one more five horu drive to home...then ill stop spamming the status bar. promise. go back to only updating it once every few months
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back in my home state. actually a real nice hotel compared to the last one that had cockroaches in the bathroom. so thats cool and good. ready to get home tomorrow. blehhhhjgkjgkjhatk
Level 6: 24/60 Location: The Maw: The Kitchen Word Count: short Points Gained: 1 New EXP Balance--- Level 6 : 25/60
As Sakura sat down she closed her eyes tight. It was all just too much. She felt so weak and powerless, she knew it was best that she just gave up and sat the rest of this out.
Of course, even now she wasn't thinking straight. It was inevitable that one of her teammates, especially Bella, would want to stay behind to protect her. Even now, Sakura was diverting precious time and resources away from their escape, and towards herself! She just wanted to curl up and disappear.
Mirage had come to cheer her up, and Bella had come to protect her. Meanwhile every one else was heading off to do things, things that could really use their help. Mirage's intelligence and quick shooting, and Bella's wit and strength.
"My home..? It's nice. Listen, guys... please just leave me alone. I'll be fine. If she was going to come and get us, she would have come and got us. I'll just hide here. Don't worry about me." She said, voice quiet. "I'm no good like this." She indicated her child form.
"Mister Mirage, Ms. Bella. Please just go help the others, okay?" She beseeched them earnestly. "It'll make me feel better, really." She lifted the kimono of the geisha mannequin and vanished mostly beneath it.
"See?" She peeked out from underneath. "All good. I'm just gonna- meditate. Or something."
Level 6: 23/60 Location: The Maw: The Kitchen Word Count: 521 Points Gained: 1 New EXP Balance--- Level 6 : 24/60
Sakura wondered if she should be embarassed being carried around like this, but she was too tired to care at this point. Plus, she looked and felt like a helpless child, so it wasn't like she was adult Sakura being carried like this. Right?
Nadia, Mirage, and of course Bella reassured her about her homeland, which made Sakura smile. "Well. All right. I h-hope you guys get to see it someday, but I don't know how." She had imagined that they would all be parting ways once this all over, if everything went back to normal. But she hoped that maybe in this big World of Light, her parents were sitting happily in their house. Once Sakura found them, she could introduce all her new friends to her family and her home. That was a nice thought.
One that wouldn't last for long, as everyone was given backrow seats to the prelude of the night's festivities. The kid from earlier was still running away. Sakura tensed up, turning around to watch with wide eyes. When the Lady picked up Runaway with her magic powers, Sakura cried and averted her eyes, burying her face in Bella's shoulder.
Fabric balled up in her little fists. That poor kid...an actual kid, probably.
"..." Silently, she indicated Bella to set her down. Once back on her own two feet, Sakura straightened out her dress with her shaking hands. A child mutated before their very eyes, and they were powerless to stop it. Once again she felt like throwing up, but she forced herself to keep what little food she had running through her system. Instead she just made an odd noise and coughed. Lower limp trembling, her knuckles were white from squeezing into fists. For a moment, it might seem like she was resolute, or angry. But she wasn't.
"I'll just..." She looked at Ace. "Stay here. I think." She admitted, frightened. Scared of screwing up again, and afraid of dying or being cooked alive or some twisted fate worse than death. Afraid of the ghoulish spectators that relaxed dumbly in the seats infront of her. After a near constant deluge of mistakes and powerlessness, Sakura's spirit had given up the ghost, it seemed. She just couldn't take it anymore.
As Bowser marched off to the store room, Sakura found a clear spot to sit down in the darkness, the geisha dolls looming high overhead. Curling up, she clutched her knees to her chest; as if she was cold. She opened her palms, stared at them for a moment, and then clenched her fists again. Stupid, useless, soft little things. Once again she returned to the question: Who was she without her strength? The answer: A pointless liability. Which, she supposed internally, was fair enough. She wasn't going to be too hard on herself for that. But she did need to stop deluding herself into thinking she could be helpful in these dire circumstances. So she sat in silence, making herself as small and as hard to see as possible in the shadows of the back row of the theater.
Level 6: 22/60 Location: The Maw: The Kitchen Word Count: 649 Points Gained: 1 New EXP Balance--- Level 6 : 23/60
"Where do we escape?! Where do we- Oh, damn." Kasugano Sakura was shut up as she saw her friends absolutely demolish the baddies. Bowser got turned into a shrimp, but that was small fry in comparison to the damage her friends did to the wizards. Larry even got turned onto their side, which was odd.
Small fry? "Small fry, hahaha, hey, that's small fry-" Sakura began, perhaps slightly delirious, when the shrimp she struggled to carry turned back into her friend Bella. "Bleh!" Sakura blurted, smushed.
Soon she was rolled around with, carried like a toddler. It was certainly better than being tied up above a roaring fire. "I'm ok." Sakura said, simply exhausted. Though not as bad as Geralt due to the fact that she hadn't done any fighting, if she had, she definitely would be in a similar situation. Mental fatigue didn't help her situation, either.
Sakura responded to Geralt's thumbs up with her peace sign, smiling.
"Thanks for saving us, you guys." Sakura said. "Glad to see you're all uh, alive. And know how to make an entrance." She said.
When she realised Geralt was going to be set down to eat with the others, and that it was okay to eat, Sakura requested she bet set down and joined Geralt in a japanese seafood meal. "Itadakimasu!" The girl shouted. Sakura scarfed it down and could barely taste it before it was gone. "Shimatta." She chuckled. "Thank you for the meal. And only being complicit with evil instead of an active participant." She wiped her mouth. "It's okay, sensei, I do it all the time."
Now that she had eaten her vegetable seafood, Sakura felt she was mentally prepared for whatever came next. It just felt so good to eat, Sakura started crying again without realising it. The flavors reminded her strongly of her home. She wiped her eyes and pushed on.
She glanced around at the carnage on the inside of the room Nadia, Ace, and Blazermate had passed through. "Uwa~!" She exclaimed, impressed.
Sakura clenched her fists as she caught a glimpse of that awful woman that did this to all of them and, assumably, everyone on board. From the children in the cafeteria to whoever they were turning into meals. It was all so terrible, she didn't even know how to process it. She just focused on trying to climb these damn stairs. Oh, it was terrible. She asked Bella for 'help' as in: "Please do it for me."
One way or the other, they made it to the top, Sakura on her own two feet again. When they saw the guests in the room, all lazy, fattened up, and oblivious, she remained stealthy with the others as everyone conspired a plan.
Sakura stayed quiet and still, not wanting to do anything else to screw up. The guilt weighed on her heavily, but she didn't want to waste anyone's time. None of them were even bringing up the fact that they were only in this situation because of Sakura's terrible decision. Not even a 'be careful next time.' So clearly, they were all keen to move on. Or maybe they were all just so nice they didn't even think of it. Therefore, there was no reason to bring it up until they were in the clear. Sakura could afford to just bundle it all up and keep it to herself.
"This place it's all...Japanese. Like where I'm from." She said quietly, frustrated. "Great. I hope this doesn't give you guys a bad impression. Now if you ever see my home, you're gonna think of that creepy noh mask wearing, geisha copying, horrible lady. She's just the worst." She pouted. But besides that idle side tangent, she was quiet and just followed whatever the group consensus would be.
Well, here she is. Let me know what you think once you get a chance @Zombiedude101
Name: Nyota Mtoto Known Aliases: Star Child Age: Four years old, though she claims to be merely the newest incarnation of a much longer lasting, larger whole that has existed for billions of years. Appearance: A seemingly female figure composed of vines, leaves, and stems. Flowers are weaves into various parts of her body, especially a crown-like shape around her head, with a few large pink and blue flowers sprouting out of her scalp. They resemble a bow a little girl might wear in her hair. Her height shifts, her body shape in very slow but constant flux. However, her average height is about five and a half feet tall. The only features on her face are her eyes and mouth. Her eyes are two perfectly round black orbs with that look like stars of various colors shifting within. The same type of light can be seen down the back of her throat if she opens her mouth up. Her mouth has teeth and tongue, but they are made of vegetation. Nyota, besides her glowing eyes, is bioluminescent. On the inside of her body there is a warm yellow light that is turned green by the chlorohpyll of her 'skin.'
Over her leaf like body, she wears a few metallic plates. Especially over her face, she wears a mask that covers everything except her eyes. She has similar smooth metallic plates over her chest, back, forearms, and thighs. They are a dull iron in color, chipped and scratched in some places, and are melded voluntarily into her form.
Her fingers are fairly formed, but her legs are not. Her lower half shifts regularly, sometimes being snake like, other times being more defined legs. But her feet, if they do appear, resemble roots spreading out in all directions.
Psyche Profile: Nyoto is personable, friendly, and excitable. Earnest and honest, she enjoys conversation and making friends, with no ulterior motive. It simply brings her pleasure to converse, hear the problems of, and help solve the problems of others. Playful and compassionate, she gains joy out of bringing joy. Nyoto is wise, and tolerant of all kinds of people. Though she struggles to communicate them into terms we can understand, she believes she possesses fundamental truths of the universe that she tries to convey with her actions instead. She can also undergo long periods of peaceful meditation, but as her time in the Borehole drags on she is becoming more bored and depressed.
While being very friendly, she is also full of odities and has an alien perspective when compared to humans. Thus her social skills can occasionally be strange and unpredictable, though she never means any harm with her innocent questions or tangents.
Nyoto loves nature. Animals and plants both, she speaks of them, and to them, as if they were people. Despite all of the value she places on life, she places equal value on death and decay. This causes her to be callous towards death and mayhem, viewing it merely as another part of the cycle of nature. Still she does not go out of her way to cause harm and wants to prevent the suffering of others.
She has a rare, but certainly present, wrathful side. If what she views as an atrocity of the Earth is committed infront of her over a prolonged period of time, she will go to great lengths to avenge it.
Background: Nyoto was first discovered by a rural community in Uganda. She arrived on the outskirts of town and began playing games with the local children. While the people were fearful of her at first, eventually they came to accept her as a member of the community. They were the ones who named her Star Child in Swahili, no doubt after her enrapturing eyes. Rumors of her began to spread across Africa and eventually the outer world. There are many strang things on Earth, and she wasn't causing anyone any harm. Infact, harvests were more bountiful, plagues were banished, and injuries cured.
Nyoto left her home village and began to travel. This was the beginning of the end for her freedom. She saw companies pillaging the landscape. Jungles poisoned by oil forced from the Earth, many people suffering from conditions forced on them by others. The more she learned, the more revolted she began. At first she protested peaceably, but her words went unheard as private military forces fired upon this strange monster from the jungle.
Nyoto's sorrow turned to frustration, and her frustration boiled over into wrath. One fateful day she wrought a horrible vengeance upon those who exploited the Earth. Animals rose up and tore the throats out of humans, plagues of insects consumed food, water became undrinkable. Nyoto herself suffocated, choked, and crushed those who had dismissed her earlier. She went from the outskirts and into the inner cities, levelling buildings and doing billions worth of damage to infrastructure. While she didn't purposefully kill any civilians, many died in the collateral damage, and many many more were made homeless, injured, or displaced. Seemingly taken by a bout of madness she travelled up north, from city to city.
A force of humanity responded to her violence and managed to bring her spree to an end, using a combination of supernatural abilities, technology, and good old fashioned manpower and co-ordination. She was poisoned, subdued, and then captured. Nyoto was despondant afterwards and didn't resist after she had time to reflect on her actions.
Skills, Talents and Learning: She is good at playing the drums, speaking Swahili and English, the harp, and guitar-like instruments. She knows all of the plants and all of the animals, though not by their scientific name.
Power(s) and Capabilities:
Ambient Affector: When in a good mood and in an area for prolonged periods of time, an extremely large area around her experiences better weather, livelier crops, and healthier human and animal populaces.
Communicate with Animals: Animals listen to her and reflect her mood, and she can learn information from them as well.
Induce Growth: With focus, she can concentrate and rapidly expand upon plant life to dangerous extents. From entangling vines to poisonous mushroom spores, to highly effective antidotes and medicines.
Command Plants: She can give commands to plants, and evaluate their 'mood' and 'personality'.
Vine Structure: She can extend her limbs and change her body shape. She is resistant to blunt damage and regenerates wounds. Her vines can be absolutely crushing, or she can simply smack people around with them. By pulling herself around with her limbs, she can be deceptively fast and agile. Nyoto also does not seem to age.
Star Child: She can see perfectly in the dark, and knows her geographical location at all times.
Slow Growth: All of her abilities very, very slowly expand in power the longer she is free to roam and interact with nature.
Power Limits:
Concrete Jungle: Her powers reduce in effectiveness the longer she is cut off from nature and is in the man-made world.
Water and Nutrients: Her powers are weakened if she doesn't have access to water or fresh soil. If deprived of water in particular for long enough, she'll die.
Known Vulnerabilities: Vulnerable to fire, pesticides, and slicing damage.
Motives: If Nyoto escaped, she would flee to the wilderness and potentially not come into contact with humanity again for a long time. Nyoto is also confused about her actions, she feels very guilty about them but also knows that the transgessions that were being committed could not stand. Nyoto understand why she is here, but also desperately wants to be free so she can live the life she thinks she was meant to have.
Level: To be determined.
Recommended Containment Procedures: A water drip in her cell to prevent her from dying, but not enough to bolster her abilities. The cell is to be airtight, made entirely of concrete and cleaned regularly to prevent build up of mold, insects, and bacteria. In order to accomodate this, Nyoto has two cells that she is made to alternate between once a week. No sunlight. A compost bin can be delivered to her once a month to improve her mood, and other amenities will keep her happy and compliant. If starved of niceties for too long she may become mischevious, rebellious, or throw a tantrum.
Notes: Overall a good prisoner, though not the easiest to contain. She's nice to most everyone, and has several ideas for "extra-curricular clubs and activites", such as starting a prison band, a sewing club, or a movie club.
Name: Nyota Mtoto Known Aliases: Star Child Age: Four years old, though she claims to be merely the newest incarnation of a much longer lasting, larger whole that has existed for billions of years. Appearance: A seemingly female figure composed of vines, leaves, and stems. Flowers are weaves into various parts of her body, especially a crown-like shape around her head, with a few large pink and blue flowers sprouting out of her scalp. They resemble a bow a little girl might wear in her hair. Her height shifts, her body shape in very slow but constant flux. However, her average height is about five and a half feet tall. The only features on her face are her eyes and mouth. Her eyes are two perfectly round black orbs with that look like stars of various colors shifting within. The same type of light can be seen down the back of her throat if she opens her mouth up. Her mouth has teeth and tongue, but they are made of vegetation. Nyota, besides her glowing eyes, is bioluminescent. On the inside of her body there is a warm yellow light that is turned green by the chlorohpyll of her 'skin.'
Over her leaf like body, she wears a few metallic plates. Especially over her face, she wears a mask that covers everything except her eyes. She has similar smooth metallic plates over her chest, back, forearms, and thighs. They are a dull iron in color, chipped and scratched in some places, and are melded voluntarily into her form.
Her fingers are fairly formed, but her legs are not. Her lower half shifts regularly, sometimes being snake like, other times being more defined legs. But her feet, if they do appear, resemble roots spreading out in all directions.
Psyche Profile: Nyoto is personable, friendly, and excitable. Earnest and honest, she enjoys conversation and making friends, with no ulterior motive. It simply brings her pleasure to converse, hear the problems of, and help solve the problems of others. Playful and compassionate, she gains joy out of bringing joy. Nyoto is wise, and tolerant of all kinds of people. Though she struggles to communicate them into terms we can understand, she believes she possesses fundamental truths of the universe that she tries to convey with her actions instead. She can also undergo long periods of peaceful meditation, but as her time in the Borehole drags on she is becoming more bored and depressed.
While being very friendly, she is also full of odities and has an alien perspective when compared to humans. Thus her social skills can occasionally be strange and unpredictable, though she never means any harm with her innocent questions or tangents.
Nyoto loves nature. Animals and plants both, she speaks of them, and to them, as if they were people. Despite all of the value she places on life, she places equal value on death and decay. This causes her to be callous towards death and mayhem, viewing it merely as another part of the cycle of nature. Still she does not go out of her way to cause harm and wants to prevent the suffering of others.
She has a rare, but certainly present, wrathful side. If what she views as an atrocity of the Earth is committed infront of her over a prolonged period of time, she will go to great lengths to avenge it.
Background: Nyoto was first discovered by a rural community in Uganda. She arrived on the outskirts of town and began playing games with the local children. While the people were fearful of her at first, eventually they came to accept her as a member of the community. They were the ones who named her Star Child in Swahili, no doubt after her enrapturing eyes. Rumors of her began to spread across Africa and eventually the outer world. There are many strang things on Earth, and she wasn't causing anyone any harm. Infact, harvests were more bountiful, plagues were banished, and injuries cured.
Nyoto left her home village and began to travel. This was the beginning of the end for her freedom. She saw companies pillaging the landscape. Jungles poisoned by oil forced from the Earth, many people suffering from conditions forced on them by others. The more she learned, the more revolted she began. At first she protested peaceably, but her words went unheard as private military forces fired upon this strange monster from the jungle.
Nyoto's sorrow turned to frustration, and her frustration boiled over into wrath. One fateful day she wrought a horrible vengeance upon those who exploited the Earth. Animals rose up and tore the throats out of humans, plagues of insects consumed food, water became undrinkable. Nyoto herself suffocated, choked, and crushed those who had dismissed her earlier. She went from the outskirts and into the inner cities, levelling buildings and doing billions worth of damage to infrastructure. While she didn't purposefully kill any civilians, many died in the collateral damage, and many many more were made homeless, injured, or displaced. Seemingly taken by a bout of madness she travelled up north, from city to city.
A force of humanity responded to her violence and managed to bring her spree to an end, using a combination of supernatural abilities, technology, and good old fashioned manpower and co-ordination. She was poisoned, subdued, and then captured. Nyoto was despondant afterwards and didn't resist after she had time to reflect on her actions.
Skills, Talents and Learning: She is good at playing the drums, speaking Swahili and English, the harp, and guitar-like instruments. She knows all of the plants and all of the animals, though not by their scientific name.
Power(s) and Capabilities:
Ambient Affector: When in a good mood and in an area for prolonged periods of time, an extremely large area around her experiences better weather, livelier crops, and healthier human and animal populaces.
Communicate with Animals: Animals listen to her and reflect her mood, and she can learn information from them as well.
Induce Growth: With focus, she can concentrate and rapidly expand upon plant life to dangerous extents. From entangling vines to poisonous mushroom spores, to highly effective antidotes and medicines.
Command Plants: She can give commands to plants, and evaluate their 'mood' and 'personality'.
Vine Structure: She can extend her limbs and change her body shape. She is resistant to blunt damage and regenerates wounds. Her vines can be absolutely crushing, or she can simply smack people around with them. Nyoto also does not seem to age.
Star Child: She can see perfectly in the dark, and knows her geographical location at all times.
Slow Growth: All of her abilities very, very slowly expand in power the longer she is free to roam and interact with nature.
Power Limits:
Concrete Jungle: Her powers reduce in effectiveness the longer she is cut off from nature and is in the man-made world.
Water and Nutrients: Her powers are weakened if she doesn't have access to water or fresh soil. If deprived of water in particular for long enough, she'll die.
Known Vulnerabilities: Vulnerable to fire, pesticides, and slicing damage.
Motives: If Nyoto escaped, she would flee to the wilderness and potentially not come into contact with humanity again for a long time. Nyoto is also confused about her actions, she feels very guilty about them but also knows that the transgessions that were being committed could not stand. Nyoto understand why she is here, but also desperately wants to be free so she can live the life she thinks she was meant to have.
Level: To be determined.
Recommended Containment Procedures: A water drip in her cell to prevent her from dying, but not enough to bolster her abilities. The cell is to be airtight, made entirely of concrete and cleaned regularly to prevent build up of mold, insects, and bacteria. In order to accomodate this, Nyoto has two cells that she is made to alternate between once a week. No sunlight. A compost bin can be delivered to her once a month to improve her mood, and other amenities will keep her happy and compliant. If starved of niceties for too long she may become mischevious, rebellious, or throw a tantrum.
Notes: Overall a good prisoner, though not the easiest to contain. She's nice to most everyone, and has several ideas for "extra-curricular clubs and activites", such as starting a prison band, a sewing club, or a movie club.
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