Cannon fodder (fantasy superpower rp) (closed, started)

[Lunar Templar]

"Do you feel anything strange? Because I have been feeling a bit strange ever since I attacked the shaman's shield."

Karen shook her head "i feel fine, well, a little sore from where the troll hit me, but other wise, fine" she said motioning to the bruise on her back. "i kinda have a weird tingle, its not the venom from the spider thing ether, it started after i hit the shield to" Rias said

 

[nuba km]

The trents voice went quite and raspy.
[HEADING=3]'your are a fool, the forest treated you like everything else, and your body was beaten, and you survived by the skin of your teeth. Instead of ensuring victory you sought glory against a behemoth. On top of that you dare to call me a sapling thinking you had to tell me the unique tell of the man who took on the world. You have the arrogance of many before you, and after all their attempts the world is still left standing.[/HEADING]

 

[maninahat]

Bom leapt at the sound of the Trent's voice. If he could have been able to sweat, he'd be doing it right now.

Luckily, the trent didn't seem too angry at them, but Fromanzio was already trying to square up to him. The lunatic. He heard Rias and William discuss the shield. They must have been on to something, because, now they mention it, he had been feeling something similar. It wasn't something he wanted to dwell on right now though. The issue of Fromanzio starting another fight with the trent seemed far more pressing.

 

[drmigit2]

'your are a fool, the forest treated you like everything else, and your body was beaten, and you survived by the skin of your teeth. Instead of ensuring victory you sought glory against a behemoth. On top of that you dare to call me a sapling thinking you had to tell me the unique tell of the man who took on the world. You have the arrogance of many before you, and after all their attempts the world is still left standing.

Fromanzio was getting back to his old self again at the promise of violence and laughed. "And yet here Fromanzio stands before you. Despite your best concentrated efforts, you have failed unwise one. The shamans lay dead, many creatures have died all because of your failure to manage your own territory. You couldn't even handle a single sophronious without conscripting us to do your work for you. Absolutely pathetic and you dare to claim Fromanzio arrogant? You are but a blind waste of time. Go rot somewhere else."

 

[nuba km]

[HEADING=3]'I have shown you only mercy, the carnivorous tree and raptor monkeys had nothing to do with me. I merely made it difficult for a man who has taken the lives of so many, with so little thought, once he got himself in to trouble. I also informed you I can not take the life of a man who has not taken one directly himself. You chose to fight a creature of unmatchable strength, with flimsy knives, you are arrogant.[/HEADING]
The trent was getting impatient with fromanzio, he had seen enough death today, he didn't want to add yet another body to the count.

 

[drmigit2]

Fromanzio laughed again at his remarks. "Mercy? How would you know Fromanzio could survive such a fall? You have attempted to kill a man and have failed and then refuse to acknowledge such a failure on a grand scale. Go rot someplace else."

 

[Lunar Templar]

Rias sighed at the exchange between the two and walked up to the Trent "if i may cut in, your wasting your time trying to reason with Fromanzio, so much so we don't even try anymore, he's just one of 'those' people." Rias said, clearly tired " you'd literally have better luck convincing a rock to fly on its own them get this degenerate to admit he's done anything wrong, or that he's been a bigger liability to the group then a help"she added, before turning to Fromanzio "and you, all your stupid 'revenge' quest is doing is digging all of us deeper into a hole, or are you to stupid to see that"

 

[drmigit2]

"and you, attack the Trent again and I'll help him kill you"

Fromanzio bursted out in an even larger bout of laughter. "You can hardly even stand! Yet you think you can fight? This is rich! Rich! This faux noble thinks she can fight while she can at her best cast a jeer. Fromanzio has seen tougher Sophronious in the forest! Like the shaman he stabbed! That guy had some guts! Key word is had."

He seemed to have forgotten the tree even existed. Subsequently, he would also not hear the next thing the ent uttered.

 

[nuba km]

[HEADING=3]'I hopped to make your death quick and up to chance, I have not seen a man survive being crushed, but many survive being thrown.'[/HEADING]
The trent started walking slowly and casually walk up to fromanzio.

 

[drmigit2]

Fromanzio turned around to see the tree was walking up to him. A mistake Fromanzio could not waste. He jumped between the ent's legs, tossing an explosive bomb directly up at the ent's eyes as he did it. This time he would hit. This time the ent would burn.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Rias saw Fromanzio's move and tryed to converted the fire burning the fuses to energy, leaving them to harmlessly bounce off the Trent, she how ever, couldn't see exactly where the bombs where to convert then and by the time she had a good guess, they exploded

 

[nuba km]

The moment fromanzio's bomb left his hand the trent swapped places with a tree, leaving fromanzio's bomb to blow it up, shortly before fromanzio landed a root shot out the ground piercing straight through fromanzio's chest, piercing his heart, leaving his lifeless body hanging above the ground.

[HEADING=2]'I hope this teaches you what happens against the impossible odds.'[/HEADING] The trent said looking at the group.

 

[drmigit2]

Fromanzio looked up at the sky. He hardly even felt the stab, he had been through worse. It was then that they sky became darker and billowy and Fromanzio knew what had happened.

His fire bombs were made with white phosphorus, an element that ignites when exposed to air and when smothered, will reignite on its own. The floor had probably been smoldering since the night and had now reached the status of a massive fire across multiple areas of the forest.

"Oh my! You don't know what phosphorus is? Shame, imagine how much has already burned while you persued Fromanzio. Some leader you are! Hahahaha!"

 

[hiei82]

Claire had been watching the fight, letting her anger build. She stood up, knowing it was a horribly bad idea; one that would make her few friends, but needed to be done. Walking over toward the fight, she started to shout. "ENOUGH! Trent; the punishment you assigned Fromanzio was exile! Your actions are killing him! This may be your forest, but I hold ALL people to their WORD and the LAW; and YOU ARE BREAKING BOTH! YOUR ACTIONS REFLECT POORLY ON SOMEONE YOUR AGE!" she called out letting the first target of her rage let him have it.

Then she turned to Fromanzio. "Fromanzio! I have had enough of your misguided attempts at revenge. We are walking into a battle field filled with mages at least as powerful as the shamans we just fought, from which there is almost no chance of return; WE DO NOT NEED MORE ENEMIES! If you insist on following this-" she said, pointing to the Trent still on top of him, "-clearly self destructive path, then do it on your own time; I'd rather take my chances against the mages with one less person then with an ally as likely to kill me as help! EITHER STOP THIS INSANITY OR LEAVE!"

This brought her to her third target; Rias. "Rias! Until Fromanzio makes his choice of revenge or honor, HE. IS. OUR. ALLY! Could you really, truly, live with yourself if Fromanzio DIED because of YOUR actions!?! If so, YOU'RE AS IRRESPONSIBLE AS THE "INSANE CLOWN" YOU HATE SO MUCH!" she said, her anger expressed in the most diplomatic way she could.

Now to hope they all just shut up and moved on.

Spoiler: OOC

Charisma 8; if I had any more charisma, it would count as a super power.

 

[drmigit2]

Fromanzio froze at Claire's rants and thought for a second. This tree might be a bit out of his league at least in the forest. He put his knives away for a moment and said to everyone "Alright, she has a point. Even for me this is stupid. You can't even feel pain can you sappy? What a waste of my time. Yeah go back to the trees and we are going to leave."

Fromanzio dodged past the tree. He glared at Rias and said "Fromanzio doubts you understand what you have tried. You have now opened a whole new array of possibilities for Fromanzio."

Fromanzio flicked a knife out and put it back in his pocket. At this point he was more pissed at Rias than anyone else. His rage over the tree being dust in the wind, his was now a fury at Rias that would come later.

 

[maninahat]

As one of Fromanzio's bombs sailed through the air, Bom felt the strange feeling again. It was something he couldn't quite put his finger on. He watched the bomb fizzle out mid flight and harmlessly deflect off the tree. It must have been a dud, but that wasn't what was distracting him. He eyed the explosive for a few more seconds, and then redirected his attention to the fight, which had once again gone horribly wrong for Fromanzio.

Then Claire stepped forward. Her verbal barrage was something to be reckoned with. It was that sort of eloquence which reminded Bom how much he liked humans, for all their bizarre quirks.

 

[maninahat]

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Spoiler: OOC

because it would be too much trouble for everyone to keep re-editing their posts around Fromanzio's...developments, Why not just just start again from the point where Fromanzio ends up killed? We could just ignore all the previous comments and continue the story from this point onwards.

Bom stared up at the body of Fromanzio. Death was of no concern to him, but a small part of him was sad to see the life of one of his comrades dwindle in an instant.

He turned to the Trent, but said nothing. He understood its actions, but didn't feel able to put anything into words.

He hung his head and asked the group.

"Where to now?"

 

[Lunar Templar]

Spoiler: OOC

works for me

Rias
Rias was naturally surprised the Trent just killed Fromanzio, but at the same time, she wasn't really surprised, "was that really necessary? i mean, yeah he was a dumb ass for thinking he could take on a Trent, and i fully expected something this to happen sooner or later. but still, seems a little needless" her tone was, indifferent for the most part, Fromanzio's death didn't bother her that much all things considered, but still seemed rather needless.

Karen

Karen didn't even bat an eye at what happened, to her it was simply the end result of an extremely stupid stunt, so she instead turned to Mr Bom "i'm not sure. doesn't William report in and we go from there?"

 

[hiei82]

Claire had been half way to yelling out for the pair of idiots to cease their fighting, when the unthinkable happened; with one mighty push, Fromanzio's chest was pierced in a particularly important location.

A thousand thought's ran through Claire's mind, as she desperately searched for a diplomatic solution to the event. There were few; and none could end without bloodshed; and lots of it. Damn it! she thought once more before drawing her blade - her honor would demand nothing less.

Striking a fencing pose, though her blade was ill suited for it, she called out to her now enemy. "TRENT! You have just killed a member of foreign ambassadorial mission! In killing him, you have violated not only the laws and punishments you had laid out before, but the law between our nations. Worse, you have worsened the state of both our human-nation defensive mission and the chances of our survival against the Mages. In that act you have committed a human rights violation, a violation of international law, and an act of war against the human-nation. You have one chance to make recompense to humanity for your crimes; and I will accept nothing short of your life!" she called out without hesitation or fear in her voice; though there was no lack of either in her mind.

She then formed a portal next to her arm, making it as large as she could until it was the size of a full shield. Then, as she knew she stood little chance against a Trent in one-on-one combat, she decided to add an insult to his honor - if only as a last word "I am Claire Rich'e Eris du Montaigne, and unlike SOME, my words are not lies and tricks - becoming of a dignitary!"

She awaited his response; one way or another his life would end today if she had any say in the matter. It's a shame, I would have preferred to be allied. she thought one last time before strengthening her stance.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Rias sighed at Claire's rant, most of which was over her head, she was an entertainer, not a diplomat, but still, she felt the need to say something, before some one she liked did something stupid, and possibly fatal.

"Claire, stop. just stop. what your doing is just as foolish and reckless as Fromanzio was for attacking the Trent to begin with, he brought this on him self, more over" Rias started, then pointed to Fromanzio's corpse "THIS, would have happened sooner or later, regardless. and there's one other thing your forgetting, we are not on a diplomatic mission, for all intent and purpose we are a 'special operations team', and one that was sent out to at best distract the enemy." Rias said, in a remarkably calm tone, if her prior rants where any indication. as she finished she'd started breathing a little heavier