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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
@Esiphas @Light Buster @Red&Stiletto @suzumi and @Tsukamoto-San
OOC: I just got Red back and don't want to lose her by waiting around. I'll have Cami follow Kara since that seems reasonable.
IC:
Jessica manages to get her guard up and grabs hold of the creatures knife, but is driven to the ground by the impact creature leaping onto her from the top of the sideways jeep.
For a moment she despairs as it looks like two more of the dead are following this one over the car. However she is greatly releived when the blood splattering all over her is from the creatures head instead of her own as Kara and Cami ambush the creature from above and behind. Cami focuses on the creature on top of Jessica, but Kara moves on to the quickly moving creature with a branch. Initially she gets a thrust into her chest for getting to close (OOC: One karma to avoid, but only temporary winding from that.) However that gave and opening for the male and female ghosts (OOC: Andrew and Sora) to swing at the creature, partially frosting it. Kara's next attack connects against the creatures head, and it more shatters than anything else.
At the other Jeep Kapella starts standing up as two dead approach and Mana screams as a third chews on her shoulder. However there is the sound of shattering wood as the damaged tree gives way.
As it comes down on the jeep Kapella yells out Fee's name and positions himself above her. Branches shatter as their edges hit the ground leaving spearlike protrusions near the trunk. And things go dim for Fee as layers of leaves blot out the lightnings glow. However after a few moments things are still, and she is away for Kapella pressing down on her and his face just a bit above hers. He says, with some strain. "Ugh. I, oof, I can just push back enough on the branches to let us breath. But I think the nasties got good and squished, or at least trapped. "
At little ways away Fee can hear Mana yelling "Take THAT and THAT" as she, also stuck under branches, stabs at the pinned dead creature next to her, as it bore the brunt of the impact.
OOC: There are only three damaged dead left that are near the Jeep where Kara and Cami are. They're outnumbered and out armed, so I'll let either of you freeform the rest of the fight.
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@Esiphas and @mrpineapple
IC:
The rest of the group silently takes up position as Guy wanders out near the edge of where he presumes the villiage was. Guy doesn't see any indication at all that this isn't just another bit of scrubland near the beach. Not even any ruins.
As he steps out he does manage to attract one of the creatures. It makes something of a moaning sound and the rest start charging as well.
However the first doesn't wait around for its fellows to arive and the ghostlike form, with an old partial skeleton inside the green ghostly outline, charges after Guy.
It either doesn't see or doesn't care about the others in the brush and charges in
OOC: I guess I'll give you guys a chance how and if you engage it or if Guy keeps running or Holly holds back or uses one of her methods of attack etc.
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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
Kara grins as she splatter-kills the dead. "Thats for Luna, you rotting sods." She says, mainly to herself. Turning around, Wrench in hand, She rushed another dead, Breathing heavily to try and overcome the partial winding she had taken. Bringing down her wrench with a wet crunch, She grimaces, blood everywhere. "Thank you Cluedo..." She muttered to herself, Before Turning yo the next, And Grinning. She took a few steps back, before hurling her wrench straight at it, Straight into its head, snapping it back. She jumped backwards simultaneously, Grabbing her other wrenxh, the one she threw earlier, and then she yelled "Finsh em iff Cami. I'll help out the lovebirds under the tree." She ran over to the fallen tree, And began to try and lift the tree off them.
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Once Guy had entered the shelter of the bushes, he turned his head around to check if he could turn around and face it.
It was pretty intimidating though and he opted to try slow it down by bringing it through awkward heighted branches and obstacles, keeping as close to the others as he could, whilst still moving and dodging branches.
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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
Holly took in a deep breath, readying herself. The Moment the green creature came close, she jumped at it, aiming to attack the largest bone-filled area in its body with a lightning attack. She personally found the green... thing, horrifying, but she had to help guy out. "C'mon!" She yelled to the others.
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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
@Esiphas and @mrpineapple
The creature is fast, and quickly gains on guy on the open ground. When Guy reaches the bushes most of the creatures body simply passes through them, but the old bones snag on the branches and leaves, slowing it up a little, but not nearly as much as they slow Guy.
But then Guy reaches the group. Holly zipps past guy to attack the creature before it can attack Guy, lightning courses into it and its collarbone shatters, the green form seems disrupted somewhat too.
But then a green pseudopod, like a ameoba reaches out towards Holly. Holly dodges, but it still snags her chest and tears out a rib (two karma to avoid that, Petani can patch it up, but you're about at her limit).
Another Psuedopod reaches out toward Richard, who decides to release his hatches and leap backwards instead of continuing his charge. His weapon hits the creatures spine...with the handle, but that still seems to have something of an effect. Niu, drives at it with her cleaver, but swining at a boneless green leg doesn't do anything. Not even slow the blade and her momentum causes her to lose her balance and stumble in the bushes.
While the creature was focusing on the living the native spirits have closed in, and bring down their swords on the disrupted form. Their weapons seem to have some effect whether they hit bone or not, and the creature seems strained, managing to rip an arm bone out of one of the speachless ones but nothing else, and then it sort of...pops...and the few remaining bones clatter onto the ground.
The rest of the green ghostly creatures are coming now, however they're all hurrying, and coming single file. It looks like there are three of them.
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Guy gasped for breath. The creatures were tougher than he had thought, and what's more, they didn't seem to be hurt that much by physical attacks, that meant hand to hand was out of the question, also the bowie knife he had picked up earlier was probably too short a range.
Guy snapped off a tree branch - it wasn't going to be great, but it was better than nothing
"Everyone okay?" he asked in the short interval they had - mostly looking at Holly's wincing.
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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
Holly felt the Pseudopod brush across her, byt managed to stumbled backwards, avoiding the brunt of the Damage.(2karma) She pants, watching the sprits destroy the creature. "Thst was too close." she said, going to gyys side. "Looks lije I was right, the bony areas are the best place to target. Shame my lightnings so short range. Looks like the ghosties dont have a problem fightingthem though." She brraced herseldf as tge next 3 came, Wary of the creatures now, but confident- if still hirrified.
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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
@esi phs and @mrpineapple
OOC: Sorry for being a bit slow on the replies and short on time lately.
IC:
As the second of the creatures closes, the leader of the native spirits says <line> in his native language, and they each step back to make a semicircle with everyone...except Richard who is back a couple meeters scrounging for rocks and things.
As the creature gets close Guy thrusts his branch into its bones. The branch is unweildy, and Guy isn't sure that he's done any damage, but he's halted the creatures charge a few steps out.
OOC: Gotta run, I'm wondering what Holly is going to try as far as attack.
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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
Holly frowned, raising her hands to defend herself. Guy halted the creatures advance, and she darted in, trying to grab at its biggest bone again with the lightning attack, this time digging her heels into the floor as she lunged, so as to be ready to spring back if she saw another pseudopod attack.
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The branch wasnt very good, but the green aura around the bones wasn't something he wanted to risk putting his hands into.
Guy picked up some rocks, he could at least distract them so the others had a better shot.
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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
@Esiphas and @mrpineapple e
Halting its charge with the stick had allowed the native spirits to step forward with Holly and attack.
Holly manages to shatter the creatures spine, and then quickly lunges backwards as the pseudopods lash out at her. She lands hard on her back a few staps back, but she had managed to keep away from them. Those things are fast. Holly's hit appeared to have really damaged that one, and it doesn't even harm the spirits before their swords and a rock from Richard cause it to dissipate. The next to are almost upon the group, moving fast.
In the break Guy manages to grab a few odd shaped rocks from around his feat.
The spirits take a few steps back again, getting roughly back in line with everyone. Niu also moves back into the group, but it looks like she was hurt in the chest at some point, maybe as the last one was passing by.
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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
Holly pants, tryin to quickly catch her breath before the next one reaches her. "Guy, Richard, Niu... Aim for the bones... Thats aboutbthe only plce youthree can hurt them." As the next one comes in for an attack, Holly, On a whim, Preforms her electric attack once again, bit this time justvaims for the green mass, reasoning that if the spirits could hurtbit there, why not her spirit arm? As ahe does so, She readys herself to dodge more pseudopods- If she's lucky.
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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
(I'm on a different computer, I'll be able to type more the next time I post)
"I don't know exactly what's going on,but you're right, let's get out of here!" Kaname stumbles but caught herself and started following Jimmy. "Shishe, come"
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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
@Kaname Shikara and @JimmyTheCannon
Down below Jennifer yells "The doggy is fighting the scary thing down here! It broke the stairs I don't think the doggy can get up there! I think it's confused, if you're getting out through a window, maybe call from outside!"
The sounds of fighting below continue, and there is a crunching noise, after which Jennifer yells "AND HURRY!"
Up in the attick the few remaining dead move towards Jimmy and Kaname, though they're right next to a window, perhaps so something could see what it was doing to Jane.
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@Esiphas and @mrpineapple
Af the next creature comes in Holly darts in fast, her attack on the green area certainly has an effect, blasting a hole in the creature, creating a visual effect something like putting a small bomb in jello.
It tried to hit her with a pseudopod but Holly manages to sidestep and land another attack where the pseudopod was origionating, disrupting its attack. Guy manages to nail the thing with a rock, and the other spirits and Niu's attack rain down on it, but it isn't clear how much more damage needed to be done beyond what Holly did. The thing disiptages in a moment having hurt no one.
But in a second the final one is on the group. Holly hits but stumbles as she tries to dodge the follow up, the others attack, Guy delivering a crushing blow on the thing with a large rock at close range and soon the fight is ended.
(OOC: Holly would have lost a bunch of ribs on her left side due to a bit of rough luck. Holly just has enough karma to negate that however.)
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Guy sighed. "Sorry i wasn't more help.". He looked around, everyone seemed to be okay - at a quick glance anyway.
"that's a few down anyway and it doesn't look as if more are coming right now"
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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
Holly fellt the Pseudopods on the last creature glance along her skin, but they failed to do damage once again. As the last creature was destroyed she let a quiet moan of fear and slumped to her knees. "That was too close..." She muttered, Gently rubbing her left side. "My luck cant hold out forever. Theres got.to be a better way to do it, One that doesent risk our bones being torn out of our bodys."
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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
@Esiphas and @mrpineapple
The spirits looks around a bit, but there don't seem to be any more threats in the area.
Niu clutches her bloody side and torn top where her ribs were ripped out. She almost looks more fearful than relieved as her flesh starts to knit back together, and Richard moves to put himself between her and the native spirits.
Noticing this the leader of that group turns to guy <I appreciate the defference, but tell her that now that she expended the mana to gain that ability, she might as well use it to the fullest.>
He turns and holds out a hand to Holly to help her up while still looking at Guy <And tell her that was a most impressive display. I expect the universe will have recognized that, and she may have mana to spare after we have done what we need to here.>
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Holly quickly got Petani to translate what the spirit was saying.
"Heh. Well, That was... Nice of him." She Looked around, Seeing Niu and Richard before finding guy. "Hey... Well, we sure showed them who was boss. Im scared of them though. Look what she did to Poor Niu. Though, Niu can recove from it easier, Apparently. I dont want to rely on Petani for regrowing limbs... Else Id basicly.just be a Ghost myself."
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Guy looked away with an ill stomach from the torn open Niu, but he saw enough to see she was alright.
Guy looked towards Holly, was she replying to the villager? ..but he was the translator... Guy dismissed it and composed himself. "So. What's next?" he asked, twice for translation..
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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
@mrpineapple and @Esiphas
OOC: It's fine if you want to play it like Guy has forgotten. But just in case you have, Guy knows all about Petani being in Holly and that she also speaks the native language because that's what he used to talk her down when she was spazzing and making Holly flail around (making things a lot cheaper points wise for Holly to get her under control). Petani just tends to not prefir translating.
IC:
The spirit holds up a finger for Guy to wait, and he walks around a little bit, just taking in the surroundings, after a little bit, so do the other two. On of them cradelling the arm that the bone was torn out of.
THe moments blend together, at first Richard and Niu at least don't seem to feel like talking as the spirits look around. But eventually Richard whispers "I wonder if they're thinking about their villiage. I don't see anything left, but I guess there were homes and memories here."
Eventually the lead spirit stops and finally turns to Guy
<The next thing to do is to find the gravestones. The soil will have washed down the mountain on its way to the sea, covering them up. But I hope they are still here somewhere, they were as large as we could carry, and we made a small cave with them. You'll have to dig around here.
Stop if you run into bones. There are probably many bodies here, but only a small number would have stones, most were just placed in the dune.>
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OOC: yeah Guy just forgot, seeing as he was translating the villagers conversation for the most part, he was caught offguard when Holly replied.
IC: guy nodded as the villager spoke. <Do you think we could find some tools around here, perhaps some shovels would be handy>. It'd be a lot of work without a shovel, hopefully they could lay their hands on one.
Guy relayed the villagers message to Holly and the rest once again
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Re: RPG: Nightmarchers
Holly sat down, Tapping her chin in thought. Eventually, She looked over to guy, and said "Can you ask the spirits if they can degenerate the bones they.lose from those green things? If they can, Hen we've got our best defense against them."
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@Esiphas and @mrpineapple
The spirit looks around after Guy asks him the questions. After a bit he replies
<I expected there to be more here. Homes and people. I thought the stone caves might even still be tended to.>
He looks around again, emotion actually playing across his face which is usually set in stone in a regal expression.
<But there is no one. Nothing to even show there were once people and families here. Even the land has changed, I am only roughly sure of the right spot, and I am basing my remaining hope on the stones being big enough to resist time and being too big for a person to easily move.
You need to. Just. Just come up with something to find them.>
He takes a deep breath that as a ghost he doesn't really need and regains a little composure.
<And you should come up with something soon. Many things are wandering the island. The longer we stay, the more likely we are to have undesired company.>
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Guy translated Holly's question to the villagers.
As they gave their response he pondered about how they were going to go about this. He guessed the best bet was to actually head there and see what the situation was like.
He also needed to get his hands on something he could use against those creatures...
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@mrpineapple
OOC: Just to make sure I haven't confused you, your character is at the villiage site right now. There just isn't anything at all of the villiage left, it was from a time when those ghosts were alive, back when swords were made out of sharks teeth tied to wood instead of steel. They're hoping that some huge grave stones they made little caves with are still there, just buried under sediment coming down the mountain. So you'd need to dig about where you're standing.