Dawn of the Third Age/IC Logs/Session 19.5
Session Start (Anshu:#celestialdeliberative): Tue Feb 08 13:45:23 2011 -0700
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[14:21] <~Anshu> As the massive cloud of sand kicked up by the Dusk's fall settles, Brazen sees that she has survived the fall, blowing a dish-shaped depression in the sand. She looks up, glaring at the Infernal, and then detaches a plate from her abdomen.
[14:22] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen leered at her in mock-lust. "OH, IS THAT WHAT GETS YOU OFF THEN? IF I HAD KNOWN THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, I'D HAVE FIGURED OUT A SAFE-WORD FIRST!"
[14:22] <~Anshu> It unfolds into a bat-like form of soulsteel, and she rises on it with an ominous hum.
[14:22] <Brazen_Sand> "OKAY, THAT'S...DIFFERENT." He added
[14:36] <~Anshu> She hunches down, and the windblade's pale blue thrusters whine higher, glowing brighter as she surges forward. Jagged, razor-sharp blades springing from the wings as she rushes Brazen.
[14:39] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen stood there cockily with his claws wrapped around his chest, daring her to hit him.
[14:43] <Brazen_Sand> As she neared him, he threw out a claw, trailing green fire and tried to bat the strange flying machine aside. He was too slow and his snarl echoed through the desert.
[14:51] <Brazen_Sand> Until he looked again, and saw that he had somehow actually dodged it by mere millimetres
[14:55] <Brazen_Sand> Before she could get away from his long arms, Brazen shot out a claw and grasped the end of the board. It resisted his grasp, but his prodigious strength was more then a match for it as his talons carved furrows in the soulsteel casing.
[15:04] <~Anshu> As the Infernal reaches for her, Havoc pulls up sharply, the heat from her thrusters washing across Brazen's clawed hand as she speeds away
[15:06] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen snapped in frustration as the heat washed harmlessly over his hand.
[15:09] <Brazen_Sand> "FACE ME, YOU FUCKING COWARD! OR IS POISONING HELPLESS MORTALS MORE YOUR KIND OF FIGHT?"
[15:12] <Brazen_Sand> A blazing nimbus of green essence started to build around his draconic head.
[15:19] <~Anshu> Banking and reorienting herself on him, the Dusk again charges toward him and flits about him, dipping her bladed wings in and out, cutting and slashing.
[15:20] <~Anshu> The wind of her passage buffeting at the green flames of his anima.
[15:21] <Brazen_Sand> With a flick of his wrist, the burning anima effortlessly parried most of her attacks, pushing and swatting aside her absurd contraption, while the heat of it scorched it's edges.
[15:28] <Brazen_Sand> One attack got through it and actually managed to scratch his...no longer quite scales or even skin...it was pure essence forged by the heat of Brazen's immense power into his desired shape.
[15:29] <Brazen_Sand> "This game is over!" Brazen snarled, and his anima lifted his blazing spear without him lifting a claw, instead he hovered confidently within the flaring nimbus of essence
[15:31] <Brazen_Sand> It merged with Brazen's flame and roared into a massive sword that cut straight down the Abyssal's body, slicing through armour, skin and soul.
[15:39] <~Anshu> She swings one gauntleted hand up and slapped the great blade of flame aside, deflecting its death-dealing stroke into the ground below, where it carves a glassy furrow in the desert.
[15:51] <~Anshu> Again, the Dusk charges in and darts in and out, circling Brazen, trying to score a solid hit with the blades on her little craft.
[15:53] <Brazen_Sand> The burning blade lifted up from the ground and swung around Brazen, deflecting hits here and there with all the force of an angry charging rhinocerous. Getting parried by it was like being hit by a truck.
[15:56] <Brazen_Sand> "THIS IS GETTING PITIFUL. WHY DON'T YOU JUST KILL YOURSELF, MAYBE YOUR NEXT INCARNATION WILL ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO *HURT ME*" Brazen snapped
[15:57] <Brazen_Sand> This so-called deathknight was more like an annoying gnat then anything.
[15:58] <Brazen_Sand> "*GIVE UP!*" He snarled, his words reaching deep into her heart and SQUEEZING
Session Close (#celestialdeliberative): Tue Feb 08 16:06:46 2011 -0700
Session Start (Anshu:#celestialdeliberative): Tue Feb 08 21:06:06 2011 -0700
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[21:15] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen continued to hover in the air, bathed in the corona of his cosmic power. "WHY DO YOU EVEN DO THIS? BECAUSE THE VOID? WHAT KIND OF BULLSHIT IS THAT?" He asked
[21:25] <~Anshu> "Life is pain and suffering! The Void offers an end to all that! You are just too blind to see it!"
[21:28] <Brazen_Sand> "WELL NONE OF US ASKED YOU! YOU DIDN'T THINK ABOUT IF ANY OF US WANTED TO STAY ALIVE OR NOT!"
[21:30] <~Anshu> "No. If you do, you are deluded, and we will set you free from that delusion."
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[21:38] <Brazen_Sand> "IF LIFE IS SO PAINFUL AND TERRIBLE, THEN WHY DON'T YOU JUST THROW YOURSELF IN AND END IT, AND LEAVE US ALONE?"
[21:40] <Brazen_Sand> "WHO SAID THAT WE'RE DELUDED? IF EVERYONE IS DELUDED, AND EVERYONE HAS THE SAME DELUSION, THEN THAT MEANS THAT *YOU'RE* THE ONE WHO'S WRONG!"
[21:44] <~Anshu> "Those who recognize the truth must delay the moment when they embrace it, in order to lead others to it. That is our sacrifice."
[21:45] <Brazen_Sand> "SAYS WHO? WHO SAID THAT YOU HAD TO DO THAT?"
[21:47] <~Anshu> "The Neverborn and the Deathlords. That was the bargain offered, to save us from Oblivion on the conidition that we serve its cause."
[21:47] <Brazen_Sand> "BUT IF IT'S SO GREAT, THEN WHY DID YOU NEED TO BE SAVED FROM IT?" Brazen continued, floating closer to her gradually
[21:49] <Brazen_Sand> "IF IT WAS SO GREAT, THEN WHY DID THEY NEED TO OFFER ANYTHING TO YOU?" He continued
[21:49] <Brazen_Sand> "IF THEY REALLY TRULY THOUGHT THAT OBLIVION WAS FOR THE BEST, THEN THEY CLEARLY DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT *YOU*, DO THEY?"
[21:49] <~Anshu> "I was weak then. Still blinded my self-deception."
[21:50] <Brazen_Sand> "THEN SHOULDN'T THEY HAVE JUST LET YOU DIE?"
[21:50] <Brazen_Sand> "DIDN'T YOU EVER ASK YOURSELF WHY ONLY THEY SEEM TO WANT TO DO THIS?"
[21:51] <~Anshu> "They are in agony. And they would have let us die, if they did not need servants to do their will in the world."
[21:52] <Brazen_Sand> "THEN THEY AREN'T DOING IT FOR ANYONE EXCEPT THEMSELVES..."
[21:53] <Brazen_Sand> closer...
[21:54] <Brazen_Sand> "IF EVERYONE DIES EVENTUALLY, AND THEY STOPPED YOU FROM DYING, BUT THEY WANT YOU TO KILL EVERYONE, THEN WHY DO YOU OWE THEM ANYTHING?"
[21:54] <Brazen_Sand> "NO, WHAT THEY DID WAS *TRICK YOU*, TOOK ADVANTAGE OF YOUR FEAR OF DEATH."
[22:00] <~Anshu> "The important fact is that I am here, and I know what my purpose is. I have made a covenant with them, and I will keep it!"
[22:01] <Brazen_Sand> "HOW CAN IT BE A COVENANT IF IT WAS DONE DECEPTIVELY?"
[22:02] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen hissed
[22:04] <Brazen_Sand> "YOU KNOW YOU DON'T *REALLY* WANT TO DO THIS...TO KILL EVERYONE. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY."
[22:04] <~Anshu> With that, the Dusk swoops down toward the ground where her hammer lies cooling and snatches it up. "You and your city will fall into the Void. You cannot stop it!" she cries as she wheels, ascending once more to face him.
[22:04] <Brazen_Sand> "THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME, BUT I ESCAPED...YOU CAN TOO!"
[22:05] <Brazen_Sand> The hammer passed harmlessly through Brazen like someone trying to punch sand
[22:05] <Brazen_Sand> He put a hand out to her in a show of compassion. "I WAS TOLD THAT I WAS THE TOOL OF MONSTERS THAT TRULY CARED NOTHING FOR ME OR ANYONE ELSE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ALONE."
[22:13] <~Anshu> "RRRRAH!" she shouts, lifting her hammer as she charges him again. The heavy head whistles through the air as she swings it.
[22:16] <Brazen_Sand> The Infernal's aura just slapped her hammer away while Brazen sat there, like a holy men meditating under a bodhi tree...after all, he had recently learned, his true power was his compassion.
[22:16] <Brazen_Sand> "YOU FEEL IT, DON'T YOU? THE FUTILITY OF ALL THIS? YOU DOING ALL THIS WORK WHEN YOUR HEART ISN'T REALLY IN IT."
[22:24] <~Anshu> "It you who are engaging in futility!" she snarls.
[22:24] <~Anshu> Wheeling around she attacks him again
[22:26] <Brazen_Sand> Another puff of silver sand, falling to hit the desert, forgotten amongst it's yellow-brown brothers.
[22:26] <Brazen_Sand> "YET I'M JUST SITTING HERE, WAITING, WHILE YOU EXERT ALL YOUR ENERGY...JUST STOP, STOP AND CONSIDER...DO *YOU* TRULY WANT TO DO THIS?"
[22:33] <~Anshu> "Yes, I do! Your words will not sway me!"
[22:35] <Brazen_Sand> "THEN WHY AM I STILL ALIVE?"
[22:35] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen said, staring directly into her soul.
[22:35] <~Anshu> She directs her windblade higher into the sky, then puts it into a steep dive aimed at Brazen.
[22:39] <Brazen_Sand> Abyssal flies down on blading snowboard thing
[22:39] <Brazen_Sand> Trying to hit a meditating Balrog
[22:39] <Brazen_Sand> Like snow in the summer sun, her effort is for naught.
[22:46] <Brazen_Sand> "THIS IS JUST SAD." Brazen said. "ALL THAT WORK, AND YOU CAN'T EVEN HURT ME."
[22:48] <Brazen_Sand> He looked out across the desert sands, and saw the remains of their camp, littered with bodies. "YOUR CIRCLE IS DEAD."
[22:49] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen declared to her.
[22:50] <~Anshu> "You haven't seen my true power yet." She circles him above the desert sand, not taking her eyes off him. "If they are truly dead, then they have died for our cause. But I suspect they will return. Our work is not yet done."
[22:51] <Brazen_Sand> "AND YOU HAVEN'T SEEN MINE." Brazen responded. "I GAVE YOU TIME FOR MERCY, AND ONLY THEN BECAUSE I GOT BORED. NOW YOU'RE REALLY TESTING MY PATIENCE."
[22:54] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen bellowed out a roar that echoed throughout the Southern desert and into the Pole of Fire, as he burst into a truly green sun. His shape only barely visible underneath the massive flares that whipped out around him, leaving jagged glass scars in the sand under him as he moved."
[22:55] <Brazen_Sand> "COME GET ME, IF YOU'RE HARD ENOUGH, SKULL-BITCH!"
[22:57] <Brazen_Sand> A massive clawed fist coelesced from the fire nad beckoned her mockingly
[23:00] <~Anshu> Her eyes narrow to red slits. "I don't have to come and get you. I just have to slaughter your people. Come get me, you monster," she taunts, and she takes off toward Gem, the roar of her thrusters trailing behind her.
[23:01] <Brazen_Sand> "WHAT...WHAT?! WHAAAAAAAAAAT!!!" Brazen snarled in fury
[23:01] <Brazen_Sand> He blasted off after her, like a massive green comet
[23:03] <Brazen_Sand> He quickly over took her, a massive spear forming from his aura with a solid centre within it
[23:08] <Brazen_Sand> The spear shot directly at her, aiming to skewer her where she stood, while the flames of Brazen's fury attacked her as well, burning holes right in the soulsteel and leaping at her hands without any input by the Infernal.
[23:15] <~Anshu> The flames of Brazen's anima lick at and char the pale Dusk even as she veers away from his stabbing spear, turning in midair to face him as they dance through the sky. Her face tight with pain, she lashes out with her hammer once more... twice more... six times more.
[23:17] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen grinned ferociously, something that would give the bravest man nightmares. "YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE COME HERE...THIS CITY IS MY PLACE OF POWER, HERE YOUR ATTACKS ARE USELESS!"
[23:19] <Brazen_Sand> He laughed and laughed as her attacks hit mere fire and absorbed her blows
[23:19] <Brazen_Sand> Then he grabbed her by the throat, and let her burn to death.
[23:23] <Brazen_Sand> "YOU REGRET IT NOW? YOU STUPID FUCKING IDIOT?" He roared in her face, shaking her as she burned.
[23:23] <Brazen_Sand> "I TOLD YOU IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY, *I TOLD YOU* "
[23:23] <Brazen_Sand> "AND YOU...YOU JUST WASTED IT ALL!"
[23:25] <~Anshu> His flames consume her from the inside out, until all that is left is her armor, weapon, and windblade.
[23:26] <Brazen_Sand> Brazen dumped her skeleton, feeling unfulfilled and angry. Still he had a job to do...he let the armour fall to the ground, letting it tumble against the walls of Gem along with her windblade and weapon
[23:28] <Brazen_Sand> and flew off to meet the rest of his circle, letting his anima and fire die down, finally.
