Whiteshadow
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It's hard to hold a candle, in the Cold November Rain
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Post by Whiteshadow on Feb 9, 2007 21:06:24 GMT -5
Crow stood as he watched all that was happening. Their plan came toa stop quick, and he did not think about his next move. He hurled the Kiwi orb to the air, and shouted "Shal'shals!!"
Flashed of light blinded the enemy as small Kiwis flew from them swarming the enemy. They clawed and bit with their claws and beaks, and the enemies streaked in pain. The brought some down as the Kiwis swarmed in more and more. Crow finished off the wounded enemies and he shouted to Angelus. "Somebody's gonna have to find her, What about her little pets? They should be attached to her mentally some way, in the mean time, we have out own problems. This is starting to get serious." Crow said slicing down more enemies.
(( Took your lead Vamp ^^ ))
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Post by dain on Feb 10, 2007 15:20:12 GMT -5
All the while, Dain was fixated on the statue of gold. Something was queer about it. Dain didn't like queer. He approached it and fiddled with the statue, touching various parts, tapping here and there. He had realized Ithilwen had been taken, but, the best action to take at this time was not to mourn; but to figure out what to do.
Click!
Dain had hit the tip of the arrow on the statue's bow. All at once, a great creaking sounded and the statue started spiraling down into the floor. Dain saw that a small hole had formed, and looked down it. He quickly brought his head back as golden-plated stairs fell right in fornt of him, landing perfectly as it connected into the circle with a simple twist. Dain then grabbed hold of the gold railing and jossled it a bit, to make sure it was stable; it was! He took one step and bounced on it, and found that it was stable as well. He started going up, then decided not to.
Dain brought his fingers to his mouth and let loose a piercing whistle to the others.
"CROW! ANGELUS! COME ON!!!" He yelled in urgency, they needed to get out of here. Dain started running up the stairs, he couldn't fight all that well anymroe, he was quite tired after all those battles. His adrenaline, however; had not kicked in yet. THat was when the fun would begin, btu for now, he rested.
As he came to the top, his head emerged fro a hole as he lfited himself up into a room that was pure gold. Armor and weapons surrounded him, all in prime aspect. All made of adamantium, his favorite material. Dain took it upon himself to go to a cabinet which he opened to reveal throwing knives. He stuck those in the belt of his pants, then took two falchions racked on the wall. Everything was quiet around here. He tied the falchions to his back in an "X" fashion, then grabbed hold of a double-headed naginata for future use. He was armed to the teeth, unlike the lizards down below where Crow and Angelus were.
Dain opened the door to the room slowly as he peered out from below, he was crouching. Nobody looked down, everyone always looked up, it's a fundamental lesson when playing a dangerous game of Hide-And-Seek. Nobody was roaming the halls, and everything was quiet.
The Lizards must be all down below. THis must be the second floor of the shrine. He thought to himself.
He shut the door quietly and turned around, the spear on his lap as he sat. He awaited Angelus and Crow.
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Angelus
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Post by Angelus on Feb 10, 2007 15:24:12 GMT -5
Angelus sliced through many more enemies as more and more flooded into the shrine. He knew that he had to get out of there, and fast. He heard Dain's plea. He created a strong air current that would keep more from entering for a time.
He abandoned Crow because he knew that he would be able to handle himself. As he began to run away, he yelled, "Crow, c'mon!" Angelus followed Dain until they were both in the same room, panting.
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Post by L.A.C.R.I.M.O.S.A on Feb 10, 2007 18:43:41 GMT -5
((I'm making this long and elaborate, so heads up, m'kay?))
Meanwhile, the reptilian priest had taken his avariel captive to the lowest room; so low, in fact, that it was several feet under the ground and possessed no windows in which the dwindling evening sunlight could enter.
The room was extremely large and paved completely in finely polished gold, bejeweled pillars erected here and there for support as the jewels and rubies dimly reflected the firelight of the many torches along solid gold walls. A statue of Sagittarius himself stood proudly at one end of the room, by far the largest statue in the whole building as the horse-man reared upon two, great hind legs with his bow string pulled back and poised to let an arrow fly. In the faint lighting, his two, ruby-red eyes gleamed maliciously under a large, golden helm, his front, two hooves striking out before him as if prepared to squash anyone who dared venture too close.
In the very center of the magnificent room sat a large, circular table. It, too, consisted entirely out of the same, glistening material of the room, and an intricate, detailed, mosaic pattern embedded itself upon the surface, small, foreign scripture of what appeared to be an incantation bordering the design. Four broad shackles, newly polished and bright, sat waiting, and it was in these that an unconscious Ithilwen's hands and feet were bound by the priest so that she lay nearly spread eagle upon the dais in her unconscious state. The key which he used to lock the shackles was small and silver, and he tucked it away securely into his breast pocket with a light pat of his hand for reassurance.
Next, the reptilian priest strolled casually over to a small chest, shut tight with a lock in the center. He reached into his pocket, retrieved a long, golden key and placed it inside the lock, turning it twice to the right and thrice to the left. With a faint click, it unlocked, and he reached inside the chest, pulling out a small, sharpened dagger, gold at the hilt but silver at the blade. He fingered it for a while, a sadistic grin dominating scaly features as he stood up and began chanting an long, ancient incantation.
As he made his way back to the dais with the dagger held arm's-length before him, he continued with the chant, and as when he finally came upon the avariel, he eased the blade over to her hand. He placed it tightly in her palm and closed her long, pallid fingers around it firmly, and in a quick movement, he swiftly pulled the dagger from out of her grasp, drawing blood as the weapon made a long, deep gash in her skin. He collected dripping blood from the blade inside of a tiny, thimble-sized container, chanting and grinning all the while.
He made his way over to the statue of his god, his head bowed in utter respect as he refused to make eye-contact. He came upon a small platform on the floor in between the two hind legs of the statue, and a small, circular hole sat in the very middle of it. Into this he poured slowly the avariel woman's blood, and his chanting came to an end as he stepped back a few times.
As if on some unspoken command, all the room went silent. The fire of the torches ceased their crackling, the uproar from the battle above ground was no longer heard, and an awkwardness fell over the room, ensnaring the priest in its death-like grip as he awaited in terror for what would happened next. Suddenly, a shock wave was sent through the room violently, and the priest had to steady himself to keep from falling over as the ground beneath him shook tremendously with such powerful force.
He was sure that everyone else in the building had felt that.....
Just then, a large, gaping circle began to part the floor in front of the table, and nothing but sheer, pitch-black darkness and fragments of dust could be seen as the reptile peered down into its unwelcoming depths. A few moments after the hole had stopped growing, the top of a large, grand chest rose from the depths leisurely, and as it rose slightly above ground level, the hole closed up from underneath of it. The chest, unlike everything else, was not of gold, but of a deep black color, and deep, red sapphires lined the edges in intricate detail.
Trembling with excitement, the reptilian priest went forward, and, much to his surprise, found the chest quite unlocked as he lifted the lid curiously. Despite the great amount of dust and dirt that emanated from inside and shrouded his vision, what lie inside the chest remained untouched both by dirt and time.
A long, sharpened sword of gold sat upon the bottom of the chest, everything from rubies to opals and even emeralds were set upon the hilt in an eye-catching spectacle.
If there ever existed a sword glorious enough to perform a sacrifice for the gods, this was definitely it.
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Post by dain on Feb 10, 2007 19:56:38 GMT -5
Dain got up as he looked over to Angelus.
"Get your stuff that you want here, that quake came from below." He informed Angelus, serious-eyed.
Dain went down the staris past Angelus and stood on the ground before the golden case of steps. He took the double-headed naginata in hand as he twirled it, sounds ringing from it. Sounds so pure, they shamed even the works of Chopin or Beethoven. Sounds so pure, they represented a perfect harmonic.
Adrenaline then started to pump through Dain as he allowed it, his muscles bulging and the bleeding on his side stopping. As he moved closer to the staricase, his eyes seemed to be glowing from the immense strength he was about to expel from his strike.
"Perfect Harmonic Style, Jeetku'jin!" He announced as he spun and the naginata swished right in front fo the staircase. At first, nothing happened; but on further inspection...the staircase started falling apart. A perfect cut was straight through the golden railing and the steps. Before it could fall into the hole, Dain whirled around and kicked it, sending it flying into the adjacent wall.
"ANGELUS, CROW! GET YOUR ASSES MOVING!" He yelled, a demonic voice reaching out.
Without even thinking, Dain jumped down the hole. The Naginata he had left above, he had no use of it anymore. When he had cut with it, the blade had broken into pieces even when it had not hit anything. On his way down, Dain held one hand up.
"ELGHINN FALMA!" He yelled, demonic resonance still performing.
The little dark ball formed and went over his entire body, covering his figure. Dain yelled as his biological armor then surrounded him..though, with combining the dark magic, the armor looked quite different. It now was black, jet black, with white eyes and strange white lines covering it that were glowing. He had a cape of pure dark matter as well as he shot down the hole further.
God damnit, I only have a mere hour before I collapse. He pondered to himself as he went down the hole even further.
Darkness and air passed by him as he drifted down though the eternal slide. Then a thought crossed his mind.
It's good Angelus knows wind magic, otherwise, Crow would be in a tight spot...
Bars crashed open as Dain emerged in an underground cavern, though, not where he wanted to be. In front of him was the original golden statue he had seen above, looks like it had been placed there by mechanics. His now black figure surged with newfound speed as the cape of darkness flowed behind him. He came across a lighted cave as he went inside quickly and annihilated three unsuspecting lizards; one by a poke in the neck, one by tap to the spine, and the last by an elbow to the cranium. All flawlessly performed, this was Dain's assassin form. He picked up a key from the desk and went out of the cavern confronted by a nother lizard. Dain absently ran up the side of the wall and jammed the key he had found into the lizard's head, then brought it back out. Everything silent. Deadly silent. He travelled along like death's grace as he came to a door which was locked. He tried the key and it worked as he went in absently, driving the key into a sleeping lizard's head through its ear. Dain searched the lizard and where he was sleeping to find a shackle, which he kept in one hand. THis place was a jail cell. Dain quietly flowed out of there and went further along the cavern. A lizard was walking inf ront of him and Dain snuck up behind the reptile, then saw his chance as he clamped the shackle over the lizard's neck, collapsing the bone and artery inside. He covered the Lizard's mouth and waited till it died, then moved on. He found another key.
Fifty-five minutes left. He reminded himself.
He began running faster as he went up the side of the cavern wall and was running upside-down along the ceiling. He was burning up as mcuh as he could, he couldn't risk Ithilwen turning into one of these monsters. She was a comrade. Comrades stick together. BEsdies Angelus and Crow, they do their own "thing".
He dropped down from the celing as he thrust it through the skull of another lizard, twisting it as he jumbled its brains. He pulled the key out quickly as he flipped up and started running on the ceiling again, his cape trailing behind him in all figures. In retrospect, he looked like a shadow to the Lizards, so they didn't bother with him. Bad mistake. Dain found another locked door further down as he opned it up to find an alchemical room. He looked around at the various potions assorted on the shelves, and took three potions as he downed one. THe potions were healing, and made short work of the gash on his side. He took ten mroe as his hand shot out for a basket and robe. Dain went out into the cavern hall and jammed his fist into the ceiling, then tied the robe around a hole he made, then tied the rope to the basket which he left hanging with all ten potions in it for Crow and Angelus. Dain went further down as he explored the winding caverns.
Forty-minutes left. He thought to himself.
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Angelus
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Post by Angelus on Feb 12, 2007 15:16:18 GMT -5
Angelus sprinted through the many twists and turns that Dain made. He grabbed some potions and jumped down into the caverns with Dain.
((sorry for the short post, but I kinda got sonfused and lazy and just skimmed the two really long posts.))
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Whiteshadow
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Student - Crow[M:-2180][M:-2390]
It's hard to hold a candle, in the Cold November Rain
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Post by Whiteshadow on Feb 13, 2007 16:00:08 GMT -5
(( Yeah, I don't have the brain copasity to make or read long posts, Ill go with a short summary form my brother. ))
Crow grabbed what he needed, and sprinted after Angelus and Dain. He whispered to Fwayglin, and she lifted off his shoulder and flew away, not going deeper into the mountain. He sprinted up to Dain, and asked unsheathing his sword... "Where to?"
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Post by dain on Feb 13, 2007 16:25:48 GMT -5
((Crow, if you had read, Dain is very very far ahead of you. A simple sprint wouldn't be enough.))
Dain reached a grating far up the cavern and stopped as he inspected it quickly. The others were far behind him, he had come a long way. With a simple flick of the wrist, the grating flew off as Dain glided inside. Darkness surrounded him more so as he travelled further, he proclaimed the grating was a shortcut, and, he was right.
Soon he came across bars of light that seemed to flood the darkness he was dwelling in, and he looked through discreetly as he beheld a gigantic statue of Saggittarius, and Ithilwen. The candlelight around the various lizards flickered as one's soul was parted from his body. Dain had tiny strings which he connected to make it so the lizard was still alive and standing, but, inreality the lizard was dead. A shadow played across the floor as it looked upon the gold sword the lizard priest had gone to. The shadow travelled all around and then back to the grating it has been to. Four lizards as guards dead and still hanging by string.
When Angelus and Crow get here, they will not be able to move like me. I expect behind the entrance door is a battalion of them. I will wait, and I will separate the Elghinn Falma from my body before my energy is collapsed. Dain pondered to himself as he moved back into the grating and his armor flew off him. He brought his hand to his chest as he extracted the death energy from his body, and reliquished it.
There he lay in the grating, breathing hard and trying to regain his heart rate.
Angelus and Crow will take the doors off to the right of this grating back in the cavern. When I here that bang of the doors blowing open, I'm moving. I sealed the grating back there when I entered, so they couldn't follow me even if they wanted. I need this plan to be falwless, there was no time to talk, only to react.
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Angelus
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Post by Angelus on Feb 14, 2007 13:46:07 GMT -5
Angelus heard Dain's distant footsteps in the caverns so he followed them for quite some time. Finally, he came to a large grating. This grating seemed too big for Dain to open, so Angelus figured that he had went another way.
He turned to his right and saw another, smaller grating which seemed easier to open. Angelus threw his hands forward, sending an air current at the grating so that it would detach from its hinges and fall to the ground, granting Angelus passage.
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Whiteshadow
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Post by Whiteshadow on Feb 14, 2007 18:44:14 GMT -5
(( Ok, well a little too late Now Boss. Maybe if ur posts weren't so long I would read them, and maybe the roleplay would go smoother. I actually read Vamp's because they r at least interesting.))
Crow stood stone still next to Dain as he regained his thoughts. He had followed Dain close behind, holding an ice shield against the powerful winds. Fwayglin was safe, one more person he did not have to worry about. His grip tightened on his staff and his rapier. He kept close to Dain, and awaited Angelus.
The moment he realized Angelus would not be able to follow, he heard a loud crash. It must have been the door busting lose under Angelus's might. He gave Dain a look, saying clearly
What now?
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Post by L.A.C.R.I.M.O.S.A on Feb 16, 2007 17:13:06 GMT -5
The reptilian priest, stunned and outraged by the intruding noise, slammed the chest shut as he stood up and whirled around, utter fury reflecting in slanted, yellow eyes.
"You!" the priest hissed, his voice eerily snake-like and raspy, "how did you get in here?!" He looked around wildly for something to do, and in an instant, the chest was open once more as he grappled inside for the sword. When he had hold of it, he swung it around and pointed it straight at Angelus, the point gleaming red as blood in torchlight.
"You'll not be taking thissssssss one," he said as he motioned over towards the unconscious avariel. He made his way over beside the dais upon which she was bound, eyes darting to and fro in search for more intruders as the tip of the sword was still directly aimed at Angelus. "And where are your friendsssss? Have they abandoned you? Or have you foolisssshhly come on your own in a pathetic attempt to sssssave her?"
He could feel it now. A presence...No, two of them. Nearby. Somewhere concealed in shadow there existed two more souls, and the priest familiarized himself with their auras. Sword still in hand, he turned about frantically, calling out into darkness.
"I know you're out there. Be gone with thissssss game of hide and seek and reveal yoursssselvessss to me, cowardssss."
He could feel the time to perform the sacrifice drawing to a near end, and he knew that he'd have to make this quick lest he fall prey to the god's wrath. It was only a matter of time now before they were all doomed.
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Whiteshadow
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Post by Whiteshadow on Feb 16, 2007 19:01:06 GMT -5
Crow was about to head farther deep down the cavern, when his mind started throbbing. He heard voices, harsh voices, painful voices. "Dain!" He managed to say though the pain, but he couldn't say any more, he kept hitting himself on the walls, his head started to throw more. More visions, he could not decipher what they were at first, but them realized what his mind was telling him. He whacked his staff against the wall hoping to relive the pain, but nothing happened. He started to punch the wall, shaking the cave, endangering the lives of those around him.
"I know where Ithilwen is...." he managed to tell Dain before he nearly collapsed. Crow stood up slowly, clearing his mind. His mind started racing again, but not as bad. "Common Dain! Angelus can take care of himself. You gonna need to stick with me!" Crow said as he ran to the edge of what looked like a cliff. Before he could make his decision, he jumped off the edge involuntarily. He hit the bottom, which again was ice like the outside of the temple. It started to melt; Crow's doing, and it made a funnel, leading to the bottom. As he slid down, the hard stone at the bottom gave way, allowing him to slide through into a large room, resembling a chamber. He had reached his destination. He could not see well, but he knew his sword could seek out enemies. He held it out in front on him and shouted...
"You show yourselves Cowards!!!!"
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Whiteshadow
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Post by Whiteshadow on Jul 21, 2007 8:22:26 GMT -5
(( Hey Vamp and Dan, can we continue this Roleplay and just pretend that Dain got lost or died or something? It was a really fun RP and I hated to just abandon it. ))
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hannah montana
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Post by hannah montana on Jul 21, 2007 13:08:04 GMT -5
[[I'll replace dain LMFAO]]
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Whiteshadow
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It's hard to hold a candle, in the Cold November Rain
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Post by Whiteshadow on Jul 21, 2007 15:51:24 GMT -5
(( You do that Reba, hahah we love you better then dain XD ))
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