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As the blonde settled down a bit more, she began to consider possibilities to get further out of the jam she had placed herself in. She knew full well that the best way to go about this was to get more inland. But with the way these heartless were, she was genuinely concerned she would fall into the group and be knocked out before she could say "oops". So as her eyes scanned the area for potential escapes, her eyes fell onto a group of darkballs floating away towards other potential victims and she raised an eyebrow as an idea came to her.

Kaida looked down as she grabbed pipsqueak and held it up and it got angry at the way it grabbed her. She held it a good length away from her while it tried to slash and grab her. Perhaps she was so used to pipsqueak jumping up without a problem but she did not truly realize just how large these shadows were until she was trying to hold one and keep it at arms length away so it would not hurt her. The girl took aim and backed slightly further into the rock so she could drop the shadow and she launched the shadow in the distance towards the darkball.

The shadow panicked, covering its eyes before it realized it was moving at a surprising pace, and the shadow tried flapping its arms as if it could fly. It almost seemed happy, heartwarming a moment, before it slammed into the darkball. The darkball panicked and tried to figure out the source while pipsqueak held onto the antennae for dear life. The darkball turned to look at Kaida who began taunting at it, and a group began to float on towards her, one after the other.

Kaida held her fist towards her chest, giving a soft confirmation to herself this would work before she leaped as high as she could into the air. She began an aerial combo like no other. She slashed the first darkball and pipsqueak quickly jumped onto her hood and clung onto her while she destroyed each darkball along the way. It was almost fun, like a good practice to keep up her aerial combos as smoothly as possible.

The blonde soon realized she was high off the ground. A little too high off the ground for her to feel as though she would land safely. Not that she necessarily accounted for fall damage before but she still did not want to feel the sting on her ankles. Below her, she saw Stratos managing to keep up the good fight, getting himself hit far back before charging in with the hunter limit. It was cool, she kind of wished she used it more often. But a tiny shadow was trying to sneak in behind him after the attack from the creature.

Kaida didn't exactly have aerial slam, which would have been pretty cool right now, so she was gonna have to improvise a little more than she expected. With the final darkball in her path she used an aerial finisher and used the last of her energy from it to fall from the sky and straight into the tiny shadow behind Stratos. A lot of sand suddenly wooshed up into the air and Kaida began coughing. When it cleared she smiled and said, "Hey, sorry for dropping in so suddenly without notice... I had a bit of a complication with... a thousand shadows and the edge of the... world... or island."

Pipsqueak fell out of her hood a little shaken as well as Kaida stood up to reorient herself.

Word Count: 605
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 499
Blessed Thief: 60 Munny
Sweet Memories: 3 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
8 Darkballs
1 Shadow

Heartless Injured:
Darkside 1,197/1,500

Heartless Remaining:
Defeat 1930 Shadows
Defeat 442 Neoshadows
Defeat 439 Darkballs
Defeat 28 Invisibles
Defeat 2 Darksides

Kaida got herself far too excited when she was done with the first wave. But once Hikaru cheered about it she looked over at him and mumbled, "No don't jinx it don't jinx it don't-"

But by that point it was far too late. And the next horde began. Unfortunately for Kaida, she seemed to stand perfectly in the middle of the spawning point of two thousand shadows and she gulped. Her shadow friend held up their hands in a scratching motion and the girl took a deep breath in and out trying to calm herself as she tried not to curse Hikaru's name for this under her breath.

Kaida ran through the horde, dodging as much as she could possibly muster before getting to a large sandbar and running across it as she was chased by the horde. Her shadow friend followed her with no problems, though it absorbed itself into the ground and kept reappearing at intervals in order to keep up. Some of the horde began adapting this tactic as well but because of the head start the other one was leaps and bounds ahead. Kaida eventually ran to a point that was the edge of the island and she lost balance a minute as she tried to grab herself back on the ledge. She slipped a bit but forced herself to put all of her weight upwards so she landed with her face and torso in the sand and her legs dangling off the edge. She grunted and looked up to see the shadows rushing at her.

She looked up just in time to see Hikaru go flying and she could not help but let out a laugh in this situation before she focused on the problem. Kaida summoned out one keyblade and pointed it straight towards a line of shadows as they approached her. Closing her right eye to take aim before getting a perfect line. She stretched to get her foot flat against the surface of the rock, and with incredible speed and electricity, the girl charged forward with powerline.

As the first shadows dissolved she was back in the horde and she spun around her keyblade and summoned her second one. The shadows swayed to come at her again and she closed her eyes to take another calming breath before Kaida let out a scream. It probably seemed unnecessary but it was just what she needed to let loose a lot of energy. It even made the shadows back up a bit in confusion.

She held her keyblades out to provoke them, before one shadow attempted to jump out at her from behind. She turned to hit it back, and two more leaped towards her as she turned. She flipped her hands around and slashed them without looking at them. The blonde kept her eyes closed as more heartless attempted a turn at her. Jumping into her not at once, but like each individual shadow was up for its own challenge. When she'd defeated 12 of them. Some of them began to try and push her back towards the cliff, like being able to knock her out. Kaida tried to find herself a more suitable hiding space and her eyes caught a rock a little ways north of her path. Kaida pointed at them shouting, "Firaga!" and burning a pathway towards the rock. When she was up there, happy to have a high ground again. She was sweating and scared as a thousand heartless were trying to climb up towards her.

She looked around the sea to see how others were dealing, but she was more than a little tilted.

Word Count: 607
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 439
Blessed Thief: 30 Munny
Sweet Memories: 3 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
25 Shadows

Heartless Injured:
Darkside 1,197/1,500

Heartless Remaining:
Defeat 1933 Shadows
Defeat 444 Neoshadows
Defeat 449 Darkballs
Defeat 30 Invisibles
Defeat 2 Darksides

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Take was surprised once they were out that Torrin complimented his skills. He almost wished he had been a little more under control then cause he considered this one of the worst examples of his skill and control out of combat. Still, the boy felt a bit honored at the compliment and bowed his head slightly, "I appreciate the comment, but I would think I wouldn't do very well with heartless hordes or anything of the sort. You guys seemed nearly noncha... noncha... calm about a darkside and spoke like it was more of a minor inconvenience. That thing was... terrifying."
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Well, since the urgency of the scenario seemed to call for them to not have him Take the breather there. Take just let go of Torrin's shoulder and said, "Guess no break then. Just don't drop on us then. You look like you're going to." and he just quickly moved on ahead lighting up the room with his keyblade, what with what little energy he had left. Hopefully the plot's tunnel end was there soon.
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Takehiko watched the way Torrin just seemed to be very worked up and he couldn't really help it as he placed his right hand firmly on Torrin's shoulder and spoke up, "We'll head there but please take a moment to breathe. You look all over the place, and in a way that will only lead to yourself getting hurt if we start rushing. Especially if making that portal took a lot out of you." He stared at him a moment then looked towards Adalric and Boreas, he hoped they wouldn't push for them to move anywhere. Just in case he looked back to Torrin before adding, "Even if it's urgent. No one is helped by someone having... well... for lack of a better word to describe what's going on with you right now, a panic attack."
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Passionately ready to get this wave over with when the only one of the shadows left was her little friend, Kaida ran on over towards the darkballs and jumped up into the sky to begin a flurry of aerial combos. As the pulled two of them down to get them grounded, her shadow friend started slashing at them too until they disappeared. It definitely did not feel as fulfilling as destroying a little more than two dozen shadows a pop, but she managed to knock out four before she took a deep breath and pointed at the sky shooting a fireball at them.

One of the darkballs almost made a popping noise like a balloon at that, while some of the darkballs seemed to kind of move around quickly as if to put out the fire. The blonde made a point to knock out the ones that were on fire and burning, just to put them out of their misery.

Word Count: 160
EXP Earned: 16
EXP Total: 379
Blessed Thief: 0 Munny
Sweet Memories: 3 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
8 darkballs

Heartless Remaining:
1 Shadow (Reserved)
11 Neoshadows (1 Reserved)
8 Darkballs (1 Reserved)

BP left 4/76

New members and employees have been added to the wall!

xx This is exciting, having more regulars! The last one's ended up disappearing after that demon tide destroyed half the town. *shivers* you xcouldn't bring me back. Anyway, let us know what drink you'd like today. I'm not sure what there is to really talk about today.

xHm...

*snaps fingers* how's the weather been where you hail from? We've been getting a couple of snowstorms. Yeah I know, in the realm of darkness of all places. Who'd think? Well, it happens, and the snow takes FOREVER to leave. But how's it where you've been?

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Take didn't waste any time when it became clear the portal was going to disappear, the boy made a run for it and jumped through, arguably before Boreas even had to encourage it. He waited on the other side with enough space between them making sure everyone made it out.
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Kaida was happy to see the horde was finally beginning to dissipate into more of a crowd. That meant they were near the end. Kaida looked towards her shadow helper who got himself a couple more swipes in before jumping up onto her shoulder again. She booped her little friend on the nose and said, "We're doing well. We've almost got em."

The blonde threw her keyblade in one direction and went the other with the single keyblade in her left hand as he knocked out many shadows in her path, while the other one created a domino effect in the opposite direction of her. She stopped when she'd reached a tree and she jumped up and kicked herself off of it. She raised up her hand to recall her keyblade to her and she swung her keyblade back and forth a bit until thunderbell and blizzara to create another explosion of magic.

Kaida then took a breath and dropped her keyblades quickly to point towards a group of shadows. She clenched her hand into a fist and felt a bit of fire surge into her. The girl pulled back her arm and a firey punch formed around her fist as she punched into one of the shadows. The small creature flew back into a crowd and another explosion was heard. Not as powerful as her other firaga explosions but what was she to do. She could tell her aura was adding some nice potency to her fire spells and that made her feel pretty damn good. She looked at the small remainder and took a breath, "Just a couple left of you now... We can do this. Yep. Definitely."

Word Count: 280
EXP Earned: 28
EXP Total: 363
Blessed Thief: 70 Munny
Sweet Memories: 2 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Remaining:
22 Shadows
26 Neoshadows
64 Darkballs

I am generally in agreement with most of Ego's points here, especially in regards to the rigitiy of these systems. It depends on the host of the rp though. I'm in one rp where talking with the RP owner makes it very easy to help get the stats in a direction you'd want to go, while another one forces you to just kind of take what you get and deal with it.

The flexibility is a big deal, and this is specifically light chaser: at the beginning there really weren't any aggro abilities available and I wanted my character to be built as a tank so I went to arch to ask for an ability on it and that essentially gave everyone a "special snowflake" ability. So I was able to build my character as a beginning keyblade wielder with a tank lean (granted now two other people are like that but eh).

Now over in SOS, I have a character that I want to essentially build as someone who can essentially move so fast and manipulate time at their leisure that she can seemingly defeat her enemies in the blink of an eye. Obviously it's a bit unrealistic an expectation, even though my character has hit the rank of master there. But the point is I wanted to build it so she's really fast and really loves throwing spells. But it's nearly impossible to work this sort of play into the system that we have.

Now, both of these rps have drastically different systems. SOS has a brawl/bodyguard fight system, and a boss system. In the boss system, we all look like chumps. But once we hit brawl missions we can flavor our fights however we want without it effecting stats. So like, we suddenly have an infinite amount of MP and HP and our gauges basically become full for the purposes of flavor and we can do combo attacks you've never be allowed to pull off in the boss fights.

LC uses a system that is the same for boss and random encounters. There are abilities that can only be used with bosses, but overall the system is exactly the same. This makes it so characters stick at roughly the same combat level for both encounters, so characters aren't unstoppable badasses in random encounters and barely hanging on in boss fights.

Now, I think there's benefits and drawbacks to both systems. I think LC's mechanics ground everything in the same level but as a result the creativity and flexibility has to go into character development and backstory rather than boss fights. SOS makes it so all of the creativity of the RP shows itself in brawl missions and then everything else becomes stagnant.

Now, I have seen an rp that tried to do a "levelling" system that made it so a character became stronger through their own training montages and their abilities as a result became whatever the RPer wanted it to be so long as people tried to not become unbalanced. But the problem with that one is slightly discussed in another thread

I don't know where the happy medium is. I know some people prefer combat over character moments in these types of rps. I'm the opposite. But I understand the want for flexibility.


(btw in that fire scenario you described, I also had my character decked out in fireproof stuff. He was trained for firefighting type situations in his homeworld because of his villages constantly being burned down so his stuff is built to not burn. And that didn't factor in either. In this situation it comes down to 'the need for the rp owner to push the story/threats' which I might make another thread for just to discuss in detail there)

>two hp boosts
>one ap boost

>reflect
>cura

Kaida listened to Hikaru's explanation intently, keeping an eye out for more potential heartless. When he finished speaking his mind, Kaida made one of her keyblades disappear as she reached out and placed a hand on his shoulder as she replied, "I don't want you to feel like you have to make promises you can't keep. I understand the need for secrets, and well, now I know why you were so focused on Aux. I wish I had known, but that can't be helped."

She looked at him and said, "I do not know if you've come to terms with this yet, but regardless. Your bonds are real to me." Kaida shifted into her pocket and held out the bird charm he had made for her and said, "This was your making and your work, of your own volition because you cared enough about our bond. Even if it turned out to not be real at the start, that's your impact." she put the charm back safely in her pocket, "Please don't forget that."

Kaida resummoned out her keyblade and stood in a stance as she said, "Now if you'll excuse me. I feel recharged enough to jump in with pipsqueak back into the horde. Shall we?" she looked down at the shadow who climbed up into her hood. She looked at Hikaru and nodded at him before she jumped into the horde once more.

She moved at her top speed through the horde, causing them to separate before she held her hand out and said, "Stopra!" the heartless froze around her and the girl closed her eyes as she quickly flashed through a group of twenty. She flashed between them moving back and forth between them as they stood still, taking whatever damage the blonde managed though they didn't feel it while they were frozen. She flipped around a couple times and the small area seemed to try to flicker back to the normal timespot.

When she was done, the girl stood still and snapped her fingers for time to unfreeze and for the heartless to explode. She turned her way back to deal with a couple extras that managed to not get destroyed in her cool moment. The shadow also jumped out and helped out with a few extras as well. She looked back at it and said, "Thanks little guy."

The shadow made a noise back, and Kaida stepped slightly away from it mostly out of concern.

Word Count: 410
EXP Earned: 41
EXP Total: 335
Blessed Thief: 40 Munny
Sweet Memories: 2 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Remaining:
204 Shadows
95 Neoshadows
149 Darkballs

Kaida hit the heartless a couple more times and throwing another fire spell into the crowd before the little shadow came back with another coconut and she chucked it into the crowd, knocking a couple of shadows into each other like a domino effect. She tensed up a bit as a couple more jumped at her and she knocked them down. She had fun flipping her keyblades around and knocking a few more. She waited for Hikaru's response patiently, but a form of dread was beginning to creep in that she couldn't quite shake. She took a deep breath as she waited for his answer.


Word Count: 105
EXP Earned: 10
EXP Total: 294
Blessed Thief: 10 Munny
Sweet Memories: 2 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Left:
231 Shadows
97 Neoshadows
149 Darkballs

Kaida at this rate was not going to be allowed the chance to process this and grab a raincheck on the convo since Hikaru was still yammering away about it even though he was trying to be as indirect as possible. Kaida knocked away the horde to get herself standing again. She got up just as Hikaru's fairth blasted all of the shadows out of a nearby and she quickly stepped back out of worry it might friendly fire, but she turned out alright. She took a deep breath and held her keyblades in a stance as she focused in and felt her keyblades begin to glow a bit.

The blonde smirked and quickly dashed in and in a flurry of attacks, red slash made her keyblades clash together in a beautiful combination of thunder and fire. As the shadows took the damage, Kaida backed carefully away and without much struggle she jumped her way back onto the dock. She looked down at the heartless and said, "I don't like how you talk about yourself like this is your fault."

The girl took a knee as she continued looking down at the heartless, watching the shadows jump up as the little friend ran over to grab a couple more coconuts. Kaida focused in to point her keyblade and yell, "Thundara!" the heartless were struck by the lightning bolts in an instant, and the shadows stood paralyzed.

"The circumstances were clearly not under your control. And you're talking to me as if you... took something from me." Kaida stood up and looked towards Hikaru and said, "I met you first. You. Not Aux. Even if... you had Aux's memories... that wasn't what we based our friendship on." she sighed as a shadow jumped up to attack her and she slashed it away and it disappeared with a poof noise.

She turned to focus on the group before she asked, "What do you mean... once we cross the portal... the remnant will return to him?"

Word Count: 333
EXP Earned: 33
EXP Total: 284
Blessed Thief: 80 Munny
Sweet Memories: 1 crown

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Left:
259 Shadows
97 Neoshadows
165 Darkballs

Kaida was going to take a while processing what Hikaru just told her. Because it simply hit her in a way that she was definitely not fond of and it was only emotionally taxing on a different level. The blonde sent multiple projectiles back into the horde and was going to respond before she was pulled down. In a yell, she was under the horde and keeping up guard as she said, "Get back to me in a bit... you dropped a lot on me and now I'm being chowed on by shadows. Raincheck on the convo please!" and she continued her fight as best as she could, annoyed at the interruption.

Word Count: 112
EXP Earned: 11
EXP Total: 251
Blessed Thief: 50 Munny
Sweet Memories: 1 crown

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Remaining
345 Shadows
103 Neoshadows
178 Darkballs

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Takehiko wasn't doing particularly well after that last hit, though the boy was trying to keep himself together. He felt like he was on the very last of his energy and he wasn't about it. He knew his reserves weren't spectacular, but he didn't think he had a choice here. The dark room suddenly glowed in a green light as it surrounded Take, giving him a bit more of a leg to stand on. While his keyblade was out he focused on it and began emitting a glowing light for himself and Adalric. He looked towards Torrin and Boreas for a minute before saying, "That eye thing you guys have seems very useful. Kind of wish I had that. Anyway."

The boy made his way over towards the rocks and stared at it saying, "This will be a bit inconvenient." he looked towards Torrin, "You can make portals, right? That isn't affected by magic, is it?"​

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When Hikaru ran over to check on her, she was still in recovery stance staring down at the horde. The little shadow was still sitting near her looking down and bumping the ones crawling up on the head to knock them down. When he asked her how she was, she looked up at him and said, "Well, I think I got a little ahead of myself, but I'm doing just fine. I somehow recruited a little friend... we will see how this ends." she looked down towards the little shadow who looked up towards Hikaru and swiped slightly at him before swiping more at the others.

Kaida stood up more fully and pointed her keyblade outward and another thunderbell came crashing down on the crowd, together with some firaga. The shadows went flying a little and the little shadow friend jumped down and the girl asked, "Was Aux alright? He wasn't looking so good when I ran in. Did he stick somewhere that there's no heartless?" she looked towards the blue haired kid and shrugged, "Not that I think he can't handle himself. But no one can really handle themselves when they're like... dazzled and discombobulated. That's a word right?"

Kaida kept her guard up while darkballs seemed to fly over and she yelled, "No! Back off! Go find someone else. I'm not ready to deal with your floaty bloaty hijinks!" the shadow crawled over with another coconut and she grabbed it and chucked it in the direction of the darkballs and they flew off. The girl used her keyblade to keep knocking other ones down, even going so far as to destroy a few more while she had the chance.

She looked out to see how the others were doing, she saw Beuce and Stratos and their beginnings of teamwork and strategy. Kel seemed to be struggling a bit with an invisible but not at a level that made her completely worried. Others were getting into the thick of battle as well. Particularly, she saw Luna starting to run in and get ready to tank. Kaida cupped her hands and yelled, "Yeah you get 'em princess! Show the dark beings what it means to be a being of pure light! Or... don't! I can't stop you but don't you drop on me. Convert that health to strength somehow!"

Kaida looked over at Hikaru and said, "I don't think I'm helping. I feel like Kuma when he's far too excited about training newbies and the next thing you know twelve year olds are flying all over the place."

As soon as Kaida said that, the shadows seemed to finally stack up on each other to form a ladder and the girl panicked and began swatting at them, "Oh no. Oh no they're starting to plan and scheme. Soon they'll be building gummi ships and starting colonies and taking over the world with their might of thousands. Unless that's cause Hue has control over." she knocked the ground successfully down trying to keep the wave down.

The blonde fixed her hair when the pile was low and said, "You don't have to stick around though, if you think someone might need more help. I'll just be up here. With pipsqueak. And coconuts. And praying my MP keeps regenerating as fast as it has been. Though before you go. I know you didn't just run off without Aux so I'd rather get an answer to that question. If he isn't I'll run down to find him and get him to... well, this spot is as good as any. Can Aux climb trees? He'll learn."

Word Count: 602
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 240
Blessed Thief: 20 Munny
Sweet Memories: 1 crown

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Remaining
Defeat 638 Shadows
Defeat 183 Neoshadows
Defeat 196 Darkballs
Defeat 1 Invisibles