We Are Our Avatars VI (Closed for Good)

[DotSlash]

Ness lightly shook her head. "It's just the way she operates. But if she found nothing in the man's house, then this was all a false lead all along. That's more what I'm worried about now, where do we go looking next for the next key?" Maybe if I can talk with Bloom again, I'd be able to see what she said were pebbles...

 

[Outisakanobody]

"Mmm...remind me, what are you looking for, and why?" Persephone asked as she glided over to Ness.
[hr]
I sigh and get into my suit, then head further south. Toward the cost. And Port Letosh.

 

[DotSlash]

Ness looked up toward the muse an sighed. "The keys to some ancient temples scattered across this continent. The first one that was opened showed that the major problem of this world: the inability of magic and technology coexisting could be solved. It was solved by a cult of all things. Why I want to open them is to try and find out how they went about creating the magic tech and how we could use it to bond the two warring nations together somehow. But, as I said, they're locked, and there are barely any hints to where the keys are."

The fedora girl slowly rose up out of bed and stretched. "I guess we should get to looking around again soon."

 

[Chungus]

"I see... Were they all armed? And could you make out what sort of weapons and armour they're equiped with?"

 

[Outisakanobody]

"Hmm...I wonder if these locks could keep me out..." Persephone said as she rubbed her chin.

 

[DotSlash]

Ness looked over and shook her head. "I'm not sure how the locks would react to you and your magic. As interesting as that sounds, I doubt Echo and Holly would enjoy hearing that something horrible had happened to you."

 

[Furioso]

"They were indeed all armed, as for their equipment, I did manage to figure out how they snuck up on me last time. They have some kind of camouflage that allows them to become invisible. You can tell where they are by a shimmering in the air, but it's very hard to see that. Otherwise, the soldiers appear to be very strong, have tough armor, and they have laser technology. They were building a wall around Rockbyrd too, and they were even setting up defensive turrets. These guys should not be taken lightly. It could be worth our time to capture a live one of them though, just to get at their tech, but they don't seem like the type to let that sort of thing happen." replied Envy

 

[Kirke]

(To Erica: It could be enchanted armour, controlled by the wizards. I'm not certain, but I think the knights stopped for a moment when the wizards were shocked. Purely speculation at the moment mind you, I these are all wearing something that blocks me from looking at their minds.)

The knights approaching Valentine were stunnded for a while, their bodies shaking as the struggled to stay up.

When Mild flew over the knight, he started a overhead swing to cleave her in half. Yet again saving her, the Rookie tackled the knight, bringing them both tumbling to the ground. One of the wizards saw this, and launched a black sphere the size of a tennis ball flying at high speed at the Rookie. It hit him in the side just as he was getting up, throwning him back down with a shout of pain.

The other wizard blasted Mild with Palpatine style lightning, but it was pitch-black and seemed to suck light into it.

The knight approaching Erica slowed down, getting covered with frost. He/she/it still tried to raise his sword to cut down Erica, though at the current speed it would likely not do much.

 

[Outisakanobody]

"I hardly need to use magic, I think." Persephone said smirking as she seemed to melt into a cloud of smoke.[hr]I eventually make it to this port town and look to see if there are any guards around.

 

[DotSlash]

Ness hmm'd slightly as she noted Persephone changing forms. "I'm still not sure... These temples are dangerous as well. We were attacked by some magic mecha-horse at the last temple we opened. What if you can't get the door open for me or Yuki to assist you if another guardian were to be inside?"

 

[Outisakanobody]

"You worry far to much about me, darling." Persephone said as she smoked over to Ness and reformed, still smiling.

 

[HatchyHatch14]

Black was observing Yukino as she looked through her bag she stole. "Interesting stuff you have there" she commented in her usual tone.

 

[DotSlash]

Ness scratched the back of her head a bit, still looking obviously iffy about the entire idea. "Well... if you're so confident about it, then we don't have a choice but to at least attempt it... Please be careful once we get to the altar. I'll bring Yuki along with us if I can." She concluded after a decent amount of time to think.

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Yuki's ears perked up a bit as she heard Black. [color=bb66bb] "Sure... No key though. It's a fucking pain, doesn't even look like there's a map or anything here. That huntress lady's been on an empty quest the entire time." [/color]

 

[Drakmorg]

Jessica was wandering around the grounds of the Shantaio palace, looking for signs of either Loki or Rita, hoping she hadn't slept so late that the two of them had already left once again. Though she still needed the use of a cane to get around for the moment, she seemed much more steady on her feet than the previous day.

 

[HatchyHatch14]

"Karma strikes again..." Black said sarcastically.

 

[Outisakanobody]

"Excellent! And I'm sure she'll want to come, even if it means not being able to look at that volcano she's so interested in." Persephone said with an airy joviality.

 

[Chungus]

"Good to know. You've done well. I'll let you know once it's time to move out and deal with this threat."
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Seeing the knights standing wobly on their feet, Valentine moved to the side of the knight on the right, jumped up and delivered a kick to the chest of the knight, attempting to knock him off his feet, sending him tumbling into the knight next to him. If sucsessful, she would follow up by throwing a fireball at them.

With the knight slowed down by the frost clinging to his armour, Erica could easily move out of the way before the sword connected. Are the knights undead, and the wizards necromancers? She mentally asked Tophat.
Seeing the Rookie get hit, she made it a priority to check if he was alright. Holding out her left hand infront of her, she raised a Ward. The magical barrier conjured up was as tall as she was, and looked like shimmering air, with a light blue glow at the edges. Running over to the Rookie, Erica unleased a small whirlwind of freezing cold towards the wizards, more meant to keep them from imediately attacking them anything else.

"How bad is it?" she called out to Rookie as sheapproached him, having forgotten he never spoke.

 

[Outisakanobody]

Ignore me!

 

[DotSlash]

Volcano? Why would she want to do that? "Surely. Tell me, Ms. Persephone, would I be able to teleport you along with me?" Ness asked as she extended a hand toward the muse as she informed Lyra of the situation using the commbead given to her.

[hr]

Yuki shrugged. [color=bb66bb] "Karma should've done a lot worse to me by now. Anyway, lead's gone, so what's next? Don't suppose you've got any ideas on how to crack an unopenable door?" [/color]

 

[Furioso]

"Sounds good, anything else I can assist with?"