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Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest staring Mentat.

Posted by MagnusFor group 0
Mentat
player, 1528 posts
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Have never seen the light
Mon 16 Oct 2017
at 02:37
  • msg #124

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

So far, so good.

He was looking at the edges of the present arena of the moment, making sure no one got the idea of interrupting this fight. However, at this point he started binding elemental power into his blades, calmly calling upon memories of rough times through snow and ice to bind into his knives.

If all worked, they should begin glowing a cold blue and were going to hit a bit differently from what one might expect from a knife.

Thankfully this one was...sort of independent of his usual style of magic. No Fourfold Seal restriction here.
Mew
player, 88 posts
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AndMilesToGoBeforeI Sleep
Fri 20 Oct 2017
at 04:06
  • msg #125

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

Step one to any dangerous situation...DIsARM the subject HAHAHAHA! I wait for the zombie man to slash at me again and once I feel he is done swinging, I will attempt  to cut off his hands at the wrist. I'm not expecting to succeed on the first swing so I am ready to keep defending and dodging as I need until it has no hands.
Magnus
player, 3087 posts
Sun 22 Oct 2017
at 02:39
  • msg #126

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

Mentat's knife starts glowing with an icy blue light and then he takes a moment to center himself and observe his environment.

He notes that the monster is wearing really nice boots with a wing emblem embroidered on them.
His hearing picks up via the echos he hears that the room the monster came out up has rooms beyond it although he isn't sure where they go from here

Mew Waits for the Creature to swing and then Gets a minor cut on it before being forced to block with her keyshield.
Mentat
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Wed 25 Oct 2017
at 07:35
  • msg #127

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

"Hmm...it won't tire from attacking." Mentat notes the high odds that they are magical, and gets an idea that ensures it wouldn't matter if they were or not. He does some math on its jumping range to himself, and smiles, aiming to catch the creature in mid-leap if it comes at him, or post-swing if it goes for Mew.

"I'll bet you can't quite control the power of those shoes." He spoke and intoned his subtle spell with the assurance of a wager, with the intention of crossing the feet of the ghoul ('look, it tripped')and flooring it. Incidentally, he would see how quickly Mew could exploit an advantage.
Mew
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Sat 28 Oct 2017
at 03:17
  • msg #128

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

This tactic is not going to work. We need to finish this faster. He doen't need a throat! The moment I find an opening I try to slice open the throat, ultimately aiming to behead the beast. If Mentat manages to make it fall I'll get in an extra swing or two on the throat using up to 2 light if needs be.
Magnus
player, 3089 posts
Sun 29 Oct 2017
at 02:28
  • msg #129

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

The Creature attempts to leap at Mentat And it's feet end up hooking into each other. Causing it to trip and fall down on it's face.

Mew Takes advantage of the situation and rains strikes down on the Creature. Two strikes before it could even react. Then a final strike that cuts deep into it's neck as it gets up. It then tries to close in and Grapple with Mew. But she manages to slip out of it's reach.

It looks severely hurt. Like it's nearly on the ropes
Mentat
player, 1530 posts
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Sun 29 Oct 2017
at 02:56
  • msg #130

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

Mentat was more or less bored with this encounter now. "Okay, you know patience, and you know how to survive a hand-to-hand with a supernatural opponent that doesn't tire."

He flicked the frozen knife at the creature's back, aiming to kill it with a single Justified strike, aiming to blow it apart from within from rampant growing ice crystals. "Good job."

If he failed to get a kill somehow, he was confident his student of the moment could handle an undead slowly freezing from the inside-out. "Let's get out of this hole, and track the lines."
Mew
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Sun 29 Oct 2017
at 04:50
  • msg #131

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

I find myself staring a moment at the spontaneous ice crystals erupting from the creature, Yeah hi, HE~LLO! STILL A THREAT! If you have the time would you stop gawking and KILL IT! I take a step back before swinging to add a little extra punch to the swing and go for the full decapitation. Severing the last of what was once its neck, or at least giving it my best effort.
Magnus
player, 3091 posts
Sun 29 Oct 2017
at 08:20
  • msg #132

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

Mentat's knife flies true and strikes the Creature. Exploding into ice and covering the creature in ice. Mew swings with the opportunity, connecting with her strike. Despite it trying to move it's arms to block.

Continuing her assault she cuts off a strip of flesh from it's scalp with her sword strike.

It struggles with the ice, but it is futile. The Ice holds it in place. It is still alive and kicking. But it is critically injured.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:41, Mon 30 Oct 2017.
Mentat
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Tue 31 Oct 2017
at 03:35
  • msg #133

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

Mentat rolled his eyes at his foe's refusal to die. "Okay, seriously?"

He placed his hands in his inner coat while talking, in a cross armed stance. "A reminder of what it feels like facing me when I'm losing. Just doesn't die."

"Inscribe the Red Soul, and perish." He threw two blades out with a red glow binding them together, and then a third blade as a fast follow up. At the very least, either he'd grind this thing down to a kill-capable range, or get it so busy focusing on him that it would fail to attack Mew.
Magnus
player, 3092 posts
Tue 31 Oct 2017
at 04:14
  • msg #134

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

The Knifes fly true, and manage for one to go through each of it's arms and it's head. cutting them off. The limbs and head each go flying and then a torrent of blood explodes out of the stumps. Covering Mew in gore.

The body falls backwards and it isn't moving anymore.
Mew
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Wed 1 Nov 2017
at 22:58
  • msg #135

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

I make a disgusted grimace, as I hold my arms away from me and allow the viscera drip off of me. "Ya know I don't much mind getting durty, but this is a bit much even for me." I put my weapons down so I can shake off the worst of it.  "Any chance you could use that squirt gun to help clean me off? I trust the bodies of water in this castle, like I'd trust a gator?"
Mentat
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Thu 2 Nov 2017
at 06:56
  • msg #136

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

"It is a squirt gun, not a hose." Mentat put his coat down, now that he didn't need to draw anymore knives from toonspace, as he liked to think of it. "But you are right in that the water here is not trustworthy unless tested first."

"Magic, silver, fire and explosives: these are the four tools that stop things from getting better. One or a combination of them will usually stop a regenerating or undying nasty from getting better or continuing to attack. If they don't work, you have a special case on your hands."

Mentat checked the pockets of his jacket for anything he wasn't willing to get rid of, and then after pulling a new folded uniform and a rock climber's kit out of his jacket, tossed the old jacket to Mew. "There. Wipe off, and then we have to get out of here."

He broke open the kit, and pulled out a grappling hook and tied it to the rope within that box. "I need to get dressed. Feel free to toss the rope up, and then climb it. I'm sure you can do it. Once we are up, I need a moment to read the news. It's important."

He put on the undershirt, the shirt, and the new jacket. The pants went back into the new jacket, back into toonspace. Once she had that rope secured, he would climb up after she went up, and read the Human Village Bunbunmaru to see what the day's news was likely to be.
Magnus
player, 3097 posts
Fri 3 Nov 2017
at 17:24
  • msg #137

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

As Mentat talks, the corpse bursts into blue flames. Burning until only the boots remain. All except for one ember that floats there for a moment before rushing Mew. Insead of burning Mew. It 'joins' her, giving her a bit more power.

Mew gets a dim feeling that there is something unusual about those boots.

Mentat, on the other hand, knows they are magic. Something that help with jumping.
Mentat
player, 1533 posts
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Sat 4 Nov 2017
at 03:23
  • msg #138

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

"Hmm." Mentat looks at the boots. "How attached to your present footwear are you? Because those are a pair of Air Jordans that actually do what the ads say. Probably Seven-League Boots or something absurd. Easier than just throwing a rope, now you could just lower it once you bound up there like the amazing athlete you will become."

He had no idea if it would do all that, but he was rolling with it. They were enchanted to help jump. And if they turned out to be cursed, he could just break it while it was on another. Easier than dealing with it himself.
Mew
player, 92 posts
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Sat 4 Nov 2017
at 03:41
  • msg #139

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

"Uhmmm. That was ... wierd, " After a moment of processing, I finally wipe myself off with the cloak. "I like my steel toes but I'm not going to get anywhere by being too attached to my stuff."

So your saying you don't mind loosing your hat and coat?  I DID NOT SAY THAT! Just I need to be willing to upgrade some of my attire. .....Right...

I step away from the viscera before takeing off my shoes and try the super shoes on. "I kinda doubt that these will fit, but I suppose shoes that adjust to the wearers foot size would be far from the weirdest thing that has happened today." I think a moment as I get a feel for how they fit staring at my old shoes, thinking about if there is anyway to salvage them instead of just leaving or burning them. "I ... have a really stupid idea..." I tie the shoes together in a knot so they make a primitive bola. "But how would I throw it?"
Magnus
player, 3101 posts
Sat 4 Nov 2017
at 19:00
  • msg #140

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

Mew, you put on the new boots and they fit your feet very well. You don't feel any different at first. But on a whim, you try a little hop and then go a yard into the air.

You tie the laces of your old boots together.
Mentat
player, 1534 posts
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Sat 4 Nov 2017
at 19:33
  • msg #141

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

"You would throw it just like any primitive bola." He smiled as she went airborne after putting on the footwear, not considering most people don't have practice with bolas. "However, the strings would need to be reinforced and perhaps lengthened, and you would want something more aerodynamic than shoes. All insane ideas can work, but the question is how much work you are willing to put down to make them work."

"Still, as it is, it might work for catching small game if the physics involved are intense enough. Just make sure you deal them a finishing blow once you hit, because once they stop being dazed, they will run."
Mew
player, 93 posts
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Sun 5 Nov 2017
at 02:34
  • msg #142

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

I have a minor panic at the height of my flight as I wasn't completely expecting it, but recover in time to catch myself. "Well thats... going to take some getting used to...Wonder if I can still hop.Hm."

I examine my bola for a moment, I feel it would be better to use as little magic as possible to reinforce this. Could I barrow one of your knives and your fire source for a sec?
Mentat
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Sun 5 Nov 2017
at 02:54
  • msg #143

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

"Focus." Mentat points upward. "Rope. Down. I climb out. Because Fishmen. Hurry up."

He was tapping his foot impatiently.
Mew
player, 94 posts
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Sun 5 Nov 2017
at 19:46
  • msg #144

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

"Right..., safety not here. Sorry." I stuff the bola into my sling bag as best I can and position myself under the hole in the ceiling. I do a short hop to get a better feel for the leaping power of the shoes then do an adjustment to my next attempt to jump out.



When I do, I let the rope down to Mentat. "Wonder what I'll catch today? Maybe a big ol' bass or a HALIBUT!"
This message was last edited by the player at 00:31, Mon 06 Nov 2017.
Magnus
player, 3102 posts
Tue 7 Nov 2017
at 04:51
  • msg #145

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

The ceiling/1st floor is 10 feet up from this floor. And the ceilling is 3 feet thick. So you need to leap 8 or 9 feet. Mew puts some effort into her hop and goes 6 feet into the air but not quite managing to grip the ledge above.

Finally. She focuses and then leaps 9 feet into the air and grabs the ledge to the floor above. She pulls herselp up and then lowers a rope to Mentat. Who climbs up it with ease. He then pulls out a Newspaper that appears to be written in Moonspeak.

It the headline reads
'Mysterious Castle Appears! Humans in a panic!'
The article go into a bit about the geography of the castle before the reporter was chased away with a vast hord of bats. What caches your interest is that the chapel is indeed above you but you would have to go through some sort of alchemical laboratory to get there.
Apparently the Treasury is north of your position and a Bloodsports Colosseum is south of your position.

There is reports of a UFO that crashes in the gardens near the Chapel.
The Border Witch comments. "This castle makes no sense, It should have collapsed in on itself and then get sucked into the Dragon Lines"

You two are back in the room that you fell from. The double door to the west heads back to the entrance of the castle. There is a door to the north near the west wall and a door to the south near the west wall. the northern stairways looks intact and heads up to the next floor.

You sence two vectors Mentat. One is above you and slightly to the east. and the other is further east but also above you.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:27, Tue 07 Nov 2017.
Mentat
player, 1536 posts
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Tue 7 Nov 2017
at 05:42
  • msg #146

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

"Okayyyyyyyy." Mentat folded the paper up and returned it to the Space in his jacket. "So, if the paper did its job right, I am going to be climbing SO many stairs, because rich people like the Count don't give a crap about the people who have to patrol these massive things keeping them clean and free from dust. However, we will be passing through a lab, which could be a nice stroke of good fortune, because we can case it for cool stuff. Even dark alchemy can be of use in the right hands, and if worse comes to worse and it really is unusable, we can turn his lab into a giant bomb and make him cry."

"His treasury is north of here, but the local rage is all about the arena to the south." He starts heading up the stairs to where he believed the Lab and the Chapel to be. "You can go where you want from here. I have a ritual to fire off."
Mew
player, 95 posts
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Tue 7 Nov 2017
at 16:58
  • msg #147

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

"I may as well come along, might as well see how you do it, before I try it myself. Besides I stink at Castlevania, I should last a little longer if I stick around you." I say smiling the whole time.
Mentat
player, 1537 posts
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Wed 8 Nov 2017
at 03:10
  • msg #148

Mew and the Battle of 1999, Guest starring Mentat

Mentat stopped in his tracks and abruptly spun in place, his voice getting cold. "Let's eliminate something right now."

"'I stink at Castlevania?'" He was looking at Mew incredulously, and with a strange sense of growing anger. "What in the blue Hell does that have anything to do with your ability to survive a castle filled with the unholy? It is your information and your ability to deal with actual life-or-death situations that will save you here, not your ability to manage a controller and stare at a TV screen for prolonged periods of time. Get this idea in your head as fast as you can: This. Is. Not. A. Game. The next time you suggest that such things matter without providing a reason why, I'll cut you down myself before you do something to get me versed out before I'm ready to go."

He bitterly smiled and pointed to her iPhone. "Your phone there, however, can make it a game, if you know how to look at it."

He turned back up the stairs, voice going harsh once more. "But unless you are about to do that, don't say things that will make me wonder if you have some kind of presumption that will get us both ejected from this world. Ask questions because you don't know - fine. State theories - fine. Admit inadequacy in something that is relevant - fine. Your lack of skill at a video game is not relevant unless you can explain to me why that matters."

He paused again, his back staying turned as he clearly was wrestling with his inner pride, and an idea that had not crossed his mind before. "Do you know something about this world's nature that makes that information important?"
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