The Beast ㊋ You're a, rock star (baby) Everybody wants you (everybody wants you) "The world will beat you to the ground at a moments notice"
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xxxAkuma didn't really feel like wanting to spend anymore time in this god forsaken temple so upon seeing his room empty he'd make his way back out to the lobby and the main door, waiting in front of it for the others. It was annoying to find nothing but at the very least it partially supported the idea that this place was abandon a long time ago, which meant hopefully that they wouldn't be running into the owners anytime soon and be less trouble for the three of em.
He wondered what the others had found.
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"But it's always up to you to stand back up again, or stay in the dirt." Player, who can really blame you (who can really blame you) We're the ones who made you
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Chakra 100/100 █ Stamina 100/100 Activation's / Jutsu Used ;; 1st ; 2nd ; 3rd ; Status Effects ; None
Profile Link Bloodline ; Lava Release Class ; None Affiliation ; None Status ; Pissed
Lily Platypus
Might Senju Flowers
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 3:03 pm
Every breath felt like he was inhaling smoke of some kind. The air down here was dirty and unclean. Not exactly what he was expecting to wake up to. The discomfort was taken away briefly as another person approached. They were masked but those hazel eyes were enough to speak volumes of her intentions. He coughed a few times again while his body did its best to remember how to not immediately die. In the meantime, the figured helped comfort him. Her voice, at least he thought it was a she, was soft and showed an alarming amount of concern for a person that she had only met just now. Their eyes locked. Ishihara's showed a bit of disdain but would ultimately mean no harm to fall onto his apparent savior. "Kirigakure?" He repeated while she mentioned his location. This definitely wasn't Sunagakure then.
"What do you mean what's left of it? This looks like I woke up on the set of some bad movie. Where's the doctors and researchers? Where the hell did you take me? I should..." He went to take a step but lost his balance and nearly fell. Not the best of first impressions. It took a while for him to recover but when he did he frowned and looked at Nozomi with a guilty look. "I'm sorry. I...This is all just new. Thank you for helping. I'm Ishihara, one of the archaeologists from Sunagakure. It's nice to meet a friendly face." He even managed to smile a bit!
Once formalities were out of the way Ishihara looked back at the surroundings. This was almost like a shrine but why would he be here? There were a few scratches and such here but they had been damaged too much by time to really be discernible. The thing that was alarming were the large slash markings around the stone and graffiti ridden walls. "I don't suppose these look familiar to you, do they?" Ishihara asked while he continued to try and observe the walls and decor more carefully.
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When she was reassured that there was nothing rotten in this room, she lowered her mask so she was able to give the golden haired boy a bit of a smile. Turned her attention to the room they were in, she was increasingly getting worried. Those claw marks. Something in her was telling her to get out. Then the male said something odd. About movie? Ah yes good times. Doctors? Researchers? She frowned as she held her hands up in surrender to show that she had nothing to do with this. "I don't know what's going on, we been around for maybe an hour or two. All I know this was not the Kirigakure I remembered... as if time went forward. By a lot." Nervously, she eyed those claw marks some more. They weren't fresh but she wasn't going to stick around to find out. "It's nice to meet you Ishihara, but I-I think we need to get out. We haven't been here long and this place is bad news already. We were attacked earlier. Don't forget to grab your stuff!"
If he's okay with following them she nodded as she stepped out and saw Akuma, "I think we need to get out. There's more of those claw marks in that room. I'm worried we might've let something out. Oh! I'm sorry! Ishihara-kun, this is...." She paused for a moment, realizing that after ALL this time, she didn't know this man's name. "Eh. I'll call you Senshi. You ready to go?" She questioned as she adjusted her backpack to make sure it was the right fight for them to start running and it wouldn't hobble all over the place. Her brows furrowed. She started to feel... more angry and anxious. And she doesn't get why. Just breath. In and out. Nothing to be angry about!
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The Beast ㊋ You're a, rock star (baby) Everybody wants you (everybody wants you) "The world will beat you to the ground at a moments notice"
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xxxAkuma saw the new comer but didn't give him much more than a raised eyebrow. Things were already weird as is, he just guessed it was same s**t that had happened to them. At the mention of leaving Akuma gave an affirmatory nod, "It's Akuma by the way, no last name either. Let's blow this dump".
Without much of another look around Akuma rested his katana against his shoulder with it still in his sheath and pulled his hood over his head to protect himself from anymore additional rain before heading out towards the door. Moving it open he'd step out into the open air. Damnit, he had forgotten about the bridges.
Both of them appeared to be smashed to pieces which meant they'd have to get pretty creative to cross. Unless the others had other ideas.
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"But it's always up to you to stand back up again, or stay in the dirt." Player, who can really blame you (who can really blame you) We're the ones who made you
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Chakra 100/100 █ Stamina 100/100 Activation's / Jutsu Used ;; 1st ; 2nd ; 3rd ; Status Effects ; None
_______________The Narrator Whispers... || As Ishihara carefully inspected the room he was in, he got a better grasp on certain lines of graffiti. The fresher looking ones were in an alien language he had not encountered previous to his crystallization. Of the older carvings, there were the usual graffiti common place throughout human history. Some pieces of interest: tally marks counting up to 29 in four different segments, a rough and hasty carving of they [ claw mark ] the dead, a faint carving of [ illegible ] no future... meet... shadow of Lava..., and deep, wild gouges spelling IT IS THE END. The small statue of some deity, knocked onto its back, seemed covered in rust. It was about the size of a newborn baby and would be a little heavy for Ishihara, though not so much for either Nozomi and especially not for Akuma. Given some way to remove the rust, Ishihara would likely be able to identify it.
Outside, the fog continued to spread even though the rain had ceased in the area. The waters below would be just barely discernible.
[OOC]: Eagerly waiting to see how you guys decide to tackle leaving the temple!
Lily Platypus
Odoeb
Novasse
ZephyrsBlade
Business Businessman
Offline
Novasse
Offline
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 11:03 pm
"Time moving forward...by a lot?" Ishihara repeated Nozomi's words while taking their surroundings and her account into consideration. On a first glance it would appear that he had woken earlier than he had anticipated and was now in a very different world than he was originally from. This only brought even more questions than answers and he doubted that this fair woman in front of him would have any of those answers. Instead she would remind him to grab his things while they would leave. "I'll be a minute." Ishihara said while then observing the room again. He was picking up things that he hadn't noticed before. The tally marks scattered in a messy yet organized pattern, the graffiti that seemed to be in a language that wasn't common with him, even those weird carvings of something. "What is this..." He murmured to himself while walking closer. "Something's certainly happening at least. Something happening to the dead...shadows and lava. What the hell does this all mean?" He asked himself before his hazel locked honed in on a valuable find. A small statue of some kind of figure, perhaps godlike, was worn and covered in rust. "Definitely taking this." He collected his prize and was surprised by how heavy it was to carry. It looked lighter than it actually was!
Ishihara moved back with Nozomi and her friend. He certainly was a character. Red eyes and white hair. Punkish look. "Hey." Was all that came to his mind as he tried not to make eye contact. That damned color was always so alluring to him. "Found this in the other room. Along with some ramblings of broken things. Whatever happened here certainly wasn't an afternoon picnic." He flashed the statue before the both of them before staring at it and frowning. "Don't suppose either of you have something to get rid of rust or anything?"
The Beast ㊋ You're a, rock star (baby) Everybody wants you (everybody wants you) "The world will beat you to the ground at a moments notice"
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xxxAkuma now outside headed out to the edge of what they'd call their island, spotting at just how many ruined bridges there were. He would go about taking his time to try to find if there was at least one that wasn't completely ruined, and or what would be a good way to get across to the other side so he could start working his way off of this damn rock.
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"But it's always up to you to stand back up again, or stay in the dirt." Player, who can really blame you (who can really blame you) We're the ones who made you
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Chakra 100/100 █ Stamina 100/100 Activation's / Jutsu Used ;; 1st ; 2nd ; 3rd ; Status Effects ; None
_______________The Narrator Whispers... || As Akuma circled the island observing the bridges, he would eventually come to the conclusion that they were all ruined. One or two bridges had gaps that could maybe be crossed but if they didn't appear destroyed by some ancient battle, marked by burns and jagged breaks, then they appeared to be rotting. Whether or not the supports were still strong enough was a matter of personal willingness to test it out.
To the northwest of the Temple, Akuma could just make out, about halfway down the cliff, narrow stone paths alongside the edge of both cliffs. The island and the forest on the other side were at their closest point there. A rope bridge of some sort, too obscured by fog to make out any details, appeared to connect them at that point. It was still at least a twenty meter drop to get to the top of the path. With how it spiraled around the island, it may be an additional twenty minutes of walking if the party did not choose to continuously drop down.
[OOC]:
Lily Platypus
Odoeb
Novasse
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:27 pm
The Beast ㊋ You're a, rock star (baby) Everybody wants you (everybody wants you) "The world will beat you to the ground at a moments notice"
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xxxIt looked as though he had little choice. With an exasperated sigh he went to the edge of the cliff that was above the path and see if he could lower himself down slowly before attempting to climb it down. Unless it was a sheer cliff of course. God he wish he had rope. WAIT HE DID.
It had happened back in the temple. As he was searching for things his head blared with pain and memories shot themselves back to the surface (free training posts used to auto learn Shigure Souen to stage 2, Lava Manipulation, Rubber Rope, Rubber defense) as some of his tricks had come back to him. Carefully he'd make two rope like strands that started as lava and settled into rubber, tying them together at one end. With the elasticity on his side. He'd attach the end of his long rope to the ground by converting the ground into cement, effectively melding the two together. The rope was strong enough to whip out and grab a person so it would be more than enough to hold his weight as he descended down. (3x D Rank Techs Used Being Rubber Rope x2 and Lava Manipulation D Rank)
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"But it's always up to you to stand back up again, or stay in the dirt." Player, who can really blame you (who can really blame you) We're the ones who made you
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Chakra 70/100 █ Stamina 100/100 Activation's / Jutsu Used ;; 1st ; 2nd ; 3rd ; Status Effects ; None
tab As Akuma used his rubber-like rope of lava to scaffold down the side of the cliff, he would have no problem reaching the beginning of the walkway below. Near the top of the walkway was a cave leading back inward towards the Isolated Temple. The sound of the wind howling through it seemed to lend a faint, ominous sound, eerily similar to an infant's cries. Strange graffiti in an unknown language was visible. A close inspection would reveal that some carvings appeared to be relatively recent and carefully done to boot. One might read it as a continuing conversation over the course of many years, if not decades. If one could read it, of course.
tab The path spiraling around the base of the temple would eventually lead to that rope bridge, a little bit clearer now. Akuma could either choose to take his time and walk downwards or continue using his rubber rope and lava manipulation for a faster descent. Regardless, the bridge itself was in good condition, almost as though maintenance had been regularly performed. The turret-like device on the other side of the bridge was more visible at this lower altitude and the bridge itself appeared to emanate from the base of it.
[OOC]:
Lily Platypus
Odoeb
Novasse
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 11:02 pm
Akuma
㊋ You're a, rock star (baby) Everybody wants you (everybody wants you)
"The world will beat you to the ground at a moments notice"
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xxxAkuma noted the weird looking language on the cave walls. All it really told him was that there was a chance even if he did run into anyone or anything else in this god forsaken land that they might not even be able to talk to him. The more he thought about the situation the more he only really found one option. Of course there was still the chance that all this was simpler than it appeared however he was taking it at face value. No one in sight yet, signs of destruction. What he needed right now was information. That he'd force out of those damn fades if he had to at this point. And if it actually turned out that humans hadn't been around in sometime and the world really did go to hell then well, he'd have to forge his own destiny. The tailed beasts were around when he was alive and that was still the only thing burning in his mind. He didn't give a damn if everyone else had died, very few if any were kind to him, but those things. Those things he knew had great power. That power could be use to strike ones own claim in this new world, or at the very least keep him comfortable well the rest of the people waking up fought among each other.
With these new thoughts driving him he'd conserve his chakra for the time being but ignore the cave, taking the walk downwards before carefully taking his time to cross the bridge. He kept his eyes locked on the weird looking device of course. Not that he knew what it was but it was another oddity that was foreign to him. And so far every foreign thing he came across had messed with him.
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"But it's always up to you to stand back up again, or stay in the dirt." Player, who can really blame you (who can really blame you) We're the ones who made you
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Chakra 80/100 █ Stamina 100/100 Activation's / Jutsu Used ;; 1st ; 2nd ; 3rd ; Status Effects ; None
Profile Link Bloodline ; Lava Release Class ; None Affiliation ; None Status ; Healthy
tab Reaching the other side, Akuma would notice a large lever on the other side of the device. It was currently in an up position. With that, he would be able to follow a gradually disappearing dirt path away from the Isolated Temple.
[Exit Akuma]
EXP Rewards:
One hundred [100] EXP and four [4] training posts to Nozomi, Eimdall, and Akuma for their exploration of the temple and the test put forth by Tedd.
[OOC]:
LilyPlatypus
Might Senju Flowers
Odoeb
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:12 pm
_______________The Narrator Whispers... || tab A blink of an eye was all it would take to have Eimdall realize he was alone. Muscles and tendons ached nearly to the bone, giving credence to the possibility that he had been standing very still for an inhumanly long time. From the dust that fell from folds in his clothing at a single twitch it was even possible a major amount of time had passed. Yet what possibly alerted him to some semblance of an excuse for him to come to, besides the bone aches, was the sound of something crashing, quite loudly in fact, from outside of the temple. The only reason it was clearly outside the temple was the lack of deep echoes, something that always follows around deep, cathedral like structures such as that which he'd awoken within. Perhaps, if he ventured out to discover the source, he would find something of great value. tab For if he went Eimdall would find some sort of rat like creature with gangly arms and bejeweled membrane structures between its waist and wrists. White, pale thing the size of the average adult female, the body was clearly feminine in design and bare breasted over what looked to be bronze plates sewn onto a thick leather. She lay midst a pile of crates and sacks that had fallen from a rather large cart that was mostly intact, though it was clear the roof had been burned, and recently, given the smoke that still rose from it and the colorful arrows dotting its side. The creature had a head wound, blood trickling from a tear on her right temple, though one look at her face, a snarling maw reminiscent of a rat or thin feline, showed she was very much alive and in pain. Head shaved to a fuzz across her scalp, the female had a messenger bag made of stiff green and purple leaves that was sewn shut with some sort of...wire? Difficult to say from the angle he was at. Opening milky eyes that held a wicked gleam to them, she hissed at him, forming strange clicking and snarling sounds that bore a strange repetition, and structure. Perhaps a form of language? tab Somewhere behind him would come a loud crash as yet another chrysalis shattered, freeing another human into a world they did not know.
tab For what seemed like eternity, but at the same time no time at all, you floated in darkness. You can vaguely recall yourself, who you were, and what you were, as if a voice had guided you along that path to remembrance, but the voice itself faded away like it had never existed to begin with. All is at peace, at rest in the comforting embrace of the abyss, until a crack splits the air, resounding in the nothingness. With it came light and humidity as it slowly spider-webbed outward. Then it shattered altogether and you were released from your prison, where you fell to the damp earth, strength not immediately returning to your limbs. This weakness would only last a brief moment before you were filled with energy that could have kept you going for what felt like days, fulling rested and at your prime.
tab With a crash you strike the ground, the air around you at once both humid and cool, with the marble flooring beneath your face chilly enough to make your nose numb in moments. Somewhere nearby you hear the sounds of something groaning in pain, but where, and why, remains an unknown. All you see around you is a chamber made of marble, gold, and silver, with various religious designs all over the walls with little else.
