161 posts
Sage of Breath
Played by Nedben
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Post by telestialGrotto on May 27, 2016 21:09:40 GMT
(Open to everyone in Another Session, but why would anyone want to show up?)
556 set the faultyCoordinator down on a conveniently located bed object in the side of an enclosed consort store, sighing. The secret consort had bought a cupful of popcorn-flavored roasted snackbeetles from the shop owner while Julie texted idly into the chat.
"Think the Shade's champ will wake up anytime soon?" Julie mentioned offhandedly between barrages of words.
"Maybe." 556 responded, shrugging. "I mean, they did for a moment to verify I wasn't assassinating them."
"Right then." Julie said boredly. "Guess we'll just wait."
And so they waited for a Rhyme player.
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99 posts
Seer of Heart
Played by Harrison
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Post by faultycoordinator on May 28, 2016 3:43:39 GMT
You woke, keeping your eyes closed for a moment to observe the chat. Suddenly, Fred revealed his presence. You made a long audible groan - half from waking up and half from having to deal with an Other that seems to think it feels love - and is also creepy as all hell. You looked around, noticing Julie was not killing you, which was a good sign. For good measure, however, you decided it was best to put [Ice Cream in the Veins] on her, juuuust in case.
You then hit yourself with it. You were distinctly not fine.
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161 posts
Sage of Breath
Played by Nedben
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Post by telestialGrotto on May 28, 2016 4:08:54 GMT
Julie suddenly felt cooler. Cooler in a way that said 'psybuff'. Just relax, let the trauma of being the toy fade away into the sweet ice cream zen. Not a neon flare melting the world, but a happy kiss of calm to the veins. Giving into the chair she was sitting in, she experienced a break, letting a new flavor of ice cream becalm her furies.
"Well, not much happens now. Sorry." 556 said apathetically, taking the moment to pull out her own phone, grab a chair, and chillax herself while Julie had been sent to zen and FC was done with Fred's existence. "If you need a push to take off the calm hat, I have a trumpet."
The secret consort adjusted his monocle and waited, idly chatting with the shopkeeper from time to time on consortly matters other available sapients had no time or will to puzzle out understanding from.
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99 posts
Seer of Heart
Played by Harrison
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Post by faultycoordinator on May 28, 2016 4:34:18 GMT
The psybuff was exactly what you needed. It melted all the anger towards Fred for using The Heart Centre for his twisted game. It let you look at things as objectively as you could.
Still screwed up.
"Nah. We need to really just... let it go. Hah, Elsa would totally have been a Waste of Rhyme." Jenny said aloud, very slowly. "My first goal is to get Julie to just... let all the noise fall to the wayside for a bit. Same with myself. Gotta hit that zen state of relaxation."
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161 posts
Sage of Breath
Played by Nedben
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Post by telestialGrotto on May 28, 2016 14:38:42 GMT
Thanking to the current preoccupation of a full-blast [Ice Cream in the Veins], Julie was lost in a battle, as if she had broken in half. One part of her was walking out of existence and attempting to achieve nirvana, and the other part was trying desperately to find a reason to give a damn by monitoring thoughtstreams in a battle for awareness rather than movement. And so she meditated as one mess while her masters battled their own problems.
556 shrugged, vaguely acknowledging what FC had said, and continued blogging about being summoned by a lunatic and retrieving the human equivalent of a chill pill.
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161 posts
Sage of Breath
Played by Nedben
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Post by telestialGrotto on May 31, 2016 0:49:23 GMT
556, having gone on a legendary adventure consisting of buying a salad and then later a taco, decided to kick into action.
"Sorry if it's rude," she starts, "but shouldn't we get up and do something at some point? Sburb hero bullshit?"
"WE SHOULD TOTALLY GET GOING!" the Secret Consort declares, and promptly begins trying to drag Julie out of her chair.
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99 posts
Seer of Heart
Played by Harrison
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Post by faultycoordinator on May 31, 2016 4:14:23 GMT
It had been ages since you first arrived, and as much as you liked the excuse that resting with rhyme gave you ARC, even the Shade seemed to suggest a slight increase in the pace of thing. Or maybe it was a tiny piece of the Soul. Either way, you had to agree with 556.
"Alllll riiiiight." You groan, drastically reducing the potency of the ability - still leaving some latent rhyme psybuffing in Julie.
You look at Julie now that her natural state of being is mostly allowed to return "It's time to learn how to play a creative class."
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161 posts
Sage of Breath
Played by Nedben
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Post by telestialGrotto on May 31, 2016 14:42:22 GMT
"Woo, let's go!" the Secret Consort said, finally succeeding in dragging Julie out of the chair. "Questing to do, questing to do! Queen Ananke wants those towers back up at some point!"
"Right..." Julie says, considerably less intent on randomly killing people, places, and things than usual. "Ugh, I think we still have a few towers left in my wallet to put over all the ones I blew up near the palace, any tips beyond 'stop griefing' you'd like to share on a walk or something?"
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99 posts
Seer of Heart
Played by Harrison
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Post by faultycoordinator on Jun 1, 2016 3:01:05 GMT
"Stop griefing is definitely a good one. Also, maybe like, try having your bombs not do actual damage to structures. Also, like, maybe just, y'know, chill it on the killing everything deal." You yawned, and used rhyme powered ice to allow yourself to simply slide onward towards whatever destination you were being lead to. "It's honestly not that hard, you just gotta chill out."
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161 posts
Sage of Breath
Played by Nedben
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Post by telestialGrotto on Jun 1, 2016 3:37:45 GMT
It was a short walk to the exploded-looking crystalline plane of plains outside the consort capital where plainly Julie had violently exploded the standing structures which Ananke had made stay exploded. Julie began replacing the various towers she had detonated by decaptchaloguing a bunch of pill-shaped objects the size of an alchemiter pad which slowly expanded into large mechanical-looking towers.
"Dragonball capsules and all those ghost images of towers I blew up sure made it a lot easier to alchemize replacements." Julie said absentmindedly, watching the machinery decompress. "It was really the Space charge to create a pocket storage so the capsules would fit on the alchemiter without sizing problems that was the hard part."
She paused, staring into the sky for a moment, as if asking for confirmation.
"I need to ask Ananke something. I don't want her to have to leave so suddenly...Do you want to come along for that?"
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99 posts
Seer of Heart
Played by Harrison
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Post by faultycoordinator on Jun 1, 2016 4:11:12 GMT
You nodded as Julie explained how the capsules worked. Made sense.
"Sure." You nodded, smiling. Adjusting course slightly to point more directly towards the denizen's lair. "Oh, uh, you want an ice ride too?"
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161 posts
Sage of Breath
Played by Nedben
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Post by telestialGrotto on Jun 1, 2016 4:32:13 GMT
"Yes." Julie said, flashstepping onto the icetrail. "TO ANANKE'S ROOM!"
556 shrugged and adjusted for a new course the flying broomstick she was using as an excuse to make the Secret Consort not run around sweating.
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99 posts
Seer of Heart
Played by Harrison
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Post by faultycoordinator on Jun 2, 2016 4:02:37 GMT
Your duo - Julie and Jenny, continued forth, making yours ways to the denizen lair. You made sure to eliminate any imps before they came into range of normal sight using your enhanced eyesight. As a result, the path forward was marked by dozens of frozen statues.
Soon enough, the two of you arrived.
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161 posts
Sage of Breath
Played by Nedben
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Post by telestialGrotto on Jun 2, 2016 5:26:53 GMT
It was only a short walk inside. 556 and the secret consort waited in the antechamber out of respect for the latter's fear of large denizen snake, and it was really up to FC if she wanted to follow any further.
"Look, I don't want to kill you that badly so can we deal for the Hoard or some-" Lillian started, only to be cut off.
"Hold on for a minute." Inevitability said. Ananke was feeling peculiar. Time seemed to grind to a halt. That was because it actually did. Time froze, courtesy of Ananke's high-power time abilities. For outside parties, it was going to be as if this whole thing was accelerated into an instant. She had conveniently woven an exception for herself and Julie, but it had the effect of making a long battle of words and wills instantaneous, private, and immune to outside intervention. The serpentine queen of past, present, and future necessity spoke in a language that only herself and Julie could understand.
"You're already making progress and I'm tired of being here. Just kill me already, I want out of this. You even told me that you were wavering in your resolve to kill everything ever, and I was the first person it was fading on, I didn't even have to look beyond a truthcheck for old times' sake. Just give up and stop killing people. Let me be your last willful sapient victim until the Black King unless the moons hang foul. You and I know this isn't death, it's hardly even goodbye. Go on, kill me. It's time. You've heard this before, go on, do it. Take this garbage land we both want to lie in ruins, and maybe we'll see each other again sometime. Let's cut to the chase, no need for speeches. Finish me."
Ananke flopped to the ground, exposing a weaker point on the back of her neck where a sufficiently numerous quantity of strong enough blows might fell her. Angered as she was by the callousness of the old woman of time, Julie was unable to quite muster up the will to do it. The bored, almost tired look in the eyes of the glowing face of a goddess of the truth that the alpha timeline was immutable and unchanging (at least almost all of the time) was the straw that almost brought back her will to destroy the beast, but...she had no will to do it. When she looked with pleading eyes into the face of Certainty, she saw in the light only a firm nod and a grimacing face of acceptance.
Do it, Julie. Kill me now that you no longer want to. it said, tauntingly. I'm leaving, and you're going to send me off whether you like it or not. Go on, kill me.
Julie began to cry. "I don't want to do this, please, just let me deal for the hoard or something and we can all go home happy-"
"There's no need for that anymore. Just finish me off and we'll get to all go home happy. I want to see another world and you want to continue the damn game. Move along, shoot me in the weak spot for massive damage. This will happen. I guarantee it as Ananke, Queen of Inevitability. Go on girl, I don't want to be kept waiting!"
Someone who would offhandedly try to kill everyone just for the hell of it had a very distinct lack of urge to kill this titanic snakebeast who had spent hours futilely trying to show her how to be a half-decent Muse of Time just because it honestly annoyed her that much. She hung her head low and breathed deeply.
"If I mean that much to you, you'll kill me so I can do my job. There are channels for us to speak and you know them. Go. I'm sorry, but this is goodbye. You know I care, so end me. Be a good girl. Finish me off!"
Reassurance that this was not the end did what was always so hard for her. In under .025 relative seconds, the Hands of Knox were equipped.
Knox. Dai. Red longsword, blue shortsword. Together, a purple greatsword with yellow flickers. Knox's 9th. It is permitted for observers to let their own interpretations and conclusions be heard. Thus, Ananke's conclusion that I do not want to kill her and therefore must kill her is a valid opinion.
With an unnecessarily slow walk, she let the purple greatsword trail behind her for a moment, the sound of it scraping across the temple floor harsh in the silence but for it, the breathing of two women of Time, and the slow 'tick, tock' of the Beat creating a bubble of difference. It made no difference when time was halted. She hopped atop the serpent, and readied her blade. The weak spot glowed a tantalizing red, indicating it was active. Julie declared her previous thought aloud and slammed down the blade.
"Knox's 9th. It is permitted for observers to let their own interpretations and conclusions be heard. Thus, Ananke's conclusion that I do not want to kill her and therefore must kill her is a valid opinion."
Like a rock scratching at glass, Ananke's health vial made a ding and a depressingly small portion of vitality gel fell away. It was going to take a lot more to fell even a submissive Denizen than just one sword of the rules.
"Let it be known that Ananke here wishes to die that she may move onto her next session, and I am the chosen executor and executioner of that whim."
Speaking to an audience of no-one but Time itself and those frozen in it, she raised up the blade, hopped into the air, and flashstepped down into the beast's weak point with as much womangrit as she had to bear and all the speed her scamperway could apply jumping off the air itself in a burst of Breath-y majjyks intended to make the blade hurt more.
A larger but still tiny fraction of vitality gel fell off. Ananke grunted in agreement with the statement, seeing as it was true. Inevitability was well aware of what she entailed, after all.
It was a long and emotionally exhausting fight as Julie kept sobbing emotionally and slicing at the weak spot, pushing in to the near-invincible flesh of a greater goddess than she. Lances of majjyk, the bursts of explosions, clips of bullets flying in the air, she threw a lot into slowly killing a Denizen that they could enjoy life more fully.
((OOC: I do not feel like I can do this justice. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ))
In due time and what felt like hours and for her probably was, chipping away at the health vial of a titanness, after what was an entire age, parting words exchanged, Julie finished killing Ananke and Time remembered it was supposed to move forward for everyone else.
The light faded from Ananke's face as she passed into the sleep of death to wake up on a new world. From everyone else's perspective, it was as if Julie had suddenly teleported atop Ananke's neck and oneshotted her with a sword to the back.
Julie almost fell over, instinctively chucking her weapons back into her specibi. With a halfhearted burst of witchtime from a bracelet, she stumbled to a hidden nook in the very back and retrieved the land instrument viola at what looked like a sprinter's pace despite being obviously stumbling with exhaustion, while the Land rumbled gently as great fissures opened and the Hoard was released. Still exhausted, she appeared outside in a trick of time-shifting to the future and then the past, played the Crystals, and as the land twisted to finish reopening the world she walked back in.
"I killed Ananke and I'm not feeling very happy about it." she said simply. "556, could'ja carry me for a few minutes?"
Then she slowly moved down onto the ground and quietly made a few emotionally exhausted noises to summarize her point, leaving a confused and slightly terrified bunnygirl to heft her up.
"Next up, planet healing!" the Secret Consort said seriously. "Wow, I can't believe she managed to hit Queen Ananke that many times in a single second!" he then said obliviously but yet slightly closer to what actually happened. "We're free! Ish!"
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99 posts
Seer of Heart
Played by Harrison
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Post by faultycoordinator on Jun 2, 2016 5:45:09 GMT
You gave Julie the same reprieve you had given yourself after your recent final encounter with your own Denizen. [Ice Cream in the Veins] - though this was unlikely to last as long as the 6 days you'd spent under the influence of the ability during your waking hours. You turned to the Secret consort. "Your hero needs to rest right now, all that exertion can be pretty rough for somebody to experience." You looked over at Julie. "Maybe it would be best if we worked on our UU after you've had some time to mull this over?"
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