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

[olza]

Ivaan heard what sounded like a ghoul being shredded behind him and turned around just in time to see the last of the gibs splatter on the floor around Rias.
"Thanks." He muttered, a little surprised that he didn't notice the creature get that close. I need to learn to multi-task.

"I'll be alright; go back to helping William; he needs it more than I"
Ivaan nodded to Claire and stood up, hurrying over to William.
"I can't draw any more energy. I'm spent. no more golems I'm afraid." Ivaan said as he walked up beside William, pelting a Manikin in the head with a rock.

Ivaan turned back to the approaching manikins, inspecting the closest one as it's head regenerated from his attack.
"I'm not sure blunt force will kill them." Ivaan stalled this thought to kick the creature away and back off a little as William approached it and began destroying it with an arsenal of ash weapons.
But the creatures just kept regenerating. It was horrible.

How to kill them for good... Dessication? Not possible. Burning? No fire. Hmm...
Ivaan looked up at the cracking ceiling as chunks of masonry fell around him.
crushing, perhaps? Ivaan lifted a fallen chunk of stone ceiling as big as he was from the ground and heaved it above his head. The theory warrants experimentation.
Ivaan swung the chunk and dropped it onto a manikin. The mass of decomposing flesh disappeared with a grim squelching noise.

"William, we might not have long before this whole place collapses. We need to kill the necromancer and get the hell out of here."

Ivaan caught sight of bom commanding his own undead, and Reetch destroying swathes of enemy undead with plant creatures.
I guess we're all growing.

 

[maninahat]

"William, we might not have long before this whole place collapses. We need to kill the necromancer and get the hell out of here."

Bom stopped pelting the crabs for a moment and gazed at Ivaan.

Collapse the whole place?

Bom turned to the others.
"Maybe we can collapse the ceiling. Bury Abumot and everything else!"

He looked around for any support structures or weakened masonry; anything that could be shoved through.

 

[Floris2123]

Abumot was hit by an bolt and William's spear, but he was still alive. He looked at Abumot, who also seemed very surprised. The flesh puppets also didn't seem to die, no matter how much he cut or crushed them. The golems began to slow down, but for now he was just able to make them move around. He glanced back to see Claire in a lot of pain, his heart dropped further as an horrible sense of guilt began to form inside of him.

"I can't draw any more energy. I'm spent. no more golems I'm afraid." Ivaan suddenly said as he walked up to him. "I'm not sure blunt force will kill them." He said as he kicked the creature. William made a ash scythe and chopped it in two, only to see it regenerate. "William, we might not have long before this whole place collapses. We need to kill the necromancer and get the hell out of here." Ivaan said sounding worried, he suddenly had an idea. "Maybe we can collapse the ceiling. Bury Abumot and everything else!" Bom suddenly said, William was unhappy that Bom had said the plan so loud.

William scattered the ash golems, and send the ash as an wave towards Abumot. It would hopefully reach him, and then it would bind him to the ground. William meanwhile used what ash he had left, to fill creaks and then begin to weaken the room around them from within. "Everyone we need to destroy this place, retreat towards the entrance and make sure Abumot is buried!" William said as he focused on making sure Abumot would be restrained.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Rias sighed 'Sure, why not, not like the situation is salvageable anyway...' she thought as she looked for a torch she could use, which she found, she had to cut her a path through the Manikins to get it but she got it "EVERY BODY OUT! I'M BLOWING THE SUPPORTS!" she shouted as she started gluing bombs to the supports with her power, each with a small orb with a piece of lit torch by the fuses, ready to light then soon as every thing was ready.

Karen, turned to Rias as she made her announcement, seeing she was already prepping the room for demolition 'get Reetch down, er .. please, we're pulling out' Karen thought toward the Unicorn, since it could get to him quickly, while she headed for the door.

 

[evilengine]

"Everyone we need to destroy this place, retreat towards the entrance and make sure Abumot is buried!"

Still clining to his perch, the Buvor heard the instructions shouted by his comrades. While it sounded like their best chance, he was still nervous about the possibility of Abumont somehow getting out. From here, he knew he could force down more roots and cause a cave in, but not only would it be dangerous for he and his friends but he was scared this necromancer would some day dig out. Whatever we do, we cannot allow that to happen, Reetch thought to himself.

Grabbing more of his seeds, Reetch aimed a handful at the downed Abumont. In a few moments the plantlife had begun sprouting and ensnaring him, like the crab monsters before.

"I can try and force the ceiling down from here!" Reetch called down to the others. "Though someone try to pin Abumont down, with weapons, with a big rock, anything! If we are to seal him in down here, we cannot risk him escaping!"

As alot of the ceiling had broken away already, there seemed plenty of large boulders and rocks lying around to do the job.

"Just say the word, Mr William, and I shall cave this place in for good!"

Spoiler: OCC

Seems we have two cave-in solutions, whichever is good for everyone, though I guess William ought to decide to go for Rias's demolition or Reetch's bringing the ceiling down

 

[Floris2123]

William pushed another puppet out of the way. "EVERY BODY OUT! I'M BLOWING THE SUPPORTS!" Rias sounded very serious, Karen headed for the door and so did the unicorn. Reetch then shouted "I can try and force the ceiling down from here....Just say the word, Mr William, and I shall cave this place in for good!"

William thought it over, but decided to trust the bombs for now. "Everyone make sure that Abumot is restrained, and then we will blow the cave up!" William used even more power to try and enhance his ash wave, and after that the ash prison.

 

[nuba km]

abumot used the remaining flesh to block williams ash and the remaining bones to cut reetchs plants to shreds. The manikins cut the crabs loose and flipped over the other crab. The unicorn ran through the manikins to below were reetch was ready to catch and carry him out of the way of the collapsing tomb. Abumot sat town and took a meditation position. The group could see his lips move but could not here what he was saying.

 

[maninahat]

Bom saw the meditating Yama. It occurred to him that Abumot was not going to let the group bury him alive, and that this summon was probably some kind of spell to protect against the cave in. Interrupt him!

He took one deep breath, lowered his head and charged headlong at Abumot. He smacked the Manikins to either side as he bowled through the crowd. When he got within striking distance, he leapt at the necromancer, hoping to tear out his throat. That'll stop his chanting long enough for us to bring the place down, he thought.

 

[hiei82]

Claire reappeared at the alter, her breathing heavy. Between her injury and her first self-teleportation, she wasn't feeling quite at 100% Fortuitously, Ivaan's little energy boost - in conjunction with the adrenalin pumping through her veins - was more then enough to up for a while yet. A few deep breaths later, and she began to look around.

"Damn" she muttered; the alter was empty. She'd hoped there would be some kind of magic idol or crystal or something on it; something she could break. Seeing nothing meant reverting to plan B. Claire reached for her blade, only to find air. "Damn" she muttered again; now her own echo. She'd lost the blade thanks to Abumot's lightning blast and her own portal; leaving her only option as the much slower crossbow or... something much more painful. "Great, guess I'm on to plan C" she muttered aloud and braced herself.

Resolving herself, Claire concentrated on the furthest of the eldritch signs drawn on the floor and opened a portal around it. "Now for the hard part." Claire said, mostly trying to delay herself the pain a few moments longer. Every other time she'd closed a portal, she'd maintained her concentration up to the last moment. As such, nothing had ever been harmed by the portals. That is, until her sword a few minutes ago. With a deep breath, she raised her still good hand into the air, then brought it down as hard and fast as she could on her injured arm - breaking her concentration and hopefully triggering the same effect that tore her blade to pieces - right on top of the magic sigil.

A second later, Claire wasn't sure if it had worked - she was too busy biting her lip and wincing. When the pain finally faded, she looked up at where the symbol had been; muttering "ow" as she did

 

[olza]

Ivaan didn't know how to interrupt meditation, but in the confusion he was the closest to the necromancer.
"Cover Me!" Ivaan yelled, charging through the undead, punching at a crab, fracturing the exoskeleton and crushing the brain, and charged through the Manikins.
Ivaan picked up another boulder, this one almost twice as big as he was, shook off a zombie that had been clinging onto it, and heaved the boulder over his head, throwing it with a roar to try and crush the Necromancer.
Ivaan didn't stay to watch it fall.

He turned to Will, who was about five or six metres away, and roared out three syllables; "Ash golem!"
When(if?) Will did it, Ivaan drew power from the surrounding undead and pushed it into the golem.
Ivaan was running on fumes. The golem barely flickered into life for a second before dying, but while it was alive, it managed to Pick up Ivaan and throw him bodily at the entrance to the tomb, at the bottom of the tunnel leading to the surface.

Ivaan landed in a heap, coughing and spluttering, and tried to get to his feet, before growling in pain and looking down at his leg.
There was a deep gash down the side of it. He would need help if he was going to escape up the tunnel in time.
Ivaan growled, wincing, "My leg..."
He began limping, slowly, up the incline towards freedom.

 

[Floris2123]

Abumot blocked his ash attack, and he hen began to chant. Bom then charged through the horde towards Abumot, William sent some of his ash to distract Abumot. "Cover Me!" Ivaan yelled as he also charged at Abumot. Ivaan singly handedly killed an crab with his fist, and then picked up a giant boulder. William had to remember to never anger Ivaan, "Ash golem!" he shouted.

William focused and made a very large ash golems, who Ivaan activated and used to throw him. Ivaan landed on the ground, and seemed to have injured his leg. He began to slowly walk up the stairs, William placed Ivaan's arm around his neck and began helping him up. He was helping a non human survive...he had never expected that to happen. "Everyone get out of here now!" He yelled as he was helping Ivaan. What was left of his ash, began shielding Claire from the flesh puppets.

 

[nuba km]

The bones used to cut apart reetch's plants through themselves at the boulder, causing a change in its path to change, bom could see the new path allowing him enough time to slow down enough so it landed just in front of him. This slow down allowed some of the manikins to turn into a tentacle that grabbed bom by the leg and throw him back towards the group.

As clair destroyed the signs on the floor nothing happened.

 

[hiei82]

Seeing no effect for her effort, Claire stared up into the hole in the ceiling and opened her portal, stepping through to the surface world. When she arrived, she started working her way to where she believe the tomb entrance to be.

 

[Lunar Templar]

With Bom and Claire out of the way Rias bolted to the entrance to the chamber, lighting the use on some twenty explosives she'd scattered around the room, making sure to light the ones at the entrance first as ran up to stairs she came down to get there.

 

[olza]

Ivaan huffed as He felt pain shoot up from his leg, and he gave Will a thankful look.
The camaraderie was cut short as he felt another bolt of fire shoot up his spine.
"Guuaahh, Reetch! Come on, get out of there and do your stuff!"
Ivaan hobbled a little faster, they were now about two metres out of the tomb, and into the cave leading to the surface.

 

[evilengine]

With a last twitch of his hands, Reetch weakened the earthy ceiling as best he could before clambering down the roots towards the Unicorn thing Karen had sent into the fray. With a careful leap, he landed slightly awkwardly onto it's back, gripping onto the animal's main he pulled himself back up before giving it a small spur-like kick with his hooves.

 

[Floris2123]

William was still surprised by his earlier action, of helping Ivaan. But sadly Ivaan was heavier then a human, and he began to feel his own exhaustion. "Guuaahh, Reetch! Come on, get out of there and do your stuff!" Ivaan yelled as he began to hobbled a little faster. They had finally exited the tomb, but they were still inside the cave. Still he had to do one thing before leaving, he began to gather all the ash behind him. He didn't want to leave all his ash behind, he was sure he would need it later.

 

[maninahat]

Bom grunted and picked himself up off of the hard stone floor. Luckily, the impact had only grazed himself down one side. Around him, the others were making for the exit, one way or another. Catching the message, he ran after the others into the cave. He managed to catch one last look back into the tomb as Rias lit the fuses. In the panic, he realised his hat as gone. It must have fallen off inside of the tomb. To late for that now, he thought.

 

[nuba km]

The explosives went off and the roof started falling in as it did the manikins fell apart and the flesh and bone started gathering in the area around abumot, but the sight of abumot was soon blocked by dust and smoke. The unicorn barley got reetch and itself out of the way of the stone rain, but as soon as it did it knocked reetch of its back using on of its wings. After the dust settled all that was left in front of the group was a 12-15 meter deep square hole in the ground filled with rocks, no sign of movement apart from some swamp water going over the edge of the land into the hole.

 

[Lunar Templar]

'That's ... actually really good to know' Karen thought as the Unicorn kicked Reetch off it, and helped him up, partly cause she realized she didn't know what to call it as it never introduced it self, and needed a moment to come up with something. "Don't kick Sleipnir, it doesn't like being ridden, and likes even less to be treated like a common animal when it does let some one on its back, just because it has to use me to relay it's thoughts doesn't make it a dumb animal, also, bear in mind the two of us are soul bound, apparently, so if I where a lesser person I could interpret an insult to Sleipnir as an insult to my self, so keep that in mind as well" she said then turn back to the Unicorn 'hope you don't mind me picking out a name for you, you kind never gave me one, and I don't remember ever asking come to think f it'

Rias stood at the edge of the hole, covered in dust since she was the last one out, just watching for signs of movement, as well as just not looking at William and deciding how to handle the insult he leveled against her in the tomb, which called many other things into question