Hmmm, I am left with quite a conundrum. I had hoped to have the battle finished by now, but events just don't seem to be converging to an ending very neatly. It feels a little all over the place to me.

Having two of the posts afte rmy last post needing a bit of, shall we say, recalibration also makes it a little harder on deciding the right thing to do. I'm thinking of having the League withdraw, although I'm not finished devising a good means of accomplishing this.

Still, I'm going to try and have something up later today, but I did feel the need to point out that while Tarrin's quite effectively managed to remove Thod from the picture, a certain other act could make the battle much more difficult. I'll be seeing if anyone catches it and knows the right course of action to take.

Well, I assumed that Rei threw me before the blast hit me....and can we assume the Sphienx's screwed? I mean she's got a pissed-off lamia coiled about her, she's got a venom in her that's wreaking havoc with her blood vessels, and she's on fire.

Not to mention the Magikarp flopping around and distracting her by being a fish while she's a cat.

The hydra also, is most likely screwed. That mongoose is gona rip it a new one! As for the boulder, werent you going to drain it Arhra?

We can't let them escape! If they escape, they can come back as recurring enemies, and recurring enemies are a bitch to take down. Just look at any fictional characters that always seem to escape, they just WON'T go down!

They escaped. This fight has gone longer than I had wanted as it is.

Events have been moving far too slowly for my liking so now everyone, this is how it is going to be.

Fights will be shorter. A battle of lower difficulty (pretty much anything lower than a subboss fight) will last about 1-3 rounds of posting, generally use my posts as a guage. Harder battles will last longer, things like the Caryatid fights taking up to five.

This means a few things. First of all, if you fall behind, you will be left behind. I do not want hanging actions and responses holding things up as they have been.

Beacause there will be less posts per fight, some of you will likely have to show a little more back and forth in your posts, a little more predicting of responses. Its more interesting to have a little bit of a fight before launching a stronger attack than 'I cast a spell' too. Many of my posts of enemy actions have to be fairly straightforward, as I have a lot of things to address in any one battle post. If you want more, you'll have to make it up yourself.

Also, in general, some people don't seem to be doing much about the effects of attacks upon their person. I dislike this, as it can easily border on godmodding. Its up to you to remember about any injuries that might suffer and not just have your character shrugging off all attacks.

This shorter timing of fights will also make any team-up manevoures something a little more special. Make sure you remember this when doing something like that. Originality is a plus, not just piling a bunch of random attacks on some person.

Next post we will be at the Water Temple.

Name: Cyborg Mokey

Appearance: A 3 foot tall, covered in a full mithril battle armor, a battle
visor over his right eye, armoured tubes go from the back of his head into
his back, 2 belts full of ammo over each shoulder, and 2 built in gun
holders. This Mokey is ready for a fight and he isn't going to back down.

Weapons/Items: 2 wrist blades in each hand, a 12 shot modified revolver, and the only Patriot ever made.

Special Abilities: With the Mokey having gone through so much military
training, and had chips with all the essential information about weapons,
there projectories, speed, and many other things, he has the gun mastery of
a true gunslinger.

Gunslinging: From the chips inserted into his brain and intense
physiological, and mental training, he has the weapon proficiancy and
ablility to use revolvers like the great man 'Ocelot'. His weapon mastery
also passes onto his machine gun abilitys too.

Close combat: He has immense training in hand-to-hand combat with
wrist blades, and other swords and shields. With his aility to move quickly
as well he is very useful for damaging an enemy quickly and effectively.

Feel free to throw money and flowers.

Please keep all sharp things, heavy things, and rotting edibles to yourselves.

Bravo Newb, very well done. While I won't use a post in the RP for this, all can assume that I'm clapping delightedly.

Hi, I'm back. I'd like to ask if I can join the next Avatar RP that rolls around. I've become a much better RPer and will do my best to refrain from being a douche.

Well, you now have a quick and easy way to get from Temple to Temple Arhra.