Cruel Angel's Thesis

[weienw]

The cleric blinks rapidly as a thin gurgle is squeezed out of the throat. He stretches his shoulder blades against the hard wall and fights off the blackness in an attempt for a clearer mind--maybe a better view of the re-dead?

Nope. He heaves back down like a deflated balloon. He tries to bring his chin lower, to little avail. The boy's eyes slip close; a small smile manages to creep onto his face.

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"If you can't beat 'em, boy--join 'em! Ha! Ha!" The smile drooped, comically, though the expression assumed was far from joking. Morosely, the Zoran stared Korind in the eyes. A woman only just past her prime, she hefted her bladed boomerangs with a bit of a grieved smirk before speaking. "I'll tell you something--a quiet skill, wouldn't really call it magic. They wouldn't be able to class it as white or black anyway, so out the window it goes, eh? Ha! Ha!" Korind laughed, but quieted as she grew somber again. "It's simple, only because you don't really ever practice this sort of thing. Defensive--you just prevent yourself from getting killed by rendering yourself clinically dead for a short period of time." Korind had burst out loud laughing. The Zora shook her head. "It works," she said quietly, in a way that shut the boy up instantly.

A foggy memory. A lecture on abdomens, brains, and air. She taught with a touch of impatience, explaining as well as she could. "Underwater, strangled, trapped in a box--stop, mentalize the breathing though there's no air, wait, sing in your mind. Do not allow yourself to die from the pain. Then, when everything goes out, pray, pray like the dickens! Din, Nayru, whatever! You'll need a touch of providence to survive." A wry grin.

"Thanks for the herbs, boy, and--" A high, singing cackle--"Don't die out there."
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The smile disappears. Korind's shoulders come to rest, as does everything else. The grip around his throat seems to fuse into him like stone. The light...

Nayru, help! Goodnight...

[Red_Fury]

Looking back into the room where he came from he sees the continued struggle against the undead creature. He turns back looking towards the pool at the other end of the room.

'There is nothing more I can do.' he thinks remembering his attempt to get the creatures attention and begins to follow the path set near the wall, pacing slowly and with a heavy heart, he wonders about he peculiar placement of the path but he continues to follow it.

Reaching the end of the path he looks up at the large windows and glances at the columns. He then peers into the pool, looking down into it's depths.

[Burning Monkey]

OOC:  So I realy did pick it up?  Phew!  That's a relief!

IC:Grabbing fistfuls of burial wrappings Gul the Destroyer whips the animated corpse above his head and with a mighty barbaric shout that recalls the strength of the mighty mountains and the rage of a terrible thunderstorm, Gul hurls the abomination into the sunlight.  With an air of hope that the creature will burst into flames, or at least get really wet in the pool, Gull watches with satisfaction.

[Marin]

What about me?

[Darth Wyndisis]

Din, Nayru... help me.  Wyndisis remembers as he attempts to dive-bomb the undead figure strangling Korind.  Would a spell, or perhaps...?  Yes!  Heal it Korind!  Nayru's love... who thought it would work.  He only wished he could speak, but if he could get that redead to loosen its grip...

[weienw]

OOC: Marin, I guess it'd be safe enough to just re-note that your character is in the room...if it's still a light burst you'd like him to do, go ahead and do it. Hop on in, the water's warm! (er...)

[Jack Half a Prayer]

OOC: I'm sorry about the Delay on this. I've been very distracted recently and I considered making this my final post announcing my retirement from HA. But the new Zelda Info has gotten into my blood and here I am agian. So without further ado, lets go!

Narraton: Everything happens at once. Gul's weight crashes down on the creature which turns on him with soulful eyes as it flys head long into the light. The yellow sun falls full on its grey flesh, its red tattoo's begin to fade, its blue tattoos glow and seem to give off a saphire light of their own. You see a ghost of movement, a sinuous red blur writhes its way around the creature's body and slides down its throat. The blue glow fades back to normal. The Re-Dead(?) rises and begins to shamble down the path in the Greenhouse(?) towards Red.

Meanwhile suspened against the wall, Korind's body hangs, calm. The creature on the ground, its left hand raised toward Korind mutters to itself, beging for help. It speach slows, fades, it smiles and falls to the ground, its blue tattoo's glowing and then fading. There is a sinous movement...somewhere... on its body, and then gone! Korind Drops to the Ground.

Marin stands in the doorway shocked and amazed by the sight, Adara floats languidly next to him. Five more of the creatures make there way towards the heros mutting pleas for salvaion.

Off to the hero's left stands the doorway, its heavy Iron Doors open wide, its maw bleeding bright light into the room.

Meanwhile Red reaches the end of the semi-circualr room. It ends in a tall Iron door carved with glyphs you cannot read. In front of it are 5 switches on the ground, all carved of a smooth red stone. The water is clear and smells fresh, but you cannot make out what is in the depths...

[Master Goron]

OOC: The water's in Red's room, correct? And this room's dry, I assume.

IC: Shiva hears a quiet gurgling off to his left. Stopping, he finally draws his eyes from their lock on his spear. Shaking his head, he gazes over at Korind and watches as his body falls limp. 'That *^$#@(% re-dead just killed Korind!' He thinks. Suddenly he seems to be a new person, almost psychotic. He takes off, completely ignoring everything that's going on around him. His mind racing, he sees the beast finish choking Korind, and as it drops him to the ground, he loses it. "#&$%, WHY!?!" He reaches down, preparing to draw his spear, he can't grab it. Realizing he never got it back, he moans at his stupidity. He reacts anyway, rage controlling his thought, actions, he finally approaches the monstrosity. "Die *%&#@" He attempts to kick the creature, with fury of unknown descent. He keeps throwing a flurry of punches, hoping to gain some sort of advantage, then he tries to grab it, and put it into a submissive-style strangle-hold. All his mind can think of is how to take revenge for Korind.

[weienw]

The body lands loosely, turning over onto it's back when it hits the ground. The dirt-green cap slips from the forehead back, flattening in a soft triangle of cloth. Wilted black hair. Relaxed, open hands; the multifaceted cloak open and free, yet revealling only more folds of robe. At the collar Korind's neck shows no movement that you can see without stooping down. The lips, rapidly growing a purplish hue, are still transfixed in a sort of rigor mortis smile. As are the pointed Hylian ears: they are craned upwards, if anything.

Shouts. Whistling, the whirring of flurried limbs. Is that Shiva cursing?

[Red_Fury]

Red peers down into the pool but the light fades into darkness hiding what may lie in its depths. He drags his hand across the water his fingers just breaking the waters surface. The ripples floe from his hand before dissolving back into calm water as they spread out.

He looks towards the iron door and the stones that lay before it. Five of them. he thinks in quiet contemplation. If only I knew what... At that moment the relative silence of the room is broken. Aside from the gentle lapping of the water in the pool there is another sound, a shuffling, moaning.

'No! It can't be!' Red's eyes widen as he comes to the realiseation that one of those creatures is in the room with him. He turns round rapidly, his cloak fluttering behind him as he does so. 'I though would be safe, but it looks like the Goddesses have other plans.' He draws his swords so the points are facing the floor and then in one fluid movement flips them the right way up.

'You better hope I make it out of here alive, otherwise I'm coming for ya.' He says talking to the Goddesses as he runs towards the creature . He moves both his swords to the right of his body as he stops before the creature and using the momentum of his run spins his left sword trained at the it's head and the right for it's chest, and ends with his back to the creature.

[Jack Half a Prayer]

The rouge stands as a shadow against the yellow light, his foe behind him. His foe freezes, mutters under it's breath, sighs, and falls to the ground.
Then it rises again, Turning toward Red, it's dusty voice a growl, it turns toward Red and says:
Why, Why won't you help me...

Mean while Shiva, his weight holding one of the creatures down is yanked off of his victim and thrown into the air He lands agianst the oposite wall, bounces off and lands on the ground with a meaty thwack!

[Darth Wyndisis]

Wyndisis sees Shiva get pulled away from the enemy, and he flys toward the redead and attempts to claw and peck it.

[Master Goron]

"Well, that didn't work at all..." Shiva mumbles as he pushes on his back. It snaps a couple times, followed by a loud sigh. He throws his body upright, mind churning, he needs a plan. Knowing he'll need it at some point, he walks over to where his spear is buried, like a javelin, into the hard dirt. Pulling it  slowly from it's resting place, he then practices a couple jabs, and swings it once, before replacing it with a smile on his face. He then looks up, and toward the nearest redead, thinking, 'what are it's weaknesses, what can we do to these things to kill them?' [insight] He checks the room, and looking he sees only Korind's body, Gull(1 or 2 'l's ?), and Marin. "Where's Red and Wyndisis?" He calls out, and begins walking toward Marin.

[Marin]

"No idea.."Marin  points his blades at one of the zombies, a ray of light comes from him and into the zombie.

OOC: I cast life.

[Darth Wyndisis]

Finally, someone knows what the hell he's doing, Wyndisis thinks.