Pax RP

Swix sported that malicious, deranged grin of hers when she landed and bounced a little on her getaway tile. She turned to see what would happen to the frog... only to see a burning hole where it and she used to be. She heard the announcement, and gained a trumphant twinkle in her eye... only to hear another one and look over as her former mechanical rival was taken out by Raven.

Now there were just the two of them.

She should have expected this. Of course it would end up being the two of them.

The humanoid bounced back to the edge of the chasm, to retrieve another torch.

Raven liked Swix quite a bit. In fact, she didn't really want to kill her. However, she really wanted that scarf. Raven had already planned out what she was going to do with it. So, as Swix bounced away to get another torch, so did Raven. Raven bounced from her position to D6, moving towrds the wall to once more to pick up a torch. Looking around, she began to form a plan. 'Excellent.'

"GYAAAAHHHHHHH"

The blue pond beast roars, blinded as you poke it in both eyes with your claws. It's jaws snap open, allowing you to sink freely to the bottom of the pond. You can hear it continue to thrash, smashing trees on the shore, shattering rocks, and building rage. It can't find you, so you are safe for the moment, but when it opens it's eyes again, it is likely going to be looking for you.

Err... wait a minute.

Did it just get warmer?

You raise yourself slowly to the surface, just to check out why the dragon seems to have calmed down a bit. Steam seems to be raising up off the pond's surface, and by the time you can see through it, it's already too late to start running far, far, far, away.

The Gyarados bellows, and there is a flash. The next time you can see, a beam of raw energy is moving slowly across the pond, annihilating everything it it's path. The nearby trees burst into flame, and the water begins to boil.

All because you wanted to catch fish.

((BURN IT ALL TO THE GROUND!!!))

The chasm:
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♡=Swixy
â–¼= Ravvy

((This is interesting. Any bets on who gets out of here alive? XD))

Swix turned back to the grid, now with another torch. Truth be told, she liked Raven too, and she didn't want to kill her either. Although, come to think of it, was that even possible? At the same time though... she too really wanted the Scarf for herself. She looked over to Raven, looking at her, even from over here she could see the demoness' intent.

If she didn't make Raven fall, Raven would make her fall.

Well then. So be it.

The humanoid jumped onto tile O1.

As Swix moved, Raven herself hopped to D8. She had a plan, and hopefully it would work. Her usual approach was to use brute strength, but this was going to take cunning. Raven grinned, she had plenty of that.

<big><big>Trial #<small><small><small>bÌ̂̊͒̈Ì̾ͪ̂Í͊̓̆ͣ̚̕͞Í҉̳̪̖̭̤̬̥͖ȧ̾̆̅͗Í̆ͧ̾Ì̈͛͊Ì҉̗̩͚̹̞̞̦̞Í̲̻̥͉̰̟͜Íc̵̼͚̣̻͎̖̥̣̓̓̿ͣ̔Ì̑ͯ͊ͨ̉͛͡ͅk̴̶̥͖̞ͫ̀̂ͯ͆ͬ̒̀̋̿͌ͩͥ̾̋ͤ̌̚͟͟͟ </small></small></small>- Welcome, to... DIE&#33;</big></big>

You both fall for some time.

Somewhere along the way, you pass a torch caught in one of the crags of the rock face. It burns with it's enchanted flame, likely here for years. Kind of like how your body will be.

With that reassuring thought, you continue to fall in silence.

Both of you had been betrayed by these EC girls, just for a fashion accessory. A magic one, with the power of making you a god among mortals. But still... was it worth it? You've been falling so long now that you begin to wonder if maybe you already have died. Is this the afterlife? Just falling in the dark?

You really need to stop having such grim thoughts.

Further down, there is another torch, splintered on the rocks. All that is left is constantly burning embers, and a small bit of light that illuminates the unforgiving rock face. If you tried to grab it, it would surely tear your arms off.

So, you keep falling.

It seems to be getting warmer, and you look down to see a sea of fire filling the area before you. Oh good, you get to be incinerated.

You plunge farther, and sink into the flame. Desperate clawing brings you to the surface, revealing a large cavern lit by what must be every torch that has ever fallen down here, now suspended in the gel below you. The stuff seems to have been designed to absorb any impact you might face, and seems like it wouldn't be hard at all to sink right into it, and be suspended forever like the torches. You struggle a bit, and once again pull yourself to the surface, to get a look around.

There doesn't seem to be any exits, at least what you can see with limited vision.

But you do see a large shadow moving...

The chasm:
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♡=Swixy
â–¼= Ravvy

((You're going away from each other&#33; Boooo&#33; ))

((O3))

((I... don't think we are exactly ))

((D0))

((Well kids, that's what happens when you spend the day playing around with a freshly rooted phone. Dang. ))

As the Artificer fell it took the time until it's near obliteration to formulate plans for revenge after a lengthy resurrection. Assuming there was a tomb nearby of course.
Once again cursing the fabrications of magic, it outlined grand strategy after grand strategy, each one leading to the utter destruction of Swix and the other mortal.

The planet was just collateral.

If the Artificer could feel anger, it'd be coursing through it's wires. Magic, the one force in the universe that forever eluded the Artificers. They could manipulate metal like putty, turn a mortal soul into an ageless machine and once ruled every star in the sky. But never magic, and that had been their doom.
This particular Artificer didn't totally shun magic however. It was a tool. A strange and illogical tool, but a tool none the less. It was merely ill understood science, of that it was sure. Even the Artificer itself would be considered a magical construct by the more primitive mortals. Once the Artificer could control magic, or manipulate someone who could... it was only a matter of time before it could fight fire with fire.

Deeper and down it feel. It calculated the speed it was falling and just how much damage would be done to it's considerably strong, but not impervious frame.

[[MINIMUM DAMAGE PREDICTIONS: 96.34-99.94%

...

SELF REPAIR CHANCE: 0.0002%]]

Swinging with a claw, the Artificer tried to gouge a handhold into the rock, but only succeeded in carving considerable grooves into it before losing it's grip.

[[ALERT: IMPACT IMMINENT]]

Time to embrace death. It hadn't done so for a long time... but wait, something was wrong. There wasn't a solid rock floor, but a raging fire below.

Magic. It had always eluded the Artificers.

The chasm:
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♡=Swixy
â–¼= Ravvy

((Love the post Borg. I may be reading between the lines far too much but... Does the Artificer want to ... assimilate a magician?

Also, what happens when you hit the floor? Don't you want to know what that big ol' shadow is? ))

Having reached the wall, Raven grabbed a torch. Turning around again she bounced to F0.

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♡=Swixy
â–¼= Ravvy

((Possibly, whatever it takes to master the mysteries of magic. Although true conversion is reserved only for the worthy, most people are turned into Husks at best, drones if you will... you know I really need to write all this down at some point in my character stuff, I keep meaning to.

And of course I want to know what the shadow is&#33; I just wrote up until the point leading to it.))