Yours Truly

Round Two, First Phase The Mighty Marx threw a grenade at Halley, Visrii, and The Bullet with a cry of "You got it alright, and you can keep it", dealing a grand total of 5, 7, and 11 points of damage, and succeeding in stunning The Bullet. Lexiel heals her one? competent party member, the guy who keeps getting shot, and herself for three points of damage before shielding herself and Visrii with a disposable minion. Edmond's welder was working overtime tonight, as the combination of his pinpointing and searing of weak spots...along with Visrii's helpful assistance with hitting said spots repeatedly led to the boss suffering a rather fiery fate as he was dealt a grand total of....186 damage to the silly little man. But before he exploded into a million little bits and pieces...he had enough time to say "Go, and never darken my towels again". You are not really sure how to respond to that, but his glasses were left on the floor....it looks rather ridiculous though. The room itself was rather unremarkable, and the cultists/lab assistants have already started to leave the building, although the remains of the already dead lab assistants were strewn all over the place...the man with the data slate had rather unfortunately found the time to buckle up and push a button, but he appeared to have left a rather evil looking book on a pedestal in the middle of the room. You can tell that the book is evil simply by looking at it's horned cover, and how it seems to be emanating a feeling of corruptness, constant change, and it seems to suffuse the area with an odd feeling of purple. You also hear the sound of heavy metal music mixed with the beating of war drums while a rather slimy voice hums the same tune over and over. That and some douche seems to be completely and utterly unable to decide what instrument he wants to use and randomly changes his and other people's instruments only to randomly not change his and other people's instruments sometimes. Look....it just doesn't make any sense whatsoever, and you feel that it would look much better when it is on fire and not being weird and magical. The room itself is filled with an almost unreasonable amount of pillars, overturned and thick tables, and for some odd reason somebody decided that this room really needed some sandbags....there is also a rather large console that wouldn't look out of place in a nuclear plant, it was almost a dozen meters side to side....there is also the remains of a robot lying in a disorganized pile. Edmond and Izumi would receive a message on his phone from...someone, maybe they should check it?

I am very sorry to hear that not only is it a Monday, but that you are now one step closer to the grave. At the very least you have one small crumb of comfort. At least you'll have a reason to spend some of your meager funds buying something Edgy ya Edgy not so little man you... But seriously happy birthday ya Chaos loving heretic, here is a picture of your favorite unit. I would get you a more substantial gift, but we don't really have a lot of things in common, and I know that you don't really love books or other "passive methods of entertaining yourself", and that you don't like Trading in Reborn too much. So here is a silly video of a man nailed to a cross and singing. https://youtu.be/SJUhlRoBL8M Take care man, and may you have a long and prosp-ffffttttt.

Radovan would have honestly helped out with carrying the other Employee out of the bridge, but to be brutally honest he didn't really want to carry another person out of there, and to be brutally honest wasn't it their job to carry heavy things anyway? He was a bit disappointed over his inability to catch a Sableye, but a part of him was just glad that it was all over. He put the Larvitar back into it's Aetherball before sitting down, and he smiled warmly at Shelly as he showed Zeta how to buckle up a seat belt...it was such a cute sight. He then leaned back into his seat, buckled up his own seatbelt, and gave Shelly a two thumbs up gesture before closing his eyes and dreaming of something nice. He had just gotten the knife out when he was woken up by the drill arriving, or possibly Gina yelling at him.

Radovan was straining to lift the man up earlier, but Shelly's help allowed him to have enough remaining strength to put on his serious tone of voice and say "Well you know the Sableye that is potentially hostile and is the most likely cause of this man being comatose? We are taking him away from the bridge and somewhere comparatively safer, like the main room of the Nexus drill. At the very least we should be able to get the remaining employees to help us lift the other man out and keep watch over this one", he then tried his best to not cause any of the man's body parts to hit the walls of the Nexus drill, he didn't want to save the man from a dangerous situation only to cause him to die of brain injuries after all...

Edmund shrugged again before saying "Well then try and learn something from him, you will never know if you can be good at it if you never try. That and I have a cousin who majored in Hospitality, he said that he spent most of it learning the proper way to sit down and eat dinner". Edmund continued using his apparently perfectly functional mobile phone for a while "I am more worried about the floor breaking".

Edmund nodded along to Chloe's response as he continued his presumably vain quest to find his mobile phone "Ah, well that is quite interesting, I think it may teach you a thing or two about politics". After a while the man gave up his search and shrugged his shoulders in indifference, which caused the mobile phone he was looking for fall out of of his right sleeve and impacted the ground with an odd *Thud* sound. Edmund swiftly picked up the mobile phone and started to look for something inside of it while muttering the words "damn, damn, not again" underneath his breath.

Edmund's hand rummaged around the coat of his pocket....no matter how hard he tried he could never find that blasted mobile device fast enough "Necromancy, and before you ask...it's a family matter, although I can't help but think that conversing with the spirits of the dead has many other uses....".

Edmund silently judged the both of them as he tried to change the subject to a much lighter one by asking "So what are you guys majoring in? You don't have to tell me as it is a very personal matter, but I would like to know".

Radovan shook his head at Emmanuel's question before bravely bravely running away from the fight by simply putting the genie back into the bottle and dragging off one of the two Aether Employees, rather unfortunately he made very slow progress with the extremely heavy dead weight and said "Can I get some help with this? I think this guy has eaten one too many oran berries" before continuing to drag the employee away.

Radovan was rather shocked at this recent turn of events, and he immediately remembered his father's advice and sidled over to the bridge to try and cover his teammates, but before doing so he silently released his Larvitar from it's Aetherball for a moment. He then whispered the words "Are they still alive? And may I ask you and someone else to move them away from the Sableye?".

Not actually the original poster, but I'd say that with a Power item for the EV you want to train for and an easily exploitable point like the woobat points underneath the railway system I would say that it takes around 10 minutes for one stat if you are fast enough and the speed up button is used. It will take considerably longer if you do not have a power item or an easily exploitable spot.

It was the first battle against Julia on my third Dark monotype, I had grinded up my team especially for this, and I had two Liepards just to try and body Julia if everything went wrong....and then my Mightyena apparently had Moxie and proceeded to sweep the entire goshdarned gym battle and only finally falling to her Electrode. This is the real reason why Ame won't give us that sweet sweet Gyarados, Moxie Gyarados will be the end of most challenges.

Yes I know what you are thinking, look at this douche...being a thread necromancer in his own thread, and also look at him being all fancy and rebooting something that he has rebooted like a Sony executive. But yeah....here is the first part of the first chapter of The Number Four again, but with entirely different writing.

After hearing Lucius's question the messenger slowly shook his head as he said in a tired tone of voice "Don't bother, just let them come to you, not a lot of people know the path from Multon to Astrakane by heart, and most maps use note down the watchtowers as local landmarks if they even bother to try and note anything down anyway. Just don't be surprised if you see a large group of people moving towards your watchtower. Ya better make sure to keep your weapons ready at all times, you never know what the next group of 'refugees' are planning to do". The tired man then tries to look past Lucius and Georgey, after a while he seems to be satisfied with what he is looking at, and he says with a rather pleading tone "Can I come in to your tower? it would be nice to have a few more moments rest before I set off towards the next tower....". Meanwhile, the imposing man had finished cleaning up the bottom floor of the watchtower to his own specifications, and he looked at the completely and utterly ordered items with pride. Rather unfortunately, though, he did not manage to find any mannequins or racks for him to place the armor and weapons that he had found in the room on. He sighed while mentally writing down another note for the report he was making on the state of the watchtower, granted they have only been here for a day, but they could have made this place a little more tidy now couldn't they? And how in the hell did they get a flying herring anyway?. The imposing man shook his head as he walked up the stairs of the watchtower. At the very least he could help make the place look more respectable for now, and he considered shouting out the words "Is there any more weird shit upstairs?", but he decided not to bother them for now.

You decide that the vaguely sunny clearing is the best chance you have of finding an adder and making it back to your hovel in time for supper. On your way there your foot find a well worn chisel on the forest floor, it was thankfully rather dull by this point and your foot and boot was mostly unharmed by the ordeal. Although you had to remind yourself that stubbing your toe is not an excuse for jumping around and shouting "BOLLOCKS" multiple times in a predator filled forest. You look up from the chisel for a moment, and find yourself staring down a relatively dark path that you have never gone down before. Now it is true that the forest was not a quiet place, as no matter where in the entire forest you went, the distant sound of bird songs would always be there to bother you, and that is not mentioning the rather loud sounds that the terror beasts makes at all times of the day. But strangely enough this area of the forest was rather quiet....a bit too quiet actually; it might actually be a better idea to just continue towards your original destination rather than risk life and limb trying to find out what secrets if any the dark path holds. After a few moments you decide to.... >>>>>>>>>Walk Away: Look..why should we just charge blindly into an unknown situation where for all we know the trap filled temple of a dead god might be waiting to kill you horribly and consume your soul as another piece of currency to pay for the dead god's eventual return? Or maybe there are giant spiders in there, no evil conspiracies or traps, just a shitload of giant spiders who are all not that hungry right now, but of course you would be saving them the trouble of going out and getting next week's dinner. >>>>>>>>>Cautiously advance: You know what else is waiting for you in a trap filled temple? RICHES BEYOND YOUR MILDEST DREAMS, all waiting for some skilled and suave adventurer to sneakily take them away from such a dull and boring place. To put it simply you should play to your strengths and keep your head on a swivel, no giant spider is not going to sneak up on this adventurer...not like it would need to sneak up on you to win a fight anyway. >>>>>>>>>Bravely advance: WHO NEEDS A PLAN OR SPOTTING ABILITIES? ALL YOU NEED TO WIN IS ENOUGH RAGE, CHARGE AT THE TRAPS I SAY, CHAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGEEEE! >>>>>>>>>Other: (Tell everyone else what your brilliant plan is)

Yullen shrugs as he continues his conversation with the mage "Nothing preventing me from proving myself, rescuing people from Evvviillll, and making money along the way now is there? Good is not necessarily poor and chaste, although there are those who chose to follow a personal code of honor....do not assume that every knight wears gleaming armor and chases after damsels in distress.".

Yullen stared at the rather odd mage for a moment, as he tried to remember if the man had honestly just called him "dear". But he decided to brush it off for now and say "I don't know about you, but I'd rather have a fat pile of gold and the sweet sweet feeling you only get when you do a good deed, but suit yourselves".

(I apologise for the lack of green text, I am currently on my phone) You decide that the easiest way to gather more resources would be to find something that is rare yet not very threatening and kill a decent amount of it. Which is why you eventually settled for wrangling up some Adders. You vaguely recall how much they love brightly lit places, which helps narrow it down somewhat. You then pick up a small sack that the good hermit had left there for you, and you gingerly take out the various oddly colored rocks he had placed inside. The temperature was rather cool and comfortable as you walk in the lazy daylight, and you scratch your head as you walks towards the..... >>>>>>>>The Lake of disappointment: So called due to the discover expecting something more remarkable in an otherwise dangerous and interesting forest other than a clear lake filled with fish. The discoverer spent many months conversing with magi, religious folk, and merchants before finally coming to the conclusion that it is nothing but a rather pleasant lake. You vaguely remember an old legend that the nameless discoverer died near the lake after being bitten by several rather poisonous creatures....that might just be the elusive Adder >>>>>>>Deepwood Clearing: You have been there before, a clearing smack dab in the middle of the forest. You once saw an Adder here, but that was a year ago and you had chosen to let the beast go, you don't kill women defending their children, even if they are a beast. This place also had a Terror Beast, but that was a year ago and you're pretty sure that it isn't alive anymore. >>>>>>>Burakhazi's Hill: It is a hill that some self righteous dick named Burakhazi once died on. It is also a holy site for the followers of the Snake God Khan Ham Snekt. You are not sure why this forest has so many holy sites and exotic animals. >>>>>>>Geerati River: Yet another oddly named location of interest, except this one technically only passes a tiny bit of the forest in the east of it. That part of the forest is also brightly lit as the trees are suspiciously bad at covering the sky, it's like someone or something are chopping off the branches...

The tired messenger finally stood up before proudly declaring "We provide the town of Astrakane with meat and cheese, along with a steady supply of expertly trained soldiers and watchmen who man the majority of the watchtowers on the eastern border. For the most part your town provides a steady supply of high quality grain that we then feed to our livestock. Now the Barbarians on the other hand....". There was a slight yet unmistakable shift in the tone of voice he was using as he said with "I don't know what they call themselves now, but my father said that they used to be the great Khanate of Obed Harl, and my grandfather said that before that they were the Disorganized Warbands of Borea, and even before that his father told him that they were the Three Kingdoms of the war torn Plateau or something. In essence they are a bunch of huge annoyances, quite literally in fact....So far all they have done was spend their time becoming progressively more united and fighting in bloody wars against each other while also raiding Arctonian lands before eventually uniting underneath one leader for a massive invasion of surrounding lands" his proud tone of voice returned as he said "And then becoming routed and turning back into their natural beast like states of constant war." He then shakes his head before saying "The refugees coming here are cowards, nothing more...nothing less, the barbarians try and raid us all of the time. It's the fancy green banners, people think that they are forming another massive warband or something.....".

Radovan shrugged his shoulders at Frederick before attempting to put on a serious tone of voice as he said "It wanted to hitch a free ride to a Nexus and decided to hide inside of a toilet, it deserved every single moment of discomfort it felt during the way out. And let's face it, it is probably laughing about the big prank outside right now, also how many of you have empty Aether balls right now? It is probably a good idea to get some....In Fact!". He then made his way towards the main room of the Nexus drill, where he rather politely decided to shout at any nearby Aether Employee the words "DO YOU HAVE AN EMPTY AETHER BALL? and may I please have one?" until they decided to give the rich man an Aether ball.

Edmund strummed his guitar a bit as he says "As you know my name is Edmund Blackadder, and quite frankly I don't really feel the need to identify as anything other than a he" he then shrugs a bit before putting down the guitar and putting on a serious tone of voice "Quite frankly the only major difference between me and your average Joe would be that you average Joe can't cast Wizardly spells". He stops for a moment to consider what trait he would want to emphasize, and he then glances at his guitar "I used to be in a Highschool Band, and I am still pretty good with a Guitar if I do say so myself.".

Round 1 The Mighty Marx takes out a cigar and puts it in his mouth, and he examined Visrii, Lexiel and Edmond before saying "Well I'll show you a thing or three" before throwing something at their current positions. Edmond and Lexiel succeeded in maintaining grip on a nearby surface and thus not getting sucked into the vortex generated by the rapidly disintegrating device but they were thrown around the room for a bit after the vortex decided that it wanted to explode instead, with Lexiel taking 10 points of damage and Edmond taking 9 points of damage. although Visrii was less fortunate and experienced getting his face vacuumed by a small hole that deals 10 points of damage Lexiel proceeded to shoot The Mighty Marx in the face dealing a whopping 0 points of damage, although she did manage to lower his Int and Dex by 2 and boost her teammates. Visrii is currently stunned Edmond succeeds in dealing 16 points of damage to the man, and setting him up for a rather devastating attack much later on. The Mighty Marx shakes his head at Visrii and attempts to throw another thing at him, he misses the man, and causes the bomb to miss the Bullet instead. Halley fires her blaster at The Mighty Marx, causing him to lose a total of -3 RES -3 DEX and -3 Str The Bullet spends a moment to dodge the man's attack Izumi reduces the man's res by an additional 9 points for three rounds. Initative Status:

After a moment of thinking you finally come to a decision, adventuring is simply a state of mind, and a monster hunter is at the very least honest about what they actually do for a living, and since you are working alone you won't have to share your profits with *anyone*, which is a huge plus in your books. With that matter settled you try and remember the most exotic beast you can think off....which one was it? The one that the old hermit talked at length about before mysteriously disappearing but not before giving you the permission to live here? >>>>>>>>The Deadly and mysterious "Adder": the only poisonous snake in the entire forest that isn't gigantic or able to melt through armor with its spit. Unsurprisingly hard to find these days, but Adder carcasses can fetch a pretty decent price, for some odd reason rich people really love to eat them....you're not sure why. >>>>>>>Shifter Bugs: Extremely annoying and hard to put down, they were known for phasing in and out of existence and preying on poorly armed travelers. Fortunately enough the nearby republic of Sod Em are looking forward to reducing the amount of Shifter bugs present in the forest, and you have heard a rumor that they will pay a rather tidy sum for a mostly undamaged carcass. >>>>>>>"The Blackthawne Beast": They say that a rather powerful and mysterious beast lives in the depths of the forest, and that the beast has been known to roam in the outskirts of the forest in the dead of night, raiding caravans and slaying travelers; leaving nothing but broken carriages and gnawed bones in it's wake. So far there has only been one witness, a terrified little boy by the name of "Randall" who speaks of a giant white furred monster with terrible teeth, that moves with an unnatural speed and has the strength of ten men. There is a bounty out on this creature, but you feel that it would be unwise to hunt it down by your lonesome.

The imposing man immediately struck a rather sudden and often rehearsed pose after hearing Lucius's question, with one hand on the hilt of his sword, and another hand that had been clenched into a fist and placed over the heart hidden underneath his studded red gambeson, and he immediately declared "My name is Anatoly, and you don't have to ask me for permission to do your job watchman", and the man stopped posing and continued to clean the inside of the room as swiftly as he had taken the pose. The tired watchman immediately took the pitcher of water and started to quaff; after a while he finally coughs out the words "I already told the other Watchman why I am here, but I haven't given him the message yet....hold on a moment". He then spent that moment to dust himself off and greet the two watchmen properly, before putting on an easy to understand and quite slow tone of voice as he said "I come from the town of Multon with an important message, the Barbarians to the east have risen up once more, and this minor embuggerance has gotten quite annoying, but either way you should expect both refugees travelling to family in Astrakane in order to seek a more peaceful place to lay their head on, and maybe some lost Barbarians who have come to rob the previous group blind and take as many slaves they can carry off, and may I remind you that it is your civic duty to make sure that every single one of those slightly less than brave men and women make it into your town?"