :D *BLINKS at the Re: message, 'And yes, her boobs are real' ? Oookay, I'm not going to ask about that. (*Runs away cackling*))
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Here in an instant, and gone in a flash. That's the way life was progressing through this tournament. Each day (OOC: COUGH. ^_^) turned up new surprises, new battles, but the same faces.

To go with the weight lifted from Shadow's head about the entire mess, as he was finally with his Team again, the armor from the previous day's battle had also taken it's leave. He felt much more flexible without it's burden, even if it was almost like wearing nothing. Not that he never went a day without anything really on, anyways. Nobody cared!

The smell of death was very apparent in the air, and stank the entire area. A look of disgust crossed the Hedgehog's face as he tried to plug his nose from the decaying smell, "What sort of a joke is this?"

To accent his comment about the joke, his teammates began to chuckle in his direction. The light was barely enough to see, though, it showed enough for the team to see eachother. The small hedgehog looked up at his two companions, and foldes his arms as he glared coldly, "We were collected, like bugs, to fight in this battle while the blue-boy sits and laughs at us; now even this 'team' laughs at me!"

"Hey! Hedgehog, calm down." Lise smirked, "We know this situation seems pretty flat... It's just.." She snorted back a laugh.

"There's something not quite right with this picture, though, 'Slick'." Ryo, too, was joining in, convulsing with laughter. The young man advanced on Shadow, who took a precarious step back as he was unsure of his teammates. Ryo then flicked at the black hedgehog's ear, "Noticed your 'hair' lately?"

Confusion. Shadow blinked at Ryo, not really certain about what he was talking about, "My..." he reached back with a paw, running it down one of his spines, "..hair?" Then it dawned on him. The helmet he had been wearing from the previous day's battle, bent his spines back to a semi-natural looking state, for a Hedgehog. Not spiked upward, like a star, anymore. They were slicked back, hanging down against his head, not unlike Sonic's own downward spines. What an odd image this was.

Shadow's previous 'spine-style' was flattened. While, on the other hand, Shadow smirked back up at Ryo as he noticed something, "It looks as you, yourself, are suffering from the same fate I have, 'Helmet-head'."

Lise was howling, doubled over in laughter, as Ryo began checking over his own hair, and fretting because it wasn't spiked up anymore, either.

The two dark-haired (and spined!) contestants looked at eachother, then smiled. Turning their heads to gaze at Lise, their smile grew evil. Blinking a few times, wiping some tears from her eyes, Lise then stopped laughing as the two boys advanced on her, "Uhh... guys? What are you doing?"

"Noo! Stay away from my hair!"

"Eeeeeeeek!!!"

(And Silence...)

Great, just what this tournament needs. Hey, where's Sonic's Tub-o-Gel when you need it?

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Pre-emptive R-Votes out to my Teammates. ^_^; For, (hopefully) putting up with this odd moment, brought to you by yours truly.


1 R-Vote Lise
1 R-Vote Ryo

Edited by: KojiChao at: 6/8/02 2:29:47 am
TenshiKain
RTT :: Ramirez
Posts: 32
(6/8/02 3:01:49 am)

Ghosts Beyond Past, Present, Future
The corpse writhed on the ground, its skin clinging to its bones like wax paper. Pale and blue-skinned, its eye sockets empty and blood-filled, with green-filled wounds that smelled of almonds, it crawled at his feet, pawing at the dark sheen of his boots as he stood over it. Its blanched lips parted in a low moan, the bones within its pathetic form rattling as its ghostly hand brushed through the boots as though it were air. Still it pled, watery, sightless eyes boring up at the man to whom it begged and reached for. "Sirrah, sirrah, a boon," it rasped, whimpering like a beaten dog, "please...some fire, a campfire, no more...she took my eyes, ah canna see. Some water, or heat...please...ah'm s'cold, she took my eyes. Please, master...don't lemme die...came here for m'kin, ah did nae want t'die..."

Ramirez watched it writhe before him with blank eyes. Had not this ghost just been an armored man vomiting up his lungs, a moment prior? No...now, the transportation was complete. They were, once more, in a new area.

A crypt. A hundred floors of hell.

"Sirrah...light, please, any light 't'all..." the ghost pled further, reaching feebly for a leg it would never touch. "...ah just wanted t'see my brother..."

Ramirez turned from the ghost, letting its pleas die on his ears. Scarlett and Gilder were still with him, he saw; they had survived this long, it seemed. That tempted a smile from his lips, in a way, but did not fully bring it out. Where they were now- this "Malorné" - had no room for revelry. Lit by dismal lanterns and bonfires, as though to ward off the reverbrating moans of the spirits that rolled from the craggy walls, the tower was dark and foreboding, constructed of sturdy metal not unlike the steel skyscrapers that had hung so high in the world prior. In broad daylight, perhaps the tower would have been just that, a clone of the futuristic city.

But then, the last towers hadn't included damned ghosts.

This Sorceress must rival the Elders in knowledge and power, Ramirez thought idly. If so, I must indeed meet her. And I shall protect Scarlett and Gilder.

He nearly tripped as that thought echoed in his mind. Where had that come from?

Clutching the Ginken at his side for that extra sense of security, Ramirez turned his gaze past the ghostly figures to the red-clad duo beside him. He had to protect them regardless, but that thought was a little odd. True, they were his teammates, and good souls nonetheless. Gilder's gun would be most welcome under Galcian's command, and what wonders Scarlett would work with the Hydra and the Valuan fleet. Both obviously intelligent, though fun-loving enough to maintain the kind of humanity he had admired in Fina as a child. Gilder had shown him nothing but kindness, in fact; Ramirez had to thank him for such excellent cover fire as he supplied.

And Scarlett...

The devil too beautiful to cut down. Ramirez remembered her touch from the prior rounds, the almost seductive way in which she had supplied him the curative potion and the careful contact of her hand on his then-armored chest. He had thought her a whore then, as great a nymphoniac as that old walking hunk of lust named Empress Teodora. She had no regrets, no feeling about kissing him, about taking away that experience that should have been reserved for someone who would have meant it. In her skimpy swimwear and alluring eyelash flutter lay only corruption, distraction. He had growled at her, let Ryogo deliver the head shot which by all means and rights should have killed her.

And yet he had moved in to aid her.

There was something about her that reminded him of his beautiful childhood friend; Agrias shared it as well, but Scarlett was another path that Fina could have taken. Intelligence, beauty, power, all attained through one means and one physical "loss". Ramirez had to avert his eyes for a second; in a way, he himself could have ended up becoming what she was. Had he given way to that offer, just a few years prior...

He shut his eyes and did not think of such things. Confronting this was what mattered, now. Try as he might, he could not bring himself to hate her any longer. Perhaps her kiss had been that of a whore's, in the water, as much a lust as a desire to heal. But when she had aided him in the previous round, that had not been the apathy of a Valuan lower city streetwalker- it was more the touch of a teammate. The care of an ally.

A nymphoniac ally, but an ally nonetheless.

"Sirrah," the ghost wailed again, behind him. "Help me...help me..."

Ramirez looked to Scarlett and Gilder, fishing into his tunic for a moment. "I had intended on saving these for the later rounds," he said, "but keep them in case you feel ill. I realize the sights here are not pleasant." From under his shirt he pried a pouch, and he undid the golden wire around it to bare a few faintly glowing green crystals. They pulsed with sylvan mist, almost as green as the eyes that were now laid upon them.

He offered one to Gilder, who nodded in recognition to the type. "Sacrulen Crystal. Nice...I haven't seen one of these in a while," he said.

Ramirez only nodded, then turned to Scarlett with the other crystal in tow. As she took it, however, his hand closed around hers into an almost-fist. As her eyes looked up to his, he kept his voice even and his irises dark. "For your sake, you had better stay alive," he growled. "...I'll hunt your soul down if you die."

He let a moment of silence pass, and then released her hand, turning from the both of them, and summarily began to walk.

"Hey, where are you going?" Gilder asked, frowning.

"We're heading for the stairs to climb the tower, aren't we?" Ramirez replied, keeping his eyes ahead of him. "I'll remove as many obstacles as I can ahead of you. Follow me in shadow- I'll make sure nothing harms either of you."

He frowned, then, as he kept the pace. There was an alien, unfamiliar pain in the hollow of his throat, as he said those words. Almost...like a lump.

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1 R-Vote to Gilder
1 R-Vote to Scarlett

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Sponsoring Ramirez, Skies of Arcadia, Team Two-On-One.

Baka
Wind Seer
Posts: 119
(6/8/02 3:27:27 am)

Act 4, Scene 1 - "Corridor"
"Ok... so where am I now?"

Ivan frowned, looking around the dark hallway he found himself in. Heh.. well, I know where I am, in terms of I'm in some evil Sorceresses castle, but.. this is just a corridor. Where is everyone else?

A twinge of regret passed over him for a second, as he considered how useful that visor would be now - but he threw it out as soon as he caught it. That suit was bad news for him. Sure, it let him do stuff he'd normally only be able to dream of, like fly, but the downsides were too bad.

Somewhere ahead of him, a chirping noise disturbed him, and he fell to the floor as a swarm of bats rocketed past where his head had been.

Something told him today would be the most dangerous day yet...

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This post is brought to you by the letter R, and the number 4.

R, that is... as in R-votes to Vivi and Kaze!

Once again, you knew it was coming.


Baka // Wind Seer // Salva Nos

Edited by: Baka at: 6/8/02 3:29:35 am
Kyo
RTT: Issac
Posts: 42
(6/8/02 7:47:03 am)

Act 4, Scene 1 - "Stained"
Despite Laguna's best efforts, Issac was still in a state of mental numbness as he proceeded through one of the darkened hallways on his own. He paid no attention to the mutilated demon corpses around him, the lack of light and excess of evil's stench, or the entire gruesome and horrific spectacle. It wasn't that he was so indifferent that he paid it no mind, but that his mind was purposely blocking out everything he saw around him but the stairs up ahead.

I'll have to face Ivan again sometime in the near future... he'll see to that. But what will I do?

He almost stepped through a corpse that was sprawled out over the hallway floor, but reacted barely in time to move over it, absently.

What will I do? Damn, I actually tried to kill him last time! The one I can't believe... is myself.

He moved ahead further, forcing himself to think in a cautious manner despite his melancholy. He sensed some creatures near the ceiling, nesting-- Just bats. No problem there.

Looking to the left, he noticed some strange language on the walls painted from the same dried blood of one of the bodies. It was written lightly, as if the author was close to death when he had written it; that was probably the case, Issac surmised. He suddenly heard a bloodcurdling scream, up at the next floor--

And when he looked up to sense what was up there, there was nothing. The scream had vanished as well. Was it my imagination? He turned to look back at the writing on the wall, further unsettled--

And found the blood fresh anew, dripping amidst black ichor. He could read it now, and the words pounded through his head with the unnatural, horrifying despration of the late author:

Savve.....ME.... SAVE ME!

Panic overruled his thoughts. Panting with fear, he broke into a run further down the hallway, trying to get away from a nightmare from which there wasn't an ecsape from.

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*rolls a 10-sided dice* I got a 2.

My two R-Votes go to Laguna and Yoshi.

Edited by: Kyo at: 6/8/02 8:28:23 am
Slipstream
RTT: Gilder
Posts: 60
(6/8/02 7:59:08 am)

Re: Act 4, Scene 1 - "Corridor"
No post for the moment, but Gilder will take the number 3.


~~~~~ dance ~~~~~ for ~~~~~ me ~~~~~

Kellios
RTT: Aeris Gainsborough
Posts: 52
(6/8/02 9:12:12 am)

Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round Four - Sponsors Only
Aeris stared down at the corpses below her, a sickening feeling swept over her as she stared down on the old bones before her.

What destruction... could this possibly happen to the Planet?

She felt weak, and she it looked obvious by the puzzled glances she received from Delita and Link.

"Aeris...?" Link started, but Aeris just shook her head and took a few steps towards what looked like a staircase.

I sense a War happened, and nothing was cleaned, and the area abandoned. Was Wutai ever similar to this? What did Elmyra's husband had to go through...? She stopped walking, and so did everyone else, who just looked at her/

"Aeris? What is wrong?" Link finally came out with, and Delita nodded.

"I... I'm sorry. I'm just not liking the feeling of this place..." Or how this could happen to everyone I know...

Delita nodded, and started once again towards the stairs, "Then let us go. This place has seen war, I know it. I've seen it before."

Aeris nodded, and started after Delita. Link stayed back a moment, and looked down at one of the corpse below him with a look of remorse. He then turned, and ran up to catch up with his friends.

Aeris looked at the stairs with relief, and started after Delita began to climb.

If only I could know what the future held for me....
****

1 R-Vote to:
Delita
Link


Pre-emptive.

Before Wedding Post:
Gad, what horrible timing for me >< I'll try and delay as much as possible, but I don't have a clue when I'm coming back tonight. Well, good luck to all the sponsors. I'm liking this round ^^

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"I'll come back when it's all over"~~Aeris Gainsborough

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