Warriors of Light: IC

Miraelle looked confused at everyone's words, but shook her head and glared at everyone.

"Alright, that's enough. We'll get to explanations later. I don't know about you people, but I don't want to die here. Anyway, I've been trained as a White Mage, so I can't really fight all that well but I'll try to keep us all alive."

At that moment, the Great Tree began glowing again....and then from its roots came....weapons?

Pieces of equipment began flying from the tree towards the Warriors of Light.

To Patrick, a beautifully carved wooden staff.

To Paul and Trevor, lightweight daggers that fit their hands perfectly.

To Daniel, a thin silver blade with an elegant grip. A rapier.

To Seth, leather gauntlets to protect his fists.

To David, wicked looking steel claws.

To Yuzuki, a small crossbow and a quiver of extra bolts.

To Emi, a large two-handed sword made of black metal.

To Elisa, a smaller one-handed sword and a paired shield.

.....The tree didn't seem to have anything to give to Alaisdair, though.

"Huh. You might really be the Warriors of Light after all..." Mira muttered.

At that moment-!

There was a crashing noise from all sides, and figures burst into the clearing.

There were about eight of them◊, three of their number riding atop strange beasts.

Mira cursed. "Pashnea! She sent goblins?!"

"Okay! Okay! Okay!" Patrick's voice escalated rapidly into a squeal. He was frozen in place, staring at the curling wooden staff that had fallen into his hands. He looked up at the goblins, eyes wide. "Try this on for size you little green shits!"

He grabbed his staff in both hands and slammed it into the ground like a proper wizard, and almost instantly the effects of the spell SLOW made itself known. A sickly yellow light flooded up from the ground in a circle around the goblins, attempting to drag their movements down.

"Holy shit!" Paul screamed. He pulled the trigger on his pistol, only to be met with a clicking sound. "...He brought an empty pistol to the robbery didn't he.. that's just my luck isn't it." he muttered to himself, not even pretending to be surprised. That's when Patrick slammed his staff down, and the goblins in front of him slowed to crawl. He turned to Patrick, "Okay, no idea how you're doing that, but please keep doing it!" He then grabbed one of the daggers on the ground and charged one of the slowed goblins.

As Paul charged in, he noticed something. He was moving fast, faster than he ever remembered being. On top of that, the feel of the dagger in his hand felt... right somehow. It was like he had always been meant to wield it. Then he came within stabbing distance of his target. He lunged at the goblin, dagger first, aiming for its neck!

edited 24th Jul '16 7:27:08 PM by SirSteelman

Daniel grabbed the handle of the rapier, somewhat surprised to see that particular weapon float to him. He certainly hadn't had training with it, after all. However, considering that until this showed up he was unarmed, he wasn't going to complain. It certainly helped that it was light enough to hold one-handed, which was a definite plus to him.

He didn't have much time to admire the weapon, though, before goblins came at the group. Alright, let's see if I can channel lightning through the blade, he thought, closing his eyes for a moment to concentrate. Soon enough, electricity coarsed through the blade, with which Daniel quickly slashed at an incoming goblin.

Great Tree

David grabbed the steel claws and equipped them, grinning as he tested their weight. "Nice, nice! I can work with this." He said, before raising his fists into a guarded position and lowered his stance, then charged towards one of the mounted Goblins.

A rush of energy filled Daniel, making him feel stronger, more energized. Once he got within striking distance he sprang upwards and with a cry of "ORA!", sent his right fist in a powerful uppercut aimed directly at the beast's neck!

edited 24th Jul '16 8:43:44 PM by svenorzokarkoff

Emi's eyes went wide at the sword that floated toward her. "Wow. Now this sword is cool. Looks like something a Dark Knight would use." She commented idly as she took the sword with both hands, the blade almost immediately dropping to the ground due to its weight. It was hefty, but somehow Emi was able to lift it despite her stature and previous lack of any real strength. She had wanted to learn sword fighting before, and it would seem this was her chance.

"Would be nice to eventually know what is going on here, but I guess that's for after." She said as she adjusted her grip on the two hander, letting the tip rest along the ground as she charged forward, the blade scraping against the ground as she dashed. She took note of the slow spell being cast on the enemies, and smiled. A black mage with debuffs, looks like. Perfect.

Finally, she swung her blade forward at the nearest goblin, the heavy black blade arcing in an overhead strike, letting gravity do just as much as the swinging force in her arms.

Opening Engagement - Foot of the Great Tree

People from the world over, some little lady acting like a princess from some two-bit fantasy show-game-thing, now little pig-things mounted on more birds charging through the roots and kicking up dirt as they came to get to grips.

Then more flashes of light and weapons falling out of the tree. Except for him. Not that he needed a weapon. With the Caber, he didn't mind that he lost his issued firearms.

Alasdair hefted the hammer onto his shoulder and set his stance. The Caber was monstrously heavy to swing, after all.

edited 25th Jul '16 2:16:07 AM by KR_Vandal

Elisa Topales
Big White Tree

Elisa turned, like most of her peers, when the tree apparently summoned gear and gave it to them. She grabbed the shield with her left and the sword with her right. She tested their weight in her hands, in part to make sure they were real. They certainly were real, along with the whole situation. It was like in the many fantasy stories told over the centuries. But this wasn't the time to think about that. Apparently, goblins were after them, though they didn't really remind her of such.

She faced them with her shield in front of her, blocking her torso and part of her face. Her hand kept a firm and steady on her sword. She was glad she had gotten a sword and shield. Though what she knew from Eskrima would definitely help with her fight, she knew she wouldn't be able to dodge attacks well.

She waited until one of the goblins came for her. If it tried to strike, she would block with her shield. Either way, she swung her sword, aiming for the space between its shoulder and neck, following it up with another swing aimed diagonally across its torso.

I'll edit my first post into third person when I have the time.

Patrick's Slow spell wreaked havoc on the five goblins on foot, making them easy pickings for the others. They seemed to move like they were weighed down.

With one stab, Paul slit his goblin's throat.

Daniel's electrified sword went right through another's gut, killing it instantly.

David punched one's head off.

Emi split another in half.

Elisa decapitated another."

"Pashnea! How strong are you guys?!" Miraelle exclaimed, awed.

However, the three on the hounds did not fall on the sudden onslaught.

One, probably thinking that he was the biggest threat, jumped towards Patrick, club raised to smash his gead in while his mount bared its fangs.

The other two? They went for Mira, clubs raised.

Emi let out a look of shock as she split one off the goblins in two. "Holy fuuuuuck." She said, marvelling at her new apparent strength.

However, before she could continue to appreciate it further, she saw two of the hounds heading for Mira. "Shit... Looks like I'm in the warrior job... So if I am... I should be able to do... THIS" And as she said it, she found she blinked in front of Mira, sword raised to guard against the attacks from hounds.

edited 26th Jul '16 1:13:35 AM by SolusLupus

Great Tree

"Oh no you don't!" David roared at the mounted goblins going for the princess. "She..." Still high on adrenaline, he shifted his stance in preparation.

"...owes..."

David pivoted on a heel while lifting his other leg.

"...us..."

The raised leg began glowing with energy.

"...answers!"

David's leg snapped forwards into a kick , sending a glowing arc of force barrelling towards both goblin and mount. While it was weaker than his fists, the attack looked like it could hit more enemies.

edited 26th Jul '16 12:30:29 AM by svenorzokarkoff

Trevor stood frozen in fear. while the others seem to have taken to the task with great fervor, he was stuck with only a knife and no absurd magical powers like the rest. "Oh come on, what did I ever do to deserve this?" He muttered to himself, hands shaking. "What the hell are these things anyway"

Ridiculous Altercation, Foot of the Great Tree

Alasdair wanted to say mutants. There was still far too many questions, but they could wait in the face of gibbering attackers threatening to have all their guts for garters. One of the hounds in question was coming far too close to the huge armored man.

Still as an oak, the huge Police Firearms Officer hefted the Caber and waited for the creature to close. And just as it danced into reach, Alasdair, known as the "Blockhead" in his early days, seemingly stumbled forward to give it confidence.

Then the stumble turned into a recovery which took him within reach of the thing. Its head in particular into hammer range.

The Caber was not a subtle weapon. But in Alasdair's hands, it was like a crowbar.

"Because some one grabed me and draged me here, and the logical person is the....." Yuzuki had began to reply, before her responce was cut off by noticing a real Chocobo, causing her to squee and attempt to run closer to it to get a better look... in the process tripping over the crossbow that had rissen out of the tree, and falling face first into the ground.

Where she had remained, until now, finaly starting to come back to her senses the first thing she noticed was one of the goblins charging, she stared at it for a few seconds, before looking down at her crosbow and loading it "Right, larp now, questions later" .... she took and leveled her crossbow at the mounted goblin charging at patrick, and gently pulled the triger, sending the bolt flying.

Elisa Topales
Big White Tree

Elisa was shocked when her blow decapitated her target. She didn't intend for that. In fact, she didn't even put enough force for such. The gravity of taking a life was lost to her though as she saw Mira in danger.

Thinking on impulse, she placed herself between her and the goblins and swung at the same spot as her first target to one of the hound riding goblins heading to Mira.

Patrick screamed in terror once again. "FUCK! FUCK! SOMEONE GET THIS ONE!" He threw out another spell as he frantically backpedaled, spraying mist from DARK out of the tip of his staff this time. "Uh, look, Slowing is cool and all but some fucking KILLING SHIT SPELLS would help!" He threw his hand out to the side as emphasis, only to fire off a bolt of firey red energy straight into Paul, empowering his strength with TMPR. "That doesn't count! Get this fucker off me!"

Paul heard Patrick's cries for help. He quickly retrieve his dagger from his fallen foes neck, looking away as to not gross himself out at gaping neck-hole, and rushed to the mage's aid. As he dove to tackle the goblin, Patrick's TMPR hit him.

Paul saw the spell while he was mid-tackle, and winced away from it, fearing that the guy had just accidentally thrown some sort of "turn-your-skin-inside-out" spell at him. However, when the spell hit him, he felt stronger, like his weak spaghetti muscles had just doubled in size. Unfortunately all this had distracted Paul from his attack, and instead of stabbing the monster, he ended up tackling it to the ground.

Paul and the monster went rolling through the grass, due in part to Paul's tackle suddenly having far more power than he had anticipated. The two came to a stop near the foot of the great tree, with the goblin sitting on top of Paul. Paul quickly attempted to make a quick stab at the goblin, only for it smack the dagger out of his hand with its club. The goblin then raised its club up, ready to crush Paul's head.

It was at that moment that Paul noticed the rusty dagger, hanging from the goblin's belt. Hands moving quicker than they ever had in his entire life, Paul stole the dagger from the goblin's belt, and then just as quickly began stabbing him repeatedly in the gut with all of his newfound strength.

Holy Emre, I'm alive! That was Mira's thought process as the two goblins attacking her had their clubs bounce off Emi's sword.

And while they were still stunned, Elisa had managed to slice off one goblin's hand. The goblin howled in pain but managed to retreat still on its hound's back.

As for the other goblin and hound...well, David managed to kick the thing off its mount and Alaisdair smashed the monster dog's face in.

The goblin wasn't dead yet, though, and it swing its club to bash David in the face.

"Pashnea..." whispered Miraelle. She shook her head. Now was not the time to act like a useless load.

She raised her hand.

"Protect."

A green Aura of light seemed to surround David, Alaisdair, Emi and Elisa.

As for Paul, he managed to take the Goblin Dagger and stab the thing to death.

...Unfortunately, its hound had managed to flank him and now its fangs were attempting to take a bite out of his throat.

The goblin Paul was stabbing fell dead onto of him, dozens of newly formed holes oozing blood onto Paul. "Well, at least today can't get any more fucked," he muttered to himself. At this point TMPR had run its course, so Paul had to rely on his own strength to get the dead goblin off of him. He began heaving the corpse off of his own body, when all of a sudden the weight he was trying to lift seemed to triple. Paul looked up to see a viscous bloodthirsty wolf standing atop the body he was trying to move, teeth barred at him. "OH COME ON!" he screamed aloud.

And then, a crossbow bolt hit the hound threatening Paul in the back of the head.

With a pained yelp, the monster crashed to the ground....pinning Paul under the heavy, bleeding, dead, smelly body of the monster.

.....At least he wasn't dog food?

The wolf landed with a thump ontop of Paul. He turned towards the origin of the crossbow bolt and saw Yuzuki. "Thank you," Paul called out weakly. "Now if somebody could please help get these two off me, that would be great," as he said this, Paul began attempting to lift the corpses off of him.

Seeing the goblin coming at him with its club raised, David raised a clawed arm to intercept the club. At the same time, he used his other arm to send a clawed strike aimed at the goblin's heart.

edited 26th Jul '16 10:59:44 PM by svenorzokarkoff

Seth hadn't gotten into that first attack because he really wasn't sure he needed the leather gauntlets. He already had the gloves he wore during fights back home on; wouldn't those do? But after Miraelle's reaction to the weapons flying out from the Great Tree, Seth figured he might as well switch. But by the time he had them on, most of the goblins and wolves were already down.

He saw the last goblin left going for Paul and, not wanting to be left out of the fight, closed the distance in one cartwheel, then popped up with an uppercut to the goblin's head.

Elisa Topales
Big White Tree

Elisa blinked in surprise at the green aura suddenly appearing around her. But she, once again, pushed that thought aside as the battle still continued. Seeing as the other hound riding goblin was retreating, she turned her attention to helping David. She swung her sword, aiming to topple it down at its leg.

The goblin fighting David struck him in the arm with enough force to shatter its club. Strangely enough, it didn't do much but hurt a bit.

....So that's what that green light did.

Elisa's sword cut its right leg off, and before it could do much more than squeal in pain...David finished it with a neavy blow to its face.

As for the other, one-armed goblin, it saw Seth coming at it, narrowed its eyes....and commanded its hound to turn and flee, leaving the relieved Mira alone with the strangers she had summoned.

Miraelle let out a sigh of relief and wiped sweat from her brow.

"Huh. We survived! We actually survived-!"