Sanctuary of the Eternal Spirits

A.T.C. stalked the boy earlier (Riwethuu) now, it was a rather grueling task. It was a miracle he hadn't been noticed. By the party ahead. There was nowhere to hide, he could follow from a good mile behind and still be seen as a moving speck. He decided to take that risk, but it couldn't be long until someone noticed him sooner or later. This journey REALLY wasn't good for him, at all. After all that ruckus at the building before, he was still pretty tired. Still he walked on...

"Ugh, at least I can always LEAVE this place worst comes to worst..." but he considered that more of a last resort, not something to use on something as petty as this. Nightfall was just hours away, he might find a way to rest then...IF the party ahead stopped too. "Damn my curiosity for these sort of things..."

He figured the heat wasn't as bad as other places he'd been to, but he was still only mortal. Still, he remembered, out of almost everyone in the party from the bar, he had been in pretty much the best condition in the end (and by that, not lying on the floor) At best, he'd last a good while until succumbing to the conditions.

(OOC: finally out of the damn bar, although I dislike the skip done there, something screwed up the story flow *has read the past posts* we have Riwethuu's vision, to Elennire SAYING they need to go west after the time-lag, to skipping the actual leaving of the bar, and now onto a desert wasteland...someone please clarify, yes I'm being picky here)

kiki.i wrote:

ooc: wait, what happened? all i know is that tamah's still lying on the ground but that's as far as i got before i got lost... O.o;

OOC: Time-skip. Make do with it.

.sickling. wrote:

kiki.i wrote:

ooc: wait, what happened? all i know is that tamah's still lying on the ground but that's as far as i got before i got lost... O.o;

OOC: Time-skip. Make do with it.

OOC: Fair enough, I will, but I won't like it. Quick, everyone else magically wake up because of the time change and get with the program (or just have your character die of poison, you know, just another option, except Cram, his wasn't poisoned)

Kudo wrote:

A.T.C. stalked the boy earlier (Riwethuu) now, it was a rather grueling task. It was a miracle he hadn't been noticed. By the party ahead. There was nowhere to hide, he could follow from a good mile behind and still be seen as a moving speck. He decided to take that risk, but it couldn't be long until someone noticed him sooner or later. This journey REALLY wasn't good for him, at all. After all that ruckus at the building before, he was still pretty tired. Still he walked on...

"Ugh, at least I can always LEAVE this place worst comes to worst..." but he considered that more of a last resort, not something to use on something as petty as this. Nightfall was just hours away, he might find a way to rest then...IF the party ahead stopped too. "Damn my curiosity for these sort of things..."

He figured the heat wasn't as bad as other places he'd been to, but he was still only mortal. Still, he remembered, out of almost everyone in the party from the bar, he had been in pretty much the best condition in the end (and by that, not lying on the floor) At best, he'd last a good while until succumbing to the conditions.

(OOC: finally out of the damn bar, although I dislike the skip done there, something screwed up the story flow *has read the past posts* we have Riwethuu's vision, to Elennire SAYING they need to go west after the time-lag, to skipping the actual leaving of the bar, and now onto a desert wasteland...someone please clarify, yes I'm being picky here)

OOC: The town was IN the desert wasteland. They haven't left it yet.

Honestly, I don't see what's so bad about the time-skip. It's skipping useless and pointless details.

VVO-The obsessor wrote:

[[ooc But he explained why everyone was awake from the poisoning...seriously...]]

OOC: fair enough, as I said before, I'll deal with it but I won't like it. Now then, someone else's turn to post

kiki.i wrote:

ooc: happy? XP

OOC: no (jk) Sorry but there isn't really anything else I can post atm. Yeah, I suck with throwing in new crap.

OOC: I want to post something but it's a bit hard because i kinda need to know something. is the cloth supposed to use magic to cure the symptoms or something or is it something else?

OOC: the problem is if it does uses magic it won't affect Llyud and he'll be struggling to move at all

OOC: i'll post but if the cloth works through magic ill edit/delete my post in order to keep consistency of Llyud

Llyud fingered the knot that kept the cloth around his bicep. The curious little piece of cloth seemed to completely eliminate the effects of the poison. He wished he had heard of it before. It would have helped during some missions.

Llyud quickly pulled his hand away. He realized if the cloth fell on the floor so would he.

The sun was beating down on the odd group of people and Llyud started to think about what he had gotten himself into. Isiya was definitely unlike any place he had been to before. It wasn't everyday a robot came by and nearly killed half a dozen people. It also wasn't often a boy was possesed by a spirit.

Llyud fingered his bow and realized what had happened. It was in splinters yet it was fixed. Completely unscratched. It seemed that Llyud had uncovered one of his bows abilities but if his father was right, it would have more.

He looked around at the group. "Are we going to set up camp soon? It looks like some of us need to rest."

"Sorry. It's not like I was trying to make us do anything wrong."

Llyud stopped to take a drink from his canteen and looked around the vast desert. That was when he saw something. His eyes had gotten the most benefit than any other of his senses and he saw a man walking in the distance. He recognized the man as a person that had shown up during the fight with the robot though Llyud was not conscious long enough to ask him anything. He laughed.

Llyud pulled out his combat knife and scratched a message into the caked desert floor. He wrote: NO NEED TO STAY SO FAR BACK. IT'S NOT LIKE WE'VE REJECTED ANYONE FROM THIS GROUP SO FAR.

Llyud put his knife back and ran back to the group.

Itou had been patiently following along with his "God," worshiping the very ground he walked on. It took him quite some time to regain his composure and stop doing that. However, from the previous battle, Itou noticed something, his IDs should have kicked in and completely absorbed the blow that he received from the robot, when in fact, he barely lived. Itou pondered about this matter intensely. Why did the IDS almost fail?

The flames crackled and danced weakly around the hastily made pile of cloth in the middle of the campsite, as if it was unsatisfied by the food it had been given. Riwethuu shivered in the night's cold. He outstretched his hands near the fire, but the fire was so weak he wondered if it would have even made a difference if there was a fire or not. He hugged himself tightly, hoping to stop some warmth from leaking out from his body. The night had been cruel and unforgiving so far: it seemed like Riwethuu was the only one having trouble sleeping. He passed by everyone's respective tents: the two otherworldly priests were sound asleep, Itou was snoring, and everyone else was silent. The desert was just as soundless as the people that resided in it. Riwethuu sighed, and passed through the sheets of his own tent. There wasn't enough raw material to make a floor, so there was only cold, shifty sand as a bed. He laid himself down and curled up, in a vain attempt to get some sleep. He closed his eyes....

Suddenly, the sand underneath him moved. Riwethuu quickly struggled to his feet, hitting the top of his tent in the process. As he looked down, the sand itself seemed to shake and rumble. He slowly backed away from the shifting sand. Something black erupted from the sand: it was a massive stinger. The black structure shot out at him. Riwethuu, barely able to see the blur that was headed straight for his face, flailed his arms in front of him, hoping he would grab onto something. To his amazement, his hands closed in on the black... thing, but the force of the object knocked him to the floor. Riwethuu held onto the black structure with his life: at the very end was a very sharp point that Riwethuu didn't really want in his body. Suddenly, the source of the stinger revealed itself from the sand. A monstrously huge scorpion burst from the sand, tearing Riwethuu's tent to shreds. The beast looked terrifyingly ferocious: the scorpion was entirely jet-black, and the size of five men. The giant insect glared at him with several eyes and hissed at its prey: Riwethuu. The beast forced its stinger closer to the boy's face. Riwethuu struggled to keep the venomous tip away from his body. His strength was waning. He could feel his hands slipping off the beast's tail.

"HELP!"

LORE:

Ignilli are a rare species of insect that inhabit the deserts of Isiya. While most of them take residence in the dusty desert of Ucadius, other, smaller deserts and badlands also host these dangerous creatures. Ignilli are, for all intensive purposes, giant scorpions. However, their hides are ten times tougher than that of their smaller counterparts, strong enough to resist even advanced forms of magic, and their claws are sharp enough to tear a grown Rigan to shreds. Like all scorpions, Ignilli have stingers which they use freely to inject fatal venom into their prey. They also have incredible powers of regeneration. Ignilli are most active at night, when the desert heat has completely dissipated from the sand. That being said, Ignilli are vicious predators and should be avoided at all costs.

ATC continued walking on, he noticed Lloyd's message kind of soon. He disregarded it due to his own rules against making any semi-formal acquaintances in other dimensions, just in case. Besides, he'd feel bad if they died or if he had to leave them, he had made that error too many times in the past. The pattern ATC took in following the group was a rather interesting. He would switch the angle in which he would see the group every few hours, this added a bit extra walking but it didn't SEEM like anyone had noticed so far, even if they did, maybe they would assume it as a mirage, and end up not seeing it after he had swapped the angle of vision. The extra distance with this pattern tired him out. He decided to drop it completely since one of them had already noticed him, there was really no point after that. The important part was that he could still keep track of where the group was headed.

The group at long last had stopped for camp, ATC was a bit more than relieved. It was dark now, the heat had left, the area was clear for anything. A peaceful night, absolutely nothing to worry about except any creatures that could come. Creatures, this thought, and worse, the rather large scorpion thing closing in on ATC gave him one thought, "ah crap, you're kidding me right?" He pulled out his blade, quickly rushed to chop of the creature's tail.

Big mistake, maybe it was just because he switched dimensions, maybe he didn't land a good blow, whatever it was, the sword did not slice this thing. "DAMN IT" ATC thought as he made some distance, looks like he was finally in for a fight. "I guess I'm lucky there's only one, hope these things don't come in groups."

OOC: This post is too short, lacks the proper detail I wanted in it, oh well, it'll have to do. I was kind of in a rush while doing this post. Although, I might use this post for a bit more...

Itou sat a few yards behind his tent, counting the beads on his prayer necklace, a ritual ingrained permanently into his daily activities. "...and let us forgive all for their past sins and allow their wreched souls into th-" He was rudely intterupted by a shrill scream. This scream however was that of his "God"
Itou jumped to his feet and ran straight to Riwu's tent and ripped the cover open.
"REMOVE THYSELF FROM MINE LORD!" Itou yelled at the beast Riwu was struggling with.
He gave the insect an incredibly hard kick that cause the stinger to be horribly ripped off. The beast gave a harsh shrill that peirced the ears of Itou. He felt his vision fog and his ears ring and he quickly jumped out of the tent.
"My senses have been cripped? How the-?"

Llyud wasn't really a heavy sleeper but it seemed he spent most of his time sleeping in the heavy sleep cycle rather than the REM cycle. He actually preferred that fact because many times his dreams consisted of some of the things he had done or things that were done to him during his time in Sisic. Damn, if he had only remembered to tell the leader he wowuld still be their top scout. They had just gotten so fed up with him.

Because of Llyud sleeping in heavy sleep most of the time, he didn't really notice when Riwu let out a scream. But, when the scorpian let out a piercing cry, his ears picked it up and Llyud woke up to a throbbing pain in his head. He hated sound assaults. He was particuallary weak to things that affected a persons senses and this was definitely not helping in any way.

He grabbed his bow that lay beside where he slept and his quiver and rushed outside of his tent only to see a giant scorpian attacking the boy. The male priest seemed to be getting away but then something caught his eye. That Glory or whatver she was known as had picked up the boy and was flying away. Not something you see a human do everyday. Finally, he saw the monk yell something abot his "Lord" before trying to kick the tail off the scorpian.

He moved away to a good distance and knocked an arrow. He aimed right for the abdomen of the scorpian and let the arrow fly. He knew the arrow would hit right where he wanted and it did. Unfortunately it seemed that the scorpian had exceptionally tough skin because it bounced off and continued on past the camp at a different angle. Llyud swore. He thought his bow would be enough to kill the thing but he hadn't expected this especially since he used one of his arrows meant to pierce some armors. He then realized he had left his sword in his tent. The scorpian had moved closer to his tent during the fighting and now he couldn't reach it safely. Why did he always forget these "little" things? He knew his bow wouldn't be able to pierce the tough top side of the scorpian and he couldn't angle the arrow to hit the underside... Or could he?

Llyud had been frantically searching for a flat rock but could not find a single one. That was when he noticed the scorpian had been trapped in compacted sand. "Yes!" he yelled. He ran into his tent and found his sword.

His sword was sharp but most likely unable to pierce the scorpian's hide so instead he grabbed it because it was flat. Also, if he approached the thing it would probably shred him to death with its claws. He threw his sword in front of the scorpian and moved away. He intended to try and hit the underside of the scorpian with an arrow by deflecting it off of his sword.

It was going to be difficult. It was extremely dark and even with his enhanced eyes it was nearly impossible to see his sword, let alone calculate the angle at which to fire his arrow to allow it to strike the underside of the scorpian. But, he had to try. It was too dangerous to let live.

Llyud pulled back on his bow and fired the arrow.

when Itou's vision cleared, he yelled at the scorpion, but he could not hear himself. There was a sharp, constant ring as he looked outside the campsite and saw the insects, he could no longer hear and as he helplessly fought off a scorpion, Itou had a horrifying relization: his gauntlets do not kill. They were holy artifacts....

OOC: Bugs don't feel pain like we do so I assume that the insects' hunger overrided their pain reflex. Ah yes and my character won't save they day! O-M-G

OOC: if not your character then who's will be the one to "save the day"

OOC: Itou can't kill, Tamah is stabbing with knives, ellie is...incapacitated along with rokey, Llyud is failing to hhurt the thing, and ATC can't cut the tail. It seems that ATC, Llyud, and Tamah are the only ones that can do anything...so who should it be? or riwu could get posessed by another spirit thingy

OOC: Kill the scorpion any way you see fit. Just make it at least longer than a few paragraphs, though.

Llyud had been unable to either angle his arrows correctly to strike the underside of the beast and he tried over and over again while adjusting his position. He finally move to a spot which he believed would work. He pulled back the string and let his arrow fly. His arrow deflected off of his sword and flew straught for the underside of the scorpian.

The arrow flew straight for the perfect point to kill the scorpian when blinding beams of energy blasted out from the inside of the scorpian. His arrow was obliterated and the scorpian let out a cry louder than anything Llyud had ever heard, even at his distance. He fell to his knees and dropped his bow while clutching his ears. It felt like someone had gathered up thousands of pounds of explosives...and detonated it in his ears. He fell face first into the sand after the sound stopped but couldn't hear the sound of him hitting the sand. It was replaced by a loud ringing. He wouldn't be able to hear properly for a day or two.

Llyud struggled onto his feet and walked toward the scorpian to see a hand sticking out. He immediately moved forward in an attempt to pry the mouth open or break it open.

OOC: Due to failures of this RP, and my lack of a want to deal with it anymore, I'm out of it, and ATC leaves this post, deal with it. You guys hated ATC anyway, admit it. And I personally didn't care about this RP in the first place.

The scorpion moved swiftly towards ATC, each swing of it's massive tail held the power to kill at any moment. By swinging at just the right time, the force of the scorpion worked against it as ATC's blade cut the tail cleanly off. But victory was nowhere near what ATC expected when the tail grew back once more almost as quickly as it was removed.
"That's...that's just cheap, how the hell am I supposed to defeat something like this?!"
At least he knew how to survive, constantly detaching the creature's limbs would prevent it from attacking while they continually regenerated, but it was a losing battle. ATC was already tired from all the traveling and doing this would just waste more energy. The energy he would need for a real emergency, he wasn't about to fall to some random creature out here. He even tried to hack up it's face, rather useless since it kept regenerating. He truly was making a fool of the creature's external defences though, but hopefully even this thing can't keep regenerating forever, it must have some sort of stamina that gets used up. Such didn't seem to exist, almost as if this creature were some sort of abomination during creation and totally overlooked to be ungodly cheap in survival tactics, gods cruel gift to this world. But it wasn't like that, no, not at all really even this THING had a weakness and ATC attempted something that seems to take out most problems.
He slashed a whole out of thin air creating a portal to an unknown dimension, not quite as unknown, ATC could control which dimension and area it would lead too if he knew the area before. In this case, the scorpion was headed off into a war field on top of a minefield. As ATC once heard from a friend when he was a young teenager, "If nothing seems to work against an enemy, try to blow it the **** up! I don't know anything that is explode proof"
Whether "explode proof" is even a proper term seemed to be in ATC's mind now, as he made one more portal to a different land. He was sick of this stupid desert, he needed to refresh himself. What happened to the party he was stalking? Who cares about them? It was just a minor curiosity after all and wasn't worth the trouble. This is where he made his leave, from Isiya, forever.

The Journey of ATC in Isiya has come to a close, please resume the RP as fit, I had enough fun no matter how pitiful this was.

OOC: the above line does not belong in OOC, it is part of the story, and now that I'm out, you guys can continue this uninterrupted, hopefully, unless this is completely ditched altogether. Have fun anyway.

OOC: FYI I'm not lying when i say i was fine and i even like ATC. Why else do you think i bothered having my character try to make contact?