UnusualStranger

Elementals: The Scarred World (Semi-Open)

"How murderous you feeling this eve, mage?" Commander Hayes shouted over the inferno, noting a knife flying overhead towards the rouge mages, hoping it would find something. Looking forward at the earthy wall, he made a split decision that he wasn't going to deal with this, or have to worry about it in the future. Either someone on the other side of that earth would get lucky, or he was going to run a mage through.

"I don't know about you, but I would be happier with some death!" And with that, Raven Hayes charged forward, blade drawn after the retreating mages. Making his way around the wall of earth and sliding around it, he found himself face to face with the earth mage, who had apparently decided that sticking there while the other mages made a run for it was the best plan.

With a swing, the hardened steel slammed into the arm of the earth mage, glancing off, but with the cracks showing in the armor it was obvious that it wasn't quite as tough as when it had been started. With a grin, Raven jumped back at a swing the earth mage took.

Meanwhile, from the upper perspective that Joey had attained, he could see the dagger find a mark, but not the Fire Mage. The Ice Mage who had been helping the fire move ended up taking the knife in the arm, which led to a string of curses as they both began to run away from the fires, the Earth Mage and Commander Hayes, and also Joey and the other mages. They were getting closer to the edge of town now, and would just be a quick sprint away from the forest and obviously very little way to follow them from there.

While this happened, Vanahara had caught up to Ling and the other Mages, just in time to watch Hayes as he charged towards the Earthy opponent who had hid behind the makeshift wall for now, which crumbled some as the bolts slammed into it, not a strong enough wall to stand up to an assault.

In the front of the building, Drew was largely left to his devices along with Alexander, as the rest of the town was now running about finally doing something about the flames. With the town slowly seeming like it wasn't going to burn down, there began to be a more methodical approach to making sure the things that were burning wouldn't burn anything they were close to.

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@hoppiholla391 Yeah...has gotten a bit too messy to understand where everyone is sitting eh?

I shall post something to at least get everyone a bit closer relatively. Hard to map out a town and where everyone is in relation to the burning building, but WriterRaven's general assessment is good.

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The Earthshaper gave a gruff laugh, and pointed at Nataly. "So, I'm guessing she'll be just like a dog too then. That you have a whistle for her and will give her a treat once you are done here. Silly book rats, no idea how the rest of the world works." The Earthshaper said pointedly, obviously with several insults prepped for Ling.

"If you are not willing to let transgressions slide, then no point in-"

The Earthshaper was cut off as the Fire Mage let loose a torrent of flames, her rage at being injured great fuel for the fires as other nearby buildings were catching the flames which were given no coordination other than outward from the renegades. While the Earthshaper did not seem to have much preparation for such a move, as the flames began to pull away the earth was pulled upward to form at least a fast shield as the mages began to make their way away in the added and now spreading inferno.

Raven Hayes had already been guessing this would not go well with the demand. He had faith in the mages, but unlike the renegades they could not afford such reckless throwing about of power...which meant that if an inferno was thrown about, there wasn't going to be much to do against it. Not until they could likely regroup to have some water or fire control at this point.

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Meanwhile, the soldier looked at Drew exasperated by being awakened and shouted at already. Shaking his head to try and get it clear of the sleepiness of it being later than he liked, the man began shouting.

"HOLD YER DAMN HORSES! I'M NOT BURNING DOWN THE DAMN TOWN FOR WHOEVER THE HELL IS STARTING IT!" He waved at a bunch of people, who all ran off to start grabbing buckets and whatever else they could to try and contain the somewhat explosive fire as drinks continued to explode from the fires that continued to burn. As that started, he turned to look at Drew who had gotten his attention as one of the few knowing what was going on.

"YOU! Who in blazes-" The man didn't have time to finish the thought as the inferno suddenly just seemed to double, leading to a string of curses, shouts, and pleads to the gods to please make it start raining so they could stop the disaster. "GODS DAMN IT! NEVERMIND, GET THESE DAMN FIRES UNDER CONTROL NOW! WE'LL LOSE THE ENTIRE TOWN IF WE DON'T DRAW A LINE HERE!" With that, everyone broke off now all trying to either throw dirt on the fires to choke them out, water as they could get buckets over to themselves, and just doing anything they could as they fanned out to try and make a defense against the fire from spreading to even more buildings.

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Raven looked about quickly, trying to make sure that everyone managed to run it out of there, and cursed when he realized not all had made it out. A disaster of larger proportions that he really did not want to deal with at this time. However, as Vana turned to run Raven made to follow, as there was still a chance to catch some of the mages who had escaped the other way. Hopefully he was not too late as he chased Vana, who turned a corner and came upon Nataly and Ling who were dispatching of the shadow.

The shadow that Ling had shoved back, and fired her crossbow met its mark into the shadow, causing the creature to stumble backwards stunned from the sudden outburst. Then the shards of ice slammed into the creature causing it to fade off into dust in front of the mages.

"Not....bad." Raven said as he ran onward to the mages to look about. "Though, where is the mage behind them?" Though after saying that, they were greeted by the wall smashed down by the mages who had still sat inside.

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Meanwhile, the mages inside had no intention of following the others out the front entrance, considering it a bad idea to chase those who would pose the biggest threat. With her one good hand, an explosive wave of fire was used to blast a hole open in a wall, and the renegade mages began to make their escape. The man of earth kept the tail being likely the slowest and best equipped in keeping any chasing individuals off of them.

As they began moving out of the burning bar, they moved into the back of the bar ripping apart the wall in the meantime. They happened upon the mages Ling and Nataly. The stone mage regarded the mages that they had come upon for a moment, with Raven making his way forward as well.

"Mages, let us....ignore this little transgression. You turn around, forget you saw us, and we do the same. Alright?" The stone mage rumbled, with the fire mage having more fire in her eyes, but having an eye out for apparently someone else, with the ice mage just helping the woman of fire go along. They were intending to get away from the burning bar and wander off into the night.

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The rest of the town was either in the process of waking up to knowing that the bar was on fire, or was in the process of trying to escape the said fire screaming "MAGICS!" or "WITCHES!" or other such curses. That meant that the mages who had gone out the front entrance were drawing a bit of a crowd.

"Goddamned blazes going on out here? What happened to the bar?" A half awake, slightly armored guard shouted, with an axe pulled out and only wearing a breastplate that had been hastily thrown on. It was obvious that this was not a good time for him, nor most of the town as they came with bows, knives, and whatever else as the bar was already written off as a lost cause with the flames quickly taking over whatever it wanted.

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With Jonathan's surprise kick, the shadow stumbled back, and raised up the knives once again, to confront the mage as he prepared his weapons as well. However, before either could move against each other, the shadow began to fade away. The shadow pointed to where its eyes would have been, then back at Jonathan as he was suddenly no more. The lack of the opponent did not allow the mage to relax, as the bar was beginning to show the problems with fire and the many alcoholic drinks scattered about, as some began to explode and the building began to crumble.

With Joey and Drew both entangled for a brief moment, the Earthshaper took the time to smash yet another hole into the earth to pull more dirt about, and began to use it a little more to be defensive instead of smashing everything. Walls of dirt while not exactly impressive, would do the job for what they needed to do which was protect themselves as they fell back. Any assault would have to get through some dirt walls.

Meanwhile, Raven was still tangling with the icy knight, and while he did have the better skill in the blade regard, the building burning around them was a bit more of a concern to the metal knight than it was a mage covered in ice. When a quick break happened, Raven could only grin as a mug slammed into the back of the ice mage's head, causing her to stumble a moment. While Raven was fully intending to take advantage, a drink spilling over and bringing flames to his feet interrupted that idea.

"Gods damn me, we need to get out of this burning tomb!" Raven shouted as it appeared that their own water mages were not going to be able to tame the inferno. There was far too much fuel for the fires here, and fighting at the same time was not going to help things. "Forget the damned rogues, its time to get out!" Raven turned to get to the door, ignoring the opponents who seemed to have also lost the stomach for doing more fighting.

As Alexander turned himself into a spotlight, while it was effective in keeping the retreating mages from looking at him, the effectiveness was somewhat lost as they were not intending to stare into the light mage, and with the room now exploding in flames quite literally, it was already the brightest building in town without Alexander's help, and the now constructing dirt walls was more than enough to stop light in some sections.

Meanwhile, outside when Ling turned the next corner she was met with a new problem: a shadow which was more than ready for her coming around, and took a quick swing at her. Since the shadow has just been called, it did not yet have its knives drawn. But close range punches would work for the escaping nightshade to keep from being followed or shot again.

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@Coga19000

So, taking on the idea as far as the chip being used, if it is going to be firing off anything, I need it to have a side effect when being in close proximity to magic. Burning heat, or a bright light, or something. The Scar itself is just a collection of constantly firing untamed magic, so an item detecting it would need to give off something in response.

And thanks for going to the one grenade, because that is again a hell of a set of equipment, metal mage or no. Good on you to get involved in the fight!

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As the flashbang flew towards the crowd of people and the Nightshade now shoving his way out of the door, the flash temporarily dazed and caused screams and more panic about the door as some caught the full brunt of the blast. The Nightshade, unfortunately, was not one of those to catch the problematic effect as people panicking to get away had knocked the weapon away from them. The blast had some effect on the crowd, but the fighters were all left relatively untouched unless they stared into the door.

The shadow that had been left behind decided the metal mage was causing more trouble than they were worth. With a quick few swings of the shadowy daggers, the metal mage took a few quick cuts as he had been instead focused on stopping the fleeing Nightshade who now was making his way outside with Ling in pursuit with the crossbow.

As Vana had jumped on the ice mage, there was a close struggle as the metallic mage and the armored ice mage tangled. While the ice mage was slightly dazed from the sudden physical contact, her expression changed when the armor she wore turned into more of a watery mess, soaking Vana as well. Working quickly, Vana was suddenly finding herself either being weighted down or otherwise in some small spots very frozen as the water she had soaked in from the melting backfired. "Thank your boyfriend later for me." She taunted, shoving the mage off and hearing the scream of her fire companion. Thinking quickly, icy daggers were pulled from her armor and launched at Alexander to get him off the fire mage.

The stone mage could be described as only amused as Joey figured the attempt to assault the face of the armor that he still held strong. As Joey jumped at the earth fighter, he quickly was grabbed, and with almost superhuman strength launched Joey towards Drew, finding the unoccupied mage to likely be the biggest problem at this point. "GIRLS WE ARE LEAVING." With a quick set of stomps, the boards under the earthshaper shattered, giving him access to the bare earth which he wasted no time pulling the earth to do some quick stone throwing with the new source. The rocks themselves were not targeted, being thrown in any direction to either distract or cause panic.

The fire mage was screaming as her arm was pulled, though Alexander also had to deal with the burning that only intensified as the close combat came into play. While she was obviously downed initially, the assistance from the ice mage meant that Alexander could not just remain there with danger being tossed his way. With the grip released, the fire mage rolled away, and let the fire do similar to what the earth mage now did. Unleash fire just wherever in the hopes of causing chaos, which was MUCH more effective as more of the bar caught fire.

Raven in the meantime left the fire mage to Alexander who had at least temporarily dealt with the problem, only to now have to race to the ice mage who threw daggers at the Master Illuminate. Bringing his blade to cut, he was met suddenly with an icy spear. With a growl he shoved the ice mage away with a violent shove. At least with him there the few icy daggers which flew at Alexander ceased for now, having to dedicate much more attention to Raven's interference. It also meant that Vana wasn't being actively iced over any more. This left the fire mage to simply leave trails of fire to the door as the remaining mages made their intentions clear. They were leaving, and they did not plan on leaving without leaving a distraction behind.

Meanwhile, as the Nightshade began his retreat into the night, suddenly a bolt slammed into the bag he had carried on his back. "DAMMIT!" Running as fast as they could, the Nightshade did their best to sprint into the dark and try to get away from the eyesight of Ling, hoping that turning a few corners and going off into the night would be too risky for the crossbow mage to follow.

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@Luna

Hey there Luna. Seems you have a lot going on. Too bad you had to go, and thanks for letting me know. Good writing, and see you around.

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He is full armor. So face and all that good stuff is covered, which is why it is hard to identify who they are.

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@Coga19000

No harm in what you are attempting, but it needs some ironing out, which is why I was happy to take you in. Firstly, I think the biggest problem here is location in relevance to everything else. You came into the bar, and I assume stepped out of the doorway, otherwise you'd be getting shoved out of the way and trampled by the people now trying to flee said bar. On that same note, the Nightshade is joining in on that group, so if you did throw a flashbang at them, its going to hit some poor soul just trying to get out of there.

The shadow itself can be considered a second human opponent. Shots, cuts, explosions, and other such things still will "kill" the shadow. Just don't expect a flash of light to kill it because, again, if light was all it took, then Nightshades might as well be the most useless mages ever.

Now your equipment needs some work, largely because grenades are largely unheard of being used except in cannon fire by humanity. Meaning having personalized explosive devices, let alone 4 of them, is quite the accomplishment to have, especially since your mage is not of Alchemic style. There was a reason I have a Nightshade of Alchemic properties, it is so having healing potions, and concoctions can be feasible for those that use them. I would be willing to allow one experimental bomb of each, but having 2 each of those is not gonna fly.

Now, I really need to press the point on your SCAR, and the sensor thing. These are extremely advanced, making your character possibly the most technologically advanced person on the entire planet, which I hope you understand isn't going to be acceptable here. The SCAR I might be able to negotiate over, but the Sensor chip I cannot.

But no huge reason to be extra sorry. You are doing what you figure works best, just need to scale back what you have. You arn't a well armed mage army, you are a group of volunteers that is off to deal with a threat that an advanced tech kingdom has decided needs mages to handle.