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Nice app, accepted! One thing to mention -- the Nature Artifact would be pretty overpowered if you could use it just as if you actually possessed the Element, so you'll have to be a bit more specific with how the control of plants works.
You can have the Artifact control plant life present in the area, with limited ability to control and grow them, but much more than that starts to break away from the specific purposes that Artifact are typically created for.
Nice app, accepted! One thing to mention -- the Nature Artifact would be pretty overpowered if you could use it just as if you actually possessed the Element, so you'll have to be a bit more specific with how the control of plants works.
You can have the Artifact control plant life present in the area, with limited ability to control and grow them, but much more than that starts to break away from the specific purposes that Artifact are typically created for.
@negativenull Accepted! Welcome to the RP!
Natalia and Moira
After changing landboats once, Moira and Natalia get off at the second stop nearest Langdon Mountain. The landboat route curved around the mountain, and Moira had chosen to climb the mountain from the shadowed side -- hopefully she’d be able to find more Darkness manabeasts that way. The pair pause for a moment, staring up at their rocky goal.
Langdon mountain was sparsely forested at the base, with sections of hardy shrubs and jagged rocks breaking up the greenery. The shrubs and rocks became more common as one rose up the mountain, until the spare forest was entirely gone. Two thirds of the way up, the grey-brown of mountainous earth is covered by white. That snowy area was Natalia’s preferred hunting ground, where she hoped she’d find Ice element manabeasts.
“Let me scout out the area,” Natalia states, linking her mind to a bird circling overhead.
“Let me know when you’re done scouting then.” Moira chirps sarcastically. “I’ll just... stand here.” With nothing better to do, Moira imagines slipping an arm across Natalia’s neck and ever so slowly depriving her of air - her struggles weakening until she hung loosely in Moira’s grip.
If Natalia knew what was going on in Moira’s head, she makes no sign that she notices. “Alright, there’s a pack of rocky looking slimes east of us,” Natalia comments, beginning to head toward their direction.
“Let’s go then!” Moira responds, following.
Before long, they come across the Earth slimes, bouncing around some rocks jutting out from the ground. Eight of them, each slime was about a foot tall and wide, with an earthen brown hue. Sharp rocks were fixed in a sort of crown around the top of each slime, jutting out menacingly (for a slime). If one were to be tackled, the rocks would cause serious damage.
The shadow of the mountain, combined with deeper shadows cast by the tall rocks dotting the landscape gave Moira plenty of Darkness to work with. She could feel just how much stronger her element was, compared to somewhere well-lit, like Liravel. Raising her hands out toward the slimes, she went to work.
Slimes were one of the most harmless manabeasts the wilderness had to offer, but not necessarily the easiest to deal with for the unprepared artificer. Regardless, they were good for beginner artificers to make reagents out of. Although slimes had the ability to divide, these were too small to be able to -- at least, that’s what they’d learned at the orphanage. That left Moira with cutting, stabbing, and crushing as viable options. She figured that while crushing would leave the bodies the most intact, it’d also be the hardest attack to apply -- darkness was better at cutting. Cutting would be messier, so stabbing it was.
Before the slimes could even bounce close enough to jump at her, Moira impaled the nearest with three spines of darkness. Hit from the sides and beneath, the gelatin body offered no resistance, and the Artificer flared her the spines wider before dissipating them. The swiss cheese slime plopped to the ground and didn’t move. The rest of the slimes died the same way, spikes of darkness extending from their own shadows or the shadows of rocks and bushes around them. It turns out only two thicker spines were needed to kill each slime.
“These might as well be hole-y slimes,” Natalia jokes as she starts drawing a circle around one of the slime corpses.
“Would you become a Psyche Artifact if I stabbed you?” Moira tilts her head, replacing Natalia with a nice necklace in her vision.
“I don’t think it works like that,” Natalia replies, “Plus, it’d be a downgrade from my current capabilities.”
“Yeah, but at least it wouldn’t make puns. “ Moira gets out her own stick of chalk and starts drawing circles. She chooses a small slime-rock as the Regent.
“Who else is going to stick with you aside from me?” Natalia teases, as she begins the process to channel the mana into one of the former crown pieces.
“Sniff. So mean to me...” Moira mewls pitifully. “What kind of ability do you want to use? Shard shot? Rock bullet?”
“You do this to yourself, you know. And I think materializing a boulder and having gravity do the rest would be efficient enough.”
“A whole boulder is a lot of mana though. And what if the thing moves before it’s crushed?”
“There are eight slimes here, I could easily have another artifact create earth walls to trap it. Or you could trap it with Darkness. Also, because shards and bullets won’t be effective on everything. I doubt manabeasts look up frequently either,” Natalia explains, now sealing the reagent to make sure it didn’t leak mana.
“Mm that’s true. “ Moira shrugs. She finishes the appropriate design for forming a boulder with the blue chalk and picks up the new Earth artifact. “I’ll turn these four into boulder artifacts then.
“Okay, I’ll do the same, but make one of them into an Earth wall artifact,” Natalia responds, “That way we can split up to kill weaker manabeasts.” Moira nods in agreement.
A short while later, Moira dumps her Artifacts -- a pile of rocks -- into Natalia’s hands.
“These look like stones I could throw at someone,” Natalia says nonchalantly, “Anyways, I’ve located a water manabeast further up the mountain.”
The water manabeast turned out to be a water slime - a giant one. Moira immobilized it with darkness -- Natalia with walls -- and Natalia squished it with a boulder while it couldn’t move.
“There’s a wispy looking cloud that might be a Wind manabeast up ahead. Do you want to get that while I turn this slime into an artifact?” Natalia asks.
“Sure. Don’t get caught by surprise while you’re crafting. I’d hate to have to carry all those Regents myself.” Moira cautions jokingly as she walks on ahead.
“Manabeasts still have minds, and I’m flattered you think of me as a pack mule. Take care as well though,” Natalia replies.
“At least you’d be useful!” Moira shouts as she walks out of sight.
After another thirty seconds? Of walking, Moira spots the cloud Natalia was talking about. It was pretty obviously fake as clouds went. First off, it was hovering only 80 feet off the ground. Second, it wasn’t a cloudy day at all, so there was just this lone white puffball in the sky, about seven feet across.
How am I going to get up to that? Moira wonders as she stops and stares up at the manabeast. She didn’t have to wonder for long -- the manabeast made the first move. Shrinking slowly as it floated directly toward Moira, the manabeast managed to get 30 feet closer before a black thing dropped out of the cloud and sped toward Moira.
She barely managed to get up a thin wall of darkness before the manabeast -- all sharp claws and speed -- tore through the wall, colliding with Moira’s shoulder before swooping away. She hisses in pain, clutching her shoulder as she spins around, looking for the manabeast. It hovers in the air, glaring at her with unsettling entirely white eyes. The manabeast resembled a cross between a crow and a vulture, and looked particularly bedraggled. It hung in the air without flapping its wings, its gaze still locked on Moira. Carefully, Moira formed a bed of spikes behind her back, making sure the bird couldn’t see them from its position. A moment later, the bird dived and Moira threw herself sideways with darkness while the manabeast ran headfirst into the spikes.
Sighing, Moira dusts herself off and takes out a stick of red chalk just as Natalia arrives, slightly short of breath.
“Are you alright? I sensed some pain coming from you,” Natalia says worriedly.
“I got a boo-boo...” Moira pouts, showing Natalia her arm. Blood was dripping from the wound freely. Natalia rifles through a rented dimensional bag and pulls out a roll of gauze and a small bottle of antiseptic, “Hold still.” Moira clenches her teeth and looks away as Natalia treats and wraps the wound gently.
“You should be fine until we get back to the orphanage now. Do you want to continue?” Natalia asks.
“Of course, it’s fine now that it’s bandaged.” Moira responds, shrugging with her good shoulder.
“Alright, just making sure. It would be pretty silly if we died on our first outing after all.”
“It’d also be pretty silly if we turned back so soon.”
“If you insist, I’m not going to stop you. Let’s keep hunting then -- I want to test out my new Water artifact at least once,” Natalia smirks, twirling a sleek Water gunblade in one hand. Moira just oggles Natalia. Something about girls with gunblades...
Natalia and Moira
The pair arrive at the landboat stop, eager to acquire artifacts and a sizable amount of pocket change for themselves. The stop consisted of a sign beside the street showing which route was being traveled, as well as the specific stops involved. A line of people stand or sit around the sign. The pair of girls join the group, standing near the back. After waiting a few minutes, the landboat arrives, a dust cloud billowing around it.
The vehicle looked like a typical sea-going vessel floating in the air. At regular points beneath the boat were presumably Wind artifacts keeping the vessel aloft. A set of stairs were built into the front and back of each side of the ship -- there was no water to be let in on land. The deck consisted of many small seats, bars and rails for standing riders to grip, and a large mast with a sail attached, with more Wind artifacts affixed. The deck was mostly open air, with a glass windbreaker curving around from the front of the ship to a third of the way toward the back.
They display their orphanage crests and hop on the landboat, finding seats towards the edge. The craft vibrates, the white sail flares, and the vehicle hovers slowly to the outskirts of the city. After it reaches past the walls, the landboat picks up its pace and skims over the land at an astonishing pace.
Natalia peeks her head out, enjoying the view of rolling farmland below with the horizons seeming infinite. She admires the sight for several more moments before turning to Moira.
“We should figure out how we’re going to divide the manabeasts while we’re waiting to get there,” Natalia prompts.
“Hmm... I get everything but the Psyche regents?” Moira muses.
Natalia simply gives Moira a look.
“Hey! It’s not like you’ll be contributing!”
“Not at first, no. But if we come across an Ice manabeast, I can turn that into an artifact and help you out. That way we can get double the amount of loot.”
“I’m not totally convinced, but sure.” Moira shrugs. Natalia would be using up her Artifact rapidly if she relied on it to hunt.
“...Or I can just grab the first manabeast we see and get a sealed artifact out of it,” Natalia continues, “But anyways, the real question is what elements you’re thinking of going into.”
“I might have been planning on Darkness, Death, and Curse...” Moira quirks her lips.
Natalia smirks, “That sounds pretty characteristic of you. I’m planning on Psyche, Ice, Water, and Lightning. It’s a good thing our elements don’t overlap though.”
“Yup, otherwise you’d have to wait a long while before you got a Regent of you own. “ Moira says teasingly.
“I didn’t expect anything less from you,” Natalia retorts, equally playful.
“WAO, it’s like you can already read my mind(!!!).” Moira responds dryly.
“Wao, it’s like we’re close friends or something (!!!),” Natalia counters.
“B-b-baka!”
“Tsu-Tsu-Tsundere!”
“It-it’s not like I like you or anything!!!”
“It’s okay, Moira. Senpai finally noticed you.” Natalia gazes at Moira solemnly.
“Yes S-Senpai...” Moira’s tone suddenly shifts to sultry.
Natalia bops Moira on the head. Moira whimpers and holds both hands on her head, pouting, her cat ears folding over.
The other riders of the landboat were very pointedly trying to ignore the pair. Especially some of the younger men, who were very glad they were sitting down.
Patch Note 1.8: Added a section about the currency, debt, and benefits that being a part of the orphanage entails. I still don't want to have to be strict about how much money people have, so please be reasonable. It's not your money, it's your character's money, and being poor can be just as entertaining as being rich, if not more so.
NOTE: Public transportation is now free for Wards age 16 and up.
NOTE: Public transportation is now free for Wards age 16 and up.
Moira
@IceSolstice@Ryik
Hearing a hissing sound, Moira turned and saw an unremarkable brown haired boy holding a cat -- one currently hissing at her. She was pretty sure his name was Riss, if she recalled correctly. Cute kitty.
"Sorry, don't mind me." The boy glanced down at the cat. "I let him go wherever he likes during the day, and he seems to like you." He steps back a bit and sets the cat down, only to have it immediately leap at her. Sounds like he likes the kitty quite a bit.
Moira caught the kitten with both hands, holding it up in front of her. It purrs at her cutely, its legs dangling helplessly in the air. “She’s adorable.” Moira smiles, tilting her head at the small feline. “Here, you can have her back.” She feels a rush of anticipation as she reaches for her magic, then a burst of pleasure exploding within at the expectation of what this would elicit.
Moira raises the cat up to Riss, and its lower torso falls to the ground with a wet squelch. While her hands were wrapped around the cat’s body, Moira had used the small shadow cast by her hands to cut the kitten cleanly in two. She shuffles a bit to the side as the pool of blood nears her shoes. Impassive, Moira glances down at the kitten half before looking back up at Riss with a renewed smile. Is he going to cry? Fight me? I wonder how long he'll stare in shock.
apply by posting your CS in the OOC
Nice app, accepted! You maybe begin posting IC now.
(Patch Note 1.7: Added guns in the Artifact section. Pointed out that there are no combustible things usually available at the bottom.)
I think I'd like to join up.
It's been a while.
Would you? That's great!
Just apply by posting your CS in the OOC, and I'll take a look at it!
@Gareth Many patches indeed. More patches than a pirate crew!
Also, I officially announce that IC posting has now commenced! (Although this isn't a rapid-fire RP so people aren't going to fall behind or anything.)
Also, I officially announce that IC posting has now commenced! (Although this isn't a rapid-fire RP so people aren't going to fall behind or anything.)
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