In this world, Magic is Everything. All people, all races, are granted with the power to perform mystical and magical feats via grimories, mystical tomes granted to each and every child on their 15th birthday. Those blessed by the mana can have their names written down in legend.
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[attr="class","withoutyouscroll"] Saeka looked for the items she remembered would be best for travels, amongst other things. She looked over to David listening to him speak of some ingredients and food that would be best. "Hm well bread might be good but it can go bad after a few days. Apples can be good as long as they don't get crushed or moist but definitely a good choice. salt is great for preserving. Mom always made sure of all the food items we bought to get a lot of salt." She said looking around the food stall, picking out some items placing them infront of her before she reached into knapsack pulling out a small bag of Yul.
[break][break] "Hello there little lady, did you find everything you needed today?" asked the stall owner
"Yes sir." She said with a smile giving her biggest smile. Honestly she just wanted to not deal with anyone but she had to so she could continue with what she wished. Her gut was still nagging at her to be careful, that something or someone dangerous was here. She felt it since arriving at this town. however she knew whoever they were, they weren't an idiot to just reveal themselves or make an issue and maybe it wasn't her they were focused on. She ignored the feeling looking at the shop owner "I wanna buy these please." She stated
[break][break] "Alright that will be...300 yyyyyOOO" his words were calm then turned into a howl of pain out of the blue. He jumped around holding his hip, ending up to twisting in a circle for a few times before coming to crash on his stall, sending the goods flying. Saeka moved back along with the crowd, snatching her goods just in time pulling them in her cloak, hiding them back in her bag. Some of the crowd scattered and moved trying to making way for those frightened as others moved forwards to help the man.
[break][break] She wiggled and weaved through the crowd , managing not to get smashed "geez, poor guy...David you okay?" she called out over to her companion focusing on ensuring her body guard's safety and the fact he wasn't to be lost in the crowded streets. [break][break]
COMBAT SUMMARY
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POW 013
DUR 000
STA007
SEN018
CON018
SPEED10 m/s
STRENGTH 1/2 junior
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MANA SKINSenior
HEALTH Senior
MANA POOL035/035
MANA REGEN 05 ic | 10 ooc
[attr="class","withoutyouscroll2"] TL;DR Her clothing: [break]
Few things could shift David from his habitual reverie. He was surveying the items they had both selected gathered on the table. Suddenly the man was howling in frustration before sealing the deal. The events that followed played out in front of David's eyes. While he harboured his general suspicions about why this was happening, David quickly spun around and attempted to divine the origin of the non-magical missile. The marksman had to be somewhere in the crowd. He tried to ascertain the assailant's motive. A fruitless goose chase would ensue. David weighed his options. He watched the girl line her pockets with the supplies. Her movements were graceful, skilfully lithe, articulate in a dishonest way, and natural. The theft had not gone unnoticed, but for what it was, it was easily recompensed. Satisfied with the terms of purchase being met; upon placing the desired sum of Yul in the injured man's possession, David replied to Adrenna. "I'm fine. You?" His query was deliberately ambiguous, asserting no detectable distaste towards the nonchalant nature of the thief's flawless pantomime of a concerned citizen. David felt like there were unknown variables regarding this commissioned service. Predators were probing the edges of his peripheral senses, looming just out of sight, grinning sharp-toothed smiles. Forewarned was forearmed, as far as David was concerned, he was being personally attacked. Drawing a sword now would carry paramount force in issuing David's challenge to the person who was the first to cast the stone.
David placed one hand on his now-opened grimoire; which had begun to float in front of him. David hoped this would goad the rock thrower from the crowd. He placed the other hand calmly behind his back. His shadow wavered, trembling at his call, "Lenore!" A dark 41-inch sword suddenly sprang into existence behind him, pointing towards the sky. The sword's invitation would linger, as David hefted the familiar weight to his side. Generally, citizens were meek. Inclined towards non-violence. But every 'of-age' civilian of the Kingdom Of Clover had at their disposal a grimoire. What they saw fit to do with their magic was up to them. Rarely, there were genuinely heroic individuals, who sought to distinguish themselves even amongst the elite of this world. Some of them did so by unsavoury means, others through diligent effort and hard work.
Temporarily, David was fixated on dissuading the person from further attacks on the crowd, wherever they were hiding they would distinguish themselves through retaliative movements. Surely, they would continue to attempt to conceal themselves - that was certain. Other citizens were fumbling for their books, some were searching for guards. David stood with the crowd giving him a healthy girding. With his defensive stance and the crowd's distance, the young swordsman had a few moments of unquestioned reprieve to think about how to identify the stone thrower. A peculiar suasion tempted him to simply bluff the knowledge and see where that got him. " Apprehend that criminal!" He spoke with a specific and reasonable justification in his tone. The implication was that he already had identified the attacker, his voice direct and excessively proportioned to condemn a man. He waited to see how receptive the crowd was, perhaps they already knew what he wanted to know. David patiently bided his time, surely the guilty person would identify themselves, in one way or another. He gestured for the young woman to be patient herself. Word Count: 572 Total Word Count: 1923 Mana Math: Mana Used: 20 Mana Pool: 85/105 Mana Regen: 20 (Quick Charger Perk) Current Mana Pool: 105/105 Full Mana Spell Used: Name of Spell: Lenore
Elemental Type: Sword - (Shadow) Rank & Spell Type: Intermediate Attack Creation Spell Range & Speed: Self | 20 m/s Mana Cost: 20 Initial | 10 Sustain Stats Effected: n/a Applicable Perks: Apex Predator, Full Blitz. Description: David conjures this particular 41-inch sword; Lenore, by placing one of his hands on his grimoire's pages and saying the sword's name. It appears out of his shadow rather than the pages of his grimoire, in his unoccupied hand. The sword is distinctly a longsword; unusually light enough to wield in one hand, and is aesthetically unique in the way its blade is attached to the hilt by a loop. Its shadowy nature is apparent from a dark aura surrounding the blade.
Post by Ryoshi Miten on Mar 22, 2023 3:47:41 GMT -5
Ryoshi kept moving as the man had suddenly let out a wicked cry of pain and while he looked as surprised as the others around him when one of his targets summoned a sword from nowhere but he didnt let his act drop as he moved to the edge of the crowd smoothly and without causing alarm, by the time he heard the guard dog for his target say apprehend that criminal the Aura mage had already rounded the corner nearby before he dipped into another alley and once he was out of sight he would use his aura claws to scale the building again and layed low avoiding being seen.'huh so he thinks making a bold statement will flush out the attacker he is either slow or thinks with every muscle but the most important either way its no matter, now to get them anxious' he thought to himself as he pulled out a few stones he had grabbed in the alley way.
They were small about the size of marbles but that was more then enough to cause an impact once he imbued his aura in them, he stayed low and funneled his mana into two of the stones before he dipped his head up just enough to see the crowd and he quickly flicked his stone in rapid succession, one would strike a man right between the eyes with enough force to knock him out to the right of Saeka and the other would hit a mans hand and shatter the bottle of wine he was holding as well as leaving a nasty bruise to the left of David, with his attack done Ryoshi moved to the other side of the building and glanced down before slipping over to the other nearby street as he lingered near a nearby alley with a view of the market to see how the chaos would unfold making sure he was not easily seen or if he was then most would think him a figment of their imagination.
[attr="class","withoutyouscroll"] Saeka was suprised by the sequence of events. One, stealing meant not paying, yet david did just that for her. It wasn't that she wasn't going to pay for them, she was just ensuring they werent going to get smashed or damaged by the stall owner's fall into his stall. Saeka adjusted her cloak and bag watching david before seeing him activate his grimoire and pulling out his blade. She lifted a hand to her face with a sigh. He brought out his weapon. He exposed his grimoire and the magic within to whoever or whatever was taunting them. Not only that he literally drew attention to them both. [break][break] The whole point to her travel was not receiving more attention then she wanted or even needed. She took a deep breath calming her thoughts as she looked up and around at the shocked citizens. She wasn't suprised they were shock or confused at the sudden outburst. She slowly backed up into the crowd, getting to the outer edge looking around for anyone suspicious. She needed to find who was messing with them. She knew her gut wasn't wrong, She didn't want to deal with anyone who was a threat to her adventure. She wasn't about to be prey to anyone, She was the hunter and the world was her prey not the other way around. She heard the voice crowd tell David to put the sword away. She looked around from where she stood, not seeing anyone out of place. Other then the sudden collapsing of a male to her right. She had to back up more into the alley behind her to avoid getting squashed by the fallen man, [break][break] "Oh my" she gasped in shock. She was indeed surprised of the fact someone suddenly collapse. She crowded down next to the man examining him with a glance before focusing on his face and the odd marble shape wound in the middle of his forehead. She looked around for any figure to stand out. This wasn't good. Someone was indeed picking on them. Was it her that this someone was after? No, It had to be David had a four leaf grimoire. He was valuable. That is what she told herself even when the voice inside growled otherwise. She heard a howl of a voice near David and the crowd hearing a bottle of wine crack. She kept crouched next to the fallen man. her cloak covering her body from her shoulders down. Her eyes darted around taking in tracking every sight and sound that her eyes and ears could pick up and track. She needed to find either who this is or escape. [break][break] No, She was never the one to run. No, Her prey wasn't going to get the best of her. It wasn't going to get a reaction out of her. It wasn't going to get a taste of her fear, it wasn't about to get the scared reaction it wanted with these subtle assaults. She shaked her head. She needed to focus and remember her roots and the way she was raised, She needed to turn the tables and find who was stalking in her shadows. [break][break]
COMBAT SUMMARY
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POW 013
DUR 000
STA007
SEN018
CON018
SPEED10 m/s
STRENGTH 1/2 junior
[attr="class","withoutyoustats"]
MANA SKINSenior
HEALTH Senior
MANA POOL035/035
MANA REGEN 05 ic | 10 ooc
[attr="class","withoutyouscroll2"] TL;DR Her clothing: [break]
David's efforts were fruitless, and it seemed he was potentially antagonising his fellow civilians and the stone-thrower. More stones from varying trajectories, some even whistling through the air past him, hit their targets. Confused and unwilling to completely forget the incident, David uneasily allowed the spell to absolve. Lenore responded by dissipating seamlessly into the void. He casually stuck his hands in his pockets, whistled like nothing was happening, and tried not to be blamed for the incident. As he turned on his heel, David searched for Adrenna, who was found crouching next to one of the victims of the stone-throwers assault. He shrugged and spoke calmly, "We should move along, Adrenna; someone is throwing rocks into the crowd. " Such mayhem was childish. David prayed that the child's parents would be held accountable for the crimes and gestured for Adrenna and himself to move along. Reckoning that something was afoot, David shook his head of superfluous imaginings and gathered his thoughts. Perhaps a jilted lover, a drunkard from a tavern, an innocent child, any one of these people could have cast those stones. He resigned to believing that it was not his own problem until one of them hit him. He turned up the hood of his cloak to protect his head and suggested with minimal effort that others do the same.
Post by Ryoshi Miten on Jun 25, 2023 4:21:50 GMT -5
Ryoshi kept his eyes on the two from his spot in the alley and he saw that still despite everything they had not caught hide nor hair of him and he wondered if perhaps he was overestimating their intellegence.'i would have thought one might have gotten wise but it seems either their skills are that poor or they are that dumb' in any case it was a bit of a let down for the aura mage, it seemed they did wise up as well as the sword user had dissolved his spell and had mentioned to his companion that they should get moving and that someone was throwing rocks into the crown, at that Ryoshi sighed slightly to himself.”spoil sport but the games not done yet” he muttered audible only to himself as he got ready to move again. He moved into the crowd and walked a few buildings over before once again ducking into the alley and then moved to climb the building once more.
The two were not looking up and it was working to his advantage, he watched from the far corner of the square kneeling down so he was out of view as he watched to see what way they would go, depending on if they left town or not Ryoshi would follow and pick them off if he could if not he would go on his way and find something else to entertain himself with since as much as he wanted to have a possible confrontation he didnt need that kind of heat on his head at current.
[attr="class","withoutyouscroll"] Saeka slapped her train of thought back on track as she heard davids words. She knew it wasn't someone just throwing pebbles. The man on the ground beside her would beg to differ as she scanned the crowd noting some figures swiftly moving from the crowd. That is the reason they hadn't seen him. he been using the crowd's movements to avoid her tracking. She moved her body by instinct after David as she grabbed ahold of his hand, taking the lead.
[break][break] " David. I have something I have to tend to alone here. I really need to tend to it here, but we have to get out of here, we are being hunted and the game is going to end for us both soon if we don't make it to the cart." She spoke softly to just David, pulling her hood up as she looked up at the sky, the sun was rising and she was growing tired and annoyed of this game she was handicapped hard in. She couldn't go all out hunting down the prediator that was stalking them in these streets. She had to keep up appearances for David. Every part of her screamed to ditch him but she ignored the thoughts. They were just there to stir up trouble, begging to cure the itch of killing she needed to fix.
[break][break] She was glad for her cloak as she dug her free hand's nails into her shoulder. Stilling her mind. She wasn't one who cared for pain, it was exciting to cause pain, to see pain on others. To see life drain. that was the only feeling she could every truly feel for anything new and days. She had worked hard all her life to make herself happy, to make herself sad, to make herself angry. Those emotions were things she just couldn't truly feel without forcing. Only thing the true Saeka felt was hunger and the need to kill. She wasn't one to be hunted. Part of her made her hate it, but another part. it was squealing in delight of this game. It was eager to play, it was excited.
[break][break] She looked around her at the stalls and to the roof tops doing a quick scan from within her hood. a sadistic grin could be seen through some of the hoods movements as she did make note of someone or maybe a statue on the roof top. She rounded a corner seeing the cart with the group they were once traveling with.
[break][break] She immediately shouted in glee slowly down to a stop " Thank goodness you all are still here and didn't leave yet! "She said
[break][break] "Your lucky to made it we were just about it."Spoke the driver holding out his hand as Adrenna pulled out a pouch of yul for her and David's payment
[break][break] She turned to the town of arise Garse with a big sweet grin before shouting. "Thankyou for the fun time tonight! I really enjoyed myself! I hope to play again with you all soon!"
[break][break] Now while that seemed like such an odd thing. Saeka knew exactly what she was doing. She was telling the hunter within the cities depths, she was not done with their game. Not by a long shot. Well she seem exhausted but happy to be sitting in the safety of the cart. inside she was ticked but excited to find prey that peaked her interest in being just like her.
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COMBAT SUMMARY
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POW 013
DUR 000
STA007
SEN018
CON018
SPEED10 m/s
STRENGTH 1/2 junior
[attr="class","withoutyoustats"]
MANA SKINSenior
HEALTH Senior
MANA POOL035/035
MANA REGEN 05 ic | 10 ooc
[attr="class","withoutyouscroll2"] TL;DR Her clothing: [break]
