Stalkerkain

With Serene in a reasonably safe position, Rosalvya decided it was time to move up to the front lines. With enemy reinforcements in the distance, they couldn't take their time any longer. For the moment, it seemed like the former captive would fight with them. She couldn't complain, as there was certainly strength to be had in numbers. Moving up beside Anna, Rosalvya stood by, waiting for a good opportunity. Move to X9, equip Iron Blade and hold

Magna spun her scythe with a flourish, preparing herself for combat. She eyed the suit of armor, deeming that to be the best target for her to attack right now. She was well aware of how weak her physical capabilities were compared to the others, but she would at least try and hold her own. If the insignificant enemies were taken care of, the stronger of her allies could focus on destroying the machine spawning Heartless faster. With her decision made, Magna stopped twirling her scythe, and winded back before delivering a blow to the suit of armor. Reave (1d10 + INT) on the suit of

Upon closer inspection, the building they were near appeared to be a jailhouse. Given the layout of the environment around them, it probably acted as a temporary containment chamber until prisoners could be escorted to a proper city jail. Rosalvya moved closer to the building, trying to see what Dash was looking at. It was too dark to see what was inside the building, but there were a pair of hands clinging to the bars. She had seen Serene momentarily pause, most likely to converse, before moving around the side of the building, where she suffered an egregious wound to her thigh. There must ha

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"If it comes... to it... we will," Felis said. His tone was cold, indicating he was fully aware of what he was saying, and what he intended to do. "If they cannot... make it back... we will meet... with the others." "Retreating is not... wrong. " Felis said with as confident as a tone as he could muster. "I am... weak. Scared. I know I cannot... win. So I will run. I will live... and fight when I am... stronger." Felis stared on ahead, hoping for more of the others to arrive, and to escape. After the explosion, all was eerily silent. The fighting from before had quie

"What... is going on... out there?" Felis asked Alison with concern. He remained seated, his calm disposition unwavering. His eyes were still trained on the entrance to the auditorium, ready to bolt into the escape tunnel at the first sight of their enemy. Oddly, the flames had receded, following by a large explosion that shook the area around them. Was this Rame's doing? He couldn't tell anything from his position. Even without the flames, the auditorium continued to crumble, threatening to give in at any moment. There were still others out there; Rame, Aqui, Marius, and a few of the others w

The atmosphere erupted into a haze of smoke and flames; the sheer heat of everything making it a struggle to even breathe. For what it was worth, Felis stayed low, trying to avoid inhaling too much smoke. He sat down, overseeing the entrance of their escape route. "Ah... this is... the worst..." he said, his voice hoarse from the heat drying up his throat. He knew he had signed himself up for this, but... the actual realization of the danger they were in was terrifying. The entity out there was on par, if not greater than Marius and Aqui. From that alone, it was undoubtedly someone on the same

"In the end, we're the ones left with the heavy lifting," Magna sighed, as she batted away one of the smaller Heartless with her scythe. Magna kept walking at a casual pace, with no real urgency to her stride. The small ones, at least, didn't seem to be that strong. Magna wanted to conserve her energy as much as possible, given that the only thing about these creatures were their numbers, which didn't seem to dwindle no matter how many of them they cleared. Somehow she had imagined their journey to be more exciting, but it was nothing but clearing small fry at this point in time. But perhaps t

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"Well, if you say you're going to be okay, I'll take your word for it, Kagarin. I'm going to head inside, but feel free to take your time if you need to. I'll make sure to grab you if Leon starts his briefing," said Magna. To be honest, she was still a little worried for Kagarin, but for now Magna would give her some space. She headed back inside to where Snow and Hiroki were, just as Snow started looming over Hiroki. "Whatcha up to, you two? Peering into each others souls?" she joked. Quite a few people have already gathered in this building. At this point, she couldn't tell who was missing o

"And I'm Magna," she said, distracted. She was glad Kagarin was feeling better, but that didn't solve the problem. It simply wouldn't do if Kagarin was always going to be on edge around Snow. But what could she do? She wracked her brain for a solution, but was coming up with nothing. "I'll figure something out." She turned to face Kyle, a newcomer to their group. With how large their group had become, it was hard to keep track of who had joined recently, or who was in the second group they ran into. It was even harder to put a name to a face, as she hadn't talked to most of them ei

"I'm sorry too, if I had some more lead time in knowing that, I would have planned to introduce Snow at a better time," Magna said regrettably. She was aware of someone behind them eavesdropping, but whoever it was, was too insignificant to give attention to at the moment. "I don't know what the story behind that is, but you can tell me when you're ready. But for now, I want you to just have a little trust in me, okay? I'm two for two on recruiting amazing allies, right? My gut feeling tells me that it's going to be three, I know it. Just give me some time to sort some things out, and I'll sho

"Ah... looks like I did mess up...." Magna murmured to herself. Kagarin's body language alone was enough to convey how rattled she was. As comforting as a skeleton could be, Magna wrapped her arm around Kagarin and started to move her towards the outside. "I know we've just met and all, and pardon me for being terribly rude, but I'll have to excuse myself for a moment. I need to have a word with Kagarin here. Why don't you get more acquainted with Hellfire Knight? I'm sure she'd love the company~" Magna grinned, as she remembered her handshake with Hiroki. If her hunch was right, Hiroki would

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"-Oh! There you are Kagarin~" Magna said in surprise. "You look... different! I probably didn't notice you because of how dazzling your new outfit looked in my eyes~" Magna envied her a little, how she somehow managed to score a new outfit in this town. Due to anatomical reasons, actual clothing wouldn't perform any function of any sort. "Well, I know for one fact that she doesn't seem to have a book on her," said Magna. If she had facial tissue, she would have frowned. "But she is indeed a lady in armor. Is there... a problem?" Well, from what little Magna could garne

"Irregardless of whether or not you did, we're getting a new friend anyway!" Magna beamed, as she drew away from Hiroki's line of sight, to reveal Snow in her gleaming armor. "It's a flippin' knight in shining armor! Can you believe it? In my world, they don't exist anymore! Feel free to introduce yourselves! By the way, have you seen Kagarin anywhere? I don't see here around. It'd be a perfect time to meet our new ally!"

"To put it simply, you're one of the more rational ones. Of course, you wouldn't be the only one, but I've yet to meet the others yet. But from what I can tell, many of them are too hot-headed or carefree to be reliable," Magna said bluntly. There was no sugar-coating her words; Magna wanted to ascertain as soon as possible, whether or not Snow could be a potential ally or not. "Well, in the end, it's up to you how you want to read into it. I also want more allies because it's more fun that way~" "You don't have to give me an answer immediately. So do at least think it through," Magna en

"Don't mind if I do then~" Magna said, as she took a seat on a rock. Aelia? Transcend? Great Encompasser? Such words escaped her, as it went through one ear and out of the other. Already, Snow didn't seem like she was a human. If she could interact on the level of the gods, then perhaps Snow was some sort of spiritual being. Humans had religion back on her world, sure. But she never knew anything about humans being able to interact with their god. Was she a demi-god then, perhaps? Magna really wished she had read her instruction pamphlet when she started. In any case, it didn't seem like there

"Not to seem unfriendly, but do forgive me, as I don't do handshakes. I'm a bit of a germophobe, see," Magna said, as she pointed to her gloved hand. "But nevertheless, it is a pleasure to meet you, Snow." Magna surveyed the area around her to see if anyone was listening nearby, while making it seem like she was just stretching. "Though, I'm curious as to what you think about our current... predicament," Magna said. She was about to say adventure, but she was probably the only one who thought of their situation like that. "From what Leon has said, it seems that we aren't the first visitor

"Hmmm... firstly, might need your eyes checked if you think I'm a man, but I get it a lot cause apparently I'm too rough to be a woman. "My apologies then, one could never be too certain~" Male, female, did it really matter? Perhaps Magna found that gender mattered less to her, especially since she didn't have any organic aspect to her for the distinction to matter. Secondly to what end do you speak? The entirely of this situation... or our... rather eccentric companions...?" "Both, either, or neither!" Magna beamed. She was a respectable distance from Snow, but she still couldn't see anyt

"To become... a god? That seems a little... dangerous. But then again, I'm an embodiment of Death itself, so what's there to worry?" Magna chuckled, as she thought to herself. Leon had specified a place to meet when they were all ready to go. However, some of the party were already beginning to separate and act on their own, instead of preparing like Leon suggested. Even Kagari seemed to have an agenda of her own, so Magna supposed she would try and scout out potential allies in the meantime. Should the others decide to join Leon, then so would she. "The local townsfolk seem to be giving out p

"Oh ho ho~ It looks like I was right about what I said earlier, Kagarin~" Magna's skull chattered, as if to mimic laughing. "The others have already come to some sort of disagreement. I may have seemed a little too overcautious when it comes to trusting people, but it wasn't without reason~" Magna had been more or less listening to Leon's conversation, and grasped the gist of what was going on. From the way he described it, occurances of otherworldly travellers were not something new. The mention of getting their group "offworld" also worried her. She took the way it was worded as being u

"Oh... my..." If Magna had eyes, they would have narrowed in on Kagari. Instead, the glow of her eyes narrowed to the same effect. Although she was still gloved, she could see and feel the texture of Kagari's hand change into something different entirely. It seems that she wasn't the only one trying to masquerade as a human being. "That is quite... something." There were so many newcomers in this area alone, it was difficult to keep track of who was where. At least, some were moving to the next area. She didn't know what spurred everyone in motion so suddenly, but she supposed it was a go

"And how, pray tell, are you so certain of that?" Magna mused. "It was certainly... convenient that we were able to band together back there. But what's to say that won't change in the future? All these different people, different backgrounds, different philosophies... Who could say what might happen? But I digress." "It is rather convenient, yes. It does save me a lot of time back home," Magna replied. As to doing what, she didn't explain further. It seemed Kagari was one of the more observant ones; Magna had assumed the people at the vanguard would be too pre-occupied with battle to no