Tulpamancing Roleplay: An exercise in visualization.

[cruse]

I've got something planned for the power cut. Once you finishes exploring the town and buying supplies, tell me when I should start the event "The plume of dusk" which involves a lot of monster charging the town and the quest to fix the generator.

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|Vixen|Chloe|

 

"Thanks"

 

Though the cut wasn't big, Vixen hates getting hurt. Normally she wasn't such a careless person. But something, someone, or some... whatever it was distracted her for a moment. Vixen looked out the window, nothing.

 

Vixen artfully decorated the moderately large sashimi dish with some salad rockets and puts it in the middle of the table in the living room and placed three bowls of Ramen around it. She wasn't quite sure if G would eat raw fish, but she could just fry the salmon anytime. Chloe came downstairs in her pajamas with a black sleeping hat on her head probably made from her shadow, looking half asleep. The sleeping half of her became awake once she saw the food.

 

During the breakfast, Vixen starts talking about the location in the town;

 

"The river runs from the east through this town. Using the kinetic energy from the flow of the river, we generates electricity from it. We also use it as a mean of transportation. You can get to various place by hopping on one of the bamboo boat that flows along the river."

 

The bamboo boat, even though it was made without any advance form of technology, is a very sturdy piece of vehicle. Once it reaches the power generator, it flows onto a conveyor belt that moves it around the watermill. It flows onto another conveyor belt once it reaches the far west side of the town to be returned to the far east of the town.

 

Chloe finishes her food early and went upstairs to get changed.

 

"The tavern is located toward the north-east side. The barracks are stationed at the east and west of the town to catch the monster trying to sneak in through the river. Since we don't have that much soldier, the north and south side relies on Aigis's turrets and other cranky mechanical stuff to hold off the monster."

 

Vixen then finishes her bowl of ramen and a fair share of raw salmon.

 

"There's lot of shops and other groceries around the town. You'd find a lot of herbs with healing properties here due to constant monster invasion."

 

But before leaving the living room, Vixen said;

 

"Or, you can take a look at my alchemy lab over here."

[Jax]

Miah felt impatient. She had been awoken around midnight and had kept watch throughout the rest of the night. The sun was now rising above the tree tops and the morning was well on its way. The pegasus appeared to still be sleeping on her cloud.

 

What Miah worried about were the other two. They were supposed to have been here by now. For all she knew, the two could be in trouble and then it was her duty, as she had promised, to help them. Then again, they could have just forgotten. Either way, the ranger planned on giving them roughly another half hour. After that, more drastic measures would be taken.

 

Until then, however, Miah sat on her beach, leg dangling in mid-air, bow in hand, and hood drawn. She looked at the sun, marking its position. The clock was ticking.

[G+3]

Pruria woke from a very settled dream, a dream about nothing, nothing at all.

 

She was glad to find her cloud still anchored to the tree to which she had fixed it too the earlier night. She looked around her, three hundred and sixty degrees, she found the town still where it was not but four hours earlier; [Four hours sleep,] she recalled, favouring half a life times sleep as opposed to the typical third, [not damn enough!]

 

The pegasus lay back down—not missing the chance to lay on a cloud, being away from her very earth-bound partner—and called [Miah, I'm home, how are you? Anything happen while I was asleep?]

 

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G finished the last of his breakfast with his host's last words, ''I think I'll explore the town, it's so fantastical! All these machines and whatnot. I'm not much of an alchemist, my parter handles that, though she and a friend of ours aren't here right now. I wouldn't want to brake anything I probably would anyway.—Maybe Pruria can show me how to mix up some antidotes and strengtheners if I get her some goo or... or leaves or something... I could also buy a new dagger of some sort...''

 

((Currency?))

 

G, having gotten his satchel, from his room, to retrieve a plaster from it, flipped the smallest flap on it and peered in at his coinage, ''That'll be grand.''

 

The man stopped to think about what he had just said, ''Hey, Chloe, do you think Joal and Miah are gonna come find us? We really should organised that... And what do you have anything planned for today? I can come with or head off on my own rambles, either way suits me.''

 

Almost forgetting his manners, before he left, G turned to Vixen, ''Thank you for the room, once again. And your hospitality.''

 

G had stood up to check for his money, and had not sat down, for some reason he felt incredibly awkward, an indescribable awkwardness. ((No really, everything about what I just typed feels awkward as hell.))

[cruse]

Currency?

You decide wrath.

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Vixen smiled in a 'suit yourself' manner and went into her hut.

 

But before G could leave the house, Chloe grab G shoulder and said;

 

"Were we supposed to meet up with Miah?!?"

 

She definitely sound worried.

[Jax]

Miah heaved a heavy sigh. She had been generous. Around forty-five minutes had passed now. She didn't want to do it, but she somewhat had to now.

 

Calling out to Pruria, she said, "Oi, pony! Come on, we've got to gather up some wood."

 

With that she began making her way down the tree. In a flash she was on the ground. She noticed the dirt was quite unsettled. No doubt it was from the pack last night. They seemed to have moved elsewhere for now. "Good", the ranger thought. She wanted no part of that mess of trouble.

 

After a bit of foraging, Miah had managed to gather a rather significant bundle of kindle. Cradling it in her arms, she made her way towards the town, a determined but annoyed look in her eye.

[G+3]

((Miah, you not see the post after yours?))

 

The call for fire wood was made and Pruria reluctantly rolled from her cloud and joined Miah back on the ground. She collected mainly twigs and dry grasses, mainly for the first light, and catch.

 

The ranger seemed unsettled, no doubt; she definitely seemed more comfortable around the pony than she had been before, at least.

 

When the two breached the wooded area, into the large artificial clearing around the down, Pruria noticed the vast amount of tracks in the dirt. [Whoa.] All the prints faced towards the forest, which was good, but the pony seen how many there really were: in front of almost every tree in the clearing was at least twelve sets of track, at least that's what her eyes had told her.

 

Trying to ignore the realisations of how many beasts she had really seen the previous night, Pruria kept flying with her sticks in hoof close by to Miah.

 

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''Uh, uh, I can't really remember. I think she said that she'll find us in the morning.'' G thought that something like that wouldn't cool the fears of anyone, not even his own worries, ''And I'm sure they're grand, what can dogs do against a ranger and a pegasus? Bark them to death from twenty feet below?'' He joked, trying to ease the shadowmancer's tensions,

[cruse]

Uhh... Chloe was just kidding when she said she's a "shadowmancer".

But you can call her that if you want, she'll just reply "I'm a shadow warrior!"

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|???|

Inside a seemingly abandoned castle lies a group of cultist.

 

It is unlikely anyone would have heard of this cult, they are very conservative and tends to keep to themselves unlike those who brings destruction upon themselves through pointless preaching. No outsider knows what the intention of this cult is, except for three people, though two of the three used to be part of the cult.

 

A boy appeared out of nowhere with a flash of light. He swiftly sneaked through multiple guards and make his way towards the throne room. Looking from behind a corner, there's two guard guarding the king's private quarter. The leader of the cult fancied himself to be a king of some sort, but soon grow bored and use the room to keep record of various letters and other stuff.

 

The boy closed his eye and focuses.

 

Teleports, Endurance; target 4. Rolled 8.

 

Nothing happened, but the boy kept his focus

 

Rolled 4

 

The boy disappeared with a flash of light, the light caught guards' attention. One of them came to check. The guard saw only the darkness when he took the turn on the corner.

 

Rolled 7

 

The guard looks left and right to check if there's really no one.

 

Rolled 2

 

The boy reappeared behind the guard and instantly utilized his knife. The guard didn't know someone was about to teleported, and he had no chance of defending himself

 

Execute activated

 

A knife protrudes from the guard's chest, and another one from his mouth. He couldn't scream, he just fell and made a loud *clunk*.

 

"Oi, what happened?!"

 

Light orb, Endurance; target 14; rolled 2

 

A light orb appeared beside the boy. The guard, not hearing his friend's response, came to check.

 

rolled 3

 

Another light orb appeared. In the next instant, the guard took the corner, and he was instantly attacked. His training allows him to react, but it was not enough against a trained assassin, despite being just a young teenager, and a multiple lance of lights.

 

Guard, dodge, agility; rolled 10

???, Knife attack; accuracy; rolled 1(!)

Execute activated

Light orb(2); Lance of light; accuracy; rolled 12 and 7.

 

The guard was fast enough to dodge one of the lance, but another one went through his arm. He didn't die because of the lance, he died because of a knife in his chest and throat.

 

The boy closes both of the dead guard's eye before entering the room. Inside, he searched for records on captured prisoners and every letters sent and received. One of the letter caught his eye, the content was.

 

-The day have come, execute operation 'Dusk Essence'.-

 

[align=right]Signed

Shuji Hikari-[/align]

 

However, before he could determine what operation 'Dusk Essence' was, someone shouted;

 

"What happened!!!"

 

The boy closed his eye

 

Teleports, Endurance; target 4; rolled 3

 

The boy disappeared with a flash of light before anyone came into the room.

 

The boy returned to his house, outside was snowing. He threw away the letter, deeming it useless for his objective and sat down on a chair. He closes his eye and continue searching the world for someone.

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|Chloe|

"But Miah seemed like someone who'd over-reacted in this kind of situation, I hope she don't kill half the town to find us if she thought Aunt Vixen kidnapped me."

 

Chloe followed G out of the alchemist's house. She saw multiple bamboo boat in the river not too far from her.

 

"That's the bamboo boat! Let's ride it!!!"

 

All worries in her eye were purged and Chloe did a half sprint, half hopping towards the boat dragging G with her.

[G+3]

The one Miah didn't come off to the man G as much of a worrier but more as a reluctant savior, though she would kill half a town to save friends, in the eyes of G; regardless, his arm was torn off when he got outside.

 

He was being pulled towards these bamboo boats he had heard about, being most altogether left in the dark when it came to the understanding of mechanical anything, he immediately began to resist. Though he was only slightly weaker than the shadow warrior, her shadow gave her a great advantage,

 

Rolls strength; d20: 16. Instant fail.

 

Though he tried, the man was unable to break free.

 

Felling altogether not very masculine, the mas tried reasoning with his captor,

 

''No, Chloe! I don't like the sound of these conveyor belt things! They sound dangerous! I need to go buy a dagger! And Pruria could want some goo or something from that alchemy store!''

 

Rolls charisma; d12: 11. Really?

 

With out instruction from her face, G had no idea if Chloe cared what he had just said, or if she was even listening. He could only shout.

 

''Gahhh! Machines!''

[Jax]

Miah noticed the pony's awe at the tracks left by the warg pack. It was understandable. Miah was still grappling with the question herself. It was entirely possible that a pack that large could and would form, the question was why. The answer continued to confound her.

 

The ranger simply hoped that she wouldn't be dealing with the beasts again. A regular pack's territorial range was approximately thirty square miles. Judging by the number of warg from the night before, a pack of that size would have to double their range just to sustain themselves. Hopefully they would make another area tonight.

 

As they reached the town's east wall, Miah placed her collection of wood at the base of the wall. She had been lucky. It appeared the guard only monitored the walls near and through the night. They were most likely all inside the walls, on their patrols or resting. The huntress hoped to change that.

 

She made a quick motion to Purira to add her wood to the pile. Taking a quick look at the wall, Miah was pleased. It was dry, but judging by the color it had rained a few nights ago. The wood was most likely still moist on the inside. Good, it would give them a little more time.

 

The woman turned back to the pony. With a steely gaze, she said, "Listen, I need you to follow my lead and try to not do anything stupid. Try to stay out of sight. I can blend in, but something tells me that a stark white, talking, horse with wings might raise a few eyebrows. I'm not about to let a stupid mistake like that put us in the stocks."

 

She rummaged through her satchel, producing a bit of flint and a sharpened rock. She then pulled her hood over her head, everything from the nose up being obscured by shadow. All except a devilish grin that lit across her lips.

 

"So, shall you do the honors, or shall I?"

[cruse]

Well, shit. She's gonna burn the town.

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|Chloe|

Meanwhile, Chloe is enjoying herself on the boat, smiling with content and excitement. The same can't be said with her companion though. He don't seems so keen with machinery.

 

"C'mon, the boat flows naturally, those machine are way at the end."

 

To the left, lies an ice-cream café. Apart from dogs, sweets is on top of her 'must have' list.

 

"ICE CREAM!!!"

 

And G was dragged yet again.