She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

[Tassadar]

Spoiler

HP = 57, PP = 51, EP = 40, Status = Grappled

Eleanor sighed. She'd thought that this job would be easy, at least compared to her usual work, but it was quickly proving to be just as dangerous as any of her other assignments. She'd been hired by an anonymous source to track down a group of former slavers. After they'd failed to make good on the first delivery their product, and had instead fled toward the Eastern border, whoever their employer was had apparently decided that it was worth the cost to see that others who tried to do business with him were not quite so dishonest. Which suited Eleanor just fine, since they'd also kidnapped a pair of young girls when they'd fled the Necropolis, especially since the one running the rogue band was apparently a member of the group that had murdered her lover, so many years ago. Now, she'd have a chance to get him under her sights, and take another of their accursed pendants for her collection.

At least, that was what she'd been told by the woman that had hired her two weeks ago. Regardless, somehow they'd gotten on to her following them, and had turned South in an attempt to lose her. That hadn't worked, and so they'd come here. Artmirst. Once, Hell on Earth. Now, a rotting corpse of a town, still writhing only because of the worms under its flesh. Even with the portal that had stood at the center, the place still crawled with demons and their mutated offspring, as well as a number of cowardly scavengers she'd have to watch for if she bedded down here. Along the way she'd passed the ruins of a mine, now collapsed, which marked the edge of the town. The tracks of her quarry led her down into the town, so it was that way that Eleanor went.

Rolls

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Perception: Enemy wins x2. Eleanor wins x1
Attack: Autohit. Eleanor has been grappled.
This dice roller program always rolls high, apparently.

The road and the forest around it seemed clear, making Eleanor think for a moment that she might get into the town without much trouble, when she spotted movement out of the corner of her eye. turning, she found herself staring down a charging.... Plant? The creature reminded her most of a big cat, like a lion, though its body was made of leafy green material, and a pair of tentacles waved form its shoulders. It silently charged her from out of the forest, and even as she dodged aside, two more came out behind it, one of which she wasn't fast enough to avoid. It slammed into her, its leafy paws on her shoulders, and its momentum carried her to the ground. The impact didn't quite knock the wind out of her, and the plant creature was surprisingly light for something of its size, so she was still in the fight. But, with this thing on top of her, its two tentacles already reaching for her, and two more of them prowling around her, what was she going to do?

 

[SirOni]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

"Goddammit, I'm gonna wring the neck of whatever little fucker spotted and ratted me out to their boss..." Eleanor grumbles to herself as she walks the beaten road, hands swinging loosely by her side. Eleanor continues her mumbling for quite some time, only pausing to take in the features of the surrounding area, which admittedly there wasn't much of.

"What was that..?" Eleanor mutters to herself, stopping as she thinks she hears a faint rustling from the surrounding foliage. Turning to get a better view she spots the plant-like beast pounding out from between a couple of tree's, a small smile stretches across her features as the mercenary reaches for her pistols. "Poor bastard, you don't know what you're up aga-AAAAARGH!" Screaming out in suprise Eleanor's words are cut short as she's tackled from the side, slamming into the ground with another of the plant-lions pinning her to the floor. "Wanna play, you little fucker?" Eleanor growls at the beast as she attempts to get out of its pin. Noting its weight, or in this case its lack of, Eleanor attempts to slam her knee into the creatures gut then using her strength she'll try to throw the beast off of her. After all she's well aware of what the wildlife around here is capable of and she has no plans on becoming another one of their many victims.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

HP = 57, PP = 51, EP = 40, Status = Grappled

Rolls

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Grapple: Enemy wins. Armor is at 27/30 TP.
You lost by 3.

The plant-lion is silent as its tentacles reach into Eleanors clothes, slithering against her skin. Its movements pause for a second as her knee impacts into its body, lifting the thing slightly off of the ground. Then, she lifts and pushes her foot against its midriff, trying to throw the thing off of her. While she does manage to push the creature away form her a little, the tentacles it had under her clothes kept her from being able to throw it off completely. As she struggles with the one that had her pinned, the other two plant-cats continued to circle around her, waiting for their turn at her.

(Too bad you rolled an enemy that couldn't talk.)

 

[SirOni]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

"Get. The. Fuck. Offa. Me!" Eleanor growls at the plant beast as her attempts to free herself from its grapple fail. With its viney appendages encroaching on the womans personal space Eleanor tries once more to free herself from the beasts grip, this time slamming both feet into its chest and using the strength in her legs she attempts to forcefully remove the creature off herself.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

HP = 57, PP = 51, EP = 40, Status = Grappled

Rolls

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Grapple: Enemy wins. Armor is at 23/30 TP.
Your luck sucks, apparently. They've out-rolled you again.
This time by 4.

Eleanors powerful legs manage to push it another few inches from her body, but it still manages to cling to her, its tentacles tearing more rips in her armor. They dive a little bit deeper, trying to find more purchase in her clothes and on her body, the feeling of the rough vine-like appendages not at all pleasant against her skin. More tentacles spread out from its back and start wrapping around her legs, trying to pull them apart and away from its chest.

 

[SirOni]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

"Fine, that's how you want to play I can play too," Emily growls at the plant beast, anger quickly bowling over to dangerous levels. Focusing as best as she can in her present predicament her eyes begin to glow a faint purple-white. Her hair increases in volume slightly as quiet crackles of energy can be heard as the mercenary attempts to charge her body with electricity, attempting to shock the creature off her with a blast of Static.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

HP = 57, PP = 51, EP = 40, Status = Grappled, Static

Rolls

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Casting: Automatic Success.
Damage: 1 + 2 = 3 damage.
Grapple: Eleanor wins.
You won this time, but not when you were trying to push it off of you, so all you get is no more armor damage.

The spell was so familiar to her that she could recite it in her sleep, so it was little trouble with a plant-cat trying to molest her. A static charge ran through her body and armor, and snaps of energy transferred from her to the creature that she was still grappling with. Possibly due to the minor injuries being constantly inflicted on it, it didn't make any further headway in trying to pull her armor off, giving her another window of opportunity to throw it off.

 

[SirOni]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

Eleanor mentally cheers as her attack momentarily halts the beasts attempts at separating the woman from her clothes and uses this opening to try to remove the creature from her personal space once more.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

HP = 57, PP = 51, EP = 40, Status = Fine, Static

Rolls

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Damage: 1 + 3 = 4 damage.
Grapple: Eleanor wins.
Finally.

Eleanors legs finally push the creature away from her, static crackling across her body as the tentacles underneath her clothes are slowly yanked out. As soon as the plant creature lacks that purchase, it goes hurling back several paces, taking several seconds to right itself, during which Eleanor jumps back to her feet. There are still two more of the things, and the one that had tackled her was quick to get back on its feet. This fight most certainly wasn't over yet.

 

[SirOni]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

Eleanor smiles as she free's herself from the plant beast, her feet throwing the creature into the air as she rolls backwards and up onto her feet once more. Glancing around quickly the mercenary reaches for her pistols, and as she unholsters Eleanor hops back ten feet ready to launch a barrage of pain at the first beast to charge her.

((Full Rend on the first monster that gets within or is within range))

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

HP = 42/57, PP = 51, EP = 40, Status = Fine, Static

Rolls

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Attack (Eleanor): Hit.
Attack (Eleanor): Hit.
Damage: 1 + 2 + 4 + 10 + 16 - 4 = 29 damage.
Damage: 3 + 2 + 4 + 10 + 16 - 4 = 31 damage.
Damage (Rend): 3 + 7 = 10 damage.
Attack (P1): Hit.
Attack (P2): Hit.
Damage: 2 + 10 - 4 = 8 damage. Armor at 20/30 TP.
Damage: 1 + 10 - 4 = 7 damage. Armor at 18/30 TP.
Damage (Static): 4 + 1 = 5 damage.

The creatures came for her all at once, and Eleanor put two bullets into one of them, the heavy rounds tearing through its light body. It crumpled to the ground, leaking green fluids, and moved no more. The other two tore at her sides with their claws, her static crackling along their bodies as they tore into her body, doing only minor damage but still causing painful lines of blood in her flesh, and small rents in her armor. The two creatures continued circling around her, waiting for another chance to strike as she recovered from their swipes.

 

[SirOni]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

Eleanor continues to backstep as one of the beasts is killed, her aim now switching to another of the creatures as she pushes the pain of their attacks to the back of her mind, ready to unload another barrage of bullets.

((Another round of full Rend on the closest creature))

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

HP = 35/57, PP = 51, EP = 40, Status = Lightly Injured, Static

Rolls

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Attack (Eleanor): Hit.
Attack (Eleanor): Hit.
Damage: Splat. I'm exhausted and lazy and with two hits + rend you do more damage than they have hit points
Attack (P1): Hit.
Damage: 1 + 10 - 4 = 7 damage. Armor at 16/30 TP.
Damage (Static): 1 + 1 = 2 damage.
Wow, shitty static damage.

Two more shots rang out, and another of the plant creatures fell dead at Eleanors feet. Se turned toward the third and last just as its tentacles came whipping across at her, hitting her side and quickly tearing her armor slightly before pulling away before it could take much harm from the static. Still, with it being the last one Eleanor knew she probably had this in the bag, so long as something else didn't come along to join the party.

 

[SirOni]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

Eleanor allows herself a quick moment to mentally celebrate the death of yet another one of the beasts, though she frowns slightly as she realises her guns are almost out of ammo. Determined to finish this up quickly Eleanor takes aim at the last remaining beast and unloads on it.

((full rend again))

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

HP = 35/57, PP = 51, EP = 40, Status = Lightly Injured, Static

Rolls

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Attack (Eleanor): Hit.
Attack (Eleanor): Hit.
Damage: Splort.

With two more shots Eleanor finally brings down the last of the plant creatures, two bullets tearing through its body and leaving it dead in a slowly forming pool of its own watery green blood. With the last of them dead, she could continue on to Artmirst, but this attack was clear evidence that the town was still a dangerous place even after two years. The men she was here to find would only get further ahead of her if she took her time, though such strange creatures might deserve some curios examination if she felt like she had time.

 

[SirOni]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

"About bloody time," Eleanor mutters to herself as the final plant-beast falls to her gun. She holsters her weapons and makes a mental note to reload them later on as she makes to continue her tracking of the men she was after. After all the bounty hunter had lost a lot of valuable time thanks to these bastards. Though as the girl sets on her path she pauses, an idea coming to her.

Turning to face the lifeless bodies of the creatures that had attacked her a thought comes to Eleanor; such exotic creatures would surely offer something valuable from their corpses that she could sell or even use at a later date. And it's not like she'll lose the chance to catch up to the men, all it means is she'll have to do a bit of running or even take a shortcut or two. No, she thinks, Eleanor cannot pass up this opportunity. The mercenary makes her way to each fallen beast, checking them for anything of value she could carry with her without it being too cumbersome.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

HP = 35/57, PP = 51, EP = 40, Status = Lightly Injured, Static

Rolls

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Perception: Success.
Eleanor gains 3 Darkhearts.

Eleanor had never seen anything like these creatures before, but she wagered a guess that if they had anything valuable, it was either in the head or the chest. So, she dug through the leafy flesh of the creature until, found where its brain would be had it been an animal, a large, rough crystal shone through the layers of green flesh and blood. It was a very dark red in color, and seemed to pulsate with vile energies. It was about the size of a ripe strawberry, its shape could be described as round even though of its edges were sharp enough to cut herself with if she wasn't careful. This, she knew about. This was a darkheart, a well of corruption and magic that caused a creature that had it within their body to mutate, and cause mutation in others. It was also worth a decent amount of money if presented to the right person, so it made sense to hold on to it. Digging through another creatures, she found two more darkhearts embedded in their heads.

(Assuming you just go on to the town. If not, ignore after this line and post whatever you'd like Eleanor to do, and we'll move on from there.)

The path down to Artmirst was more or less completely straight from here, though it was still about a half mile away. The hike took about ten minutes at an elevated pace, and by the time she reached the edge of Artmirst she was warmed up and ready to find her target. From what she'd heard, the industrial district, with its many factories and warehouses, would be the best place for a group of their reported size to hide. Around it, and directly before her, were the slums. A sea of tiny, rickety shacks that had housed the large towns poorest workers. Many of them had collapsed over the two years of abandonment, but even now they offered numerous hiding places. She could try to skirt around it by going North, as the factory district started against the river that bordered the Northern edge of Artmirst, or perhaps to the South, which would put her into the nicer parts of the town where the wealthy had lived. come to think of it, the slavers she was hunting could have gone that direction as well, as the mansions might offer as much if not more security then the buildings in the industrial district. If she didn't find them there, she could always just go North through the town itself.

 

[SirOni]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

A wicked smile spreads across Eleanor's face as she finds the Darkheart's inside the three plant beasts. Placing them in her bag and making a mental note to flog them for as much as possible the next time she's in a city the mercenary quickly returns to the path she had been forced off while in battle, continuing her journey tracking the men she was contracted to take down.

Once entering what was ledt of Artmirst Eleanor began to weigh up her options, wondering where the hell the men would have hidden themselves. While thinking the girl takes out her pistols, fully reloaded during the last stretch of her trip to town, ready for combat should someone or something spring an ambush on her. Finally after several minutes thinking Eleanor decides to scope out what is left of the slums, hoping that if the bandits are in there she can use what's left of the crumbling structures as defence should they spot her before she can let out a volley or two of surprise fire.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

HP = 57, PP = 51, EP = 40, Status = Fine, Static

Rolls

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Perception: Success.

Eleanor searches through the slums for a short while until she comes to a halt, having spotted something up ahead. Slinking forward, she saw a dead body lying on the ground up ahead. It was fresh, warm blood pooled around, and from here it looked like it was a man, though they must have been fairly short in life. There didn't seem to be anything else nearby, and a trail of bloody footprints went form the body and in the direction away from Eleanor. From here, she couldn't determine what had killed the man, but with her pistols freshly reloaded, it seemed likely that she could deal with anything that popped out to attack her, so long as she saw it ahead of time, of course. There was something shiny sitting next to the body, partially obscured by it, but she couldn't determine what it was from where she crouched 50 feet away.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: Eleanor (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

HP = 57, PP = 51, EP = 40, Status = Fine, Static

Rolls

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Perception: Success.

Eleanor searches through the slums for a short while until she comes to a halt, having spotted something up ahead. Slinking forward, she saw a dead body lying on the ground up ahead. It was fresh, warm blood pooled around, and from here it looked like it was a man, though they must have been fairly short in life. There didn't seem to be anything else nearby, and a trail of bloody footprints went form the body and in the direction away from Eleanor. From here, she couldn't determine what had killed the man, but with her pistols freshly reloaded, it seemed likely that she could deal with anything that popped out to attack her, so long as she saw it ahead of time, of course. There was something shiny sitting next to the body, partially obscured by it, but she couldn't determine what it was from where she crouched 50 feet away.