Dealing with a Dragon - Oct. 10, 2005

[Fantus] " Do something about it" he said in a sly comical voice that echoed. " I have no time for you now, but remember this name,FANTUS!, for it shall come back to destroy you one day!", he echoed, and the wind was gone and peace seemed to enter nature and inhabitants of the forset, and he was gone.	.
SlitherLikaSneke pops out of his cave at the commotion. His cold aura is at mid-range. He listens on to see if it sparks into a fight. He would eat tonight. His diamond scales shine in the moonlight. His scepter is in his claw.	.
Nararma grunts. "Fantus... You shall one day pay for your crimes... Fate shall strike you..." the form of the spirit fades, and leaves naught but a mistlike form, resembling a cloaked figure.	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Anyone want to be eaten?)
.	[Nararma] (... that's like.. the stupidest question I've heard in a long time..)
Darius_Stryker returns from the direction he had escaped from previously after helping the others to safety. He is cautious as he approaches the scene of the battle once more, cloak up over his features, hand on the hilt of the sword unseen at his waist. Curiously, he hears nothing as he approaches. Could the intense conflict at last be ended?	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (I agree. It gets a response, though.)
Nararma heals the bleeding of the forest, every burned branch shrugging off the charred areas, and reforms back to what it was, and then some. The glade blooms...	.
SlitherLikaSneke stretches. He then crawls out of his cave. He hunches over and stomps around the forest. His wings are spread out to reveal the intimidating eye pattern upon them. The cold aura expands to 50 feet. It can be felt from that distance. Small snow clouds start to brew behind him. he walks along the forest, hunting for something to eat, his scepter being held in his right claw.	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Did that post sound noobish? I'm sorry, it's hard getting used to this place)
Darius_Stryker creeps up to the place where Nararma resides just in time to see the burnt wreckage and upturned earth from such great powers in action ... and then gasps as the area seems to heal all its wounds, burgeoning with life. His eyes roam the area, a smile of awe on his face, happy to see that no harm was done in the end.	.
.	Nararma couldn't oocly care about others.. just makes a final post, and then leaves. It's too late...
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Goodbye, then, and take care.))
Nararma lets itself drift with the wind... Through the forest, and over the lands.. to unknown destinations... Oocly waves a goodbye to people.	.
.	[Darius_Stryker whispers to SlitherLikaSneke] ((Your post seems fine to me.))
SlitherLikaSneke stops suddenly. He had seen the performance of the forest being healed. he was stunned. He expands his cold aura to 100 feet. it can be felt from there. The snow clouds start snowing behind him. The trees surrounding him freeze solid. He continues to stomp around the snow-laiden ground. He liked snow.	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke whispers to Darius_Stryker] I'm glad you think so.
Darius_Stryker is within sight range of the place where the battle had taken place, so his player guesses that he is now within the cold aura. Stryker shivers from a sudden cold, pulling his cloak tighter about himself. "Br-rr-rr ... what now? Since when does winter follow spring?" He looks around for the source of the cold, eyes catching a dragon's black scales sticking out amongst the increasing white of snow-laden ground and frosted trees. Darius watches for now.	.
SlitherLikaSneke stops and turns around to face Darius. He had heard his quivering voice. He stomps around so he faces him, and he exhales. The breath billows out of his mouth as it snows gently. His scepter glows a light blue.	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] ((You got it partially right... i have black-and-white scales)
TabulaRasa would not feel very chilled as he was walking around, smoking. Not a very smart thing, to be smoking with all this dry brush and wood around, but still, this blonde needs his nicotine. A long sleeve black shirt fits to his average sort of frame and sturdy shoulders, black pants, thick black boots that thud on the earth as he walks, and one black eye, even if the injury does not seem to bother him too much. The man with slightly droopy eyes inhales on the cigarrette and holds the smoke, catching sight of Darius. He blows the smoke in a thin, controlled stream at the man, forming a temporary grey cloud. Then, with a deep, slightly scratchy voice. "...What're you looking at?" Show him, he'll get a kick out of it, a dragon being there and all.	.
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Right. Darius didn't see the white ones, did he? ~_^))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (sigh)
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Post, darius.)
Darius_Stryker narrows his eyes at the draconic creature, the hand inside his cloak reaching for something. He notices the other man's approach, however, regarding him for a moment. Darius nods his head in the creature's direction. "Over there. Dragon."	.
SlitherLikaSneke is irritated at the figure in the distance. His eyes glow a light blue. He waves his scepter, and an ice beam is fired from it towards that figure. He would make a good meal.	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (2 lines... how's that for stooping to a new low?)
.	[TabulaRasa] [You shooting at him or me?]
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Darius)
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((How close is Tabula to Darius now?))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (But, you can jump in anytime.)
.	[TabulaRasa] [Probably a few feet.]
.	SlitherLikaSneke 's player sleeps at his computer.
.	[TabulaRasa] [So...my post?]
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (between you two)
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((I'm working on one now ...))
.	[TabulaRasa] [I'll wait then.]
.	SlitherLikaSneke 's character finishes a speech he had been working on this whole time.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] player, not character*
Darius_Stryker ducks and rolls sideways, coming to his feet in a crouch some few feet over from his initial position, away from Rasa. There is the brief sound of grating steel and a flash of light, and Darius's sword is suddenly gripped in both hands and held before him, eyes narrowed at the creature. "I fully agree," he says to nobody. "It's time we got out of these hellish woods."	.
TabulaRasa would inhale on the cigarrette again, though his eyebrows have arched up. "Shit, I think you pissed off the giant lizard." He comments idly, faintly surprised at the sudden hostility. Well, long as it isn't aimed at him. Tabs settles against a tree, flicking away the stub of his cigarrette to fiddle around for another one. Well, he might help Darius if it came to that, but he'll probably just watch and make unhelpful comments.	.
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((rolls eyes Gee, thanks ...))
.	[TabulaRasa] [Well, hey, I said I'd helped if your guy really, really needed it.]
.	[TabulaRasa] ^help
.	[Darius_Stryker whispers to TabulaRasa] ((chuckles No worries, I'm amused. The Keep really needs a secondary channel for all this, though.))
SlitherLikaSneke screeches into the night sky. The snow clouds start to swirl around him. He then charges toward Darius. His wings are spread out, with the shiny eye pattern. His claws were crackling with electricity. His footfalls tremor the ground as his horns start to crackle with electricity. He loweres his head and charges forward to darius	.
.	[TabulaRasa whispers to Darius_Stryker] [Probably...Bad luck on your character getting pegged by Sir Pissed-A-Lot here though. ]
Darius_Stryker grumps, watching as the dragon charges, staring at the patterns on the wings for a moment, realizing they almost look like a pair of eyes. He then blinks and snaps out of it, realizing the dragon is almost upon him. Not enough time to break the dragon's charge, he simply leaps into it with a forward diagonal slash, meeting the dragon head-on with his own offensive.	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Another nobish post. God, i suck.)
.	[TabulaRasa whispers to Darius_Stryker] [Hmm..Just lemme know when you'd like me to jump in or something, even if Tabs here doesn't do much besides smoke.]
.	[Darius_Stryker whispers to TabulaRasa] ((Sir pissed-a-lot? Something I don't know going on? .... nah, don't tell me. I don't wanna know. I'll just consider this one practice.))
.	[Darius_Stryker whispers to TabulaRasa] ((And ... we'll see. shrugs))
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Easy, Slither. You're doing fine.))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (I like this one.)
.	SlitherLikaSneke )
TabulaRasa places another cigarette between his lips, taking out his plain lighter and flicking at it a few times before it produces a small flame to light the cancer stick with. Then, perhaps unhelpfully, but surely in the best interests of Darius, he flicks a bit of red ash at the dragon. The ash probably won't even make it, but eh.	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Now, if only darius could post...)
Jezzarine could hear, not far from her, the horrible shrieks of some terrible animal. She swallows and sighs. God forbid she just had to take a walk in the middle of the night through some damn forest she's never been to. Well what forest has she ever been to twice >.< ? She comes out in a bit of a clearing she supposes, almost right beside the man leaning up against the tree smoking a cigarette. Those emerald eyes widen as she takes in the dragon and the man fighting before them. "God forbid I do pick the perfect nights for moonlight strolls," she mutters to herself raising up a slender hand to push back through her dark hair. The moonlight would glimme for a moment on her pale, slender hand and the dark, black, swirling writing marring that porcelin skin. But the hand is gone in an instant, back into the pockets of her jacket.	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (It's not that bad, Jezz... it could be cataclysmic.)
.	[TabulaRasa] [Well, to defend her point, it's not everyday you see a big dragon trying to squash some guy right in front of you.]
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Fine by you.)
.	[Jezzarine] there's some guy trying to fight of a dragon with a sword an she doesn't know how powerful he is or what not she just knows dragon lol ^_^))
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Your post, Slither.))
.	[Jezzarine] thanks Tabula, like i said, she knows she'd prolly get her butt kicked bad by that dragon))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] I... am very powerful. In my opinion.)
TabulaRasa would take it upon himself to inform Jezz of what was going on. He turns to the girl, staring at her with droopy eyes...and then blows a birt of smoke in her face. "Pissed off dragon." He says in a sagely manner. "Tryin' to squash that guy. Kind of sad." He bobs his head a bit, inhaling more of the cancerous smoke. Either he's very rude or he just really doesn't give a damn about manners.	.
SlitherLikaSneke shreiks in pain as the ash burns through his diamond armor easily. Yikes, that's hot! He squeals and flails about, running frantically. He throws a steel boulder generated by his scepter at the ashy pewrson. He then growls at Darius as the acid he sprayed earlier lands on him.	.
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((..... acid? Did I miss a post or something?))
.	[TabulaRasa] [Yeah, confused about that, too...]
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] Yes, you did. I sprayed acid at you. Take this time to scroll up.)
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((I did. I have no such post.))
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((repost?))
.	[TabulaRasa] [Neither do I, man.]
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] You've yet to react to my post of the acid-spraying
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] I'll repost)
.	[Jezzarine] there is no post of acid spraying on my screen))
SlitherLikaSneke roars in annoyance and pain. A slash mark was upon his cranium. Out of rage, he rolls and sprays acid from his fangs at Darius. This is a REPOST.	.
TabulaRasa seems to have fairly good reflexes. The boulder would be ducked...by him sliding down the length of the tree while the rest of the trunk, and what would have been his torso, snaps off and crashes to the forest floor. The blonde man continues to smoke, with new appreciation for his cancer sticks. Total damage from that ash? Trippy.	.
.	[TabulaRasa] [Posted because I have to brb. So, brb.]
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Remember? after you countered my charge attack with that slashy thing? i sprayed then.)
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Never got that post, but no matter. I'll continue.))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] you hit his skull with that forward diagonal slash. It was then my post. I sprayed acid onto you. You've yet to react.)
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (So much confusion over one post!)
Darius_Stryker is amazed he managed to break up the dragon's charge with the attack. "You think this is bad?" He lands on his feet just as a gout of acid sprays in his direction. He counters in the only way he can think to, sliding his sword across the space before him and making a focussed hand motion. "Aqua puritas!" he shouts, sending forth a large burst of water that collides with the acid en route. The attack is neutralized, Darius standing ready for the next assault. "You should have seen the one before!"
Jezzarine with a little shriek she dashes out of the way of the toppling upper half of the tree as she glares a bit at the man with those bright green eyes. With a rather annoyed sigh she reaches out to the man, takes the ciggarette from his hand, takes a drag, and holds it back out to him as she exhales a little. Why the sudden lack of tact on her own part? She's had a really wierd week. Wierder than usual. She watches the fighting commence before her as she awaits the man to take his ciggarette back.	.
.	[Jezzarine] my posts are just lame as of yet -.-, they'll get better mayhaps__
.	[Jezzarine] ))**
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((To be fair, some of that acid/water mixture probably splashed Darius a little, so he's a touch damp now.))
.	[Jezzarine] wb))
SlitherLikaSneke wails. He points a finger to a tree. He gazes into Darius's eyes with his own light blue eyes. His shiny eye-pattern wings also shine at him. The tree disroots itself as it floats in midair. He then points at Darius. The tree then propells towards darius and the two others.	.
.	[TabulaRasa] [Thanks]
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((wibs))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (I don't like smoking... there are cooler ways to die)
.	[Jezzarine] and this is why we rp, to discover every single one of those ways((
.	[Jezzarine] ))*
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((You mean like at the claws of a rampaging dragon?))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] Yep!)
.	[TabulaRasa] [I dunno, I'll take cancer.]
TabulaRasa would seem surprised as his beloved cig was stolen from him. Then he'd take it back quickly....but end up grinning at her, lopsidedly. "Oh, look, tree." He points out, springing from the ground to tackle Jezz to the side...probably sending them both down hard and partly out of the way of the flying tree. Poor Tabs might get clipped in the leg or get his head smacked on the ground, but...well, the real injury is losing the cigarrette. Hm. He's not sure if his shoulder is dislocated or not right now. Kinda hurts.	.
Darius_Stryker whirls his blade before him twice, then thrusts it into the ground before him with both hands. "Earth surge!" The ground tremors, and three columns of stone burst forth from the ground around Darius. One of those columns just happens to intercept the telekinetically hurled tree, breaking the column in half but shrugging the tree aside as well. Darius stands at the center of the two and a half stone columns, glaring back at the dragon. "Give it up, creature, for you face one who has mastery of all the elements."	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (The tree is rolling towards all of you... i'd imagine you'd step out of the way)
.	[Jezzarine] i was hopin to die in some vallant battle in the arms of my lover, my last words being some dramatic "i love you more than life" but i'm sure that's just a girl thing lol ^_^))
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Nope, no tree. Read post.))
.	[TabulaRasa] [Instead you might get to die with a chain smoker pinning you down and offering you a cigarrette while trees are hurled around. Now -that- says romance.]
.	[TabulaRasa] [Well, minus the flying tree part. I still tackle her....yeah. For the sake of tackling someone.]
.	Darius_Stryker 's player is all laughs and grins.
.	[Jezzarine] i'll work with it))
SlitherLikaSneke stares down Darius. He then waves scepter into the air. He then hisses, "Is Bets Yous didn'ts knows abouts thiss.. dragonforcesss..." He then waves his scepter. A fireball in the shape of a dragon's head is shot fron the scepter. Unlike normal fire, this fire was grey and green, and could not be put out with water. In fact. he didn't know if it could be put out at all.	.
Jezzarine another shriek as she's tackled and blinks up at the man. His ciggarette is lost in the fray of him tackling her. She looks around and sees... no tree. She raises an eyebrow up at him. "Nice to meet you," she says with a bit of strain in her voice since he is laying on top of her. Perhaps her can see now, this close, peeking around the sides of her neck, that same strange tattooed writing, black against her pale skin. "I think the first falling tree's made you a little paranoid, hun."	.
TabulaRasa wouldn't get off her. Why? Because he's just like any other man and damn if he's going to pass up the feeling of a woman beneath hin. This is quickly overshadowed by his need for another cancer stick. He nods a bit at her, casually. "Yeah, flying trees sometimes do that to me. Cigarrette?" He offers her one from his nearly empty pack, rolling off of her and to the side.	.
.	SlitherLikaSneke oocly reminds everyone that the cold aura is still in effect.
.	[TabulaRasa] [Just another reason to smoke, really. ]
.	[Jezzarine] hunny you're being way too technical, loosen up))
.	[Jezzarine] you're taking all the fun out of it))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Me?)
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Oh, dear.)
.	[Jezzarine] pets* no worries, just have fun))
.	SlitherLikaSneke 's player shudders.
Darius_Stryker has no idea what the blast of flame is, but it doesn't look good. He sidesteps behind another of the remaining pillars of stone, using it for cover while he musters a bit of his own magical forces. The flame blast would probably either strike the stone column or dissipate on the ground harmlessly. Meanwhile, Stryker folds his arms about his chest, sword pointing up, and focusses. "Cloak of Flame!" he shouts, and suddenly he bursts into flame, surrounding by red hot waves of heat, churning fire wrapped all about his body and sword as the dragonflames dissipate around him. "It can speak," he grumbles. "Wwwwwwwonderful."	.
[Darius_Stryker] **surrounded by
Jezzarine raises an eyebrow up at him as he doesn't immediately get off her. There is still a man and a dragon fighting to the death not but several feet from them. She's quite sure the ground is not a safe place to be. "No thank you," she replies as he finally rolls off her, allowing her to sit up. "One puff's enough for me," she runs her fingers through her hair again. "And what did you say your name was before you decided to feel me up?"	.
TabulaRasa sticks another cigarrette in his mouth, sighing as he gets to his feet and shakes the empty packet. Goddammit. Now he has to go find a new pack to get him through the evening and the next morning. Taking up his lighter again and a safer position behind another tree, he'll answer her. "Tabs." He lights the stick and inhales deeply, exhaling a stream a second later. He shows no shame for copping a feel. Nor does he seem all too bothered by the fight, even if it's sort of cold. He's contemplating helping Darius, if only to deaden the noise of dragon in the air.	.
SlitherLikaSneke prepares his best attack yet. Strangely enough, it doesn't involve his scepter. He intensifies his cold aura to maximum intensity. The snow clouyds around him were now snowing heavily. He then spreads his arms apart. "Says yours lasts wordss, enemys..." He then claps his mighty claws. The winds intensify around him. All of the snow starts whipping around at razor-fast speed. The coldness, along with the swirling snow, was just the beginning. He then swings his scepter twice. Two steel boulders propel at Darius at the same speed as the snow. It was a blizzard rock slide. Man, SLS's player is creative.	.
.	[TabulaRasa] [And there goes his last cigarrette...Poor Tabs.]
.	SlitherLikaSneke 's player think's that is his longest post yet.
Darius_Stryker is starting to look a little worn down from all of this magical exertion. He's not out of steam yet, though, even as the snowy ground thaws around his now flaming feet. The flying snow doesn't seem to bother or harm him, thawing at his flaming aura before ever hitting him. He peeks out around the stone column just in time to see two boulders flying at him. Metal. He urks, rolling out of the way as one boulder smashes through the column, sending earthen debris flying everywhere. Not enough momentum to dodge the other, though, as it clips his ankle trying to stand up. There's a nasty sounding snap and a cry of pain as Darius is spun around, flying back and landing on the ground in a heap some few feet back, sword still in hand and still wreathed in flame. "Owwww ...."	.
Darius_Stryker probably landed back near TabulaRasa and the girl, come to think of it. Spraying earth out of his mouth, he looks to the pair. "Some help might actually be appreciated, you know," he tells them testily.	.
Jezzarine follows him to the safety of that tree, sitting beside him as she looks over her shoulder at the proceeding fight. "Jezzy," she replies absently. "Should we help him? The man?" she asks quietly. She knaws at her lip softly, those bright eyes growing with a concern a little.	.
.	[Jezzarine] ok hold on, i'll add to my post))
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Nah, just move mine after yours.))
Jezzarine and about that time the man lands mere feet from them. She blinks and winces, wilting a bit at his words but waiting for Tabs to answer him.	.
.	[Jezzarine] well too late lol ^_^))
SlitherLikaSneke , taking advantage of the fallen man, disguises himself in the cloak of the blizzard. He then reappears next to darius's leg. He holds his tail around his neck as he hurls him across the forest with the sole power of his tail.	.
.	[TabulaRasa] [Hey, man...lemme post. And that's auto-hiting.]
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Whoa there, Slither ... no autos.))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (oops. Is that an auto hit? Crap. Well, let's erase that little ditty.
.	[Jezzarine] this is why i rarely get involved in fights -.-))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] )
.	[Jezzarine] so technical))
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((They don't have to be. They just tend to be, for some reason. I try to at least put on a good show while I do it.))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Makes the post, tabby.)
TabulaRasa shives just slightly when it gets colder and snow starts to fall. He'd look at the sky before glancing back down to see Darius near his feet. He arches both brows down at the man and shrugs a shoulder. "Sure, man. But I don't know if it will help much." His cigarrette is passed towards Jezz, for her to hold for him. Then, from the back of his pants he draws out an....well, to be frank, an impressive looking gun. You know what they say about the size of a man's gun...Anyways, Tabs, having not really changed expression, aims the gun with both hands for a moment. Waiting, waiting...Then when he thinks he has a fairly decent shot, he squeezes the trigger. A couple of bullets should be flying directly for Slither's eyes...well, that's if he doesn't pull a Matrix sort of move, the bullets are bound to hit the dragon somewhere, if not the eyes.	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (not being demanding, but im eager for my next move.)
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((looks like its your go now.))
SlitherLikaSneke doesn't see the bullets coming. He does react, but poorly. The metal bullets chips off parts of his diamond-encrusted neck. He wails more. Then, he disappears into the intense blizzard. He then emerges standing over Darius, claws extended. He swings his claws at his jugular vein.	.
.	[TabulaRasa] [Oh, ouch...]
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (My character doesn't like neck hits... that'll leave a mark.)
.	[TabulaRasa] [Meant for Darius's jugular, actually.]
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] ()Yeah, it is.)
Darius_Stryker meets those claws with his still-flaming sword, parrying the blow most efficiently, even if he slides back a bit from the force of the impact. Those flames are hot as well, so that's gotta burn them claws. "Back, foul monster!" he shouts, coiling his legs up in preparation for something.	.
Jezzarine takes the ciggarette and her eyes widen as he pulls the gun from his pants. She has no problem being the helpless damnsel here. There's a reason the helpless damsel never dies. She closes her eyes and tries to block out the sound of the gunshots, but she still hears the dragon's shrieks. And then it emerges from the snow right before them. She stands slowly, flicking the ashes from Tab's ciggarette. She hopes he'll understand if she has to throw it down. Of course she'll prolly be running before she'll be fighting and then she'll prolly take the ciggarette with her.	.
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((chuckles Back, dragon! You'll never take our cigarettes alive!))
.	[TabulaRasa] [My..last...cig...Agh, lemme post.]
TabulaRasa would blink a bit as the bullets just chipped the dragon. "Well, damn...lets try something else." He plucks the cigarrette from Jezz's hands and just when Darius raises the sword to block and the dragon is bearing down, Tabs flicks the cigarrette with fairly good aim at the dragon's eyes. Come on, let's try the eye thing again. It's clear to see how upset he is now, as if he'd just lost a child.	.
SlitherLikaSneke breathes onto Darius's sword. The fire on it goes out. He then takes a couple of steps back. Another wave of the septer brings another wave of metal boulders. He follows up the boulders with a lightning wave. He notices the ashes again. The ash is taken out by the snow. Tsk, tsk.	.
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Did I hit, or what?))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] Holy, crap, i posted three times
SlitherLikaSneke adds that the blade has burned his right claw.	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Sorry for that tri-post..my comp is mentally ill.)
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((didn't get one. my post is coming ...))
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((only got one post, I mean.))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] kk
Jezzarine and with that the ciggarette is gone and she's noting the very pissed off look of Tabs. She blinks a little, and decides it's safer on the other side of the tree. How pathetic is she? Well gentlemen she said she was pretty not brave.	.
.	[Jezzarine] stupid post -.-, i feel so useless))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Then, you should change your character, huh?)
.	[Jezzarine] nah, my char isn't useless at all she's just smart))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (:
.	[Jezzarine] she doesn't want to risk dying so she'll let the men handle it for now))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (My char ain't so fluent when it comes to thinking.)
Darius_Stryker 's sword stops flaming for a moment. He kicks up to his feet, wincing as he lands; the magic of the spell renews itself. The blade is flaming once more. As the dragon swings that sceptre again, Stryker swings his sword right for the sceptre, trying to knock it from the dragon's hands before ANY of those other magics go off, because that's an awful lot to do in a single post. "That's about enough!" Darius is now toe-to-toe with the beast.	.
SlitherLikaSneke has his scepter knocked out of his hands. But he made an unwise decision to get so close to him. He whips his tail at him with lightning speed.	.
TabulaRasa really can't do more than shoot the thing. He looks at Jezz, almost sulkily. "I'm out of smokes, do you have one?" He asks her sullenly, still holding the gun, but now backing up and out of the way of the dragon's wrath. He has no wish to die this way. He'd rather die by cancer. Though, he is occasionally popping a shot off at the dragon, when he thinks he can. Like at the dragon's mouth. Knowing Tabs, he'll find those diamond chips later and sell them.	.
Darius_Stryker succeeds in disrupting the magics, then ... but that tail hits him hard right in the ribs, sending him flying back head over heels. And now the creature's tail is burned from Darius's cloak of flames as well. Thank the gods for chainmail vests, at least. He lands in the snow, tumbling over his shoulder and sliding for a short distance. After he lands, it's all he can do to get himself up to a kneeling position, propping himself up on his sword weakly, breathing labored.	.
[Darius_Stryker] "Get ... the sceptre ..." he says weakly to the others.	.
.	[Jezzarine] gimme a bit all i'm posting))
.	[TabulaRasa] [Jezz....We're pretty sucky allies.]
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (can i retrieve it before them)
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (?)
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((It's the thought that counts? big smiles))
.	[Jezzarine] i'm about to change that))
.	[Jezzarine] it's my post, so wait))
.	[TabulaRasa] [Yeah, I will totally drag your ass out of here in the spirit of unity and friendship and fearedness of great big lizards.]
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Darius is so buying Rasa a pack of cigs if we get out of this alive ...))
Jezzarine shakes her head at the retreating Tabs. "Sorry," she replies. She could end this she thinks. She's strong enough maybe... That's right, maybe. What if she isn't? Then what? She just dies? But she's swiftly growing annoyed with all this and she decides to risk it. Stepping out from behind the tree, that ancient language pours from hers lips. Perhaps the same that is written upon her flesh? She slides that jacket off, revealing the tanktop underneath and the writing swirling down the back of her arms and so on. And it's glowing. First gold, then yellow, then white as if they're getting hot. Indeed steam begins to raise off her skin as the snow lands on it. Her hair raises as if from electricity. Holding her arms out from her sides, darkness seems to gather around her, shadows congregated at her whim as those ancient words pour from her. And then her hands move toward the dragon, and all that darkness, all that shadows, go forth to wrap around it. A ball, a suffocating, horrible ball of darkness.	.
.	[Jezzarine] there we go))
.	[TabulaRasa] [Wow...it's like the ultimate, evil dust bunny.]
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Can Sneke see through that darkness?))
.	[Jezzarine] oh so much worse))
.	[Jezzarine] no one can see through it but her))
.	[TabulaRasa] [Ultimate evil dust bunny with a giant evil sheet?]
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((That combined with the snowstorm, and vision is going to be impossible ...))
.	[Jezzarine] that dark is only around the dragon))
.	[Darius_Stryker whispers to Jezzarine] ((Good move. Someone's not as harmless as she appears. grin))
.	[TabulaRasa] [Would have been sort of funny if we all were blinded. "trip Agh--!" "Groan My chest..." "Shit, sorry man...Lemme get that--" "--MY EYE--!" ]
SlitherLikaSneke yelps. A nice void-like sphere was coming towards him. He is engulfed in the darkness, but his eyes and his wings glow. Remember, the smallest light penetrates the greatest darkness. The ball disappears as he looks at it with his shiny eyes. Although he is shaken up quite a bit from the attack. He then rolls and picks up his scepter. he then swirls around, and a black ball is shot from his scepter at Jezzarine and Darius. Before he fires the balls he says "JUXTAPOSE!"	.
.	[Darius_Stryker whispers to SlitherLikaSneke] ((However this resolves, I want you to know that I thoroughly enjoyed this battle. Good fight. nods))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke whispers to Darius_Stryker] Thanks. But my character will most likely eat you.
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Rasa's turn, then mine looks like.))
.	[Jezzarine whispers to Darius_Stryker] lets keep that to ourselves shall we? lol ^_^))
.	SlitherLikaSneke oocly agrees.
.	[Darius_Stryker whispers to Jezzarine] ((Of course. On my honor as a swordsman.))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (laughs at Tabs's hilarious comment on blindness)
TabulaRasa would be blinking at Jezz in slight surprise. Wow....go, Jezzy, go. He stuffs the gun into the waistband of his pants and grabs Darius, just perhaps a tad roughly, to start dragging him quickly, half carrying him, out of the way of the sceptre's dark ball thingy of doom. "You just had to piss off the lizard, didn't ya?" He mutters a bit, blonde hair getting into his eyes. Now that they're fairly out of sight, he'd throw his voice and go: "MARCO!!" His lame attempt at diversion. That and his throwing of a pinecone.	.
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Uhh, Tabs? Darius is burning.))
.	[TabulaRasa] [Eh? Really? Even with all the snow? Well. I'm now flame retardant. shrug ]
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (I enjoy stuff like this)
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((blinks .... just like that? ...... 'kay. Sudden, but your call.))
.	[TabulaRasa] [Pssh, it's late, man...cut me some slack.]
.	[Jezzarine] once again, wait for my big long post))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Although it is a bit uneven, being it a 3-on-1 fight, but nonetheless, fun.)
.	[Jezzarine] i swear to god imma kick your ass lizard))
.	[Jezzarine] accept the fate ahead of time so it won't be a shock))
.	[Jezzarine] sorry lol ^_^))
.	[TabulaRasa] [How about this, clothes are flame retardant.]
Darius_Stryker was raising his sword, about to plunge it into the ground for one final attack when he is instead scooped up by the figure in black and carried away. "No! The girl! Unnh ..." He is thrown back onto the ground semi-roughly, propped up on his hand and sword and trying to rethink things. Tactical retreat is sounding fairly decent about now.	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Great. Now i feel like i'm gonna be really killed. That's refreshing.)
Jezzarine still those markings glow upon, still the steam raising off her skin. She holds a hand up and the darkness halts before her. "Stupid beast," her voice is different, not her own. It's laced with ancient power, dark and strange. "You don't fight darkness with darkness," and that ball flies back at him. Engulfing him once more. She raises her hands up, fingers cuved as if holding a ball, and slowly they draw together, squeezing down. The darkness would grow small, the pressure within the sphere of shadow and darkness building, pushing down on the beast. And it's thicker. With each word emitted from her lips it grows darker. The shadows hiss around them and within the ball. Protesting? No... no it is as if they're rejoicing... rejoicing that they could please their wielder in such a dark deed. Surely the pressure is great enough to smash boulders and rocks. Bones would snap like twigs. Her eyes are glowing now, and awful green, her hair wild as it flies around her.	.
.	[Jezzarine] eh, she won't kill you))
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Jezz, you're scaring me ... 0.0))
.	[TabulaRasa] [I'm with him on that one. Jesus--thank god you didn't pull that stuff on Tabs when he felt you up.]
TabulaRasa would keep Darius back when he tried to get up. "Man, I think she can handle herself." He comments dryly, voice just a bit snappy. He's going through withdrawal, dammit, he needs nicotine. "Now would be a good time to leave, bud. What do you say?" He purses his lips slightly, droopy eyes fixed on Darius.	.
.	[Jezzarine] it's supposed to scare you, just remember that it scares her too))
SlitherLikaSneke 's black ball that he had sent out is not consistent of darkness. Instead, it absorbs the attack made, then mirrors it to the attacker. Thus, that bone-crushy thing is reflected upon Jezzarine. All that smoky stuff, all that bone-crushing, was lain upon Jezzarine. The black ball would rotate around me. Now, he fixes his palm onto Jezz's mind. He battles her mind with his psychic skills. He would take over Jezz's mind and then knock her out of the way if he gained mind control.	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (I just said the ball was black)
.	[Jezzarine] black means darkness hun -.-))
.	[Jezzarine] unless you say black velvet or black fluffy bunnies, it means darkness))
.	[TabulaRasa] [It also slims the figure.]
.	[Jezzarine] am i right?))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (No, it's a color. I have black scales, and i don't use one bit of darkness.)
.	[Jezzarine] that it does))
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((If it's a mirror attack, then it would reflect the same darkness she created back at her, right? And she can control darkness, so it's reasonable that she could send it back at you. Sounds like a tug-of-war match that'll just become an "I'm stronger than you" match. I suggest finding other means to resolve the attack.))
.	[Jezzarine] if black is a ball then it must be of darkness unless you specify what other material it might be made of))
.	[Jezzarine] -.-))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] What i unleashed is a curse. It's not related to darkness, if i remember correctly. It is the material of Juxtapose. It just happens to be black.)
.	[Jezzarine] she controls darkness, she'd win, but still that stupid...))
.	[Jezzarine] 0.o... this is why i don't fight))
.	[TabulaRasa] [Same here..]
.	[Jezzarine] great, now someone will have to come back an rescue me -.-))
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Sounds to me like the attack will just be negated. And it's MY post ...))
.	SlitherLikaSneke 's player scratches his head.
.	[Jezzarine] so it's juxtapose, which isn't darkness it's just evil, which i don't see a difference between darkness and evil but ok))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (I'm conbaffled right now.)
.	[Jezzarine] so post Darius))
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (If you dare...)
Darius_Stryker would push the man away and get up to his knees, struggling to get air back into his lungs and still leaning on his sword. "I'm ... not ... out of ... tricks yet ..." he says, gaze fierce as he holds his sword in one hand over his shoulder, his other hand palm flat before him. Darius swings the blade laterally with as much force as he can muster. "Sonic blade!" he cries, sending a thin cyclone of cutting energy right towards something they probably both forgot. The last stone pillar. The energy cuts clean through it at just the right angle, causing the pillar to topple slowly, falling in the dragon's direction. Not enough to squish the dragon through all that armor, but it's not gonna feel too good either ...	.
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((And since dragon boy's currently concentrating on breaking into someone's mind, I doubt he'll see it coming ...))
Sed slings his knapsack over his shoulder nonchalantly, scratching the side of his bite-smitten neck with his free paw. Ah, what a long day of travel had it been; the cool, night air was a cool welcome to the heated journey of the day. Perhaps here the tanuki could rest for a moment, just against a tree. There's never much need for shelter on a night like this. And so with a final sighing glance to the autumn's moon, he finds himself a favored tree and sits, placing his knapsack between his legs and folding his arms behind his head.	.
SlitherLikaSneke yelps. He was engulfed in stone. He does claw himself out, although that does mess up his stride. He brushes off his wings. Then he stomps behind the boulders. He freezes the fallen stone with his scepter's ice beam, and he lifts them in the air using his mind. He then hurls the entire slew at the attacker. He quits the mind thing. There were more important objectives.	.
TabulaRasa would growl moodily at Darius. "I've seen roadkill that looks better than you right now. Shit.." He'd lift his own gun, checking how much ammunition he had left. A few more clips in his pants and a few bullets left in the gun at the moment. Meh, might as well. He sqares his feet and lifts the gun, squinting to find a shot. Once he does, he fires them off. He's hoping to hit for the neck or head again. The gun would click empty when he uses them up. The clip drops to the floor with a thud and he reloads, wondering why in the hells he'd gotten himself involved in this. He needs some coffee, some smokes, and preferrably some pretty girls having a pillow fight in lingerie in front of him.	.
Darius_Stryker says heck with that ... while Slither is digging himself out of the rubble, he's running away as fast as he can limp.	.
[Darius_Stryker] "Now would be a VERY good time to leave!"	.
.	[Jezzarine] wait for me!))
Adam pads along quietly, huddled under a cloak to keep the chill off his still forming winter coat of fur... it gives him a bit of a ragged look, as he's shedding... but its normal enough. He draws a soft breath, scuffing the ground with one bare paw.	.
.	[Jezzarine] an you might get that pillow fight Tabs))
SlitherLikaSneke is taken aback by the bullets. He rubs his head as one hits one of his teeth. (I had to do that post... please continue, Jezz.)	.
.	[TabulaRasa] [Sweet.]
TabulaRasa would also start to run then...even if he's not as fast as he was, say, ten years ago, pre-smoker's lung. He does manage to keep up fairly well though, sticking the gun down the back of his pants again. What fun this had been, time for that coffee. Oh, right...the girl. He hopes she'll catch up, but he's not going to play hero and go after her.	.
Jezzarine was released just in time from the dragon's attack as Darius attacked. The ball of whatever dispersed quickly and she lay gasping on the forest floor, all but exhausted. No more glowing, no more chanting... She manages to crawl to a tree and pull herself up, in which she takes off at a rather pitiful speed into the forest. Neither men seemed to have gotten very far she finds as she catches up with them, shivvering in the snow since she's left her jacket behind. "Can... we... pls... go now?" she pants and chatters at the same time.	.
SlitherLikaSneke cackles. "Leave... Leave, and never come again! Shahahahahahahaaa!" He pounds his feet onto the ground.	.
.	[TabulaRasa] [...What the hell? snickers ]
Sed takes in a biting breath of caustic cold air; he likes it crsip that way. With a decisive thinking gesture, he rummages through his sack, giving himself a show by making the search of the nigh-empty as complicated and exaggerated as possible.	.
SlitherLikaSneke ,being satisfied, returns to the safety of his cave. Remember those diamond chiponngs? Now would be a good time to collect a couple.	.
[SlitherLikaSneke] chippings*	.
.	[Sed] (nigh-empty bag*)
Darius_Stryker is short of breath and can't put weight on his right foot without extreme pain. He's plenty easy to keep up with at present. "You two alright?" he asks, wincing. He sheathes the sword and dispels the aura of flames, hugging his middle with one arm.	.
.	[SlitherLikaSneke] (Have a good night... you may roam through the forest freely... if you can stand the blizzard, that is. Bye.)
TabulaRasa would have snitched a few diamonds somehow...which also go down his pants. He's also out of breath...but, hey, he's a smoker. "I. Need. Cigarrettes!" He grates out, nearly twitching with the need.	.
.	[Sed] (blizzard?)
.	[Sed] (darn you asll... I missed that... I prefer to ignore it, if that's alright ^^))
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((Read Slither's profile, Sed. It's a cold aura that surrounds him. Can't be everywhere at once.))
.	[Sed] (all*)
.	[Jezzarine] sorry guys, gotta go, may jump back on later))
[Darius_Stryker] "If we get out of here alive, I'll buy you some more of your precious ciggarettes ... two, in fact." He manages a smile at the two. "Thank you for your help."	.
Sed gives a victorious, "a-HA!" toppling from his knapsack, head devoid of his baseball cap and paws full with the neck of a kolo. From a distance, it would look as if he just pulled a banjo out of a small purse. Setting it in his lap, he reaches back in for his baseball cap, instead pulling out a black beanie, slit for his tanuki ears, and slipping it easily over his head. He is a rather animated character, sitting all by himself and having himself a ball.	.
.	[Darius_Stryker] ((I'll be out soon as well. Thanks and good night!))
Adam continues to pad along... until he gets within sight of Sed. His eyes light up... and be makes a dash for the rummaging tanuki. "Take!!"	.
TabulaRasa scowls just slightly, mainly at the situation than at Darius. "Name's Tabs. And I'm holding you to those smokes." He'd probably get Darius's name then...and exclaim under his breath, sulkingly. "Screw this shit, I'm going home."	.
.	[TabulaRasa] [I gotta go, too. Later, man.]
[Darius_Stryker] "I need a healer. Call me Stryker."	.
TabulaRasa swaggers off then, boots thunking, and a stream of soft curses following him.	.
Darius_Stryker nods to Tabs, wishes him well, and limps his way out of the forest in search of healing, holding his ribs. A few steps out, he whips his head angrily down and to one side. "What?! No way could I have taken on that thing solo! You're out of your titanium mind!" A few seconds later, Stryker just grumbles, waving his hand and wincing, limping out of the woods. "Never ever coming here again." He's gone.	.

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