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KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#353751: May 30th 2021 at 5:15:04 PM

"If nobody else wants it, I'll make Bernadetta use it," Reyna replies, handing over the axe.

She also gives a katana and bracelet to Anna.

"I spent. Over an hour. Doing the most tedious and boring thing I can imagine. Over and over. To make this."

So that's why she's acting like this.

She then leads them over a bridge to the Buddy Plaza, then further to a boat on the shore that brings them to the Training Area.

"Here we are."

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#353752: May 30th 2021 at 5:20:09 PM

Aw shucks. My gun's all spent too, and Grog's off doing... GROG things. He says, with much disgust.

Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter
DevilPsyco from The Underworld (pretty deep down in the ground) Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
#353753: May 30th 2021 at 5:22:37 PM

Anna listens as she takes the katana and the bracelet while Jake takes the axe.

"Ah, well, I don't know what to say but thank you. You must've put a lot of effort into making this. I owe you one.", she says, smiling.

The two then follow Reyna to the training area via boat, looking around.

"Now this almost looks like a battle arena. This is just my style.", Jake smirks.

In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
vgm23 The woman of the hour from Your mom's house lol Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
The woman of the hour
#353754: May 30th 2021 at 5:39:55 PM

"Any command would be incredibly useful"

She wasn't used to making desicisons on her own, mostly relying on what she was told by her master

"My name...I recall something. Legacy. Was I known?"

Edited by vgm23 on May 30th 2021 at 8:40:12 AM

Your Jordans are fake, fake as hell. Dollar Store ass shoes
Whoma The Great Herrscher of Sentience from Earth Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
The Great Herrscher of Sentience
#353755: May 30th 2021 at 8:01:53 PM

Jin stands up, shaking ever so slightly. The repaired region of the crystal is blue, but only for a few moments as the red color rushes back into it.

"What... what did you do to me?", he says with disbelief, grabbing his forehead. He looks to be in pain, but truthfully, he hasn't felt steady like this in decades.

Yatta!
BombonBombin Nightmare lord from Across time and space Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: In love with love
Nightmare lord
#353756: May 31st 2021 at 4:31:44 AM

Belén reads the words written on the notebook... But barely can understand the meaning of them.

Compact... Frame? Energy... Exhaust? Is that a dragon or a machine?

While in that, Jin awakened.

Oh, thank goodness you are OK!

He woke after he finished to draw... His pen is magical? Or maybe the notebook? Anyway, that's the coolest thing I ever saw!

Edited by BombonBombin on May 31st 2021 at 6:31:58 AM

Three freaking ghosts!
KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#353757: May 31st 2021 at 8:44:52 AM

The Secret of Kamura Village

Reyna points to the mecha-Tetranadon in the middle of the Training Area. "That there is the Toadversary. I can change the elevation of its head, make it keep a specific side facing towards us, and set it to do stomping attacks or water-ball spit."

While Anna and Jake are going into the main area, she slips back into the entry passage and goes over to the Item Box.

"Alright, you ready?"

If they turn at the sound of her voice, they will see what looks like a demon in human form. Reyna's samurai-themed Magnamalo armor has been traded for the look of a monstrous ninja, with purple flame-like tassels hanging off her gauntlets, boots and helmet, a purple ponytail wig, a dark patch over the left side of her face with a menacing glowing-green eye peering through it... oh yeah, and of course spikes up the wazoo.

She also wields a matching Sword and Shield, the Sinister Sword II, using a sort of big-ass arm-guard in place of a traditional shield.


To Belén: "It appears to be a dragon with a biological means of converting oxygen into fuel, similarly to a machine. Such a mechanism is fascinating... I wonder how it tastes?" He stares hungrily at the Valstrax, which backs away in fear.

To Jin: "Oh, excuse me." The man turns to Jin. "You can call me Jupiter. I design lifeforms to be introduced to the world."

He shows Jin the drawing of him, pointing to the notes on the crystal and his other injuries. "Since you are a biological entity, I was able to just edit you to be healed."


To Stanislas: "Oh, I never caught your name. Perhaps we could meet again, under better conditions." Such innocence.

To Dedf1sh: Neptune shakes his head. "I wouldn't know the answer to that, I'm afraid. Do you remember anything from while you were under control? Such as someone you met? They might know more. I'd suggest finding them."

Edited by KiriK on May 31st 2021 at 11:06:53 AM

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
DevilPsyco from The Underworld (pretty deep down in the ground) Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
#353758: May 31st 2021 at 10:25:41 AM

Anna and Jake enter the area as they look at the Toadversary.

"Yes, but what will this have to do with-ACK!", Anna yelps upon being startled by Reyna's armor. She quickly collects her bearings though, drawing her new sword and putting her bracelet on.

"I take it you're going to show off what we're supposed to learn.", Jake says while grabbing a hold of his axe.

In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
Whoma The Great Herrscher of Sentience from Earth Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
The Great Herrscher of Sentience
#353759: May 31st 2021 at 11:14:53 AM

Jin takes a step back.

"What? That's impossible. No manner of person, blade or human, could do such a thing. What are you?"

Yatta!
BombonBombin Nightmare lord from Across time and space Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: In love with love
Nightmare lord
#353760: May 31st 2021 at 11:22:29 AM

Belén finally understood the phrase: "The body is the ultimate machine".

Then, she looked at the dragon (for a moment she forgot about it) when the man talked about tasting it. It doesn't looks very tasty... But she remembered when in her tours she tasted some strange foods from all the world. Each one with their tastes.

But when he talked about designing the creatures of the world, she feels overwhelmed.

You... Are God? And you designed me?

And then she understood when he rejected her proposal of drawing her: who knows what consequences could have if she got redesigned...

Edited by BombonBombin on May 31st 2021 at 1:23:14 PM

Three freaking ghosts!
KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#353761: May 31st 2021 at 11:53:44 AM

Reyna chuckles. "Surprise. I have some spare armor you can try on if you want, though you don't have to. And no, it's not the same as this set," she preemptively adds.

"Yeah. First things first are the Switch Skills."

She does an iaijutsu-style draw-and-slash-in-the-same-motion attack. "Follow this motion with the Ninja Sword. Your 'Levin Sword''s zig-zag shape doesn't work with a draw this fast and clean, so I don't expect you to be used to it. It might take a few tries to get right."


Jupiter snorts, then bursts into laughter.

"Ah-hahahahahah! Ahah! Ah... No, I'm not God. I work for God. Right now, though, my coworkers and I are on break, so I came here to study new strange and delicious forms of life. Ones that aren't bound by Earth's physics."

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Whoma The Great Herrscher of Sentience from Earth Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
The Great Herrscher of Sentience
#353762: May 31st 2021 at 11:58:02 AM

Jin frowns.

"You claim to know... no, work for, The Architect. And yet, only now do you muster the will to show your face. After all this suffering, it is only now that you have come to do something, anything to help. Unless..."

Jin narrows his eyes. "You aren't talking about the Architect at all. This God you work for is no god of mine. This reality and my reality... they are not the same."

Yatta!
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#353763: May 31st 2021 at 12:00:42 PM

How? My name's Stanislas Niseyd. Remember Nisdeyd Pic? I was the one who masterminded "The ugly insomniac", "One dwarf, six women", "Burnt" and my famous propag- mass encouragement film "A good red is one found dead!"

He stroke his chin. Hmmmm, maybe you know me better for the Earthswimmer saga? Ya know, with the flying spaceships! God I wish I could get on one and leave this crappy Mojave behind.

Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter
DevilPsyco from The Underworld (pretty deep down in the ground) Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
#353764: May 31st 2021 at 12:03:01 PM

"I'm not used to fighting in armor, so I'll pass.", Anna says.

"Hm... can I see the armor first?", Jake asks. "Maybe I'll find one that fits."

They then witness Reyna's example. Anna smirks and holds her sword with the blade back, a signature Trickster class pose.

"Shouldn't be too hard."

She then proceeds to do a similar technique to Reyna's, though it's obviously less polished. Still, her foot movement while she's doing it is perfectly matched with the movements Reyna made, so it's really only her handling of the sword that she needs to practice on.

In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
BombonBombin Nightmare lord from Across time and space Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: In love with love
Nightmare lord
#353765: May 31st 2021 at 12:22:17 PM

Belén hears what Jin said.

It's true, that world, my world and their worlds are very different..

By the way, do you happen to come from my World? It's the Earth, a place... less colorful than this.

Edited by BombonBombin on May 31st 2021 at 2:22:38 PM

Three freaking ghosts!
KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#353766: May 31st 2021 at 12:22:32 PM

Reyna watches. "Alright, good. Now, decide a draw attack: The Advancing Slash or the Sliding Slash?"

She demonstrates both. With the Advancing Slash, she does a fast lunge forward, doing a strong overhead slash that strikes the Toadversary's face, creating a burst of smoke and fire from her weapon's Blast status. "The Advancing Slash ignores friendly fire and weak enemy hits, so you can land the hit easier."

"The Sliding Slash offers you more follow-ups at the cost of having to learn those follow-ups." She makes some distance, then runs at the Toadversary and suddenly falls onto her back, sliding low with an upwards diagonal slash. She then continues to slide before rising up with a backhanded up-slash.

She uses it again with the sword already drawn this time, but this time does it close enough that the first slash hits. When it does, she digs the sword in and uses it to launch herself into the air, where she does a falling slash to the ground.

She then uses it a third time, performing a similar rising jump slash out of the slide without ever hitting the Toadversary.


"Well, yes," Jupiter bluntly confirms. "I don't even know an 'Architect'. The animals I design are meant to populate Earth."

Edited by KiriK on May 31st 2021 at 2:28:07 PM

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Whoma The Great Herrscher of Sentience from Earth Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
The Great Herrscher of Sentience
#353767: May 31st 2021 at 12:30:31 PM

Jin ponders on this. "You are nothing like the god I know. The architect is cruel. Perhaps even nonexistent, or at least dead. I don't know for sure."

So. He is out of his world, quite literally. Why?

Last he remembers, he was fighting those... things. Next thing he knows, he's here. No titans, no Morytha, just a strange beach at the edge of an ocean of... water? That didn't seem right.

Whatever the case, this person, holding in their hands the power to change someone so fundamentally. He hates it. Truthfully, there is no reason to, he knows nothing of their world and their God, and perhaps they are not absent, perhaps they are kind.

But he doesn't know. Not a thing, and that uncertainty could mean many terrible things with even a moment of hesitation.

"Earth... I don't know any place called Earth."

Yatta!
DevilPsyco from The Underworld (pretty deep down in the ground) Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
#353768: May 31st 2021 at 12:49:23 PM

Anna looks thoughtful as she's watching Reyna's examples, pondering deeply over what would suit her the best. She seems to have decided when Reyna demonstrates the second version of Sliding Slash though.

"I've got no issues with hitting attacks, and I'm an agile fighter, so the Sliding Slash sounds perfect."

In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
BombonBombin Nightmare lord from Across time and space Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: In love with love
Nightmare lord
#353769: May 31st 2021 at 1:09:28 PM

Tropique

Well, the Earth is a beautiful place. A lot of creatures, the only dragons there are fictional... And luckily there are not an evil Architect, heh... There me and my friends sing for the children, until we end here.

Belén gives Jupiter a drawing, of two creatures: a fried egg and a Maria biscuit, both with arms and legs.

When you return with God, can you propose Him those creatures, please?

Three freaking ghosts!
KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#353770: May 31st 2021 at 1:22:02 PM

"Alright, that's one. Next up, the Hard Basher combo, which can stun monsters, or the Drill Slash combo, which deals a lot of elemental damage - if you use an elemental weapon."

She demonstrates those, but then turns to Anna. "You don't use a shield and Levin Swords have Thunder properties, so I think the choice is obvious. Moving on to the Silkbind techniques..."


"They do look tasty," Jupiter muses. "I'll put a word in with Him for sure."

Edited by KiriK on May 31st 2021 at 3:23:52 AM

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
DevilPsyco from The Underworld (pretty deep down in the ground) Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
#353771: May 31st 2021 at 1:23:39 PM

After she's witnessed these techniques, she speaks up.

"Hey, just wondering, but considering there's sword techniques, and I'm guessing axe techniques too, are there also bow techniques?"

In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
Whoma The Great Herrscher of Sentience from Earth Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
The Great Herrscher of Sentience
#353772: May 31st 2021 at 1:28:48 PM

Jin's face turns neutral... but in a sort of dejected way. Like he's been let down in some manner. He hasn't, but that's just how he always looks.

Perhaps, he thinks to himself, a part of him wanted this to be the moment that the world decided to care. That the dispassionate neglect he had experienced across the hundreds of years of his life would finally be remedied. But that was just a thought.

Even if it wasn't.

Even if it wasn't. He still had to fight. The suffering causes by that neglect would not go unpunished.

With that thought in mind, Jin walks away without a word.

Yatta!
KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#353773: May 31st 2021 at 1:32:57 PM

"What? Oh, yeah, for sure."

"I dunno how Bows work on your side, but over here you charge them up to increase their power and distance. First, you have a choice between the Power Shot, which follows an ordinary charged shot and fires a spread of three arrows, or the Absolute Power Shot, which is more densely-packed and drains your stamina to fire but can have a stunning effect. Both can be followed up with a Volley, which is just more of the same as the preceding shot type."

"Second, you have a choice between the Charging Evade, which lets you increase your charge while dashing out of danger, and the Dodgebolt, which is a shorter evade with a quick roundslash using an arrow thrown in." Reyna goes back to the Item Box and pulls out a comically large arrow, as if to show off why using the arrow itself as a melee weapon is a viable strategy in her world.

"I'll cover the Bow's Silkbind Techniques at the same time as the Sword and Shield. Speaking of which, change of plans. Jake, imma run you through the Switch Axe, then we'll do all the Silkbind stuff at once."


"Hm? Oh, you're leaving. That's a shame..."

Jupiter stretches. "Oh well."

Edited by KiriK on May 31st 2021 at 3:33:58 AM

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
DevilPsyco from The Underworld (pretty deep down in the ground) Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
#353774: May 31st 2021 at 1:37:26 PM

"Charging them up? That does sound like a bow skill I've read about.", Anna says.

Then she sees the comically large arrow.

"Oh dear gods. ... I, uh, think I'll stick to the Charging Evade and Power Shot."

Jake then nods to Reyna.

"I'm ready."

Edited by DevilPsyco on May 31st 2021 at 10:42:39 AM

In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
vgm23 The woman of the hour from Your mom's house lol Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
The woman of the hour
#353775: May 31st 2021 at 2:02:56 PM

"Hmm."

She pondered, she barely remembered anyone at all from when she wasn't sanitized, and the only people she remembered from when she was were other soliders, agent 3 and agent 8

"I do recall a previous priority, but they would not be glad to see me in any way"

Your Jordans are fake, fake as hell. Dollar Store ass shoes

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