TFF: Halloween World

[GhostElder]

:Yeah... I was human this morning.:

He blinked, he should probably be feeling more shock or rage for the killing of eyes and teeth guy, instead he was just sort of numb.

:He... was friendly, his body language read that way anyhow. I'm also exhausted and in shock I think.:

It was only now however that he was noticing the other people that had come around. A moment or two of staring and absently taking down one of the remaining zombies that tried to attack him, he was trying to shake himself to alertness again. Part of him just wanted to withdraw from the world, he shoved past the desire to just collapse where he was and stare.

 

[shibosho]

Oh god, why does it hurt so FUCKING MUCH! It didn't hurt this much when I had my head blown off with a shotgun so why does a fist of what is essentially a space-age paladin hurt so FUCKING MUCH! fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck......FUCK!

Ignoring the pain, I got back on my feet while rapidly regenerating my mangled upper body. I would probably be very hungry afterwards but I needed to knock some sense into this space marine.

Fortunately for me, the terminator had fallen down a hole that had appeared out of no where. The guy in the silly hat tipped his hat off to me and went out of sight. Almost immediately after the guy had disappeared, the marine jumped out of the hole.

It was now or never. I forced my body to bring out as many tendrils as it could and wrapped them around the marine.

Or at least I tried to.

At first the tendrils managed to grab hold of his upper body. However when they got close to the powerfists, I immediately realised I was screwed. The tendrils didn't even make direct contact when they exploded. It didn't hurt as much as being force-fed a powerfist, but still enough to make me go,

"AAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!"

I collapsed on the ground, my body now feeling tired, hungry, and full of pain. The space marine was not amused judging from his body language. There was only one thing I could think of that might help me in this situation.

"Parley?"

 

[Aarik]

This was REALLY starting to piss Me off, Fuck whatever had happened to hell, this was bullshit, WHY DID EVERYTHING ATTACK ME DAMN IT! AND WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH AUTO ATTACKING STUFF!? I didn't even notice myself twitch and the guy had been blown to hell, plus he was apparently an ally, if an ugly as fuck one, then some other FUCKWAD decided to play hide and go FUCK YOU! and drop me down a damn hole, then the thing sprouts even more freaking tentacles and tries to get grabby, which completely ignores the fact it should be dead but who cares right, so I respond in the truly sadistic manner that only being really pissed off brings.

I just switched my power fists on, he wrapped around them...

"AAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!"

There we go, that's a little better, now for more important things, like finding some-

"Parley?"

... Okay what does tha- oh wait Pirates of the Caribbean, it means 'I give up' or something like that.

"Surrender Accepted, not necessary, but accepted, now if you will excuse me I need to find something to take some frustration out on... Do you know where any more zombie's are?... And I apologize for the 'liquefying you' thing, with the way you look it's a reflex."

 

[shibosho]

"Apology...Accepted...ouch," so much pain and yet no visible wounds. Why is that?

The marine had attacked me out of reflex. What's with that?

Nonetheless he had apologised and was looking for something else to pulverise. The problem was that there were no more zombies around our immediate vicinity.

*GRRRRRRRRL*

..........FUCK! WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THIS HUNGER ATTACK!?

This stomach of mine, it is growling with an awesome POWER! THIS BURNING HUNGER IS TELLING ME TO CONSUME EVERYTHING!

........

Where the fuck did that come from?!

I need something to eat fast! Getting off my backside, I staggered back to the castle's main hall. I still had barbeque and chilli. I glanced at the Lucario as I passed by. He seemed to be quite exhausted and somewhat in shock.

"Hey, I got food and refreshment inside my bags. Want to rest for awhile inside the castle? Hey marine, want to rest for a bit?"

 

[Aarik]

"No I'll check around the perimeter to insure we are rid of the insignificant pests." I muttered, food was now less of a priority for me, I would eat later, besides, I still needed to figure out where the in the Warp we were.

... No I'll test that out later, besides Zombie flesh probably tastes horrible, and what would a Zombie know about anything anyway.

 

[GhostElder]

:If you're going around the park, you may want to secure the front gate area, along with any side or delivery entrances. After that the area should be somewhat isolated, the surrounding walls have a fair height to them.:

Chris tried to enter the conversation again, sounding tired even in the sent thoughts.

:I've been going near nonstop since my... change. Going to get a bit of food and some sleep if I can, well after the castle is secured anyway.:

He waited for any obvious disagreement, or better plans, swaying slightly from side to side.

 

[shibosho]

I nodded in agreement with the lucario. I walked over to him and helped him into the castle.

Kayla was watching over the fairy girl when she noticed both me and lucario coming in.

"Adders! Mr Pokemon! Are you alright?" Asked Kayla, worried about our current state.

"Yeah, we're fine, just tired. Roll out a couple of bed rolls or sleeping bags, okay Kayla?" Kayla nodded and went over to the bags and rummaged through them. Soon enough she had managed to get out to bed rolls and blanket out. Thanking the little wolf girl, I sat down on one of the bedrolls while the pokemon pretty much collapsed on the other one.

Using a tendril, I grabbed a container of barbeque/chilli and the pokemon's bags and placed them next to him.

"There's Barbeque ribs and chilli in the tupperware and you probably got some food as well in your bags." Satisfied I laid down on the bedroll and got comfortable. Then I remember something, "By the way, my name is Adrien Chen but you can call Adders. What's yours?"

 

[GhostElder]

Accepting the help inside, he collapsed onto the mat, tiredly turning a few times to get comfortable, laying on his back was odd with having a tail now and his front had a spike sticking out of his chest, he finally settled onto his side.

:Christopher most called me Chris, though before much else...:

He closed his eyes, the tassel like attachments on the back of his head rising until they were horizontal. From the bed roll he started doing a scan of the castle.

 

[shibosho]

:Christopher most called me Chris, though before much else...:

So the lucario has a name. I put the information away in my mental address book and grabbed a box of Chilli. Munching on the spicy consumables I watched Chris do that aura scanning thingy like he did before. At some point Kayla had decided to lie down next to me. Within seconds she was fast asleep. I got up and covered Kayla's sleeping form with a blanket. Satisfied that she wouldn't get a cold, I sat down next to the bedroll watching the fairy girl, Kayla and Chris.

 

[Xaosite]

"What the hell is up with this place? I've been wandering for almost FIVE WHOLE MINUTES and I haven't found shit!"

A wall in front. A door off to the right.

"IF THEY THINK I"M GONNA WALK ALL THE WAY AROUND, THEY GOT ANOTHER THING COMING!!"

Fwoosh, KABOOOM! Clatter, crumble, clatter, crumble. A large assortment of very unusual individuals paused to look in the direction of a newly exploded wall.

"What are you jerks looking at?"

 

[Latewave]

"Prinnies, It is time that we introduce ourselves. You three go and announce our presence to them."

"Also did you ever find a Prinny suit for number whatever?"

 

[Shaderic]

I stared at the source of the massive blue beam o'Doom.

Ever so quietly, I edged my way to the stars, making sure not to draw this guy's attention. Unlike the space marine (what was his name?), this guy somehow seemed even less inclined to listen to logic. And I knew if that thing hit me, it would be game over.

You could have cut the tension with a knife. This was when the bat horde suddenly started flying in.

 

[shibosho]

"What are you jerks looking at?", said the black mage after having destroyed part of a wall just to get in, despite the fact that there was a door left of the newly-made hole in the wall.

"What the f-"

"LADY AND DOOD! MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION! PLEASE MAKE WAY FOR THE OVERLORD DOOD! LANCE WILLIAMS!" Three penguins...no, prinnies appeared in front of me proclaiming something about an overlord.

"..........", silence followed the change in facial expression in order to depict surprise/WTF? for everyone in the hall except for the prinnies and the sleeping girls.

"Dood, isn't the overlord dood suppose to come out now, dood?"

"I don't know, dood. Maybe we should have been more flashy, dood."

"Yeah, dood. I get the feeling that the overlord dood is a flashy kind of guy, dood"

"What. The. Hell", before I could confront these - these random gatecrashers, the air was suddenly filled with innumerable shrieks and shrills coming from outside.

"What the - holycrap" A swarm of bats flew into the hall through the hole that the black mage had made.

 

[Aarik]

I had found a few more groups of zombies in my searches around the castle, they had all been terminated, The Orks where having a ball, even if they where just zombies.

Then the freaking bats showed up, The Burna went nuts on the little jerks, oh well at least the Orks would have something to eat.

I swatted a few bats in front of me, I hit a few of them, but no where near enough for it to be a sound attack method.

"aaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhauhauh." Huh more zombies, these I CAN attack, quite well actually.

 

[Latewave]

Lance waits for his prinnies to Introduce him the group of Adventurers.

His prinnies gather around with food gathered while looking for a substitute prinny suit. They had gotten a horse plushy that was covered in little hearts and had a rainbow mane. Lance had asked but they said that he didn't want to know why they had picked that one. One had said something about ponyland and clammed up.
D00D you really Don't want to know. Honestly D00D
A flock of bats began flapping about the area.

I wonder why so many are right here?
I blame God D00D that or teh GM
They start swooping down on Lance.

"Okay now I'm in the mood for bat Sandwiches." He creates a sphere of rock around a group of bats. "Your for dinner. Now for the rest of you, YOU GET TO SPLAT"

He hits the ground hard with his staff causing large boulders form out of the ground. He gestures toward the bats, Watching as the boulders slam into groups of bats and rotate the bats toward the ground crushing them.

"Stupid bats. Shouldn't have Attacked an Overlord."

A Damaged Bat comes and flies toward the Overlord. Lance tries to nail it with a rock, but it misses and bites and drains blood from the Overlord. The Bat is fully healed. What The Hell.

"LADY AND DOOD! MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION! PLEASE MAKE WAY FOR THE OVERLORD DOOD! LANCE WILLIAMS!"

Oh Come on now the Stupid things are making me Late To my Intro. They die painfully now. Giant hands of Earth Reach up and start grabbing handfuls of bats and pulling them underground to there doom.

The Bats start coming together in one place. Lance grins. He prepares to launch a boulder and finish things so he can hurry up and introduce himself. "This Will be Easy."

The bats start fusing together. The creature begins to take shape. It looks like a giant bat with arms. I'll think I'll Call him Batman now. Batman takes to the air. Lance prepares to use an Earth Shield.

Batman swoops down and releases a Extremely loud shriek.

"MYEARSTHEYHURT"

Lance begins moving toward the Group of Adventurers.

 

[Xaosite]

Xaosite grabbed his hat to keep it on as a swarm (flock?) of bats swarmed out of the hallways around him and poured into the room.

"Gah! Bats! Filthy creatures, pigeons of the sky!"

After the swarm was past and he could safely let go of his hat, he stuck his hands out with fingers spread, the thumbs touching each other at the tip.

With a bright flash and a fwoosh, flames shot out and charred a number of bats to ashes.

"More bats!"

Flash, fwoosh!

"A bug!"

Flash, fwoosh!

"Some dirt!"

Flash, fwoosh!

"Wheeee!"

Flash, fwoosh, flash, fwoosh!

If he'd noticed that the surviving bats had decided to merge into a sort of man-bat creature, he gave no indication.

 

[shibosho]

"I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THESE MUTHAR-FUCKING BATS IN THIS MUTHAR-FUCKING CASTLE", these bats were getting me down big-time. As soon as the bats had begun pouring in, I jumped in to protect the sleeping forms of the girls. I brought out as many tendrils as I could and attempted to force back the bat swarm. Using my tendrils as whips I was killing the flying mammals by the dozen.

The black mage was busy throwing around fire spells, trying to torch as many bats as he could. At some point, large boulders started appearing into the foray, crushing as many bats as possible. However despite our attacks, the bat horde didn't seem to go down in number. And then they started to merge together. I couldn't see the actually merging process due to all the bats but eventually some kind of "man-bat" thing was born.

The first thing the man-bat did was screech.

"MYEARSTHEYHURT"

"AAAAAAARGH!" My ears were horribly, horribly tortured by the high pitched screeching.

Then the man-bat rammed me into a wall. Ouch.

 

[GhostElder]

His awareness as called back to himself by a boom and horrendous screech, the tired pokemon clasped his paws over his ears as he took in the situation.

Bat thing and some sort of black mage torching the ground....

Ok... Bat was definitely hostile, he levered himself up, settling into a combat stance without really thinking about or realizing it. Aura began to flicker at his paws as the pokemon geared himself up for combat.

:You.:

He sent to the Man Bat.

:You have one, and only one chance to reach a peaceful solution. Continued attacks will be met with lethal force.:

It wasn't the greatest threat or declaration but it would do. He figured that in the case it didn't agree, it's most likely recourse would be to use another debilitating screech then another rushing attack. He started moving away from the two girls, far enough that they wouldn't get caught in a melee, but close enough he could intercept an attack against them. Meanwhile he primed himself for a quick attack for the fist sign of continued combat.

 

[shibosho]

Okay, that hurt somewhat. If I wasn't some kind of humanoid human-shaped slime monster with teeth thing, I probably be really badly injured. Shaking off the slight dizziness, I got back up on my feet and saw Chris in a combat stance facing off against Man-bat thing. A thought about about Man-bear-pigs cross my mind for some reason but I pushed it away. First deal with Bat-man then deal with weird ideas and the ilk.

Man-bat was focused on Chris and didn't seem to notice that I was back up. Good. This would give me a chance to try something out. I was a realm eater, a being that I had created out of my head. The most annoying part about being one was that I wasn't sure what I was capable of. Sure I had written down what realm eaters can do but most of it was just vague ideas and I couldn't remember most of it anyways. I did however recall possible ways that a realm eater do for a ranged attack.

I dug my right claw around an eye that had appeared on my left arm and ripped it out. I winced at the pain in doing so but I now had a yellow orb thingy in my right palm. Now for the next part. I mentally told the orb to generate dark gloop and shape it into a solid form. For a moment nothing happened, then suddenly black gloop started appearing around the orb and formed a spear....a rather small one. I shrugged my shoulders. It would have to do.

Keeping to the shadows I held the spear and aimed for Manbat. Then I threw the spear. Only to watch it veer completely off course and go through the wall and outside.

Manbat saw the spear and saw me. It aimed a screech attack at me once again.

"AAAAARRRRGH FUFFAJFAJFW"

I seriously needed to break my habit of trying out stuff when in a precarious situation.

 

[GhostElder]

The pokemon was moving as soon as the screech went off. A blaze of white energy trailed behind him, marking the fast movement as a quick attack. What happened next was too fast for even Chris to really register.

At his approach the man bat tried to turn the screech on him, but the Lucario was to close then, and it was far too late. One paw held back a wing trying to keep him out just long enough for the jackal like pocket monster to fully get inside the bat's guard, the other shoved up under the chin of the bat to prevent a sonic based counter until the first paw moved from the wing to lightly rest against it's chest. The real damage was done by the spear like burst of Aura just a few centimeters away from the paw, which would pulp the heart of a normal being into the consistency of chunky salsa.

Chris blinked as he fully came back to himself while shoving the likely dieing thing off of him.

:..I ...Warned you, I did, I...:

He stared for a moment, and was subsequently informed by screaming muscles that they were severely protesting his treatment of them and would be on strike for the time being. That would be about the time his legs gave out on him, the pokemon about fell on his butt, then tipped over and landed on his side.

:...ow:

 

[Shaderic]

I stared at the blood on the floor.

Part of me thought 'That's disgusting'.

Another thought that it clashed horribly with the cement floor, and didn't match the paint at ALL.

When I realized that, I freaked myself out.

"Well, well. Seems there's some interesting specimens here."

Then he walked in. Slowly, and deliberately, he made his way down the stairs. He wearing all red, and a mask, so I couldn't see part of his face, but the eyes...

They scared me for some reason. Or at least unnerved me. I'm not sure why.

But... what was he doing here? Who ever he was, he hadn't attacked yet.

 

[shibosho]

"Ouch, my ears hurt," that last screech had my ears ringing. On the other hand, it had allowed Chris to close in and pretty much annihilate the man-bat-thing.

"Well, well. Seems there's some interesting specimens here." Said a voice. I turned to look and there, walking down the stairs, was a man in red. And his eyes sent a chill down my spine or whatever supports the structure of my body.

"HEY! You there! Who are you calling specimens!?" I yelled at the man. Damn I reacted with the usual bravado.

 

[Shaderic]

He smiled, absently.

"I could call you all something else... but I prefer specimen, because that's what you are to me. That's what everything is to me. To say otherwise, would be a lie. No need to feel offended."

He shook his head slightly.

"But, I suppose I should introduce myself. I am Blaze, the Crimson Magus. And yourselves?"

 

[Latewave]

"I'm Lance. The Geomancer Overlord. I'm not your Specimen."

 

[shibosho]

"I am Adrian AKA Adders, Realm Eater! And I am no one's specimen"