Tremors across the Dojo - Volcanic Escape

[3kul]

HollowEyes continued to focus on Kiri as she spoke, trying to discern her various emotions. Some were easier to read than others.

Suspicion, cautiousness, fear...

These were the usual emotions associated with being scrutinized by the Third Eye, though they weren't anything out of the ordinary - had she been conspiring against her as Little Sister had told him, she should've been far more nervous.

Sincerity, honesty, curiousity...

These were the kind of things that one could associate with truth telling. As he should have believed from the start, Kiri had been entirely truthful about her intentions.

Closing his Third Eye, HollowEyes nodded at Kiri and began to walk towards the Volcano.

"Alright, I can tell you everything you need to know about on the way up."

[Shaon]

[3kul]

((Hm, this thread seems more or less dead once more, I was kind of hoping for more people to be replying, but oh well. It had a good run whilst it lasted, now I just need to drag it out on it's final legs until even I get sick of posting in it ))

Little Sister quickly took a good look at the invading group of Dojo defenders. They didn't seem to be doing all that much at the moment, meaning that her initial assault had either caught them by surprise or seriously injured one of their party. Good, this meant that she had a few seconds to spare to beat the crap out of this snivelling Kumo-*happy spices*.

~Even though it's barely worth giving you the time of day Kumo, I've got time to burn at the moment, and you're acting just the right amount of up-yourself moron for me to want to rip you to pieces.~

Quickly weaving a few tendrils into long thin spines, Little Sister hurled the woven spears at Kumo, figuring that she may as well take a few pot-shots at him whilst he's on his way down.

[the Drazilim]

The immature Drazils scurried around the area carrrying the message to all here, Coolpikaaa, Sanders, and anyone else from the original party if they are still here, instructing them to enter into the Drazilim collective headquarters ASAP

Leader Drazil #1 sits infront of the remaining eye plant, (unaware of any moths in the area.) He addresses the plant:

"We do not know who you are, nor where you are. We trust you are still monitoring this location, because it is very important that you receive this communication. Try as we might, we cannot fully grasp the warp technology you are using, it is sufficiently different from our own. However, and this is important, we believe that it is similar enough that we can interfere with it.
We have set up a pair of our own "string dimension" warp generators, focused on what we believe to be your warp generator, based on the warp energy outputs we have been monitoring. We will be controling it remotely, and it will set up its own separate "string". We will match your out put strength with our own on a distinct frequency. When yours goes, ours will go. We cannot stop you, but you will not accomplish what you intend. A part of your warping will be pulled into a coiled string dimension, mostlly likely tearing a rift in this section of timespace. We are not sure of the exact result, but it will certainly entail mutual assured destruction. If you back down, so will we, if you go ahead, it will kill us all, as well as those at the other end of your projected warp destination. We will monitor your energy outputs for your response."

and with that, the Drazil dissapears from view, and makes his way to the command center portal.

[3kul]

((Sorry to take so long in my reply Drazil, to be honest I had absolutely no idea how to respond to your post. To say that you've thrown a monkey wrench into the plans of the JoD Parasitians would be a massive understatement, it's more like you've thrown some kind of gorrila girder in there.

I'm not going to cry foul play or anything, because it really strikes me as a very clever move on your part - given the resources and tech level of the Drazilim, such a move is entirely possible, and given their numbers, it's not impossible for them to do so in a very short amount of time. They primarily act underground too, so Eyes wouldn't have spotted them doing this either.

Incredibly difficult to respond to in a way that doesn't simply end with me giving up, but I'll try and see how I fare with it.))

'EYES' - Black Forest

'Eyes' gritted it's teeth as it stared into the eye that had just transmitted the Drazilim's ultimatum. The Parasitians initial thoughts were that such a thing was absurd, that there was no way in which they could act in which it wouldn't be able to spot them - they had to be bluffing. But what if they weren't? It was the unknown factor, that very slight possibility that what they were saying was true...

Little did 'Eyes' know, it had neglected yet another unknown factor, one that was about to make itself known throughout the Dojo.

SILK - Frozen North

"All done! ❤"

Silk laughed to herself, activating the Warp Generator that she'd rewired. It had taken her almost no effort at all to dislocate the explosive trigger mechanism, which she'd casually tossed aside in the icy chamber, and she'd totally changed it's power usage, destination and warp field generation capacity all in a very short time period.

Not that any of this was particularily hard for her, as she'd had access to this information all along, in the minds of almost every Parasitian here.

She'd been all ready to go, but from the sounds of things, somebody else had set up another generator to mess this one up, and it wouldn't be any good to her for her not to wind up where she wanted to go. Quickly adjusting the controls, she set the generator to finish up charging and stand by for activation.

~Scaaaary, stop whatever it is you're doing, I've got a favour to ask you.~ She didn't like to ask the Kumo for favours, but it'd be much faster if she did. Silk wasted no time in wrapping herself around the warp generator, so that as soon as Scary replied she'd be ready to go.

'EYES' - Black Forest

"What the..."

Two very bad surprises in the one day, this was not pleasing at all for 'Eyes'. This one was incredibly serious, as it was far too early for the generators to activate, and this could all blow up in their faces if they didn't fix things up right now. ~One of the generators is eating up an absurd amount of power, has anybody tampered with their generator at all?~

Deciding that it was better to share information than withhold it, 'Eyes' also told it's siblings of the Drazilim ultimatum so that they could make a group decision on how to proceed.

'WART' - Southern Desert

~Unforgivable!~

'Wart' was outraged that the Drazilim had acted in such a way right under her nose, and it would cause her to lose a lot of face from her siblings if she didn't act immediately to rectify this situation.

~Nobody has altered the generator that I am guarding, but the Drazilim's actions will not go unpunished. As our brother has adopted the name 'Vangohma' for himself, I shall adopt the name 'Yuquelle' for my own use, and pass my judgement down to the reptilian scum that infest this desert.~

She shrunk her body back down to her preferred size, sliding off the generator to allow herself to change shape. It seemed that she was determined to make the Drazilim pay, all she was waiting for was the approval of her siblings.

'JAWS' - Dojopolis

~Damn, you guys are good at thinking up cool names, I'm still struggling to think of one for myself.~

'Jaws' didn't seem too concerned about the generators, but then again, he wasn't really concerned about anything that was going on. He considered himself and his siblings to be practically invincible, and was certain that by the time the generators were fully powered they'd all be back on the Parasitian Homeworld doing whatever the hell they wanted to do with the pitiful weaklings that inhabitted this world.

~My generator's fine too, you'd know that though 'Eyes' since you've been keeping watch for me, but I'll go keep a closer watch over it to make sure.~

He was a little disappointed that the brutal murder of the police officer who'd escaped him the other night would have to wait, but this was more important. Dropping down the nearest manhole to enter the Dojopolis sewers, 'Jaws' quickly returned to where his generator was hidden.

VANGOHMA - The Wilds

~It's got to be that idiot 'Liyao' then... Cut her out of the loop, the Frozen North is mostly abandoned anyway, and she deserves whatever she gets out there.~ Vangohma thought, extremely pissed off with the failure of the weakest link in their chain. He wouldn't have said that it was unexpected, but he'd hoped that she'd have sooner sacrificed her life than allow her generator to fall into enemy hands. ~I know that you wouldn't have betrayed our cause in making a faulty explosive switch in those generators Eyes, which is cause for concern as somebody out there has figured out how to get past that, but more importantly we need to eradicate the Drazilim concern...~

He decided that this was best left up to Wart, as she was already in the Desert and they wouldn't need to abandon their generators to go and do what she could easily achieve by herself. ~Alright then 'Yuquelle', go sort out the Drazilim, but whilst you do that make sure to find out where their generators are. And do it subtly.~

He continued, addressing all of his siblings now. ~We don't reply to them at all about their message, it's best to keep them on their toes. If they don't think that we've got the message and 'Yuquelle' here seems like nothing more than a random monster they'll end up doing something stupid.~

YUQUELLE ('WART') - Southern Desert

~Do not act like you are in charge 'Vangohma', I am capable of acting without your unnecessary advice.~ Yuquelle mentally scoffed, insulted that Vangohma felt that he needed to direct her. Though with her sibling's approval, it was okay for her to move out, which was what she'd desired in the first place. But before she could do that, she needed to make sure that nobody could tamper with her generator...

Several large pus-filled sores began to swell up rapidly on her back, showering the room in a thick goo as they burst. The goo seemed quite sticky and was giving off noxious fumes to boot - should anybody enter the room in an attempt to stop the generator, they'd be dead before they could even come close to reaching it. Yuquelle seemed unharmed by this process, as to her this kind of thing was as natural as breathing. The species that she'd devoured to gain this ability used such skills to build nests that were protected against unwanted intruders (and in this case it seemed to serve the same purpose).

Oozing her way out of the chamber, Yuquelle emerged to the surface of the Southern Desert. It was dry, hot and sandy up here, but nothing that she couldn't handle. She noticed a couple of 'Eyes'' mothen floating about above her for a few moments, before they began to drift away across the sand dunes. ~They're headed for the Drazilim lair sister, you can follow them to get there.~ Yuquelle nodded and slowly followed after the creatures, building up a steady supply of disease within her body as she moved to deal with the Drazilim the moment she arrived at their base.

[Shaon]

((NINJA BUMP))

Eldest switched directions, thanking her creators for making a youngest that can move in all directions with ease.

~Silk, damnit, I'm busy! One of your Youngests is being bold enough to try and kill me, so I don't have much time to spare.~

[3kul]

((Haaaa~ Two lines of bumping text doesn't really inspire me to jump back into this, especially when I've forgotten what exactly Silk was going to ask Scary to help her with

But like I said earlier, as long as somebody's interested I'm happy to keep posting, so here we go .

(Done in a new post since it more or less is one).))

SILK - Frozen North

~Hahaha, didn't I warn you about her? You can be pretty stupid sometimes Scary.~

As Silk was finishing this thought-sentance, a tremor suddenly rippled throughout the Frozen North as the Generator suddenly gulped up increasingly large amounts of thermal energy, sucking up the molten core of Blackstar like it was guzzling down it's last meal. Technically this was to be it's last meal here, a certainty that Silk was going to make possible.

The tremor would've been enough to make the small cavern holding the generator collapse, had it not been supported by a complex system of woven beams. The machine was steaming quite furiously, it was not designed to take in this much energy so quickly and was being pushed to the limits.

~Make sure that nobody tries to stop me Scary, I'll be sure to pick you up on my way out! <3~

The large generator burst out from the snowy cavern to the surface, it's darkish metal contrasted by the white arms and legs it had seemingly sprouted on it's own. To the casual observer, it would probably seem like the complex piece of warp technology had suddenly become sentient - as it began to glow red hot it could be heard squealing "hot, hot, hot!"

Silk wobbled towards where she believed Scary to be, hoping that the Para-Kumo would do as she asked for once. This generator was proving to be very difficult to carry like this.

((Feel free to try and stop Silk anybody who's in the Frozen North, though you'll probably want to be careful of the unstable warp portal .))

[Coolpikaaa]

Coolpikaaa had dragged himself back to the drazil base.Everything seemed to ache,and vision was mostly blurred shapes.The drazil at base seemed to be quite interesting in talking to a plant,and even in his weak state he was able to roll off a low comment to himself about the heat getting to their heads.

He had decided to rest under a large cactus,and was just about to fall asleep when he notice a figure far off,headed his direction.Tiredness clouded his brain and the only conclusion he could come up with was a camel.

"HEY CAMMELLL!"coolpikaaa shouted to the figure,sounding drunk."Cammmmaaallll!What you dooin`? looking for something to eat?Here...you can have this."Coolpikaaa continued as he reached for the nearest thing which resembled food,which just happened to be a rock.

"Heyy little camel buddy! Here ya go! Eat up!!"And with all his might he threw the rock at the "camel".

-coolpikaaa

[3kul]

((A bit of a large bump, as I'd like to see this RP finished up.

It won't take nearly as long as people think, as the Drazilim have already solved the problem of warp generators, so it's basically going to be combat from here on out.

If you haven't posted here before you may join in, but you're going to have to think of a good way to insert yourself into the story. Easiest way for you to get in would be to start in Dojopolis, say that you were hired to check out the sewers, as people have heard something big moving around there lately. Jaws is currently running around down there, and he's not the quietest Parasitian around, so we could arrange for him to be spotted by you

As a bit of an incentive, 10 posts will earn you a sweet medal *points to the volcano medal somewhere in his pile of medals*))

YUQUELLE - Southern Desert

The rock bounced off of the 'camel', which turned and glared at coolpikaaa. Yuquelle's beady eyes were red with anger, and she charged towards the impudent fool that had just tried to attack her. Sand sprayed up around her as she leapt over a dune, closing the distance between herself and coolpikaaa alarmingly fast.

"You shall not stand in our way!" She screamed, her mouth opening to reveal row after row of fangs dripping with a deadly assortment of venoms, she spat an highly corrosive acid towards the little yellow eyesore.

[TheBlackSoul]

((Alrighty then, let's see how I do with this...
Is it nighttime or daytime in Dojopolis?))

The back allies of Dojopolis were never his favorite place, and with all the strange tremors and such, Lunagon was more uncomfortable than ever. His only reason in this town was to see if he could get something to eat and perhaps buy a much-wanted bow.

But Fate had a way with pulling the half-vampire into things he didn't want to be a part of-he had made a wrong turn and found himself in these hellholes of the undercity.

To add even more to his anxiety, curiousity had dragged him to follow some loud noises that seemed to be coming from the sewers. One half of his mind was saying avoid the thing that is making them, the other half said follow the noises and perhaps become a hero if he was able to kill/destroy whatever it was that was making said noises.

He had gone with following the noises, and he doubted his own courage as he walked along the road, listening.

Then, one big question popped into Lunagon's head:

How the heck was he supposed to get down into the sewers and fight the thing? He had looked around as he followed, seeking a way in, but had failed to find one.

[3kul]

((Midday of the Second Day by my last post in which I announced the time, it'll probably change soon.))

As Lunagon was pondering this, he almost fell into a gaping hole in the pavement. Something had crashed right through here into the sewers, and the only thing stopping him from entering the cavernous hole was some flimsy 'caution' tape. It seems that all of the road workers are on their lunch break at the moment.

[TheBlackSoul]

Lunagon got very alarmed when he accidentily stepped onto a hole covered with caution tape. Apparently, whatever-was-down-there had entered the sewers via this hole. So therefore, that hole was where the half-vampire had to go into in order to find this thing.

He obviously wasn't going to get in with this caution tape in the way. To get past that minor obstacle, he drew his short, black, and very sharp sword, which he had named the Night Slasher, and easily sliced through the tape, revealing the entrance into the abyss.

You sure you still want to do this? asked a voice in his head. Lunagon shook it off, knowing it was his doubting side again. A few seconds later, he lept into the hole.

He landed with his free hand down, getting it covered in muck. Shaking it off with a look of disgust on his face, Lunagon made note of his surroundings.

First and foremost, the only light was coming in through the hole through which he had come in. The absence of light was of no issue to him, as his night vision was excellent.

The stench was more of a problem. Lunagon figured whatever was down here lacked a sense of smell.

Eager to get this over with as soon as possible, he walked in the direction the tunnel he had arrived in seemed to say.

[Coolpikaaa]

The camel suddenly charged coolpikaaa which quickly snapped him out of his clouded state.He rolled backward,carefull to dodge the spikes of the cactus,and watches as a weird pool of spit fizzed on the sand exactly where he had been laying.

He looked up from the sand and at the charging creature.He had never seen anything like it,the creature looked like it had just fallen out of a weird sci-fi movie.

Coolpikaaa jumped straight into the air and soared down at the monster,shooting spirals of electricity.He didn't think it would take it out,but maybe at least slow it down until he could think of a better plan.

-coolpikaaa

[EnDSchultz]

((I'm considering restarting our little quest in the Black Forest, I believe we'be just discovered a confused Addman stumbling out of the bushes. I also see you're playing a HUGE number of characters in many different threads, 3kul, and I'm not sure if we can get Addman back into this either.))

[3kul]

((That's something that I'm gradually working on EnD The Last Stand thread was the one hogging all of my attention lately and now I'm back to having just one character, which is a bit of a relief. I hate using so many characters so often, makes my RPing seem much cheaper than usual...

Well anyways, yes, we'd just rediscovered Addman, but the problem with our little group is that HollowEyes was talking to Kiri, and Panther isn't really able to participate on a very regular basis (if at all).

I'd either have to powerplay slightly or get DP's involvement, which I think might be necessary anyway as I can't think of many ways to get rid of the JoD Parasitians otherwise

CP & TBS, I'm going to have to ask you guys to sit tight for a little bit longer, as I think that I'd like to see if I can nut out a possible ending for this in the next day or so.))