Savage Hunters | Job | Aedre & Sinali

The member 'Aedre' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

'Monster Dice' :

Sinali used the moment of distraction provided by Aedre to sneak round behind a pillar where she stood silently waiting for her body to heal. It would still be a while due to the damage that had been caused by the crystal make user, but she had no choice. Well, she did. She could probably still fight quite well like this, but there was no point against such weak foes. They would just bore her too easily. Sadly, Perry was now back in her normal state. It had happened quite recently whilst she had been fighting the crystal knights. However, Perry did not let this go to her disadvantage. Instead she had crawled up onto the ceiling and clattered away almost silently to further explore the ruins. They had defeated what seemed like a leader-like figure to the men which was perhaps why they were fighting with such anger and ferocity.

Still to Aedre they were no more than sword practise. She was a powerful slayer mage and more than that she was a powerful fighter even without magic. Sinali had seen the power that the woman possessed. She would be a difficult opponent to face in the future. Yes, Sinali thought of her an opponent. She was an ally for now, but one day all living things would die by her hand. Her plans were already in motion though the process was slow. All she needed was time and as an undead she had plenty of it for she didn't age. She was essentially immortal unless her brain was destroyed.

"Enjoy your playtime Splashy." Sinali whispered and reached out with her mind using telepathy to Perry. So far she had found nothing, but she was getting deeper into the ruins. It was possible that she might find the treasure before Aedre was even finished. It was unlikely, but it was possible.

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Finally the external of her body was healed. Her internals would take longer to heal and might require someone to look at them, but for now she was fighting fit. Still, she would not interefere in the fight of the woman she called Splashy. She seemed to be enjoying herself and it was fun to listen and watch as someone else tore apart people. It seemed that Aedre did not mind causing death and that would allow her a longer period of survival. Those who did not believe as sinali did that the dead were blessed and so making people join their number was a gift not an evil would be the first to die. No, not the first priests and other holy people would be the first to die. They scorned her worse than most and why? Because she was undead. Even before she had done anything bad they had tried to kill her. Yes, their deaths would be a pleasure. It was a shame she would give them such blessings, but oh well.

"Beati Mortui." she whispered and reached out with her mind to Perry who was now on the very edge of her telepathic range. The butterfly worm, parasite queen, centipede, whatever you wished to call her had stopped. It seemed something was preventing her from proceeding. A magical barrier of some kind that she could not penetrate. Could it be where the treasure was hidden? Or was it something else? SOmething more? Sinali nodded and told Perry to come back so that she could lead them to what she had found. The insect gave the affirmative and began to return.

"I know your playtime is fun Splashy...but Perry has found someting." Sinali said as she walked out from her hiding place. "And besides...we will find more toys on the way i'm sure." she added and with that she began to walk in the direction of Perry in order to meet her. No sense her coming all the way back after all.

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Sinali was confident that the pinkette she called Splashy would be able to follow her. She was meant to be a slayer after all and weren't slayers supposed to have keen senses? If so then Splashy should be able to follow her with ease. If not then that was not her problem. It was not her fault if a slayer couldn't track. She walked down the halls and eventually came across Perry on the ceiling hissing and clacking. Sinali smiled and the butterfly worm/centipede thing began to crawl along the ceiling away with the undead girl following.

Twists and turns, ups and downs, things were getting tricky. However, the workmanship appeared to be increasing. The tunnels were no longer roughly hewn, and instead were cunningly carved. It was they got nearer that something within Sinali caused her to stop just as her foot pressed upon a certain part of the ground. Just in front of her a pit opened vast and deep and filled with spikes at the bottom. At the bottom she noted the corpses of people similar to the treasure hunters they had killed. It seemed few, if any, had made it past this point. This had to be the right way, but how to get across. There was obviously some sort of time delay before it swung shut as the corpses looked quite fresh.

Still, if there was this one trap then there were likely numerous others. Perry likely hadn't triggered them due to going across the ceiling, but her and Aedre likely would unless they were very careful. "Splashy...this game just got more fun. There are traps now not just toys to break." she called out behind her and as she expected the trap swung shut. She dropped down and looked at what she had trooden on. It was very similar to the actual flooring. It was just raised ever so slightly. Barely noticeable. Scanning along she saw several others like it. Still, would they all be triggered in the same way? It seemed a foolish oversight because if you survived one you would be smart enough to notice how they were triggered. Perhaps the others were decoys? He wasn't 100% sure.

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Sinali was surprised when her hand was grabbed and she was about to pull away when they were suddenly turned into shadows and reformed on the other side of the pit. A very useful ability to be sure. Yet it seemed that pitfalls were not the only traps that would get in their way for a spike had fallen down next to Aedre and right in front of Sinali. It had actually scraped her nose ever so slightly. She looked up and too saw the spikes suspended. She took a step forward and then leapt back narrowly avoiding another spike that fell. Yet, she hadn't touched any switch. She stared upwards at the spikes before picking up one of the fallen ones and tossing it forward. Another spike fell followed by another and another as the rock flew. Sinali continued to stare at the ceiling and saw the spikes magically reform. "If we move under it...spikes will fall." she said thoughtfully. It was an interesting trap to say the least. She wondered how it would react to the shadow form of Aedre. She suspected that as the spikes were magic it might still be able to hit them. They needed a way to temporarily stop the spikes, a roof of some kind, or a defense to prevent them piercing them somehow.

Sinali did have one ability that might be enough to get her across, but she wasn't certain if it would be powerful enough to be able to withstand the spikes. She stared up at them. If they weren't coming from above then she would likely be ok as they wouldn't hit her brain. However, they were so it made things a lot trickier. She extended her wrist revealing the silver snake bracelet she wore upon it. She had returned 'Mr.Snakey' her whip sword back to itsbracelet form when 'Uncle' had imprisoned the pair in crystal. Now it might come in handy once more.

She lashed out with the whip sword and as it extended its way past several of the spikes fell. She retracted it and stared up at the ceiling again. There was an approximate delay of four seconds before the spikes regenerated. Not enough time to get across safely at least not for her. "Any ideas Splashy?"

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Sinali's analysis seemed to have helped Aedre to some extent as she was able to see the cause of the issue and with a simple spell destroy it. The fact it got them a little bit wet didn't bother her because she was already pretty blood strained. She returned her sword back to its bracelet form there was no need for it now. She walked over the wreckage calmly. The delay caused by the trap was perhaps an advantage to some extent as she now felt able to re-use some of the more powerful spells in her possession. She followed after Perry who was clacking impatiently on the roof. In truth the butterfly worm would probably have been able to disable the trap herself if she had bothered, but she normally didn't interfere in things like that. She liked to see how her mistress worked in situation of that nature.

Eventually walking through the ruins they came across what seemed to be a door of stone. However, to mages it was clear that the door was indeed magical. Even Perry the butterfly worm could see that. THis was the 'barrier' of which she spoke. The barrier that she could not pass herself. Sinali took a step towards it and reached out, but it seemed that their was a shield of some kind near the door because she couldn't actually touch it and instead was repelled and after a few moment she was literally thrown backwards a few steps.

"Another obstacle." Sinali said and then looked about. There didn't appear to be any obvious way to deactivate it. Perhaps with raw power they could break through it. She raised her hands and fired off all eight nails. They hit the barrier and fizzled away as if they were nothing. The nails regrew on her fingers and she stared. It seemed the projectiles were too weak to overcome the barrier. It was then she tilted her head. "Its locked." she said indicating the door itself. "...by a sliding puzzle." she focused her magic power and one of the panels slid across. "It should look like the wizard saint emblem...I think." As a young child who loved games a puzzle like this was something that greatly interested her. She loved puzzles almost as much as she loved killing. Well, not quite, but you got the idea. Her assumption was correct as after a few minutes of maneuvering the blocks on the door formed the wizard saint emblem and the door swung open.

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(Probably roll for monsters in your post...i don't think we have to beat the boss as we beat the strong)

The member 'Aedre' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

'Monster Dice' :

The door had opened and she had solved the puzzle. Yet as soon as she had three bullets tore into the water slayer she named Splashy. A bullet tore through her as well, straight through the heart, but she just stood there a smile on her face. "You broke my heart." she said calmly and in a rather eerie fashion. "Does that mean I get to break you?" With that she extended one of her arms and swung it. The arm extended forming a snake head instead of a hand and grabbed hold of one of the gunners. Before he had a chance to react Sinali retracted the arm pulling herself towards him. He raised his gun, but was too slow and when she got close she spun and kicked him in the head releasing the snake head as she did so thus the man went flying straight into an ally of his. Due to their formation this succeeded in knocking down several of them in a single movement. Her strength combined with the momentum the attack had gained were lethal. She now stood quite close to them and her other hand had transformed as well. It now resembled the man known as Harland, but with a cannon protruding from the mouth

"Meet my good friend Harland." she said with a grin and aimed it at the pile of people on the floor. The cannon fired with the head of Harland saying the word 'boom' in his exact voice. The cannonball missed them narrowly, but hit the ground and exploded throwing up a thick layer of dust and doing C rank damage to each of them. Before she could fire off the next shot her body became riddled with bullets as the men opened fire trying to bring her down. She raised her arm and fired once more though hitting one of them in the stomach. The blast blew through him scattering his body parts everywhere and further damaging the allies around him. The weakest ones, who hadn't managed to get close to the rapid nature of her attacks, were taken out by this second C rank blast. Thus it was only the nine gunners who remained standing. She raised her cannon, but was forced to leap back as out of nowhere one of the gunners pulled out a large magic bazooka. A dangerous looking weapon that could probably take her out considering the damage she had taken.

"Let's see whose got the best gun." she said raising the cannon as she leapt to the side to avoid a powerful burst of magic energy. It wasn't a bazooka as she had thought. It was an energy cannon. That could potentially vaporize her. "Leave big gun to me Splashy. The rest are yours."

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Sinali hissed slightly as Splashy, or Aedre if you preferred to call her that, knocked her prey to the ground. She had called dibs on that one and she'd knocked it down and got it dirty. That just wasn't playing nice. She waited as the man got to his feet and raised his gun. It was then she fired off the final shot of the Harhand cannon. It was perhaps the scariest and most bizarre. Rather than firing a cannonball it fired the head of Harland straight at him and as it flew it kept repating the words 'Gonna getcha' in Harland's voice. Sinali was slightly pleased at Aedre's reaction though she didn't understand it. She didn't really understand the concept of family. She'd never had one.

The head hit the bazooka just as the man fired thus the blast exploded back on him sending him flying into a wall heavily burned and also with several limbs removed. Yet he was still alive. The man seemed to grin as he raised a pistol and took aim. Yet it was too slow because her hand shot out towards him, like she'd used earlier, and caught the gun hand crushing it out of his hand. She yanked herself towards him and kicked him into the wall shattering his ribs.

She turned to face the remaining men who all looked really scared now. Sinali had taken out their strongest so easily and in such a macabre fashion and Aedre was taking them down so easily. These two seemed unstoppable and the men began to take a step back raising their guns and firing them off as they began to retreat. They were running away. "It looks like they don't want to play anymore." Sinali said sadly as she grabbed the dead man's arm and bit into it. She spat it out almost instantly though. "Blergh. Don't know what he had in that gun but its made the meat taste awful."

Fear turned to terror now. this girl had just tempted to eat someone's arm and complained about the flavour. Just who were these people? "Who are you?" one of them said his voice shaking in terror. That's when Sinali had an idea and her body began to ripple before it changed to form the gemstone mage they had killed earlier, one of their leaders.

"I'm Jett don't you fools recognise me?" she asked mimicing his voice and speaking style flawlessly.

"Harper will kill you for that" the man said but still was backing away fearfully. Even more so now she had transformed into the gemstone hunter. "Jett was his favourite deputy."

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It seemed Aedre, or Splashy, had a lot of skill. She also appeared to be having a lot of fun. Disabling a guy's weapon with water and then fixing it in order to kill him was pretty cool. What better way to kill a gunner then with his own gun? Well, there was the option of tearing them apart of course. That was Sinali's preferred method. The splatter of blood as she killed them, the sound of crunching bone, the sound of tearing sinew. It was all so beautiful to the young girl. She was still in the form of Jet and felt that the form would be useful for the time being. It seemed that none of them wanted to come near her. They were afraid of her and for good reason. She considered what best to do in this case. She looked at one of the men who was about to take a pot shot at Aedre. His gun was glowing with magical energy. The Jet Sinali grinned and swung her arm and this time it stretched it out and formed a spiked ball which hit the man on the gun hand and slammed him backwards. She retracted the arm and then swung it again. This time hitting the man in the face before he had a chance to react. The swing of the arm was enough to clothelines a couple of the others as well slamming them into the wall. The one that got hit by the spiked ball was killed by the second blow. The others were merely dazed. Still, it kept them off Splashy's back for a little while and stopped her getting bored for now anyway.

"I'll leave you to play Splashy." she said and began to wander down the hall. They had to be close to the treasure now. She could ense some form of magic power. It was weak at the moment, but the closer she stepped the strong it seemed to get. Yes they had to be getting very close indeed. She called out with her mind and Perry once more went scuttling away along the rooftops to try and find out where the treasure room was. She half suspected that the parasite queen would just find another obstacle she could not pass, but still it was good to have a scout of some kind. It prevented surprises, well prevented surprises she wouldn't like. Plus it allowed for Perry to feel useful as her Parasite Empress ability had not proven very useful earlier.

"It will not be long now." she whispered. "Soon I will have a new way to play with my toys...and my dreams will be a lot closer." She wondered if anyone else knew of her plans for mass extinction. The ice age wiped out the dinosaurs allowing for humans, and thus Sinali to appear. WOuldn't it be ironic that one of those people, Sinali, would cause the next mass extinction. Except this time it would be worse. She would be worse than a natural disaster. All life except those she deemed worthy, the undead and spirits, would die.

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Sinali walked forward through the caves and came to a place where she stopped. It wasn't the same as last time. There was no physical barrier that she could see nor had anything stopped her. She stopped suddenly because she felt there was something ahead. She bit her finger enough to draw blood and flicked the blood in front of her. It stopped at seemingly nothing and sizzled. A magical barrier. Not just any barrier either. This one was pure magic. She exhaled trying to consider the best way round the situation. Go below it perhaps? Or over it? Or round it? Or just find another path. All were difficult. Handyman was perhaps the best way to test that, but something stopped her. It was almost like she knew it woldn't work without trying.

At a guess she suspected that the barrier actually went along the outside of the entire corridor preventing access from any direction. The only way to get past was to break through this barrier or disable it somehow. Now, how would such a magic barrier work? It was a persistent magic barrier. So it wasn't a spell someone had cast because the spell would end on their death or at least dissapate. This spell felt brand new as if it was cast just yesterday. That meant that something was sustaining it. It was then she saw the glint. Lacrima.

It had to be a rare lacrima type that somehow recharged itself for this to be purely lacrima. She sniffed the air. The air itself was rich with magic. Perhaps then the barrier lacrima was fuelled by the air itself and the excess from the barrier enrichened the air with more magic. No, that wouldn't quite work. It would eventually run out of power through natural decay and this place was ancient. There had to be something else.

"Perry go get me some of those crystals Uncle used." Sinali said and Perry nodded going to go get some of the crystal. Sinali had an idea on how to get past this, but for that she needed two things. Crystals and Aedre.

(time to show off Sinali's lacrima knowledge ;) )

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The large insect had done better than just bring some crystals. She had also brought with her the other key ingredient in what Sinali had planned, an elemental magic user, the water demon slayer Aedre "The treasure is just ahead." Sinali replied as she began to use the crystals to use a combination of magic, the crystals and her nails to shape the crystals seemingly randomnly. "But we can't get to it till we break the lacrima." She said and pointed with one of the crystals towards some crystals that were jutting out of the wall just ahead. "We can't go round or under or over...so we need to break it." It was strange to hear Sinali talk intelligently and not be doing something disturbing like eating flesh. She seemed to genuinely know what she was talking about. How Aedre would react to this was another matter, but Sinali did not care.

"These need magic power...then they should send out a pulse that will disrupt the barrier long enough for us to get past and disable the crystals." she said and looked at Aedre plainly. "Elemental magic would be best." Sinali was not 100% confident with her plan. If she'd had her tools she could of fashioned much better lacrima from these crystals. Heck, if she'd had proper lacrimite (as she called the material lacrima were made from) then it would of been even easier. Fortunately, as this crystal was made by magic it was very similar in composition to lacrimite. Or at least it appeared to be working almost as well. Only time would tell if it would work enough.

"Charge these pwease?" she said trying the whole innocent child act which really didn't work when you used it on someone who had just seen you eat a guy and kill a dozen or more others with mostly bare hands. She might refuse. She might see another way through the barrier, but her senses told her it was very powerful. Perhaps the magical artifacts they were after might also contribute to the barriers magic supply. Or perhaps there was a natural 'magic' fountain down here. She'd heard of such things. Areas where magic was naturally in abundance. They were the reason for things like the floating mountains.

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