Leotamer

War Notes

As quick as his name was called, Natus started moving. Stabbing something as large as a roc with a dagger would likely only annoy it. As he was still moving he pulled a flask of oil from a compartment in his clothes and marked with a red line. He threw it at the downed rock and had it literally explode covering a small patch of his body in the sticky, flammable substance. He took out a match and struck it tossing it on to oiled creature causing a patch of his feathers to ignite.

He then paused, and returned to a ready stance with a second flask of oil ready. He hoped that he would not need to use more of the limited resource, however the more time they wasted fighting the birds, the more time that another threat could attack them.

War Notes

What does Gradon want Natus to do. Even if he did stab a bird, it would be like poking someone with a toothpick. Would it be reasonable that Natus has a flask of oil and a match and just set the thing on the fire. It would be a head start on cooking it.

War Notes

I am not sure what argument you are referring to, but I think you are referring to appeal to nature. And if it is, I am not not making an appeal to nature fallacy. The AtN Fallacy is that because something is natural means that is good, which well fallacious. I am not making a moral judgment about the rocs attacking people. I am saying that we don't have a reason to mess with it. This is just something that happens, and besides, ecosystems. Killing predators can have a domino effect downwards, but I don 't think this is the time or place to go into that. And if you aren't talking about that argument, be more specific.

War Notes

I know this will come off as negative, but criticism is the fuel for change. And I am not saying to change this fight, but to keep in mind for future encounters:

This fight is really poorly designed. Our team does not have the tools to handle large, flying creatures. This could be a good thing. If the rocs were to show a weakness in the team, except the rocs pose very little threat. And not in the sense that they are the main characters and this is a minor encounter, but in universe, rocs aren't that scary. Sure, for a regular villager, a giant eagle is pretty scary, but for military-trained students, who can easily duck and dodge their attacks, there isn't much that they can really do.

Honestly, Regina plan probably would be better. Why do we have to kill them? They attacked us, but as far as I am concerned, they are just territorial beasts and that their presence and their attacking are particularly normal and natural.

Spectral Corp

Ms Vale answered Shen-Mu, "If you wish to rest, the guest bedrooms are just to the left. We can get you set down in proper dorms tomorrow. I am sorry if this inconvenient for you, but a particularly nasty ghost is eating away at most of our man power. We have plenty of rooms since it isn't to uncommon to house exorcists from other stepsites, just lay down where-ever you feel comfortable."

Ms. Vale then look at Mirela, and a grim look came over her face. "The barrier keeps out all spectral energy, and as such, it simply keeps mediums out as a side-effect. I remember back in my youth, we would just hand out the bracelets you are wearing like candy, but after the incident in ninety-seven where some high-profile mediums went rogue, we had to limit who got their hands on those bracelets. And over time, the SEO made it so less and less people had access to them. If you want to know more about that incident, the computers have a lot of information about it. I just don't like talking about, not many of us older mediums do.
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The rest of the day went by without much notice. However, they was warned to get some sleep very early, as they would start their first day of work very earlier.

The group was given an hour between waking up and being marched into a slightly larger than average black van that was otherwise nothing special on the outside. While in the van, the girls were explained their mission through a PA system by Vale, "You are heading to a small hotel on the outskirts of town. It appears that a ghost we dealed with once before has became active again. However, before the ghost was contained to a single room, now it seems she has free roam of the entire building. The building has been completely emptied of people and if you see anyone instead that is not apart of the SEO, get them away from the building as quickly as possible. This is a very dangerous ghost.

The profile of the women who spirit is roaming the building is in the van, as well as most anything you could possibly need to fight her. Priority one is to find out why she has returned to haunting the building and then priority to is to either capture or exorcise her. If you are unable to remove her, simply get everyone out of the building alive. The SEO will send specialist to deal with the building.

The ghost is a poltergeist, able to materialize and move objects. However, she only seems to be to materialize if someone sees her in a reflective surface. Be careful. We would send a more experience team to handle this matter, but this is a priority mission and all of are other agents are tied up in other manners. Do not be frugal in use of the materials supplied to you."

Spectral Corp

Madam Vale chuckled a bit that the first question she got was about coffee "Yes, we have a coffee machine. However I hope your caffeine addiction can wait for a bit longer. My grand-daughter will give you a tour whenever she finishes a bit of paper-work. The poor girl keeps busy."

Then the iron-exorcist asked about the barrier, she paused and sighed. "This building also serves as a cold-storage for ghosts and haunted artifacts. The barrier is just as much a way to keep things out, as to keep them in. Should a ghost be freed from containment, they will be unable to leave the force-field. However, the same barrier to prevents ghosts from entering and leaving this place also effects mediums, though perhaps it is for the best. I hope that will never need the barrier, but it is also best to prepare for the worst in this line of work."

War Notes

Natus realized that he failed to distract the birds. Apparently, he was to small to draw the bird's attention. He dispelled the sorcery on the pieces of paper awkwardly hanging on to his clothing, and used his hand to brush them away. He quickly regrouped with the others, being only a few meters away from the center of where everyone was. He decided that hiding was probably unnecessary as the birds did not seem to notice him, and even if they did, he could easily evade their attacks.

The Rocs did not seem to be an actual threat, they are giant birds. No matter how large they are, they are still just birds. While a single attack from one of their talons would be devastating, they was unorganized and they did not have much intelligence in how they attacked. Rocs are not adapted to fight creatures that fight back. In fact, the only reason that they have not already fled is because the lack of any meaningful ranged attacks. Killing them would likely not be required if they could only seriously maim one. However, like Crispin he was a bit curious to how Roc tasted.

He noticed his team was bickering over the plan of action. His small-size seem to have disqualified him from being a distraction against such large and hungry opponents, and his dagger has even shorter range than most everyone else. However, he drew comparisons of how both the Rocs and his team were unorganized and as such could not do much damage to the other side.

He decided to stay in standby, not being able to do anything at the current moment, however he was actively looking for avenue of attack or a moment of weakness to exploit.

War Notes

//Because apparently I am really bad at communicating tone with my typing I will make this clear, I am not angry. I am just frustrated.//

While I do not plan to leave this rp right now, I guess I should go ahead and say that I am considering dropping this RP so if I do, it will not come out of nowhere.

I am not angry with anyone or anything, but just frustrated. My two/three primary concerns is that I feel like I was expecting this to go in an entirely different direction, (and as such made my character under those pretensions.) And lastly, communication is just really bad. At lot of that is my fault as a writer, but if I can not get my points across than there is little point in continuing this RP.

Honestly, if you continue to ignore my posts as though they did not happen rather than asking me to clarify, that will lead me to dropping this RP. Why make posts if they are going to get glossed over. And while Natus did not communicate his plan to the rest of the team, so I can understand them not knowing what he is doing. He was making himself loud and bright in order to draw the attention of the Rocs.

War Notes

It appears my last post was completely looked over.

The post

Natus hide once the attack was evident, in order to try to get a sneak attack against the attackers. However giant monsters were something that heros in shiny armor was suppose to handle, but while his stabbing Rocs with a dagger would likely not be able to pierce an artery, there was a way for him to help. He was nimble and quick, meaning that he could best distract the Rocs and lure them into the trap.

He quickly took some rocks he found on the ground and some paper from his book. He folded the paper and made green marks on it with his dagger, and then placed it into the folds of his clothing in such a way that the lines would not be touching his body and thus hurt him. He then took the rocks and quickly painted them red.

He emerged, and readied himself to run at a moments notice, before taking the rocks and throwing them into the air causing an explosion to get the Rocs attention. He look over his body and cause the lines to glow bright green and try to imitate the sound of an elephant to the best of his ability.

Spectral Corp

The girl looked over to Cat, and skimmed through the load of documents she passed on her to her before looking at the letter about her assignment, This should be fine, it has the official stamp. Though you might want to hold on to this. I don’t know what to do with it.” she said frankly handing the folder back to her.

“Oh, and I don’t think I introduced myself. I am Jenny Johnson. I do some odd-jobs around here for my grandmom, Ms Vale. She is waiting for you in the first room. I hope you can see yourself in. I have a lot of work I need to do.” she said, handing the rest of the charm bracelets out before running inside.

Putting on the charm bracelets was like pulling a sheet from over the entire building. What once appear to be a void of spectral energy was overflowing with it, trapped by some type of force-field.

Going through the large double doors was a somewhat small greeting room that was mostly bare other than two large white couches and a large recliner where an elderly lady in a black robe sat. A necklace of various gemstones hung around her neck.
She spoke up when she saw the last person enter the room, Welcome, welcome. Please make yourself at home and sit down. It appears some of you are inquisitive about your current situation, feel free to ask me any questions you would like. I am Madam Vale, the gold exorcist in charge of this establishment, and I am already familiar with each of you. I was apart of the committee that gathered you all here.”