Yours Truly

Radovan wasn't really bothered by the whole thing, as a lifelong #07 resident you get used to seeing adults do weird shit with each other, but to be honest he was a bit surprised that Gina would lead them here, she didn't really seem like the type of person who would join something like this you know?. Radovan continued to quietly munch on a waffle he hadn't quite finished earlier for a while, and he had a rather bored look on his face as he tried to figure out what the odd creatures drawn on the wallpaper is supposed to be. After a while he pointed at the nearest drawing before asking "What is that supposed to be? And why are we here anyway?"

Richard charged ahead to cut off the goblin from the conveniently placed window, and he attempts to knock it out with the pommel of his sword, the more prisoners they took, the better the chances of actually managing to extract useful information from one of them, that and this goblin already looked like he was going to squeal anyway. "Oh please like this goblin is worth ogling anyway".

Solomon Solomon desperately tried to fend off the fireballs and lightning himself while piloting the craft for a while, before realizing how stupid of an idea that was after another section of the helicopter was replaced just before a fireball could enter through the open hole and incinerate everyone. Rather fortunately he saw the youngish man try to fend off the fireballs with his sword for some odd reason and he decided that the last thing this young man would need is a magic induced acid trip. Which is why Solomon cast his good old 'minor reality warping' spell on the poor, poor man before saying "THINK ABOUT SOMETHING POSITIVE!" and firing a missile made out of books at a nearby fireball slinging dick in plate mail. Atton In response to Navin's devastating blow Atton simply examined the other half completed siege engines currently on the field and shouted out the places he thinks Navin should hit them in for maximum effect while trying to keep the skeletal horde from swarming the three by simply firing at them as accurately as possible.

Richard honestly couldn't think of anything better to say in response than "Well it looks like it's time to ash them some questions!" Before charging at the goblin and attempting to liberate their body from the evil regime it's head. Make pun, Move 5 ft towards Goblin, attack Goblin.

Richard heard the inappropriately dressed woman's request, and to be brutally honest he didn't really need a second person to tell him to investigate suspicious screaming in the first place. He attempted to strike the goblin he was fighting non lethally with the pommel of his blade to try and knock out it out before saying "Bartender! Can I count on your help to protect the lady while I investigate the horrid screaming?". After possibly knocking out the goblin he would say "Stay safe all right? We've got this Althea, you'll be fine" and rushing towards the source of the screaming.

Solomon's hovercraft slowly but steadily changed shape as it took to the sky in all of its inexplicable and helicopter shaped glory. He could be heard shouting something that sounded like "Knowledge = Power bitches!" in response to Morgan's question before it all just devolved into a mass of swear words and black speech as the enemy inevitably started to unload arrows into his craft, because of course they would do that, who wouldn't fire at the flying book based construct raining down death and destruction with the help of its passengers?. Either way he eventually settled for quietly singing an odd little song about chopping down mountains with his hand as large chunks of the helicopter fell off of it to try and crush some Dragontooth soldiers before it was swiftly replaced piece by piece due to Laver's best efforts. Ghost's efforts were appreciated by Solomon as while the helicopter itself didn't really mind having a couple dozen arrows sticking out of it, the sometimes exposed passengers couldn't really say the same. Aurora may have felt better about the whole thing if everyone and everything on the helicopter was a spider or made out of spiders, and if she were shooting exclusively at hostile human forces as opposed to trying to get into a fortress filled with the damn things on a vehicle piloted by a particularly dickish example of that race. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Atton ran after the Indian as he tried to do his best to distract the nearby skeletons, mainly by shouting biblical verses before shooting them.

FYI I am going to chase after the source of the screaming, mostly because you guys are averaging 1.5 Goblins dead per round and my character prioritizes protecting "People screaming outside" more than he wants to protect "Althea and the four people kicking ass".

Edmund didn't really know how to respond to that, he was stuck somewhere between being embarrassed, irritated, or being less polite and mention the concept of personal space to her. He eventually settled for desperately trying to slowly shift the focus of the conversation from him by quietly saying "Okay now when someone like you says that they like animated movies it just seems like a good thing to be honest" he went quiet for a while before finally having a decent enough idea and saying "You know....what do you want out of this place anyway?".

You know, it would be nice if we had some form of information about when we would be able to post, or at the very least a general idea of our respective timezones, nothing too personal like countries or what hour it is or anything. I guess I will start by saying that I come from a GMT +7 timezone, and that if I don't post any combat related posts for long periods of time, it's because I don't have easy access to a computer.

Solomon was content with sitting inside of his hovercraft as he made engine revving sounds inside of his head and slowly but surely examined the various books he had summoned. Most of them were just variations of the same book, although he had to throw away a certain regrettable example after realizing that it's cover was a little too suggestive for some of the more easily influenced members of the party. He continued to sit there and examine books while waiting for something particularly interesting to happen, although a mumbled "At worst we would just be clearing a path to the keep right?" could be heard coming from him after Halley's question.

Richard notices how the Goblin ahead of him has made a tactical error by charging towards the guy in chainmail and carrying a large sword instead of attacking literally anyone else, and he attempts to showcase this by slashing at the goblin with his longsword wielded in two hands. He also noticed Althea attempting to stop herself from crying after seeing a man die horribly, and he honestly couldn't think of anything to say, battle is a terrible thing and you can't always save everyone.

Solomon nodded towards Edmond and simply said "Fair point" in response. He then walked out of his hovercraft to calmly state "Everyone who wants to not walk or travel inside of a highly armored vehicle, I recommend going into the snake lady's hovercraft simply because mine is made mostly out of..." He takes a random book from the vehicle he had been riding on, and looks at the words on its cover "Jane Austen novels again, just....Jesus Christ how many copies of Pride and Hydrochloride does the universe have?" He throws the book away somewhere behind him without looking at it, potentially almost hitting someone with it before it disappeared again....somewhere. Either way he got almost all of the way inside of it before adding "Also seriously, are we just going to cross our fingers and try to clear our own path through the invading army you mentioned Nobu? Because that actually sounds plausible with this group.". Atton Atton quietly walked towards Dackly's hovercraft, and he attempted to use the flames underneath it to light a cigar. As he quietly had a nice smoke he asked the snake woman "You have a nice craft, it is a shame that I can't enter it actually, it's a bit too threatening and obvious for me to clamber into.".

Solomon attempted to consider Nobunaga's words seriously for a few moments before saying "So in essence there are two extremely powerful spirits looking forward to destroying the keep and taking the leyline for obviously nefarious purposes, and we're here to say fuck no and try to kill them somehow? Well can you tell us more about what the 'Assassin' and the 'Caster' are, and what you meant by 'helping me kill the other servants to end the war'? Like how many of them are there and stuff." He stood there awkwardly for another few moments, a ridiculous looking man in golden armor standing on a book based hovercraft, before finally saying "Also...do you know of a different way to get to the keep? Or are we going to have to fight our way through it?".

Solomon shrugged his shoulders at the alternate universe Nobunaga's statement, and he found her speech about contracts to be rather odd...perhaps "she" was just a particularly odd free spirit who was presumably confused about the gender of a certain historical figure. Either way Solomon did his best to reinforce the hovercraft's armor in the hopes that it would prevent them from them from getting horribly mauled to death by skeletal beasts in the next battle.

Richard was honestly too busy trying to get his legs to drive him closer to an enemy he could hit with his sword to say anything other than "Please stay put!".

The book based hovercraft rode off down the gap to chase after Lexiel, Mitsu and everyone else who seemed to know where they were going in an inappropriate display of holistic driving. He didn't really have anything to say to the mad scientist or the woman with a knife other than the standard "So I don't think that I have managed to catch any of your names, well either way my name is Solomon, this has been a very pleasant day hasn't it?". He pretended not to notice Halley getting on his vehicle, although she would find that any seat she tried to sit on would suddenly be composed of ever so slightly more thin and comfortable light novels. Solomon's magical hovercraft ride ended in front of what is apparently a ruin. A part of him was disappointed about having to stop in front of such a depressing place, but he admitted that was probably better than charging out of a battle just to stumble into another one. "So is there anything we can do to help with that problem? And do you know who that mage was? It might be a good idea to know where she lives as well, we might want to send her a receipt for the dragon we made for her...." Atton doesn't comment on anything, as he was too busy resisting the urge to charge at the keep and start shooting at the enemy.

In a perfect world Richard would have had the time to make a comment about being unable to not want to help her sleep tonight with as innocent of a smile he could muster, and following up with an equally passionate kiss immediately afterwards. Because as a Human man he honestly can't help but say those silly little words. Rather unfortunately the already struggling romantic mood was ruined by the arrival of a quintet of angry goblins, and there was no time, and no words that could be said to Althea but the good old "M'lady, I think it's time for me to fight for your honor!". He drew his longsword and moved as quickly as possible towards the nearest goblin while shouting something along the lines of "Death to the mortals!". ((OOC: I can't access r20's features right now due to phone so if somebody could roll initiative for me and/or tell me which goblin is closer that would help speed this up))

That would be great rustytengo, also sorry for potentially making all of you uncomfortable over the last few posts.

As I mentioned in the r20 thing as Ave Deus Vult, can someone roll initiative for me or something?

Edmund realized that he should have kept his mouth shut, I mean how many women would stick around with a man who honestly still liked the good old Transformers cartoons? But then again by this point it was far far too late to back out without seeming like a wuss "Three words, Transformers The Movie...the 1986 animated one, although I can't honestly say that I like an animated movie these days without sounding like a whiny man child, which is.....something".

Solomon Solomon didn't comment about the strange lady or the ridiculously outdated guns, he just assumed that this was "modern day" Japan and that the people who rescued them were playing some weird Japanese game show. He started to form a more spacious than usual platform made out of floating books, and waved at the remainder of the group before getting on it and shouting "First chopper out of the active combat zone is about to leave towards the supposed human fortress soon, would absolutely anyone want to sit instead of walk? This baby can hover or just plain fly". Atton Atton had World War 2 flashbacks, it took a considerable amount of his strength of will to try and trust the woman brandishing a katana, and it took another ounce of it to start marching towards the supposed "Human Fortress", but in all fairness she wasn't shooting their ridiculous gonnes at him or any of the people he wants to protect, and to be brutally honest Atton didn't really care about any other details, he just said the words "Good work men! I'll meet you all at the human fortress then" before heading there with some hopefully much better armed and armored people.

Richard had a pleased look on his face after seeing Althea smile and hearing her laugh, and he honestly couldn't resist saying "I wish I was an Elf, because I doubt I'll be able to sleep after seeing your smile." After hearing Althea talk about ending the evening and asking him about Sayre he did what anyone would do to close a wonderful evening with a beautiful lady, and that is resist the urge to do anything weird as much as possible, and stick with the old knightly standby of kissing a lady hand as gently as possible. He had a smile on his face as he said "It is decently far to the north, and yes I feel that it would be wise to try and turn in for the evening, we will need our strength to deal with whatever comes our way tomorrow....I will meet you in front of the bar tomorrow then Miss Althea". He slowly and surely walked over to the bartender and paid the man for the food he had ordered and consumed, and made sure to leave a more generous than usual tip along with his payment, he was feeling awfully happy tonight. This state of mind did not stop him from tipping the spoony bard a mere 1 Sp.

Atton used Battle Plans on Mitsurugi, buffing her Res by Atton's Int * 1.25 for two rounds.

Richard wondered exactly how the Bard caused his instrument to make those tortured sounds, or why they had decided to take their devil music inside of this specific tavern. It was a bit of a mood ruiner to be honest, and he found himself having to strain his ears to listen to what Althea was saying. But he tried to continue the conversation anyway by saying "So Althea...what do you think about this town? I haven't really been here before, and I didn't have the time to explore", he wanted to get her to talk about any interesting landmarks she might have gone to in the area, because it seemed like a good way to revive the conversation, and who knows...maybe tomorrow they could go to one together.

Most people would have stopped to apologize when a hulking continental who presumably leapt straight from the pages of a viking epic yells at them about it being fighting words while a person who is mostly muscle and scars glared at you, but to be brutally honest Edmund honestly believes that he wasn't most people. This is why Edmond did not pay any attention to the peanut gallery when he continued with "I think Baywatch is just an excuse to spend an hour or so looking at women in less clothing than usual on a beach, although to be honest I rarely go to the cinema these days, almost everything is so miserable or soulless these days, especially since I can't watch the movies I used to love as a kid in public anymore without being seen as a weirdo".