MelonHead

Drawn Innexorably Towards Confrontation

@MelonHead
I convinced Tantalum to let me use one of his races as the one that saved him. AS WELL.

So my post will be up in a few minutes.

This sets up what might be his first high tier fight. If you'd be willing to fight him with Fury and he'd be willing to actually roleplay. I'm trying to get him back into it.

@LeeRoy

You saying Tantalum is coming back? Where's that nub been anyway?

Ruinous Conflict: Old Foes

His expression grew pensive, yet still somehow alert in a predatory sort of fashion. The Mage absorbed the words of the Wolf-man, mulled them around and spat them back out with a single word riddled with incredulity.

“Right.”

He had fought the Wolf before and come out alive, if what he said was true and he could casually wander through the gaps between existence there was no way the Mage should have been able to beat him. But why was he lying? More importantly, what was his intent? If he was here for a fight, things had lined up rather conveniently for Daniel. But why hadn’t he attacked immediately then? Difficult to say, but there was a rather simple way to ascertain what the elemental was doing in Arkulf.

“Exactly that, actually.” He paused, his eyes growing shrewd. “This is the town of Arkulf, the scene of a famous battle that took place nigh over two decades ago.” He shrugged. “And may I inquire as to what you plan to do in this ruin? You don’t hold a grudge over our last encounter, do you?”

Ruinous Conflict: Old Foes

The sounds of an ex-enemy approaching seemed oddly fitting to the place Metz found himself in. Not to say he didn’t immediately grow alarmed, his hand unclasping his weapon holster as he turned to face the street behind him. But that after taking this precautionary action he didn’t dive into conflict suggested that Metz himself saw something of an inevitability in the coming battle, and was in no hurry to engage in it. Whatever was to happen here would not be a speedy process, nor a pleasant one, so he would do well to delay it with whatever measure he could rather than embracing it straight away. Besides, where was the fun in that?

All that thinking culminated in Metz standing ready for Daniel as he closed to within earshot. The Mage’s hand strayed only a short distance from the handle of his gun and his eyes pierced the Icey creature with a steady glare. It had been just over a year since they had last met, but those events had not faded quickly from the mind of the mana-less mage. The Nexus of Worlds, where he sealed tight the prison of an entity that had doomed his world, Felenr. He had been tested by three, and bested them all in that Arena. One stood before him now.

“Daniel, wasn’t it?” Metz inquired politely, his mind racing. “It has been a year or so, I’d say.” He looked wistful, but inside there was hidden turmoil within the Mage. It was not every day an enemy he encountered through a portal to what he perceived was another dimension suddenly appeared on his home planet. He couldn’t let the obvious question go unasked.

“How did you… get here?”

Ruinous Conflict: Old Foes

I hate working.

@DJAtomika

Same, makes me ultra lazy when I get in.

I'm lucky to be a native English speaker and very-very-very fast at typing, otherwise I probably wouldn't be anywhere near as active.

Drawn Innexorably Towards Confrontation

@MelonHead
Maybe a shadow of the rings he used to have, as his body is so used to that format. They would be more of an aura projection rather than the same ability. He'd form pseudo-armor of kinetic energy in the locations where the rings used to be, maybe taking up the area where the rings were spaced out. So his hands would be covered so he could strike at energy blasts with just his hands instead of blowing his skin clean off. A defensive ability at its core, sort of like a reversal of the purely offensive rings.

@LeeRoy

It's up to you, I always saw the rings as sort of a physical manifestation of the otherwise internal world machine, but if Kanitah had that much of an attachment to them I guess they might carry through into Dunnaman's phyche.

Drawn Innexorably Towards Confrontation

@MelonHead
Like the rest of his abilities, it'd be accidental. Maybe a sort of physical reaction, like the way his hair moves. The way it floats unnaturally is a result of his ability, so maybe it reacts towards energy manipulators. Like flowing in the opposite direction of the user in response. So he'd be able to use it as a sort of compass rather than a direct point to point sensory system.

@LeeRoy

Makes sense, more sensitivity to any sort of manipulation or mustering of energy (blanket term for all magic users) would make sense considering his death.

Drawn Innexorably Towards Confrontation

One of the few natural abilities Fury has as part of Antireen control is the ability to detect energy and almost 'see' it around him. Might be interesting if Dunnaman obtained some part of this, it would allow him to percieve Fury in the way he is perceiving Dunnaman at the moment, in other words, with familiarity. Energy don't lie, sort of like woo-woo auras.

Drawn Innexorably Towards Confrontation

Considering The Architect is constantly at war with The Abyss, the force of entropy that is outside of all things, it might have some kind of beef with the Pseudo-Entropy of The Void's powers.

@LeeRoy

Yeah, I could see it reacting to the Void with anger in that sense, there's certainly similarities there.

Arena Chat Thread

Yup yup. I want to see him when your done if you don't mind.

@Skallagrim

No problem, I'll probably be putting him in my CS deposit anyway until he needs to be used. Might even do a practice bout or two with him.

He's part of a theme I've been thinking of for a while based around chess pieces, something I have a fascination with. Ten points if you can guess what chess piece he represents.

Drawn Innexorably Towards Confrontation

Well, Fury has a punching ability of sorts where in his Unbridled State he imbues his martial strikes with additional kinetic power, sort of unconsciously. Dunnaman could probably mimic something like that, maybe through the medium of his mace? He could even have inherited some of Fury's rage mode perhaps, I don't know if the Void or Fury's type of Antireen control is particularly contagious. Does the World Machine have any sentience at all? Could it be pissed off at him?