Xaltwind

From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

Muy bien, senõr.

Goblin Slayer: Newblood (CANCELLED)

After having followed Steppe Archer's example, and rubbed herself down with grass and nearby flora - that weren't poisonous - Druid Girl returned just in time to be offered a makeshift stick-spear by Big Red.

"Thanks?" She said, blinking a few times before taking one of the sharpened poles.

She already had a staff, and while it wasn't sharp at one end, it was more meant for swinging in wiode arcs and boking fools on the noggin', or sweeping their legs, or thumping their stomach and/or solar plexus. Still, maybe this thing would comein handy? She wasn't exactly used to using spears though, but really, how hard could it be to point and thrust a stick? No harder than using a knife, surely!

After they finished up their position and tactical-talks, each of the adventurers got into their assigned position, with the lizard closest to the cave's entrance, followed by the druid and the archer staying behind in the shrubs close to the tree-line. Time passed, albeit slowly, but bit by bit the sun in the sky slowly descended and in its place the two mooms began to creep upwards towards the heavens instead. As twilight fell upon the little wooded area th trio found themselves in, things and stuff began to happen.

Late Dusk...

Noises came from within the cave. Shrill, shrieky noises, and they weren't being made by the wind. Soon, the pitter-patter of small feet against hard stone and packed dirt could be heard, getting closer and louder with each moment. After that, the distinct sound of exaggerated sniffing followed, before finally, the three heroes finally feasted their eyes upon the first of their adversaries. A goblin. A tiny, ugly, green thing with a long nose, long pointy ears, piss-yellow eyes and nothing more than a foul, dirty loin-cloth for clothing. It held a knife, which was quite readily rusted-over, and was turning its tiny head this way and that, trying to peer into the diminishing light of the approaching night.

Of course, as it stepped out of the cave, the cretin fell victim to the first of SteppE Archer's traps, being snared and rendered completely useless. The creature howled and shrieked in fear, confusion and agitation. Its cry for help prompted further pitter-patter to be heard from further in, and soon a group of four - almopst identical - urchins appeared. One stepped forward towards its captured ally, which result in it joining him. The others, however, seemed to grow wary of the the cave entrance, and began to stare and poke at the ground with their crude, ill-maintained weapons of choice.

The ambush had sort of worked... However, all in all, there were only five goblins currently. Then again, if they'd drawn out the entire nest all at once, who knows how many they would have had to face down? It didn't rightly matter though, as soon, one of the goblins turned its beady eyes towards a suspiscious mound of red muscles, and cawed like an angry crow, poinint its short sword at the semi-concealed lizardman outside their home. Apparently, these creatures had better eyesight than one had expected, especially considering the lighting.... Oh wait, they saw better in the dark...

Druid Girl, hiding behind a fallen log, peered from one end of the fallen trunk, waiting to see what actions her allies would take. Her time to act wasn't now. Big Red didn't need healing and Steppe Archer didn't need help with spotting the little gremlins yet - there was still enough light without her casating Faerie Fire on the blighters.

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Welp, I waited. Longer than I said I would, and there has been no comment or information. As of today, Asuras and Annabelle are removed from the story. Annabelle will remain in the RP until a point where she can be removed without causing Twilight Zone-syndrome.

From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

Hehehehe, tiny humans poke holes in big lizard :D

From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

Huh, that took a bit longer than I thought to get up. Oh well, new post is up and the fight is going sort-of-kind-of-maybe-good? Trying to not spend too much more time on it. So, if any of you want to clear up any particular part of it - the Serafaye and Kaze vs. Main Force, Annabelle and Cecilia vs. Archers or Vani vs. Reserves, just lemme know and we'll collab it to be finished.

Happy posting.

EDIT:

@Asuras
Since I explained, and updated, the rules on how the deadline works the previous week, I'm assuming you're fully aware that you're late this week. Please try and get a post up as soon as possible. You'll have until this Tuesday - that's as far as I'll stretch my patience.

From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

Forgotten Ruins, East roads & alleys, near the East Gate

What's up with these guys? They tell me to go running in and drawing all the aggro, then they start yelling and whining when I do? Jeez, it's not like they didn't have time to get ready while I was standing around, distracting that fool on the walls... They're like total AFK'ers, getting pissy about someone pulling a mob just 'cuz they stood around, twiddling their thumbs and watch8ing shity reality shows when they should be focused on the dungeon... No wait, these are real people, right? ... Doesn't that make it worse though? If they can't adapt, how have they all survived!?

Many throughts were flying through the dracokin's head, as she stood silent and unmoving while the oncoming bulk of the Imperial guards charged at her. That is, until from a distant part of the area, she could hear the paladin-dude's voice. He was shouting something about a monster who had killed hundreds of people and ate the hearts of men and kicked little white puppies, or some such. The implication that this person was Serafaye herself completely flew over the girl's head though, so she remained confused as to what he was trying to do or accomplish with this stunt.

Vani, in turn, would find that the Imperial troops had little interest in anything anyone who wasn't a member of their army had to say. To that end, the paladin would have been pelted with a storm of arrows, had it not been for the rising smoke created by a certain masked mage. The black, billowing smog was far more distressing to the soldiers than the ravings of some random elf... Well, at least as far as the archers were concerned. The remaining dozen or so grunts still on the ground, who had remained by the gate, now began moving towards the elven knight's positiion, inten t on apprehending him the same way their much larger force intended to apprehend Serafaye...

... Until a certain monstrous reptile-man suddenly leapt from the shadows and started flailing about, smashing metal armor as if it were paper and picking up grown men and using them as whack-a-mole mallets against their fellow soldiers. At the sight of the surreal scene, Serafaye could do little more than stand and stare in sheer dumbfounded disbelief. If there had ever been any doubts about this still being Oubliette Online, they had been thoroughly smashed to bits by this sudden act of gratuitous violence - because no class, no job and no matter what level you were, there was nobody who could pick up other players or monsters and use them as make-shift crocket-mallets...

Glancing backwards, Serafaye noticed that the hoity-toity horse-riding woman had put up some sort of shelled dome... A strange thing to do, considering the archers couldn't very well fire that far back into the alleyway, nor were any of the soldiers - who were now being tossed around and gut-punched by Kaze - advancing far enough to even get close to that position. In essence, it was a complete waste of both time and amgic and wasn't condusive to their plans at all. If she had magic to spend, she should be attacking, not playing defense... At least, that was Serafaye' humble opinion on the matter.

However, even if things hadn't gone exactly as planned, the bottokm line was that all of the guards and soldiers at the gate were currently summarily distracted. Be it by the smoke, the obstinate horned girl, the berserkign lizardman or the raving paladin elf, it was safe to say that the Imperial garrison at the east gate had been truly and utterly occupied with a variety of scenarios and distractions which had left them in a bit of a mess. This state of flustered confusion and chaos leant itself well to the plans of Cecilia, and her intent of attacking the archers while everyone else acted as noise. Along with Annabelle and the little blob-creature Carpenter, the two spellblades sprung to action and, each using their own method, advanced forward and managed to get onto the gate walls proper.

Though while things were working out for the two ladies, Kaze would be grimly reminded that even if you were big and burly, charging into a mass of armed men - even if you had protection - wasn't always a good idea. While initially his attack had caught the soldiers off-guard and his sheer, massive visage had instilled momentary fear and hesitation, the Imperial soldiers quickly responded to his vicious attacks with their own. True, many of the swords that attempted to strike the reptilian warrior glanced off his armor, or failed to break through his scales... However, Kaze would learn that spears were still not his friend, and the men who had been at the very back of the advancing force had drawn theirs, and were now using them to keep distance between themselves and this new adversary.

While Kaze's use of the human cudgel was... Effective... It also meant that, even with his greater than man-strength, his movements were slower and more predictable, which leant itself to the spearmen being able to mostly avoid any incoming blow from their brother-in-arms-turned-blackjack. Small pokes, sharp thrusts and quick jabs, the lizardman was being porcupined by the spear-wielders. Meanwhile, the swordsmen who had initially been caught next to him, began to back off and give as much berth as they could, though the alley didn't exactly give them a lot of room to work with. Still, it was enough for most of them to get out of harm's way.... Most of the one's still concscious or able to stand, at least... The pile of crumpled bodies on the ground spoke volumes for the lizard warrior's brute power.

"Hey! Lay off the lizard-bro, you jerks!" Serafaye suddenly shouted, angrily stomping her foot, as a beligerent child would do when upset.

Little attention was given to the girl though, as the men and women of the Imperial forces now focused their attention on bringing down the scaly behemoth before them! ... That is, until Serafaye picked up one of Kaze's crumpled victims, as if he was a ragdoll, and tossed him at the opposition, causing a crashing and clanking of metal as two soldiers collided with one antoher. heads turned and eye stared in disbelief at the little, waifish girl, who had just thrown a fully armored man as easily as she would have thrown a pine cone...

"What the hell are these guys!?" A soldier cried out, face pale and eyes widened.
"Stand your ground! Bring down the lizard first, then we deal with the girl!"
"Is she really a monster like that guy screamed!?"
"No, it's the lizard who's the monster! S-She'll eat us!"
"Don''t falter, fiii-uuuurghh!!"

The last man got cut off, as a side-swipe from Kaze caused him to collide witht he human cudgel, sending him careening across the street. As the morale of the men fighting Kaze and Serafaye faltered, the reamainign dozen soldiers heading for Vani quickly approached. And now with Cecilia and Annabelle atop the walls, the archers would soon find themselves in a tight spot. Still, if Artemisia or Locke were intending to offer any additional support for their allies, the time to do so was now...

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Yinha and Kaze's epilogue:

And so they lived happily ever after, and had many Half-Elfizard babbies.

From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

Yeah, don't think I'll be able to get a post up this week. Brain's going no places, so just arrange for Cecilia to follow whoever wherever.

@ERode

... A bit last minute, but alright. Next time, please make sure to contact me in advance
if you (or anyone else for that matter) are having issues coming up with a post. I'm always willing to help you out, be it with a collab or just general brainsatorming.

From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

"Look a monster in a woman's guise, she eats men and children!"
*Giant-ass lizard bursts from the shadows of the alley and starts beating soldiers up by using other soldiers as bludgeons*
":.. Which one?"
"... Y'know, I'm not sure myself anymore..."

EDIT:

45 Minutes left until deadline, myurp.

From Oubliette to Oublioth [R.I.P]

Ever heard of boomerangs? ^^