[ ORP ] The Colosseum Trials (EXIT P 8)

[xoxomenai]

SPECTATOR

Kiwi's feathers, at least what remained of them, ruffled slightly as the head came hurling up towards Heidla, and naturally him as he sat near her. His already irritated mood became moreso as he rose to his feet defensively, dancing angrily on his stone perch. "Hmh, pesky human! Watch where you toss that or it'll be your head soon!!" Seriously. His FEAR was boiling, the anger and hunger singing harmoniously in his mind. It took his entire composure not to launch down on the girl now. He motioned towards the Elders, calling out in agreement to Mei's statement: "Yesssss, SHORTEN THE LEASH!!"

Pinchmonster

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Yayoi

santime

 

[Zoobey]

"ANOTHER! ANOTHER! ANOTHER!"

The crowd demanded, and so, the Head Priestess stood up, and simply complied to the wishes of her people. "The event has barely started, there is still much to unfold. This is the fate of all Hunters, to die in our fingertips, witness our power and our revenge for everything they have done. " She raised her hand, just as another series of gates unfolded, just as the chimera dissipated. "We shall have another."

At first nothing.

And then the ground below began to shake around the Hunter, the earth churning, splitting into two segments. A loud screech as a twenty-foot colossus burst from the dirt, mandibles flashing wildly. A second one joined from behind Sasha, taking a second to smell the air, to locate its target. It didn't take them long, a stream of venom spraying the center of the arena.

pinchmonster

TWIN CENTIPEDES: HP 50 TOTAL (for both)

RULES PART 1:

- There are TWO bosses that need to be taken down. Both bosses spew acid.
- For ever turn that Sasha continues to attack, the centipedes will do one additional damage. They start off at +2 damage. So next turn, they would do +3, the turn after + 4. Though they attack separately, calculate OOC damage as simple once (with the modifier) per turn.

Additional Mechanics:
- Due to the requests, Sasha's leash has also been shortened (her chain). Her damage modifier is now -7 instead of -6. Charged attacks are unaffected.
- Cold water is splashed on the trainee. It is crude but also effective, granting a small Fear bonus to her weapon. Her Fear Shield is fully recovered
- The corrosion (acid) does not burn her skin, but causes her to HALLUCINATE. For each turn she keeps on battling, the hallucinations get stronger. The stadium warps to distorted, twisted faces, the centipedes to thousands of dripping insects, ready to crawl into her ears, the back of her neck -

- Every second she stands fighting, the hallucination gets worse.

 

[bipolar bee]

Sasha grit her teeth when her 'leash' was tightened - and the next thing she knew, the earth was rumbling beneath her feet. Two writhing centipedes - too familiar from her time in the Sahara.

Julie's face flashed before her eyes. The countless dead Moon hunters. Soon after, Antarctica. The doctor's disappearance. The fall of the Isles.

Nona was a soft, disjointed sound - whispering, pleading for release.

Sasha darted forward, hacking at the long, segmented bodies of each colossus. Fully charged, Nona enhanced Sasha's movements by applying blinding speed and accuracy to her attacks - they acted in perfect harmony, a huntress and her bonded.

<More.>

Grimacing as she felt some sort of slimy ooze coat her skin, Sasha retreated as best she could - as far as the chain would allow - in order to regroup.

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HP: 48/50 (-2)
DMG: 12 (lvl 3 Swift Strikes)
TAR HP: 38/50
CHG: 0/3 || 1/2

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Sasha and her weapon, Nona.

 

[santime]

SPECTATOR

All right, this one was much better. They've tested hunter's battle capabilities already, now let's see how can she fight her own mind. Dealing with various poisons for ages, Eisheth knew that hallucination acids were probably the naughtiest: good warriors have enough willpower not to abandon their resolve and fight even if badly injured, best warriors don't give a ***t about how powerful is their enemy, and if there is a chance to win at all. But only a few are normally able to fight with their inner fears, with the products of their own imagination; perhaps, creature's mind hides their worst enemies.

Eisheth kept watching the scene in amusement tousling her golden beads, especially the one that contained her fragment. Somehow, she felt an urge to touch it quite often, and that started to bother her. The alchemist forced herself to leave it alone, and caressed Mei's hand tightly.

Yayoi

Eisheth gonna love aggressive/distorted Mei even more 4laugh

 

[bipolar bee]

Her vision was swimming - the stadium spun around her in gentle swirls and whorls like some sort of sick monstrous ocean of bodies. The effect was hazy - and she knew it was the venom.

For now. God help her, what would come next?

She couldn't afford to think about it now. She couldn't afford to lose focus - if she did, she would be lost.

Sasha stumbled slightly as she moved in once more for an attack, but her arms were strong and her swings full of purpose as she attacked.

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HP: 45/50 (-3)
DMG: 11 (-7)
TAR HP: 27/50
CHG: 1/3 || 1/2

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Sasha and her weapon, Nona.

 

[Yayoi]

SPECTATOR

Mei grinned as she watched the chain attached to the Hunter's angle shorten. Now things would be interesting. But before that thought had cleared her mind she felt the deep rumble from the Earth and her eyes widened at the sight of the two and fairly quite larger and deadly looking beasts burst from the ground. She was glad it was no her down there for sure.

Her ears rang from the sound of the crowd, spine tingled as she sat sightly forward in her seat to watch the female Hunter intently. How would she handle these? The outcome could not get here any sooner.

The feel of Eisheth caressing her hand pulled her back from the fight momentarily. "I don' t think she's gonna survive this one." Her voice sounded distant, as if it weren't her talking. But she could feel her mouth moving.

This feeling was over almost overwhelming. Luckily for her she had others around her, so she could pull back every now and again.

santime

Lol

 

[bipolar bee]

Sasha was slowly losing the ability to differentiate between hallucination and reality. Deep down, the huntress knew that she was being ********, but she could not stop herself from believing that there were worms beneath her skin. Creeping, crawling. Burrowing into her flesh, gnawing and chewing at her bones and organs.

Losing her focus for a moment, Sasha flailed wildly with Nona's hooked blades. She nearly went to her knees as she warred with the hallucinations that toyed with her rapidly skewing sense of reality.

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HP: 41/50 (-4)
DMG: 4 (-7)
TAR HP: 23/50
CHG: 2/3 || 1/2

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Sasha and her weapon, Nona.

 

[bipolar bee]

There were worms inside of her, inching about, and another slowly sliding out of her nose. She could feel it writhing against her lip. Sasha reached up to pull it out, her fingers wrapping firmly around -- nothing. There was nothing there. She peered down at her palm only to watch a small beady lump slither over her knuckle.

She was full of bugs. She was full of bugs, just like Julie had been in the Sahara. She could feel them buzzing around inside of her, clacking and clicking their mandibles against her bones. She could feel the tickle of wings against her lungs, the pitty pat of feet against her eardrums.

No, no. This was... this was...

Sasha bit back a sob as she lashed out again with Nona - her weapon's soothing voice ineffective for the time being, overridden by the buzz-clack of bugs as they swarmed inside of her chest.

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HP: 36/50 (-5)
DMG: 7 (-7)
TAR HP: 20/50
CHG: 3/3 || 1/2

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Sasha and her weapon, Nona.

 

[bipolar bee]

There was a brief moment when Nona's voice rang out loud and clear, urging Sasha to utilize her full charge. Sasha had to force down the hysteria that came with the hallucination she was currently struggling with.

She attacked first once colossus, then the other, further coating herself in poison venom. The first bug let out a terrifying screech as it fell to the ground, writhing and lashing. The second creature lashed out, spewing venom and clacking its mandibles at the life hunter.

They were weak, but she was growing weaker, as well, her grip on sanity slowly slipping out of her desperate clutches.

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HP: 30/50 (-6)
DMG: 12 (stage 2 swift strikes)
TAR HP: 8/50
CHG: --/3 || 2/2

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Sasha and her weapon, Nona.

 

[medigel]

SPECTATOR

"She will," Mort intoned without looking away from the fight writhing on the coliseum floor, his eyes narrowed as he studied the Hunter's increasingly alarmed reactions. No explanations were given for his reasoning. It was a gut feeling in his gutless body.

Nobody fought so hard and went down so easy. And it was easier to watch when she'd been given a refresher on her shield.

And the more the jeering increased around him, the more the zomboil retreated into himself. Watching. Musing.

Yayoi

 

[bipolar bee]

As soon as the lucid moment had come, it was gone. What was left behind was a mere shell of the young woman she'd been as she'd taken her first steps into the colosseum. All that remained was a frantic, terrified human, weaker by the second. She could feel the bugs crawling out of her eyes, her nose, her ears. She could feel them writhing in her lungs, clawing and chewing and digging.

The only damage she managed was a frantic slash outwards as she gagged, choking on bugs that clogged her throat and nose.

Quote:

HP: 23/50 (-7)
DMG: 1 (-7)
TAR HP: 7/50
CHG: --/3 || 2/2

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Sasha and her weapon, Nona.

 

[bipolar bee]

Deeper and deeper into hysterics she went. Deep in the throes of hallucination, coated with venom, exhausted. Unable to find the thin line between what was real and what wasn't, Sasha fell to her knees. Nona's hooks slid into the carapace of the colossus, her song dimming as Sasha's vision swam with insects.

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HP: 15/50 (-8 )
DMG: 2 (-7)
TAR HP: 5/50
CHG: --/3 || 2/2

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Sasha and her weapon, Nona.

 

[Yayoi]

SPECTATOR

No she won't.

Its what she wanted to say to the Zomboil, but she choked the words back. The Hunter was ragged and seemed to be hallucinating. Was this the effect of the acid the beasts she was fighting? Curious. Though she had to stifle a bit of laughter as she flailed about.

Mei leaned back in her seat once again. "Perhaps you are right. But that just means it gives us more to watch." She paused for a second. "To observe. I've only ever fought Hunters a couple times but never had a chance to watch them fight something other than me. Perhaps I could learn some tips."

Tips. Right. She had learned enough that half the time she fought Hunters she got her butt kicked severely. The thought of that cause her to clutch at her side. Remembering the pain she had felt with the hole in her side from the one Hunter's weapon.

Ol-j-man

 

[bipolar bee]

Sasha swung her free sword recklessly. The bugs, they were everywhere. It was all she could do to keep them at bay. Using the half of Nona that was stuck in the colossus' carapace, Sasha pulled herself back to her feet.

A huge cockroach - there - Sasha drove the pointed blade of Nona's hilt deep into the giant venom-spewing creature. It landed on the ground with a garbled squeal and a shudder before it curled to a stop.

It might've been luck, it might've been determination, or it might have been a very terrible flavor of psychosis - but she'd done it. Panting, Sasha fought the urge to burst into tears.

Quote:

HP: 6/50 (-9)
DMG: 7 (-7)
TAR HP: 0/50
CHG: --/3 || 2/2

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Sasha and her weapon, Nona.

Zoobey

they ded

 

[Seussi]

SPECTATOR

Late. Shaheen was late and she was missing all of the fun. The war chieftain scanned the crowd for familiar faces, her eyes landing on Shik before moving on to those around him. She...really didn't recognize a single one of them, really. But would this not be a good time to get to know them? Surely everyone would be in the best of spirits now, as a hunter lay dazed, bedraggled, and near death upon the ground in the center of the arena. She was only sorry she missed everything that had happened up until this point, as she made her way down towards the others, her massive wings tucked in tight behind her back. Her blonde mass of curly hair was pulled back from her face in a braid that dangled down to her shoulder, the two feathers in her head band rustling slightly as she made her steady decline down before she took a seat near the others, amber eyes flickering towards the show that it seemed like she might have already missed, if the sight to behold was any indication.

"Please tell me that I have not missed out on everything." She muttered, casting glance towards the two sitting nearest to her, almost startled to realize that one was very much not a horsemen, before she remembered that a few handful of students had joined their cause and had been allowed entry to the lair, provided they continue to serve the lost clans.

Yayoi

hi hi hiiii~ here, let me just throw my other character at you ouo

Santime

meeting time, y/y?

Anybody Else Around

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