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Well, it mostly has to do with the fact that my post is completely nonsensical due to the fact that I looked at the word "hydra" and read it as "sphinx". Clearly, I should've paid more attention in school. On top of that, it was the second problem that arose from my being a dipshit in that post, the first being the requisite complaint from Flare.

It's to be assumed that we built it. It's not like we're some little mom-and-pop operation or something.

Moo.

Inspired by Newb and approved by Arhra, I have officially wedged myself back into this mosh pit of insanity more commonly known as the NPF Avatar RP.

Now somebody throw me a bone.

Yes POS, I know she is half snake, but you said "Rei also threw a snake at her enemy", which I already knew. I just didn't understand why you re-iterated that fact for apparently no reason.

I just assumed that it was merely the character of REI, not you yourself, that was confused as to who was fighting who. After all, the shield did suddenly jump from one enemy to another, and REI was distracted with her singing and perhaps didn't notice this.

Or something.

Meh, I've made bigger fuck ups than that before now. Ok so you decided on an outcome without her permission but hey, I've been punched without my permission before, though that was after I stabbed Steel so it all worked out in the end. Sometimes it is neccesary to control such things, sometimes it just makes thing more interesting. After all, isn't teamkilling like an Avvy tradition round here?!

Never said you weren't. On the contrairy (sp?), I ws commending you. I wish I had a spaceship. Then again, I wish I had a lot of things. Maybe eventually...

EDIT:By the way, welcome to Nightmare Central MT. I knew I should have added more oxygen, perhaps we could have made the whole hole big enough to bring the tank with you as well. Any chance you'll be using it dude?

Well, mostly I was responding to this:

So you see, I did use a snake and had a perfectly good reason for saying so.

Nah, Rei doesn't make that sort of mistake. She's kinda designed for multi-tasking, and would have noticed something like that if she was looking right at it. I, on the other hand, am a perfectly fallible human that, honestly, skims over the more verbose posts out of laziness. This time it really caught up with me.

Well, given that my position is that the Flare thing wasn't a fuck up at all and, in this particular game, you have to take some leeway with character interaction for the sake of narrative flow, don't worry about it. I'm less embarrassed and more annoyed to the point of tossing my computer out the window and running away to the deepest reaches of Canada.

Hooray! It's MT!

Don't worry, I'm sure that the NPF ADDventures Core Rulebooks have something to say about what to do when dropped in the battlefield unawares.

It might be bad advice, but it's probably covered in the core rulebooks.

Hooray! MT's back! ^^

My chainsaw-made time-space rift is turning out to be far more useful than I ever imagined.

Maybe we can, like, throw the spacetime hole at the sphinx and drop it into another dimension. :p

Ah, I see what you mean now. That honestly never occured to me before now, although I was reffering to like, normal snakes, not human/snake hybrids!

No. Never leave your enemies in parallel universes, alternate dimensions, or endless void wastelands. They have a bad habit of escaping and returning to wreak revenge on their enemies. Plus, seeing as she already has dimensional powers that would most likely be real easy for her to undo.

Oh hell yes. Don't tell me you didn't see some kind of contrived plot device involving that rift coming a mile away.

Yeah, I'll explain my absence now. I managed to get a Wii on Wednesday morning (after waiting 12 hours in Wal-Mart. I got some reading done). So sleep-deprivation, Zelda, class, FREAKING ZELDA FINALLY THANK YOU INANA! finals, and all that.

But, I'm seperated from my Wii by an hour drive for the weekend. I'll do something when I'm not at work.

Oh, and welcome back, MT.

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.

Mokey, I must say I am slightly bemused to find a character profile posted with no other information. I can only assume you would like to join the Avvy RP. However, this RP is already well under way, being in its eighth chapter. It may be difficult for you to jump in if you don't know what's already happened.

McSpiff, I will not be running the next Avatar RP, so it is not my place to say. Ask whoever's running it when the next Avvy RP's sign ups open.

I must say Newb, that was quite impressive.

Flare, unfortunately that plan would not work well due to the rather bizarre weather conditions about the local area. I mean, there's a barrier projecting a large area of land half a second into the future in the immediate vicinity. The Gate itself warps space around it. Not to mention the other effects of the chaos leaking out all over the place. You don't want to be eaten by space goats, do you?

I had originally intended to leap straight into a new fight, but didn't want to risk burning people out. We might also be having a return of someone who's been a bit inactive, so I needed a good time to incorporate them.

@Flare: Given that the next thing that happened after I arrived was that the badguys ran away, I had time to pull out some equipment (I never go anywhere without my item pack). So thanks for the offer, but I'm good.

Talked with Arhra in AIM last night, and Phoenix is back, and mildly improved, if that were even possible. One can easily explain away her absence with having to run a company and of course, mechanics aboard the Isparlian starting with a "N".

Yes, plot-holes abound! I entirely forgot the character-sheet format from a long-long-time-ago, but I'm fairly sure only Arhra needs to know my capabilities, since nobody else would have such knowlege anyhow. Though naturally, they include summoning and my own special blend of "Dark Grey" magic.

*chuckles*

And Arhra knows, mind.

It does what now? Cos death is, well, DEATH magic, but drown would be water magic, which is a completely different thing all together.

And Arhra never said the door was protected, and if an earth Caryatid can't survive multiple hits from various NPFers, then I'm assuming a simple door aint going to be a problem!

So, for the sake of plot progression (which Arhra is trying to do), shall we just get on with blasting the thing to pieces with a rightious explosion?

And what better way to enter enemy territory than by blasting open the entrance and announcing your presence to everything inside?;)

Of course it isn't, but yet it is. You see, Drown is a death spell of the water school. Just like disentigrate is transmutation, while phantasmal killer is illusion. Finger of death, however, is necromancy. All are designed to make you suffer a horrible, horrible fate using an element or type of essence-pattern designed to make you suffer said fate. Most can be resisted, hence the term "Save or Die"

All are death magic, but each has a different school or element of the arcane studies behind it. I mean sure, It's a door. You can probably destroy it easily, but if it's a warded door, and you'd assume a temple of a chaos-deity that is shifted several seconds out-of-phase with the ambient reality might, possibly, be warded... It'd at least get off a counter-attack before being destroyed.

Of course Arhra didn't say the door was trapped, and of course, Phoenix might be lying to you. She's tricky like that, but then again, she was there before you got there, so there might be a bit of reason to it. I mean, you don't have to pay attention to her. After all, drowning won't kill you instantly, no?

Yay i did something right lol, Or did i? man Arhra your so sneaky i'm scared about what your upto now??