OOC: You guys are making this worse and worse...

OOC: No, it's quite me that does it. And I did that because I really can't think of anything to say. So, instead, Ark is now wandering. And trying to save you guys. But the odds of that happening are very very low.

[OOC]You guys? I thought it was just SuperSaiyan, me and lilwhitemage were making some progress i think. [OOC]

All of a sudden ark snapped back into his chains. "Ahh I see the fist part is finished" Cid said. "The symbol is like a syphon in a way. It draws it's power from the wells, You. and gives it to the vessals, us. Downside is it will kill you in the end. Upside is Skurai, and myself will be gods onto this world."

OOC: You'll become gods by sucking the power from a small room full of people?

Ark looked around and said, "Okay, that there? That was EXTREMELY fucked up. I hate magic. And I should point out, we've got like, 7 people here. Ooooh, a whole lot of power. Rapist."

Lynx yawned and stretched as far out as he could chained up, watching the wizard. It ain't happening...

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Well, you have to think about the powers these people have >_> And sorry if my earlier post was bad in any such a way u_u;
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Is there really no hope for us to get out of here? She grew quiet as she still continued to stare down at the ground. Surely there's some way to get out of this. Maybe. Or not.

ooc: I'm just following orders from Celes, nobody is going anywhere till next chapter.

After hearing Cid's explanation on why they were there Thid thought, Ok, since it's magical in nature it can't kill me....so does that doom me to eternal agony of slowly having my life force sucked away, recharged, then sucked away once more?!

"DAMN IT! oops, did i say that outloud?"

OOC: You will all like next chapter...

Ark decided to phase again. Same effect as last time.

He looked at the wizard, "I hate you."

OOC: How about we start it then? There's not much for us to do but yell at Cid and try to escape without success.

"We really aren't sure if this will even work on you Thid, but our best guess is that if we kill you any ways and drink your blood it should work then. but that's a 50/50 shot." Skurai said.

[OOC] only 5 more post to go till next chapter, i was going to try something that i thought about doing a couple of times but i'll hold off on it. It would have involved a frank discussion with my ability and how i could strangle myself with the magical chains. [OOC]

OOC: Cause Celes isn't on...

ooc: no we wait for Celes it's her story.

Thid nearly wets his pants upon hearing Skurai's theory,

"Your insane," Vace said to Cid. He pulled at his chains, but they wouldn't break, and electrocuting them wouldn't help any either, so he continued to scheme as fast as possible if there was any way out of this.

*whispering to lynx, who is close to him* "hey! would you say these chains are magical?"

Gross... She thought to herself as Skurai described what they planned to do should this not work on Thid. About then another question popped into her head, and she almost hesitated to ask, but did anyway.

"So, I know you plan on killing all of us, but you also plan to kill Cesia as well? I mean, she part of the royal family I suppose, but even if she's still alive, all of this would be considered your kingdom, right?" It was at least better to try and talk her way through this than to just sit there unable to do anything.

"I wonder in a hundred years what they will say of me, Cid Hessian, God-Emporer of the world, and Skurai The immortal. Will thy call us crazy then?" Cid said. Skurai chuckled as he finished another series of elaborate symbols in a circular pattern.

"Skurai the immortal, I like the sound of that."

"Oh course there magical..."

"Sakura the immortal? Sounds sorta funny to me..." Thid continues, "Man, you must have had mean parents to name you something that sound so close to Sakura, did they want you to be a girl?"

"Except for Thid's. his are just really high grade steel. We've been expecting you all for awhile so we took special precautions for each of you."

"I should point out that you want to force the princess to marry you. Obviously she'll say no, and judging from how you're an army grunt you'll probably become a rapist, which voids every single right you've got. Especially to the gods. Kinda' like instant hell trip."

Lynx looked at him oddly, "Father was a monk."

"No, they will have thought up much worse things to call you in the future, but since we are alive now, we have to make do with the insults we've got."

"You don't listen very well do you. I'm having a Coup d'etat. I have no interest in marrying into the family, and the existing occupant of the throne is about to be put into check mate as we speak. No heirs, no opposition."

"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries! That's what i think of your coup d'etat! Now let me go or i shall give you another verbal thrashing!"

"You realize there are a lot more kingdoms and empires then just the one Cesia is from, right?"

"And you are a fornicating babboon." Cid said to Thid. "You all seem to think your dealing with the same ole Cid." Cid laughed an urbane laugh. "I'm really far to educated and cultured to fit the stereotype I played while among you."

"Or so you think..." Lynx snickered to himself

"The fact that you consider yourself and educated nobleman now doesn't change the fact that that you are still traiterous slime."

She sighed as she got no response at, only getting to sit there and listen to the others now try to verbally attack Cid. There seemed to be no sense in her to keep trying anymore.

Once again she asked herself why in the hell had she let herself get dragged into this. If she had just told Reena that she would rather stay and continue focusing on her studies at the palace instead of coming on this trip. Not that it would have stopped the inevitable with Cid taking over.

I can't just give up like this... But really.. there's no way out of this that I can tell. She shut her eyes tightly, shaking her head a little.

"I know the nations of this world quite well I know their stengths their weaknesses their gross economic product, what the staples of their diet are. The geographic regions of them, and the tenets of their religions. Would you like me to list them in aphabetic order, or by order in land mass?" Cid said mockingly. "You should all be proud to witness the birth of a new power. Your sacrifices, though small will change the very face of the earth."

"While I'm sure that you could list them all, the sound of your voice is almost enough for me to wish this process would go faster, so if you decide to grant us one last request, perhaps it could be to spare us your endless prattling and get your evil ceremony over with." Vace sarcastically said to Cid.

Lynx was about to say something, then stopped. He decided to let Cid think highly of himself, since it will just make it easier for Lynx later.

OOC: having grown up on stories from libaries, he's a strong believer on the 'good guys win, bad guys lose'

[OOC] ok, i'm out of this until the new thread is made[OOC]

"So Skurai should I follow the vermins advice?" Cid asked in his ever calm voice a slight hinge of humor in his voice.

"It doesn't really matter to me, my lord."

"Always so serious, Skurai."

"Hey" Taim asked from his side of the room, "can i ask why i'm here? You know, being neither heroic nor incredibly talented. I mean, shapeshifting is pretty common....."

"Uhwuzzat...Oh, guys dont try the water...really bad feeling around my...ank...hey, we're all tied up!" Jude said, awakening from his sleep to find himself chained to a wall with the others, Cid standing there being overly Cid-ish, and a new guy.

"Right...should I ask, or just wait for things to happen?"

"There's not much to it really Sir Jude..." Dawn finally spoke up quietly after her long moment of silence, though she kept her eyes.

"Cid tricked us, and now we're going to be used as a sacrifice so that he and Skurai can take over the kingdom."

*Sir Jude...hmm, correct her, or use it to my favor...eh, theres always some white lies in long lasting relationships...* Jude thought.

"Sacrifice? To what? Or is it one of those, 'Drain your blood into a thimble of bone on the first full moon sacrifices'? And why sacrifice in the first place...and I definetly think these chains are a tad too tight. We have talons for feet, not twigs. If I have to die, and I can't do anything about it, at least let me die comfortably?"

"They plan to use the sacrifice of our lives to drain all of our energy and powers into themselves." A faint hint of dispair was in her voice, though she wished she could hide it. "And I wouldn't count on them loosening the chains for comfort. They'd probably just as soon as kill us in the most painful way than allow us any comfort at all."

"Jumping really high? Well, I thought I'd never have to do this..." Jude said. He cleared his throat, then stuck his head up high.

"I am Judesain Baldaron, son of Vastok the great Dragoon, weilder of the spear Germoglio, saver of angels, killer of the great monster, and I am breaking out of these pitiful chains NOW-AUGHH!" Jude began to say in a highly dignified voice. He had been planning it for awhile, and the only thing that stopped him from finishing was the humongous current of electricty that ran through the chains into him.

"I rather liked my creation. Its death was very enraging." The wizard said.

Lynx snickered at the stupid show off.

Vace sighed at Jude's attempt at escape and thought. "You really are new to this aren't you? Otherwise, you wouldn't have tried some stupid trick from fairy tales and expected it to work," Vace said.

OOC: Wonder if Jad knows the basic Bad Guy power level thing... The more sense and intelligence a villian has, the worse at fighting he is.

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That's a thought...

But who would want to fight when they have a powerful wizard on their side as well.. *shrug*

I suppose now though all we can do is wait on Celes for the new Chapter o_o

OOC: Not always the case, sometimes the badguy that is best at fighting is also the most intelligent, in the case of leaders of a group of badguys are usually the smartest and the best fighters.

OOC: Give an example then. In almost everything, the insanely powerful are insane themselves, and the smart are not. And the group could be weak, so the leader would just be stronger then a group of weak people

Dr. Doom
Magneto
Darth Vader
Darth Sidious
Macbeth
Iago
Brutus
Ghengis Khan
Dracula
Lucifer
Raj Alghul
The list goes on

OOC: Darth Vader wasn't that smart.
Dr. Doom gets beat by the stretchy guy every time(Outsmarted)
Dracula... Real or the vampire one?
And I don't know who half that list is...

OOC: Redwall series, Cluny the Scourge, leader of the evil army, is the second greatest fighter in the book, and is resonably intelligent. He isn't a genius, but he does come up almost all the plans to take over the castle, including the one that captures it in the end.

Jad has a much better list, most of those are good examples.

OOC: I've read Redwall... I don't remember some guy named Cluny...

OOC: Hes in the first Redwall book, named Redwall. Cluny the Scourge is a giant rat the leads the vermin against the castle. Plenty of the villians in the Redwall series are smart and most of them are good fighters, if not the greatest fighters.

OOC: None of the Redwall villians are the best fighters... Not even close... They usually get beat rather easy at the end.

(Note that I would give a list, but most of mine would be games and movies, and to many...)

OOC: They get beat by the best fighter of the good guys, up until the end they usually hold their own in battle agaisnt anyone else that challanges them.

Kal Zakath (before he switches sides)
Voldemort
Saruman
Sauron
The Witch King of Angmar
Arthas
Illidan Stormrage
Thunder leg (drunken master)
Hector
Loki
006
to add some more

OOC: Not really... Read a long time ago, but some I remember is like 7 foxes all dieing in 1 hit from random things. A sea rat got beat by a girl mouse, later got beat by her again, ran, got beay by badger, got eaten by snake. Snake got head cut off right away... Can't think of another examples... (The main villians are usually only compared to the rest of their group though, which are all a bunch of weak people)

Smart, not strong
Delita
Leon Silversomething
Muthai Silversomething
Shu
Apple
Jenova(Until very end)
Most Bond sub-villains

Strong, not smart
Sephiroth
Seymour(He was insane and lucky)
Jaws(Bond one, not shark)
Astragh(SCII guy)
Panda
Generalization of all big guys in fighting games
That big guy from Legend of Dragoon(Good guy, but still)
Luca Blight
Bettle Guy in WC3

OOC: I recognized most of the names from the first list, but I don't recognize as many from the second list.

(OOC: Like I told IHMN, I'm going to be gone over the weekend, so I'm going to find a way to have my character go into a coma, and one of you guys has to carry him around until I get back. Savvy?)

ooc: want to go over to the darkside?

OOC: Wait, is Cid gunna be the main antagonist from now on?

OOC: Yeah... Er... I just realized I have some good guys on my list... Oh well...

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Why wouldn't he be... he IS the big bad guy now... >_>

(OOC: Sorry Jad, I have a better plan. I'll send you a PM about it.)

ooc: He always was. Everytime he was threatening to kill you he was actually planning too. He just did his part to keep you from realizing you were walking into a trap. Remember he did hand pick all of you for this mission.

OOC: Wait for next chapter to do it, and you should be asking Celes... I would have seen it coming, but I thought Celes was anti-player evil...

Tamakatari had woken up just in enough time to hear of Cid's treason, and to hear the Cesia was really the princess. He kept his face down, but his expression continued to become more violent by the minute. When Cid punched Lynx, Tamakatari merely thought of all the times Cid had done something that Tamakatari had disagreed with. When Ark tried to escape, he merely thought about Cesia, and how she was really the princess, who he loved. Nothing was making sense anymore, except for one thing.

"Cid, you're a bastard."

OOC: Lynx was punched long before the princess thing was said...

OOC: Did he preordain me and Ark?

(OOC: There, IHMN, I changed it.)

(OOC: Guys, I need to go, and I don't want to have to write a huge post saying what my character had been doing the entire weekend, so I'm going to be doing a coma-thing. And since Jad doesn't want to help me do it, I'll have to do it on my own.)

OOC: Just say a rock hit you on the head or something... Not some stupid, dramatic thing...

(OOC: That will knock me out, but I doubt it would do it for several days. So, here we go!)

Tamakatari raised his head, and his eyes were very dark.

"Cid, you bastard. You led us here, had me thinking for a while that a group of people might be able to work together, just a little, and you DARE to touch the princess with your tainted hands! Well, I think you and your wizard friend forgot one thing! Anything I touch, becomes a weapon! That includes your damn chains!"

Tamakatari pulled at the chains with his hands, and slowly, they became two large bladed metal whips on the ends of his hands. When he was free of the wall, he began to swing the whips around him, and charged at Cid and the wizard.

"I won't allow you to harm the princess!" Tamakatari flung the chain whips at the two. But, they never made it. The wizard raised his right hand, and a large blast of magical energy shot out at Tamakatari. It struck him right in the chest. His eyes became blank, and he only managed to mutter out a few words.

"God...that hurts."

The blast flung him against the wall, and his whips became chains again, and reattached themselves to the wall. The wizard chuckled a bit.

"Quite a fiesty one, eh Cid? Luckily, I knew of his talents. He'll still be alive, but I won't have to listen to him complain anymore."

OOC: Yah, JAD is going to be slowly going insane because of Ark... Remember, Cid doesn't know diddly about him.

ooc: Ark was at the meeting, reread your posts. Jude was the unexpected addition.

OOC: New chapter today?(The begining of it)

OOC: I would hope so, witty banter while strapped to a wall only goes so far.