92 posts
God of the Furthest Ring
Played by Nedben
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Post by horrorTerror on Aug 17, 2016 1:42:46 GMT
Skaia's light was bright. Brighter than all of Agasti's other sessions, if he remembered correctly. Towers were constructed, Skaia was reached. There was merely one final king and one absence of a frog in the way of the Ultimate Reward('s not being functional).
You watched absentmindedly through the eyes of one of Lillian's pawns, a servitor body eating some squiddle treats and staring with another's eyes. The Bane of Joy entered the lower atmosphere of Skaia, watching the chaos of the lategame Battlefield unfold before him.
The Black King had announced the Reckoning with the White King's scepter, and accordingly meteors rained from the Veil, many of them caught in Skaia's standard-issue defensive portals. A few stray angels that seemed to have burst from the sky itself were getting mowed down by a certain awesomeHellraiser and her wrath of the storm god(dess), to say nothing of the Black King being slammed by the gales. The Bane of Joy strode forward and started adding deadly flowers into the howling storm, buffeting the BK with more hell.
You approved heartily of the destruction of the enemy angels, and wondered when the other players were going to get there.
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16 posts
Bane of Hope
Played by Jossar
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Post by obfuscatoryAlpinist on Aug 17, 2016 2:17:35 GMT
The problem with being a Time player is that sometimes you have to do things that your role never really wanted you to do. For the entirety of the session, the Page of Time had the responsibility of serving as a sort of seer of doomed timelines and attempted agent of stabilization. This prevented him from his main responsibility of punching things into next week. A perhaps questionable function in a game that focuses on growth and development but often necessary for individuals who prefer to avoid combat in search of other aspects of the game.
The benefit of being a Time player is that you can always make things Somebody Else's Problem. Even if that person is your past and future selves. By allocating the responsibility of dealing with those temporal shenanigans to a number of past selves it becomes possible to free yourself here and now to do the job that has to be done. These are often the circumstances that best fulfill the requirements of the Page class - a long period off build up eventually culminating in the realization of a hero.
These were the elements going through the mind of the Page of Time as he had climbed through the void of space towards Skaia. It also happens to be the case that all of this happened a while ago and that he's currently lost in the midst of the battlefield trying to shout a challenge to the Black King and attempting to move through the ranks. The hurricanes and begonias are helping neither of these causes. In the meantime, the Page is settling for stabbing underlings like there's no tomorrow. And the removal of possible futures is certainly being used to build up speed and momentum for his movements.
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112 posts
Page of Void
Played by Ben
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Post by alphanumeric on Aug 18, 2016 0:39:56 GMT
It was that time once again. Having happened so soon after your... angelic encounter, you decided to sit back and watch the battle unfold, content that your sessionmates would keep you out of harm's way.
Out of the corner of your eye, you see OU zooming past, rushing in to help protect the enbattled members of the group that were already on the ground...
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13 posts
Waste of Void
Played by Ben
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Post by omegaUnfortunate on Aug 18, 2016 0:51:21 GMT
==Having been alerted to the situation by AN, Blaine rushed towards skaia's heavenly light. He took up a defensive position not far from where AN was floating in the sky. "If you would be so inclined, could you please watch my back whilst I attempt to, how you would say, 'Do the Guardy Thing?'" Blaine asked. ==
==Seeing AN nod in return, Blaine began focusing on the incoming meteors from the Veil, and one by one, as they approached, whisked them out of existence, preventing them from impacting the battlefield and distracting the combatants below.==
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7 posts
Muse of Mist
Played by Harrison
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Post by awesomeHellraiser on Aug 18, 2016 5:14:08 GMT
Zen. A tranquil state of destruction. The Angels were no match for you, and being under the effect of [Eye of the Storm] prevented them from corrupting you as nail after nail from your nail gun embedded into their glowy asshole bodies. Even with the hurricane of destructive winds beating back swathes of them, they kept coming, and you realized that things were taking too long. You reassessed the situation, and hoped that the others could cover for you in the times that were to come. You descended, trading the nail gun for a curling iron which could melt steal beams as if they were butter. Anything that got close was eliminated.
The tendrils of breath causing rampant destruction through [Wrath of the Storm God] continued assailing the angels. Soon, however, they would be drawing back to join your coming onslaught. You were a Sylph, and when you found a cause, you went all out. It had been clear from the moment you'd arrived, there was one target above all others - the Black King. You called out to your allies, "Everyone, any offensive buffs on me! It's time." Normally, you'd have spoken more, but the quintessential breath psybuff was stopping you from feeling anything too extreme.
You brandished your weapon. Waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
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10 posts
Bard of Dreams
Played by Nedben
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Post by waitWhat on Aug 18, 2016 20:44:29 GMT
"SIGNS POINT TO YES!" you shouted over the winds, the Joy ideograil vomiting a small garden of lilies from your hand as the energy spiraled forth to do the Bane-y thing and charge forward for someone else's Joy. Eye of the Storm would most likely cap the feels rush of half an arsenal of abilities latching on hard down from 'the kind of brain overload you'd get from overdosing', but even so a few flowers were going to do their job.
Give 'em hell, awesomeHellraiser. Those angels ḍ͓̩ḙ̯̥̗͕̤̮se̲r̞̥͇̭͢ͅv̺̩̯̲͙e͠ it. Destroy them, and that little king too.
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13 posts
Waste of Void
Played by Ben
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Post by omegaUnfortunate on Aug 19, 2016 23:34:20 GMT
==Your job was becoming more and more intense. By interfering with the incoming meteors, it seems you had drawn the aggro of several of the skaian siege engines and their assorted counterparts.==
==alphaNumeric was doing his best to protect you, but your ARC didn't like that. You were supposed to be the one guarding, and while that is what you were doing to everyone else, it wasn't working for the one person that mattered to you.==
=="Ben, get outta here! Go help the others, I'll be fine!" You yell, hoping he will understand.==
=="What do you mean?" he yelled back, between blowing into his trumpet to discombobulate a rook who decided that flying was a good idea and ejecting a bathtub into an oncoming meteor.==
=="I mean, remove yourself from the situation, so we both don't die! I can handle this myself, get down on the surface!" You yell in return. You see Ben nod in acceptance, and both of your ARCs get a pretty nice bonus from following your roles.==
==You suddenly decide to switch to third person, because you grew tired of first person.==
==Blaine floated above Skaia, frantically trying to keep up with the growing maelstorm coming up from the surface.==
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112 posts
Page of Void
Played by Ben
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Post by alphanumeric on Aug 20, 2016 0:00:29 GMT
Ben flew down to the Battlefield of Skaia, dodging meteors and shrapnel and the occasional carapace as he dove downwards. He heard awesomeHellraiser's cry for buffs galore, and he was all to happy to oblige.
Ben started by throwing [The Fortress Unassailable] onto AH, then followed up with [Don't You Die On Me]. He watched form above as the Hope ideograil glowed faintly on AH's chest and back.
Ben wanted to continue helping out, but he was clueless as to what to do. He resigned himself to watching AH's back, smiling a little at the ARC bonus.
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16 posts
Bane of Hope
Played by Jossar
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Post by obfuscatoryAlpinist on Aug 22, 2016 23:37:06 GMT
Unlike the rest of the group, you didn't have a buff that could effectively be applied to AH in this situation. To be fair, given your role, throwing off a buff instead of actively trying to do something would probably be a bad idea.
And perhaps you were just a little bit annoyed that the Black King had been ignoring you for the entirety of the fight. Enough so that you were determined to make yourself a significant enough threat that he had to pay attention to you for a few minutes as a primary dueling target. That this would coincidentally distract him while everyone else finished up the buffing routine was an incidental benefit. Or at least you kept telling yourself that in attempt to diminish its considerable fakeness attribute enough so that your ARC didn't plummet into the toilet again.
Of course to everyone else on the field it looked like you were being a stubborn, independent minded jerk when you basically showed up on the opposite side of Beelzeboulderboss from the buff fest to cast [Thank You For Your Valuable Time] and began to scale the now slowed Black King like he was Mount Freaking Everest.
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7 posts
Muse of Mist
Played by Harrison
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Post by awesomeHellraiser on Aug 23, 2016 2:17:42 GMT
It was time. Everything was in place. Eye of the Storm kept you focused and safe from angelic contamination. You were a champion of destruction, a bring of the wind, and moments after OA activated [Thank You For Your Valuable Time] as a distraction you did what Breath players do best.
YOU DESTROYED THE SHIT OUT OF THE GENERAL AREA VIA [WRATH OF THE STORM GOD(DESS)]. Thankfully, the general area mostly contained the BK. Also some angels and time-clones. Point is, that was past tense.
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