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Post by Kazuki on May 15, 2023 4:24:14 GMT 9
Kazuki’s brows furrow. He pinches the bridge of his nose, wondering just how on earth Verai has managed to decipher words from—from a hole in the ground.
He glances at the Precipice, and Verai’s voice sounds by his ear, almost wistful. He has a brief concern over him entering it. “Then we aren’t going in there. You’ve already walked through hell once, you are not going to do it again.”
Then the hopelessness. It grates him even more than the inexplicable wonder in Verai’s voice. “It better fucking be!” He hisses. “It’s a game! If it exists here, then someone put it here.”
He waves his hand, pulling up his UI. “If we have to report this shit, I’ll do it. Have them finally answer to all the glitches we’ve dealt with.”
As he’s flipping through random information, trying to find anything, anything that could be useful, his hand freezes over his own profile, above an unfamiliar icon. A ring of teeth, like a leech’s maw. “What the fuck?”
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
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Post by Kazuki on May 15, 2023 4:13:02 GMT 9
Kazuki snickers as Kitten attempts to lick Verai’s eyes. The cat is just so damn weird sometimes—but his laughter is cut off as she suddenly turns to him, her tiny eyes for some reason all too wide, all too seeing as she speaks.
And her words are— simple, really, but they make a surprisingly good point.
“Yeah, Ver,” Kazuki hums, tossing the ball in his hands. “Next time, you should get wings, and turn that amor into a bikini like what we did with the prince.”
The ball pops open, and out comes Sprigatito, who comes shaking out of the light. He lets out a big yawn, blinking slowly at his surroundings, before spotting Verai and Kitten nearby. <Kitten!> He cries happily, toddling over to Verai’s feet, where he frolics insistently, as if to trip the man. <Play, play, play!>
Kazuki stands back with arms crossed, considering Verai. Possibly considering him in that imaginary armor he suggested.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
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Post by Kazuki on May 15, 2023 3:59:13 GMT 9
They sit in silence. He watches Verai as the man almost appears to go into a meditative trance. It’s unnerving to see. His eyes are so white they appear as if their colors had been sucked away by the portal.
Kazuki’s hand twitches on his thigh. It’s only when Verai’s upper body leans too far that he lunges, grabbing and pulling him back. Sprigatito whines, being flipped out of Verai’s lap without warning. The kitten hops over to sit on the grass, shaking his fur indignantly.
“Do you not know what a bit means?” He says, glaring as he moves to loom over him. Green eyes search frantically, but find nothing wrong, save for the heavy breaths Verai is taking. He’s certain he hadn’t thrown him that hard.
Kazuki exhales. He sits back down, by Verai’s head. “Open your eyes.” He needs to check. “Did anything change?”
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
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Post by Kazuki on May 15, 2023 3:43:51 GMT 9
"There are options outside of murder, you know."
“But are they as efficient?” Kazuki happily argues back, swinging from cheese wheel to cheese wheel like some kind of cheese chimp. He’s getting all sorts of grazes, lacking Verai’s care when it comes to dodging the swords, and it doesn’t help that the assets aren’t even frozen properly. He nearly trips from a cheese wheel that actually wobbles.
They didn’t have time for this.
A tendril of oily black shoots out from under the shooner, reaching for Verai. Of course, it couldn’t be fucking easy.
“Duck!” Kazuki hisses, yanking the swords around him. He goes through three before finding one that actually moves, ripping it out of the air and flinging it at the tendril.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
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Post by Kazuki on May 15, 2023 3:34:04 GMT 9
Sprigatito does not understand! The voice sounds exactly like Kitten’s, but he’s still getting slapped! He matches his friend’s shrieking, only to find himself pawing air, and then his entire self airborne. Then comes a heavy THUMP, and he finds himself faced with Purrai as they’re released from the bag.
Sprigatito hops out, only to gasp at the sight of his trainer slumped on the floor of the wagon. <Kazuki!> He squeaks, pawing at Kazuki’s as if he were beating dough, on the verge of tears. <Are you dead?! Please don’t be dead! Pretty please!>
At last, the man stirs, swatting away the paws from his mouth. “Quit it,” he hisses, blinking, only to squeeze his eyes shut. “Son of a bitch… M’gonna kill ‘em…” His wrists hurt. He wiggles his hands and finds them bound like Verai’s. Sprigatito’s eyes widen, and with a look of determination, he bares his fangs.
The wagon comes to a stop. Mutters come from the front. The heavy plod of boots as the driver hops down and heads to check the back. “Shut up back there! What the hell is going on?”
The man moves to pull the flap open, only to get immediately bodied.
Sprigatito pokes his head out of the wagon, seeing his trainer punching the driver unconscious on the ground. He looks back to Verai and meows cheerfully, <He’s awaaake!>
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You Can't Take Me
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Post by Kazuki on May 15, 2023 3:18:15 GMT 9
“Maybe.” Like Verai, Kazuki is looking up at the floating rain of cheese wheels. “That’s a lot of fucking cheese wheels.” He reaches up, grabbing one and trying to pull it down to—eat it, maybe. But the wheel of cheese refuses to budge, frozen in time and space.
“… Alright.” Kazuki looks over to the floppy doll making hopeful eyes at them. “What are we supposed to test exactly?”
Well, that’s helpful. “Seriously? No ideas? We don’t even know the commands.”
Kazuki scoffs. He pulls up the prompt and mutters to Verai beside him. “Yeah, no, that thing’s busted. Kill it.” A few error messages later, and a prompt is finally accepted.
SPAWN 999 SWORDS
Swords rain from above.
The doll squeaks, hopping here and there as the swords come clattering all around it. All swords that fall over Kazuki and Verai freeze several feet above before colliding.
SPAWN 999 CARS
Error, object not found.
SPAWN 999 CARRIAGES
The doll is quashed underneath a prairie shooner.
Kazuki, looking immensely satisfied with this, waves away the prompt. “Alright, Ver. Time to prove your arms aren’t just for show.”
A tower of babel composed of cheese wheels, swords, and carriages looms over them. It just barely reaches the barrier above.
“Get climbing.” Kazuki leaps, grabbing hold of the first platform: a cluster of cheese wheels surrounded by an outer layer of swords.
Past them, the prairie shooner starts to rattle.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
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Post by Kazuki on May 15, 2023 2:47:29 GMT 9
An airy chuckle sounds as Verai retaliates, the sound of haphazard splashing as Kazuki moves to dodge, a slight resistance at the end of Verai's blade as it grazes flesh—but their clash ends, and the water settles. Silence fills the cave once more.
Miraculously, there is no laughter as Verai curses him, though it’s no doubt a herculean effort. Watchful eyes observe Verai and his twitching ears, finding this to be a lot closer to a game of Red Light, Green Light than a battle.
A few heartbeats pass, and there comes a large splash on Verai’s left.
{Prompts} KAZUKI (BLACK BELT) - SNEAKY/CAREFUL - use a teammate to cover your attack
- attempt to conceal yourself - engage in distracting banter - attack from behind your opponent - try to blind your opponent - fake an injury - lay a trap
- create a distraction - observe your environment carefully - bide your time - wait until you're in position - carefully line up a precision shot - anticipate a move before it hits - take a hit on a non-essential part of your body - find cover
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 14, 2023 20:59:12 GMT 9
It's the training session, as promised.
The only noise that bounces off the echoing walls is Verai’s voice. There are no footsteps, and even the sound of breathing is being held back.
Kazuki tilts his head. His tongue is pinched between his teeth, killing whatever quip he had in store. The edge of his mouth hitched up in amusement as Verai prepares himself, the sound of a sword clinking into position, of feet planting themselves squarely, making tiny splashes in the water all around.
It’s very clear why Verai chose this arena, but it’s still too bad. The underwater cave is a deep, glittering aquamarine, its colors bouncing off amber stone. They dye Verai’s armor fetchingly, painting its silver plating and swirling engravings with ripples of cyan and orange, and only Kazuki can appreciate it.
Kazuki reaches forwards. He hasn’t moved from where he spawned, hasn’t given a sign of being anything but part of his environment. Being quite tall, he has no trouble reaching over Verai’s head, and without warning, yanks one of the man’s cat ears.
He’s delighted to realize it is soft.
{Prompts} KAZUKI (BLACK BELT) - SNEAKY/CAREFUL - use a teammate to cover your attack
- attempt to conceal yourself - engage in distracting banter - attack from behind your opponent - try to blind your opponent - fake an injury - lay a trap - create a distraction - observe your environment carefully - bide your time - wait until you're in position - carefully line up a precision shot - anticipate a move before it hits - take a hit on a non-essential part of your body - find cover
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
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Post by Kazuki on May 14, 2023 20:15:18 GMT 9
“So, I’ve got a question for you.”
Mudsdale blinks, pausing in the middle of her mud chewing to look at her trainer. The man had been busy corralling the rest of the team, and with two newly-evolved pokemon, she had assumed she’d be spending this break in peaceful solitude.
“You’re huge now. Even taller than I am,” Kazuki gestures. Mudsdale blinks lazily at him, continuing to chew, her ears over 2 heads above him. “So how come you've never given me a ride?”
Mudsdale pauses and squints. Kazuki squints back. They maintain this for 4 minutes in complete silence.
“… Look. A treat.” Kazuki takes out an apple. It’s huge. It’s an apple perfect enough for Wigglytuffs to kill for.
Mudsdale squints harder, but she swallows the mud in her mouth. Another stare-off ensues as the apple is slowly extended towards her, neither side ready to lower their guard, but Kazuki manages to put the apple in her mouth without losing any of his fingers. Mudsdale starts to chew at an excruciating pace, relishing in the sweet apple flavor.
She feels two hands rest on her back, Kazuki huffing as he tries to swing his leg over. He gets up to sit on her back, but barely has enough time to brace himself before Mudsdale crashes onto the ground.
“What the fuck?!” Kazuki yelps, nearly toppling off his horse, and is now dangling with half his body on the ground, his knee sore from bashing against a rock.
<Yo’re choo hevy,> Mudsdale points out, still chewing.
“Bullshit! You just don’t want to carry me!”
<Da hevyesh man on da plenet.>
“Get up!” She feels hands try to push her side, but it’s like trying to budge a brick wall.
Mudsdale swallows the apple and then lays her head down.
<It was too much. I am dead now.>
Kazuki groans, before collapsing on her side. “You’re not dead, you're having a food coma, you ass.”
Mudsdale scoffs. <Takes one to know one, trainer.>
MUDSDALE'S RARITY INCREASED BY +5 (UNCOMMON)
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
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Post by Kazuki on May 14, 2023 20:06:31 GMT 9
POKEMON | DATE | OLD RARITY | NEW RARITY | USED ONMudsdale | 14 May 2023 | +0 | +5 | Used Mudsdale | 29 June 2023 | +0 | +5 | Unused Steelix | 30 June 2023 | +5 | +10 | UsedMudsdale | 1 July 2023 | +5 | +10 | Unused Sprigatito | 2 July 2023 | +10 | +15 | UsedScorbunny | 8 July 2023 | +10 | +15 | UsedChimchar | 22 Feb 2024 | +10 | +15| Unused
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 14, 2023 18:54:30 GMT 9
“Yeah, I don’t want to hear complaints from the guy whose nipples aren’t about to fall off,” Kazuki hisses, arms wrapped around his bare chest, his entire body wracked with shivers. He knew the arena would be cold—it’s a fucking ice field—but he’d been betting his old Kindler class would still apply. He’s not sure if it does, but it’s doing him no favors regardless.
<We’re fighting that?> Combusken points, looking past their ice floe to the massive Glaceon looming above them. The creature stares unblinkingly for a moment, only to suddenly shoot.
Large hunks of icy spears come raining down on them. Combusken and Pignite brace for the attack as best as they can alongside Kazuki, all three dropping down to the ice. Kazuki hears Kitten’s yelp and a thump nearby, blinking over his shoulder to see Verai already on the ground.
Kazuki chuckles despite the rain of ice knives and calls out: “You’re the one who wanted the cat, remember?”
Verai’s team takes the first move. He recognizes Verai winding up for an attack and waves his team down to stand by. The less obstructions on the field, the easier it’ll be, since the armorer has yet to fully grasp his new senses.
And then Kitten leads the charge with an unholy scream. Combusken and Pignite stare, slack-jawed, as the tiny cat proceeds to initiate a near-flawless flying kick despite being quadrupedal. It’s strong enough to jar the towering Glaceon, its massive paws scraping against the ice. They look back to Kazuki, who shrugs as if saying Yeah, she’s just like that.
Verai finally takes his swing, jabbing straight into the Glaceon, whose attention is ripped away from the rest of the field. Opportunity.
Before he can call out the order though, Verai’s last cat turns to him. His eerie eyes glow, dragging some kind of light ribbon from Verai’s armor and weaving it over his handwraps. When he clenches his fists, he feels imbued with power.
Kazuki grimaces. “You are so damn creepy. I do not regret getting rid of mine.” He refers, of course, to the espeon he had pawned off for Pignite, whose ear twitches at the sound of this conversation.
Kazuki punches his palm. “Our turn! Chick, follow my lead. Pig- the front leg- make it fall!”
Combusken and Pignite roar in agreement. All three surge forwards, sprinting over the snow. The Glaceon howls, still shaking its body in an attempt to dislodge the sword.
The first to pull away is Pignite. With heavy steps pocking the snow, he reaches the Glaceon’s left foreleg, reeling back his fists. Steam puffs out of his nose before he lets loose a flurry of open-palmed ARM THRUSTS.
The Glaceon lets out another loud cry, sweeping down to try and capture Pignite in its jaws. The slam of its heavy paw causes the floe to crack, Kazuki using the shattering ice to launch himself in the air. His arm is glowing, covered in sweeping ribbons of fire, much brighter than they usually would. He aims the FIRE PUNCH between its eyes.
Combusken follows suit, kicking off the ground and getting a much higher elevation. Airborne, above the Glaceon’s head, she twists, slamming a DOUBLE KICK on its cranium.
GLACEON used ICE SHARD on Pignite, Kazuki, and Combusken! la_8cPpn2d30
PIGNITE used ARM THRUST! 1d150+40 [(10) rare + (20) super effective + (10) subclass bonuses]
KAZUKI used FIRE PUNCH! 4d20+200 [(15) very rare + (20) super effective + (10) buff from Sphinx + (5) prompt bonus] x2 RECOIL (530)
COMBUSKEN used DOUBLE KICK! 4d20+160 [(10) rare + (20) super effective + (10) subclass bonuses] x2 RECOIL (378)
Team Stats Pignite: 456/500 -34 from glaceon -10 from exhaustion
Kazuki (Black Belt): 102/250 -68 from glaceon (x2 from RECOIL) -80 from exhaustion
Combusken: 102/250 -68 from glaceon (x2 from RECOIL) -80 from exhaustion
GLACEON: -397/800 2d30·1d150+40·4d20+200·4d20+160
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
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Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
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Post by Kazuki on May 14, 2023 14:32:42 GMT 9
He lands in the splash of water unceremoniously. Kazuki sputters, getting up, only to slip once more once he realizes the water is littered with green worms.
A pidgeotto comes launching down from above. Attempting to evade, Kazuki dives, but it turns out birds can fucking swim now, and he can see a flurry of beaks reaching for him.
He takes out a pokeball, releasing a massive serpent in the water, directing through a very simple game of worm charades the move he wants.
Gyarados doesn’t seem too sure of this tactic, but obliges: the water current drastically shifts as he uses WHIRLPOOL, flushing down the birds.
GYARADOS USED WHIRLPOOL
Prompt 75: [Tower]pCoBGVCt1d50 1d50
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
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Post by Kazuki on May 14, 2023 2:34:37 GMT 9
The newcomer doesn’t take well to his nickname, and Kazuki is quick to amend it. “Understood. From now on I call you Princess Mew-… Myu... Moo-in?” He snorts. “How do you even pronounce it? Meowin’.” The deadpan on that pretty face is only fueling the shit-eating grin on Kazuki’s. There hasn’t been a single crack in the player’s façade, and he’s very curious to see if he can find one.
Mudsdale grimaces at Fern’s response. Before she can refute him, the ninetales takes the first move and proceeds to bathe the little electric pony with red-hot flame.
<Stop!> Mudsdale brays, galloping in front of Fern to protect the much younger Blitzle. The sound of the little trainer calling out its name only strengthens her resolve.
<If we are going to fight them, we have to exercise restr—> A FLAME WHEEL suddenly careens towards her, hitting her back leg. The flames burst on impact, revealing Chimchar, who proceeds to cling and climb.
<I’ll teach you to mess with my team!> the little monkey cries.
Mudsdale neighs. <Get off! Get off right now!> She’s panicking, but not out of pain or fear. Tiny monkey hands scramble up her leg as she bucks, feeling ticklish.
“Do we have to? I mean—” Kazuki pauses, looking away from Muin to see the current state of the battlefield: which is that his pokemon has completely disobeyed his orders, and is now going on to BULLDOZE the field, getting in the way of her teammate and inefficiently trying to remove a monkey from her ass.
He purses his lips. Then turns back to Muin. “So, I was saying, we don’t have to name him. He’s already got a dumb name. And if we do have to name him, I’m pawning that off to you. I’m not taking custody of that.”
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 14, 2023 2:07:15 GMT 9
But the Steppes had spoken, and it said no. The first thing that bursts out as they return is a giant… nose?
“Stop smelling like fresh bacon,” Kazuki hisses, shaking Tepig in his hands, who continues to be lost because he has literally done nothing wrong in his young life.
The walking nose sniffs in their direction. Sniffs with enough force to pull the grass.
“NOPE,” Kazuki says, checking out harder than he’s ever checked out thus far. He books it down the steppe, resolving to dunk Tepig donut-style in the first pool of mud he finds. spawn reset
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on May 14, 2023 1:47:32 GMT 9
They manage to escape the enraged bird, Tepig tucked against Kazuki as they take cover in random brittle trees and outcrops of stone.
When the coast is clear, Kazuki returns to the open. There’s a few feathers sticking out of his hair.
Tepig glares up at him. <What am I supposed to train against?> He’s getting impatient. He just wants to fight now, to fight anything.
“Something that won’t have us jogging back and forth from the shrine,” Kazuki responds as he uses his free hand to pick the feathers out of his hair.
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