You have just entered room "hotbuns."
Jukkaimaru has entered the room.
Raiden sparx has entered the room.
blender_bunny@mac.com: The spirits shifted from appendage to appendage, shuffling and muttering softly amongst each other. Obviously they had heeded the conjurers calls but they hadn't planned on what they entailed.
blender_bunny@mac.com: A large swamp pig decorated in flowers and coconuts trundled forward. "WHATS IN IT FER US?"
MischiefMink: Ode turned to look at it. "If the yozi remains awake this entire area will be destroyed. The only way to restore the balance is to force it back into sleep."
blender_bunny@mac.com: The spirits go back to mumbling amongst each other. Ode can hear bits and pieces of various conversations. "I SAY WE EAT HER.""You always say that.""...We don't want to be destroyed."
blender_bunny@mac.com: "You remember what happened last time they all said to fight against them.""Yushan is nice this time of year...""I can feel spiders in my eyes D:"
MischiefMink: She frowned. Dammit. This is not how I planned on this going, she thought.
MischiefMink: Taking a deep breath, Ode thought over the situation. She had to convince them... bullying might work, if she appeared powerful enough... but it was a risky gamble, when there were so many of them.
MischiefMink: However, if she were to appeal to some of their other emotions... Yes, that might work, she thought with a smile.
MischiefMink: "You ask why you should do this thing? This is your swamp, is it not? Your land. But the yozi has taken it over. I know; I brushed against its essence myself. It is all-encompassing. It allows no room for anything else.
MischiefMink: "Are you telling me that you don't want to take it back? To drive the yozi away and reclaim it as your own? Hmph. How disappointing."
Lithaladhwen: Tassi looked up over her charge's head, staring at the spirits through the haze of light she'd created to protect her and Ode from them.
Lithaladhwen: "Ode, I hadn't expected that these creatures would be afraid to defend their own rightful territory. That is disappointing."
blender_bunny@mac.com: "ENOUGH." The voice quickly silences the crowd scatters as a much more imperious figure approaches, swathed in fine robes of petals and face hidden by a smiling yellow Mask of a cat.
Raiden sparx has left the room.
blender_bunny@mac.com: The spirit strutted forward it's legs were those of an incredibly large stork, "I am king here, what do you demand?"
Raiden sparx has entered the room.
MischiefMink: "A king? I see." Ode said. "Well, King. I demand that you and your subjects here aid myself and my allies in our attempt to subdue the yozi."
blender_bunny@mac.com: The mask flipped around from the smiling cat to a red hunting beast with it's fangs in an open snarl.
blender_bunny@mac.com: "To war? You ask us to war? He who is the swamp and the lord of the swamp? War like the days in which creation turned against it's creators?"
Lithaladhwen: Tassi opened her mouth to speak and then snapped it shut again. Perhaps she shouldn't. Perhaps it was a bit too cheeky to-- oh, the hell with it.
Lithaladhwen: "What do you have to fear from war that isn't already going to happen to you in very short order? Do you honestly believe that creature is going to go about its business except possibly making an exception for you?
Lithaladhwen: "You question our reasoning? Our judgment? Our judgment is the only chance anything here has for continued existence.
Lithaladhwen: "Your... your fear... is going to leave you all waiting in the mud to be obliterated by a creature who cares nothing for you. At least if you take up arms and defend what's yours you have a chance.
Lithaladhwen: "It's your decision. But if you back down now because you're too afraid to stand up for yourselves, you'll never have time to regret it."
Lithaladhwen: She scowled and made a little hffing noise under her breath. She'd said her piece for now.
blender_bunny@mac.com: "...TO ARMS!" The spirits sat there in quiet stupor for a second before a cacophony the likes which only the greatest of storms let out was released as the swamp came alive with the tiny gods.
Lithaladhwen: Tassi took a deep breath and held it, unwilling to relax, even though they'd theoretically gotten exactly what they wanted. What now?
Lithaladhwen: She glanced to Ode. This was Ode's game. Tassi was just here to help.
MischiefMink: Ode looked over at Tassi as the spirits began their war cry. "...I wasn't sure how things were going to go there for a minute," she said. "You really swayed them. Thank you."
Lithaladhwen: Tassi swallowed. "I don't know. I... I didn't know what else to do. I debated not saying anything."
blender_bunny@mac.com: A slightly familiar old cackling sound came to Ode's ear and she is able to make out an old man running in the distance.
MischiefMink: "It's good that you did. I don't know that I would've been quite so... convincing," she said wryly. "Generally I-" she tilted her head as she hears the cackle.
MischiefMink: "...that old man..." she mutters. "What is he doing?"
Lithaladhwen: ".... Are you all right?"
Raiden sparx: Tomasu's grip tightened on his rapier.
DancerVeiled: Ayame grinned wide and hefted her giant goremaul.
MischiefMink: "Huh? Oh... yes. Yes. Just saw something I didn't expect," Ode replied. "...though I suppose at this point I should know better than to expect anything."
Lithaladhwen: Tassi nodded. "Well... I'm following your lead. I don't know how long you.... need me to keep this up. Are you still afraid they'll turn on us?
Lithaladhwen: "I'm... I'd like to at least set our young one down for a moment," she finished as she shifted the child in her arms.
Jukkaimaru has left the room.
Lithaladhwen: "What do you want to do?"
blender_bunny@mac.com: TICK 0 FOIGHT
Raiden sparx has left the room.
Raiden sparx has entered the room.
MischiefMink: "Don't worry about it," Ode said, letting her own aura die down at last. "I think... all we can do now is wait."
Raiden sparx: (re-invite to OOC?)
Raiden sparx: (and what'd I miss?)
Raiden sparx has left the room.
Lithaladhwen: Tassi nodded and eased her own glaring manifested aura. "I'm following you on this one."
MischiefMink: Ode nodded in turn. "We'll wait for now...rest for a few minutes. If the others need us... we can join them."
Lithaladhwen: "Ode?" Tassi began. "Don't tell Hakaril I rallied an army by emasculating them. You know he'd take it to all the wrong conclusions."
Jukkaimaru has entered the room.
MischiefMink: "Hehehe...I won't tell him," Ode chuckled.
Lithaladhwen: "Thank you. I already have to wonder what the bloody hell he told Darin about our last mission. If I had a keg of whiskey for every species I've had to chide since starting my training, I'd drink the world dry."
Raiden sparx has entered the room.
Raiden sparx: (Bout fucking time.)
blender_bunny@mac.com: Meanwhile, back at the stand of the three exalts arrayed before an army of terrible spawned beasts and pseudo-Marius.
blender_bunny@mac.com: They could all hear the roar from the swamps, now wether this was a good thing or a bad thing had yet to be seen.
Leviathan Bound: Faced with what looked to be a long and gruesome battle, Kaiser stalked forward until he was standing alongside Ayame. The monstrous Sloth raised it's moonsilver laden scythe-like
Leviathan Bound: claws into the air and let forth a roar of pure bestial rage as bands of silver essence spun about his form, twisting his already massive muscles into magical strong sinews infused with the very
Leviathan Bound: speed of Luna. "Go Ayame! Not a single of these foolish blasphemies shall lay a finger on you!"
DancerVeiled: "Heh, thanks Kaiser." Ayame nods, aborting her own preparation of Fivefold Bulwark Stance. Kaiser was a decent guy, and valued tactics, it seemed.
blender_bunny@mac.com: TICK 1 FITE
Raiden sparx: Tomasu's eyes burned as he stared at Marius. "You are no more than a husk. I will do something better than you deserve." His arm slashed to the side, his rapier glowing
Raiden sparx: in his hand. "I will give you the rest the dead deserve!" Tomasu's strong legs bent and fired like pistons, leaping through the air toward Marius, a trail of sparkles floating
Raiden sparx: lazily in the air behind him. As he closed in on Marius, his grip on his rapier tightened, his arm flowing once again with golden essence. With an inhuman speed his arm attacked,
Raiden sparx: slicing and thrusting at Marius with a whirlwind of light and essence.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Marius lurched forward as the blade connected with him again and again. He screamed and lurched forward against the brave solar warrior. "T...T...Tomasu...?"
blender_bunny@mac.com: Blood began to drip from his nose slowly.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu landed after his intense flurry, looking down at the man. "My name is not meant for the likes of you to mutter."
blender_bunny@mac.com: "...You are no fun!" He lurched back from the assault his body completely unharmed by the brutal assault.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu's body itself was aflame with his anima, the light of the sun itself tearing from the Solar's body. His eyes narrowed at Marius. "I'm not here for your entertainment."
blender_bunny@mac.com: "Your right, you're here because you seek something better than your lot in life." He lunged forward his scythe coming down at Tomasu's chest.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu's rapier came up, holding back the scythe. "And you have no life yet to speak of." He pushed the demonic weapon back. "Don't speak of things you don't know."
blender_bunny@mac.com: The Yozombies did what they did best and shamble forward, mooks in disguise!
blender_bunny@mac.com: A beast not meant for this world turns into a fine mist, caught by his masters own attack and completely bisected.
DancerVeiled: Ayame bolted forward like a small rocket, Orichalcum goremaul trailing behind her like a brilliant golden contrail. The Dawn's boots splished and splashed through the swamp toward Marius and his monstrosities,
DancerVeiled: but the real goal was the Yozispawn himself.
DancerVeiled: Taking a moment to flex her knees, Ayame launches herself over the yozombies, into a graceful, yet brilliant arc toward the mad Makumarius. Spinning her goremaul behind her by it's haft like a propeller to slow her forward motion
DancerVeiled: Ayame then seizes the weapon with both hands, impacting Marius like a falling star, with accompanying watersplash as the many-hundred pound hammer displaced a large portion of swamp.
DancerVeiled: Rising, she flickers once, twice, again and again, seemingly in five places at once, swinging her hammer at the Akuma from every cardinal direction simultaneously.
blender_bunny@mac.com: The hammer met the sickle with every blow, a glorious red explosion of sparks and exultant cries by the unfortunate souls that made up Marius's armor and weapons. "YOU CAN'T STOP ME I'M THE-" *CRUNCH*
blender_bunny@mac.com: Sometimes even exalts forgot about the fifth element.
blender_bunny@mac.com: FOR MANY TICKS NOTHING HAPPENS.
blender_bunny@mac.com: TICK 7 IN WHICH OUR BELOVED TOMASU MAY ATTEMPT TO SMITE EVIL
blender_bunny@mac.com: TICK 5 IN WHICH KAISER CAN SMITE EVIL INSTEAD
blender_bunny@mac.com: The Yozi groaned as it shifted around.
Leviathan Bound: Kaiser snarled as he charged into battle, batting aside numerous Yozombies as his massive form sped through their ranks like a rampaging beast. Kaiser approached the blurring, essence-charged
Leviathan Bound: forms of Ayame and Tomasu just as Ayame's last Reality Bending Phenomenon Goremaul slam hit home, crushing the side of Marius' armor. Surprisingly agile for his gargantuan form, Kaiser
Leviathan Bound: dove to the ground, digging his moonsilver claws into the dirt to spin him around and underneath Ayame's now airborn(hopefully she jumps up) in order to interpose his magically toughened
Leviathan Bound: hide between Marius and her.
DancerVeiled: Ayame reflexively leaps up to deftly land on the giant Sloth's back, repositioning herself to make use of her weapon while still giving Kaiser room to defend.
blender_bunny@mac.com: TICK 7 IN WHICH TOMASU MAY NOW ACT, I'M NOT KIDDING OR NOTHING!
Raiden sparx: Tomasu's rapier seemed to burn brighter with his anima as he decided to try again. As he burned the essence, an image inside his flare became more apparant. A massive orb, the
Raiden sparx: sun itself, floated above tomasu's head. Beneath the sun, hiding within the shadow Tomasu's body cast, was a large dragon. It seemed to almost be hiding in shame of the light,
Raiden sparx: wishing to just crawl away. But for now...its head would emerge. Tomasu rushed forward, not even humoring the Yozi husk with a word. His foot went up high...and the boot
Raiden sparx: connected with Marius's face.
Raiden sparx: With his new mounting area he kicked off, spinning up high above Marius, the fiery sparkles hovering in the path behind him.
Raiden sparx: The dragon of his anima slowly moved from the shadow, its wings spreading wide as Tomasu almost seemed to hang in the air. The rapier screamed out under the anima sun,
Raiden sparx: wanting the death of the tainted one below. The dragon's head leaned forward from the shadow, showing its true fearsome form. Its maw opened wide, the fangs seeming
Raiden sparx: almost too real...Tomasu dropped.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Once again Marius brought his scythe up to defend against the assault of his hated foes. But as the assault continued his defense began to waver
blender_bunny@mac.com: and then as the very ghostly fingers of his anima began to ripple from him he just missed, the glowing sword piercing his chest.
blender_bunny@mac.com: Marius is killed, his utter existence purged by the holy blades and the fickle ebb and flow of fate. But the yozi only shudders as it begins to spit out more and more yozombis.
Raiden sparx: Tomasu landed on the ground, the dragon of his anima giving out a roar before returning to the shadow of his soul where it belonged. The dawn castemark on his forehead was
Raiden sparx: seared on by now, making his eyes glow as he turned to Ayame and Kaiser. "....let's go knock down a tower."
DancerVeiled: "Right. Tower it is!" Ayame shoots Tomasu a thumbs up from atop Kaiser, showing no anima flare effects at all.
DancerVeiled has left the room.
Raiden sparx has left the room.
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MischiefMink has left the room.
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