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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Jan 29, 2016 12:47:37 GMT -5
Ace looked down at Patrick when she heard him speak to one of his inner voices. She too had noticed that conversation between the threesome had been lacking since their arrival in the Medium, so this sudden interaction piqued her interest. She trusted that Evan, Kendall and Alex could deal with this jerk while she inquired with her boyfriend and his other selves. "Hey, what's up?"
Sirion snarled, knuckles popping as he came dangerously close to slamming his fist into Alex's smug face. To think this limp, hornless wiggler had the nerve to insinuate that Clockwork was playing him for a fool! And the dweeb in the pajamas was one to talk too! These monkeys didn't know Clockwork like he did! He could take him! He had killed that demon plenty of times before! HE DIDN'T NEED ANYONE'S HELP!
He had been just about to unload these facts on Alex when Lagola stepped in. Not that it did anything to calm Sirion down. If anything, being put in his place by this WHINY TOOL just made him EVEN MORE FURIOUS. What was the deal with this sudden auspisticism BS?! Why should he have to put up with this brat spouting things he already knew?! And after being nothing but a useless tag-along all this time, NOW she was suddenly trying to help these sorry sacks of phlegm?!
"Oh, get off your high hoofbeast!!" Sirion barked, kicking Lagola to the ground. "No one asked you!"
He cringed when the inevitable sobs began. "AHH, GROW UP, WILL YA?! YOU'RE NEVER GONNA GET ANYWHERE IF YOU KEEP WHINING ABOUT EVERY F***IN' LITTLE THING! 'WAH, WAH, YOU'RE ALL SO MEAN, LIFE IS HARD!' WELL YA KNOW WHAT?! YEAH! IT IS HARD! F***IN' DEAL WITH IT!!!"
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Post by gantzgun74 on Jan 29, 2016 15:27:19 GMT -5
Alex threw his hands in the air when Lagola interrupted and started talking. "THANK YOU! Now see, that's-" He was soundly interrupted by Sirion kicking Lagola to the ground.
......... Seeing Lagola getting yelled at, seeing Sirion so callously spitting on the one person that's actually tried to help ANYTHING in the past few seconds... Not to mention the familiarity of it all... He had finally had enough.
MORE THEN ENOUGH.
It turned out Sirion didn't need to wait for any provocation for punching Alex across the face. The Thief of Void only handed him more. Via HIS OWN punch. To the TROLL'S FACE. One that had a force Sirion hadn't known the thief for having. Normally when players of Sburb fought, their attacks were at their strongest when they used their weapons or their strife specibi. Just flat out fist fighting wasn't going to accomplish much of anything... Which is why it was surprising when not only did this punch hurt, it sent Sirion stumbling back a number of steps. It had been a very clumsy hit with the knuckles one not particularly practiced in the art of boxing, but one made stronger not by the void aspect but by something else entirely.
When he recovered enough to hold his nose, the main contact point, and look at his attacker, he would have found Alex bent down to offer Lagola a hand and get her back on her feet.
"You alright?"
It looked like he was fully expecting Sirion to hit him back with the void barrier set around his body, that much was fair to imagine.... After Lagola responded, or not, Alex spoke again. It was clear who he aimed it at, but he didn't bother to look at the target.
"At least she's giving us information. At least she's TRYING to help us. Which is more then what I can say for what you're doing right now."
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Post by DanteMGalileo on Jan 29, 2016 19:13:33 GMT -5
Meanwhile, some distance away, a purple-clad figure could be seen flying towards a bright light.
She passed Derse. Kinda a gloomy planet full of people she liked to call suckahs. Though she supposed that Jack Noir guy was coo'. He was mad good a stabbin' shit.
After a while, she passed the Veil. She growled at the meteors, each one reminding her of the prison she somehow agreed to follow Aquila into. She paused just briefly to pound her fist into her palm.
It was a good little while before she began to see Prospit. She smirked a bit, it reminded her of all the flying she did in prep for goin' cod tier. Also it was the cooler planet because she used to dream on it.
At last, she caught up to the bright light.
She forced her way through the clouds of Skaia, emerging into a checkerboard world, all monochrome.
...
Hang on wait this ain't right.
Upon landing, Orcana reverted back to her usual garb, dispelling her God Tier wings. She looked around the Battlefield, her one good eye scanning the area...
It was all black and white, with no hints of colour whatsoever. The seadweller walked around, taking in the monochromatic oddly frozen landscape...
She put her hands to her mouth, just about holding back a loud gasp.
"They frozen. They frozen in time."
Orcana tapped one of the Prospitians. No reaction. But he was still warm.
They were just frozen in time.
====> Orcana: Wonder what just kind of whacked-out session you ran into.
This ain't a normal session, not by a long shot.
The seadweller's feet picked up the pace, passing more frozen soldiers in the frozen, monochromatic landscape. "Hey! Anyone in this session alive?! Well if you alive then yo doin' one lousy job!!!"
She said this in front of a crowd of people, most of whom looked familiar...
Her eye locked on Sirion. Then to that pathetic excuse of a troll. Then...
"So you alive bitch, even after ma adult self aka the most stylin' badass ta ever live got yo' session."
Her eye narrowed as she gazed upon one Alex.
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Post by ryocker on Jan 29, 2016 23:39:35 GMT -5
Ryo looked up from his flinching the moment this third party made themself known. Yet another troll- In his session, he never really got to see any of them, yet there was something about her...
That loud, sassy manner of speaking, her glare, but worst of all, that color on her shirt... Where had he seen...
His eyes went wide, Ryan instantly re-summoning Blocks and hiding behind it, shivering. "O-O-OH-OH-ORCANA!!!" Ryan shrieked, clearly shaking behind his summon. What in the world was she doing here?! And how long did he have before she started culling off the red-blooded humans?
(OOC: AKA, he only knows basic info. he never got to interact with Orcana very much.)
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Jan 29, 2016 23:59:11 GMT -5
"Um, Ace? You and me, okay?" Patrick whispered, grabbing his fallen angel's hand and escorting her behind the lotus capsule and out of sight. Evan, Kendall and the others could handle this. Patrick and Ace had their own problems.
Lagola yelped when Sirion kicked her, causing her to crumble to the ground. Immediately, she responded with a sharp wail that spiraled into loud sobs.
"SIRION!" In an extremely rare display of genuine frustration, Kendall rushed over to Lagola, got down on his knees and gently lifted her into his comforting embrace, all the while frowning at Sirion with disapproval and doing his best to speak above the troll's shouts. "You are not helping the situation! We all want the same thing here! You-! There is no need for that behavior! Stop-! DON'T TAKE THIS OUT ON HER!"
Likewise, Evan knelt down to ensure that Lagola was unharmed. He had been just about to question what Sirion's deal was when Alex decked him in the schnoz. And seeing that... really, nothing more needed to be said on the matter. So he just looked at Lagola again and murmured, "Hey... It's okay..."
Lagola looked up at Kendall, then Evan, then Alex, the Kendall again, sniffling, nodding, face drenched in bronze tears.
And then... SHE showed up.
"AHH!!!" Lagola quickly buried her face in Kendall's shirt, mortified by how quickly things had gone from bad to worse. "NOT YOU PLEASE NOT YOU LEAVE US ALONE!"
Evan studied Orcana with a fair amount of scrutiny. Given how scared Lagola had been of Sirion and what a WONDERFUL PERSON he had proven himself to be, he was obviously wary of meeting yet another troll, and the others seemed to reflect his opinions a hundred fold. "Oh jeez... Are all trolls really that bad?"
"Yessssss..."
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Jan 30, 2016 0:35:19 GMT -5
"Oh, uh..." Ace quickly inspected the situation before following Patrick. Whatever was going on in his head had to be serious. "Yeah, sure."
Well... Sirion certainly hadn't seen that coming. At the very least, though the force from Alex's punch sent him stumbling back a foot or two, he managed to stay on his feet. He growled in pain and anger as he held his nose, blood dripping down his lip and hand. All the while, he scowled at Alex, wanting nothing more than to rip the thief's head off but managing to stay surprisingly calm for the sake of not further tarnishing his dignity. Instead, he simply growled, "Jesus, don't bother comforting the brat. You'll only encourage this butthurt behavior."
He too cringed when he heard Orcana's voice, whipping around to direct his livid gaze at her. He pulled his hand away from his face, shaking the indigo fluid off his fingertips. Really, there wasn't much Sirion could say besides "Son... of... a... f***in'... B****."
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Post by gantzgun74 on Jan 30, 2016 0:50:01 GMT -5
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alex could suddenly hear his heartbeat in his ears, THE SPEED OF IT INCREASING DRAMATICALLY.
Slowly, he got up and looked....
And sure enough, there she was. The instigator. The misery. The horror. Perhaps several years younger, but it was no less the person he remembered. Except maybe not? She was younger here while the person he remembered was older, angrier, more vengeful, more insane. Indeed it was not the troll he remembered... But it might as well have been. This person had every bit as much potential to become the very being he feared the most as any other version of her.
He could still remember her horrible enraged screams. He could still remember her punching him clean into a mountain side and retreating into the void just seconds before she could skewer him (It would have been an entirely just death he knew).
His breathing became ragged and his face grew pale as he stumbled back off his feet and hit the ground on his rump. A behavior that very likely stuck with Evan and the others. This had been the Thief of Void, one of the toughest nuts they had seen thus far amongst the God-Tiers. The one more prone to anger and bitterness then anything else... But now he showed only one thing.
Complete mortal terror.
He didn't even absorb what she said.
Just seeing her was enough to shut down all mental processes and send him into a fully blown panic attack...
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Post by DanteMGalileo on Jan 30, 2016 14:54:09 GMT -5
The seadweller troll smirked seeing everyone's reactions to her. Sirion's disgust. Lagola's fear. Alex's panic attack.
She responded to each one in kind. First to the robed guy hiding behind one of his creations, "Quit hidin' guppy. You ain't got no chance if you keep hidfin' like that suckah."
Then to Lagola and... that angel. "You found yo' angel I sea. An' I sea he don't min' li'l crybabies like yo' sorry ass. Stay wit' him so you don' pollute the gene pool wit' you sorry-ass wussiness."
The smirk grew when she moved onto Sirion. "Siri baby! Hope you didn't miss ma fine ass too much ya dumb dog!" She giggled and winked.
And then... Alex. She parted the hair around her other eye, revealing... The hole where an eye had been before. The smirk was gone, replaced by a look of pure disgust.
"And then I gots you. Oh how I have gots you," Orcana jeered as she swaggered over to the panic-stricken thief. "I oughta finish ma adult self's job..."
She surprised everyone else with the follow-up. "What what kinda joy would I get outta that? None, that's what."
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Post by ryocker on Jan 30, 2016 21:28:19 GMT -5
Blocks vanished, Ryan looking up at her with a look of fear and confusion. "No chance if I just hide," he repeated.
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Jan 30, 2016 21:58:33 GMT -5
Patrick sat down behind the capsule and took a deep breath. All the while, Ray grumbled in his head, Jesus, if that snot rag messed with our stuff, I'm gonna make him shove his horns up his own a**!
"I-I'm getting there, don't worry," Patrick murmured before turning to Ace. "Van and I just thought of something. If that troll guy's been messing up the void, he might've found my stuff."
Lagola said nothing, simply continuing to weep as she buried herself deeper into Kendall's embrace. It wasn't like she wanted the alternative. No force in paradox space would get her to rejoin these jerks.
Kendall simply regarded Orcana's words with quiet dignity and a stern paternal frown. For the time being, he felt no need to speak, instead focusing on comforting Lagola. And he found nothing wrong with that.
Evan, though... He might have been put off by Orcana's arrival, and he could accept that the others wouldn't exactly be thrilled by it either, but... wow. They were laying it on thick.
He gazed down at Alex, taken aback by his mortified reaction and complete loss of composure. "A-Alex?" He looked past him to see Ryan cowering in fear, perhaps more so than at any other point since they met. He noted that although the thick-headed troll's angry attitude had been pretty consistent throughout, Sirion looked none too pleased either. When he turned and faced Kendall and Lagola, he found them still locked in their hug. Lagola had all but completely shut down, and Kendall pulled his eyes away from Orcana only to shoot him an apologetic look.
With the situation having taken this unexpected turn, Evan took a deep breath, stood up, and calmly approached the new troll. If no one else was going to take matters into their own hands, he would.
"Excuse me..." Evan firmly began. "We were kind of in the middle of an important discussion, so um... I don't know what your history is with anyone here, but seeing how agitated my friends are currently, I'm gonna have to politely ask if you could let us return to our business."
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Post by Pink Moon Wolf on Jan 30, 2016 22:51:38 GMT -5
"Oh..." Ace nodded in understanding, contemplating this possible misfortune until the true gravity of the situation finally clicked. "Ohhhh..."
There was something important in Patrick's void pocket. And dangerous.
"W-Well... Maybe it's still intact! Maybe he's still in there! I mean, what are the odds of one troll finding your little section of the entire void?? We won't know unless we check...!"
With spades in his eyes, Sirion only had it in him to snarl at Orcana and raise a clenched, shaking, red, jade and indigo blood-covered fist. She moved on to taunt Alex before Sirion could get a swing at her, forcing him to release his fist's tension by channeling it into his middle finger.
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Post by gantzgun74 on Jan 31, 2016 11:28:59 GMT -5
Alex could barely hear anything over the heartbeat in ears, and it looked like the attack was only getting slightly worse the closer Orcana drew to him. He wanted to move back, but his limbs were too weak to do much of anything in his current state. He was pale, he could barely move, barely breathe... Then Orcana showed him her injury and his expression intensified. He more then recognized the injury he and Arti had caused to Orcana what seemed like a lifetime ago. The injury wasn't as apparent here, but Alex had few doubts that, if Orcana had given it enough time, the injury would become just as bad looking as it did with...
HER...
Her adult self.
A being he couldn't even name because he feared his body's own reaction if he ever did.
He heard her speak somewhat, perhaps being surprised at hearing her say she had no intention of finishing her adult self's job but even still. "S-STAY AWAY FROM ME-..........!!!" He had finally regained strength and was doing everything in his power to rapidly crawl backwards AWAY from this potential omnicidal maniac to be. The scream that ripped out of him likely also caught attention. Not because no-one had seen him raise his voice before. Quite the opposite in fact given recent history. The sheer terror was made apparent in his tone, making his scream sound like none of his other shouts before.
When he seemed to get far enough, Alex's breathing was slightly easier, but he had Dream Racket pulled out. Sure he was shaking as he held it, but he wasn't about to die without a fight, even if it was a hopeless no-win scenario.
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Post by DanteMGalileo on Feb 2, 2016 21:04:22 GMT -5
The seadweller ignored everybody else for the moment, all of her attention focused on the cowering Alex right now. For every step he took back, she took one step forward. "Yous is dam lucky Aquila made me think revenge was fo' gutta-bloods. Otherwise you be DEAD where you stand." She sneered at the Dream Racket. "An' put dat away shrimp. That lil paddle don't scare me."
She turned to Evan next, finally backing off from Alex. "An' it's you. You made me sick. You ain't worth anythin' to me buoy. An' it's yo' fault I ain't bein' nice t' you suckahs."
Orcana turned to Sirion next-
Orcana saw the jade blood on Sirion's fist.
FORGET SPADES, ORCANA HAD A SKULL AND CROSSBONES IN HER EYE NOW.
She drew three of the Sualocin's Squall throwing stars, the blue quad-bladed weapons gleaming menacingly. "YOU. DOG BUOY. WHAT DID YOU DO TO AQUILA?!"
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Post by ryocker on Feb 3, 2016 23:03:00 GMT -5
Ryan blinked, approaching the group's circle with, admittedly shaky steps. ...I get this feeling that things are just not going to end well... but I can't just run away, either, he thought, gulping as he continued to shiver.
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Feb 3, 2016 23:23:32 GMT -5
"Eheh... Yeah!" Patrick shakily agreed, though the tone of his voice was just as panicked as Ace's. He raised his hands and opened a portal to the void as he continued to babble, "Sure, he's been bouncing all over the place apparently, but it's not like he could just spontaneously find..."
Patrick quickly shut up when he looked into his pocket of void. A glowing crack snaked across it, various colors and hues flashing amongst the whiteness. All that remained of his personal belongings was his Magic School Bus DVD collection.
His smile slowly fell, silently shifting into a wide-eyed, slack-jawed expression of pure fear.
Evan seemed hardly deterred by Orcana's words, continuing to stare her down calmly and firmly. "I might not know what went down between you and my friends, but I fail to see how I could've produced any bad blood between you and me, mostly because I've never met you. So if we could all just calm the heck down..."
Of course, Evan's request was immediately followed by Orcana screaming at Sirion. Lagola looked up at the duo, terrified of what may transpire because of Sirion's actions. Kendall sighed, rubbed her hair and murmured, "All of this ill will is completely unnecessary, though given the circumstances, the chances of anyone calming down in the immediate future are profoundly unlikely."
"We'll see."
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