Well, I hate to say this, but after this next year, I'm gone for two years (my mission); so you'll have to keep me in touch through letters or...
OOC: Seems like you guys didn't finish. I'm guessing that most of the Brotherhood fights are going to take about one to two hours each... The plan is going to be something like this: Ulian Ecko Fight The group splits up because there's several ways through the maze, but no clear cut one. They hope to regroup later. They each find Brotherhood members in the maze and fight them. Some UO members meet up and keep going. The maze part will probably be the longest part, as there will be multiple Brotherood battles. Eventually, they all enter the ruins at different locations, fight Brotherhood, and regroup in the center of the ruins. They decide to stick together from now on, and start climbing up the ruins. At each floor, there will be something new, and there are about nine floors. The final floor will be Scourge.
OOC: Have to go anyway. Have fun you two.
Xardius didn't say anything, just stabbed Ecko in the heart and yanking his sword out swiftly. "Well, that's over with," Xardius said. "I've never had a problem killing people..."
"Why are you just asking that!?" Xardius snapped. "If you really cared, wouldn't you do something?" "Now hold still you Ecko dude, so I can stab you effectively," Xardius grumbled. "Grrr, fine, I'm taking the fires out, but only so you'll stop rolling around..." He snapped his fingers and the fires disappeared.
"Ulian Ecko," Xardius nodded. "Brotherhood. Annoying guy who shot Nulix at the Asgard tournament. But I thought Nulix paid him back in full...Oh well, he's probably just asking for drugs. Best to put him out of his misery." Xardius drew his sword with a wide smile.
"Hey, I thought you were dead," Xardius said, pointing at the figure on the ground.
OOC: Never mind, I can stay for tonight. And I could slip on early tomorrow. Early. And what do you mean I'll miss it!? I'll be gone Wednesday, not Thursday... BIC: Xardius walked forward into the courtyard, and paused. "This is really suspicious..."
OOC: Um, okay... Hey, FYI, I won't be online tomorrow, so we'll have to put it on hold until Thursday. But if we wait, I'll have the Brotherhood plan in my lap so I can do it perfectly. My brother also needs to take a test right now, so I have to leave real soon... So do you guys mind if we hold off until Thursday?
OOC: Oh, well, you remember how everyone was to split up and fight individual battles? That's what I was talking about... BIC: Xardius nodded. "We'd need a map or something...But, oh well, we'll manage." Xardius walked forward into the first set of walls, looking around. "This part seems pretty straightforward. We just have to cross that suspicious-looking courtyard..." OOC: Pirate, you decide where you want your characters... If you have one show up when we walk into the courtyard, fine. If not, I'll get one.
Xardius waited for everyone to finish going through, then walked through himself. "I'll leave it open for a bit," Xardius said. "In case we need to get back." The ruins spread out before them. "They should be in there somewhere..." Xardius said, starting forward. OOC: Oh, and do we remember how this is going to work?
Xardius sighed. "Then go through the portal...You didn't really need to take the time to say that..."
Dyran Dirge finished tying off the burns he'd received from the light. Sighing, he turned his golden eyes on the softly glowing tube in which the body hovered. "Thank you, Dyran," Scourge said, stepping back from the tube. "This should work perfectly." "I should thank you," Dyran said calmly. "After all, I would never have thought of..." Scourge waved his hand, dismissing the statement. "You should get to your post now." Dyran bowed and turned, but Scourge's voice stopped him again. "It must have been of some intensity for you to have gotten burns in that form," Scourge said softly. Dyran looked back at Scourge. "No one else would have survived." "And yet," Scourge said, turning back to the tube. "The body is whole." Dyran shrugged. "Does it matter?" Scourge smiled slightly. "It's just interesting...I'll see you later." Dyran nodded, and left the room, leaving Scourge alone with the two softly glowing tubes and their silent hosts. *** Xardius nodded, and concentrated, opening a portal out. "This should put us at about where we were going to land..."
"I didn't think of it," Xardius grunted. "This kind of feels like cheating, but...I should be able to take something this size across...Unless we just want to leave the ship here and jump through a portal like that one..." Xardius gestured at Wing's still open portal.
"Time is relative," Trent said, walking up to him. "I'm glad I didn't have to wake you up. Scourge wants us to take our positions. Enigma says they're coming soon." *** Xardius rubbed his temples. "I don't care what you do, Venture, but make sure it gets me to Scourge...soon." He paused. "Wait. I could open us a portal straight there..."
"I asked because I'm a little disoriented from portal hopping," Xardius sighed. "What other routes are there?" Xardius grumbled, folding his arms and tapping his feet impatiently. "We're already about halfway there, anyway. I won't argue against going another way, but we could still push forward. We'd probably have as good of a chance as any."
Xardius punched Skinnar in the face, a right hook that sent him sprawling out of his seat. "You just shut up alright? Don't speak again or I'll rip your heart out." Sitting down, Xardius glared at nothing in particular. "Venture, you have been moving this bucket towards the Brotherhood, right?" OOC: Despite what it seems, Xardius punched Skinnar because he called him 'Xardy.' I'm not sure what 'despite what it seems' means but...whatever.
OOC: Probably true.... BIC: Xardius slowly pulled himself up, coughing weakly. I've never used that much before, all at once. Body couldn't handle it. He put a hand over his stomach, and winced. Don't think I have much left in there. Intestines, stomach, bladder, kidneys...They're all holed pretty bad. His hand moved up. One lung's collapsed too. I'm not going to last much longer... Standing up on shaky legs, ignoring the pain and the blood coming from his mouth, nose, ears, and eyes, Xardius began stumbling back towards the portal. I feel like my entire insides were pulped, Xardius thought. So that's my power... His boot caught a tuft of grass and he fell, but as he fell, the world froze. What am I doing? he asked himself. Am I really satisfied with this? Without the Virus, this is the future I have to look forward to...Black insanity. His lips twisted in a smirk. What a joke for me. I've always thought of myself as a monster, but...I'm really going to be one. "How long are you going to keep falling?" a tenor voice asked, and Xardius hit the ground heavily. Standing, his eyes widened. "Rune?" he asked, raising a hand. "Is that really you?" "Hmph," Rune said, brushing hair from his eyes. "You don't understand anything. Yes, it's me. The old me. I'm just a data fragment in your mind, though, and I won't last long. I'll heal you, and then you have to go fight me." "How?" Xardius grunted. "I can't even use my power anymore." "Don't worry about it," Rune said, raising a hand. "I have a plan." The next thing Xardius remembered, he was stumbling through the portal, fully healed and angry.
Xardius pulled himself to his feet. "You can't kill him, Wing. Not unless you become a monster...like me." Xardius took a step forward, then collapsed to the ground again, unconscious.
Xardius' fist rammed into Wing like a freight train, lifting his friend off the ground and dropping him. A split second later, he twisted, his sword whistling for Vecked's neck, but Vecked dropped to the ground, opening another portal and disappearing. "Dammit," Xardius whispered. "Why does it always end like this?" His power was suddenly gone, and Xardius fell to his knees as he began coughing uncontrollably, blood spraying from his mouth and nose with every wretched hack. Xardius vomited, mostly blood. "Not good..." he muttered. "Tore up my insides..."
