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Post by godofph on Jan 28, 2007 16:56:40 GMT -5
Projectiles, eh?
Nhort stepped aside of his Twili companion. Looking at the other Statue, he unsheathed his Mini-Spear. To a Korok, this weapon was a normal-sized spear. To any other race, this tiny projectile could be mistaken for a misplaced arrow.
He took aim at the statue's eye, and flung the tiny spear.
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Post by hibbe on Jan 29, 2007 4:57:19 GMT -5
The arrow and spear struck true annihilating the beamos before they could fully charge. An experienced adventurer would take that too mean the magical defenses of the ancient temple had slowly decayed over the years.
Silence returned to the Temple.
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Post by Seer235 on Jan 29, 2007 17:05:25 GMT -5
"Warm welcome." Kahn allowed himself a second to wonder whether the statues were meant for something other than defense, but he quickly tossed the thought aside. No time to think like that.
He turned down to Nhort, taking note of the Korok's accuracy. So it might serve some use after all. Surprising. "Not bad. So, up the staircase?"
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Post by godofph on Jan 29, 2007 17:10:01 GMT -5
"Right then!"
Nhort wobbled over to the site of the statue he felled, and retrieved his Mini-Spear. After returning to the Twili, the duo ascended the staircase.
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Post by hibbe on Feb 1, 2007 3:05:38 GMT -5
As the two adventurers began walking up the stairs with all the confidance of inexperienced adventurers more rumbling sounds were heard as above them numerous statues turned into place all resembling the initial Beamos almost exactly save for slight differences in the layers of plant vines covering them. Dozens of eyes lit up and much faster than the original two these Beamos began firing!
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Post by godofph on Feb 1, 2007 12:51:10 GMT -5
Plant vines!
The Korok stepped away from his companion, not wanting to accidentally hit him with what he was about to do. Nhort cracked his whip, and it glowed dimly. He began waving it over his head slowly, the vines covering the Beamos tightened as he did. The vines turned the Beamos they covered to face the walls, and promptly slammed them into the stone of the temple's walls.
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Post by Seer235 on Feb 1, 2007 12:53:14 GMT -5
Kahntre had just hurled himself to the side as he saw Nhort use his floromancy. It was...unexpected. "Interesting," was all Kahntre mumbled, as he pulled himself back up.
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Post by godofph on Feb 1, 2007 13:01:05 GMT -5
Nhort excitedly exclaimed, "Ha, plants triumph over stone again!"
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Post by Seer235 on Feb 1, 2007 22:04:49 GMT -5
Kahntre dusted himself off. "Hm, seems like you're quite in your element here. Let's move on. Slowly." He picked up his bow and readied an arrow, but made sure he could drop them and pull out his dagger at a second's notice.
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Post by hibbe on Feb 2, 2007 4:36:12 GMT -5
A strong wind suddenly blew through the temple ruffling Kahntre's robes completely out of place in the temple that had, up to then, been completely still. In spite of the odd occurance no enemy popped up from hiding. It seemed their way was clear.
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Post by godofph on Feb 2, 2007 12:33:57 GMT -5
While Kahntre's robes were merely ruffled by the wind, Nhort was thrown off of his feet and slammed into a wall. The nuts inside of him were sent flying all around inside of him, the loudest jingle to come out of him in a long time.
He weakly stood up again and brushed himself off.
He mumbled with a frail voice, "Lets proceed..."
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Post by Seer235 on Feb 2, 2007 13:37:25 GMT -5
Kahntre, despite his best efforts, could not surpress a grin. "Yes, let's. But be careful. It's a bit windy, if you haven't noticed."
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Post by hibbe on Feb 3, 2007 23:29:41 GMT -5
The brave adventurers strode deeper into the temple. Eventually even the light of the entrance was long forgotten replaced entirely by torchlight. The two hadn't noticed the torches until the first two had burst into flames as they approached them lighting the path forward though extinguishing as soon as they reached the radius of the next pair.
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Post by Seer235 on Feb 3, 2007 23:55:39 GMT -5
Kahntre was irked by the lack of light around them. No idea what's going on outside the light. He opted to switch out his bow for his sword and dagger. "Stay alert. We'll run into something, and it'll see us long before we see it." Whatever was inside here wasn't going to make this easy.
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Post by godofph on Feb 4, 2007 0:20:25 GMT -5
Nhort's grip stayed strong on the whip as he drug it along. He was ready to strike with Floromancy if a foe reared its ugly head.
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Post by hibbe on Feb 4, 2007 4:44:35 GMT -5
A hissing filled the blackness all around the two and they could hear the scrapes of metal striking against stone. Something gurgled just above them and a loop of chain dangled into the firelight only to retract as swiftly as it had appeared with a metallic jingle. The chittering and horribly childish giggling grew louder all around them accompanied with a strange clattering noise that didn't quite fit with anything the two had heard before...
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Post by Seer235 on Feb 4, 2007 14:56:29 GMT -5
Kahntre was not happy about the situation. It'd even be better if there were no lights at all, but this torch wasn't letting him adjust to the darkness around them. And then there was this thing above them, just out of any torchlight. Might as well see what the little wooden surprise machine could do.
He bent down and whispered to Nhort, "If there's any way you could bring the light up there, or even remove the light we have here, it would be very helpful."
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Post by godofph on Feb 4, 2007 15:03:24 GMT -5
Nhort nodded. He cracked his whip and a flurry of vines fell from the walls to touch the lit torches. Flames ran up the vines and lit the entire room as they spread.
"How about that?"
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Post by hibbe on Feb 5, 2007 2:32:11 GMT -5
The torches flames swarmed up the vines and quickly branched out across the roof of the hallway as more and more plantlife caught fire revealing the pack of Stalchildren that had surrounded the two under the cover of darkness. But even as the Stalchildren hissed and lept at the adventurers the flames continued on in both directions.
With speed only fire is capable of the entire temple, overgrown as it was had caught fire and was rapidly burning down around the adventurers.
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Post by Seer235 on Feb 6, 2007 23:32:28 GMT -5
Kahntre brought his blade down onto the skull of one of the Stalchildren, at the same time swinging his dagger around and hitting the neck of a Stalchild behind him. "Anything you can do about the fire? These guys don't seem to be as much of a pressing threat."
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Post by godofph on Feb 7, 2007 0:28:57 GMT -5
Nhort looked at the flames as they spread. An idea occured to him.
Isolate the flames, and they can't spread.
Nhort cracked his whip and wit his Floromancy, commanded the non-flaming vines to separate themselves from the burning plants.
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Post by hibbe on Feb 8, 2007 19:28:29 GMT -5
The flaming vines slowly dropped from the ceiling to sputter against the stone floor of the temple. But as it would turn out the flames had really been the least of the adventurer's worries as the Stalchildren, seeing two of their number fall, went completely berserk lashing out with their bone fingers ripping and tearing at the two adventurers. Strange black fluid oozed from their skeletal mouths and the sibilant hissing rose to new levels. A burning red light entered their empty sockets and as the adventurers fought they could see red orbs expanding through the darkness in every direction.
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Post by Seer235 on Feb 8, 2007 23:07:31 GMT -5
Kahntre backed away from the sharp claws, swinging his sword in a wide arc, slicing through the nearby Stalchildren. They were attacking with much more vigor now. Wonderful. He had the advantage, though, as his sword was long enough to keep them from being close enough to hit his body, and his wide sleeves made it more difficult for the Stalchildren to get a clean swipe on the arms. Not impossible, though. Some claws had already gotten been too accurate, raking against his forearms. Another sword strike took down the closest three. It was just a matter of staying on his guard until their numbers were depleted.
Then he looked into the darkness and saw the multitude of glowing red eyes. Oh… More than he had been expecting. And with the added numbers, the Stalchildren were flinging themselves forward more fanatically, making them easier to kill but at the same time making it all the more likely that one would score a deep wound before it was slain.
He had to raise his voice now to make Nhort hear him. “You can still fly, right?” he didn’t wait to hear the answer, continuing with his instructions as he rammed his dagger through the forehead of another Stalchild.. “Fly down to the other end of the hallway. I’ll meet you there.” He wouldn’t fight his way through the Stalchildren, of course. He had other plans, but leaving the direct area now would leave Nhort (who Kahntre was now protecting by standing directly above him, drawing the attention of the Stalchildren) open for attack.
Why am I protecting him anyways? Every second Kahntre stayed stationary, he was risking being hit by one of the lunging Stalchildren. Yet he was still here, above Nhort. Why? A few answers immediately came to mind, but none seemed quite satisfactory.
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Post by godofph on Feb 9, 2007 12:36:59 GMT -5
A Korok's advantage of no natural enemies was about to come in use (again). Nhort's wind-catching sprouts grew out of his back and he began floating across the room, with no bother from the Stalchildren.
But he saw Kahntre valiantly fighting the Stalchildren while he was simply fleeing to the other side of the room. Nhort felt a small pang of guilt.
I'll help.
His whip wouldn't be as effective as Kahntre's daggers, he knew that. If he could strike in the right spot however, he could fell one of these foes. Using his own Teleportation spell, he disappeared and reappeared behind a Stalchild that was advancing on his Twili partner.
Silently floating behind his foe, Nhort readied himself to strike. He designated the target of his strike: the back of its neck, where the skull connected to the vertebrae. The tiny Korok swung his thorny whip at the Stalchild, and a satisfying pop occured when it struck.
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Post by PyrasTerran on Feb 9, 2007 14:20:32 GMT -5
OOC: Sorry.. but a Korok can't generate the force needed to whip a whip strong enough to pop a stalchild's neck. Because it's a whip from a plant and not an actual living plant, you can't use floromancy on it either. Floromancy only works with plants, not their separated parts.
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Post by godofph on Feb 9, 2007 16:08:42 GMT -5
OOC: I didn't say that it popped its neck, I was implying more of a popping sound being made when the whip struck the Stalchild. Also, he doesn't use Floromancy on the whip, the whip acts like a magic wand, to channel the magic.
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Post by hibbe on Feb 11, 2007 5:58:50 GMT -5
The Stalchild flinched forward then rapidly hopped back barely saving itself from a savage end on Khantre's dagger. Burning crimson orbs fixed on Nhort's floating form and a high pitched wail assaulted his 'ears'. With a speed nearly impossible to match the Stalchild lashed out with its' skeletal fingers seeking to destroy the annoyance for reasons no sane being could guess at.
Seeing one of their own attacking the floating root bulb more of the Stalchildren also attacked from all directions as several had clambered across the ceiling digging their finger bones deep into the stones above the adventurers.
Khantre, despite the short range of his weapons was doing an admirable job of holding back the tide of Stalchildren mindlessly seeking his end but each swing of his dagger cost more endurance and undoubtedly the Twili could feel his steel muscles begin to burn with fatigue. More pressing however, was the twitch of his neck as cold steel wrapped around it suddenly jerking tight.
The chains the adventurers had seen had been attached to manacles slowly rusting away on a particular Stalchild who had chosen that moment to make its attack seekign to strangle the life from the intruder as well as allow his fellow undead the opening they needed to end the warm glow of his life returning the temple to the cool solitude of death and decay.
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Post by Seer235 on Feb 13, 2007 9:59:51 GMT -5
Kahntre instinctively grabbed at the chain, the fingers of his dagger hand wrapping around the metal. He yanked forward on the chain, intending to flip to the Stalchild over his head and into the enemies before him. The strain on the chain was too great, however, and the rusted metal broke, allowing Kahntre to breath again.
As he kicked backwards, knocking the offending Stalchild to the ground, he figured this was as good a time as any to get out of this particular situation. As the other hordes of Stalchildren around him pounced, he teleported, moving down the hallway before dropping (sword first) into the army of Stalchildren. They weren't as concentrated in this point, and he had the advantage of surprise, so he managed to clear out a small opening for himself there. Just a few more times now...
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Post by godofph on Feb 13, 2007 12:43:18 GMT -5
The attack from the Stalchild sent Nhort flying into a wall. After bouncing off of the stone wall, he realized he didn't have the force to take them out himself. Then, another idea occured to him, hopefully this one would work.
If I can't destroy them, maybe I can get them to destroy each other...
Nhort wobbled back to the Stalchild that attacked him. The foe hissed and took a swipe at the root ball, only to find it wasn't there.
From behind it, the Stalchild heard, "Over here!"
The Stalchild turned to see Nhort floating above him, yet he was just in front of him on the ground. It hissed and swiped its skeletal fingers again. The swipe struck nothing. The Stalchild looked around, confused more and more by this root ball.
"Missed me!"
The Root Ball was now hovering between it and another Stalchild. The two hissed at Nhort, and both ran at him. Right as they swung at Nhort, once again they found him to be gone; leaving their strikes to only hit each other.
Ha, Teleportation!
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Post by hibbe on Feb 13, 2007 21:22:51 GMT -5
As Khantre began clearing himself space to stand he quickly found that the Stalchildren were a much more determined foe than he had anticipated literally racing across the walls and ceiling in their urge to attack and kill him. One deliberately took a daggerswipe to the ribs clutching the Twili's robed arm in a super-human grip stopping him just long enough for its comrades to swarm him knowing that with only one dagger Khantre would be unable to fend the Stalchild horde off.
The two that Nhort had intended too kill each other instead checked their strikes and whirled about in mid-air each completely avoiding the other and as soon as their skeletal feet had hit the flagstones that composed the Temple's floor they were in the air again attacking Nhort even as their comrades also attacked. One managed to grab the offending rootball's foot with one hand and began to drag the small Korok down into the mass of slavering Stalchildren where he would be rent limb from limb if they had their way.
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