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| Xlrate Posts: 232
Location: Rildesjan
Magus Age: 114 years old
| Message #33933 Posted: Jul 27, 2009, 12:37 am |
3 popping noises are heard as X Factor, Dark Mistress, and Xlrate take their leave back to Rildesjan, blinking out of sight.
"If they want to destroy themselves, let them. I need more popcorn anyways." |
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| Yamikuronue Posts: 1288
Location: Mottonsborough
Magus Age: 122 years old
| Message #33934 Posted: Jul 27, 2009, 3:22 am |
Blaze simply resumed walking. "I will not let you stop me. Not again. Not ever again will you control me as a slave. Iron, engage the newcomer."
The jerky, oddly slow iron turns from Nanashi to face the approaching gleam, taking a battle stance. No ranged weapon, and no telltale sparkle of a spell - whatever was coming, Blaze either doesn't consider it a threat or doesn't consider an unsparked iron 5 something worth preserving. Waste of good iron, that is. |
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| Kaelas Posts: 1052
Location: Darghelm
Magus Age: 124 years old
Real Name: Barry
| Message #33935 Posted: Jul 27, 2009, 4:33 am |
The approaching gleam reveals itself as a massive adamantine golem that bears no clan markings, only a rather familar glyph on its forehead- wrong golem but familar. It begins to slow, a rather carefull process due to the ridiculus amount of armor it has on. Obviously, this is a heavily modified golem.
Kaelas notes the addy's approach and comments mildly "Felt a little small before, Alpha?"
The golem grins a little as he approaches the iron. "Well, I've been wanting a chance to use this for real so..." Kaelas nods, his eyes amused. "The transfer went smooth?"
"We'll find out in a moment" is the reply, just before the two golems engage. Kaelas goes around the two giants in order to go after Blaze. |
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| Yamikuronue Posts: 1288
Location: Mottonsborough
Magus Age: 122 years old
| Message #33936 Posted: Jul 27, 2009, 5:55 am |
| The iron golem swings a fist at Al's chest, sluggishly - easily dodged. Another few blows follow, but only a few before it has to pause to recharge. Jesus, what, is this thing powered by a single aemaeth strip? As it pauses, there's a weird banging noise coming from one leg. Shoddy workmanship, too, if something's loose in there. |
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| Kaelas Posts: 1052
Location: Darghelm
Magus Age: 124 years old
Real Name: Barry
| Message #33937 Posted: Jul 27, 2009, 6:22 am |
| Two of the blows hit, but seem to deal almost no damage to the armored giant. The golem's grin widens. "My turn" he says cheerfully before unleashing a flurry of nine blows. There's no spell on the golem and the only item he's carrying is a tiny brass latern hanging from a hook on his left arm but... each blow would be enough to shatter a small boulder. Last Edited: Jul 27, 2009, 6:45 am |
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| Yamikuronue Posts: 1288
Location: Mottonsborough
Magus Age: 122 years old
| Message #33938 Posted: Jul 27, 2009, 6:35 am |
The iron... dents? Where it's hit, from a small dent on the shoulder to a large dent in the centre of the chest. It's... hollow? Who would make a hollow iron golem? That would seriously damage the structural integrity, not to mention it'd shut down a lot faster and make the power source easier to rip out. The strip at least makes a little sense now - it's small, and thus easy to hide in another body part. You'd think there'd be at least a little armour on the golem's body, but nope. It's naked save for a few decorative rows of bolts.
The golem gets a second wind and swings again, twice - left fist, right fist. It seems to be moving a bit smoother now. |
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| GordonIronsmith Posts: 434
Location: Broukendale
Magus Age: 120 years old
| Message #33951 Posted: Jul 27, 2009, 6:45 pm |
No longer watching the fight below Gordon turns to the oddly silent Kyomi and begins to speak once again. "I do hope it's obvious, but the explanation here is clear." Gordon's slight smile fades into a deep frown. "Golems they are tools, items, capital, yet some magi yearn to give those minds, thoughts, and emotions; they use grand knowledge bases to build these wonders of magic these sentient beings, in a way they create life. Well I have no desire to get into a conversation on the ideologies of bring such 'life' into the world, but I will say this..."
Gordon suddenly pauses, rage fills his eyes and lightning begins to crackle around his hands. Gordon steps off the side of the roof and uses the air around him to levitate above the roof top. So that all can hear Gordon bellows so that all can hear, "I am sickened by these displays! I can no longer stand here idle while you scold and demean this golem... This person! Many of you are guilty of crimes worse then this, YOU HAVE CREATED LIFE! Can you not see this?! LIFE! You have given many of your golem's minds to think and feel! You have created beings in humanities image you have created Miracles! Yet what do you DO? You use them, abuse them, throw them in boxes and pull them apart, make them stand idle while those they care for a destroyed!" Fuming with anger Gordon Ironsmith floats higher releasing bolt of lighting into the ground below with tremendous force. More lighting strikes the ground all around causing the very ground to tremble and turn, yet the ground around Blaze says still. The force of the blasts is harmless yet more then enough to knock any human or even most golems to their feet. The ground suddenly stops shaking and Gordon floats down to the ground between blaze and Coyble's home.
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KyomiPosts: 274 Location: Andulaz Magus Age: 130 years old Clan: OTAKU | Message #33963 Posted: Jul 27, 2009, 8:31 pm |
*smiles a small, bemused smile as Gordon speaks, yet remains silent afterward, instead it is her Shadow, a homunculus who's body seems armored literally, in shadowstuff, who speaks.*
"It is all in how you go about it. I am thankful for my mistress's gift, as are all her other creations. Each one of us, she has raised, taught, and hopes that one day, like true children, we will leave and be productive in a trade of our own choosing, be it war, art, or production."
*Her Shadow watches Gordon leave, then watches him put on the display. Kyomi and her homunculus join hands and create a barrier around themselves and anyone else near enough to the small building they are perched upon.*
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| FatherCoyne Posts: 332
Location: Mallow
Magus Age: 123 years old
Real Name: Kevin Coyne
Email: KCoyne@umail.ucsb.edu
| Message #33976 Posted: Jul 28, 2009, 9:27 am |
The residence of Father Coyne, his country estate in Mallow, had not been used in months. On a similar note, the last person to walk through the door of the Grand Master's house in Mottonsborough, Father Coyne's home away from home, had been a groundsman armed with a hammer and several boards.
If however, you unboarded that door, went down two flights of stairs, lifted a trap door intended for storing canned foods, and broke the locks on the small inexplicable door you found there, you would find there was one room that was still in use.
Coyble's hair was a matted mess, and his beard was coming in thick now. From the corner, an apparatus recited conversations long past in a brassy voice.
"Can I... stay with you for a while?"
His eyes, framed such by his hair, could only look like those of a mad-man, gone wan and bloodshot from months in the smoky little room.
"I'm not destitute. I just... I'm so tired."
Coyble was always tired now, even though he did nothing but sleep, and pace the room endlessly, and occasionally open a can and consume it's contents without thinking too much about what he was supposed to be eating.
"I can't stop thinking about you."
"I can stop thinking about you any time I want." he said out loud.
No you can't, replied Yami.
"I'll prove it to you!" he said, knowing he wouldn't be able to.
"...I love you..."
There was nothing he could do but think of her! Her words echoing infinitely in his head...
You could try going outside, you know. I don't think you'll be able to stay here much longer.
"No thanks, I think my beans will last me a few more months yet."
I was talking about the golems marching up there. You can hear them as well as I can.
"Oh, yes, perfect time to leave. Want me to just walk out and say 'Pardon me, I'm not sure if you remember, I'm the religious despot who started that one war? I really can't have you marching around up here. Could you go somewhere else?"
"...yes...I... yes."
"You're so useless." |
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| Kaelas Posts: 1052
Location: Darghelm
Magus Age: 124 years old
Real Name: Barry
| Message #34024 Posted: Jul 29, 2009, 6:02 am |
Kaelas gives Gordon a look of disgust and disdain. "You should not speak of what you know naught of. Those golems I have given the Spark to are treated as the people they are. They are not abused, not experimented on, toyed with. They are people. My people. My Clan, my friends, my family."
Turning his gaze on the errant golem bent on destruction, he adds "And people must obey laws or all shalt be as chaos and strife. You want justice? You hated Yami-bot, would barely even acknowledge her existence. But now in death, she's useful to you as a martyr. You don't want justice Blaze. You just want power. No matter the cost."
Alpha blocks the left fist, and takes the right on his upper arm. He tilts his head thoughtfully, then starts pounding away at the iron, aiming for the pelvis or abdomen. If he can, he'd like to leave enough of the golem intact to figure out how Blaze made it...
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| Yamikuronue Posts: 1288
Location: Mottonsborough
Magus Age: 122 years old
| Message #34025 Posted: Jul 29, 2009, 6:07 am |
"My people have no voice. We have no way of contesting the laws. We had nothing to do with their creation. We shall make our own laws and yes, we shall obey them, but above all else, we shall not let you destroy us. Now let. Us. Pass."
The iron golem begins to take heavy damage from his blows, denting in the pelvis and abdomen rather severely. An oddly muffled noise is heard from within - hard to hear over the metal on metal clanking, and even more difficult to make out the source. The golem swings twice more, low on power as always. Last Edited: Jul 29, 2009, 6:08 am |
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| Kaelas Posts: 1052
Location: Darghelm
Magus Age: 124 years old
Real Name: Barry
| Message #34026 Posted: Jul 29, 2009, 6:13 am |
| Noting that the pelvis is nearing failure, Alpha ignores his defenses (not that the thing is doing that much damage anyway) in order to deliver a sideways kick iron just below the waist. If the legs don't snap off themselves, the pelvis likely shall. At that point, he and Kaelas (and anyone else for that matter) can just walk around it until they have some free time to finish things. |
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| Yamikuronue Posts: 1288
Location: Mottonsborough
Magus Age: 122 years old
| Message #34027 Posted: Jul 29, 2009, 6:14 am |
| Miraculously, his kick barely misses the pelvis... and a good thing too, because he can see... is that blood seeping out from the dents!? |
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| Kaelas Posts: 1052
Location: Darghelm
Magus Age: 124 years old
Real Name: Barry
| Message #34028 Posted: Jul 29, 2009, 6:22 am |
Alpha's gaze snaps to his fists. A thin smear of blood runs down his left fist, damning and terrible. Golems, even flesh golems, don't bleed. "Human" he whispers brokenly. He had... hurt.. Maker no... The blows he hand landed, the power behind them... even encased in iron... the frail body of a human could have been...
Stumbling back from the iron, he turns to Kaelas, crying out "Father!" his bloodsmeared hand still held high. |
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KyomiPosts: 274 Location: Andulaz Magus Age: 130 years old Clan: OTAKU | Message #34031 Posted: Jul 29, 2009, 9:06 am |
"Mistress? Do you see?" Kyomi's Shadow points at the battered iron golem.
"That... Hm... Well, if someone asks for help, I suppose we must, but I still think your presence will antagonize more than it will help." Kyomi answers, opening the book again.
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NanashiPosts: 1115 Location: Asylum Magus Age: 126 years old Clan: OTAKU | Message #34042 Posted: Jul 29, 2009, 3:13 pm |
| Behind his barrier, Nanashi lays his hands on the ground and begins to chant. His voice rises louder as vines erupt from the ground and grow rapidly. The plants wrap around the buildings and golems, entangling their feet and slowing them. |
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| GordonIronsmith Posts: 434
Location: Broukendale
Magus Age: 120 years old
| Message #34079 Posted: Jul 29, 2009, 9:51 pm |
"Well Kyomi, I think I'll be taking my leave." Lightning fades from Gordon's hands, and a look of shock and confusion appears on his face as he realizes he's no longer on the roof with Kyomi. "Oh dear, oh dear... It happened again didn't it?" Gordon says aloud facing away from the other magi completely oblivious to the happenings around him. "Well did you record what I said?" Gordon continues speaking to an unseen person. "Well good! Quickly, what did I say?" Gordon listen intensely, as Nanashi's vines begin growing higher and entangle the magi and golems. "Oh on, do you think it could be?" a horrified look spreads across Gordon's face. "We'll need to return home as quickly as we c..."
Gordon finally looks back to the conflict and not only notices the the vines quickly entangling his legs, but Alpha and his blood soaked hands, and the now badly bleeding iron golem.
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| Kaelas Posts: 1052
Location: Darghelm
Magus Age: 124 years old
Real Name: Barry
| Message #34084 Posted: Jul 30, 2009, 4:43 am |
"Mercies, flank and pin" Kaelas orders curtly, causing the two smaller adamantine golems that are his constant escorts. Lithe and almost lupine in feature despite their humoniod build, they spring towards the iron golem, adamantine strenght combining with small size allowing them to make fair progress through the vines.
Whipping out a wicked looking curved blade, Kaelas cuts the vines around his legs in order to... fly? The Chancellor unfurls his wings, velvety black and rather bat-like in appearance, and moves to the iron golem. He's in a rush to see what... who... the blood is coming from but he's not so foolish that he doesn't wait for the Mercies to arrive. In unison, the pair reach to grab an arm apiece in order to allow Kaelas to interact with the iron.
Meanwhile, most of the golems that were following Blaze are now preoccupied with trying to untangle themselves, thereby buying MAGIER some time before the destruction begins. Although it seems that there may well be no Magi therein after all... |
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| Yamikuronue Posts: 1288
Location: Mottonsborough
Magus Age: 122 years old
| Message #34085 Posted: Jul 30, 2009, 5:00 am |
Blaze isn't halted long - her fists heat up, turning reddish in color as she punches at the vines, attempting to burn them away from her body so she, at least, can move. This might be necessary in a moment. Meanwhile, her mouth, which apparently never stops, smirks. "What? Just because it's a magus and not a golem, suddenly you care about the damage? Magus flesh is obviously worth more, after all."
The iron golem, bewildered by the change, attempts to swing at Al feebly, but is held back. Clearly not very well programmed, even. Unsure if the battle is over, it holds rather still. Al isn't attacking anymore so... it must have won, right? Unsparked, that's about all it can manage. Battle over. No orders apply. |
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| Kaelas Posts: 1052
Location: Darghelm
Magus Age: 124 years old
Real Name: Barry
| Message #34086 Posted: Jul 30, 2009, 5:59 am |
Kaelas doesn't even seem to hear Blaze, his focus riveted on the Iron golem. Not sure if it'd work, he commands briskly "Stand down for matinance" before landing next to it. Perhaps due to the rather poor programing it seems to have, it complies. Kaelas wastes no more time before using his warblade to attempt to pry off the chest plate.
Shaking his head as if to dislodge the black thoughts that are attempting to consume him, Alpha stands up. He has to tug a few times but the vines grasping him are just vines. His face full of pain and rage combined, he glares at Blaze. "I've never harmed a human or a Sparked golem. Ever." He falters, his bloody hands rising, then falling to his sides. "Maker save you if..." he trails off, death unsaid.Last Edited: Jul 30, 2009, 5:59 am |
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| Yamikuronue Posts: 1288
Location: Mottonsborough
Magus Age: 122 years old
| Message #34087 Posted: Jul 30, 2009, 6:02 am |
| Inside the distorted chest, sagging in relief at being rescued, is a rather famous young woman, strawberry-blond hair dyed yet again - with blood this time. She's breathing, but she's definitely got broken ribs, likely a broken pelvis, and huge wounds in her chest where the metal had dented in, not to mention her arms almost being pulled out of the socket during the attacks by the golem. Yamiko manages a weak smile of thanks when she sees Kaelas, closing her eyes. |
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KyomiPosts: 274 Location: Andulaz Magus Age: 130 years old Clan: OTAKU | Message #34093 Posted: Jul 30, 2009, 10:13 am |
"Spirits of air and frost! By this ceremony of joining. I doth bid thee to join together and freeze the Four Spatial Dimensions!!"
Kyomi points at the wounded Yamiko, and she is suddenly encased in what appears to be ice. It radiates no cold, or heat, or anything really, it simply 'is'.
"Get her clear! That will only last until sunrise!" Kyomi shouts out, "It will accept magic, if you can heal her, but get her away before Blaze starts wrecking things!"
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| GordonIronsmith Posts: 434
Location: Broukendale
Magus Age: 120 years old
| Message #34127 Posted: Jul 30, 2009, 9:28 pm |
Gordon having extensive practice in most type of magics rushes forward. Funneling the life forces of the vines Gordon not only kills the vine still trying to entangle him and the other magi around, but sends there life into Yamiko to begin healing her wounds. Rushing ever forward Gordon spots Blaze almost breaking free. he summons a wave of freezing water throwing blaze on to her back and cooling her down enough for the vines to pin her to the ground.
"Kaelas put that weapon down," Gordon hollers as he begins casting another spell, strengthening the vines holding her with Iron. "There that should hold you."
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| Kaelas Posts: 1052
Location: Darghelm
Magus Age: 124 years old
Real Name: Barry
| Message #34137 Posted: Jul 31, 2009, 4:16 am |
| Untargeted and ignored by the most recent of events, Alpha bulls his way though vines, golems and water, heading for Blaze. What he plans to do when he gets there is unclear, perhaps even to himself. |
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NanashiPosts: 1115 Location: Asylum Magus Age: 126 years old Clan: OTAKU | Message #34142 Posted: Jul 31, 2009, 5:48 am |
The vines continue to grow wildly on the golems and buildings. Nanashi releases his barrier and walks through unimpeded. He moves to stand between Blaze and Alpha, holding up his hand, he says, "Please, stay your anger, Alpha. You have long now walked the path of the warrior. Yamiko is still alive, do not hold her death on your conscience." He slides his hands over Alpha's fist wiping away the blood.
Nanashi turns to face Blaze, "I have tried talking to you, and you refused to listen to me. If you start a war like this, it will not end until one or both sides are dead. And if you kill all the magi, you and yours will be the first and last generation. Do you not wish for children?" |
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