PlagueOfUndeath

(OOC: would it be a safe bet to say Asuka and Void are on the same plane? Considering they were both in the Rogue Isles and i doubt they have more than one international airport there)

(OOC: just one thing, it's "Sacred East Wind", singular. The singular-plural is actually important, since she's a member of a group. Also a minor nitpick is she wouldn't be surprised to receive a package with her codename on it )

Asuka was intrigued. Normally her employers would hire personal deliverymen, and not use the postal service. She saw this as shrewd.
"Anthony," she said, calling her assistant/accountant.
"Yes, Asuka?" he responded, using her first name, a habit he had picked up during their year together.
"Watch the place. Come up with an excuse, I have a job," she said, moving to her room, where she lifted up her mattress, revealing her armaments: her blade, some caltrops, shuriken, smoke bombs, and various other doodads and devices.
Within a few minutes, she was dressed in her standard uniform: black and purple short shorts, fishnet thigh high stockings, black platform boots, a black tube top and vest with purple lining, and black opera gloves made from a strong, durable, spandex-like material. To cover up the obviously conspicuous uniform, she put on a trenchcoat and sunglasses.
She put a change of clothes, as well as her katana and equipment, in a large suitcase resembling a small wardrobe, which she hefted easily.
She left for the airport. Luckily she still had her "Arachnos Employee" badge that would let her bypass customs for international flights.
Before long, she was inflight, enjoying the inflight movie and not enjoying the inflight meal.

While Experiment continued his pondering, the uninjured goliath began moving towards him.

(OOC: You're taking a big leap here by assuming the statues are mechanical. They've been bleeding, the part of the metal statue blown off has been bleeding profusely and there's muscle tissue all over.)

The gun did hit, several spread around seemed to have no effect, but two happened to hit part of one of the giant's thighs.
The area expanded, and exploded. Just like the statues, the giant metal statues were merely covered in a hard metal shell, harder than the lesser statues of course.

Two more of the stone statues fell to Experiment's spines, and the two gigantic guardians weren't even phased by the flames.
The Thorn mage took out the last three statues, and ducked behind a tree while the two large, metal statues descended the stairs, intent in their eyes...well, as far as he could tell, since their faces were frozen in a ferocious glare.
(OOC: Just to help move things along: What "ammo"? )

With the death of the eight statues, the final set of ten sprang to life.
"Enough of this," the Circle of Thorns mage said under his breath.
He chanted a spell and launched a hellish blast of black death, killing half the remaining statues.
"I shall win this match!" the Tsoo enforcer cried, rushing past the remaining statues towards the top.
No sooner did he make it to the top than the final, unbelievably huge statues awaken. With one wide swing, the Tsoo enforcer was no more, and the players were in real trouble. Each statue had four arms, each with a menacing sword. Not to mentioned they appeared to be made of metal, and given their size, it had to be strong metal.

Darkgun's fire blast (OOC: since you ARE using a gun in this round, i'd suggest you try to differentuate between your powers and the weapon) connected directly with one of the golems. The searing heat had a baking effect on the stone, causing it to turn brittle and crumble, leaving a pile of entrails on the ground.
Simultaneously, four statues converged on Dark Messenger('s lich) and brought their spears up, ready to savage him.
Meanwhile, the Circle of Thorns mage launched his fire balls, easily taking out another two of the statues.

i knew a guy back in EQ1 that RP'd in troll speak, ALL THE TIME.

and, like, yeah. californians do, like, add like to like every sentence and stuff.
i actually bet my dad five bucks my sister couldn't recite one anecdote of her life without saying "like"
I won, three times over.

Apparently, all the players overestimated the statues, as the zombie knights and Experiment's weapons easily broke through the clay skin, and caused them to actually bleed.
Darkgun actually had the right idea, he fired the gun at one of the statues. At first, it did nothing, but about three seconds later, the section of the statue that was hit began to expand until it burst.
The deaths of these zombies caused the next eight to awaken...
(OOC: hehe, i don't think i ever said the guns ONLY worked on the obelisk )

(ok, the next round will use NPC substitutes again. Since the tutorial is basically over I'm not gonna kill these two off right away. And someone's going to die this round. Be prepared, be wary)

Two more figures appeared in the room. One was a Tsoo enforcer, and the other was a Circle of Thorns mage.
"Well now, I supposed I shall explain the next round. First of all, for this round you'll need these," he clapped his hands and a pedestal, with strange looking weapons that resembled nerf guns, rose from the ground, "Your objective is to destroy an obelisk. It is well guarded. Those weapons will work on the obelisk, but your powers won't. I'd advise not pointing them at each other."
The Benefactor snapped his fingers, and everyone in the room was transported.
This time, they were at the foot of a massive staircase, with stone statues of vengeful buddhas standing on each side, numbering approximately twenty, with two extremely large ones at the top of the stairs.
Almost instantly, two of the statues turned to face the players, each holding a spear.

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Christ... That would annoy ME, and I am usually leniant.

Eh, most people in california don't talk that way.

I know.

Because I live there.


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Some people I know do talk ALMOST like that.
I know that people around here, mostly guys, use the word "dude" more than the rest of the continental united states, but the surfer and valley girl accents that are really that annoying are just a myth. Girls i know do use the word "like" way to often.
It's, like, annoying, dude. (That's as bad as it gets)
California accents are pretty much an amalgamation of basically every accent in the country, as a LOT of people move here due to the weather and climate.

(OOC: I like this character too much...)

El Guapo Grande loved bathing. His specially designed Super Tub was designed to hold his weight and provide an immersive bathing experience. However, one thing had always puzzled El Guapo Grande: where did the water go when it drained from the tub?
Giving in to his magnificent curiousity, El Guapo Grande stared into the drain, and saw a magnificent world...right before he was slurped up and dumped in a grassy field.
What the heck is that?
Good question...he'd make a good Rook
At least give him some pants...I mean come on
Agreed
And suddenly, El Guapo Grande was wearing pants, truly stupendous pants.
All around him was grassy fields. It seemed he had been pulled into another world!
First Narnia, then El Hazard, then that one world with all the people with goatees...except his double, since El Guapo Grande always wore a glorious goatee...and now this.
El Guapo Grande shrugged, and began running...TO ADVENTURE!

The Benefactor glared at him.
"You did not eliminate the target, therefore you did not get the points. I assume you have played video games before. In first person shooter games, the person who gets the kill gets the points. These points are not divided up, you either get them or you don't. After all, if the game allowed you to share points, it would take far too long to accomplish the goal," he explained, glaring at darkgun with a truly menacing expression.
"Now, there are going to be objectives with more than one target, but there will also be more difficult ones. Conversely, some will even be easy."

The rabbit clutched its head til it exploded. The lifeless body hit the ground hard, and darkgun fell as well.
Luckily, Darkgun wasn't dead yet.
Lucky, because the same instant they hit the floor, they were transported back into the room, with no injuries and with any assets they had before they left, unless those assets were alive and killed in the battle.

"Well done, now let's tally up your scores!" the Benefactor said.
Experiment 2.0: 15
Concerto: 10
everyone else that isn't dead: 5

(OOC: The next round will start soon, and we need 2 more at least)

(OOC: Close but no cigar...thanks for trying. anyone using tech is most likely to figure this particular weakness out . Remember Ears was the hint, not the direct solution)
The fireball seemed to connect with the rabbits ears, but the psionic field prevented more than singed fur.
I've had it with you the bunny glared at darkgun, and shot a psionic needle into his chest, puncturing a lung.
Darkgun let out an agonized scream, and strangely, the bunny seemed to visible cringe at the noise.

the bunny felt the incoming boomerang, turned to look at it.
And shattered it.
Big mistake.
Froo-Froo Bunny turned its FULL attention toward Experiment 2.0 (OOC: I'll reiterate my hint from earlier: EARS!)

As Blind Messenger walked away from the battle, he felt a searing, burning sensation all throughout his body, which got worse the further away from the rabbit he got.
(OOC: What? there are boundaries! In Gantz, which this is based off of, if you left the area your head would explode)

The bunny's eyes glowed red, and the darkness surrounding it began to gather into a ball in her hand, dissipating the field.
I believe this is yours it intoned, and threw the ball of dark energies at Blind Messenger

(OOC: Um, the building fall killed the "big bunny" and the little bunnies, there's only the "psycho bunny" left)

(OOC: Yeah that's actually pretty misleading...especially using words like "fired" rather than "launched". I'll change my previous post a little bit. Luckily a building was just leveled. BTW just like the rabbits and the hulk-bunny, there IS a vulnerability here. My hint is "ears")
Enough games Froo-Froo bunny intoned, swatting aside the fireballs.
With a thought, darkgun's other arm was rendered useless, and his whole body was lifted up and held in front of Froo-Froo like a human shield. She then turned him 180 degrees and faced him.
I dislike the words you use, human. Now you shall speak no more it stared deep within darkgun's eyes, and he no longer spoke. It was as if the concept of being able to speak was ripped from his mind.
It seemed to favor him alive, as a human shield, rather than dead, however.

The bunny levitated a dislodged metal rod near its feet, and proceeded to club darkgun with it
*EDIT* (Fixed error, since darkgun lacks a gun)

The rabbit's eyes glowed, and Darkgun stopped in his tracks. With ease the rabbit telekinetically picked up his right arm and snapped it like a twig.
(OOC: Once more, because i don't want you guys making a fuss, don't worry if your character gets injured!)

The weight on the bus stop finally drove it to collapse, and the rabbit was now being literally swarmed with weak breakable things.
Then the trip mine blew.
chunks of giant bunny flew all over the place, and the chain reaction created by the mine plus the acidic material within the bunny's gullet caused a literal "meltdown" of the surrounding area.
Worse yet, the bus stop was close to a building, and blew out a large chunk of it, and the acid corroded it enough to cause the whole thing to fall on the mess of rabbits.
(OOC: small note here, any heroes who want to try to save the remaining civilians from the falling building will have to die to do so...like i said, by coming into this RP, you come in expecting to die Otherwise you can avoid the wreckage any way you choose)
The big rabbit was dead, but they were still standing in the street. The game wasn't over.
Made abundantly clear when the freak was hoisted into the air and decapitated by a new threat: an anthropomorphic rabbit wielding a cutlass and wearing spanish style clothing. Worse yet, it lifted him and severed his life without touching him, seemingly a telekinetic.
I am Froo-Froo Bunny, why have you slain my children? the rabbit intoned.

The ordnance hit the rabbit, expectedly pissing him off. But his reaction wasn't anticipated.
Rather than jump down from his perch and swat the fly, he let out a loud howl, and a horde of small bunnies charged, each expanding with the green energy they had fire earlier.
The little suckers were about to kamikaze Darkgun!
(OOC: just out of curiousity, do ANY of you other than Experiment 2.0 use something other than guns?)