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Gladonost Too Orky For You from Exterminatus'd Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Too Orky For You
#451: Jan 18th 2014 at 8:20:04 PM

Andy got up after finishing his latest beer, listing slightly to one side, "Lihtu, *hic* I'm going home for a while. If you find out anything 'bout that enchanter chick give me a call," he said throwing a piece of paper with his number down onto the bar along with some money to cover his drinks. He then stumbled drunkenly outside and started making his way back to his flat.

/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\ Will you make a contract with me?
TroyandHawk The Blinder from Back Home. Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
The Blinder
#452: Jan 18th 2014 at 9:42:47 PM

Weird walked down the street, going over things in his head, great. He had it down, except for the vampire and whatever the hell that one woman is, well, all he had to do was lure the thing, and murder it. The whole splitting the reward with three others didn't sit well with him, but, oh well. He looked up just as he bumped into a stumbling drunk man who had just exited the Catspaw. "Sorry!"

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Gladonost Too Orky For You from Exterminatus'd Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Too Orky For You
#453: Jan 18th 2014 at 10:00:01 PM

"Hey you, I hearda you *hic* you're Weird aren't ya? Huh?" Andy half-asserted half-asked as he clutched the man's shoulder to keep from falling down. "Yer a jerk aren't ya? But then, we all jerks one way or another, right," Andy slurred leaning in towards Weird's face, his sunglasses slipping down a bit showing the utterly inhuman slitted eyes hidden behind them for just a moment, before Andy straightened back up, pushed his sunglasses back on and handed Weird a snake-skin that was missing its tail and lower body before walking back off towards his flat.

/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\ Will you make a contract with me?
TroyandHawk The Blinder from Back Home. Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
The Blinder
#454: Jan 18th 2014 at 10:28:28 PM

Weird whirled around, grabbing at the drunk's shoulder, "Hang on!" If he succeeded he would throw the drunk against the wall. "Okay, what the fuck are you?" He asked, the facthe had just organized a plan to catch a monster and was being threatned...? by this snake eyed shit, was a bit too much to be a coincidence.

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Gladonost Too Orky For You from Exterminatus'd Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Too Orky For You
#455: Jan 18th 2014 at 10:49:42 PM

Andy hit the wall hard before sliding down it to where he was sitting on the ground. A loud hissing started emanating from beneath his hood as if from the mouths of a thousand snakes and he bared his teeth in pain showing two snake-like fangs. "Wha was that for, man?" he groaned as he attempted to stand back up, "try to give a man a present and what happens, I get thrown into a stupid wall."

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TroyandHawk The Blinder from Back Home. Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
The Blinder
#456: Jan 18th 2014 at 10:51:51 PM

"What the hell is this?" Weird asked, clearly aggravated. "And please, you try that bullshit theatrics and you deserve that, alright Snakey? Now," he held out the snake skin, "Mind telling me about this?"

edited 18th Jan '14 10:52:31 PM by TroyandHawk

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Gladonost Too Orky For You from Exterminatus'd Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Too Orky For You
#457: Jan 18th 2014 at 10:59:53 PM

"Hehehe, it's from ma hair they shed the other day," mumbled the gorgon, still a little punch-drunk as well as liquor-drunk, "Snakeses can smell it so they knows not ta bite. Tryin' keep you safe remind me of me when I was a little tyke, y'know?" The man, finally succeeding in standing up, put a hand on Weird's shoulder, "Be safe, little me," then took his hand off the other man and turned to drift back towards his place.

/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\ Will you make a contract with me?
daltar The Maid from the fantasy of green. Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
The Maid
#458: Jan 19th 2014 at 2:13:04 PM

Natsumi's plan did heigthen her aim, allowing her to hit the monster squarely in the chest. The paper enveloped rock suddenly exploded on contact, generating a fireblast of one meter in diameter where it stuck. However, the big monstrosity barely seemed disturbed by the fact. He flinched back, his chest lightly scalded... though the layer of water and mud there seemed to have been blown away.

However, that left the thing near Natsumi... as the troll lifted his arm high in the sky to then swipe down at her. His arms were long... more than Natsumi was tall, with long fingers ending up in hook like claws.


As Renee turned around, she would be met by a very strange sight. Creeping slowly behind her was what appeared to be red haired ape. However, the more she looked at it, the more she would notice something... off about it. The thing seemed to shift beneath her vision... irradiating an air that was clearly hostile if not malevolent. It's eyes... they were pure red in color, bordered by a yellow sclera. It's mangled fur seemed hard and stuck out at strange angles... almost like quills. It's proportions were a bit wrong as well... or more like, the way it move so close to the floor. It seemed like an unholy mix of a monkey with a wolf. And it crawled straight towards her... hate emanating from its bloody eyes.

"''Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuee!" It cried out, showing row after row of sharp teeth, a pair of wicked fangs and a forked tongue like that of a snake. After that, it started to sprint towards her.

Renee better run and fast... and the only building nearby that had an open door was a nearby church.


"... A-Alright" said the man, visibly restraining something within him at the touch. Yet he took a deep breath and steadied himself "Can we just... go through... where there is not so much people?"

edited 19th Jan '14 2:14:34 PM by daltar

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TroyandHawk The Blinder from Back Home. Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
The Blinder
#459: Jan 19th 2014 at 3:00:58 PM

Weird walked into the bar, "Whiskey." He commented as he sat down, rolling his eyes. "Fucking snake people..."

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RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#460: Jan 19th 2014 at 3:26:46 PM

Lihtu's eyes narrowed at the comment, and she coughed pointedly, just in case Weird had forgotten exactly who was tending bar.

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TroyandHawk The Blinder from Back Home. Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
The Blinder
#461: Jan 19th 2014 at 3:29:28 PM

"Oh...You're a snake person?" Weird asked, slightly embarrassed.

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RainehDaze Figure of Hourai from Scotland (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: Serial head-patter
Figure of Hourai
#462: Jan 19th 2014 at 5:03:33 PM

The girl's preparation to get out of the way served her well, and she threw herself to the side before being shredded by the monster's hands. What she was really hoping for now was for Gabriel to draw its attention so she could prepare more rocks. Taking her eye off the monster would just lead to getting sliced open when she failed to move out of the way in time.

Hopefully he wasn't too stunned by being thrown off it...

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RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#463: Jan 19th 2014 at 5:12:13 PM

Lihtu didn't dignify that with an answer, settling for pouring the whiskey and setting it in front of the detective just roughly enough that it didn't splash over the rim.

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Gladonost Too Orky For You from Exterminatus'd Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Too Orky For You
#464: Jan 19th 2014 at 5:21:44 PM

Andy walked into his flat, listing to one side, before walking into his bathroom and grabbing a Sobering Potion, "Ugh, I hate these things," he groaned dreading the taste. He knocked it back quickly to avoid as much of the taste as he could then walked back out to grab that sword and then get back to the Catspaw to see 'bout that enchantress he kinda sorta remembered Lihtu mentioning.

/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\ Will you make a contract with me?
Gladonost Too Orky For You from Exterminatus'd Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Too Orky For You
#465: Jan 20th 2014 at 3:31:03 PM

Andy walked out of the antique shop the proud new owner of a cold iron xiphos that he had already affectionately named Atalanta. It swung in a sheath by his side as he began to make his way back to the Catspaw.

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Starbound2 Since: Jan, 2001
#466: Jan 25th 2014 at 2:13:37 PM

Of course the only real reasonable course of action a normal person could take in that situation was to run. In the face of a strange and probably dangerous creature that you had no knowledge on how to deal with, fighting would just be suicide. And standing still was only waiting for death to come.

Unfortunately, Renee wasn't in a reasonable state of mind. The rational part of her brain was overwritten by horror. Of course, a monkey-gorilla would seem like an odd, almost laughable sight in any context other than this - it was certainly no epic fantasy's dragon or horror's eldritch creatures. But what it was was an abomination in the flesh. Something that should not be, yet here it was, breathing, screeching, heaving.

And headed straight for her.

The college girl's legs felt like stone rooted to the ground, that stiff, frozen feeling quickly overtaking her whole body as she felt she was stuck in place. Just as that paralysis engulfed her being, she realized she needed to move, right then, but stone became jelly as she turned to flee, legs failing to support her anymore as she tripped over her feet and stumbled to the ground.

Laying prone and facing towards the beast, Renee scurried along the ground away from it, feeling like a worm unable to stand.


Seeing him tense, Veronica withdrew her hand and nodded. "Of course; my office should be a quiet one today, and I'll make sure no one disturbs us. Actually, my car is parked nearby - do you mind if I drive you there instead? It'll be a bit faster than walking."

daltar The Maid from the fantasy of green. Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
The Maid
#467: Jan 26th 2014 at 1:06:39 PM

And indeed, Natsumi would soon see the figure of Gabriel rising from the water and mud of the river to then charge at the back of the troll the moment he saw the beast lunging for the girl.

With a defiant cry he leaps at the beast's back... his wooden blade seemingly bursting to flames as he strikes with a hard vertical blow at it... making the beast let out a cry and suddenly turn around... though the creature's wide and strong back didn't seem all that damaged by the hit.


Renee could see it all as the creature leapt at her... moving in a quick arc through the air straight towards her... wicked, hook like claws extended, fangs dripping with saliva and a look of utter glee and hate in its demonic red eyes.

In the moment where everything should be over, Renee could for some reason make out a little noise coming from some distance behind her. A quiet thump... like a stick hitting the ground.

The moment that sound was heard a powerful light blasted from something behind Renee... a clear blinding brilliance looking as if the very sun was now at her back, accompanied from a deep sound similar to a trumpet. From this light, the demonic ape was thrown back as if it had been hit head on by a rushing truck. It cried and groaned on the floor a few meters away from Renee... digging its claws on the floor as it tried not to be forced back by the power of the light. However, such effort was in vain... as the light continued to rush at it... making its skin and form to start dissolving into black smoke. Finally, after a few moments the evil creature was no more... and the light coming from behind Renee too vanished. Thankfully she had not been looking back, otherwise she was pretty sure she would have been blinded by its sheer radiance.

But now, should she look back she would find... a priest. A tall, slender man with short, slightly curly sandy blond hair dressed in the vestments of a Catholic priest. He had a kindly face... but the dark sunglasses he wore and the walking stick on his hand couple with his posture would quickly hint at his blindness. Taking a couple steps forward, the man said "I thought I heard someone falling... are you alright?"


"Car is good... it's a bit cut off from the world... in a sense of course. Thank you" says the crazy man as he offered her an awkward smile at her retreating hand.


In order to not flood the thread with Collin's and Sue's magic lesson, these were continued in skype. Now, for those who wish to know what happened and a bit more information on magic, here's a summarization of events

To give Collin a better understanding of magic, Sue brought him to the inner courtyard of her apartment building, bringing with her three items for practice. A crystal, a pair of goggles and a special wand. Giving Collin the goggles he would soon learn that they are enchanted to allow the wearer to see mana. He would then notice spheres of light floating casually in the air, which Sue explains are ambient mana... mana released by the world and people of the city which simply float around the place.

She then activates a spell prepared on the courtyard which wards the place from any inhabitant of the apartment complex to peer into it. With that, practice begins. She has Collin produce a light from the tip of his wand again... and after he finds it harder than before she reveals that the first time she cast the spell on the apartment had been a trick... the wand he used before was able to cast that spell on command. Thus, he had as much input in casting that spell as someone flipping a switch to make light.

Then she spoke to him of the essentials of spell casting, mana to cause the effect, imagination to strongly visualize the desired effect, will to control the mana and cause it do as you wish and knowledge of the effect to reinforced the visualization. She also explains a bit about the many kinds of magic and spell casters that there exist and after he expresses a desire to be like a free casting sorcerer, she says that his best bet would be to use ambient mana to fuel his spells in complement with what he already has.

To that end, she releases from the crystal she brought a large amount of pure mana... explaining that she gathered this power and captured into the crystal from locales on town from which mana flows strongly. She gives him an exercise of controlling the ambient mana around him, explaining the exerting his will upon it he can bond with it and make use of it... but that someone else may contest him for that control. After he gathered it all up, she has him shape it into something... and he creates the illusion of an owl out of it. Taking control of the mana, she shows off for him for a while, weaving illusions of a castle within the courtyard before offering him a last gift.

Using all the gathered mana, she casts a spell that allows Collin to fly freely for 15 minutes... and high upon the air, Sue points out at him a church and a park on which mana flows strongly. With the lesson done, they return to the ground and then leave the courtyard.

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TroyandHawk The Blinder from Back Home. Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
The Blinder
#468: Jan 26th 2014 at 5:57:57 PM

Weird took a sip of whiskey, "Sorry for the offense, it's just I'm a bit nervous about tonight's activities."

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RainehDaze Figure of Hourai from Scotland (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: Serial head-patter
Figure of Hourai
#469: Jan 30th 2014 at 8:36:51 AM

Tough, then. Fortunately, Colin had bought some time: taking two—a third of her remaining supply—of the strips, Natsumi grabbed another rock. Maybe it would have more of an impact if it was two in one spot rather than... well, two in different places. At this distance, missing was unlikely but by the same token she had to move away immediately after throwing.

Being smashed to pieces or diced would ruin her day.

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