Collaboration: The Gods and their Angels (Closed. We've Begun.)

[Safe in the Dark]

Vermilion chuckled to himself. "Underestimating me, is like underestimating the cold hands of Death himself as he wraps them around and squeezes." As he spoke he spun the Scythe into a combat ready position, as as it moved the air itself seemed to pulse slightly."Besides, harvesting two for the price of one? That's a bargain I don't want to pass up." His bright yellow eyes stared his would be opponent up and down."Again, this really is a shame. Alas, I'll get this done quickly. Have at you!" Vermilion charged at a nimble pace raising the temperate Scythe.

Acting all high and mighty just isn't my thing, but hell if it ain't fun.

 

[Fury Is Me.]

"AR-12-84... Sounds harsh. Priscilla. I'll call you Priscilla. Haha. It's certainly a pleasure to meet you, my new Champion." Asmodeus couldn't stifle a short laugh. "Oh, but anyway, it's been too long since I've talked to anyone. Far too long, and i suppose the way i look now isn't the most pleasant. Heheh. Let's see..." With a small crack, Asmodeus flipped her head so that her crying eyes were upright and her mouth below. With a few more cracking sounds, her head began to shrink to a size more proportional to the body, and the balleen parted to make rows of short, white "Teeth" Though still made of balleen. Her face smoothed out to a more feminine appearance and she now looked like the doll of a small girl, only with the thousands of hands still emerging from a large mass on its back and it's head still suspended by a noose. As it talked, it made it obvious that her mouth was still a cut in her throat, but there was only one tongue right now.

"There, there there. Haha. I guess this looks more pleasing, no? Yes? Maybe? Ah, but i'm just rambling now, of course it does. It should make it easier to speak to me, heheh. Ha. Now, down to business, Priscilla..." Asmodeus' eyes spun around once and some of the dolls around her moved like they were chuckling, though no noise was made. A dainty hand came down from the ceiling again, its fist clenched, and move to Priscilla's face. Upon opening it, there was nothing at first, but then, something began to "Phase" Through the palm. It was an eye. An artificial eye with a shining gold iris. "Hahah... One more machine part shouldn't kill you... should it?~ Should it? Should it? Haha..."

Meanwhile, with Raziel, a hardy looking man raised his hand. "Let's fight them off. If we're gonna be attacked, we should give em hell."

 

[LevROLL]

Another survivor, a smaller and more timid man, summoned the courage to push in front of the speaker. "No!" He plead. "They'll come here. You know they will. You have to protect us!" His cowardice was so palpable, you could likely taste it if you tried.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

Sehnsucht sighed, unfolding her arms.
It was rather stupid to allow him to come this far, so much for trying to avoid conflict. Alas, he may be strong but these powers know very little lim-
Yes, yes, yeeeeeeees~~~! Heeeeeeee~~~ We can't play without the playthings~!
Suddenly, doubling over in pain, Sehnsucht gave a pained groan before her eyes began to flicker intensely.
Why...? You don't...need to...-
Schadenfreude straightened taking Sehnsucht's place and gave a large grin, her teeth already looking visibly sharper, once kempt nails now serrated claws.
"Hello~~~! I do love visitors~~~!"
With that the demented being took a fighting stance and raised the claws, charging towards the intruder.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Raziel nodded to the man who had spoken.

"Ser Geoffrey," Raziel said, turning a weary gaze towards him, "Once I would be inclined to agree with you, and would have charged off without a moment's hesitation... but there are too few of us to risk it... if we are to wage war... I will do so alone. I do not want to risk anyone's safety here. I do not know for certain if the Others will ever really come here. Perhaps if we stay out of this, we may stay out of harm's way. Or, perhaps if I tried to appeal to their reason. Maybe. Hmm... on the other hand, if I wage war and win... we might have a new home..."

Raziel trailed off and started pacing around the room again. After a moment, he held up his left arm and unsheathed the Reaver, illuminating the entire room with its elder-green light, which seemed both to flicker like a torch, but also held an uneasy air of permanence to it. Raziel fixed his gaze upon the phantom blade for several moments before sheathing it again. And then Raziel started pacing through the room again.

Then he heard the cry of help from the smaller, timid man. Raziel walked towards him, and gently placed his claws on the man's shoulders... in an attempt at sympathy.

"I know, it pains me to do so but... if I must go to war I must, Daniel," Raziel backed away from the man, "And the rest of you? Lady Aude, Miss Yennifer? Ser Alistair? What say you?"

 

[Safe in the Dark]

"The crazy ones always make for the funnest fights..." Vermilion quipped with a grin as he quickly faked out and used Spacial rend to swerve to the side before sending a barrage of Spiritual wisps in the direction of Schadenfreude. "Now, make this worthwhile or I'll get bored!" Vermilion grimaced as he managed to stay the same distance away using his space rending.

The large Black man of the group raised his hands. "I dunno y'all at times like this I'm the one who get eaten first." Alistair spoke up aware of horror cliches.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

"Crazy~~~? How mean~~~!" Schadenfreude giggled uncontrollably, landing on all fours, falling for the fake out, the claws scraping against the ivory tiles. In a quick move, the spring heels were discarded and a large tear was made in the grey overdress to increase mobility.
The grin grew larger, noticing the wisps coming towards her,
"Fireflies~~~! Don't touch the fireflies or you'll die~! Heeee~"
Still on all fours, Schadenfreude bolted for the intruder, allowing herself to dodge and in an oddly graceful flair, cause the wisps to stop with an extended hand, leaving them levitating as the bordering on hysterical woman continued to charge for her prey.

...What is she doing? His tactic is obvious. Give me back my body before you do something regrettable!

 

[BoosterGold]

"You wanna dance with the Doctor boys, come on lets fraking dance, Bitches!" The Metal Man shouted, as the minions swarmed him. He formed a comically large nine iron and slaughtered the minions in waves. "FOUR!" he shouted as he smacked a group into the far wall where the exploded for absolutely no reason.
After another 1000 or so waves of the Endless's minions he figured it was time to bring the sword back to the Endless...he just needed to find the Endless.
"Hmm bet way to find someone is to run around the castle and smash important looking shit, hoping that I either find the Endless or he finds me." he thought out loud.
The next few hours were spent smashing everything in the Endless's Domain with extreme prejudice.
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Lady Aude, spoke up, " Mesa agree wif da Advanced Darkness disa no besa a good idea." she said a she flailed about like a mad woman. Lady Aude thought that Raizel, was quite possibly the most idiotic champion, though she heard rumors of a crazy old guy who might be more of a bother then this idiot. She didn't dare say that out loud though

 

[Zirat]

As the eye was produced before her, it didn't take a genius to put two and two together. She the eye in her hand. It felt non-existent, if that could be a descriptor. "So, unless you expect me to grow a third eye-socket on a whim I'm to make a replacement, is that what you're getting at?" She said without emotion. "Well then, I'm more than willing to oblige" she said, turning her back to the doll-master. She couldn't help but notice that some of the dolls along the wall seemed to crane their heads for a better view. She brought her hand up to her eye
In her mind, a notice popped up with a little stylized and heavily caricatured spider looked up disgustingly adorably from the corner.

You seem to be removing a driver that is still in use. Would you like to deactivate it to avoid loss of data?
[Yes] [No]​

Opting for yes there was a slight click and a suddenly her right eye lost it's gleam and her vision from it was suddenly turned off. She carefully reached a thumb and forefinger along the side of the eye. Pinching down she gripped and pulled, it easily detached from her socket, and revealed the internal circuitry surrounding the smooth area inside her skull. Turning back to the now sized down Asmodeus.

"Very well, you don't make it through life without losing a few bits and pieces along the way" she remarked as she held an eye in both hands. "So, you want to trade is that it?" She said, offering the removed, synthetic eye.

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Miss Yeniffer looked up, straightening out her rather low cut dress that left little to the imagination. "Oh... I don't know. Won't going out there bring horrible stuff right back at us? I think we should stay here and try to build up what we can".
"After all, with all these big, strong men we can't go wrong, right?" She said, eyeballing SIR Geoffrey up and down and up again

 

[Safe in the Dark]

Vermilion grinned as he let space move again so that they were getting close to each other again."Ah, those expendable souls do as little as I expected., Regrettable..." He then stomped one foot into the ground and a scream was heard as a rift appeared and an open Iron Maiden was now facing the madwoman barreling at him."Now just be a doll and give it a hug!" He said he inhuman eyes glowing brighter as his excitement peaked.

 

[Fury Is Me.]

Asmodeus chuckled. "I thought that would be a bit more bloody and painful. Glad to see it wasn't~ Keeping you moral up is good. Good good good~" the same hand that gave Priscilla the eye now took her old eye and pushed it against one of Asmodeus' more tentacle-like appendages, where it was slowly integrated. She beckoned with one outstretched hand and attempted a smile. "Now would you like me to put it in? Or would you prefer to?~"

Suddenly, while Raziel was conversing with his few remaining survivors, a sudden torrent of white haze came down in a funnel at a breakneck speed, slamming right over Sir Alistair. When it parted, Sir Alistair was nothing but bone bits and scraps. Quickly, the same fate struck the other four and, on the last one, Lady Aude, a figure appeared. IT was made of white, wispy haze and had no different coloration, so expressions were impossible to make out. The only noted thing was that it was perfectly human in appearance, and it bowed to Raziel before speaking in a hollow, whispery voice that managed to amplify itself to be heard without being close to Raziel. "Hello. Don't worry about your followers. They're dead now. Before anything ugly starts happening, and before the questions start, you seem to be in a bind. would you like me to deal with the threat so that we made speak in quiet?"

 

[TheDoctor455]

Raziel jumped back from the strange figure before him.

"I... damn you! They were the last of my world!" Raziel pointed at the figure with his left arm, "They were all I could save!"

Raziel unsheathed the Reaver without moving his arm, now the tip of the phantom weapon was directly under the strange figure's throat (or whatever passed for one).

"I should kill you where you stand..." Raziel glared at the figure, unsure of what to say or do next.

 

[BoosterGold]

"OH nosa mesa Dead, itsa masa Bad juju" said the Ghost of Lady Aude

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

STOP NOW! YOU INGRATE!
Gaining back some control Sehnsucht stopped the oblivious madwoman in her tracks, seizing her hands and stopping the frantic feet. Making the body tumble onto the ground, landing a few feet before the torture device.
"Heeeey~ It's not your turn yet~!" Schadenfreude scowled, moving her arms in protest, stopping when catching eyes on the iron maiden, the grin returning with an almost loving look in her eyes,
"Oh~ So pretty~ I will not hug such a beauty, but I will keep it after you go into my special box~" she sang, getting back onto all fours and sizing up the man, seemingly working out in her delusional mind the best way to gain both a new playmate and a new toy.

 

[Fury Is Me.]

The hazy figure laughed, head bobbing up and down as Raziel held the sword to his throat
"There were many people in this world who were the last of their kind and they've died too. I've not come for a fight with you. A fight i would surely win. I merely came to speak. Now, would you like me to take care of your current problem or not?"

 

[LevROLL]

The noise was raucous, and the loss regrettable, but The Endless yet had more important matters. We will meet soon enough, interloper, The Endless smiled, his regal, chiseled face split as his stony mouth appeared from beneath his flowing beard.

Concentrating on the mass of dead and defunct creatures laid out before him, The Endless raised a single, stony hand, fingers extended. A large pile of corpses began to shake slightly, then more violently. Suddenly, the entire pile burst into a fine mist of particles. The Endless closed his outstretched hand into a tight, white fist. The mist spontaneously collapsed on itself and produced a loud, piercing sound, a bright light and a large amount of heat, pouring off in waves and bombarding The Endless' unfazed body. With a final burst of smoke, a new formed Aberration stood before him.

It was a tall, lanky creature covered in black scales sporting nasty spikes. It's main head rested upon thin, nearly nonexistant shoulders, it's green, beady and unblinking eyes unrelentingly observant. More heads appeared at the end of long limbs that could have been hands, except there were dozens of them spread over it's thin body. It stood on dozens more spindly, kneeless legs. It hissed quietly as The Endless inspected it. "Good," he muttered, stroking his stony, white beard and nodding. "Take two others and find the intruder. Stop him." A hundred pairs of dark eyes nodded acquiescence in unison. The Aberration slithered off into the wall and disappeared.

That should slow him, The Endless thought, watching the beast crawl away. Turning his attention back toward the corpses, The Endless couldn't help but chuckle -inadvertently shaking his Empire- and think, But for how long?

 

[TheDoctor455]

Raziel turned to Miss Yenniffer and gazed at her... when he still had eyes, this would have been merely creepy... now that he only had glowing empty sockets, the effect was more like he was staring right through Yennifer and straight into her soul. The effect was unintended of course, but there seemed little Raziel could actually do to avoid it.

"I had no intention of taking anyone with me into this battle, should the need prove urgent," he said to her in a mental voice that he hoped would sound patient and calming, "And if I must leave, I will do my best to ensure that none of the Others will ever find this Domain... though... I fear of what might happen if I should be utterly obliterated. Before, my former master kept this realm in form... but... now I can only assume that I am the only entity keeping this place in check. So if I go out to battle, I will also have to find a place for all of your to hide. Or... perhaps... I could attempt to parlay with the Others. Perhaps they can be reasoned with... or maybe such an attempt would be fruitless. I must... consider..."

Raziel sat down on the ground, resting his torn arms on the shattered remains of his legs. Then, his sockets went dark, as if he had closed them.

Spoiler: Guy

Stuff happened. see my last post.

Spoiler: OOC

I know, I already fixed it. Looks like three people ninja'd me while I was typing that. Oh well. BoosterGold still needs to fix their post though.

 

[Zirat]

"No." Priscilla said quickly. Even if it does mean well, which odds are it doesn't, there was no way she was going to let that thing touch her if she could avoid it. "No, I can manage just fine if it's any difference to you" she said as she looked at the eye. It seemed... wrong but what else could be done. There was no way around it, and walking around with the targeting retina up as an impromptu eye patch was not much better. It slid in disturbingly well, and seemed to root itself in there. She contained a shudder as she tried to move it, but no sight was coming to her.

"Now, was there a reason behind this? Or do you just enjoy depriving your workers of part of their senses?" She responded in a bored tone, though was hoping she did not just blind herself on the whim of Asmodous for little to no reason other than a brand.

 

[Safe in the Dark]

Vermilion chuckled heartily at the contorting figure."This has been fun... Buuuut..." Then then stomped again and an Iron maiden appeared from above and was rapidly dropping on the female form."Aurevoir, It's been... Interesting to say the very least." The champion sighed and shrugged."What a shame."

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

Moments passed in quiet until groaning from under the weight of the iron maiden, Sehnsucht lifted the torturous instrument and panted. Tears and dark maroon streaks all over the body. Spikes digging into the palms of the hands. The maiden was thrown off of her and near the window where this whole fiasco had started.
"That's quite enough of that." She said in a cold breathless tone, regaining her composure and standing.