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Soujiro Seta
RTT :: Kaze
Posts: 14
(6/3/02 9:41:58 pm)

Round 1
Prevailing Winds - Part II

It was incredibly like an underground city. Buildings with random patterns of lit and unlit windows stretched toward not a sky, but the roof of a dark cavern, white fluorescent strips high at the very top casting a glow Kaze thought may have been an attempt at replicating the light of a silver moon. What time was he in? And what place? Perhaps people lived underground in this place, making monsters and trying to replicate their lives as they once were. He’d been several places in the Inner World where that was the case. The wind blowing through the grand cavern played with his long brown hair that fell down his back, bound at the neck and near the small of the back. His hair was coarse dirty, and the wind blowing through it felt mildly alleviating.

Built by the hands of man? Certainly not.

There was panic on the streets below, but either he didn’t notice, or pretended not to. He was on the roof of a tall building, cape rippling in the stale, dank air while the sound of klaxons blared every few minutes. He sat down against the edge of the roof and removed his red gun from its place at his left side. It needed reloading, and now was as good a time as any. For a man with only one arm technically usable, he’d become quite proficient at quick reloading. The handle, trim and palm-fitting as it was, did not look like it could hold the two separate clips it did. Two clips of twelve bullets each, one per separate barrel. It was a nice gun, very nice. A long time ago, someone had built it especially for him. Who? He couldn’t remember clearly. He only saw it before him and knew that it had been his signature armament…before the other gun. He pushed the thought out of his mind and turned his attention back to his work, dexterous fingers moving with surprising speed to place fresh bullets in the clips.

The streets were noisy with the staccato of gunfire. Chainguns, if his hearing told him correctly. The ever-changing lighting flashing upon the cavern’s smooth sides bespoke some sort of energy release; perhaps some breath attack by the monsters. Perhaps a high-yield energy weapon by the soldiers. Maybe they could be kind enough to kill each other off and bring about the onset of some quiet.

The air in the cavern was, despite the war going on many stories below, quite cold. Almost as if the environmental systems had failed…. Kaze’s breath rose over the lip of his cape that covered his mouth and blossomed into a cloud of mist that disappeared as quickly as it had formed. Everything there was cold to the touch – even his bullets from his bag had been chilled. But was the chill in the air? Or was it in…

Kaze didn’t have time to finish his contemplation, as the walls of the cavern lit up with a harrowing red light. Wheeling on his bottom to look over the edge, he saw the source: a huge monster, as large as a city block, had blown out a wall of flame that decimated the soldiers’ forces in much the same way as a rolling pin flattens dough. It almost appeared as a pit, a gaping hole in the middle of the wide road, yet at the same time, not a pit. Three tentacle-like appendages were rooted in the pit, tipped with huge black claws, almost as if a three-fingered hand was rising from the grave. The odd creature swung its tentacle-heads violently, smashing buildings and impaling troopers foolish enough to try to get in range to flashbang it. As he watched, he saw rockets arc through the wide avenue, spiraling trails of smoke in their wake. They smashed into the monster, the street, surrounding buildings, and even the cavern walls, arousing shouts of pain from the creature and a hail of falling debris as the faces of entire buildings sprayed their glass out onto the street like a fountain of diamond razors.

Bad aim…go figure.

“Bring in the Matra Missiles!” he could hear a voice shout from down below. Pushing the refilled clips back into the handle of his gun and holstering the piece, he gave his full attention to the war raging below, now that it had proven itself interesting enough. The creature was bleeding all over, but it took more than bullets and bombs to kill things that big, and certainly more than just perseverance.

They will die… Kaze’s aquamarine gaze remained transfixed on the scene below, watching as the triple stalks of green flesh smashed into the street like great spearheads, trying to skewer the soldiers like leaves of salad on a plate. The thing seemed to be growing even as he watched. It seemed to be putting as many corpses as it could into the blackness from which it sprouted. Feeding…

A great box was being lifted into position, and when it had been erected on a long shaft, what seemed to be as many as thirty small flaps opened and from each one came a missile, shrieking terribly as the back of the box erupted in smoke. Like a swarm of angry bees, the missiles dove toward their target, exploding one after another with a force that caused the nearby buildings to quake to their foundations. More chunks of rock and concrete broke free, revealing the buildings’ steel beams twisted in agony. Was it a standoff?

No…there would soon be a victor.

The smoke cleared and the army down below shouted curses to see that the alien had sprouted two more massive tentacle-heads. From the corner of his left eye, hidden behind the remaining lens of his sunglasses, he thought he saw some abnormal looking soldiers, people who looked like they didn’t belong. Looking around the battlefield, he saw several more out-of-place people and nodded. So…these were the contestants. If they died here, all the fewer threats to himself, right? He turned his back to the ghastly battle – more rightly called slaughter – ten stories below and begun to walk away, over the tiled roof. And that was when it happened.

“It moved…” he said quietly to himself, whipping his right arm out from under his black cape. A circular green jewel set in the otherwise smooth surface began to cast a pale verdant glow across Kaze’s face. Inside, he could feel it begin to ‘awaken’, that familiar feeling. It had deemed this the right time. He would not argue.

“Soil! My strength!” He shouted in a voice so strong and with such an air of command that many of those who were on the ground below paused to look up at him. The golden pod began to flake off rectangular pieces that spiraled in a fast orbit around it, detatching itself to reveal the bare skin of Kaze’s right hand; a sight never seen except at these times. Faster and faster the pieces whirled around his arm, like a jigsaw puzzle about to solve itself. Suddenly, they began to fall in place, first one, then another, then the sound of metal clacking together and interlocking seamlessly, forming another shape made of gold, one the soldiers recognized. It had finished compiling itself, and Kaze stood firm on the roof, his arm smoking in the dry light of the cavern.

“Demon Gun…dissolve!”

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“Demon Gun?” A young mage dressed in a red coat and a tall brown steeple hat looked up at the dark-clad man with his yellow eyes, wondering what to make of the sudden commotion. No longer was the tentacled beast rampaging after them, or the vast military force arrayed before it; it too had felt the waves of power emanating from this man and had turned its attention to the more threatening target. “I…Ivan…I’ve got a really bad feeling about this just now….” He shook his head, the floppy point of the hat wagging back and forth. On the ground where they were, it had just been ceaselessly dodging one attack after another, and that was before other contestants had come to check out the source of all the commotion and perhaps take out a few competitors in the process.

“Yeah…I feel it too. These are not some good vibes I’m pickin’ up. But there’s something you ought to know.” Ivan slowly told his partner, casting him a knowing glance. Vivi looked up at where Ivan had stretched out his right arm. The blue gem set in the bracer had begun to glow.

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The sharp claws that tipped the creature’s long green tentacles bared down into the spot Kaze had occupied only moments before, slicing the roof’s steel railing in two like a length of string. Kaze was not there anymore, but had made a running leap to the roof of the next building. The monster, sensing his movement, began to give chase as fast as it could. Two roofs over, Kaze whirled to face the beast, whose eight head-appendages snaked through the vast cavern, constricting buildings and maiming people left and right. Pointing at the creature with his left hand and furrowing his eyebrows, he seemed to have a plan of some sort. Or at least, everyone on the ground hoped so.

“I’ve chosen the appropriate soil for the likes of you!” he called out, amazingly audible to everyone even over the din of burning fires and gunfire. As his left hand reached at last for the bullets held in the loops of his belt, three cylindrical chambers on the back of the long triangular-shaped golden gun opened…chambers that corresponded to the three barrels on the other end that stared down the menacing alien with an almost-living sense of hatred.

“The grinding teeth of incandescence! Cardinal Red!” Yanking the bullet from its place in his belt, Kaze slammed it into the first barrel, the demon gun receiving the bullet with all the tenure of a dragon that hadn’t eaten in a month. Small though it was, some on the ground thought they almost could see the bullet’s bloody brilliance shining in the space between belt and gun.

“The gale of red lotus flowers! Dark Crimson!” Another red bullet of an even deeper hue than the first one was withdrawn, the placed into the second barrel, cap closing down over it.

“And finally, the strength of steel! Burnt Sienna!” He inserted the last of three colored bullets into the one open chamber left to him with an almost reverent air. It was now about to end…

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“Did he say ‘Burnt Sienna’ Ivan?” Vivi questioned “I don’t know…it seems like there are a lot more threatening colors than burnt sienna…I mean, isn’t that the crayon that nobody use—“ He was cut short by Ivan’s waving hand in front of his face.

“Vivi!” the young Red Mage heard Ivan shout frantically “I saw it! Something horrible’s gonna happen! We’ve gotta get everyone out of here NOW!” He grabbed Vivi’s gloved hand and began to run toward what was left of the military troopers.

“Can we take shelter behind a big building?” Vivi asked, knowing that to evacuate the whole cavern would prove a momentous task.

Ivan shook his head. “Everything here…the monster…these buildings…this whole cavern! It’s gonna be burned to ashes!”

“Is there time enough to get everyone out? It’s a big place!” Vivi shook his head frantically, knowing the situation seemed hopeless. But neither he nor Ivan could walk out on the people here; couldn’t leave them to their deaths. It wasn’t in either of their natures. There had to be a way.

“Maybe…” Ivan pondered, still running “you got any really good shield spells?” The pointy-hat nodded.

“I cast a mean Shell 2!”

“Perfect. The good news is that I’ve got a plan that can save all these people. The bad news is that it’ll be our necks on the line – we’re the last out of here.” He shrugged his shoulders. His adventures had made him all but used to the occasional hairbrained scheme now. He could see Vivi roll his eyes…er…glowing yellow circles, but both of them knew they’d do it anyway. It was the right thing to do.

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As soon as he’d slammed the hinged door of the final chamber, Kaze felt it. He felt the gun tremble ever so slightly in his hand. A drill-like apparatus on the side began to spin faster and faster, moving the soil of the bullets in a circular pattern to amplify their energies. The gun’s veinous crystal globe, which attached the bullet chambers with the barrel, began to pulsate, its vibration quickening like an excited heartbeat. He pointed the triple-barreled golden gun straight at where the vile creature was rooted in the ground below, even as its tentacles flew past him less than a meter away.

“Burn it all! Summoned creature….Ifrit!!!”

His voice rang like a war cry in the echoing cave as the muzzle of the gun seemed to explode in a plume of smoke, meandering beams of reddish light tinting the grey cloud scarlet. Almost immediately, the cloud began to churn in a spiral, as if funneling energy from the gun. All the lights in the vast cavern dimmed for a moment, then the whole underground city seemed to explode into blazing light as from the cloud erupted a gigantic brown demon, head and arms fringed with orange tufts of wild hair! A giant pair of horns crowned the demon’s head, the claws of his massive hands stretched wide and appearing almost blurry to the eye due to the intense heat. From the fang-filled mouth belched forth flickering, almost liquid flames. It was heading straight for the tentacled beast, its back blazing in an unholy flame.

The beast withdrew its tentacles from the rooftop at once, but it was too late; Ifrit had slammed into the base of the stalks with a fiery rage, unprincipled savageness guiding its heated teeth and fangs. Kaze watched with a fascination that some would’ve deemed morbid as his handiwork ripped one of the giant green stalks up from its root, tossing it into a building and following up with a deafening roar that seemed to quake the very ground of the cavern.

Ifrit roared again, this time a roar of pain. One of the now-seven tentacles’ sharp points now lay buried in Ifrit’s back, boiling blood gushing from the wound. Kaze narrowed his eyes to a penetrating gaze.

No matter who the opponent is…their movement will be halted by Ifrit’s raging flames…

Surely enough, Ifrit grabbed the appendage with his right arm and tore the limb from the converging point, grabbing the other end of the length in his left hand and ripping it asunder, more inky green spraying everywhere, then evaporated by the tremendous heat. Already, the green appendages seemed to be turning brown. A powerful wind was blowing in the cavern now, whipping Kaze’s black cape violently as he watched the titanic clash. Ifrit stopped suddenly, then rose into the air, hands outstretched over his head. A ball of pure flame began to form, growing larger and larger as the hellspawn rose above the underground city complex. Looking down at the writing mass of snaking tentacles one last time, Ifrit threw his hands down, the massive flaming orb hurtling down like a falling sun.

Kaze felt the impact on the ground, squinted his eyes at the incredible light that seemed to grow within the cavern until he could see nothing at all. The buildings were disintegrating; he could tell by the noise. Such was the hell-born power of Ifrit, prince of flames. He felt the swirling ecstasy of the heat begin to overwhelm him, and looked at the bracer on his oustretched upper right arm. The blue gem was glowing, ever so faintly. He could feel the two others whom the host said would share in the battle; he felt them draw a bit of strength from him, from the little he had on his own. In an instant, words began to come back to him, words Lisa had spoken to him in anger…just before the last time he’d called forth Ifrit.

Even those who aren’t in human form are much more human than you! And you call yourself human? Isn’t your Demon Gun meant to save people?

No… he could almost hear himself reply to the memory of the words. But all was gone, and he knew that though Ifrit’s work was done, his might never be.

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Ifrit's savage flames broil some competitors caught in the crossfire!

1 A-Vote for Conker
1 A-Vote for Strago
1 A-Vote for Kuja
1 A-Vote for Black Mage
1 A-Vote for Garai
1 A-Vote for Billy

Use Special Ability 'Leg Shot' on:
- Billy
- Black Mage

Use Special Ability 'Herbology' TWICE

1 Powered-up R-Vote on Vivi
1 Powered-up R-Vote on Ivan

1 Powered-up R-Vote on Gilder
1 Powered-up R-Vote on Bowser

(they were...able to escape from the blast with Vivi and Ivan's scheme!)



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Baka and Sylph, thanks for waiting. You guys can take it from here for the rest of the round. :)

Soil! My strength!

Edited by: Soujiro Seta at: 6/3/02 10:14:52 pm
Tyrus Alfudore
Customer
Posts: 29
(6/3/02 9:43:03 pm)
Re: Golbez gets into the action.
( So.... they've been spreading lies have they. I don't blame them I used the same tactic many times, but this is hurting those two... I have to talk to this Golbez.)

With that Kuja got up and disapeared out of the room. He then reapeared in the hall way. " Golbez we need to talk!"

OOC: BM didn't start the fight, Ivan did. Look at the bottom of page 4 and respond once you read. I'll be waiting...

sponsored by Kuja.

Edited by: Tyrus Alfudore at: 6/3/02 9:57:44 pm
Izlude
RTT: Strago Magus
Posts: 31
(6/3/02 9:45:04 pm)

Re: Laguna Loire: 1-6 "Oh, Sweet Temptation!"
Strago continued walking, and he came upon a furry creature being attacked by another one of those beasts.. though.. it looked a little different from the one that had attacked him earlier. he lifted his staff and summoned a stone, he swung his staff and the stone lauched at the creature, sending it to the ground. he then turned to the furry creature and muttered a cure spell..

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OOC: quick and dirty.. its all i have time for :P

using absorb:
Yoshi(attacking)
conker(healing) [

Exeter
RTT-Delita Hyral
Posts: 79
(6/3/02 9:45:51 pm)

Re: Golbez gets into the action.
As Delita continued on with his two companions (and Navi, of course), he wondered about what the winged-man, the host of the tournament, had said to him back at Zeltennia Castle.

There's supposed to be someone here who knows something about Ramza and Alma. That's why I'm here; not to fight, but to get some answers.

A dripping sound was coming from somewhere, but he couldn't see it.

Then WHY am I stuck in a place like this, fighting monsters and men with guns?!

Though it was probably just his imagination, Delita could have sworn he could see his sword and armor rusting.

Just let me find whoever it is and get out of here, for crying out loud!

*********

Itchy trigger...erm, sword finger. Or something.

Gonna have to quit for the night pretty soon, guess I'd better think about tossing those votes out there...

Edited by: Exeter at: 6/3/02 9:48:23 pm
Shizuyoko
RTT::Laguna Loire
Posts: 31
(6/3/02 9:49:11 pm)

Laguna Loire: 1-7 "Drive-By Pummeling!"
Laguna Loire: 1-7
Drive-By Pummeling!


Laguna watched Ward move off and felt a wave of sadness rush through him. He’d wanted nothing more than to have Kiros and Ward here with him, and now Ward WAS here, but completely unattainable; a potential enemy even, if Laguna understood the rules of this tournament properly.

“Well this sucks rocks.” He scowled at his bug-besplattered shirt and sighed. Nothing penetrated his sudden depression, not even the red dress so close by him. He ran one hand through his hair and made a choking noise when he saw the bug innards that clung to his hands.

“Aw, maaaaaaan,” he groaned, “How do I get myself into this shit?” He reached down to wipe helplessly at the filthy seat of his pants.

"Hey, you! Yeah! I'm going to give you a bloody nose!" The shout came from just down the hall. Laguna looked up, puzzled, and then found himself teetering on the edge of collapse as a small boy attacked, pummeling him mercilessly.

“AHHH!” Laguna yelled, trying to pull the little monster off of him. “What’s your major malfunction, boy?!” he shouted as he tried to grasp the little weasel. The boy was too quick; Laguna was NOT faring well in this particular battle. Suddenly a man and a… squirrel? (Laguna wasn’t sure) appeared, grabbing the boy and racing off to disappear around a corner.

Laguna stood there in a daze with a torn shirt, and, yes, a bloody nose. He reached up and touched the injured member tentatively. Behind him he heard a small giggle that quickly turned into a full-fledged belly laugh. With a sinking heart Laguna turned around and saw Scarlett leaning against the wall, holding her stomach helplessly as she gave in to all her urges.

“The… look… on your… face…” she stuttered, and burst into gales of laughter.

Laguna rubbed his face and smiled sheepishly. Well, if the red dress was having a good time then it couldn’t be all bad, right?

Right.


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

Baka
Wind Seer
Posts: 79
(6/3/02 9:49:53 pm)

Re: Golbez gets into the action.
Tyrus, one vote does not constitute an all out attack.

Now can we PLEASE let this drop?


Baka // Wind Seer // Salva Nos

Izlude
RTT: Strago Magus
Posts: 32
(6/3/02 9:56:28 pm)

Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round One
"WHOA!"
strago was knocked against the wall by the immense blast caused by the creature. he slowly lifted himself back up with his cane.. feeling.. empowered. 4 glowing orbs appeared around him and he began muttering in a tongue he did not understand. the fiery beast once again appeared and created an shockwave of fiery death around himself.
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OOC:mmmm... loreage...


Shockwave on:
kaze
Issac
Laguna
yoshi

AsylumXKP
RTT::Conker
Posts: 40
(6/3/02 9:59:17 pm)

Re: Golbez gets into the action.
--HA! I've been waiting AAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLL round to do this! If you've played Conker's BFD, then you know what's going to happen!

Conker was running with his tail on fire, finding a nice pool of water to quench the flames.
"Ahhh! Alright Demon! Payback time!"
Conker remembered from his last adventure on how to stop creatures of pure fire. He stumbled drunkenly in front of the fire-based summon.
"Hey you!" Conker reached down to his groin area and unzipped a zipper under his fur (They're fur PANTS. Used by 9/10 pantless cartoons everywhere!). He reached in the new hole pulling out--

*SCENE DELETED.

"AARAAAAAGGGGH! I can't believe the squirrel pissed on me! My flames! My flames! Nooooo!" Ifrit dissapeared in a puff of smoke. Kaze looked at the Squirrel oddly. Conker said nothing, he only zipped up his fly, grabbed a glass of water, and placed an Alka-Seltzer in it. He took a swig, and his bloodshot eyes were gone.
"This is why you don't mess with squirrels." Conker walked off humming a tune.
Kaze was still staring at the squirrel oddly.
Conker turned around. "Oh, here's for your troubles. Give one to a friend as well." Conker pulled out a 2 large bars of Anti-Gravity chocolate on the floor. They floated 3 inches off the ground, spinning around in mid-air.

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Conker is no longer DRUNK
R-vote To Kaze
R-vote for Baka


=== Lvl 1 Adept. 0 Attack Votes (-2, PARALYZE), 0 Reversal Votes, 14 Special Points ===


"Oh yeah, I'm gonna get tanked tonight!"

Edited by: AsylumXKP at: 6/3/02 10:08:54 pm
Tyrus Alfudore
Customer
Posts: 30
(6/3/02 9:59:48 pm)
Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round One
The same could be said to you Ivan.. BM retailated for the attack it's you who started the all out thing.
Still waiting on you Golbez..

Tyrus

Shizuyoko
RTT::Laguna Loire
Posts: 32
(6/3/02 10:06:22 pm)

Laguna Loire: 1-8 "Ow!"
Laguna 1-8
Ow!


The fiery shock wave sifted through the air and knocked Laguna off his feet.

“Where the hell did that come from?” he ejaculated as he dragged himself back up. “Shit!” He glanced at Scarlett and told her, “I’m going to go check on Gilder. That came from his direction.”

Laguna took off in a pained lope, his nose sore and swollen. The scene that met his eyes was massively confused and Laguna blinked once and then twice trying to figure out just what was going on. All that came clearly to him was the sight of a lone blonde boy lying on the floor.

Well that’s no good, Laguna told himself, and calmed himself down enough to spell cast.

“CURAGA!”

The gentle green particles floated down onto Ivan’s head and sparkled brightly before disappearing.

“I hope that helps,” Laguna told the unknown boy.

“Um… where am I?”

***

Used:
1 R-Vote to Ivan

Level 1 Adept Remaining:
5 A-Votes
0 R-Votes
60 SP


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

Edited by: Shizuyoko at: 6/3/02 10:08:50 pm
Cirrus Velious
RTT - Link
Posts: 21
(6/3/02 10:08:32 pm)

Re: Golbez gets into the action.
The trio walked into the new room. It seemed almost completely closed off from the rest of the complex, and there was now no alternative route out.

"You see anything Delita?" Link inquired of the swordsman.

"Nope....no way out of here...I ..think..."

Navi flew around the ceiling. "There's a vent up there, it leads to the floor above us....may as well check it out..."

Link hopped up onto a barrel and started working at the ventilation wire. He finally got sick of it and jammed his sword through the thin metal, knocking it completely loose.

"Well...I suppose that's one way to do it..." Delita said, almost smiling. "Link....stack up some Barrels, we'll make our way through there, and hope nothing's watching us from the next floor up....."

Link hopped through the grate, pulling himself up, and reached down to grab Aeris' hand. Aeris gave him a soft smile as he pulled her through. Link reached back down for Delita, but he ignored Link's offer of help and simply jumped up and grabbed the edge, pulling himself through.

"Thanks for the help up Link!" Aeris said, smiling at him as they walked onward. "No problem Aer...Delita...What are you doing?"

Link looked toward Delita, who had his sword in hand, and looked to be ready for a fight. "Someone's coming around the corner....lets be ready for them..."

The green clad warrior pulled his sword out of its sheath and stood next to Delita, Aeris pulled her staff out and stood behind the two of them. "Umm...I'll back you guys up if there's too much trouble..."

Three contestants walked out from behind the corner, and though Link would've talked to them to determine thier intent first, Delita was already on them. Well...I'd better back him up...

Link jumped out on the strange trio. A gunman, a blue haired guy in a bikini, and a stranged cloaked guy in a hat. Link smacked the gunman with the hilt of his sword, and caught a glimpse of Delita slicing into the cloaked guy's arm, but not before he got off a flame spell, singeing both Link and Delita's arms. Link dropped his shield on the ground as a reaction to the severe burns on his shield hand.

"Dammit, Delita, we've gotta take out the mage!"
"I know Link, I can tell, in case you can't tell, he got me too!"

Link and Delita converged on the Black Mage, and Link got off one powerful attack, but not before being slammed into Delita by a powerful blast coming from Kuja, leaving Link and Delita laying on the ground.

"By Din...this is bad..."
"Agreed..."

Link hopped to his feet, getting a small slice into Kuja's stomach...before something hit him that he wasn't expecting at all...a metal slug right to his right arm, leaving his sword-hand completely crippled, and knocking his sword clear across the room....on the other side of the three competitors.

"...This is very...very bad..." Link said, and then broke into a mad dash for his sword, doing the best he could to getr past the three enemies. Black Mage hit him with his staff as he went by, flipping him completely over thier backs. On the bright side, he was now right next to his sword....
********

1 A-Vote to Kuja, Black Mage, and Billy
Deathblow to Billy
Deathblow to Kuja
Deathblow to Black Mage

Link - 6 A-Votes remaining, 2 R-Votes remaining, 7 SP remaining

Over to either of you, Kell or Ex

Exeter
RTT-Delita Hyral
Posts: 80
(6/3/02 10:12:44 pm)

Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round One
"Well, this isn't good."

The party had been unable to locate a suitable exit to the ivory room, and the damaged barrels were beginning to smell a bit.

"Hmm...I suppose I could make a door," Delita suggested. He had never had an opportunity to use this technique, and now seemed as good a time as any...

"Heaven's wish to destroy all minds...Holy Explosion!"

A massive chain of magical energy shot up and out from his sword, blowing clean through the wall.

And the next one.

...and the one after that.

The path of destruction continued as far as he could see.

"Oops. Maybe I'd better practice a bit next time."

********

Caught in the blast:
Garal- 1 a-vote and a deathblow
Yoshi- 1 a-vote and a deathblow
cinder-1 a-vote and a deathblow
billy- a-vote
kuja- a-vote
black mage- a-vote
citan- a-vote

Sorry, guys. Had to get rid of my votes.

See you all tomorrow.

Edit: Damn! Sorry, Cirrus, I don't have time to sort all this out. Can we say this happened before your post, but we were forced through the vents anyway (by aliens or something)? Feel free to use Delita however you want.

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They're all swept up in the same flow. I'm just going against it.

Edited by: Exeter at: 6/3/02 10:14:40 pm
Switchblade
RTT- Ryogo Kusama
Posts: 32
(6/3/02 10:16:38 pm)
Re: Golbez gets into the action.
Brain frozen. Sorry if this is a bit sub-par.

"That guy called you Ward, right?" Ryogo asked his partner. Once again the big guy nodded but said nothing. "Cool. Nice to meet ya, Ward."

The two stood around for a moment, looking around the various branching corridors. "So," Ryogo said, "Which way?" Ward glanced down a couple of the hallways before finally pointing at one which ran off to the left. "As good as anything I guess," Ryogo shrugged.

The two started off down the hallway, and for a while it seemed like a pretty good choice. After a few minutes, however, something very drastic changed their minds. Suddenly one of the corridor's walls exploded outwards, sending a massive alien creature and several other figures flying through the new opening. Reacting instinctively Ryogo drew one of his machine guns and opened fire at the group, not entirely certain of who or what he was shooting.

"Okay," Ryogo casually said to Ward, "On second thought this may not have been the best idea. Care to try another way?" Ward nodded vigorously. Retreating under the cover of Ryogo's machine gun fire the duo retreated to try another corridor.

And now for one of the joys of Rurouni Taikiai: Random Voting! :D

The following were caught in Ryogo's rain of gunfire and get 1 Attack vote each:
Black Mage
Shadow
Garai
Strago

Baka
Wind Seer
Posts: 80
(6/3/02 10:18:55 pm)

Act 1, Scene 10 - ""
"Where am I?"

"Same place, kid." The long-haired man stood up and stretched. "You should be ok now. Hey, who did this to you?"

"I.. didn't see. We were fighting the monster... and then all hell broke loose. Vivi.. is Vivi ok?" He began to sit up, brushing soot off his robe.

"That the little red guy? He seems ok. He's chatting to the gun dude over there."

Ivan looked over, and sure enough, Vivi was talking to the man with the elemental gun. And he thought he saw the squirrel from earlier, too... but there was no sign of the mysterious stranger.

Ivan stood up, and felt his energies were returning. Casting a couple of Cure spells, he walked over to Vivi. "Who was that guy? Our last team-mate?"

"Yeah... he seemed weird."

Ivan blinked. A memory rose in his mind - something from the fight - his Mind Read ability flailing loose again.

"Kaze... Kuroki Kaze. The Black Wind."

Vivi looked up at Ivan. "Will we see that man again?"

"I have a feeling we will, Vivi. I have a feeling we will."

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Last 2 R-votes - to Laguna and Conker.


Baka // Wind Seer // Salva Nos

KyleIII
RTT: Falco Lombardi
Cook

Posts: 1055
(6/3/02 10:18:59 pm)

Re:
"Listen up boys," Falco said, "We can't just go charging in there and attacking everyone we see. We've got to plan our strategy more carefully and attack from the shadows. Then we'll be able to survive this thing."

Hearing a conversation taking place around the corner, Falco held up his hand (or wing, if you like) motioning for silence. Peeking around the corner, he saw two men talking. One was rather large, wearing full body armor, while the other was almost skinny, wearing glasses and dressed in a green kimono.

Pulling out his blaster, Falco got off a few shots at each of the men, hitting them both. Just as he was about to order a retreat, he noticed that Mog was dancing. "Of all the crazy..."

Before Falco could say anything, however, a large swarm of small creatures charged towards their victims. "Not bad, they won't be able to reach us now," Falco remarked, "Alright, we'd better get out of here."

Suddenly, Dath shot what looked like a bolt of lightning at the other two men. "Couldn't let you guys have all the fun!" Dath remarked as the team took off down the hall disappearing into the shadows.

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1 A-vote to Garai
1 A-vote to Citan

Edited by: KyleIII at: 6/3/02 10:20:38 pm
Cirrus Velious
RTT - Link
Posts: 22
(6/3/02 10:19:07 pm)

Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round One
Alrighty then Ex...sure....that works...I'm too lazy to edit my post, but sure, we'll say that happened XD

Simplistic Hero
RTT: ......
Posts: 32
(6/3/02 10:21:18 pm)

Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round One

The Holy Explosion rocketed along the compounds metallic floor. Ward sprinted to catch it and flung himself in its path.

"This was a horrible idea."

Ward crossed his arms over his chest, staggered his legs and bent his knees in preperation for the impact.

The blast smashed against his chest, crackling with energy, searing at his armor and military uniform. Ward sense the blast's momentum fading as it pushed against his frame, and in a great effort he heaved forward, flung his arms outwards and completly difused the blast.

In response, he torn the harpoon from his back, and with two steps of momentum, he flung the heavy spear in the direction of the blast.

The harpoon disappeared down the dark hallway.

"Damn. Now i have to go find it."

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Defending Cinder from Delita's attack.

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"Thats a big question. I'm just a simple person."

Kellios
RTT: Aeris Gainsborough
Posts: 29
(6/3/02 10:30:54 pm)

Re: Rurouni Taikai Tactics - Round One
Aeris was concentrating hard, and hit the silver-haired man and the young boy in the green outfit with a Fire3 spell, enough to send them back with some serious burns of their own. Link was, however struggling with the Black Mage. The two of them were wrestling on the floor, and Delita was pushing the two silver-haired men out of the corridor.

Link managed to push the Black Mage aside, grab his sword with his left hand, even still wuick, as clumsily as he was left-handed, he pointed the sword at the Black mage's chest. The Mage stayed still and looked at Link, who was breathing hard from the bout with the Mage.

Aeris ran over to Link, and then looked down at the mage, and then back up at Link. She did a quick heal spell to help with the pain of his arm.

"Let him go. C'mon, let him go." She pleaded with Link, who was giving Aeris the raised eyebrow.

"Are you crazy?" Delita inquired as he came forth to also tower over the Mage.

"No, simply let him go. Can you not see that he's bee hurt enough? Link, let him go...."

Link stared at Aeris, and then at Delita, and back down at the mage, who hadn't moved. Soon enough, Link relucntenly pullwed the sword back, and the mage scrambled out of the room and out into the corridor. Delita snorted.

"You just better hope he does not come back and kill us." He sneered, and he looked outside the corridor. Link gave Aeris a nervous look, but she did take notice of him, for she was now moving back to the vent with the stacked barrels.

"Don't we want to get out of here?" She questioned Delita, who suddenly turned back to his companions.

"Yeah! C'mon you guys! It's all dusty up he.... er.... ACHOOOOO!!!" Navi sneezed, and sniffled. Aeris giggled and pet Navi on top of the head, before moving back to the vent.

Delita sighed, and started to move up the vents, too. Link stood behind for a moment, and then scrambled into the vent....
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1A-Vote
Kuja
Billy

******

No hard feelings, guys.

0A-Votes, 6R-Votes, 80SO


edit: I CAN read. Really!

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

Edited by: Kellios at: 6/3/02 10:39:09 pm
Mintaka
RTT: Lise
Posts: 19
(6/3/02 10:31:23 pm)
"There is a time for everything..."
It was the screams that bothered her most; screams that reminded her too clearly of what became of Rolante, and many friends.

Screams which just bothered her all the more.

She was here to fight. So fight she would. She whirled to look at her companions.

"I'll be back. I ... need to settle some things."

She didn't say she needed to clear her mind of memories reviving once more. She may have reclaimed Rolante back home, but she still had not found Elliot, nor could she return to life her father, or friends lost to the Navarre invaders...

"By the Mana's blessing..."

She shot down the halls, gouging anything that moved, and whatever blocked her way met her spear, sharp-end first. She passed scientists by without a thought, and tore through guards who were busy looking the other way.

And she skid to a halt, spying a lone warrior. He turned, dual blades in hand, eyes narrowed. His silver hair lay back and around his stern face, and something in his eyes bothered her. Something that caused her minor confusion. He had to be one of the competitors. She crouched.

"Well," she hissed, balancing the spear in one hand. "Who might you be? I am Lise, princess of Rolante and excpert of the lance."

"Garai, Acacia Dragoon Deva, and weirder of Einlanzer."

"Well then, we both are here because of these-" she showed the bracelet "-and know what that means."

"If you insist..."

She leapt into action, spear meeting crossed blades as she landed, gritting her teeth. He drew a balde free and swung for her side, but she jumped back quickly, narrowing avoiding the silver blade and freeing her spear. He swung in a cross strike, and she met it with the pole of her silver lance, sliding back unmercilessly on the slick floor under the pressure. She pushed and then suddenly let go, releasing the psear wiht one hand and letting his force drop him down. She swung, trying to bury it but he rolled clear, metal spear drawing sparks as it skid on the floor.

She flipped it around then and jabbed him in the side instead with the butt of it, seeing sa he stood, not really phased by the swing. She at least proved she could hit him. Their fight would have gone longer had flames not come out of nowhere as she leapt intoa doorway, avoiding the flickering flames which licked at the warrior. The heat was enough to be felt still, and she fled down the hall, knowing that even Undine would be unable to stop such intensity.

Her tracks took her a long way around, her lance still seeking targets. She stopped a corner before a trio which looked to have seriously caused some trouble. Two of them seemed young and small; much like the brother she had left behind. She didn't trust the third one at all, and rolled to round drops their way, trusting to fate as she dashed off.

{Vivi would find these, and scan them to discover they were heling items, and pass one to Ivan.}
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A-vote: Garai
R-vote: Ivan, Vivi


*Shrugs* I had to find something to do. Ok, barring discrepency... fit that soemwhere around there, because I'm writing REALLLLY freaking slow tonight. In fact, I HAVE to call it a night because I HAVE to get up early.

Plus I'm so tired, I might as well drop dead.

Tyrus Alfudore
Customer
Posts: 31
(6/3/02 10:37:17 pm)
Re: "There is a time for everything..."
Kuja finally having enough of all of this lets a huge scream of Rage! He then realizes all the power he has left into one fury on an attack! The power sends Aeris and Link flying and keeps going through the complex. He then uses his absorb technique on Link. He then grabs his comrads and disapears with them to a abunded room. They hide there for the rest of the night and sleep with wounds still deep and wondering is they well survive in this mad tournament.

Shockwave!

1 A vote for Link, Aeris, Ivan, Vive

Absorb!

1 A vote for Link

1 R vote for Kuja.

0 A votes, 0 R votes, 36 sp remain.



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Edited by: Tyrus Alfudore at: 6/3/02 10:42:42 pm
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