Banana_=P
Retinazer
<…go ahead.>
Single Thread RP The Last ROLEPLAY Post Wins
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The Silence
The Axe
“{Allow me to paint you a picture..}”
“{…}”
A bright red flash would arc its way across Dark’s mind, his vision suddenly filling with a new scene..
A much younger Father Garundel, both eyes open, is sprawled along the ground of a burning town of some sort, bleeding from so many wounds it would be worthless to try counting. He looks up in horror at a machine.
This machine, could be none other than Xylith. He towered over the young Zelethian, raising a sword with a blade of red plasma. Garundel seemed powerless to stop him.
“{Father Garundel has been fighting Fluxxation for thousands of years.. and he rarely wins.}”
As the blade began to come down, a bulking Zelethian with a muscular build throws himself in the way, blocking with a large blade of his own.
But it mattered not, in one powerful swipe, he was split in half dialgonially, sword and all. Father Garundel screaming in silent anguish behind the entirely silent scene.
The scene shifts after another red flash, this time a huge mech standing over the corpses of two Zelethians, riddled with steaming wounds from the massive railgun that constituted the mech’s left arm.
“{Many have died as a result of Garundel’s resistance…}”
The scene shifts one last time to another machine, Xylith once again, albeit this time missing an arm, and heavily damaged, clawing at Father Garundel’s face with sharp fingers. His claws marring the face of the Zelethian, particularly across the eyes.
“{And even Father Garundel has dealt with the consequences of his actions.}”
Dark’s vision would return slowly.
“{This machine Dark. He’ll do whatever he has to do to win. He can sacrifice as much as he wants.}”
“{Are you prepared for what may happen if you, or Garundel, can’t stop him?}”
“{… have you considered trying to find alternative ways out of this..?}”
“{…}”
A bright red flash would arc its way across Dark’s mind, his vision suddenly filling with a new scene..
A much younger Father Garundel, both eyes open, is sprawled along the ground of a burning town of some sort, bleeding from so many wounds it would be worthless to try counting. He looks up in horror at a machine.
This machine, could be none other than Xylith. He towered over the young Zelethian, raising a sword with a blade of red plasma. Garundel seemed powerless to stop him.
“{Father Garundel has been fighting Fluxxation for thousands of years.. and he rarely wins.}”
As the blade began to come down, a bulking Zelethian with a muscular build throws himself in the way, blocking with a large blade of his own.
But it mattered not, in one powerful swipe, he was split in half dialgonially, sword and all. Father Garundel screaming in silent anguish behind the entirely silent scene.
The scene shifts after another red flash, this time a huge mech standing over the corpses of two Zelethians, riddled with steaming wounds from the massive railgun that constituted the mech’s left arm.
“{Many have died as a result of Garundel’s resistance…}”
The scene shifts one last time to another machine, Xylith once again, albeit this time missing an arm, and heavily damaged, clawing at Father Garundel’s face with sharp fingers. His claws marring the face of the Zelethian, particularly across the eyes.
“{And even Father Garundel has dealt with the consequences of his actions.}”
Dark’s vision would return slowly.
“{This machine Dark. He’ll do whatever he has to do to win. He can sacrifice as much as he wants.}”
“{Are you prepared for what may happen if you, or Garundel, can’t stop him?}”
“{… have you considered trying to find alternative ways out of this..?}”
Banana_=P
Retinazer
<…not yet…>
<Hahaha…weaklings…>
<Can’t regenerate->
<QUIET, XARD.>
<…>
Dark pictures himself floating about in the void of his mind.
<…>
His own thoughts echo around him, beginning to overlap, yet so clear at the same time. Practically a rant…and yet he's simply thinking to himself, apparently trying not to confuse Avari.
<Seems like some kind of backup plan’s in order…>
<None of them had Avari on their side, surely? Don’t think many can take a red laser blast to the face and live…>
<Xiter, xiter. I was able to regenerate again even for that moment…if I, Luis, and Draucon could…>
<Pol’s kind of a god…>
<You haven’t even seen this Fluxxation’s real power; what if they’re…>
<Might be able to construct some kind of rocket with Tempor as the main “vehicle”…>
<...but where would we...?>
…
It might be a bit noisy there.
Dark starts mumbling to himself in his sleep.
<…two ideas.>
<One, we train like hell. Find more allies. Come up with an assault plan.>
<Take…the fight…to Fluxxation, before…>
<…huh. Guess Tempor might play a role in both ideas.>
<Where’d that idea…?>
<…In any case.>
<Either way, we…find a way to make it so we can ride Tempor in space. Be it we fly away, somehow escaping Fluxxation that way, or we fly towards the ship…to take the fight to him.>
<…>
Dark takes a moment to picture it.
A single white light, Tempor, flying up to an imposing ship. It glitches once…and it’s covered in scratches, flying away. Or was it unscathed?
<…>
<Maybe these plans don’t have to be mutually exclusive…>
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The Silence
The Axe
“{You seem to be taking it well at least… I’ve tried to help the others.. that didn’t work well.}”
Brief flashes of burning planets, creatures screaming as their worlds are fried from orbit, bombed, as the people are slaughtered by the wave of shining black machines encroaching upon the planet.
“{Fluxxation is a master of deceit and paranoia.. fighting him in his own domain is a death wish..}”
“{However.. were we to launch a stealthy attack on his ship while drawing him to kill Garundel down here.. that could get us somewhere.}”
“{…}”
“{Hold on…}”
Dark would feel an even sharper pain in his head now, his vision starting to swim slightly with a faint red hue.
“{Try to be discreet about it.. maybe open tons of little holes to drain it more softly?}”
Brief flashes of burning planets, creatures screaming as their worlds are fried from orbit, bombed, as the people are slaughtered by the wave of shining black machines encroaching upon the planet.
“{Fluxxation is a master of deceit and paranoia.. fighting him in his own domain is a death wish..}”
“{However.. were we to launch a stealthy attack on his ship while drawing him to kill Garundel down here.. that could get us somewhere.}”
“{…}”
“{Hold on…}”
Dark would feel an even sharper pain in his head now, his vision starting to swim slightly with a faint red hue.
“{Try to be discreet about it.. maybe open tons of little holes to drain it more softly?}”
Banana_=P
Retinazer
<...now we're getting somewhere...>
Dark winces as he sleeps, sitting up now, panting.
Dark nods despite having no one to nod to.
He does as instructed, forming multiple pores in his head.
The Silence
The Axe
And very small jets of coral would sputter out of his head like a poorly pressurized hose. The pain, and the burning coral, would quickly dissipate.
“{Thank you for bearing with me.. this is a lot, I know.}”
Something small and red would suddenly be outlined as dark opens his eyes, it seems deep in the forest.
“{Until we get that drone finished, I’m sure you wouldn’t mind me becoming less of a burden on your mind?}”
“{I’ve found a destroyed soldier unit. I could take out the system tracking devices and use it as a vessel for a little while, meaning you could take the majority of my consciousness out of your head.. you’ll be able to ease up on the coral production.}”
Banana_=P
Retinazer
(Hey that's just me nitpicking-)
(It'd show up in what he "sees" anyways, with his echolocation.)
<...Ah. Right. You can do that.>
<...sure thing.>
<Thank you.>
<...though uh...what would you do in the meantime?>
The Silence
The Axe
“{Just… walk around.. I suppose. It’s been quite a while since I’ve had a vessel that I alone can control.}”
“{… you’d have to walk me there.. Just like when you touched Xylith to transmit some of the coral, you’ll have to touch this machine too.}”
“{Don’t worry, we’ll still be in Contact even when I’m far away.. as part of me will remain with you.}”
Banana_=P
Retinazer
<...ah. I see...>
<...Let me just uh...>
<Work on smoooothly making a get away first.>
Dark floats over to a tree to sit down, noticing Luis in the distance.
(Luis)
<<...uh. Hey. Luis?>>
<<Yeah?>>
<<Think you can uh..take charge for a bit?>>
<<Need to take some time to myself, do a... thing with Avari.>>
<<...what would that be?>>
<<Just getting uh...them...er...her (?) (Ok Avari is it even right to assign you pronouns???) in a broken down bot of Fluxxation's for a second.>>
<<...how?>>
<<Coral...uh. Thing. I can explain later.>>
<<Uh...ok?>>
Dark starts floating over to the tree line.
The Silence
The Axe
After letting him have the chat, Avari pipes up again.
“{… I used to be a woman. I’d prefer to remember myself that way.}”
Banana_=P
Retinazer
<...used to?>
<Ah. Alright them. Female pronouns it is.>
<Just was uh..a bit confused with the whole...being some kind of energy consciousness...>
<Uh. Sorry.>
Seems some of his thoughts are so passing that they're a bit harder to notice? But only slightly.
Dark calmly weaves through the trees now, deviating a bit from the straight beeline he was taking to the totalled robot just to feel around him and make sure nobody seemed to notice, while making an attempt to pass it off as a casual stroll / float for those who just randomly happened to look his way.
The Silence
The Axe
“{… you’re lucky that the coral flow didn’t kill you.. or else you’d be like me.}”
“{It’s not as cool as it sounds, being alive with no body.}”
Banana_=P
Retinazer
<...Like a ghost, huh...?>
<...I'm uh...sorry you have to live with that.>
The Silence
The Axe
“{Yes.. like a ghost…}”
Avari is silent.
After a while, the robot, sprawled partially inside of some shrubbery, comes into view.
Banana_=P
Retinazer
<...>
<If...you ever want to talk...>
<...well. We're only uh. Sort of stuck with each other, hehe..>
<...>
<Luis so would go about this better->
Dark goes up to the robot.
<...ready?>
The Silence
The Axe
“{Mhm.}”
Dark would begin to feel the coral sort of.. welling up?
Dark would begin to feel the coral sort of.. welling up?
Banana_=P
Retinazer
Dark extends a tendril from his cloak towards the robot, hoping the coral would go to the robot through that as he touches it.
The Silence
The Axe
And with a sudden jolt, a large amount of coral breaks through the tendril and traces its way inside the robot.
Its lights dimly flicker on as it slowly turns over and pushes itself to its feet. It’s about 7 feet tall, missing an arm, and covered in deep gashes. The coral is welling around the open wounds, steaming out a bit like smoke.
The machine’s plain oculus is marbled now, the color of burning coral.
The machine turns to look at Dark.
“You said something about training, right?”
Avari whips up her arm and lunges at Dark, hand engulfed in blazing coral. (12)
Banana_=P
Retinazer
<!?>
Dark, caught off guard completely...(D20: 1...?)
...
Hm.
He barely floats out of the way, blade burning his cloak slightly, catching it on fire.
Dark heaves, surprised.
<I still haven't->
<Oh, shut it, me.>
<They're probably right; think I have been a little bit...slow to recover lately.>
<Just a little push shouldn't hurt...>
The Silence
The Axe
“If you want to fight Fluxxation, you’re going to have to know how he fights.”
Avari stands still for a moment before righting herself a bit, the thrusters on the damaged chassis engaging.
“Try to keep up.”
Avari zig-zag dashes towards Dark before briefly stopping, and then lunging forward, a blazing pike of coral forming over her fist. (7)
Avari stands still for a moment before righting herself a bit, the thrusters on the damaged chassis engaging.
“Try to keep up.”
Avari zig-zag dashes towards Dark before briefly stopping, and then lunging forward, a blazing pike of coral forming over her fist. (7)