Lord of Evil

The escape from Wolfwing's lair

Derrick jumped back in surprise at the spectacle. He'd ditched the plate shard in favour of the short spear given to him by Kenza but even a proper weapon was small comfort for the statue's strange behaviour. He was suspicious of the statue from the start and had joined Kenza when she began investigating it, but now he wasn't sure it had been a good idea.

Derrick watched nervously for a moment as the blue light-thing dragged the pieces of the broken statue towards itself. It was like nothing he'd ever seen before, and he had no idea what it was doing.
"Kenza?" Derrick asked nervously. "What's going on?"
@Dusksong@lchris314@Hekazu

Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

Blue Nova heard the shot before he saw it. A tank cannon shot was fairly unmistakable, but the second noise he heard threw him for a loop. He could practically hear the shell screaming in his direction but before it made contact, the sound... split? He covered his head and rolled to the side as his cover was suddenly turned into Swiss cheese.
Buckshot, eh?
This would be quite the fight indeed.

Despite Finn's quick reactions, he couldn't avoid all of the pellets. 3 balls embedded themselves in his armor, taking a sizeable chunk of his health, before he activated Blue Shift. The world around him stretched as he stepped forward and his vision took on an azure tint as he dashed behind a different, thicker wall. He rolled to a stop and landed on his back, just feeling the pain of the 3 hits he took.
"Damn, that thing packs a punch." Blue Nova said, rising to a sitting position.

He pried the bearings out of his armor, taking one to look at it a little closer.
"And just from three of these, huh?" He muttered.
He tossed it aside and got to his feet, stretching his shoulders.
"Nice try but you're gonna need more than that to catch me!" He yelled, to himself more than anyone.
It would be possible to beat this tank. Even if it shredded his health bar like that, he just had to not get hit. His shield was coming off of cooldown and his dash would come back soon after, so he had the tools he needed to close the distance. Adding to that the ample cover provided by the wreckage, it was possible for him to close the distance. It wouldn't be easy, but Blue Nova never went for the easy way out.

Blue Nova scanned the wreckage ahead, planning his running route, before dashing out of the building.
@Lonewolf685

The escape from Wolfwing's lair

Derrick almost didn't hear Kenza as she spoke but soon nodded his affirmation. He looked at the statue and then looked back as the hunter began searching the room. It seemed that she didn't want to touch the weird statue, and Derrick didn't want to either. He supposed that they'd check it out later, so as Kenza went to work, Derrick headed to the other side of the room. His reasoning was that he'd look for something useful while she did as well, and since the room didn't seem that large, he could run to her if something happened.

Derrick regularly glanced backwards to confirm Kenza's position, partially because he wanted to watch for trouble and partially because he was somewhat afraid. He wanted to know that he could run that way and regroup at any time, whether or not they'd found something. Having another human presence was comforting, and he didn't want to stray too far from it.
@Dusksong@Hekazu

The escape from Wolfwing's lair

Sorry I haven't posted recently, University has been really annoying me. It'll be up soonish.

The Hero has betrayed us

"They call me Tony Sauf'cok." Tony said simply.
Well, his real name was Anthony, but that wasn't a name he used often. He tended to give the name people used for him rather than his actual name because he himself never really called himself Anthony, so why should others?

As the party's lizardman Tony scanned the building, noting that he had no idea where anything was. He was a soldier, not a scholar, so he was on unfamiliar ground. Perhaps his companions would know where to look, considering they likely had at least a little more knowledge about books than he did. But he supposed that they didn't need to know about courthouses in particular to find the book. Since they didn't exactly have a time constraint anymore they could safely sweep each room, to find the book and map and scavenge anything that looked like it might be useful.
"I don't know anything about judges but we're only burning daylight by standing around, so let's get moving." Tony said.

He picked a door to head through at random. It didn't matter where it went, he'd go through it all eventually.

The Hero has betrayed us

University is really getting on my nerves. Otherwise, I'm still just sitting here sleeping and all that.

Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

Thomas had a burning desire to bang his head on a wall, the only reason he wasn't doing so being that it wouldn't help in his current situation. He'd helped to unwrap the vice president and left her with Alex (after stuffing Finn into a closet) so that he could have a moment to think about the situation at hand, and how royally he'd managed to screw it up.

The signs were all there but he didn't want to believe it. It was inconceivable, from both a logical and realistic point of view. It just didn't really make sense, but there was no denying that as soon as the being had left, Maribel could no longer log in. And there was no denying that Thomas's impatience at least contributed to the current state of affairs. He ran through the scenario in his head. Ge could've worded his demands differently, connected the dots sooner, he could've done any number of things that may have changed the outcome, but the fact remained that he didn't do anything and couldn't do anything to change the situation, and that left only one question. What did he do now?

Thomas though for a moment and decided that this decision wasn't his to make alone. He decided to ask Bel. It was her head, she had the most say about what to do in this situation. After a few false starts he finally sent a brief message to the blue haired girl.

To: Maribel Harper
From: Thomas Green
Subject: Today's events
I promised to tell you everything and while I can't tell you right now, I can tell you that I am at least partially responsible for the results. Before I can fill you in, I need to know something. What do you want to do now?

@TheWindel

The escape from Wolfwing's lair

Derrick glanced around the dusty room, for the third time that day. It didn't seem like there was anything there at the moment, at least not as far as he'd seen. On closer inspection the Wolfwing had indeed been here, but he didn't think it had a reason to come back so he assumed they would be safe at the moment.

Derrick nodded his approval at Kenza's suggestion and moved walked out a little further into the room, watching out for any trouble. He specifically watched the door and the darkness at the end of the room, as he couldn't see see well in those areas.
@Dusksong@Hekazu@lchris314

The escape from Wolfwing's lair

@Dusksong@Lord of Evil
My ruling would be to move on even in @lchris314's absence. If he does not appear soon, I'll have to find some way to... remove Mistletoe from the group.

@Hekazu

K. Guess it's my turn then.

The Hero has betrayed us

"A book, huh?" Tony said.
That was something of a sticking point for Tony. He could fight well enough, he could take hits and he could cook, but he'd never been taught how to read. Not like he couldn't, but the extent of his reading prowess was reading maps, and sometimes middle length letters. After all, what was a soldier going to do with books?

Nevertheless, he didn't have to be able to read to find what they were looking for. A book with eyes on it would be pretty hard to miss.

Tony spared a glance for Leila, whi looked shaken up about something. She had been rather close to him when the tentacle thing sent its message, maybe she'd caught the same message. That concerned him a little but he wouldn't bring it up unless she did. No sense to pry open the wound before you know that there's poison in it, if she still looked bad at dinner then he'd do something about it.

"Alright, I'll go get that book for you."
Tony followed the human archer who headed towards the building where Feon had said it probably was. Now that Tony thought about it, he hadn't gotten the man's name, despite cooking for the whole group. Actually, he didn't know a lot of the group at all. Something of an oversiggt on his part. But they had a job to do, introductions could be made later.

As they entered the ruined building, Tony drew his axe once again as his companion drew his swords.
"Hold up." Tony said to the man. "If you really think there's going to be trouble then stay behind the guy with the shield."
He pushed past the man and forged onwards into the library. He looked around the area, scouting for danger.
"Hey, any idea where we're going?" He said, calling back to the ranger.