Tulpamancing Roleplay: An exercise in visualization.

[G+3]

I make perfect sense in a self contained mayoral office with its own procedure for creating and refining senses.

Step into my office some time, my schedule is rather free.

 

I'll join in if I figure out what the hell is going on.

 

#tulpagame is fun too.

 

Were in the town of Albion (Abani? We never quantified that...), it's being attacked by wargs and werepires. There's Eight charecters playing at the moment.

 

Account:

G+2 (And please, call me G.):

*G - Mdeic

*Joal - bard

Cruse:

*Cruse - wizard kid?

*Chloe - Shadow warrior

*Vixen - Alchemist. Pyromancer?

*Aigis - Engineer. Hand to hand fighter

Jax:

*Miah - Huntress

Wrath:

*I'm so sorry, I have no idea what his/her name is - Wizard

 

One charecter is being possessed by a wraith which is atttacking the town.

Chloe, Cruse and Aigis are doing something. At the generator? In Vixen's house? I'm not too sure on that either, but that's my laziness.

Vixen is helping to defend the north wall from the attackers.

G and Joal are helping to defend the east wall.

Miah is crazy and playing huntress/pray with Vixen and... well.. the entire town apparently. But she's cool otherwise.

Wrath's character is more than likely at home enjoying some herbal tea or camping of some sort.

 

Tide: Oh... uhh... and right now the wargs and werepires are retreating because... bare with me for a moment, because three shadow warriors which were trying to capture Chloe decided it was a good idea to use their shadows t cover the town in a persistent pitch darkness but then Chloe, Aigis, Cruse and Adam (minor character) totally beat the shit outta them so they had to stop the shroud of darkness and the monsters are confused so the left but they WILL come back UNLESS Aigis can fix the generator which keeps the entire town's defence systems operational.

 

Oh, and this town is super advanced over most towns. They have guns; guns are insane for an RP if you don't know.

 

Tide dnoces: You're being like Fade was—with his tones—with your irc.

[Guest Anonymous]

I'm trying to bring a channel back to life. A little bit of adrenaline after it received cpr after sitting in a coma for a while.

 

Eye-Bo is pretty interesting, it's free too. I can't not tell you about how great it is, I'm under a gais you see.

 

I equip my body armor camouflage, and eyepatch with thermal sight, and unholster my tranquilizer pistol equipped with laser pointer.

I crouch low and follow this wiz kid, while a black bobcat named Barry slinks behind.

[cruse]

i'm not sure if you're gonna join like that major, but i'm not exactly "wiz kid"...

I'll post the thing soon, wait a bit.

[G+3]

i'm not sure if you're gonna join like that major, but i'm not exactly "wiz kid"...

I'll post the thing soon, wait a bit.

 

Sorry, I was basing it off what he acted like, instead of just going back a few pages; just like if you were to do the same with my guy you'd call him a pompous pussy.

[cruse]

I didn't mean it in that way G, don't worry.

 

This can be a little gruesome.

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|Aigis|Adam|

Aigis ran outside of the room and saw the shadow warrior uses his shadow to held the plume of dusk in the air.

 

"Give that back motherfucker!"

 

Aigis was about to shot the warrior with his revolver again, when he noticed something flowing into the plume.

 

The whole black sky is flowing into it.

 

"Did ya find- what in the bloody hell is that?!?"

 

Adam was startled while Aigis was speechless as they witness the bizarre event. The shadow warrior succumbs to his wound but his shadow kept the plume of dusk high in the air. The black cloud blocking the moonlight all gathered and flow into the plume as if it was sucked in by a black hole.

 

"This could have been much more simpler…"

 

[align=center]??? used [assault]

sanity rolled 5,4,5 total 14. Normal assault

 

??? shadow tide, str 10, rolled 5

??? shadow tide, str 6, rolled 3

Aigis block, str 10, rolled 9, fail

Adam, dodge, agi 16, rolled 12, fail

(Aigis and Adam get's knocked unconscious)[/align]

 

Someone said something, and a big black wall rushes at Aigis. He knew it was too late to dodge, and tried reducing the damage as much as possible by blocking his face. Adam made the wrong decision however, he tried to jump out of the way and the black wall smashed both of them.

 

|Chloe|Aigis|

 

I should leave this place like Vixen said. I can't put this town in danger.

 

Chloe stood up as she made up her mind. But before she could reach the door two people was thrown through it.

 

"Chloe, long time no see."

 

Aigis and Adam lay unconscious at the other end of the room. A tall, thin man walks into the generator room. He's wearing a dark denim pants and he's not wearing any shirts. A long, dark hair flows down to his shoulder, hanging completely still as if the wind is not effecting it at all. Chloe recognizes this man. The man who raised her. The man who tortured her into a shadow warrior. The man she feared.

 

"What a fine group of friend you have made. They all fought valiantly to fend off the monster."

 

Chloe froze as Takaya starts walking around the room.

 

RUN

 

Her shadow yelled at her in her minds, she tried to move, but she couldn't.

 

Shadow, control, failed due to fear.

 

The shadow attempts to take a brief control of Chloe's body, but the fear completely blocks her mind from everything.

 

"This town is exceptionally spectacular, and the same could be said to it's occupant."

 

The thin man stops walking near adam, who lays unconscious in the pile of rubble.

 

"Such a fearless man. Despite being up against the shadow warrior, he never backed down. Never backed down from a fight he have nothing to do with. How admirable."

 

[align=center]Shadow, impales. str 6, rolled 4

Adam, endures, end 25, rolled 15; critical fail

(+10 end, dying) [/align]

 

Takaya's shadow shifted into a dark malicious stalactite. It pierced Adam's through his abdomen as Chloe froze in fear. Adam was brought back into a painful consciousness as blood spattered out of his mouth.

 

"It's sad isn't it? Being dragged into a fight that have nothing to do with oneself."

 

"NO!"

 

[align=center]Shadow, expand, str 6, rolled 2

Adam, resist, end 35, rolled 19; critical fail

(Died)[/align]

 

Despite Chloe's plea, the shadow spike inside Adam shifted, and it tore apart Adam's body in the process. He couldn't even say anything. He just splattered into a pool of his own blood.

 

"It could have been much simpler Chloe."

 

KILL HIM

 

Takaya looked right into the girl's eyes. She could clearly how his eyes looked like.

 

MAKE HIM SUFFER

 

The pair of eyes that signifies insanity.

 

MAKE HIM PAY

 

The pair of eyes of a monster.

 

KILL HIM NOW

 

Chloe unsheathe her naginata as the the shadow manipulated her fear into anger. Chloe then charges at Takaya.

 

[align=center]Chloe used [assault]

Rolled 3, 5, 2. total 10

heavy assault

Chloe, spikes armada Naginata thrust, str 10, rolled 4

Shadow, spikes armada fleet, str 8, rolled 7[/align]

 

She pointed her Shadow covered Naginata right at Takaya's heart, the shadow coated the Naginata with a countless spikes meant to cause pain rather than death. Alongside her, dozens of shadow spike accompany her in a side-by-side fashion. Just as she reached Takaya, her shadow spreaded out and surrounds the man. All of the spike thrusts itself at Takaya at the same time as Chloe's Naginata reaches his chest.

 

[align=center]Takaya used [assault]

rolled 1, 2, 4. total 6

heavy assault

Takaya, shadow shockwave, str 8, rolled 2

Shadow, shadow shockwave, str 6, rolled 4

Chloe endures, end 10, rolled 7. critical fail and fail

(End +8[+15], +5[+8] agi/str, +3[+6] acc, extra damage from heavy assault)[/align]

 

However, it didn't even made a scratch, as Takaya countered it with an attack of his own. The air surrounding the two shadow warrior bursted outward into a shockwave as both shadow collide. Another blast of shockwave bursted out, but this time it's from the thin man himself, and Chloe's shadow shattered as she was thrown across the room at terminal velocity.

 

"Emotion is such an unpredictable factor. If only you had never developed it, all of this might never happened."

 

Chloe's couldn't move. Most of the bone in her body either cracked or fractured. A tendrils of shadow grabbed her body and pulled her towards Takaya. It suspend her in the air in front of the thin, emotionless, man.

 

"What a waste of talent."

 

Takaya's shadow coiled around Chloe's body. And before it covered her face, there was a flash of light behind Takaya. And a strange, ceremonial blade protrudes out of Takaya's chest.

 

---

|???|

The boy sat in the middle of his room in a half lotus position. He could constantly sense countless number of soul brighten up and vanish as it's owner died. In some place, this almost never happened. But in the other place, which the boy remembered as being a sizable town or villages, have a constant occurrence of souls vanishing.

 

A being that stands in front of death's door would be easiest to detect.

 

He remembered that phrase from the book he recently studied. A soul brightens before it vanishes, as life tries to grab it's last chance. He just hoped that he'd find the person he's looking for without having to wait for the moment just before her death.

 

!!!

 

He found her. She's in a very unlikely place to be. A very dangerous place to be. Her soul brightens up very strongly, yet it looked sorrowful.

 

???, Focus, sanity target 8, rolled 4

 

The boy focuses his mind. He knew exactly where he wanted to go. He visualized the environment in his mind.

 

???, teleports [+2 sanity]

 

The boy opened his eye, and the environment he pictured in his mind became real, except for the fact that there's a tall thin man who's trying to kill the very person the boy is trying to find. The boy recognize this man. The man who he hated to his very soul.

 

Takaya

 

[align=center]??? used Kriss of Dawn.

???, stabs from behind. Execute activated.

sanity regenerates by -1[/align]

 

A mili-seconds after he teleported, he pulled out a ceremonial dagger. A dagger that can completely destroy a shadow warrior that he never used. He reserved it for this tall thin despicable man. The boy realizes that the flash produced from his teleportation would alert Takaya and he would be aware in the next split-second. But he didn't care, as the blade of the knife already went through the back of his target.

 

"What?!?"

 

Takaya's shadow was preoccupied with trying to crush the girl with red ponytail, it couldn't protect him against the sudden assassination attempts. His shadow starts to go out of control, and the thin man's body distorted and warped just like his insane mind.

 

"Why are you- but how!"

 

"Don't ever touch my sister again."

 

sanity regen -1

 

The shadow starts to distorts erratically and coiled around it's master body. The thin man screamed in agony as he get's crushed by his own shadow. It lasted for an agonizing seconds, and the boy enjoyed every second of it, before the shadow compressed it's master into a small dot and finally disappeared from the dimension itself, along with the Kriss of Dawn.

 

"Please, don't die."

 

[align=center]???, focus, sanity target 8, rolled 7

???, teleports [sanity +2]

[/align]

 

The boy touches Chloe face, and a moment later, both of them disappeared.

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|Vixen|???|Chloe|

Vixen scoped towards the forest. All of the monster retreated and none were seen in her scope. Satisfied, she handed back the binocular to it's owner.

 

"I guess we have a bit of a bre-"

 

A light flashed in front of her, and a boy appeared with Chloe.

 

"Quick! Give her the Metabolizer!"

 

All of the riflemen cocked their rifle at the boy, he remains unfazed at the end of the barrel as it is currently the least of his worry. Vixen signals everyone to lower their rifle, the riflemen followed the order, and Vixen said;

 

"How... are you here?"

 

"NOT NOW!"

 

Sanity regenerated by -1

 

Vixen used [Metabolizer]

Chloe healed, but hungry.

 

Vixen quickly injected Chloe with the [Metabolizer]. Chloe's wound healed, and she slowly got up. Chloe hugged the boy and cried.

 

"I'm sorry…"

 

"I'm just glad you're alive sis."

 

"This is not the time for drama, where's Aigis?"

 

"He's… unconscious at the generator."

 

"Ok then, Vixen, take my hand."

 

???, focus. sanity target 8, rolled 4

 

Vixen grabbed the boy's hand and the boy focused his mind.

 

"You should have come here earlier Cruse."

 

Cruse, teleport [sanity +2]

 

And they disappeared with the flash of light.

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Phew, another wall of text done.

[G+3]

"Don't ever touch my sister again."

 

That line actually made me rise a fist into the air and scream ''Yes!'' [That line made me cry.]

 

*Both clap*

 

Oh, Miah, I think you should post now or something, because we can't there's nothing for us to do unless another wave comes or the generator comes back on-line.

[Jax]

((I'll have something up by the end of tomorrow. I'm working out something right now.))

[cruse]

I'll post mine after yours then.

[G+3]

And then I'll get toet.

[Jax]

((Okay, wow. I have been really sick for the past few days, so I just wanted to apologize to you guys for holding you up for so long. I'm really sorry.))

 

Being upside down must be one of the strangest sensations a human can experience. Perspectives changed completely, yet everything still looked right somehow, recognizable. Blood rushed to the head, making one dizzy, and, if the position was not held for long enough thoughts became eccentric and erratic. Strangely, it seemed it not only changed a person's perspective from a physical point of view, but a mental one as well. Then there was also the change of weight. When upside down, you felt as if you were being pulled up, instead of down, yet both were towards the ground.

 

What a silly idea: up and down. Who had been so full of himself as to one day step outside his door and shout to all who would hear, "There is up and down, this way and that way! That is the way it is and there is no other way!" He must have seemed such a fool. Then again, if any fool shouts loud enough there will be those who follow him. Perhaps there was no up or down, no left or right. Direction probably was just an illusion that so-called "intelligent" creatures had created long ago to make things simpler.

 

"Simple..." Miah spat, "As ugly a word I've ever heard."

 

She had been hanging from a tree branch for some time now, her thighs clasping the bark like a vice. Her hood and cowl draped down below her and gently flapped with the breeze.The small town before her seemed to hang from a ceiling of grass and stumps, threatening to fall into an endless abyss of stars and darkness. Which had the upper hand, she wondered, she light or the void?

 

And then the curious affair of the giant cloud of darkness and gloom that had been lurking over the village like a bad omen simply disappearing. Something odd really was afoot, but just what that was, Miah had no way of knowing. She would have to be content to sit and wait to find out.

 

If she could, she would have stayed in town, if only to gather information, but her hair now kept her for nurturing any hopes of anonymity; it was yet another thing she was going to have to "thank" the medicine woman for. Dying it may have been a possibility, but the ranger doubted she'd find the right plants in the surrounding woods. So, for now she would bid her time.

 

The guards men were certain to stay inside the wall for tonight. After all the commotion of the night, Miah really could not blame them. However, she hopped they would be in for a shock when they found her surprise waiting in the morning. Then again, maybe the guard would wake them up. Miah had to stifle a snort as she imagined the big, burly man flailing about as he tried to free himself. Hopefully, that would rouse the townspeople to take some sort of action. If not, things would begin to get boring and all the work she had done out in these woods would be for nothing. After all, what good are traps if there is no one to set them off?

 

"Oh well," she said to no one in particular. She would wait.

 

Then there was a rustle from an adjacent branch. The huntress swiveled her head around to lock eyes with a Great Horned Owl. It stared back at her with its large, yellow eyes, as if it was sizing her up, wondering what any human was doing hanging upside down in the forest in the dead of night.

 

Miah smiled and righted herself quickly. She had seen the bird a few times over the last two nights. It was quite large, though she doubted it was the only bird of prey in its range. No doubt it was a skilled hunter and deserved respect. She was both honored and surprised that the bird had chosen to come to her.

 

As was her usual custom with any bird of prey she met, Miah retrieved a piece of jerky from her satchel and offered it to the owl, careful to keep her fingers out of the way. The owl simply glared back at her, as if it was a little frustrated.

 

She had no choice but to giggle. "So, you want to play it that way, huh? I understand." She then helped herself up, so she was standing on her branch. "You don't want your food if you don't have to work for it." Then she took her arm back and tossed the meat as far as she could towards the clearing.

 

With a rush of air and and a whip of the branch the raptor was off. Within seconds it had closed on the the treat. Miah laughed as the bird streaked through the sky, astounded by its speed and grace. In the light of the moon she watched as the creature deftly snapped the meat from mid-air, earning its meal. Then it turned and retuned to the same branch, perching itself with a great ado of flapping. Then it gave a loud "Whoo!", as if it wanted to make sure Miah had noticed. The huntress's grin continued. It looked as if she had made a new friend.