NationStates Jolt Archive

Deep in the bowels of the Demon World, a superdemon by the well-known name of Beelzebub has issued a challenge to all nations of the world/galaxy via TV and Holonet.

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"Humans and other races of Nationstates! I offer a challenge, the greatest challenge you will ever face! We demons are ready to destroy this world and remake it in our own image! However, If you wish to challenge me and prevent this destruction of your precious nations, you will send a team of 5 of your best warriors to a Tournament! The Second Dark Tournament! Bring any weapon you choose, but no WMDs, or else. Once you select your warriors, you will be sent to the Demon World and be given several tasks, to test your skills. Now let the tournament begin! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

OOC:
Like the ugly guy said, send a team of five of your best people, and hope they survive. When enough nations come, I will close this RP. No godmodding, though. You may not survive, so make sure they teams are good.

The Author will reserve the right to say what is godmodding

Use this list.
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"I think It is time to give this superdemon a good butt-kicking." Yusuke said, pounding his fist into his palm. "This new Dark Tourney will be quite an interesting challenge. I'm in."
"So am I. You know, if these going-out-of-country trips keep up, Bryan is gonna be the defacto president of the land." I chuckled.
"Well, count me in too. Be interesting to deal with the demons on their own turf." Naruto added.
"If that's three, then who are gonna be the other two?" Yusuke wondered.
"What about those two demon friends of yours, Kurama and Hiei?" I suggested.
"Well, not Hiei, as he's busy. Kurama will do."
"Now all we have to do is find that last person to come with us." I siad.
It turned out that the last member of the team was Toni, my (blush) girlfriend. She is also our designated medic.

The five of us soon set sail for the closest portal to the Demon World, the Bermuda Triangle.

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Name: Jason
Age: 98
Species: Vampire
Gender: Male
Attributes: Red eyes, black hair, pale skin, slight build
Personality: Level-headed
Weapon of choice: Katana
Powers (if any): Blend into shadow
Other: Very agile

Name: Graag
Age: 141
Species: Variety of Daemon
Gender: Male
Attributes: Black eyes, no hair, tough red flesh
Personality: Over-enthusiastic
Weapon of choice: Claws (v. sharp)
Powers (if any):
Other: Fast, but not too dextrous

Name: Encara
Age: 37
Species: Spider/Human Hybrid
Gender: Female
Attributes: Black eyes, black hair, grey skin, athletic build
Personality: Sly
Weapon of choice: Sniper Rifle
Powers (if any): Climb walls
Other:

Name: William
Age: 286
Species: Vampire
Gender: Male
Attributes: Red eyes, white hair, pale skin, athletic build
Personality: Brave
Weapon of choice: Double Shotgun
Powers (if any): Slight ESP (can detect nearby moving entities)
Other: Strong

Name: Freck
Age: 74
Species: Faery/Imp Hybrid
Gender: Female
Attributes: Black eyes, green hair, greenish-grey skin, slight build
Personality: Cruel
Weapon of choice: Poison Dagger
Powers (if any): Flight
Other: Stealthy

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Name: John Chris (me)
Age: 18
Species: Human
Gender: male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): black hair, brown eyes, medium build
Personality: Friendly and charming
Weapon of choice: lightsaber (and katana for metal-to-metal duels) and blaster gun
Powers (if any): Light to grey Force abilities (TK, Mind trick, KO lightning, etc.)
Other: uses speed and agility to my advantage

Name: Yusuke Urameshi
Age: 15
Species: human
Gender: male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): black hair, steel-blue eyes, stronger than he looks
Personality: tough street kid with a soft spot for little kids
Weapon of choice: fists and feet
Powers (if any): Spirit Gun (shoots from gun-shaped hand), Shotgun.
Other: packs a major punch

Name: Naruto Uzumaki
Age: 13
Species: human
Gender: male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): blond, spiky hair and blue eyes. Wears a headband with the symbol of his village.
Personality: outgoing loudmouth, but determined when necessary
Weapon of choice: shuriken, kunai, long knife
Powers (if any): Kage bunshin, the Shadow Clone; heals faster than normal due to sealed fox within him. When angered or in mortal peril, fox is unleashed for a time.
Other: not the best of ninjas, but his determination gets him through many battles.

Name: Kurama
Age: unknown, but rumored to be in 300s
Species: demon (kitsune type)
Gender: male, but often mistaken for female
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): long red hair and green eyes
Personality: quiet and calm demeanor
Weapon of choice: rose whip
Powers (if any): controls plants, has a dark version.
Other:

Name: Toni
Age: 18
Species: human
Gender: female
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): brown hair, brown eyes
Personality: warm, yet tough
Weapon of choice: staff, combat knife
Powers (if any): healer
Other: Sort of John's girlfirend, but not steady yet

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Aelosia presents:

THE DEADLY VYPER ASSASSINATION SQUAD:

Name: Vaelisa D'Hyru
Age: 868
Species: Noldorin Elf
Gender: female
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): long blonde hair, green eyes, slim build, golden tanned complexion.
Personality: Friendly, she's a famous scholar, and has a bookworm attitude.
Weapon of choice: SilverStaff, an arcane artifact designed to protect its wearer from any harm.
Powers (if any): Magic. She can use the powers of the elements. Gusts of wind, fireballs, water tides, earth cracks.
Other: The older sister of the group, she's very protective and maternal with the rest of the squadron. She's a very sweet and caregiver person.

Name: Elfira D'nan
Age: 264
Species: Sindarin Elf
Gender: female
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): black hair, steel-blue eyes, muscular yet slim build, very athletic body.
Personality: Usually in bitch mode. She's very offensive, bitter and sarcastic with everyone. High self-confidence and a very bad loser.
Weapon of choice: ShadowBolt Sniper Rifle. ShadowCoil Whip.
Powers (if any): Lock On (supernatural marksmanship), Snakenest (her whip shares a part of her soul, so it's almost sentient).
Other: Unsure about her origin, she's in a crusade to finding her family, a natural born soldier, she has expended her life in war, as a soldier from her country. No friends, no comrades.

Name: Liann Hyral
Age: 315
Species: Vanyarin Elf
Gender: female
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): short blond, hair and blue eyes. She's short, and a childish look.
Personality: Spirited, she thinks that a warrior must fight for the greater good. Her soul is the one of a paladin, pure yet brave.
Weapon of choice: Holy Mithril Longsword, Opal Bashing Shield.
Powers (if any): The Light of the Vala, a protective aura that makes her faster, stronger and more resilent when she's in danger. She's almost fearless and produces fear in her enemies with her steadfast faith.
Other: She's the descendant of famous legendary paladins of elvenkind. Her determination to cleanse the universe from all evil makes her imprudent sometimes.

Name: Kalinda Lórindel
Age: 147
Species: Telerin Elf
Gender: female
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Silvery Hair, blue eyes, pale complexion.
Personality: She's emotionless, calm and quiet.
Weapon of choice: Twin ShadowBolt Handguns, her own mind.
Powers (if any): Psychic. Telekinesis, she can levitate, throw things with her mind and use illusions to deceive her enemy's minds.
Other: Nobody knows much about her, except that she can be an angel or a devil if she wants to. Sometimes she's a caregiver, other times she's a ruthless and merciless killer.

Name: Kyria Phaelos
Age: 418
Species: Dark Elf
Gender: female
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): White gleaming hair, black skin, slim complexion.
Personality: Maniac. She's a bloothristy killing machine, almost lunatic.
Weapon of choice: Throwing Daggers, ShadowRapier.
Powers (if any): She can move as a spider, hanging and walking in the walls and ceilings, and her blood is as poisonous as the Black Widow's venom.
Other: She's a serial killer, hunted by the Aelosian goverment and released short time after for the tournament. She has a very sick mind and delights in the suffering of other beings.

*Whistles* beautiful and deadly, I like! A few more nations and I'll close this RP. Come one, come all! Send your best teams here!

Once the teams are assembled, they will be sent through the nearrest portal to the Demon World. The Bermuda Triangle is just one such portal.

I'm trying to get my chars. together for the tourney so please don't close it before I get there!!
Lol I need the action! I need the excitement.........I need the bragging rights lmao!

-Jamie Hitashi

The Nation of Central Quebec hasn't officially sent these individuals, yet without any particpents willing to face the dangers of the coming tournament, we have decided to put out faith in them.

Name: Jamie Hitashi
Age: 45
Species: Mystik
Gender: Male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Jamie stands 6'2" with a toned muscular build. His brown hair spikes outto one side and his brilliant green eyes shine brightly on even the gloomiest of days. He is dressed casually in blue denim jeans and a black sweat shirt, finishing off the ensemble with a pair of sneakers.
Personality: Jamie is usually very care free and just loves to have fun. His biggest ambition is to fight strong opponents to test his own skills which on their own are quite extrordinary. Mystiks usually have a fierce love for combat and Jamie is no different, becoming quite serious in the heat of battle.
Weapon of choice: Self (Martial Arts and energy combat)
Powers (if any): Flight, Ki sense, Mystik Transformation (think Super Saiyan except without the flashy blond hair lol), Hakensu, Ki Manipulation
Other: Jamie's brother Jason is also joining up on his team along with son, Kiljax and daughter, Amy. Mako, Kiljax's wife rounds out the five Mystik team. As well, full blooded Mystiks do not age the same way as humans do thus making Jamie and Jason look little more than in their late 20’s

Name: Jason Hitashi
Age: 47
Species: Mystik
Gender: Male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Jason shorter than his younger brother only standing 5'11" with loose straight, blond hair that falls lightly over his eyes. His build is much the same as Jamie's though slightly more stocky. He wears a close fit sleeveless black shirt under an unbuttoned white dress shirt as well as khakis and a pair of black sneakers.
Personality: Jason is much more hot-tempered than Jamie, more often fighting with his emotions than his head. Interestingly though, he is a much better tactition and master of the bluff, sometimes beating opponents who are much stronger than him with only the intimidation factor.
Weapon of choice: Self (Martial Arts and Energy Combat)
Powers (if any): Flight, Ki Sense, Mystik Transformation, Taiketsu, Ki Manipulation
Other: Jason is actually slightly less powerful than Jamie despite the age difference, but his intensity in battle more than makes up for it, being very stubborn to give up.

Name: Kiljax
Age: 22
Species: Mystik/Human
Gender:Male Attributes: The first born of the twins, Kiljax’s odd, blue colored hair as put him apart from many of those around him. His crystal clear blue eyes are partially hidden behind his messy bangs, while for this particular tournament, he has decided to wear his favorite orange and blue gi. (Think Goku….) He stands an even 6 feet but looks slightly larger than his father who possess a more slender figure due to his heritage.
Personality: Much like his father, Kiljax is a happy-go-lucky kind of person who just enjoys the thrills of combat. He often goofs off while fighting weaker opponents, but really likes it when he can test his skills against those who look stronger. He is fiercely territorial of Mako (very jealous lol) which was never characteristic when they were children but grew as time wore on.
Weapon of choice: Self (Martial Arts and Energy Combat)
Powers (if any): Flight, Ki Sense, Mystik Transformation, Hakensu, Ki Manipulation
Other: Kiljax is very eager for this tourney so he can show off some of the training he’s been doing. He is constantly trying to reach the level of power attained by his dad and uncle, and feels this could be his time to shine.

Name: Amy Hitashi
Age: 22
Species: Mystik/Human
Gender: Female
Attributes: The younger of the twins, Amy and Kiljax couldn’t be more different. She stands at 5’9” with a very slender form, resembling her Mystik heritage more. Her green eyes and hair are quite brilliant, the latter being short and straight, falling just above her shoulders. Her outfit includes a black tank top and grey capris with a sweatshirt wrapped snuggly around her waist.
Personality: Amy is usually more reserved in combat, preferring a defensive style of combat, using her quick speed and agility to dodge until the moment is right for the final blow. However, this calm in battle can also be quick to leave when it stops being fun and games, and her temper reveals her true strength.
Weapon of choice: Self (Martial Arts and Energy combat)
Powers (If any): Flight, Ki Sense, Mystik Transformation, Scatter Shot, Ki Manipulation
Other: Amy is really only tagging along for the tourney to match her skills against her brother who has accused her of becoming soft. Something she doesn’t mind with two children (Ayame and Sho-ji) and husband (Edwin), waiting at home.

Name: Mako Hitashi
Age: 21
Species: Mystik/Human
Gender: Female
Attributes: Mako, much like Amy, has retained her slight frame from her Mystik heritage. She stands at 5’8” with shoulder length black hair and purple eyes. For this event she is wearing a white sleeveless shirt and blue denim jeans, with a pair of sneakers rounding out the package.
Personality: Mako is the daughter of one of Jamie and Jason’s good friends Chris, a technological genius. Mako has had the fortune to obtain both the intelligence and raw physical power from her lineage of human mother and Mystik father. She is generally good natured and caring, especially towards her husband, Kiljax, but frequently has fits of rage in combat that shows her opponent a power that is truly frightening emanating from a young girl. She also has a strict sense of honor in which she won’t kill for pleasure, but show mercy. This is of course a trait that has been criticized by Jason on a number of occasions.
Weapon of Choice: Self (Martial Arts and Energy Combat)
Powers (If any): Flight, Ki Sense, Mystik Transformation, Tri Image, Ki Manipulation
Other: Mako is generally nervous before fights, not usually a participant unless needed. She enjoys watching Kiljax fight but has decided that she might be needed due to the nature of the tourney.

So there you have it. If there are any problems please feel free to let me know.

Regards,
Jamie Hitashi

nice chars. Send 'em thru the Triangle and we'll go from there. The demons need a few more nations willing to take part in this tournament before I close this RP.

OOC: Interesting... I need more details, though. What type of warriors are you looking for?

OOC: Eh... what the hell. Suppose it's a decent "what if"...


Name: Sakura Kitsuki
Age: 24
Species: Foxperson
Gender: Female
Attributes: Medium height, slender but athletic build; long red hair, emerald eyes. Red fur on ears and tail. Wears a cheongsam and slippers.
Personality: Hyper, sarcastic, and possessed of an invincible ego -- but as she often says, "It's not bragging, if you can back it up." Loyal to her friends, often merciless to her enemies, and skirting the edge of sanity more often than she'd admit.
Weapon of choice: Monomolecular-filament whip, Abhorrent dagger
Powers (if any): Ravenspire native (immune to magical, psychic, and supernatural/paranormal effects). Near-instantaneous reaction time. Dead aim. Enhanced speed, agility, stamina, senses, and healing rate relative to humans. A past-master of seven martial arts forms (including Moo Gi Gon, the Ravenspiric art of improvised weaponry) and dabbler in a few more, making her the greatest living warrior of Ravenspire.
Other: Sakura is trained in the ninja arts of stealth and infiltration. She's claimed the ability to hide "in the shadow of a blade of grass at noon," and while this is an exaggeration, she is frighteningly competent. In the past, she's been named one of the "five most dangerous women in the world." (OOC: And I really wish the thread hadn't been deleted. :cry: But there's still a little backstory here (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88332).)

Name: Alaric Morgannan
Age: 27
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Attributes: Tall, slender, and bishounen; shoulder-length blond hair, emerald eyes, a dancer's build. Vaguely androgynous. Wears black militaresque clothing, plus a white cloak.
Personality: Calm, level-headed, with a wry sense of humor. He rarely reveals much of what he's feeling, and often comes across as cold to those who do not know him well. Possesses an iron will.
Weapon of choice: Abhorrent broadsword, needler pistol
Powers (if any): Ravenspire native (see above).
Other: Alaric is not a terribly skilled fighter by comparison to the others, but he is among the finest military minds of Ravenspire.

Name: Winter Akizuki
Age: ?
Species: Foxperson (vampiric)
Gender: Female
Attributes: Albino -- white skin, red eyes, pigmentless hair and fur that appears pale pink. Somewhat short. Seems to have a light to moderate build; it's difficult to tell, since she wears a starfield-pattern kimono. Its obi is a pink that matches her hair.
Personality: Wry, calm, logical, and analytical. Like Alaric, Winter rarely shows emotion. Her psychological distance is heightened by the fact that her understanding of English is limited; while she is mostly fluent, her speech is somewhat stilted and bears a noticable accent.
Weapon of choice: Bare hands, throwing needles (often drugged)
Powers (if any): Ravenspire native (see above). Very good reactions, speed, agility, senses, and stamina, though not quite to Sakura's level. Enhanced strength, resilience, and healing relative to a human or foxperson.
Other: Ravenspiric vampires are not undead -- it's a symbiotic "disease" of the blood. (Think "Omega Man.") They therefore lack many of the weaknesses of traditional vampires, though they also lack most of the traditional "powers."

Name: Miyumi Kunishiro
Age: 24
Species: Foxperson
Gender: Female
Attributes: Tall and athletically built (and bordering on voluptuous). Golden hair and fur, aqua eyes. Wears khakis, a camo-print t-shirt, and a leather bomber jacket.
Personality: Blunt, outspoken, enthusiastic, and optimistic. Miyumi is a diplomat, but most people agree that she missed her calling as an athlete. Tends to be annoyingly cheerful even in dangerous situations.
Weapon of choice: Glaive, weighted gloves and boots, needler pistol
Powers (if any): Ravenspire native (see above). Very good reactions, agility, senses, and stamina, though not quite to Sakura's or Winter's level. Great speed, especially in a sprint, and greater strength than most foxpeople.
Other: Miyumi is only a fair shot, but quite skilled up close.

Name: Archduchess Raven von Sachshausen
Age: About a year (physically 15)
Species: Foxperson
Gender: Female
Attributes: A bit shorter than average, with a deceptively slight build. Long black hair, black fur, and golden eyes. Wears a t-shirt, black leather pants and jacket, and heavy black boots.
Personality: Bright and cheerful most of the time, but prone to sudden fits of violent anger or sorrow -- when she reacts emotionally, she doesn't often suppress anything, but reacts fully. Very talkative and curious.
Weapon of choice: Bare hands, paired sai
Powers (if any): Photographic reflexes -- if she sees something done, and she's physically capable of doing it, she can imitate it very competently, and with a little bit of practice, perfectly. Incredible learning curve in general. Fundamental control of the forces of nature and chaos, particularly elements, weather, and animals -- this is half-magical, half-divine, extremely powerful, and, at this point, almost entirely untrained; it happens in accordance with her emotions. In short, she's something akin to a nuclear powder keg.
Other: Not a Ravenspire native -- she was cloned outside the borders, in Raevyn, and therefore lacks the anti-magical nature of Ravenspire. She was later adopted as a daughter by the late Empress Joanna von Sachshausen of Lavenrunz.
(OOC: Reference (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88332))

As a species of relentless warriors, five Ur-Quan were randomly chosen to take part in some "Dark Tournament" they had never heard of, nor cared of, but it would be a good place for them to observe the species of this... Reality.

Name: Number 5810 of the Hierarchy
Age: Unknown
Species: Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah
Gender: Unknown
Attributes: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah. Ten meters long, two meters in height and width. Black. Four tentacles. Think of a huge caterpillar. Face: Click here (http://sensori.soldats.net/kuvia/kohrah/korah-complex.gif).
Personality: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah. A relentless warrior, cold, xenophobic. Territorial, solitary.
Weapons of choice: Unknown.
Powers: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah. Many times stronger than any human. High pain tolerance. Equipped with an insanity evoking Excruciator.

Name: Number 568951 of the Hierarchy
Age: Unknown
Species: Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah/Kzer-Za hybrid
Gender: Unknown
Attributes: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah, with green stripes all over it. Other than that, looks like any Kohr-Ah.
Personality: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah, other than being much more creative. Relentless warrior, cold, xenophobic. Territorial, solitary.
Weapons of choice: Unknown.
Powers: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah. Many times stronger than any human. High pain tolerance. Equipped with an insanity evoking Excruciator.

Name: Number 9279 of the Hierarchy
Age: Unknown
Species: Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah
Gender: Unknown
Attributes: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah. Look at Number 5810 for more details.
Personality: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah.
Weapons of choice: Unknown.
Powers: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah.

Name: Number 74192 of the Hierarchy
Age: Unknown
Species: Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah
Gender: Unknown
Attributes: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah.
Personality: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah.
Weapons of choice: Unknown.
Powers: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah.

Name: Number 35732 of the Hierarchy
Age: Unknown
Species: Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah
Gender: Unknown
Attributes: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah.
Personality: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah.
Weapons of choice: Unknown.
Powers: General Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah.

If they die, it only means an instant "promotion" for everyone below them in the Hierarchy.

OOC: Interesting... I need more details, though. What type of warriors are you looking for?

Any type of warrior that is characteristic of your nation and is good enough to defeat at least a C-level demon (Stronger than most normal humans). No godmodding warriors, though (Majin Buu of DBZ comes to mind :roll: ).

Ravenspire: These warriors may be an interesting challenge for me if I batttle one of them, as Force powers are essentially psychic.

"Phoo! The air 'round here stinks!" Naruto made a face at the prevailing stench of the Demon World, like a mix of rotting organics and skunk scent.
"That's the demon world for you. Never a nice flowery smell around. Or air freshener, for that matter." Yusuke sighed. "You'll get used to it."

The Demon World is a gloomy and spooky place. Perpetral lightning flashes in the dark red sky, and numerous creatures of this world hunger for blood. Human blood, mostly, but other sentient species as well, if they can catch them. We arrived at a seemingly normal hotel, and booked some rooms. Now to wait for other teams to come.

OOC:
I will close this RP once there is a sufficient number (10 teams) in play.

{i'll be using semi future tech}
*At the presidential headquater's of chao master*

President,president we have a problem some demon's,claming to be from another world.He said he will destroy the world.

The president, a naturally cautious but desisive man was shocked by the news.But his orders were clear "find me our best troops" and the finest shock troops chao master had to offer were assembled.

Name:chris
Age: 28
Species: human
Gender: male
Attributes: blonde hair,green eyes and strong firm chest.
Personality:desisive,agressive
Weapon of choice:sbp 190 twin machine guns
Powers:none

Name:michael
Age:26
Species: human
Gender: male
Attributes:black hair,blue eyes and thin.
Personality:passive
Weapon of choice: plasma rifle{with plasma grenades}
Powers: none

Name: catherine
Age: 24
Species: human
Gender: female
Attributes:red hair,blue eyes
Personality: mixed
Weapon of choice: sniper rifle
Powers:none

Name: shane
Age: 32
Species: human
Gender: male
Attributes:blue hair,yellow eyes
Personality: agressive
Weapon of choice: shotgun
Powers:good eyesite

Name: conners
Age: 22
Species: human
Gender: male
Attributes:black hair green eyes
Personality: passive
Weapon of choice: none{all rounder}
Powers:none

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Name: Inquisitor David Winters
Age: 27
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Considering that he is almost constantly wearing his heavy Inquisitorial armor, unknown. His build is rather tall, possibly well muscled.
Personality: Driven, almost fanatical
Weapon of choice: Sword (Holy Thunder Style); Pistol, blessed silver bullets
Powers (if any): Minor ability to heal wounds, banish dark forces, etc.
Other: Slightly inclined to fits of melancholy; won't allow demons or vampires to live even if they are helping him out. More, he'll take advantage of that in order to destroy them.

Name: Elea Tresia; Mage of The Blue Stone
Age: God only knows
Species: Elf
Gender: Female
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Tall; Dressed in a simple mantle; blue eyes, blonde hair
Personality: Whimsical
Weapon of choice: Staff
Powers (if any): After years of studying with the Archmage of the Blue Stone Order, she is a master of all aquatic magic; Slight ability with earth magics and light magic
Other:

Name: Direwolf (RIAS Assassin)
Age: 35
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.) Average weight, height; Blond hair, blue eyes
Personality: Non-Applicable
Weapon of choice: Sniper rifle; Katana
Powers (if any):
Other:

Name: Drengai Bloodaxe
Age: Who knows?
Species: Dwarf
Gender: Male? Female? Something?
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Short, long beard (red hair); Plate armor
Personality: As if he (why not?) was permanently drunk
Weapon of choice: A large axe
Powers (if any):
Other: Speaks in an aggravating scottish accent

Name: Jessica Lyhan; Legionnare
Age: 22
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Chesty; Thin; Brown hair, green eyes
Personality: Seductive; calculating
Weapon of choice: RA-87 Assault Rifle; Dagger
Powers (if any):
Other:

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The Chosen Defenders of I-rey

Name: Ness
Age: 13
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Black hair and blue eyes. A short, chubby kid. Wears a red baseball cap and a blue and yellow striped shirt.
Personality: Quiet, but a good leader. He brings out the best in his friends and the worst in his enemies.
Weapon of choice: Baseball bat
Powers (if any): Psychokinetic Powers (PSI): PSI Rockin' (shocking wave), PSI Flash (blinds enemies), PSI Lifeup (heals friends)
Other: Favorite food is Steak

Name: Paula
Age: 12
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Blonde hair and blue eyes, slight build. Wears a frilly pink dress and carries a plush bear.
Personality: Friendly and outgoing, with a dark side.
Weapon of choice: Frying pan
Powers (if any): PSI: PSI Fire (fire from fingers), PSI Brainshock (confuses enemy), PSI Freeze (solid, dig?)
Other: Mom works at a preschool

Name: Jeff
Age: 13
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Eyes obscured by thick glasses, cropped blonde hair, prep school uniform.
Personality: Shy but talkative (for some reason). Very analytical and smart.
Weapon of choice: Magnum air gun
Powers (if any): No PSI powers but is able to spy on enemy's weaknesses and can fix almost anything.
Other: Enjoys cookies

Name: Poo
Age: 16
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Black hare krishna hair and black eyes, white martial arts garb.
Personality: Cool and observant. Very wise for such a young boy.
Weapon of choice: Punchin' and kickin'
Powers (if any): PSI: PSI LStarstorm (powerful electronic attack), PSI Sheild (defensive), PSI Teleport (useful for traveling great distances)
Other: Completed intensive mu training and is the crown prince of the country of Dalaam

Name: Mr. Saturn
Age: 93
Species: Mr. Saturn
Gender: Genderqueer
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Small black eyes, looks like a head with feet attached to the bottom. Huge nose with whiskers and a red bow on top of his head.
Personality: Talks a lot but very hard to understand. Very friendly and affectionate.
Weapon of choice: Phase Distorter.
Powers (if any): Able to use phase distorter to attack enemies froom the past or in the future.
Other: Lives in a town called "Saturn Village" where all inhabitants are identical and go by the name Mr. Saturn.

The Grand Duke of I-rey has utmost faith in these warriors and has sent the nation's top ranking band, The Runaway Five, to provide background music for the fights.

LMAO! How well I remember Earthbound! Oh, yes, and Poo actually has a sword called the Sword of Kings. Never actually found it, but it's there. And Paula's other PSI attack is Psi Thunder. Bring them in!

one more slot to fill! Hopefully waiting for Jedi Revolutionists, if not, then anyone else!

OOC: Alright! Another EB fan(atic). Yeah, I never found the Sword of Kings either, but I purposefuly juggled around the PSI stuff a bit to make a balanced fighting force.

OOC: Ah, that's cool. Now there may be demons you have to deal with once you get in the world, but nothing the Psykids (my name for them) can't handle. If you check the first thread, you'll find my own people: Myself (John Chris, who's a Jedi), Yusuke (a Spirit Detective; this kind of tournament is his turf, if you know YuYu Hakusho), Naruto (fitting; a ninja kid who has a sealed fox demon within him), Kurama (Yusuke's friend, a kitsune demon), and Toni (my, uh *blushes* girlfriend).

Name: George Clinton
Age: Age ain't nothin' but a number, baby!
Species: Humanoid Funkazoid!
Gender: Hung like a rhinocerous!
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Ya know, he rocks the wild wild gray dreads interspersed with ribbons of all the colors of the rainbow, his eyes gleam like beacons of funkitude, and his dark chocolate skin makes the ladies quiver and melt!
Personality: Funkified, sexified, totally wicked fly!
Weapon of choice: Natty dreadlocks and his dancin' skills
Powers (if any): His ability to funk up the nation (and his opponents)
Other: Nobody can even TOUCH this man in terms of funk.

Name: John Shaft
Age: How old do you think? Well you're wrong, honky!
Species: Black and Beautiful
Gender: He's a complicated man
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Black man, with power and grace. Sports a superbad afro, a nod to his ancestors. He is so wicked cool!
Personality: Shaft is one bad mother...SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
Weapon of choice: His crackakillin 9!
Powers (if any): The ability to create white guilt wherever he goes.
Other: To reiterate, Shaft is one bad mother...SHUT YOUR MOUTH!

Name: Snoop Doggy Dogg
Age: Older than you think.
Species: Dogg!
Gender: Man oh man.
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Snoop looks kind of like a weasel, but he seems to get all the ladies.
Personality: Pimp extroardinaire, Snoop is also always baked.
Weapon of choice: His bong.
Powers (if any): Wicked lung capacity, dope rhyming skills
Other: Sips on gin and juice occasionally. Keeps his mind on his money, and his money on his mind.

Name: Mr. T
Age: Age don't matta fool!
Species: Badass
Gender: HuMAN!
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Arms like steel cables, mohawk, tons of gold jewelry, and loves to wear sweatpants and tube sox.
Personality: He's big, he's mean, and he doesn't suffer fools very well!
Weapon of choice: Mr. T can throw you helluva far, and punch your lights out like nobody else!
Powers (if any): He's helluva strong, sucka!
Other: T has a dope custom van!


Name: William "Bill" Cosby
Age: He's an oldie but a goodie
Species: Black comedian
Gender: Patriarch
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Grayin', funny lookin', loves his sweaters.
Personality: Kindly, but bitter and backhandedly resentful towards his children.
Weapon of choice: Kodak film, Jello pudding pops, New Coke
Powers (if any): His ability to make a joke out of anything, blinding sweaters
Other: He's still hilarious!

Scaraba has sent these fine African warriors to defend our honor! Spike Lee is planning a movie based upon their adventures.

OOC: I can't resist this- what fun! Tell me if any of these are too powerfull and I'll change them....
IC:
1-
Name: Zaidon/Zaidon Kalteer
Age: 243
Species: Kalteer (Designed by an all-powerfull king. See powers, other)
Gender: Male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Hair- blond, short, eyes- gray. Slightly above average human height, but not exceptional. Build- thicker than normal proportions.
Personality: Quiet, duty-oriented.
Weapon of choice: 2 katars (or his hands).
Powers (if any): Very fast, incredibly strong, extremely durable, quick healing, very keen senses. Can affect his own mass and inertia.
Other: The Kalteer were originally designed by the Islander King to destroy extremely dangerous, evil creatures that can ignore most wounds and squeeze through a keyhole (Kalteer translates most closely to "hunter"). They haven't gotten any weaker, and are used for important Island business. Zaidon was sent to Dar-Kavryn for this mission.
2-
Name: Vedriil Kankolver
Age: 85
Species: Shadowdancer
Gender: Female
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Most closely resembles an 8 foot tall skeleton in black armor. Yellow eyes. Glows slightly in dim (or no) light.
Personality: Cold, calculating, but stubborn. Serves balance rather than good or evil. A shadowdancer never runs.
Weapon of choice: Longsword, shortbow. Both are made from black steel, forged by shadowdancers.
Powers: Extremely fast fighter. She can cloak herself in shadow and move through stone (or other solids) like water at will.
Other: Vision is not dependent on light; does not breathe.
3-
Name: Narok Kavgrul
Age: 38
Species: Degral
Gender: Male
Attributes: Light brown hair. Eyes- see other. Average height; athletic build. Arms are slightly longer than human, and decorated with odd symbols.
Personality: Varies. Basically cheerful, usually. See other.
Preffered weapon: Short sword & battle ax. Also carries a degral gun (basically a cross between a rocket launcher and a dart shooter).
Powers: Slightly stronger and faster than a human. Heals quickly. Uses two weapons at once. Minor magical skill.
Other: A degral's eyes glow with a color showing emotion. Some of these can be quite powerfull, and temporarily alter personality. Red is berserk rage- provides greater strength & speed, immunity to pain (but less control). Degral are immune to most poisons.
4-
Name: Borinta
Age: 4,1837
Species: Kryntok Dragon.
Gender: Female
Attributes: varies (see powers)
Personality: Bad-tempered, grumpy, but kind at heart. She likes gold, etc. but considers friends & duty more important.
Weapon of choice: None (claws, fangs, tail, etc.)
Powers: Breathes fire at will. Some magic. Limited ability to change shape & size. Scales can change color. Also, the obvious abilities of a dragon.
5- (OOC: Let him be useful at least once, for irony if nothing else, please...)
Name: Brule Lightfoot
Age: 26
Species: Brownie
Gender: Male
Attributes: 5.8 inches tall. Dark hair, hazel eyes. Athletic build.
Personality: Impulsive, rather crazy
Weapon of choice: Halberd and a much smaller version of the degral gun.
Powers: Very strong for his size. Good at climbing. Fast. Knows a lot about nature. Can sometimes control animals. Fairly good at magic. Carries both poison and sleeping potion for his darts.
Other: Serves the balance rather than good or evil (like the shadowdancer).

OOC: Rats, am I too late? There was still a slot left when I started typing in my entry team....

Oh well. I'll close this after. You two guys are in.

Oh well. I'll close this after. You two guys are in.
OK, thanks.

Loudspeaker: THIS THREAD IS NOW CLOSED! ANYBODY ELSE WISHING TO COME IN ARE SPECTATORS OR LOWLEVEL DEMONS (TG me for this one)!

Now, everyone will have to get through the Bermuda Triangle in order to reach the Demon World, as it is one of the places where the barrier between worlds is weakest (the other is in Japan). There is a hotel once you land, so you can recuperate and chat until a minion of Beelzebub gives you the first task. My team is already there, waiting. Description of the Demon World is seen above.

bump for the competators while I think of the first task.

Name: Snoop Doggy Dogg
Age: Older than you think.
Species: Dogg!
Gender: Man oh man.
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Snoop looks kind of like a weasel, but he seems to get all the ladies.
Personality: Pimp extroardinaire, Snoop is also always baked.
Weapon of choice: His bong.
Powers (if any): Wicked lung capacity, dope rhyming skills
Other: Sips on gin and juice occasionally. Keeps his mind on his money, and his money on his mind.


:lol: LMAO

Now, everyone will have to get through the Bermuda Triangle in order to reach the Demon World, as it is one of the places where the barrier between worlds is weakest (the other is in Japan). There is a hotel once you land, so you can recuperate and chat until a minion of Beelzebub gives you the first task. My team is already there, waiting. Description of the Demon World is seen above.
Abruptly a slash appeared in the air near the hotel and widened into a gateway. A degral carrying a battle ax and wearing a steel crown steps through, followed by Narok Kavgrul (The brownie, Brule Lightfoot, rides on his backpack). "Thanks for the transportation, dad." said Narok. Tref Kivor, the Degral King, replied, "Well, I don't have time to come myself, but at least I can do this much to help. Good luck." The other three members of the time followed them through the portal, which then closed. After they booked rooms in the hotel, the degral King wished everyone luck again, sliced another hole in the air, and returned to Dar-Kavryn.

:shock: was on our faces.
"Well, that's quite a fast way to get here." Yusuke commented dryly, as he saw the portal open and close.

"Welcome to Hotel Satan!" The demon clerk up front announced. "How may I help you?"

bumpity bump

((OOC: A few problems arise. 1) The Ur-Quan have no presence on Earth, the closest thing they have is a colony on Mars. 2) They would not know, nor care where the Bermuda Triangle is. 3) If they came DOWN to Earth, they would most likely be shot down as something hostile. Etcetera.))

((OOC: A few problems arise. 1) The Ur-Quan have no presence on Earth, the closest thing they have is a colony on Mars. 2) They would not know, nor care where the Bermuda Triangle is. 3) If they came DOWN to Earth, they would most likely be shot down as something hostile. Etcetera.))

We have a spaceport, and an airplane (with a brave pilot) for those who are spacefaring nations. We know where the Triangle is. If you look at the Earth, it is the area of water about 300+ miles off the coast of the smaller continent, the north part. here is a map location:
http://drs.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=Bermuda+Triangle+map/v=2/l=IVI/*-http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vanished/images/cras_ill1945.gif

:shock: was on our faces.
"Well, that's quite a fast way to get here." Yusuke commented dryly, as he saw the portal open and close.

"Welcome to Hotel Satan!" The demon clerk up front announced. "How may I help you?"
Narok grinned. "My people have a fair amount of inherent magic, and the King can draw on the power of all us if necessary. It's rather useful for my siblings and me." "Useful for the rest of us, too, this time!" added Brule, climbing onto the Degral's shoulder to look at Yusuke. "Do you have any idea what we're going to be up against here?" Narok asked.
Zaidon and Borinta walked up to the desk. "We're here for the Tournament." Zaidon said to the clerk. "We'll need rooms while we're here."
Meanwhile, Vedriil stood in the shadows by one wall, watching everything that went on in the lobby.

Ness and his friends touch down in the shining, silver skyrunner. Paula unpacks a picnic lunch while Ness talks to the demon clerk.
"A one night stay at Hotel Satan will cost you $180. Would you like to stay?" asks the demon with a voice as sweet as cyanide.
"Yes," replied Ness, who proceeded to call his Dad from the courtesy phone to, heh, "save his progress."
Jeff immediately starts tinkering with a broken machine, and Poo begins meditating on his Mu mantras. Mr. Saturn seems to be the most sociable one of the group... if only everyone else could understand him.
"Dong! Hello hello! Time to get rid of demons, Mr. Saturn do it all for you, kay-O? Friends in valley behind Threed, all are Mr. Saturn. Boing!"
Ness is forced to subdue his short, whiskery friend before the other warriors decide to pummel him.
"Sometimes," Ness thinks to himself, "I wish I never left Onett in the first place."

Ness and his friends touch down in the shining, silver skyrunner. Paula unpacks a picnic lunch while Ness talks to the demon clerk.
"A one night stay at Hotel Satan will cost you $180. Would you like to stay?" asks the demon with a voice as sweet as cyanide.
"Yes," replied Ness, who proceeded to call his Dad from the courtesy phone to, heh, "save his progress."
Jeff immediately starts tinkering with a broken machine, and Poo begins meditating on his Mu mantras. Mr. Saturn seems to be the most sociable one of the group... if only everyone else could understand him.
"Dong! Hello hello! Time to get rid of demons, Mr. Saturn do it all for you, kay-O? Friends in valley behind Threed, all are Mr. Saturn. Boing!"
Ness is forced to subdue his short, whiskery friend before the other warriors decide to pummel him.
"Sometimes," Ness thinks to himself, "I wish I never left Onett in the first place."

Ness and his friends touch down in the shining, silver skyrunner. Paula unpacks a picnic lunch while Ness talks to the demon clerk.
"A one night stay at Hotel Satan will cost you $180. Would you like to stay?" asks the demon with a voice as sweet as cyanide.
"Yes," replied Ness, who proceeded to call his Dad from the courtesy phone to, heh, "save his progress."
Jeff immediately starts tinkering with a broken machine, and Poo begins meditating on his Mu mantras. Mr. Saturn seems to be the most sociable one of the group... if only everyone else could understand him.
"Dong! Hello hello! Time to get rid of demons, Mr. Saturn do it all for you, kay-O? Friends in valley behind Threed, all are Mr. Saturn. Boing!"
Ness is forced to subdue his short, whiskery friend before the other warriors decide to pummel him.
"Sometimes," Ness thinks to himself, "I wish I never left Onett in the first place."

Narok grinned. "My people have a fair amount of inherent magic, and the King can draw on the power of all us if necessary. It's rather useful for my siblings and me." "Useful for the rest of us, too, this time!" added Brule, climbing onto the Degral's shoulder to look at Yusuke. "Do you have any idea what we're going to be up against here?" Narok asked.
Zaidon and Borinta walked up to the desk. "We're here for the Tournament." Zaidon said to the clerk. "We'll need rooms while we're here."
Meanwhile, Vedriil stood in the shadows by one wall, watching everything that went on in the lobby.

"Well, there are a bunch of demons with various skills, from easy-picking weaklings to really tough dudes like the Toguro Bros, who I fought last Dark Tourney. You'll probably also have to face some of the teams that come here." Yusuke explained. "It will get tough, make no mistake."

Ness and his friends touch down in the shining, silver skyrunner. Paula unpacks a picnic lunch while Ness talks to the demon clerk.
"A one night stay at Hotel Satan will cost you $180. Would you like to stay?" asks the demon with a voice as sweet as cyanide.
"Yes," replied Ness, who proceeded to call his Dad from the courtesy phone to, heh, "save his progress."
Jeff immediately starts tinkering with a broken machine, and Poo begins meditating on his Mu mantras. Mr. Saturn seems to be the most sociable one of the group... if only everyone else could understand him.
"Dong! Hello hello! Time to get rid of demons, Mr. Saturn do it all for you, kay-O? Friends in valley behind Threed, all are Mr. Saturn. Boing!"
Ness is forced to subdue his short, whiskery friend before the other warriors decide to pummel him.
"Sometimes," Ness thinks to himself, "I wish I never left Onett in the first place."

I sensed an interesting Force-signature from the new fivesome. I called to Team Earthbound. "Hey! I'm John, a Jedi Knight. It feels like you guys have psychic powers, too. Cool!"
Toni sweatdropped and smiled nervously at the Mr. Saturn. "Uh, that's really nice. If only I could understand you."

"Well, there are a bunch of demons with various skills, from easy-picking weaklings to really tough dudes like the Toguro Bros, who I fought last Dark Tourney. You'll probably also have to face some of the teams that come here." Yusuke explained. "It will get tough, make no mistake."

"So we might end up having to fight each other, then? Well, what is, is. This should be interesting at any rate." said Narok

"Yeah. Don't worry, we won't kill you." Naruto cheerfully said, stuffing ramen down his throat.

Once three to five of the teams come to the hotel, I'll start the first task.

I'm starting a picture profile of the teams. Go here to see the pics I've started:
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=99731

A roar comes from outside the hotel as a customized purple Chevy van screams down the road. It comes to a stop in front of the hotel, and five ebony men hop out.
"This looks like the place!" shouts Mr. T. "We should all go inside!"
T's commanding presence draws all eyes to the door, which he proceeds to kick in. He takes two steps in and puts his hands on his hips.
"We're here to kick some demon tail! Where's he at?!" demands the mohawked leader of the group. Snoop Dogg finishes rolling his fatty and fires it up. T slaps the doobie to the ground and crushes it with his big boot.
"Don't do drugs!" he yells. "I'm goin' to see what's what!"
Bill Cosby approaches young Jeff.
"Now what are you doing over here? You working on a knickety knack? You know when I was a boy, we didn't use machines like that, we used to play STICKBALL!"
Shaft stands on the side, muttering to George Clinton about all the honkies on this quest.
"No worries, my brother! Even though they can't dance, doesn't mean they don't like the funk!"

"What is the Bermuda Triangle, anyway?" Raven asked. She was bored; flying into space had been fascinating at first, but they had stopped while preparing the spacefold, and even she grew tired of gazing at the same patch of stars.

"A nexus for interdimensional travel, along the lines of R'leyh or the City of Gold." Alaric unconsciously adopted the tone of a lecturer. "There are a few other such locations on Earth. Some thaumologists point to places of power, like Stonehenge or the Temple Mount--"

Sakura rolled her eyes. "That's the annoying thing about magic. Its rules keep changing."

"Quite."

"But why are we going there?"

"Raven's got a point," Miyumi said. "Ravenspire's a major space power, right?"

"Correct."

"And we've mastered space, time, and the dimensions, right?"

"...More or less. I wouldn't put it in quite those terms."

"So why are we going to the Bermuda Triangle? Why not just rip open a portal?"

"Ah. Well, first, we're not going to the Bermuda Triangle."

Raven blinked. "We aren't?"

"We're going to Japan," Sakura said, smirking.

"Quite. We enjoy close ties to Japan, and the Tokyo Tower happens to be situated upon another useful nexus."

Miyumi shrugged. "Whatever. So why are we going to Japan, then?"

"I was getting to that. It's true that we could open our own portal. But first, that would take more time, and second..."

"Hmm?"

"We didn't want to budget for it."

"Ack."

Sakura laughed. "Your timing's gotten better, Al."

"You think?"

Raven interrupted. The black-haired foxgirl's tail lashed impatiently. "So when will we get there?"

The fifth member of their group opened her blood-red eyes and calmly unfolded from her meditative posture, standing. "When? Raven, dear, we're already here."

Indeed, the spacecraft had settled without so much as a whisper. Glancing outside, Raven could make out the silhouette of the Tower against the setting sun...

"Might as well get started, then." Sakura grinned in anticipation. "Don't forget the book, Raven. You'll have to read it; the rest of us don't exactly take to magic."

A roar comes from outside the hotel as a customized purple Chevy van screams down the road. It comes to a stop in front of the hotel, and five ebony men hop out.
"This looks like the place!" shouts Mr. T. "We should all go inside!"
T's commanding presence draws all eyes to the door, which he proceeds to kick in. He takes two steps in and puts his hands on his hips.
"We're here to kick some demon tail! Where's he at?!" demands the mohawked leader of the group. Snoop Dogg finishes rolling his fatty and fires it up. T slaps the doobie to the ground and crushes it with his big boot.
"Don't do drugs!" he yells. "I'm goin' to see what's what!"
Bill Cosby approaches young Jeff.
"Now what are you doing over here? You working on a knickety knack? You know when I was a boy, we didn't use machines like that, we used to play STICKBALL!"

Shaft stands on the side, muttering to George Clinton about all the honkies on this quest.
"No worries, my brother! Even though they can't dance, doesn't mean they don't like the funk!"

Everyone sweatdropped at the newcomers.
"Uh, You will take room 210." The demon clerk said, and gave them the keys.

The Dar-Kavryn team, moving as one, turned and stared in shocked amazement at the newcomers :shock:
"Well, this will definitely be... interesting." muttered Zaidon.

A screeching sound was heard, startling everyone.
http://www.gavinrymill.com/dinosaurs/jp3/images/RaptorCall1.jpg
A demon, looking almost exactly like a velociraptor from Jurassic Park (down to the sickle feet-claws), ran in and knocked over Bill Cosby. It holds an envelope for each of the teams.

"These envelopesss have the first task inside them." It hissed. "Perhapss you will survive, perhapss not. Heh heh heh."
It left, and we opened our envelopes.

OOC: Here's where I'm getting writer's block! I need a good challenge for the first task, but not too hard. *Sobs* I'm not that good at making puzzles.

Bill Cosby got up and looked at his sweater. A slight tear in the sleeve caused him to gasp audibly.
"Now, now that demon is just asking for trouble when he rips DOCTOR Huxtable's favorite sweater!"
Shaft approaches Zaidon and barks in his face.
"Whatsa matter, sucka? You ain't never seen a black man before?"
T puts his hand on Shaft's shoulder, getting between them.
"Now, John, that ain't no way to treat a friend! You've gotta learn to keep your mind off your color! Look at George!"
Shaft glances over at the King of Funk, bopping with Mr. Saturn.
"And that's not even a human!" says T. "Now, drink your milk!"
T hands Shaft a carton of 2%, which Shaft proceeds in drinking. When he surfaces, milk residue is left on his mustache. T laughs his trademark snicker.

The others gathered around Narok as he slit the envelope open with a small dagger. "Interesting...." the degral said, examining its contents.
OOC: Good luck... I'm sure you'll think of something good.

Mr. T clomps over and grabs the envelope.

"What's in this, fool? You gonna share?"

Bill Cosby got up and looked at his sweater. A slight tear in the sleeve caused him to gasp audibly.
"Now, now that demon is just asking for trouble when he rips DOCTOR Huxtable's favorite sweater!"
Shaft approaches Zaidon and barks in his face.
"Whatsa matter, sucka? You ain't never seen a black man before?"
T puts his hand on Shaft's shoulder, getting between them.
"Now, John, that ain't no way to treat a friend! You've gotta learn to keep your mind off your color! Look at George!"
Shaft glances over at the King of Funk, bopping with Mr. Saturn.
"And that's not even a human!" says T. "Now, drink your milk!"
T hands Shaft a carton of 2%, which Shaft proceeds in drinking. When he surfaces, milk residue is left on his mustache. T laughs his trademark snicker.
Zaidon rolled his eyes :roll: "Actually, I have... I was just thinking your personalities seemed likely to add an interesting element to this situation. That is not intended as an insult! Remember, we're all here for the same reason. As your friend said, let's be friends, yes? I think we'll all have plenty of enemies soon enough."

The first task is to head north, where the teams will find a very large maze, chock full of weak, but still dangerous demons. The object, is to get to the other side, without dying. Sounds simple? Not! There are also traps around, from Indy-style giant bowling balls, to bottomless pits, to large and hungry demons, among other traps (you create 1 trap). Every team will choose their own path through the maze, as each time a team goes in, the maze never is the same twice. At the end of the maze will be a medium level demon with 6 weak minions that must be destroyed. Upon exit out of the maze, the teams will recieve their second task.

"It's a maze full of demons. Our mission is to get to the other side. Sounds like fun!" Narok grins, his eyes shining purple (excitement). "See, what did I tell you..." said the Kalteer. "Let's go." said Vedriil, drawing her black sword.
The team left the hotel. Narok led the way, still carrying Brule. Next came Zaidon, then Vedrill. Borinta took the rear. Soon teh maze came into sight.
OOC: What does it look like?

OOC: It's very thick woods going uphill, about several miles long, and has a part where you can rest (save spot in RPG games, of course) before going on, if you can get halfway through. MWAHAHAHAHAHA! *ahem* no driving there, Team Cosby.

IC:
My team also set out for the maze, and made it there safely. There was a tall gate, with a chain easily sliced with my lightsaber. We entered the maze.

OOC II: I have another half-hour, so I may get in one or two more posts.

"A maze?" Sakura raised an eyebrow skeptically.

"No, but a little surprised," Raven answered, without any sense of irony. "That wasn't the sort of challenge I was expecting."

Sakura pondered responding sarcastically, but only sighed. It wasn't as though that would help, with Raven. Instead, she said, "This oughtta be easy. Guess they're starting out with a warm-up."

"We are late," Alaric pointed out.

"Yeah, but please. Six little demons and a slightly-bigger one? I could handle that alone. In my sleep."

"Try to take it seriously," Winter advised.

"Yeah, yeah. Let's get going."

We arrived at a T intersection.
"Now which way shall we go?" Toni wondered.
"How about left?" Yusuke suggested.
"How about right?" Naruto countered.
"We flip a coin. Heads, left. Tails, right." I said, and took out a quarter. I flipped it, and it turned up heads. We went left.
A couple demons jumped out at us, but Yusuke, Naruto and I easily took care of them.

Experience: 3
Items: potion x1

OOC: This is how it goes, as I love these types of RPGs. kill some demons, and you gain some experience. Oh, and we all start at level 2. Gotta go to bed soon!

Here's some music for the maze:
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/sony/ps1/Isle_of_the_Damned.mid

Zaidon snapped the chain on the gate and the team entered the maze. Brule said "From what I know about mazes, we should pick a priority of directions. Straight should be second. We should also mark inetersections, so we don't go in circles." Narok tossed a dagger into the air; it landed pointing toward the right. "Right, straight, left, back then." he said. Everyone readied their weapons, and the team continued into the maze (in the same order they had been going).

The team began to enter the maze, soon after the last group. "Orders?"

"Our orders are to wipe out the demonic presence, and destroy any demon or monster infested teams."

The Ur-Quan came through a self made jump point, a blood red one. Two pitch black Dreadnoughts came through it, and from the back of those emerged the "group" of five Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah. After they had left the ships, the ships went away, quite as they had came here.

The Ur-Quan only rarely cooperate with each other, and it is even rarer that they take part in anything like this. They stay several meters away from each other. Is it truly necessary to have a presence in this "tournament"? They do not question the Hierarchy. When they got their "orders", they instantaniously left for the maze.

We walked further into the maze, when I stopped the group.
"There's something wrong here, but I can't pinpoint it." I said. "We tread carefully."
I picked up a rock, and threw it forward. Suddenly, dozens of arrows crisscrossed the path, and some hit the rock, breaking it in half.
Yusuke whistled. "Now how are we going to get past that?"
"Hmm. I notice that there's a gap in the bottom, that we can crawl through." Kurama said. "Perhaps that will help."
"Well, better than nothing, I suppose." Naruto said, and started crawling. Arrows flew overhead once we crossed a laser or something, but none hit us. Once we got to a point where arrows no longer flew overhead, we got up. No danger here.

A squad of raptor-demons popped out, and readied for battle. They were quite fast, but ninjas, friendly demons and Jedi are faster. Toni and Yusuke did well too, and then there were no demons.

Experience: 5
Items: none

We turned right at a corner...

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The team finally arrived at Hotel Satan after having some difficulties travelling.

"What now?" asked William.

"I guess we go into the hotel with the cliché name", said Encara.

"Satan is just one big marketting scheme isn't he? Has he actually done any of the stuff they say he has?"

"I dunno. Let's just get inside."

The group walked inside and approached someone who looked like they were in charge.

"So, what do we have to do now?" asked Jason.

"I can beleive you forgot when the tournament was supposed to start," Kiljax told his father as the five Mystiks flew hurridly towards the Bermuda Triangle. "They've probably already started the first task...."

"Hey hey, that's no problem," replied Jamie smiling, "I doubt we'll have much trouble catching up. We're not that late."

Amy flew up alongside, an annoyed look on her face, "Well we wouldn't have had this problem if you hadn't wanted to stop and eat. Now we'll have to see if they even let us enter."

Jamie smiled and scratched his head nervously, "Eh-heh, well you know me, I can't fight on an empty stomach. Besides, we're almost......"

Before he could finish the sentance, all five Mystiks found themselves in a very different environment. The red sky filled with lightning cast a foreboding shadow across the land.

".....there......"

Landing softly next to a rather large and decrepid hotel Amy rubbed her arms nervously. "This place gives me the creeps, big time"

Jason chuckled softly as he looked around at what, to him, was just another battlefield. "Could it be that maybe we're in hell?" He snickered as she gave him a look and turned to Jamie. "Looks like your stomach has put us back in last place, it looks like the others have already gone ahead...."

Jamie sighed put quickly whirled around as a intense buzzing sound alerted him of a strong energy signature behind him. "What the.....?"

Standing before them was a large reptilian creature that much resembled a dinosaur. They all took up fighting stances, still unsure of what dangers they would face in this new world. The creature however made no hostile movements but held out an envelope.

"You're....late," it said in a gutteral tone. "The othersssss have gone ahead. Perhapsss you should get moving...." And with that it turned and left before they could ask any questions.

Jamie opened the envelope, while the others gathered around and read aloud. "Alright, the first task is a maze...."

Jason rolled his eyes.

"Demons.....uh-huh.......traps of all kinds......hmmmm.....and basically some supposed greater demon at the end.....sounds easy enough"

Kiljax cracked his knuckles while Jason began to stretch but the girls seemed uneasy. "Are you alright Mako?" Kiljax asked his wife.

"Yeah, it's just......a little creepy that's all. I mean, Mystechs are one thing, but demons seem like a different story....."

"Hey, no worries Mako," smiled Jamie, trying to reassure his daughter-in-law, " You're strong, you have to beleive in your capabilities more. I know this won't be that easy, but it's just another test of ourselves. And personally, I'm looking forward to it."

She gave a weak smile as the others lifted slowly in the air and then blasted off northwards towards the maze. They made great time getting there and Jamie had joked that maybe all the other competetors had cleaned up nicely so that catching up wouldn't be a problem at all, much to a dry response.

It seemed like everybody was handling the situation differently. Jamie just wanted to have some fun, testing himself against strong opponents. Jason however, was just itching to beat on something. Kiljax and Amy were both ready, but not eager about the tourney, while Mako seemed frightened about the ordeal.

Upon reaching the entrance, Jamie took the lead with the others falling in behind. He struck up a conversation with Kiljax about how pumped he was while the girls brought up the rear. They had been walking for about 10 minutes or so before reaching a t- intersection at which point the held discussion about which way to take.

"Left?"

"Right?"

Finally, Jason spoke up, "Well what does you're instinct tell you Jamie?"

Jamie sat and thought for a second, a look of concentration on his face. "I'd have to say left..."

Jason smiled, "Fine, then I'm going right..."

Kiljax and Amy laughed while Jamie let out a surprised, "Hey! Meanie...."

So it was decided that Kiljax would go with Jason and check out the right hand side with Mako who refused to leave her husband, and Jamie would go to the left with Amy.

OOC: I gotta go to work but I will be posting the remainder of the maze when I get home. And I'm sorry, that the post quality is crappy. The rest should be better 8)

"I don't believe it," Sakura said flatly. "It really is a maze. In the woods. Is this the most pathetic hell you've ever seen, or what?"

"Most of us haven't seen too many hells, Sakura." Alaric casually tipped his head to one side, allowing a spear to fly over his shoulder rather than into his eye. Behind him, Winter caught the weapon by its shaft as it passed her. The albino foxgirl studied it for a moment before discarding it to one side.

"Take my word for it, then. This kind of reminds me of that Yggidrasilan mine, actually. And that was on Earth."

"In Yggidrasil, though."

"Heh. Yeah, 'must've been Tuesday.'" She drew to a halt as they came to a T-junction.

Raven peered down the left path. "Which way do we go?"

"Neither."

"Huh?"

Sakura grinned. "You've got to think creatively. We go straight."

"But--" Raven got no further before the redhead scooped Alaric up and leapt, vaulting the wall. "...Oh." She quickly followed, imitating Sakura's leap to near-perfection.

Miyuki shrugged at Winter. "Is it just me, or is this way too easy?"

"I believe this first 'test' is in fact designed to make the competitors complacent regarding the challenges ahead. That would be the true danger."

"Point. Eh, let's join them before they get tired of waiting."

"Indeed. It would be best to stay together."

The team finally arrived at Hotel Satan after having some difficulties travelling.

"What now?" asked William.

"I guess we go into the hotel with the cliché name", said Encara.

"Satan is just one big marketting scheme isn't he? Has he actually done any of the stuff they say he has?"

"I dunno. Let's just get inside."

The group walked inside and approached someone who looked like they were in charge.

"So, what do we have to do now?" asked Jason.

"You are late, humansss." A raptor-demon said. "The otherss have left towards the north, to a maze. You must passs through it to get to your sssecond task. Hurry, now!"

Meanwhile, we turned right, and found a wall blocking our path.
"Dead end?" Naruto asked.
I smiled. "Not if I could help it."
I ignited my lightsaber, and plunged it into the wall, and started cutting a hole in the wall. once I was done, Yusuke used a Spirit Gun to blast it into pieces. At the same time, we met up with Team Raven, who seemed to vault over the wall. Suddenly, a odd barking sound, then a screech was heard, and a pack of 20 hungry raptors surrounded the 2 teams.
"Perhaps we took a wrong turn into Jurassic Park?" Naruto joked, long knife in hand.
"Yep. Looks like it." I said. Kurama took a rose out of his hair, and it grew into a thorny whip, and we got ready for another battle.

After resting up in the hotel overnight, Ness and his friends ate some DX Skip Sandwiches and sped off towards the maze. Jeff used the bad key machine to open the locked gate (which seems to mysteriously reseal after each group enters), and the Psykids set off into the maze.
"I can't see a thing in here," exclaimed Paula.
"Kay-O! Mr. Saturn remembers Deep Darkness, yes?" said the Saturn, bouncing to and fro.
"Oh yeah, the Hawk Eye!" exclaimed Ness, taking out the blood red, eye shaped artifact from the pyramid in Scaraba. The dank, dark maze suddenly became bright and the companions could see as if it were a sunny day.
"Now that our problem is solved, we must face the bigger challenge," reflected Poo, "the task at hand is a dangerous one, we must choose our direction of travel wisely." Poo removed a water bottle from his killer kung fu suit and spun it on the ground. It slowed and finally stopped pointing straight ahead. Right at the 12 ft wall in front of them.
"Forget this," said Ness, who pulled a small rodent with a sign on its head out of his backpack.
"Doing! What that be?" asked Mr. Saturn.
"An exit mouse I picked up in Twoson, it can show the way out of any maze." Ness set the mouse on the ground and it scampered off to the left. The companions followed.
"You know," said Ness to Paula who was walking beside him, "after our last adventure, I felt very powerful, like I was "level 50" or something. Now I feel like I'm only "level 2", but I have no idea what that means."

"You are late, humansss." A raptor-demon said. "The otherss have left towards the north, to a maze. You must passs through it to get to your sssecond task. Hurry, now!"

Williams eyes glowed a bright red.

"HUMANS? Are you blind sir? Jason and I are clearly vampires. Graag is a daemon as any can plainly see, Encara is a spider/human hybrid, and Freck here is an imp/faery hybrid. Don't they have education here?"

"Ok, William, that's enough", said Jason. "Let's go find this maze."

The group left, and headed north to find the maze.

"Hey. Now that's more like it!" Sakura put Alaric down and brandished what appeared to be a short ivory rod. "You guys want the ones on the left, or on the right?"

"We're going to have to have another talk about bloodlust, aren't we?"

"Lighten up, Al. It's fun."

"Guess it is a rush." Miyumi cracked her knuckles.

"Hey. Now that's more like it!" Sakura put Alaric down and brandished what appeared to be a short ivory rod. "You guys want the ones on the left, or on the right?"

"We're going to have to have another talk about bloodlust, aren't we?"

"Lighten up, Al. It's fun."

"Guess it is a rush." Miyumi cracked her knuckles.

OOC: It was an insult, of course.

IC:
The ten raptors that surrounded us charged. Two to one odds? Pretty fair. I switched weapons to my katana, and slashed at the foremost demon, decapitating it. I then TKed another one into the wall, and it crumpled onto the ground. Yusuke punched the jaws of one, and Spirit Gunned the next one. Kurama whipped and thwacked until his opponents were thorned to death. Naruto used his ninja speed and killed two more. Toni wasn't bad at all, striking with her staff and knife. One minute later, the ten raptors were dead. OOC: Your turn, Ravenspire.

Experience: 15
Level up: Toni and Naruto. One more battle for the rest of us.
Items: 2x potion, 1x ether

((And I missed this!? Could you make an exception to the closed thing, since the others are arriving late too? Please... :wink: ))

OOC: Well, uh, um. (thinks for millions of years; and crickets chirp) Ok, but no one else can come in, because that's 55 people (if everyone came in) to deal with now. Some team numbers will have to be killed off sometime, of course. Sorry, but that's the way it goes.

The Dar-Kavryn team reached an intersection (+). Suddenly, two demons jumped out of the shadows- one from each side. Narok struck with both weapons at once, and the first monster fell. Zaidon caught the second by its neck and slammed it into the wall, which crumbled under the impact. "Well, that was simple enough." said the degral. "Kvastzyn! You get all the fun." muttered Vedriil. She put away her sword and took out her bow, setting an arrow on its string. Borinta snorted, annoyed. Bah! Let's move; its cramped in here.
The group turned to the right and continued.

The group reached some high walls. Nearby was a gate.

"Looks like a maze to me", said Jason.

Encara climbed up the wall and peered over.

"Yep. This is it", she told them. "You guys will need to break down the gate. I'm not carrying you in!"

Encara climbed over, and Freck flew along after her.

The three remaining walked over to the gate. It was made of tough iron bars. They put their strength together and bent a hole open wide enough for them to squeeze through.

They walked through, and went over to Encara and Freck.

Mr. T grumbled all the way to the gate.
"That demon don't think enough to put a road through this jungle! Mr. T is MAD!"
Marching forward blindly, T didn't notice the gate until he crashed into it.
"What's this? Someone done made a fool out of me!"
"No worries, my brother," Shaft said, coolly. "I'll take care of this cracka gate!"
Shaft proceeded to unload a clip right into the keyhole, opening the gate.
The group of dark skinned beefcakes stepped into the maze.
"Which way are we gonna go first, baby?" George Clinton asked, funkily.
"Let's just spin this here bong!" offered Snoop.
He laid down his 6 footer, which he lugged along on a handtruck, and spilt bong-water all over Shaft's fly sneaks.
"You're a damn fool!" shouted the king of Blaxploitation, stepping up to slap the D-O-double-G 'cross his fizzace.
“Stop your fightin’, we got a maze to get through!” said T, grabbing both men by the shirt and lifting them apart. He started left, the direction of the bong, when Snoop stopped him.
“Hold on nizzle! My Doggy sense is tingling!”
Snoop exhales a lungful of smoke down the corridor, revealing tons of lasers crisscrossing the passage.
“Well that’s some good work, young man! I’m proud of you and such!”
The five maneuvered through the maze of lasers and continued on their path. All of the sudden, a big honkin’ raptor demon jumped down from the top of the maze wall.
“Kodak film!” Bill Cosby cried, flashing a picture of the raptor. Reeling from the bright bright flash, the raptor collapsed and Mr. T picked it up.
“No dinosaur sucka’s gonna get the best of Mr. T!” He threw the raptor at the wall, knocking it over.
“That’s some fine throwin’, T,” noted Shaft.

Ness et al followed the exit mouse around a corner only to come face to face with five (count 'em, five) vicious, horney demons feasting on the corpse of a large pizza somebody left in the maze. The screen turned green and the battle music started. Since Ness and friends had surprised the demons, they were able to coordinate an opening attack. Paula conjured PSI fire and streams of flame shot from he fingertips, superheating the pizza and burning the mouths of the demons who should have waited for it to cool down. Two of the demons ran away from the fight, but the rest advanced on the companions. Ness and Poo teamed up on the first one, beating back its razor sharp claws with a flurry of fists and baseball bat. Jeff held another back with stinging shots from his magnum air gun while used her frying pan as a shield. Mr. Saturn tried to run up the wall with no success. After finishing off their first demon, Ness and Poo turned against the others. Ness created a PSI flash, blinding the demons while Poo assisted with dispatching the two remaining enemies.
"I guess we're lucky those other two ran away," said Ness as his friends fell silent and stared at the space behind him. In the most cliché movie monent ever, Ness turned around only to behold a large wing-ed beast the color of charred flesh... DAH DAH DAAAAAAAAAAH!
(to be continued)

OOC: ROTFLMAO! Keep up the funny posts, guys!

IC:
"Well, that's over." Yusuke said. "Here's hoping a T-rex isn't around."
On cue, the ground started shaking. STOMP. STOMP. STOMP. STOMP.
"Now you said it!" I yelled. A wall broke down, revealing the Tyrant King.
"AAAAAAHHHHH!" We screamed, and ran for our lives!

((Yay! Thank you. :D I guess a couple could get so wounded they'd have to leave. I'd be alright if David died.))

Name: [classified], goes by Agent Four
Age: [classified]
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Runner's build, black hair, dark grey eyes, Asian complexion, black armor, silver cloak.
Personality: Cold
Weapon of choice: Ultra-refined katana
Powers (if any): Extreme speed, endurance, and fighting skills, limited telepathy.
Other: The commander of the Shadow Reapers, a legend in Cyberutopia and around the world.

Name: [classified], goes by Agent Two
Age: [classified]
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Light brown hair, hazel eyes, medium build, black armor, silver cloak.
Personality: Quiet, reserved, lonely
Weapon of choice: Pulse carbine, dual glaives, katana
Powers (if any): Extreme speed and fighting skill, unseen ferocity in battle, extreme speed
Other: Third in command of the fabled Shadow Reapers, he and Agent One are the most called upon to carry out critical missions.

Name: [classified], goes by Agent Three
Age: [classified]
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Lean build, Japanese-American complexion, ice blue eyes, black hair, black armor, silver cloak.
Personality: Calm, focused, shows more emotion than the other Agents.
Weapon of choice: XS-100 sniper rifle, dual wakizashis
Powers (if any): Extreme speed and fighting skills, amazing marksmanship.
Other: Fourth in command of the Shadow Reapers, an experienced fighter that often shys away from tradition. Often works as a lone wolf.

Name: [classified], goes by Agent Eighteen
Age: [classified]
Species: Unknown Species of Elf
Gender: Female
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Silver, flowing hair, slate grey eyes, slim build, lighter armor than the other Agents, dyed crimson, silver cloak
Personality: Extremely cold and unforgiving
Weapon of choice: Her mind
Powers (if any): Highly advanced telekenesis, pyrokenesis, telepathy and psychokenesis.
Other: The only true psychic of the Shadow Reapers, she is extremely mysterious and will probably take control of the Reapers one day.

Name: Unknown, goes by "David"
Age: Unknown, is estimated to be around 90 years old
Species: Vampire
Gender: Male
Attributes (hair, eyes, build, etc.): Very fair complexion, wispy black hair, black eyes, wears a tactical armor suit, dyed black.
Personality: Varies widely, from totally calm to psychotic.
Weapon of choice: Ultra-refined katana of his own making, shrukiens
Powers (if any): Breakneck speed to the point of being able to go faster than the eye, sharply honed fighting abilities.
Other: Extremely bipolar, cannot resist the urge to slaughter, deeply resentful of his life.

The dinosaur chased us until we ran into another blank wall.
"Looks like we're dinner!" Naruto cried.
"Not yet." I said. I gathered energy in my palm, and unleashed some Force Lightning upon T-rex. Yusuke added his Spirit Gun, and it roared in pain and rage, then it decided that lightning-throwing kids aren't good to eat after all. It stomped off, looking for other, easier team members to eat.

"Whew! That takes a lot out of me!" I breathed. Lightning -technically a darkside attack- is a family trait, and only Dad and I could use it without the dark side. It takes a lot of energy out of me, though. We then made it to the halfway point, and had a snack and a drink (there's a couple vending machines there), and waited for the other teams to arrive.

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The team went left around a corner and practically bumped into six lurking raptor demons. Vedriil's bow sounded four times, and the two closest demons fell before any of the others could move (that's two shots each, not two misses and two hits). Zaidon advanced on the third, with both katars drawn, and Narok took on the fourth with ax and sword. The shadowdancer put away her bow, drew her longsword, and struck the fifth demon three times before it could attempt to defend itself (shadowdancers are fast, and Vedriil is one of there best fighters). The sixth managed to get behind Narok while he was fighting- and then Brule leapt onto it, burying the inch long blade of his halberd in its head. He clung to the pole with both hands as it tried to shake him off, and then muttered an arcane phrase that sent lighting coursing through the creature, from his weapon to the ground. The creature fell hard enough to fling him off, but he rolled as he hit the ground, and stood up grinning. Borinta shifted into an almost human form, and laughed. "You little show-off, if I didn't know any better I'd think you were trying to impress someone-" She was interrupted by a loud roar, followed by crashing sounds and thunderous footsteps- heading straight for the team! The wall in front of them crumbled and collapsed, revealing the slightly singed form of the T-Rex. "Taking on that thing would be showing off." replied Brule, backing up.
(To be continued...)

The Ur-Quan had entered the maze some time ago, and they had not been wasting any time going through it. The traps that were set before them were not a problem for a group of beings who were born to survive alone. They let their instincts guide them, which is not necessarily always a good thing.

They met a group of six demons while on their way through the maze. No matter. They instantly attacked the group and the first demon was ripped apart by Number 74192. The other demons cowered in fear and hesitated, as the Ur-Quan quickly moved towards them. Soon, with inhuman precision, they ripped the demons' heads off and devoured them with haste. In the end, only the bone-equivalents of those demons were left.

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T and the gang started highsteppin' and slappin' hands after totally wasting the first dinosaur/demon. When two more popped up around the next bend, Mr. T promptly clunked their heads together, and K.O.ed them.
"You all know I fought Rocky!" T shouted. "I was Clubber Lang!"
"You know I starred in a movie called GHOST DAD!" Cosby interjected.
"I had a lot of fun in 'Shaft in Africa'. Do you know how many nude scenes there were? Thirtyseve...What in the name of Issac Hayes is that?"
A thundering roar came from behind the group. It was the dreaded KING OF THE DINOSAURS!!!
"Damn, that's one big reptile!" said George Clinton. "I was a secret character in NBA Jam, and I was in the movie PLU!"
"No worries, ladies. The doggy-fizzle will take care of this dinosizzle! P-Funk, you distract him."
"Now, what in the name of New Coke is that boy saying, I don't understand a word!" said Cosby.
Snoop Dogg snuck around behind the dinosaur and climbed up onto its shoulder. The T-Rex was mesmerized by George Clinton's funky moves, as Snoop took a rip from his bong and blew it into the dinosaur's face. The reptile's eyes turned red, it started squinting, and a smile came over its face. All of the sudden, the T-Rex fell over and started snoring.
"What'd you give that dinosaur, dope?" shouted T.
"This is the hydroponic bubonic chronic, T. That lizard is a lightweight!" said Snoop. "Thanks George, my man. Also, thanks for letting me sample Atomic Dogg."
"Stay in school!" T shouted at the passed-out bag of scales, before stepping over him to grab himself a snack. "You got any Mr. T Cereal?"

After five minutes, the T-rex wakes up, and lunges at the Cool Black Dudes, intending to eat them for a snack. He aims for Mr. T. Nobody else seems to notice, as they're too busy eating.

Ness and pals battled the large wing-ed demon and his cohorts. The demon let out a fiery breath that smelled of nachos. Ness was able to build a PSI shield around himself but was still charred and knocked aside by the blast. Without hesitation, Poo made a PSI starstorm that rained down upon the enemies. The two tiny demons were defeated but big and bulky was still going strong. He brought forth another belch of heat but all the companions were able to dodge quickly (the exit mouse, however, was licked by the flames and abruptly put himself out in a nearby puddle). Mr. Saturn charged forward but tripped on his own nose and rolled harmlessly (and comically) out of the way. Paula aimed a PSI freeze right at the demon's gaping maw and subsequently neutralized the demon's deadly halitosis. During this sequence of nonstop action, Jeff was able to maneuver around behind the beast to observe his weaknesses.
"He's weak in the knees, bash him in the kneecaps!" shouted Jeff. Ness and Poo made like mobsters a smaaaaashed the dirty rat right in his shins. With a resounding "GUUUUUUUH!" the evil one toppled over and was consumed by flame. The Psykids followed the trail of smoke from the exit mouse to a small rest area. A small sign said "Why don't you rest here awhile --Brickroad"
"Check-a-roony!" exclaimed Ness.
"Why do you always have to say that every time you read a sign?" asked Jeff.
"Quiet!" snapped Paula, "don't you remember our friend Brickroad, the dungeon maker?"
"I thought he was 'Dungeon-Man' now, the first combination of human and dungeon in history,” said Ness, unwrapping a hamburger from his backpack.
"It seems odd that he would blatantly work in conjunction with evil demons like this..."
The companions decided to take a quick nap on the park bench beside the vending machines, but Ness was feeling homesick so he called his mom on the payphone.

A small crimson jet screamed across the Pacific.

"We're late." Eighteen mentioned nonchalantly.

"I would have never assumed that." Three quiped.

Eighteen shot him a deadly glare, and Three promptly shut up. After several hours of flight, the hypersonic jet finally reached the designated portal, the Bermuda Triangle.

"We're going in." Two announced from the cockpit, and a roar of turbulance shook the small plane as if on cue.

The turbulance became more intense, but the Agents didn't show any sign of discomfort. The plane smashed into ground that was suddenly below them, where the cold ocean should be. The four Agents climbed out of the destroyed aircraft and instinctivily set up a defensive perimeter. They looked around suspiciously at their strange surroundings.

"We are not alone." Eighteen said, her voice barely audiable.

"Agreed." Four answered.

Out of the wreckage of the aircraft walked a thin figure, covered completely by black tactical armor and a facemask with three ominously crimson sensor lighting up their dim surroundings. The Agents looked at him suspiciously.

"For once, someone we don't know about." Four commented cooly.

"I am David." The figure said in an emotionless voice.

"He has no hostile intentions." Eighteen said, reaching into the figure's mind.

"Fair enough." Four responded, and a thin smile came to his lips. "Let's move, then. David, you can stick with us."

"That I shall." David said, and moved with the Agents through the strange place.

Mr. T, caught off guard by the sudden attack, swung wildly and knocked out some Tyrannosaurus teeth.
"You fool! Don't do drugs!"
Snoop seems shocked.
"That ganja should've taken that dino out for at least an hour! We gotta get him fo shizzle this time!"
The Dogg waits for the dinosaur to roar again, and blows THROUGH his bong, causing a stream of bongwater (mainly gin and Jah Juice) to hit the reptile right in the mouth and down the throat. The Rex fell to the ground, hacking and sputtering, and Bill Cosby approached the lizard.
"You know, all the lizards that I played with when I was a boy weren't as tall or as scary as you, because we used to play with salamanders, and snakes, but the snakes used to flick out their tongues and scare my mother, and we'd keep snakes in a BUCKET! A bucket because a cage wouldn't hold, you know, they'd slither right out..."
Bill Cosby went on rambling for 15 minutes, until the Tyrannosaurus didn't seem to be conscious any more.
"And now to finish the job..."
Bill poured a six-pack of the New Coke down the lizards throat. The Tyrannosaur shivered and convulsed, then lay still.
"That takes care of that...This new Coke wasn't that good, I guess. Or maybe it's because they stopped making it in the 80s..."
"Whatever, man," said Shaft. "Let's head on over to that midpoint over that way, you dig?"
"I'm hip to that," said George Clinton. And the cool Black dudes funked their way over to join the other team in the snack lobby.
"Ain't no T Rex gonna wipe out Mr. T! That's first name Mister, last name T!"

The team began to move around, lost without a trace. "Okay... we have no idea where we are?" The Inquisitor asked the group. They all nodded.

"Yeah."

"Yeah, you do, or yeah, you don't."

"We don't."

"Still, there have been no demons. That is good."

OOC: Hint, hint.

"Now I'm surprised. I swear that I know this man!", said Elfira to the others as her team approached the wrecked Cyberutopian plane, weapons ready. "A long time ago, in Cyberutopia, before the squadron was formed. Agent Four, a legendary fighter, I could say".

"And who's the Vamp who's joining them?", asked Kylia, her drow features contrasting with the rest of the squad, smelling the stench of the dead walking.

"Who cares?, maybe just another contestant. Do you really know that man Elfira?. They look dangerous", said the older of the group, a beautiful blonde maiden, sparks floating all around her.

"Don't patronize me ok?. They are dangerous, believe me. I saw him fight against a armoured column all by himself. But he will remember me, we saw a lot of fighting together", said Elfira, putting her rifle away and approaching the group of the Agents. "Hey tough guy!, Do you think you are tough enough?", she shouted to Four, removing her armoured helmet so he could see her face.

"Looks like the nasty bitch had some adventures too in the past. I can't imagine her in a romantic situation, she's too nasty", said the drow female, then spitting on the ground.

"Men don't like spitting women neither, and the last time I saw your record, you slit the throats of all your former boyfriends", said the other woman, a childish young elf with short hair and dressed with a short skirt, a shield in her hand. "I know she's kind of nasty sometimes, but maybe she has a sweet and tender side".

"You always see the tender side, Liann, you're too pink", laughed the older woman. "But be prepared, if Elfira is making a mistake, hit them with everything we got".

OF course, the team from Roania do not know they are near the midpoint, but will still have to get through some demons to get to it. A rustling in the bushes reveals several tiger-demons ready to strike.

Dark Marx is up for the challenge.

Name: Dark Marx
Age: Classified
Species: Goa'uld
Gender: Male
Attributes: Immortal
Personality: False god
Weapon of choice: Death Glider
Power: Sarcophogas, energy shield, Goa'uld armour

Name: Hadra
Age: Classified
Species: Goa'uld
Gender: Female
Attributes: Wife of Dark Marx, Immortal
Personality: Lesser False god
Weapon of choice: husband
Power: husband, Sarcophogas, energy shield, Goa'uld armour

Name: Yuryk
Age: 174
Species: Jaffa
Gender: Male
Attributes: Jaffa
Personality: Cold
Weapon of choice: staff weapon

Name: Col. Benjamin Abrams
Age: 32
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Attributes: DDM Air Force
Personality: Insane
Weapon of choice: Katana, or anything within reach

Name: Lt. Col. Beverly Mass
Age: 29
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Attributes: DDM Marine Corps
Personality: Rogue
Weapon of choice: sniper rifle

OOC: Sorry, too late. But you could RP some demons to attack us. That team can come in later as part of the actual tournament (these tasks are just warm ups).

OF course, the team from Roania do not know they are near the midpoint, but will still have to get through some demons to get to it. A rustling in the bushes reveals several tiger-demons ready to strike.

"Wait." David put his hand up, and started to listen. "Something is here..." He drew his sword, and started to look around. "I can sense the dark forces..."

"Ach, ye worry to much, ladde!" Drengai snorted. "What aboot ye, chuckles? Ye see anything?"

Direwolf snarled, and started to look around. I'll give that shortass 'chuckles'. His brow wrinkles. There was something... he began to inch for his katana.

The two women looked at one another. Men.

OOC: Going to be slow for a bit. It's finals time for me.

IC:

"They weren't too bad," Sakura mused, evading a raptor's lunge. "That one guy was a Jedi. Sure didn't look Creeparian, though."

"I suppose they're spreading," Alaric answered, parrying with some effort. "I would have thought you'd be more interested in the foxes."

"They're not like us," Raven said.

Sakura nodded. "Might be... distant cousins, I guess you'd say. At best. The redhead was pretty cute."

"A pretty good fighter, too," Miyuki said. "So, now that they're gone, can we stop messing around and get this over with?"

"Yeah. Wouldn't be a good idea to look too competent, but as long as nobody's around..." She snapped her wrist forward, sketching a complicated pattern in the air with the rod she held. She finished by stepping forward, pivoting on her right foot, and driving her right palm into the nearest raptor's nose. It promptly fell apart -- great bloody gashes opened spontaneously across its body, gashes that cut entirely through. Pieces of dinosaur thumped to the ground in a spray of blood.

Next to Sakura, Raven seemed to be getting the worst of her battle, until her opponent spontaneously burst into flame. With a high-pitched screech, it collapsed, thrashing, into a second raptor as the black-haired foxgirl nimbly skipped backwards out of its way.

Miyuki sighed. "Showoffs, the lot of you."

"Just because some people prefer a brute-force approach, that doesn't mean we all have to lack finesse," Sakura shot back. "Help Al out once you're done pounding on that one. I'll take the one over here, and... what happened to the others?"

Winter faded in from the shadow of the wall, serenely examining her nails. "They will not pose a problem."

"Always a competition with foxgirls," Alaric noted as Miyumi staved in the skull of his opponent.

Sakura grinned. "Wouldn't have it any other way. We must be getting near the middle now..."

Roania:
The tigers slink closer, and at a point, charge towards the team, claws and teeth ready to kill.

Ravenspire:
OOC: Just for reference, Naruto and Kurama are nine-tailed demon foxes. Both are sealed inside them, with different spells, and in mortal peril, the foxes can unleash. A big headache that will be, hmm?

bump to keep this from dying a horrible death...

OOC: The cool Black dudes, lacking magical or psychic powers like all the other groups, are probably going to do things that seem a bit unrealistic, but be kind! I'm going to try and make up for their lack of powers with humor and creativity.

OOC: Cool. I love what they do! Never underestimate the power of Shaft (or Mace Windu, for that matter; I might bring a Jedi Master or two in later to test the teams).

IC:
Team Masaki is now ready to leave the midpoint, after stocking up on trail snacks and water, and turns left at the first intersection. Some bug demons attack, but are quickly dispatched.

Experience: 5
Level up: John, 3; Yusuke, 3

Estrea screams, and unleashes a massive wave of water. "Aquatic tremors!" David draws his sword, and stands in the classic beckoning pose. "Bring it."

Drengai starts to charge, axe in hand, as Jessica opens a stream of covering fire. Finally, Direwolf slashes the air with his katana.

Estrea screams, and unleashes a massive wave of water. "Aquatic tremors!" David draws his sword, and stands in the classic beckoning pose. "Bring it."

Drengai starts to charge, axe in hand, as Jessica opens a stream of covering fire. Finally, Direwolf slashes the air with his katana.

Estrea screams, and unleashes a massive wave of water. "Aquatic tremors!" David draws his sword, and stands in the classic beckoning pose. "Bring it."

Drengai starts to charge, axe in hand, as Jessica opens a stream of covering fire. Finally, Direwolf slashes the air with his katana.

((Damn this evil forum!))

The tigers yowl, as the water and fire blasts them. soaked and burnt at the same time, they charge again, meeting claws with swords and axe. (You can RP getting rid of them. I just RP them attacking. :wink: )

OOC: Crazy boards today.

The demons soon found themselves overmatched, as David quickly, almost absently, banished them. "Foolish beasts."

Several of them soon had large bullet and axe wounds in them, and a few had been washed away, never to be seen again. One of them turned, and started to flee down the maze.

It collapsed against a wall a few minutes later. Must tell... boss....

Then there was the silent whisper of a katana leaving its sheathe...

"Hmm, that's odd." I said, as a river carried some yowling demons away. I shrugged, and we continued on. A couple more demons jumped from bushes. We would've yawned and got rid of them, but suddenly, a rumbling sound could be heard.

"What the--? Whoa!" Naruto yelped, as the floor gave way to become a bottomless pit. We scrambled to keep up with the crumbling floors, but the demons weren't so lucky and fell to who knows where. A demon, however managed to trip me up, and I fell flat. The floor gave way under me, and it was all I could do to hold on to the very edge. The demon that tripped me dug his claws into my jeans, and I nearly let go in pain.

"Heh, heh. I'm taking you down with me, boy." The demon sneered, and dug his claws in even further, to cause bleeding and more pain. I was in too much pain to concentrate on the Force, and then the rock on the edge started giving way...TBC!

Cliffhanger! MWAHAHAHAHA! :twisted:

OOC: Sorry I haven't had time to post recently; I was up until 2:30 or so last night finishing the rough draft of an essay....
The wall in front of them crumbled and collapsed, revealing the slightly singed form of the T-Rex.
(To be continued...)
IC: "My turn." Borinta's voice deepened as she shifted to her normal form. The others got out of the way, fast; they knew she could take the creature on its own terms. The T-Rex was a powerful natural predator, but the Kryntok Dragons had evolved in a world with no easy prey and no refuge from enemies. They had also been modifying themselves with magic for hundreds of generations.
The T-Rex, however, wasn't cooperative. It headed for the first target it saw, Zaidon. Borinta hissed angrily and charged, attracting its attention; when it lunged at her, she dodged it and slashed its face with her claws. Enraged, the creature thundered forward; Borinta nimbly slipped aside, then wrapped her tail around its leg and hit the back of its head as hard as she could. The beast fell to the ground like a felled tree. As it struggled to its feet, she slashed at its throat and stabbed with her spiked tail. The T-Rex collapsed again, dead.
Borinta blew a light flame over it, roasting the body. "Um, it's already dead." Narok pointed out. -I'm hungry.- the dragon replied. "There will be snacks at the center. Leave it." -Spoilsport.-
Zaidon broke in: "The creature cleared us a nice, straight path. Perhaps we should follow it." After some time and an encounter with a few minor demons, they arrived at the resting point in the middle of the maze.

"Hang on John!" Yusuke said, and he grabbed my wrist in time. "Somebody take this idiot out!"
"I'm on it!" Toni said, and somehow, she created fire from her hand and burnt the demon, who let go and fell to its doom. Yusuke pulled me up (with my help, despite the wound), and I lay on the edge, breathing hard.
"Here." Toni put her palm on my wound, and it stopped bleeding. Then, she whipped out a bandage and antiseptic and began treating it. The rest is up to me, to use Force healing.
"Can you stand?" She asked.
"Yeah." I tried getting up. It still hurt, but I was able to walk. Naruto cut a branch, and had me use it as a crutch. I drank down some potion, and the pain almost went away, almost. We continued on, more cautious now.

Eventually, the Roanians found the middle. "Okay... what do we do now?"

"We wait."

Eventually, the Roanians found the middle. "Okay... what do we do now?"
"We wait."
OOC: How would they react to my team's arrival?

Eventually, the Roanians found the middle. "Okay... what do we do now?"
"We wait."
OOC: How would they react to my team's arrival?

It'd be interesting...

The Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah had made their way through many "demons", attempting to cause minimum pain whilst exterminating them. The Ur-Quan do not like causing excessive pain, but sometimes it cannot be helped. They had continued moving towards the end of this maze with their instincts as their guide, and they had been able to evade traps set before them. They do not see them as a challenge, not at all, just as they had not seen the demons as such.

They do not speak much with each other, and if they did, the language they use is not comprehensible. They have not even used any of their real weapons or defensive systems quite yet. This has been quite easy for them to this point.

Narok led the way into the center area, his eyes glowing a dim yellow (hunger). Brule was again riding on his left shoulder. The first thing he saw there was the was the waiting group of Roanians. "Ah, I see there's another team here. Greetings, fellow warriors! Where are you from?"
He was followed by Zaidon, the eight foot skeletal shape of Vedriil the shadowdancer, and the tailed, scaly creature that was the closest Borinta could easily manage to human form.

Elestrea stared in shock. "What... are you things?" She asked, staff at the ready. Behind her, David's menacing, armor plated form hulked. Drengai prepared to unleash his axe, and, while not seen, the clicking of an assault weapon echoed throughout.

Behind the newcomers, Direwolf dropped. The first they heard from it was when he said, "Probably demons."

Narok's eyes flashed to white in an instant; he gripped his weapons tighter and tensed his muscles. Brule drew his tiny gun, Vedriil readied an arrow, and Zaidon produced both katars. Borinta, who was closest to the back, spun to face the assassin. She opened her mouth slightly, revealing half inch fangs, and brought her tail and claws into combat position.
Narok hadn't yet resigned himself to fighting those who shared some of his objectives, though. "Demons?! What makes you think that?" he demanded, surprised and somewhat angry. "I am a degral, a son of the Degral King, in fact. Zaidon, the big guy with the strange knives, is a kalteer, sent here from The Island. Brule Lightfoot, the one riding on my shoulder, is a brownie. Vedriil, our rather skeletal looking friend with the bow, is a shadowdancer. Borinta is a variety of dragon. I assure you none of us are incarnations of evil; in fact, my kind are mentally incapable of supporting it."
Thank the Fates we didn't bring a Chon-v'ker! he thought. (OOC: the Chon-v'ker are a type of energy being.)

David inclined his helmet. "So... it is that evil often appears in the guise of good." He looked up. "I have never heard otherwise." He drew his blade. "It is my mission to cleanse the earth of your kind, demon!"

Estrea pointed her staff at the other group. "Prove that you are of the light. And we will allow you to live." A blue tinge appeared around the stone.

Drengai drew his axe. "Ach, they be unpleasant enough te look upon, they maght as well be demons." Jessica stepped out of the shadows, the safety of her weapon off. And Direwolf slashed his katana through the air, with an audible popping sound.

"Aye, evil often tries to appear as good... if we were trying to fool you, why would we look like this? Brule, show them" The brownie muttered a quick spell, and for a moment the group looked like four ordinary humans; he almost immediately dispelled the illusion. "Tell me what proof you would accept, and we will do it." added Narok.
Vedriil fired three arrow into the ground, as fast as a semi-automatic rifle could be shot. A fourth arrow was nocked before the third landed.
OOC: Zaidon looks human, be the way. The kalteer are designed to not be noticeable unless they have to act.

"Say the Lord's prayer."

Direwolf reached forward, and quickly grabbed Brule, faster than any of them could see. "How cute... I thought all you people were extinct."

"Say the Lord's prayer."

Direwolf reached forward, and quickly grabbed Brule, faster than any of them could see. "How cute... I thought all you people were extinct."
OOC: I thought he was behind them... Brule was in front, with Narok.
IC: Narok's eyes flashed to bright red-orange (anger bordering on rage). Vedriil said "You will put him down. Now."
OOC: If he doesn't, there'll be a fight for sure. My characters would never accept something like that. Narok is the only one who's really been trying to defuse the situation, and he's too angry to continue, now. I have a feeling if a fight does break out, one team is dead and the other severely damaged (hard to say which is which). CoreWorlds did say we needed to reduce the numbers a bit....

OOC: Oh... yeah...

IC: Direwolf put the brownie down. "Temper, temper... Just wanted to take a look."

David stood, passionlessly. "The Lord's prayer, creature."

"I said that we're good, not that we're religious. Write it down and I'll read it with a cross in one hand and the Holy Bible in the other, if you want. Or we can sing you Christmass carols; I've got a decent memory for music." Narok replied. The red-orange was fading from his eyes, but slowly. "However, I'd like some evidence that you yourselves are not evil. As you said, it is often disguised as good...."
The brownie scurried to one side, grumbling to himself.
OOC: If this ends up as a fight anyway (it's still a very tense situation, of course), I hope you won't have any hard feelings about losses you take? I'd really hate to have a war between our nations... you could crush me through sheer numbers, despite my - unusual - defenses.

OOC: All right... I'll resist the urge...

IC: A golden glow surrounded the group, as the cross on David's armor started to shimmer. "This good enough for you, creature?"

"Ooh, wow. Pretty lights. Colors are not a certain sign of good or evil, human, and I'm sure you're aware that not all evil is demonic. Nothing stops an evil man from wearing a cross, and any halfway decent mage can make things glow. No, I was thinking more on the lines of an explanation. Why were you so quick to assume, or claim to assume, that we serve evil? After all, we came here for the same reason you did- or so I thought. Why did your... person [he nodded at Direwolf] grab my friend? All in all, your actions seem rather more suspicious than ours."
OOC: I'm going to have to go to bed soon; I have class in the morning. I probably won't be able to post over the weekend. Shall we pause this (after another couple posts or so) until Sunday?

"I AM AN INQUISITOR! HOW DARE YOU ACCUSE ME OF EVIL! I HAVE PERSONALLY CLEANSED THE SOULS OF DOZENS OF HEATHENS!" David bellowed, as Direwolf leapt over the others, landing behind Jessica. "You stand there, in your foul shapes, and accuse us, pure races, of evil?"

"Foul shapes? We were made by the creator, the same as you were!" (OOC: Well, not the kalteer; they were... modified. Minor point, though; they look the most human, anyway) Narok put his ax back in its ring at his side and rolled up his left sleeve. He pointed to a cross, the largest of the symbols that decorates his arm. "Would a demon be marked like this? My people are intended by the Creator to fight evil. It is worked into our very bones. There are as many servants of evil as of good amongst you humans, and most of the former are liars. Why should I believe you are what you claim you are? Tricks will not convince me; logical reasons for your actions might."
Not all that is evil serves demons. the degral thought. This talk of "pure races" is not a good sign...
(Borinta had rejoined the others and was facing the Roanian group by now)
OOC: I can do probably one more post... how should we end this for a while?

OOC: Hmm... I don't know. Coreworlds might have something to say on us not doing anything...

And are they trying to provoke a hostile reaction?

IC: A golden glow started to suffuse around David's hand. "Ye, though I doth walk in the shadow of the valley of the dead, I shall know no fear..." he began to mutter a holy incantation.

Drengai snarled. "Ach, ye beesties. Suppose ye be tellin' us the trooth? Who sent ye, eh?"

Estrea nodded. "Indeed. Tell us who sent you."

OOC: I won't have easy access to the internet for a couple days; there's not much I can do about that. And no, they aren't trying to provoke a hostile reaction. If they were, Direwolf would be dead now, with no warning given to him. Narok is just saying what he thinks; degral in general aren't very good at diplomacy, which sometimes gets them in trouble... The others aren't really trying to help him, but they are trying not to ruin his attempt.
"I swear by my life and the crown of my father that what I tell you is true. We were sent by Taryd, King of Dar-Kavryn, and Jalt Varyd, The Island's advisor to the throne, to fight in the Tournament. They thought it would be better if demons did not start an all-out war with the world, which would probably lead to the loss of many innocent lives. They sent us, the best warriors that could possibly be spared from the kingdom, to see to it that the demons did not carry out their evil plan. Jalt checked each of us for any trace of evil influence before we were sent off; I once saw him discover a man who was in the same room as a demon over 20 years ago, though he hadn't even spoken with it. May the Lord strike me down on this instant if a word of that is false."
Vedriil started singing softly, her voice surprisingly good. "I wonder, as I wander, out under the sky/How Jesus, the Savior, did come for to die/...."
OOC: I assume they would be familiar with the song? It's the first Christmas carol with the right sort of tune that came to mind. 1 more post.... (famous last words: just one more...)

The Roanians all looked at eachother. "Fine. You may enter the middle of the maze... first hostile move, and I wash you all away..." Estrea snorted. The sound of crashing waves echoed mysteriously close, on the edge of hearing.

Drengai looked around. "Where did the wee man get te?" The Dwarf asked as Direwolf pulled out a map he had been making of the maze so far.

"We will accept those conditions, but we're keeping watch on you as well." said Zaidon, putting aways his katars. Narok looked him with a touch of surprise, then shrugged and sheathed his sword. Vedriil slung her bow across her back and put her arrows back in her quiver without pausing in her song. Borinta had no weapons to put away, but she relaxed and tried to look unthreatening. Brule emerged from the shadows near one edge of the area, his gun put back away. "Somewhere where I wouldn't get stepped on." he said, keeping a wary eye on Direwolf.
OOC: OK, the groups can reasonably separate now... I'm sure they'll meet again, though, and the conflict is far from perfecctly resolved. Dramatic potential remains! Did the song help? Good night, or is it morning where you are? I look forward to continuing this.

OOC: If that's the reaction that David and Co. got upon meeting the Dar-Kavyrns, it'll be very interesting to see how they meet up with my team, as Kurama is a demon (abiet much kinder than the ones we fought), and Naruto has a sealed fox demon within him. We'd probably fight, though you'll have to face a Jedi, two Spirit detectives, a ninja, and a staff-wielder with fire spells.

IC:
We went on, and noticed two teams arguing with each other. Something about demons and Christianity, I suppose. They looked like they're ready to fight. We went on and took a left.

Meanwhile, several bends and many meters away...

Sakura faded in from the shadows. She made no sound until she began her report, at which Raven jumped slightly. "It's crowded in there. Three groups."

Alaric nodded. "Perhaps we should avoid the center entirely, then, and push to the other side."

"Not rest?" Raven asked.

Miyumi smirked. "Do you need to?"

"Well, not really. But it sounded like the thing to do."

"Defy expectations." Winter smiled enigmatically.

"Right, then. We circumvent the center." Alaric indicated the direction to proceed, and the five set off once more.

bump

*ring*
*ring*
"Hello?"
"Hey, mom, it's Ness."
"Oh, hey honey, how's your little play date going?"
"It's not a play date, it's an epic quest!"
"Yeah, listen dear I'm in the middle of cooking dinner for your sister and I have to take the meatloaf out of the oven."
"But mom..."
"Hey, you're cool, strong, whatever, have fun!"
*click... beep beep beep*
Ness no longer felt homesick

Snoop and the gang sat in the vending machine area, passing a blunt the size of all of their members combined.

"Hey, what's the d-deal with all of the chilluns hangin' round here? Do they want the reefer?" said Shaft, busting up into laughter.

"Yeah, baby, you wanna try some of this wikked herb?" asks the P-Funk, passing the blunt to Ness. "You'll looove it!"

"Come. The maze is long, and our souls are at danger being in the presence of these creatures." David said, beckoning to the group. Estrea rolled her eyes.

"You know, not everything that's not humanoid is an evil beast." She said, softly enough that the opposing team couldn't hear. "Still, we should go."

Drengai muttered to himself, "First chance ah get, ah eat that brownie... he looks like a smurf, and they be good eating." Jessica and Direwolf looked slightly sickened at that.

They re-entered the maze.

Snoop offers one of his special brownies to Drengai.

Drengai took the brownie. "Ach, this be a fine brownie! Ye got any ale?" His eyes started to flicker. "Hey, Ah'm seeing stars!"

Ness takes the skillfully rolled blunt from Georgie C and tokes deeply.
"Damn! That is the chronic shit, dog," exclaimed Ness as he proceeded to pass the duchie 'pon the left hand side to Paula. Smoke enveloped the rest area.

For some odd reason, the smoke was not a very nice smell, something along the lines of methane, eau de skunk, and bad breath mixed together. It's the signal theat the center is no longer a good place to rest, and that all teams must move on, unless they wished to continue smelling the stink.

Meanwhile, my leg almost completely healed, thanks to the wonders of Force healing and potion, but I still had a slight limp. Good thing that all demons foolish enough to attack are weak. A sign nearby says: Exit, 1 km to go. It's not far now, but we are still wary of traps. Moving on...

The Roanians soon picked up another target. Direwolf slinked back. "David, 5 people, just in front of us. I'm picking up strong signs of entropy."

"Right. Everyone, keep alert."

"Hmm. There's a team behind us." I said. "I sense that we must be careful if they catch up."
"Why" Toni asked.
"I can't pinpoint it. But we just be cautious, all the same."
"All right."

A couple of slightly more powerful demons slow us down, enough for the other team to catch up. Between Spirit Gun and Fireball, they still weren't too hard to defeat, and we upped to another level (4).

OOC:
I'm logging off at 10:00 my time, just so you know.

OOC: That's completely meaningless, and you know it.

IC: A ray of silver bullets cuts down the last demon as the Roanians enter the area... except for Drengai, who is attacking a wall. "Ach, this moose, he attacked me! Can ye ken it?"

"Riiiiight." David raised an eyebrow beneath his suit. Flicking his cape around, he turned to glare. "Well, well, well. What foul beasts do we have here?"

OOC: Whaddaya mean?

IC:
We saw the last demon get killed by silver bullets, and turned around at the insult.
"Uh, who are you calling 'foul beasts'?" Yusuke said, gazing at the newcomers with a look that could kill.

OOC: gtg now!

OOC: Just that, say, 11:00 forum time, or something... I don't know what 10:00 your time would be.

IC: "He was calling you foul beasts, foul beasts." Direwolf snorted. "Your entropy reading is almost as high as those beasts we just dispatched." David flexed his muscles, and stared coldly at them, his head invisible below his helmet.

Drengai charged directly at Estrea, before being encased in ice. "We could sense it down the corridor." Jessica, who had no idea what the three of them were talking about, just nodded.

The CBD and the Psykids remain in the rest area, blissfully oblivious of the rank stench of the smoke. They proceed with emptying the vending machines and chowing down upon the contents.

OOC: Just that, say, 11:00 forum time, or something... I don't know what 10:00 your time would be.

IC: "He was calling you foul beasts, foul beasts." Direwolf snorted. "Your entropy reading is almost as high as those beasts we just dispatched." David flexed his muscles, and stared coldly at them, his head invisible below his helmet.

Drengai charged directly at Estrea, before being encased in ice. "We could sense it down the corridor." Jessica, who had no idea what the three of them were talking about, just nodded.

OOC: Oh, ok. I'm just used to Eastern US time. and who's Estrea?

IC:
"Grrr. How dare they insult us! We'll see who is a foul beast!" Naruto said, and charged for Direwolf, only to be stopped by my telekinesis.
"Not yet." I said, though I also feel like attacking. I spoke to the other team. "We have done no wrong to you. Who is it that you are against in our team?"

OOC: Kurama is a fox demon, Naruto has a sealed fox within him. Just so you know how to spell their names.

<---Naruto lives here.
Otherwise known as a bump.

bump for the teams!

OOC: What I'm calling the elf. Drengai is on happy brownies.

IC: "You are demons, or servants of demons. That is enough to justify your death." David said, snorting. "I, am High Inquisitor David Winters."

The Ur-Quan team had passed the middle point without even noticing it. Some activity had been going on within it, but it was none of their concern. They need not, nor would rest, until they have finished this maze. They had met resistance once again on their way, but they had been... Exterminated, quite quickly and efficiently, just like the ones before. They eat most things they kill in melee combat, unless one fights a fellow Ur-Quan.

OOC: What I'm calling the elf. Drengai is on happy brownies.

IC: "You are demons, or servants of demons. That is enough to justify your death." David said, snorting. "I, am High Inquisitor David Winters."

"I don't care if you're the Pope, you will not harm my friends, not as long as I live." I said, fingering my lightsaber. (If we fight, can David's sword handle the blade? I'll say it can.)

"Hm. You're lucky we don't have a fire apparation demon, named Hiei, in our team." Kurama said, taking a rose out of his hair. "As hotheaded as he is, you would be sliced in half faster than you realize."

Tension was rather high between the teams, so thick, that it'll take a chainsaw to cut through.

bump

"I don't care if you're the Pope, you will not harm my friends, not as long as I live." I said, fingering my lightsaber. (If we fight, can David's sword handle the blade? I'll say it can.)

"Hm. You're lucky we don't have a fire apparation demon, named Hiei, in our team." Kurama said, taking a rose out of his hair. "As hotheaded as he is, you would be sliced in half faster than you realize."

Tension was rather high between the teams, so thick, that it'll take a chainsaw to cut through.

David nodded towards you. "Your proposition is acceptable." He drew his blade. Golden fire danced along it. Drengai snapped out of his happy dream, and pulled out an axe.

"Ach, ye can give up, be easier in the long run." Direwolf had faded from view in the commotion, and Estrea and Jessica were both preparing to spread havoc.

All of a sudden, the sound of clawed feet running towards them jolted them out of their preparations.

"Yeah, right." Yusuke snorted after we were told it's best to give up. "You insult us--"
We also heard the running feet coming towards us.
"Aww, great! Not more raptors!" Naruto groaned. "Why can't they go away and let us fight in peace?"
I snickered at the 'fight in peace' comment. How ironic. Well, time to use my saber yet again. Bushes started rustling and revealed...

7 raptors charging in. All of a sudden, Direwolf faded back into view and dispatched one with a quick blow from his katana, severing the head. Drengai and David backed away. "Dwarf, guard Estrea. Jessica, behind me!"

Three more came out for us.
I swiftly ignited my lightsaber, whirled around, and slashed a raptor that jumped for my back. It gave a squeal, and then fell in half. Kurama turned the rose into a thorny whip, and whipped another raptor, thorns cutting into scaly flesh and oozing black blood.
A raptor sneaked behind Naruto, and jumped at him.
"Watch out!" I warned.
Naruto rolled in time, and threw a couple kunai at the neck, killing it. Yusuke shot off a Spirit Gun, it missed, and then he punched the raptor he missed in the jaw, downing it. Toni had her staff, and struck the last raptor that came after her, also downing it. During the battle, we caught glimpses of how the Roanians were doing...

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David bowed his head. "By the power of the all mighty, which I serve, I banish ye back to the eternal pit from whence ye came." Golden bursts of lightning shot towards the raptors, dismissing them. Several more had become ice statues and shattered as Estrea and Jessica opened fire on them.

I whistled quietly at the lightning spell that David used. More powerful than my own. Nothing like the smell of zapped raptor in the evening, I smiled wryly. We quietly sneaked away as the Roanians continued to battle dinos.

A shadowy figure leapt down in front of you, katana drawn. "Going somewhere, mixed ones? We of the pure races still want to know your purpose here."

"Pure race?" I shook my head at this. "There's no such thing as a 'pure race'. Besides, our purpose here is to ascern the intent of the danger Beelzebub posesses."
"And kick his ass back where he came from." Yusuke added, cracking his knuckles. "Now if you'll excuse us, we have a date with a demon."

Meanwhile, in a castle somewhere in the Demon World...

"Hehehehe! The boy is quite amusing." A voice in the darkness said. "Perhaps it is time to send an obstacle, to meet them, at the end of the maze. Scorpitro!"

"Yes, my Master?" A large scorpionlike demon appeared, clicking as it went. It had the body of a locust, the head similar to a mantis', and a deadly and poisonous stinger.
"Go, and meet the team that makes it to the end of the maze, and make suree they never get past the exit."

"As you wish." The large demon crawled to a window, spread it's wings and flew away.

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OOC: I'm back! Can't post much tonight, I have to work on an essay...
IC: Narok wrinkled his nose at the foul smell, and Brule coughed. The others ignored it, but the team grabbed snacks quickly and hurried on before eating them. Suddenly Zaidon said "I hear fighting, ahead and to the left. Let's move." The started walking quickly, Vedriil and Zaidon moving to the front to "deal with" low level demons. They only had to pause twice, once to fight a larger group and once to smash a set of spikes that kept shooting out of the wall and retracting again (not my important trap...). Soon they heard voices across a single wall from them.
"Going somewhere, mixed ones? We of the pure races still want to know your purpose here."
"Pure race? There's no such thing as a 'pure race'. Besides, our purpose here is to ascern the intent of the danger Beelzebub posesses."
"And kick his ass back where he came from." [popping sound] "Now if you'll excuse us, we have a date with a demon."
Vedriil whispered to the others "It's those scum who almost attacked us back at the center and that group who got here before us. Do we want to... join their party?" Narok grinned, the red-orange tint in his eyes brightening, but Zaidon replied "We'll wait and see what happens. The mission comes first." The others nodded, somewhat reluctantly.

"Pure race?" I shook my head at this. "There's no such thing as a 'pure race'. Besides, our purpose here is to ascern the intent of the danger Beelzebub posesses."
"And kick his ass back where he came from." Yusuke added, cracking his knuckles. "Now if you'll excuse us, we have a date with a demon."

"Very well. But we will accompany you. Two heads are better than one, after all." Estrea walked over. "Direwolf, David wants to see you." She rolled her eyes as he left. "Excuse my companion's... arrogance. Being an assassin does that to you, I've heard." Jessica walked towards them as well. "David just killed the last demon. Estrea, that spell you were using?"

The elf concentrated. A ball of light appeared. "Find the exit." The ball darted down a corridor.

I shrugged. "Fair enough. Glad to not have to fight you, when there's other things to fight off."
I noticed a familiar disturbance behind us, and recognized them as the team who fought alongside us when the raptors first attacked.
We started following the ball down wherever it went.

Meanwhile, the scorpion demon landed at the exit, and gathered a small army of 12 minion orcs, and their minions, a pack of raptors. They orcs tougher than the raptors, being that they have shields and armor. More armor means harder to cut through with a lightsaber. The teams have their work cut out for them, that's for sure...

OOC: should I put level stats or just leave them as it is? and where the heck are CBD, and the Psykids? I'm gonna have to RP a tornado if they don't get their butts out of the center.

"Well, it seems to have stayed peaceful." said Zaidon quietly. "I don't trust that Inquisitor and his crew. We stay as close to them as we can without being noticed." replied Narok. They continued on, Vedriil watching the other teams to let them match paces.
OOC: Shadowdancers can see in complete darkness, and through solid objects. It's neccessary, or they'd be blind a lot of the time, but it can be useful in many other situations....

"Orcs. Yippee." David said, drawing his sword. Drengai grabbed his axe and charged for them.

"Die, ye blasted greenskinned wretches!"

IC: I TKed the dwarf to a stop. "Not alone are you going to fight them."

OOC: I'm going to bed now. Tomarrow, orc heads will roll.

"How can they have gotten here ahead of us?"

Alaric rolled his eyes. "Perhaps if you'd stopped fewer times to slaughter demons, Sakura..."

"Oh. Yeah. So do we jump in?"

Winter shook her head, the motion almost imperceptible. "That one troubles me. We should watch, first."

(OOC: Go justifications for absence!)

"Naruto, Kurama, head into the trees." I said. They jumped up and waited. "Toni, Jessica, I'm thinking you'll need to lure the orcs here, somehow."
Toni smiled evilly. "And I know just the way we'll need to do it."
I rolled my eyes and pulled out my blaster. There are times when a long-range weapon is necessary, and this is one of those times.
"The rest of us will need to find places to ambush the orcs, when they come here." I added, also jumping up to hide in the trees.

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"Naruto, Kurama, head into the trees." I said. They jumped up and waited. "Toni, Jessica, I'm thinking you'll need to lure the orcs here, somehow."
Toni smiled evilly. "And I know just the way we'll need to do it."
I rolled my eyes and pulled out my blaster. There are times when a long-range weapon is necessary, and this is one of those times.
"The rest of us will need to find places to ambush the orcs, when they come here." I added, also jumping up to hide in the trees.

David rolled his eyes. "Hide? From orcs?" He snapped his fingers. "Direwolf, fade and slash. Drengai... they're orcs. Do what you do best. Estrea..." He smirked. "They look like they need some cooling down. Jessica, covering fire, and see if you can keep these cowards safe. I'll be back here to heal you should you need it."

They nodded, and moved out. Estrea muttered a few words. A freezing cold wind rushed towards the orcs, several of the closer ones becoming solid ice.

From the trees, shuriken and blaster bolts shot out and killed several orcs farther away. We then jumped to branches over other orcs, and knocked them down. With lightsaber blazing and long knife swishing, Naruto and I cut a swath through the orcs.
"Shotgun!" Yusuke yelled, and spirit bullets sprayed out at incoming raptors (gotta love the dinos; nasty enough to kill you if you're not careful).
Out came Kurama's thorn whip, thwacking away at enemies. And last, but not least, Toni's new fireball spell was particularly effective. Once done, pieces of the enemies lay on the ground. Now, we reached the end of the maze and...

Meanwhile, several packs of raptors attacked all the teams that lagged behind, including the ones in the center...

Meanwhile, several packs of raptors attacked all the teams that lagged behind, including the ones in the center...
OOC: I assume that includes me, though I was keeping pace with you...
IC: Suddenly a pack of raptors leaped out of nowhere. Borinta incinerated the first two with a blast of flame. Vedriil, grinning, advanced through the pack. Her black sword flashed about her, and every raptor it struck fell dead. Zaidon and Narok fought quickly (both with two weapons), killing any enemy that came within reach, but did not advance. Brule laughed, firing random magic at the raptors. A few moments later it was finished. They continued, passing an opening on the left. Suddenly, they heard a crash above them. Zaidon leaped forward, and a massive weight covered in spikes smashed through the floor at his heels. Instantly a column of fire roared out of the pit. Vedriil and Borinta were both still behind it! "We'll have to split up." said Narok grimly. He, Brule, and the kalteer continued forward while the other two went back to the closest opening.
OOC: There was my trap- designed to split the team. Like it?

David snarled. The orcs were pushing them back. And more were coming. "Blast you... Scatter! Everybody, scatter!"

The team started to move in different directions, as hundreds of orcs started to charge down the corridor. Jessica tried to keep the pace with David. Estrea and Drengai moved west.

Direwolf paused, and leapt onto one of the maze 'walls'. He then continued towards the exit, invisible to the foolish orcs.

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David and Jessica paused in an alcove. "Where did the others go?" She asked, concerned. David shrugged.

"I don... ouch." He lifted his arm. A jagged orc arrow was stuck in his armor.

"Oh... allow me to take it out..." Jessica gently reached for it.

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Drengai snarled. "Ye lost the rest o' the group, ye short-sighted pointy-ear!"

"Shh... I'll be able to find them... Just give me some time and watch out for any orcs."

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Direwolf sighed. Lost. I'll latch onto one of the other groups, and try to follow them out.

"Five against hundreds?" That's so unfair!" I griped, as we hit the trees again.
"Yeah. Time to use it." Naruto said, and made a sign with his hands.
I immediately recognized it. Make a sign with your hands like a cross, but use the first two fingers from your thumb. your left fingers should be horizontal and behind the right, which is vertical, and they should touch somwhere in the middle. Then place the sign in front of your nose, like so:
(Warning, pic may be big! Only one i could find)
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"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted. Dozens, no, hundreds of Naruto clones appeared with puffs of smoke! This is the Art of the Doppleganger, Naruto's trademark attack. With barely a signal, the clones attacked, killing dozens of Orcs, before disappearing if hit once.
"Whoa!" Yusuke said, after seeing the reinforcements came, then shot off another series of shotguns. I, myself, started using telekinesis to throw rocks, and the orcs themselves around. The battle turned...

Kage Bunshin in action:
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OOC: Your team is meant to be splitting up...

OOC: It's CoreWorld's thread, remember. Just because we split our teams doesn't mean everyone has to.
IC: A small band of orcs - say, 9 or so - had wandered away from the others. They happened upon Zaidon, Brule, and Narok. Not noticing the brownie, one said "Look- two lone men!" "Easy prey!" replied another, and they charged. Brule fired 2 shots with his gun, blinding the first, then jumped to the ground and fired twice more. The orc collapsed slowly, killed by Brule's poison. Narok's eyes shined a bright reddish purple. He fired his gun once, then traded it for his sword and leaped into the band of attackers, swinging his ax and stabbing at the same time. Two orcs fell immediately. Zaidon simply drew his katars and strode forward. His blades sliced easily through weapons and armor; when he hit an orc, it usually flew backwards several yards. One orc got past the kalteer and the degral. Brule attacked like a mad hummingbird, swinging his polearm with one hand, and lashed at the creature with fire. After it fell, he turned and killed the one remaining orc with a blast of lightning. (The ones not specifically mentioned were killed by the other two while Brule was fighting.) The three continued on, wondering how their team mates were faring.
((To be continued... of course!))

The Ur-Quan met heavy resistance while moving through the maze, but these were obviously meant for something more human-like to meet, as they were easily torn apart by the caterpillar-like monstrosities, as the Ur-Quan spilled their blood on the walls of the maze. More prey for the hunters.

They continued, and met an interesting trap-sort, as fire came from the front and back, and spikes were dropping on them. Does not matter. One of them activated a blood red shield, and it destroyed the spikes and blocked the flames. Then it ended, and they continued. The Ur-Quan had survived for millennia in space, and for a reason.

Meanwhile, Borinta and Vedriil were trying to find their way back to the others. As they searched, they suddenly heard running feet and saw a dozen raptor demons running toward them. Vedriil killed the first six with her bow, two arrows each, then switched to her longsword. Borinta incinerated two more with a burst of flame, then pounced. Even in her closest to human form, she was easily able to kill two raptors while Vedriil eliminated the other two. They continued on, nearing the battle with the orcs.

Once a hundered orcs were killed, the others grew afraid, and started retreating. Of course, groups of them still fought on, but were quickly anniliated. The remaining demons then regrouped and started attacking other teams.

"Jeez. That was tough." Naruto breathed, and dismissed the hundred+ clones. His clone spell took a lot out of him, I could tell.
"Why don't you rest a while and drink some elixir?" Kurama suggested, giving him the flask. "You look like hell."
"We are in hell, but I see your point." the young ninja sat down on a log, and drank the medicine. He soon will feel better, but he won't be using the Kage Bunshin mass attack for a while. Now he is limited to ten clones.

"No, no. First you would remove the teeth and inject the snake with some kind of serum." said Ness, rolling around under the bench.
"Heh, trouser snake. Heh," giggled Jeff, causing the rest of the party to laugh loudly.
"Hey man, pass the herb," said Poo after recovering from the laughing fit. "Here...wait...no...wait... I'm so wasted."
Bill Cosby walked over to the companions and said, "How would you guys like some bacon, burger, DOGS! HAAAA HAAAA, with the puddin'."
Ness toked deeply.

A voice sounds from the skies: "Hey, you! Everyone's already at the end. The center's no longer a safe place to be!"

Packs of raptors start opening the doors and getting in the center, screeching in anticipation of the coming meal.

Poo thinks quickly (despite his inebriated state) and gathers his companions (including the black guys) into a circle. Poo summons PSI teleport ? and whisks everyone away to an undisclosed field somewhere.
"Hey, where's mista tizzle, mah dizzle, word." sputtered Snoop.
"Yeah, I don't see him anywhere," said Paula.
(Cue A-Team theme)
Mr. T drove up in the fly A-team vizzle and said, "Stay in milk, don't do school, get 8 hours of drugs every day!"

For some odd reason, A rain of potion splashes on the Psykids and CBDs, and deletes the drunkeness.

A low growling sound can be heard in the field where the Psykids are (it's near the end, BTW). A velociraptor suddenly jumps high, and aims for Ness. Another two attacks the car, intending to eat the people inside. Orcs also join the hunt, swinging their clubs and maces. A large, dangerous Spinosaurus waits in the nearby forest...
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OOC: If that doesn't work, try dropping large rocks on them....
IC: Narok, Brule, and Zaidon finally arrive at an opening onto a large area, which contains well over a hundred orcs- possibly several hundred. Fortunately, most of the monsters are marching off down a different passage. The three warriors hide in their opening on the left side of area until the orcish army has departed, then venture forth. They see the exit, the CoreWorlds team, and...
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Vedriil and Borinta finally arrive at an opening onto a large area, which contains well over a hundred orcs- possibly several hundred. Fortunately, most of the monsters are marching off down a different passage. The two warriors hide in their opening on the right side of area until the orcish army has departed, then venture forth. They see the exit, the CoreWorlds team, and...
OOC: What's guarding the exit?

We finally reached the end of the maze, after an hour of rest (and orc bashing in between rest).
"Hey, there's the exit!" Toni yelled. Indeed the exit out of the maze I a gate. We got near it, and then...

Suddenly, a giant scorpion blocked the doorway. It was extremely large, and looked very hungry.
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"Aww, great. Now we have a boss to deal with!" Naruto griped.
"Heh, heh, heh. You'll never get past me, now. I am Scorpitro, the Scorpion Demon, and you human kids are my next meal." the demon laughed.
"Yeah right." Yusuke snorted. "We faced raptors, a T-rex, orcs, and traps. You won't make a snack out of us."
"We'll see about that!" With that, the tail whipped forward faster than the eye. I grabbed Toni, and we barely jumped out of the way of the stinger, which made a large hole in the ground.

OOC: Music for boss battle:
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/sony/ps1/ff7batt.mid
If you want to find a better one, use the site above.

bump for the boss battle. lotsa experience given once the enemy is defeated!

Direwolf leapt down. "Those idiots are still wandering around. I'll help out, though."

and... a giant scorpion demon!
Another group of orcs emerged from one passage; both Dar-Kavryn groups attacked at once, and the creatures were quickly annihilated. "Fancy meeting you here." commented Narok. Vedriil replied "I'm more concerned about meeting that."
Zaidon and Narok advanced to the front of the group; Borinta shifted to a somewhat larger and better armored form and joined them.
Vedriil nocked an arrow, thinking That armor looks too tough even for my bow. As soon as everyone looks ready, I'll fire three arrows, one at each eye and one at its head to see if it works, then switch to the sword...
Brule mixed stones and air with magic, summoning a creature like an animated cloud of pebbles.
Then they saw the scorpion strike!
Vedriil launched her three arrows and advanced quickly, sword in hand. Narok, Zaidon, and the swarm-of-pebbles charged. Borinta blew a blast of flames at the creature, then joined the others in a direct attack. Brule shook his halberd, and fire roared briefly out of a crack in the earth that opened under the demon. He followed this attack with a blast of lightning.

OOC: Music for boss battle:
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/sony/ps1/ff7batt.mid
OOC: Nicey-nice! I like it. To give you an idea of how fast Vedriil is, she could probably keep up with the fastest parts of that, striking one blow with her longsword per note! Of course, that's without having to defend... but you can see why she's one of the best warriors in Dar-Kavryn.

"MWAHAHAHAHA! You'll have to do better than that!" Scorpitro laughed, as he was scratched by Dar-Kavryn's attacks. He then retaliated with the guns set above his pincers, shooting purple beams of dark energy at everyone.
I deflected incoming bolts, and they went elsewhere, while the others dodged as best they could. I shot back with my blaster, scoring hits, but still he laughed.
"Ooh, that tickles. Try THIS on for size!" The tail glowed, and larger purple energy beams shot at me. Those I couldn't block, and I nearly got zapped by them.
"Jeez, he's fast." I said. I had to think of something, fast!

OOC: There is a weak spot, the back, but the demon isn't about to let anyone get near it. That tail is very fast, and will slice someone up like nothing else can.

I got an idea. I thought-spoke to everyone. But we got only one shot at it. You guys distract the demon, have him shoot at you. The idea is to make him angry at you so he'll attack you. I'm going in to cut that tail off. Only my lightsaber can cut through it, cause it looks like it's heavily armored. Do you guys understand?

My team nodded slightly. What about the others?

The cloud-of-pebbles scattered, moving wildly to block the purple beams. Each block meant a pebble destroyed, but there were plenty to replenish the cloud. Borinta brightened her scales to a mirror-like polish; one of the beams that got through the swirling pebbles struck her and was reflected away. Brule muttered and twirled his halberd, summoning energy shields around his allies (These will take one hit from the tail beams, or several of the smaller ones). He then cast another spell, and shimmering purple light surrounded Narok's and Zaidon's weapons. Vedriil suddenly sank into the ground and disappeared from sight. Zaidon, Narok, and Borinta attacked while Brule worked on preparing a more powerful set of spells.
OOC: Borinta's scales are tough enough that one hit won't kill her, though it will hurt. Narok and Zaidon are both very good at blocking and/or dodging fast, powerful attacks. The purple shimmer is a somewhat chaotic spell; its exact effects can't be predicted. It increases the power of an attack in interesting ways, such as an acid-like effect or adding a lot of heat to whatever it hits. The details change with every blow that is struck...

Toni shot off fireballs, strong enough to sting. Yusuke went about shooting Spirit bullets, those are strong enough to actually hurt the demon. Naruto threw shuriken, and Kurama launched thorns from his whip.
"What is this?" The demon asked. He wondered what we two teams were planning, combining their attacks like this. His health slowly depleted from the multitude of attacks, but it's still going strong. I drew in the Force, preparing to increase my speed to dodge attacks. Everthing seemed to slow down, and then I bolted. The demon tried hitting me, with his tail laser, but this time, I was better able to dodge the strikes. Once I got close, I jumped. The demon whipped his tail forward, the blade aiming straight at me. If I missed, I'm dead.
SLASH! The energy blade sliced straight through the tail, cutting off the blade and laser. I landed behind him and gathered energy in my hands.
"AAAARRRRGGGHH!" The scorpion roared in pain and rage.
"NOW! Hit him with everything you got!" I shouted, and unleashed a powerful lightning attack.
"Double Spirit Gun!" Yusuke shouted, and shot off twice the firepower of an ordinary one. Naruto created ten clones, and they all threw shuriken at him. Kurama send a Death Seed at the scorpion, to drain his energy, and Toni tossed a large fireball.

OOC: Fire off your most powerful attacks/spells/etc.

OOC: Wow, I was going to go after his tail with Zaidon... I started my last post before your most recent one appeared!
IC: Zaidon didn't like using his sword, but katars barely scratched this monster. He pulled the weapon off his back and charged, striking with all his strength. Narok, not having to worry about the tail, leaped on the scorpion's back and chopped with both weapons. Borinta blew a very concentrated jet of fire at him. Brule twirled his halberd again and pointed it at Scorpitro. A whirlling disc of energy shot towards the demon like a glowing frisbee- except that most frisbees can't saw through steel as if it were butter...
Suddenly, six feet of black steel thrust up out of the ground directly below the demon- Vedriil's sword, held in both hands, as she stood up from her subterranean hiding place.
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Zaidon's sword. ------------ The closest I could find to a degral ax.

The full Roanian team was magically teleported to Direwolf's location. Estrea and Drengai hitting eachother over the head, and David and Jessica in a slightly more compromising position...

They all unlinked, and turned to face the creature. "That's a big insect."

(Technically, scorpions are arachnids... minor point, I know.)

"NO! It cannot be!" The scorpion managed to gasp, as the combined attacks greatly depleted his health.
"Now, to finish you off." I said, and jumped on the demon's back, with Narok already chopping away, and searched with the Force for a weak spot.
"There." With my lightsaber pointing downwards, I plunged it just behind the head.
"My lord! Forgive me, for I have failed you!" The demon screamed one last time, and then exploded, throwing everyone back, and dousing us all with slime.
"Yeah!" Yusuke, Naruto and I shouted in victory, though Toni looked green with the slime.
The way was now clear for all teams to escape this maze, and rest up. No more demons will attack now.

Experience: a whopping 50 for everyone.
Level up: 7 for our team, collectively
Items: potions and ethers scattered around for all teams to pick up.

OOC: Roania, go ahead and use your most powerful attacks, and then watch me deliver the final blow.

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The Roanians nodded. Drengai threw his axe, so hard it spun repeatedly, blurring. "Black axe!"

David drew back, his cape waving around him. He crossed himself. "Ye, though I doth walk in the shadow of the valley of death, I shall know no evil. The lord is my sheperd, he comforts me. The lord is my shield, he protects me. The lord is my blade. He kills for me." Massive waves of holy energy shot towards the scorpion.

Estrea's hair lifted up, energy surrounding her. "Watery tomb!" A huge downpour of water began to rain on the beast, so much that it nearly drowned it.

Direwolf launched a wave of throwing knives. "Pathetic insect." And finally, Jessica let loose with a series of exploding bullets.

And then I delivered the coup de grace, the scorpion exploded, slime spewed all over the place, and we are now free to go and rest up for the next task.

I'm terribly sorry about not posting in the last couple of days, but I was actually out of town on a trip. It's rather late now but I[plan on catching up with everyone in one whopping post that I will do tomorrow. Hopefully we won't be constantly late......

:oops:

Jamie Hitashi

The Psykids and the CBD finally stumble upon the slimed scorpion and check out all the potions and ethers.
"Ether? Did you ever see Fear and Loathing?" asked Snoop.
A ghostly, halting, mumbly voice says "There's nothing in the world more depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge..."
"Just soak the floor of my van, fool! I wanna breathe the fumes as we cruise!" shouted T. Snoop poured the ether on the shag carpet of the van, and the two groups piled in. They proceeded to burn donuts in the oozy guts of the arachnid.

Apparently either the scorpion did not care much about the five Ur-Quan, or maybe the Ur-Quan did not care about the scorpion, as they had passed its location unscathed. They had waited a while already, for the next orders that is.

Narok twirled his ax in a degral salute. "Excellent work, fellow warriors!" Zaidon bowed, a sign of respect from a kalteer. The team cleaned the slime off of themselves and gathered a few potions etc. They rested for a while, recovering from the difficult battle, and then continued out of the maze.
OOC: Sorry, I probably won't be able to post again for several days.

A Marriott hotel mysteriously sprung out of the ground during the battle, and that's where we went. We were so tired from the battle that all we could manage were quick showers, and then collapsed on the beds.

It would be a full week before the next task would begin.

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Jamie and Amy had started on their way to the left side of the maze, with Jamie grumbling about how it wasn't nice to tease.

"You know he was only joking dad. He does that all the time." Amy said with a giggle as they made their way around several corners.

A sigh.

"Yeah, no kidding. Ever since we we kids....." Jamie said hovering lightly over a small gap in the floor. Landing on the other side, he looked curiously around. "I thought that letter said something about traps and demons.....when do those get here?"

Landing beside him, Amy shuddered, "I hope never. Who knows what kind of weird things are in this place. I mean, powerful as we are, they're demons dad."

Jamie responded with a chuckle and a nervous scratch to the back of the head. "Aww, don't you worry about a thing sweetie. This is just like any other tournament......except that it's to the death......that's all"

"You aren't helping dad," came the reply as Amy brushed away a wall of cobwebs while they continued their journey. It made her very weary as she realized that nothing had tried to stop them up to that point. HAd the others ahead of them dispatched the otherworldly opponents? And if they had, why were there no signs of conflict anywhere. She figured in the end that she might be paranoid but as usual, her father took things too lightly, never seeing any immediate danger in a situation.

She watched as Jamie turned the corner and heard a large "WHOOSH' sound followed by a resounding metal clang. She ran towards the echoing around the corner as her heart lept from her chest. "Dad! Are you.....?"

She was surprised yet again, however, and instead of seeing her father's bloody corpse on the ground with that childish smile permenantly engraved on his face, she saw him inspecting a huge axe blade imbedded in the wall.

The blade, which was slightly taller than Jamie, had imbedded itself in the opposite wall almost a quarter of the way. He turned around and smiled, "Looks like a I found a trap.....ehheh"

Now more frustrated than anything, Amy glared at her father. "You're going to get yourself killed! Don't you realize the danger that lies in here?"

"Look, I told you already," Jamie replied backing away from the blade, "There isn't a whole lot to worry abo........" He stopped in mid-sentance looking off to his right, something about the shadows looking, unnatural. He cocked his head to the side like a curious animal and slowly made his way towards the wall while Amy looked on confused.

"What are you doing?" she asked, becoming curious herself.

"Something is.......off" he replied, now a few feet from the wall. He went to bend down and get a closer look when a black fist flew from the shadows aimed at his head. He threw his head off to the side and lept back putting distance between them as a figure began to form from the darkness. Jamie quickly became serious as he got into his fighting stance and faced off against the first of the shadow ninjas.

Amy began to move towards the newly formed battlefield but stopped short as another of the shadow minions appeared in front of her. It lashed out with a fist of it's own, trying to catch her in the midriff. She spun, knocking it aside and using the momentum to attack with a kick. Her foot, however, found nothing but air as her opponent was no longer solid and passed through it's body harmlessly.

She landed softly, squaring off against her semi-solid opponent much like her father was doing further ahead.

'Now the tournament really begins....' she thought, allowing her power to manifest itself to the surface.

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Meanwhile, the lack of resistance was getting at Jason who mumbled quietly to himself while Kiljax and Mako brought up the rear. "This damn tournament is a waste of time. When does the action start?"

Mako rubbed her arms as if to warm herself in the stuffy heat of the underworld. "I'm kinda glad there isn't any action. Who knows what kind of stuff is lurking around here. It gives me shivers."

Kiljax rested a comforting hand on his wife's shoulder as they walked down what seemed to be an endless corridor. "Well I'm pumped about getting a real challenge. Training is all well and good, but you never know your true skill until you test it out on something that fights back. Otherwise, you get rusty and your senses dull."

Jason scoffed at that remark. "Speak for yourself on that one Kiljax. Full blooded Mystiks never loose their thirst for battle. It's in our blood to better ourselves and to constantly surpass our limits. You find it easy to slack in times of peace because you reside in the hope that it will last. You're father and I train hard to make sure that when something inevitably does happen, we'll be ready."

As he finished the sentance, both Kiljax and Mako looked down to see that Jason had stepped down on some kind of floor switch, which 'clicked' appropriately. Stepping forward to utter a cry of warning, Mako screamed out as thousands of metal spikes fired from hiding spots in the moss covered walls. Luckily, she nor Kiljax were within the immediate range of the deadly missles, but what of Jason? She allowed herself to peer through tightly closed eyes, to find Jason standing in the exact same spot, completly unscathed. "But how....." she began.

Kiljax, who had watched the entire split second action, held his gaze at the floor where the moss on the floor was worn on the sides of is feet. 'He moved so fast, it looked like he was standing still.....' Kiljax thought, allowing his jaw to drop slightly. 'I couldn't even follow it.....'

"Perhaps now you realize what I mean," Jason said peering off down the corridor. "Especially in this situation, you can't afford to be rusty. I just hope your father remembers that." And without another word, he continued towards the center of the maze. Kiljax and Mako followed, both looking at the metal spikes driven into the walls on either side of them, the tension now thick enough to cut with a knive.

Mako walked slowly watching the guys walk steadfastly forward into the challenges that lay ahead in the maze.

'What did I get myself into......'



OOC: And that's where I have to leave it for tonight. I'm tired and have plenty to do tomorrow, so I'll pick this up tomorrow after work.

Jamie Hitashi

don't forget the velociraptors that will attack when you get back.

The Roanians watched. "Now's our chance. We kill those demons, and take the glory for the Principality."

bump. Later today, I'll start the second task. It's supposed to be easier than the first, but we'll see.

*Tag*
The Emperor enjoys this. He only wishes to have sent people in before...

Two short, cloaked figures walked into the hotel. One is extremely old, and walks with a cane, and the other was younger, but still aging. They ignored the demon clerk up front who shouted for the cloaked ones to leave, and waited for the teams to assemble in the lobby.
While eating breakfast, I noticed an odd disturbance in the Force, coming from the lobby.
"What's wrong, John?" Toni asked.
"There's something, or someone up front, in the lobby." I said. "The signature is pretty strong."
"Shall we check it out?" Kurama asked.
"Just after I finish this bowl of ramen." Naruto said, who has a big bowl or ramen, his second serving.
"Me too." Yusuke had the same size bowl, his third serving. I shook my head. They are dangerous around ramen.
As soon as we finished, we walked to the lobby, and I felt the disturbance coming from the person sitting on a sofa in the lobby.
"Them?" Naruto wondered.
I nodded. "Them." For some reason, the signature from the one with the stick felt...familiar, but I can't quite place a finger on it.
We waited for the other teams to come in.
A third figure, taller than the other two, slides into the shadows.

bump for the other teams!

The Roanians watched from their corner. "Who is that...?"

OOC: I'll wait till Ravenspire, Dar-Kavryn, I-rey or Scaraba posts before revealing who the cloaked ones are. If Central-Quebec returns and his/her next post gets to this part, I'll also reveal them.

bump

I posted in the two first pages of this thread and then I lost the story...I'm thinking about re joining, but of course I'm asking permission...I liked very much to design the Deadly Viper Assasination Squad from Aelosia, and I would like to Rp them...

OOC: Since the scorpion demon is dead, you shouldn't have too much trouble getting through the maze and to the hotel on the other side. That is, unless you're weak...

In tribute to the Chosen Four (Ness and Co.), here is the music that the Runaway Five is playing, in the hotel:
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/snes/Earthbound_Hotel_(Huzzah_Remix).mid
and
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/snes/eb_hotelrhumbaremix.mid

OOC: Finally through with exams. Sorry about the delay.

IC:

The last of the raptors died as Alaric ran it through from behind with his black sword. Kicking the corpse free of the blade, he carefully wiped it clean with a cloth before resheathing it. "Did you notice? They all appeared when that scorpion--"

"It's a hell, Al, you have to expect magic." Sakura had foregone weaponry this time. Now she was covered in blood. None of it was her own.

Miyumi, who had sat down to recover, laughed breathlessly. "All the better for us."

"Yeah, as long as none of the tasks require magic."

"I do not think that they could," Winter mused. "The challenge was an open one, and there are many nations that lack such powers. Our own is merely an exceptional case."

"Besides, I could handle it." Raven grinned. "Hey, do you think they'd let me take one of these home as a pet?"

"...I doubt it, Raven."

"Hmm. Strong in the Force you are, young Masaki." the one with the cane said. "Your grandfather, my apprentice he was."

I suddenly realized who was under that cloak. "Master...Yoda?"

The cloak let down, to reveal the ancient Jedi Master. "Indeed, it is I. Wonder not, how I came, but know I did."

"If you're the Jedi Master everyone knows, then..." Yusuke set his gaze upon the slightly taller figure. "Oh, man, Genkai!"

"It seems you are not such a dimwit, after all." The old woman said. "Of course, still a hothead as ever."
Yusuke pouted.

"Hello." Someone spoke behind us.
"Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto grinned.
"In the flesh."

"So what brings three different masters to the Dark Tournament?" Toni asked.
"Good question, young lady." the older ninja said. "We're really here to oversee the second task."
"Second task?" We asked.
"Yes. More challenging than the first, it is. Much more challenging." Yoda said. "Preparation for the final one, it is."
A lightning bolt struck the ground on cue.

http://www.absoluteanime.com/yu_yu_hakusho/genkai.gif Genkai

http://www.narutoguide.com/images/biographies_Kakashi.jpg Kakashi

http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/yoda/img/movie2_bg.jpg And, of course, Yoda

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The Dar-Kavryn team all knelt briefly, as the newcomers' identities were revealed. "Honor to you, wise ones." said Narok. He added, "Even in Dar-Kavryn, where no spacecraft can land and even cars do not operate, the name of Jedi Master Yoda is known; any who travel with him are surely very wise, as well."

OOC: Where are the others? Roania!

IC:
The masters accepted the kneeling. Yoda began pacing.
"Learned of this tournament, I did. A stench of evil, it contains."
"Yeah, that ugly Beelzebub." Yusuke said.
"More to that than Satan's henchman, there is. A troubling disturbance in the Force I feel."
"There's more?!" I asked.

"It seems to me that certain of Yusuke's former opponents have also arrived at this tournament." Genkai said. "Do you remember the four Spirit Beasts?"
"Those guys?! I thought we creamed them!" Yusuke's jaw dropped.
"Four Saint Beasts?" I asked him.
"Genbu, the turtle; Byakko, the tiger (white); Seriyuu, the dragon; and Suzaku, the Phoenix." Kurama supplied.
"Each creature, of Japanese mythology." Naruto added.
"Hmm. Looks like that's our next task. To defeat these guys." Toni said.
"And four teams to intercept them." I added.

OOC: Good question...
IC: Narok stepped forward to listen more easily, looking rather puzzled. Meanwhile, Brule watched the Roanians warily from atop a cabinet in one corner.

"So what are we going to do?" I asked. "Draw straws to decide which team gets which beast?"

"Perhaps a spot of training will work." Kakashi suggested to the other masters. "Just to test the teams before they head to the spirit (or saint) beasts. How they use their abilities, that sort of thing."
"Hmm. A good suggestion, that is." Yoda said. "Handle Masaki's team and those from I-rey, I will."
Being tested by Yoda himself nearly floored me, I can tell you that.
"I'll test Roania and Dar-Kavryn." Genkai said.
"And I'[ll take the rest." Kakashi added.
So there it is. Each team will get a short testing by the 3 masters. At the end, the teams will get cards that will have the photo of the demons that they will fight.

bump

The Dar-Kavryn team gathered before Genkai, Brule running to catch up with the others. "What would you have us do, Wise One?" asked Narok.
OOC: So, I'm with Roania. That'll be... interesting.

OOC: Yeah. Now if Roania can get here...

David dropped the mobile phone. "Regrettably, we shall not be taking part in this..." They turned, and left. "Be advised, though, that the Principality watches with interest."

The Roanians vanished in a blinding flash of brilliant white light,.

OOC: Coincidentally, I won't be able to post for a while either. I'm pulling the team out, but I'll bring them back if I can before you get too much further.
IC: Suddenly Narok paused, his eyes getting a distant look... "Eh, what's wrong? What!?!?" His eyes flared to bright, pure white. "I suppose you'd better come get us, then. There's no way that can wait for the end of the tournament."
He turned to the others. "The D'zukaru are back." "You're right, then. We must leave immediately." replied Zaidon. Narok explained to the other teams and the Jedi Masters "A very old, extremely powerful enemy of Dar-Kavryn has returned. Zaidon, Brule, and Borinta are certainly going to be needed there, and there isn't much Vedriil and I can do without them here. We'll come back if we can, but I don't know how long this will take..."
Suddenly Treg Kivor stepped through a widening slash in the air. "Hurry!" he called. "There's not much time!" The team ran to the portal and jumped through, Narok calling as he left, "Good luck!!"
The portal closed as Treg stepped through, and they were gone.
OOC: Again, sorry about this. :cry: It's been fun so far, and I hope I'll be able to return to it. Good luck...