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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects- The RP

« on: April 17, 2014, 05:12:02 AM »

It was too much, too fast.

First the man in red who could conjure exploding arrows out of thin air, then the other two, one with a mean sword and another that nullified all too much simply from a touch, and then a girl who looked like a bad Sailor Moon knock off flying through the air accompanied by a blindfolded lady in bondage gear.

It was too much for the golem to bear. "Do you think you can win with numbers!?" it roared.

The man's sword was knocked away. The minigun ran out of ammo. The golem's swipe was stopped by the bondage woman's nail wrapping around it and yanking it to pieces, just in time for a volley of shining orbs from the magical girl to blast holes through the several inches of armoured plating it had wrapped around the pulsating, purple sphere in its core, leaving it bared to the world.

"You little-!"

And then the last one's cold, cold hands reached out and touched the sphere.

It screamed. Not the golem, but the sphere itself. Magic that had been woven and carefully spun into a complex equation folded in on itself in an attempt to remain functional. The golem realized too late what had happened. The man was too close to deal with.

It cracked. The scream stopped, and the orb cracked. Then it cracked again, and again and again and again.

And then, when all the colour had faded and the golem had been rendered immobile, the sphere became little more than a bucket's worth of fairy dust, falling listlessly to the ground among the golem's other components. What had been a fighting machine was now little more than a collection of worthless junk that scattered all over the rooftop as if cast aside by a diety.

The golem had been slain.

Only, less than a minute after the thing's defeat, a noise rang out. Specifically, an old cell phone, half-buried in sand, its screen cracked and barely usable, started playing a mournful tune that sounded completely out of place in its environment.

"The jig is up, the noose is out
They finally found me
The renegade who had it made
Retrieved for a bounty~"

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects - Sign Up, Discussion Page

« on: April 07, 2014, 07:31:46 AM »

Go ahead and sense it. Caster made the thing to help out my character, not to keep him in stealth mode.

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects - Sign Up, Discussion Page

« on: April 07, 2014, 06:23:40 AM »

Alice, it's not like the core's visible. My guy's smart enough to keep it shielded. You'll have to peel off a few layers of sheet metal before you can get a look at it. Of course, you could just sense it's magical energy.

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects - Sign Up, Discussion Page

« on: April 07, 2014, 04:18:08 AM »

Well here's the golem's 'stats', since we're approaching a direct clash.

It doesn't have any durability beyond its components, most of which are metal appliances and machinery. Its strength is enough to pick up and effortlessly carry around adult human with one 'arm', and its speed is only slightly above the human average, though it's not limited by human physiology and thus moves in ways a normal person wouldn't be flexible enough to. If you bat a part of its body far enough away from the rest, it'll go flying and be irretrievable.

As for the 'core orb', that's something you'll have to guess.

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects- The RP

« on: April 07, 2014, 04:14:44 AM »

As its supposed 'trump card' was easily blocked by some kind of invincible flower petals that had appeared out of thin air, the golem was beginning to realize that this supposed 'magic' was a bit more of a pain than it had any right to be. He tried to reach into the shield and see if he could do something about it, but there was nothing to influence, no convenient self-destruct to press. All the spirit got was a metaphorical burnt hand as the sheer mass of spiritual energy inhabiting the thing pushed him back. The white haired one would have to wait.

If that wasn't enough, two familiar face appeared from behind, one swinging a sword at his center and another reaching for the golem's battered head.

If the thing had a mouth, it would be sporting a grin. Truly, even the worst of situations could be a blessing in disguise.

The sword would be easy enough to deal with. A crumpled bumper looted from a rather expensive car moved from the golem's shoulder to its back, right in the path of the sword. As for the Gabriel, his attempt to grab the golem's head was certainly successful. The dented yellow traffic cone came away easily enough, leaving him holding a useless piece of plastic with a pair of cracked sunglasses perched on the front.

Deep within the golem's body, a certain purple sphere flickered momentarily but quickly returned to effectiveness. It, unlike the spirit, was indeed magical, but a more direct touch would be needed to disable it, one that the golem didn't plan on allowing.

With a metallic roar, the thing's free hand swung backwards at an angle that would break a normal man's arm. Its fingers were a loose collection of sharpened steak knives, and its forearm a rusted chainsaw that couldn't turn on even if it'd been supplied with electricity. The golem's swipe was clumsy, like the rest of its movements, but no less slow for it, unencumbered by human weakness as it was.

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects- The RP

« on: March 24, 2014, 05:15:24 AM »

The only thing that managed to stop the golem's laughter was another one of those arrows. With a screeching halt, the once again premature explosion only blasted the various pieces apart, and it pulled itself together again, though several pieces now resembled little more than scrap metal.

With a metallic growl, the creature accepted the warrior's challenge.

It wasn't as if he liked fighting. Far from it. The closest the soul controlling the manufactured monster had ever been to a real fight was an incident involving him, a policeman, a young girl, and the unfamiliar gun in his shaking hands. He'd been terrified then, but the years had washed away such reservations easily enough. Spend enough time without a real body to lose, and you'll also end up forgetting the survival instincts ingrained into the human psyche.

However, he had yet to forget annoyance.

A hand came up. Only it wasn't a hand, but an industrial grade minigun, floating with no one to hold it up but his will. With a whirr, the barrels spun and warmed up for a few seconds. When it fired, the monster's laugh was drowned out by the sound of dozens of bullets being ejected from the gun in less than a second.

He had no sense of aim, but that was fine. Even a child could aim in a video game, and this was the same thing. His enemy was getting closer rather than fleeing, so targeting wasn't a problem. Even if only one in ten bullets were actually on target, that still left more than enough to kill anything that moved.

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects - Sign Up, Discussion Page

« on: March 17, 2014, 05:20:08 AM »

The funny thing is, Elf, that Archer would've had much more success if he hadn't fired a Broken Phantasm. My guy can only use an existing function for a Trick. He can't make something explode if it isn't designed to explode in the first place.

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Role Playing / Re: World of Darkness game

« on: March 15, 2014, 05:09:57 AM »

We'll assume you went partying with Mutt and Sarge and the Lord of the Night. With motorcycles and beer and good music and stuff.

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects- The RP

« on: March 12, 2014, 03:05:12 AM »

What was taking them so long?

If the golem could look puzzled, or indeed, display any kind of emotion, it would. Instead, it sort of crumpled into a ball in its idle state, once more resembling a pile of junk as the force controlling it released its invisible grip. It was only as it heard a small whistling in the air that something within the metal shell 'reacted'.

It was funny, actually. Something unexpected falling from the sky had ruined its life once. For it to happen again was nothing but a nightmare.

It saw. He 'saw'. The arrow was already halfway there when he 'reacted' to it.

It was a fair hundred meters away when something within the golem's shell, something that resembled a soft, pink crystal shaped like a heart, gave off a bright glow.

At fifty meters away, His time stopped, and all was revealed.

It was an interesting mechanism, and had even the simple act of looking at the object not been painful in a way his soul had never known, he would have spent hours examining the arrow's flawed, incomplete structure. It was a fake, he knew, something that couldn't exist for a very long time. Well, that didn't matter. What mattered was that he had no way of changing the thing's velocity. The arrow was only capable of moving forward and...

The answer came to Him, and at a distance of 25 meters the Broken Phantasm detonated, fulfilling its purpose a slight bit too early. The Trick couldn't do what the arrow couldn't do, yet it could, in fact, do one simple thing. And that was enough.

Hrunting detonated 25 meters away from its target, 25 meters too far from where it had been aimed.

The golem rolled, blown back by the edge of the magical blast, several of its lighter components flying off into the streets. The sunglasses cracked, but held, and the orb in its chest pulsed once more before dimming. A periscope extended from the pile, moving and minutely adjusting its lens until it could trace the rent in the air created by the supersonic projectile. Back where it came... back where a man with a bow waited.

The golem came together again, stretching to its full height, looked at the man who was beyond human vision, and laughed, a creaking, metallic sound no more natural than the manufactured body that had released it, challenging the man to shoot again.

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects - Sign Up, Discussion Page

« on: March 04, 2014, 05:01:55 PM »

Isn't the vampire chick currently unconscious?

I'll be writing her character sheet and posting it.

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects - Sign Up, Discussion Page

« on: March 04, 2014, 06:46:55 AM »

Sorry for disappearing for a while guys. I've got tomorrow off and most of my exams are over, so I'll use that day to catch up on pretty much everything. Luka, Undine, the vampire chick, hell, I might even toss some Axe Cop in there.

By the way, Alice, this entire time the 'golem' has been steadily moving away from the scene via the rooftops. He's slow, so it'll be easy to catch up in no time at all, but not exactly visible from right beside the compound. The place it would wait is at least one or two blocks away, I think. Easily within Archer's range, but not a normal person's vision, unless they had a nice vantage point.

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General Discussion / Re: Fan-made otome based off of Fate/Stay Night: Fate/Knight Rhapsody

« on: March 01, 2014, 05:58:12 AM »

Does it have Saber reduced to a useless crying moeblob that has to rely on the tough men to get saved? Cus that would suck.

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects - Sign Up, Discussion Page

« on: February 27, 2014, 06:22:51 AM »

Mike, I would ask you if Rider's the kind of person who'd shamelessly take advantage of a comatose hostage, but I already know the answer is yes.

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects- The RP

« on: February 26, 2014, 03:22:31 AM »

When Bonesington gathered death and despair in his hands, Undine was calm.

When the sigil appeared around her, Undine was prepared.

When it shrank and all that darkness was concentrated in a single tiny area, Undine gathered her power.

Yet, when the world began to fall apart around her, Undine screamed.

Nothing remained. The water shield that she had erected splashed harmlessly to the ground as the magical energy holding it up expired. The very floor she had stood on was gone, the floorboards eaten away by their own molecules. Microscopic reapers zoomed around the sealed area that she had too late realized was less meant to keep her out and more to keep them in, devouring all that they could get their hands on.

Water rose, gathering to do something, but fell apart just as quickly, its foundation destroyed and magic eaten up.

Thirty seconds after Death and Decay's descent, nothing remained of Undine.

Thirty one seconds after the spell, a single drop of moisture gathered together from the remaining humidity in the rotten air.

What followed was similar to watching a slow motion video of an explosion... in reverse. Dihydrogen oxide molecules drew together, pulled by a force greater than magnetism and gravity. The drop grew, bubbling and writhing as more and more of it was sucked in. The first words were audible after forty five seconds.

"Terrifying," Undine said, cracking open one eye while waiting for her body to recover the other. "Such a terrifying spell... such a terrifying creature." Her tail emerged alongside her arms, and the woman dragged herself out of the mass of floating liquid, plopping to the ground like a freshly birthed fetus.

"I expected ice," she confessed, gazing warily at Bonesington. "I did not think you could manage something like that. Fire will fade eventually. Earth will crumble, and the wind will be stilled, but water is one of the building blocks of the universe, too stable to completely destroy. Were it any other than I, the odds would be against their survival."

"As it is, I have to congratulate you on a fine performance. I would reply in kind, but I fear I'm a bit spent."

She raised one hand, stretching it out towards Bonesington. "Mind giving this lady a hand?"

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects- The RP

« on: February 24, 2014, 02:21:02 AM »

As soon as it was apparent that Undine's water drill wouldn't be able to pierce the wall of ice that had risen from the ground, it fell apart. The weapon's shape was lost as the spirit released her hold on the quickly freezing water in favour of focusing her power elsewhere.

"Respectable," she murmured. "But then again, water is not an offensive element. Come, then. If we are doing this like civilized monsters, then it's your turn to take the offensive."

She spread her arms, her watery tail curling around her body lazily. "Hit me," she challenged the lich. "And don't hold back. I am an elemental. As long as a drop of moisture exists nearby, I will eventually be able to pull myself together."

The helix appeared once more, but this time instead of focusing to a point it widened around Undine, flattening and elongating until a paper-thin sheet of water separated her from the outside. Her smile was easily visible through the wall, as were her glowing green eyes.