Gerlando

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War, Second Thread

Nil

Mischief Reef/Đá Vành Khăn/Panganiban Reef - 11/01/2022 07:55 UTC+8

On their stay in Panganiban the Arms Masters would be enjoying a tranquil, albeit weirdly abrupt, vacation. Out of all members Nil was by far the fastest to get used to the new surroundings, one night sleep was the only thing required for her to promptly ignore all worries of previous and future missions, by the time they ended up on the atoll, her mind had already moved on.

The new morning Nil was already awake having forgoed the night’s sleep to instead sneak around and observe other people’s late night habits and, for those who went to sleep, what items they used before and after the night, with interest Nil mentally noted who preferred to grab a book, while others their phone and of course those who barreled straight to bed. Most in the team were probably not ready for her staying up at night and silently walking around the place, only to go to sleep at the least sensible times.

Just last time the month changed during mission off-time, and just like last time Nil did not realize it did.

Going out at an early hour for a 10 kilometer or so walk, Nil sneaked out as the rest of the team discussed with Zhao, he talked way too much and Nil had no intention of staying close to him.

The omnidirectional presence of the ocean was not at all comforting, but there’s only so much someone can spend indoors, especially when everyone else also went outside to enjoy the sun… or the beach… or whatever people did with their time, it was time to check it out.

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War, Second Thread

Near Mekong River - 10/25/2022

Taking a few steps back Nil regained some distance with the chinese arms masters, courtesy of Marta’s daring entrance. Even then Nil acted in a defensive, reactive manner, moreso trying to get away and not getting in the way of Marta or the flood of slush from Liu Xi’s Noble Arm.

Marta’s directions were acknowledged with no more than a nod, and as the nun moved forward to brawl Nil tried to find an opening between the kites from which to hit either of their opponents while avoiding Marta, not an easy task now that she had moved in melee.

But the series of unexpected issues was not over yet.

Deafening sounds had never been pleasant, and from the near explosion of a missile in Lingayen to the roaring of Qingshe’s 20-inch guns, recent missions sure haven’t been lacking in the ’ear-splitting blasts of doom’ department.

And, one more, the world became engulfed by the booming of the battlefield, then by the buzzing and the cacophony of the world taking over, making it difficult to see, to track the figures that were once enemies and allies.

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War, Second Thread

Nil

Mekong River - 10/25/2022

The shockwaves of staves smashing onto the ice walls could be felt from a fair distance away, most notably however was the fact they hit a wall that was not there a second ago, and also it did not create debris as it would with a wall of concrete, no this was a magical ice wall formed by a Noble Arm.

Running away was at this point more danger than worth, perhaps Marta did the right thing running from the very beginning.

Now the one who posed a threat was now the other Arms Master, extending from her arm were a series of strings emitting bright white light, closing in on Nil, that can’t be good. Fortunately the enemy Arms Master, still quite inexperienced with their new Noble Arm, tried to loop them around from decently far away by throwing them behind Nil’s arms and legs and then pulling them back towards her, with decent reaction speed and quick feet it was not too difficult to dodge.

But while backing away from Sui’s attacks the other Arms Master regained their balance and prepared to tag team their unfortunate opponent.

Combat this close distance isn’t Nil’s strong point, with the frantic dodging and lack of cqc training, well at least lack of cqc training her brain could remember. As she evaded the attack however she did not create more staves to launch and counterattack, a missed opportunity.

The original Stang was then moved to interject Liu’s snowball, not thrown at speed but just to get hit at 8meters or so away from Nil, if not stopping the snowball completely at least diminishing its effects and possible damage.

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War, Second Thread

Nil

Mekong River - 10/25/2022

In the few seconds before the landing Nil had the good instinct of activating her Noble Arm, not that it would save the boat or the other passengers but at least it would ensure the impact itself wouldn’t be much of a problem for her, all that needed to be accounted for were the bits and pieces exploding and stabbing from all sides.

But while the shock was no problem, a broken shin with a piece of steel stuck in surely is.
The pain sharply rushed up all the way up from the left leg, for a split second the outside world ceased to be made of things that can be seen but only that can be felt and heard. In a fuzzy return to consciousness Nil’s head filled with continuous, annoying buzzing, slowly she went through the motions of getting out of the crashed vessel, plane, glider maybe? Then as she crawled out, pain, static, not good, and pain from the left leg once again as the hydrenaline subsided, accompanied by a headache, not so much from the crash but from the continuous buzzing of sounds.

Slowly composed herself, if anything because she’s not meant to be loud during combat, especially without, no, the headphones broke… damn again… if they can’t make them anti-missile at least could they be anti-boat crash?

The rest of the crew? After getting out of the wreck only one more poor soul could be seen, at least someone else survived but it certainly doesn’t look like a safe landing, unless a car crashing into a concrete wall could also be considered safe.

But where was everyone else?

Nil knew there were other people in the boat, like Henri… aaand that’s the only person she knew the name of, actually who was this person who also survived the crash?

”Uh, where everyone?”
Nil quietly asked, as if expecting the other person to know, fortunately after a brief introduction and assessment of the situation the other Arms master revealed themselves to be a healer, and that would take care of the pain in the left shin, but not so much the increasing migraine. Of course a healer can’t bring back the rest of the crew either.

Anyway, it was not the time to dwell on those who weren’t here.

Walking around the camp was a struggle, but at least possible with a healed leg it was possible, not to diminish the torment of their surroundings, for most people it would be the tense sneaking as the ongoing carnage rages, taking away the lives they were supposed to save, for Nil however it was the accursed sounds of said carnage, fully automatic weapons accompanying screams of terror and madness, from literally every single direction.
Hands on her head Nil summoned various copies of Stang and tried to follow the nun in a quick firefight with some guards maddened by Noel’s power, launching a couple of them to quickly dispatch these foes with… yet… another… boom.

But of course the reverberations of gunfire did not stop, not while the entire camp and area around it continued to be an indiscriminate slaughterfest, but it was the sounds especially close that irked Nil the most, the almost omnipresence of screams of both maddened guards and the revolting prisoners, and the constant sound of rifles fulfilling their firey purpose both far and near.

All of it just stuck in Nil’s skull, at least the sharp metal was removed with enough pulling and blood, but this was just an aggravatingly constant ache.

”SHUT!”
The girl yelled as half a second later her voice was covered by the booming impacts of the glowing Noble Arm, fired to all directions from where sounds were once heard, no regard to differentiate prisoners from guards.
A mist of dust and blood all that was left from most shots, along with cracks of what once were walls now partially or fully demolished.

Fortunately the remaining guards were unable to recognise friend from foe and were too distracted shooting each other to be a real danger, but it was not like so for everyone, and sure enough the scene had attracted unwanted attention, if the flying boat hadn’t given them away already.

While the newly awakened Arms Masters approached, Nil was still recovering and trying to piece out the situation they were in, but after seeing the two PLA guards cutting their own to close the distance it quickly became obvious. The not super fast reaction eventually came as Nil formed three copies of Stang, preparing to engage the rookies.

But the real threat was from above.

Multiple scaldingly hot arrows rained down on the camp, accurate enough to endanger the ASEAN Arms Masters while sparing the PLA ones, these small flashes of light cleared the camp of many ravingly mad guards and the poor prisoners in the crossfire. Nil was almost thankful as the gunfire noise slowly became more distant, almost thankful, if everyone died it would be a failed mission and no one at HQ would be happy about it.

Nil tried to back away from the approaching enemies, and slowed down their advance by throwing her staffs, two on the boy with ice abilities and one on the girl with strings of light. As a flying Ai Chen suppressed the team, Nil just about missed her targets, but the impact blast would still be enough to rupture internal organs and cloud the masters perception with deafening impacts and a cloud of dust. Particularly Liu Xi would be hard-pressed to resist double the impacts.

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War, Second Thread

Nil

Mekong River - 10/25/2022

As Nil made her best attempt at staying immobile and less eye-catching as possible, the group’s stealthy approach failed dramatically, and as can be assumed they were now in the gutter. The Sun suddenly formed in the middle of the night, right in front of them no less, Nil scrambled to cover her eyes by turning her head and raising her neck-cover once more to cover her sight, and then took another second to bring it down after adjusting to the new light, while presumably everyone was already looking around.

Indeed even an unperceptive Nil could realize they had been surrounded, more by instinct than actual sighting of the enemy. Nil had a hard time staying calm between the boat rucking, the Sun in the night sky and someone tracking all the way back behind the boat, making the swaying of the vessel even more apparent, the situation had become tense as a guitar string, ready to snap at either side’s discretion, and indeed it wouldn’t be long before it did.

In a surprising move for which Nil was totally not prepared for, the whole boat catapulted to space with surprising acceleration along with the whole crew onboard.

Bracing yourself in the moment, or even just a millisecond before, was just not possible, the girl wacked her head on the back of the seat, fortunately the seats had the decency of providing a headrest to prevent extreme head whip.

’Shit bitch fuck fuck fuck’
Those were the only things that passed through her head at that moment, along with being the only swears she could remember, or many more would have come to mind.

If there was one positive at least the ‘driver’ had been careful enough not to launch them directly into the sun, plus the high view could be quite pretty for someone not as unnerved as Nil.

An Isekai Upon This Land of Accursed Tropes - a Naruto Mass-Isekai RP

It was extremely surreal, experiencing things after… death? a coma? If asked to describe it, Hyuna would not know where to start, akin to an out-of-body experience but different, more real.
Even more dreamlike was meeting with ’Kami’, yeah, a God, literally calling themselves that as their name, and talking about a world with ninjas and shit.
Must have read too many historical novels.

There was no harm in nodding along with whatever this Deity (?) was saying,was she even nodding? It sure felt like it but without a body there’s no way to nod your head, still Kami seemingly understands the intention.
This is one weird ass dream.

It was, in fact, not a dream.

Consciously experiencing your own birth is… definitely an interesting event following the previous… but much more horrific than anything else. The one saving grace is that a newborn’s body does not have fully developed senses, but partial awareness doesn’t truly detract from it.
At least once it’s done, it’s done.

Well, that’s what you get for not reading the contract, or in this case not asking the otherworldly Japanese Goddess when you’re in spirit form… Yeah, I was not expecting this.

---

A week in and a few things were already clear to Hyuna, or Yumiya now, because firstly that’s her new name, didn’t take long to figure out, just the first day of being reborn and she heard ‘Yumiya’ at least a dozen times. It’s not a terrible name and the abbreviation Yumi is cute, well it just means bow for them but it’s fine.

Ah yes, secondly her new family spoke japanese and only japanese, but in some weird awful dialect or something, the temptation to ask them to speak normal japanese is great but all this newborn body could muster is “Ababa” and “Guu”, so weird larp language will have to do for now, at least it’s mostly understandable.

And lastly Yumiya has a brother, no one can say if she’ll get smaller siblings later but for now it’s just a big brother to deal with.

---

One or two months in, it’s hard to keep track of time, now I understand why Kami talked about ninjas and shit, took a crawl around the house and there’s all kinds of swords and shuriken all over.
Other news, at this point I’ve got used to this new name, also it's hard to move properly, am I meant to sleep and do nothing for a year?

---

About six, seven, maybe eight months, doesn’t matter, finally managed to walk even just two steps, I will surely improve soon and everyone is surprised at how early I learned. Anyway, nothing beats being able to walk after over half a year of just walking on all fours.

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War, Second Thread

Nil

Mekong River - 10/25/2022

The engines bustled and the pair of boats moved along in a not so straight line, the river twisted and turned in a not so abrupt but still noticeable way, in the distance the city lights could be seen slowly coming closer.

Nil just had to sit idly and not think about, well anything, not the chinese finding them, not the boat bouncing around and not the water they were on. Nil took a moment of peace to cover her eyes with the neck cover. Of course now she didn’t see the river but could very well feel as the boat sailed.

”whirr whirr.”
She said quietly, almost in a hum.

Not long after someone shook her to signal they were closing on an inspection post, the eye cover was now removed.

They were not even near the city before they made their first stop, Nil just sat in one of the back seats, fully covered in a drab chinese uniform complete with hat and headset. After a while the boats began their journey again and again they stopped, the PLA has various posts and Nil just repeated the process of just not panicking, which previously seemed to have worked.

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War, Second Thread

@Deide remember to use a hider for better visibility in the IC tab, other than that you have approval two from me.

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War, Second Thread

Nil

Appearance:

Name: Nil

Age: 19-20 (assumed)

Nationality: Danish (assumed)

Noble Arm Name & Appearance: Stang
A simple rigid staff that has a bright blue glow which produces a faint light, Nil can move Stang via telekinesis.

Noble Arm Rank: C rank

Stat Rankings

Power B
Speed C
Range A
Persistence C
Precision C
Potential D

Noble Arm Type, Element, and Range: glowy hitty thing, Kinetic Projectile, Telekinesis, Short/Medium Range

Noble Arm Abilities:

Conjured Staffs, Stang can be create copies that are indistinguishable from the original, Nil can also control them just like the original and create more copies from said copies, maintaining a few copies has little affect on stamina but maintaining a huge amount has a much larger toll.

Telekinesis, Nil can control Stang and its copies telekinetically when doing so the staff has effectively 100 times of its original weight, which is around 1kg.
Telekinetic movements are usually not particularly fast unless Nil launches the NA as a projectile in which case it can go up to 1000m/s and get ~10kms away and has equivalent power to a tank round, unfortunately unlike a tank Nil cannot shoot accurately at that range and has an effective range of 300m on a human sized target without taking impact shock into consideration.

Enhancement, Nil can boost her durability to be able to resist 1-2 additional blows or bullets but it also makes her especially resistant to shockwaves, when using this ability Nil glows blue, especially the hair, eyes and tearducts.

Accuracy Tests

The target used was human sized, 200 rounds were shot for each range apart from the 270meters range where 50 rounds were shot.

Percentage of direct hits only takes into accounts hits that directly hit the target dismissing possible damage dealt through other means.

Percentage of lethal hits takes into account any shot that produced lethal damage either by a direct hit or as the effect of impact shockwave.

Misc Abilities:
Nil can fluently speak Danish but can barely speak other languages such as English, Thai and Filipino.
Nil can also eat many inedible materials without seemingly suffering from it, such as wrappers and paper.

Personality: Nil usually doesn't speak much but she can be direct and blunt, she usually seeks to be around people but doesn't do much when in company.

*Likes: food, people, smashing stuff

*Dislikes: too much noise, long conversations, being alone for long stretches of time

Fears: Drowning (she can swim but she panics when in deep water)

Bio:
Subject designated name: Nil
Subject birth name: N/A
Subject weight and height: 55kg / 170cm

Description:
Nil joined Thailand's military in 13th of May 2015, the day prior meeting with military personnel in Pattaya and being documented as an Arms Master for the first time.
Nil has been unable to answer most questions about her past to the point where her age and nationality can only be assumed, the most commonly agreed theory is that she is from Denmark, as danish is the only language she can speak fluently, and that information about her was lost in the 2009 ransomware attack to the Danish government's databases where many citizen's personal data was erased.
Nil displays some lack of understanding of human interactions and common knowledge, she has been a slow learner with things like learning a new language, monetary value and proper eating, despite this Nil seeks to be around other people and is uncomfortable when left alone for a long period of time.
Medical scans have shown that Nil is human and the lines on her body are likely related to her Noble Arm and not some biological condition, this is exemplified when she uses her Noble Arm and the lines on her body begin to emit a stronger glow.
In the last few years Nil has supported various field operations and displayed a level of obedience and calmness during tense situations, since the start of the ASEAN war she has been active in Vietnam and Thailand and joined the ASEAN joint military, she only recently arrived in the Philippines, arriving in Lingayen shortly after the fighting began.

*Current Goal: Being alive, eating

Military or Civilian Rank: Sergeant of the Thai Military and jointed ASEAN military

An Isekai Upon This Land of Accursed Tropes - a Naruto Mass-Isekai RP

Okay, before I make my character; are there any relevant clans in the Cloud village?

@WanderingDragon

Isn't Kumo the village with the Chinoike?