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There was a lot of tension around Quinhalla. This led to some practical jokes, some fights, and a mixed mood overall.
Nyx, a part of it, walked past Vekk in the cafeteria. She, very clearly, made a comment about wishing someone was smart enough to solve a Golem problem.
Vekk perked up: Golem problem?
Nyx: Yeah, but I need someone talented. Sorry.
Vekk launched from the picnic bench, although there wasn’t much of a difference.
Vekk: Now Listen here bookah!
Nyx cut him off.
Nyx: Are you an Aerosmith?
Vekk became skeptical.
Vekk: You mean Aeromancer?
Nyx: See? I told you I needed someone TALENTED.
Vekk: What the @#$% is an Aerosmith.
Nyx: An Aerosmith is a prestige Aeromancer. They not only Invoke Lightning, but Create and Control it on large scales.
Vekk liked what he heard.
Nyx talked quieter…
Nyx: Aerosmiths are Amazing. They are Angels who have What It Takes. They’re Livin’ On The Edge and feel a Sweet Emotion. They can be Cryin’ or Crazy, Jaded or a little Pink, but they Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing.
Vekk: I can do that!
Nyx: Are you sure? Aerosmiths aren’t the Same Old Song and Dance.
Vekk: Bah! Just you wait, I’ll have this Golem up and running in no time at all.
Nyx: Well Walk this Way.
Vekk grabbed a couple more bites off his tray real quick and scurried off.
Vekk followed Nyx out to her menagerie, and in the middle of it was a deactivated golem, heavily modified.
Nyx: This is Janie.
Vekk: Dood looks like a Lady…
Vekk: WOW! Janie’s got a gun!
Vekk admires the golem-sized firearm.
Vekk: This is impressive Bookah, where did you get it?
Nyx: I made it.
Vekk stared at Nyx in disbelief.
Nyx: I foraged scrap parts and materials and such. I’m actually pretty handy with machinery and welding and stuff.
Vekk stared in amazement that a Human was capable of such.
Vekk moved to the defunct power core.
Vekk: This Ether Crystal Elevator needs some love.
Nyx threw a Raptor Bone for this big shaggy dog.
Vekk: A ha! There is a Hole on My Soul.
Nyx looked puzzled.
Vekk: Sorry, Asuran Slang. The Crystal Amplification Device is punctured, it can’t hold the power let alone amplify it.
Nyx: Can you fix it?
Vekk walks forward only to be nearly trampled by a dog with a raptor bone.
Vekk: We need a replacement.
A brief pause.
Vekk: and after I do this, I’m stealing ‘Janie.’
Georgia Growled.
Nyx: Dream On!
The three departed for Oola’s Lab in hopes to find a replacement.
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Meanwhile, in the Gym, an elevated square has been constructed and roped off. Spike, in another one of his fun-boosting ideas, decided to have a Quin Wrestling Federation [QWF] event. The rules were simple: two to a team,
only one in the ring at once, and the team loses when a member has been removed from the ring.
The crowd in the gym was immense.
Spike was in the middle to form the brackets. Parchment #1 was pulled.
Spike: Token and Galard – TEAM PALADIN!!!
The crowd cheers
#2 pulled, Spike: Volusja and Lalandra – THE CORVUS CONNECTION!!!
/cheer
#3, Spike: Achi and The Stabbith Day – Grey Sabbath!!!
/cheer
#4, Spike: Crysania and Rain – Blue November!!!
Henchman 1: BECAUSE MOST THINGS IN HERE DO NOT REACT WELL TO FORCECHOKE!
/cheer louder
#5, Spike: Jora and Gwen – Guns and Roses!!!
/cheer
#6, Chuck and La Chad – Men in Tunics!!!
/cheer
#7, Angel and Balreth – Dearheartseekers!!!
/cheer
#8, Spike: …and Finally, #8, Spike and Dandd – The Advanced Team!!!
/cheer
Spike: Matches will start in two hours, so please leave the gym but don’t go far!
Most of everyone headed towards the nearby Range.
Crysania, grinning: Remind me to tag you in once in a while, eh?
Rain: @#$% off, what makes you think YOU’LL be the lead?
Crysania: …because I want to win.
Rain stopped.
Rain: You think I’m inferior to YOU?
Crysania sighed.
Rain: You didn’t actually beat me in Paradise City, you know.
Crysania waited for the rest of it.
Rain: You had to have the help of Gwen to distract me.
Crysania knew this wasn’t worth it, and started to walk away.
Rain: Sure, turn your back on me. It’s a wonder how you’re guild leader at all.
At that moment, most people backed away carefully.
Crysania turned to face Rain.
Crysania: You want to find out why?
Rain threw his hooded garment down.
Rain: I would LOVE to.
Crysania took off her pretty pink Norn PJs and set them down near Lalandra, Dandd, and Balreth.
Lalandra: Don’t get too burned out.
Balreth: Yeah, we’ve got monks to toss soon.
Crysania smiled.
So their duel, Part II, started. Just like before, a lot of misses and speed.
Trixie leaned over to Lalandra: I hope nothing happens to Rain, he’s SO hot.
Lalandra looked at Balreth, who shrugged.
As a bit of fatigue sets in, hits start landing.
Rain hits Crysania in the abdomen, then in the back – sending her to the ground.
Rain, panting: Maybe I’LL take over and turn this into a REAL guild.
Crysania, calmer than before, stands back up and just shakes her head.
Jora, Gwen, and Spike quietly sit down.
Rain: You’re starting to piss me off. Admit defeat!
Rain’s hand begins glowing.
Rain: This hand of mine is burning RED!
Crysania’s Ice melts.
Crysania: Its loud roar tells me to grasp VICTORY!
Rain: DARKNESS!
Crysania: SHINING!
Rain and Crysania: FINGER!
Again, the Impact knocks over everyone in attendance.
Dandd quickly realizes why the other three sat down beforehand.
Rain: WHY ARE YOU SO CALM?!
Rain’s attack failed and he retreated some space.
Crysania: Are you done yet? I’m sure the matches will start soon.
Rain became enraged
Rain: You will not Beat ME!
Both of Rain’s hands start glowing.
Balreth leans over to Lalandra: I would’ve used ‘You Move Like a Dwarf’ right now, stop whatever he’s casting.
Lalandra giggles.
Rain: DWAYNA’S ULTIMATE TECHNIQUE!!!
Crysania remains motionless.
Rain turns towards Crysania’s Tower, and everyone standing in front of it.
Rain: SEKI HA TEN KYO KEN!!!
Angel leans in, seemingly not concerned at imminent death: What is that?
Dandd, equally not concerned: They both have a large Canthan Background.
Lalandra and Balreth nod enthusiastically.
Crysania charges as quick as she can, to catch the ball of dark energy.
Crysania catches it, and it pushes her back several body lengths.
Most everyone, now, is too stunned to move, they can only stare as this little monk is trying to handle his large ball of energy.
The struggle lasts moment longer.
Crysania, screaming: NOT IN THE GUILD HALL!!!
Crysania redirects the energy blast upwards and away from the Guild Hall.
Crysania summons all of her spirits.
Rain stands there, fear written all over his face.
The first spiritspike hits him, and brings him back to the present.
Rain dodges the next volley, and the one after that.
Rain sees the fatigued Crysania but can’t get close to her.
The spirits go away, and Rain charges in. Rain gets closer to Crysania, when she stops pretending to be vulnerable and launches another strike.
Trixie yells ‘NO!!’ and manages to take Rain off of his feet with her Whip as Crysania soars harmlessly over his falling body.
Then everything changed.
Clouds gathered overhead, the Pupils in Crysania’s eyes could no longer be seen. Her hands glowed more than usual and a visible aura erupted around her.
Lalandra leaned over to Balreth: Told you she could go Super Saiyan.
Balreth reaches in his pouch and hands Lalandra 5 Platinum.
Rain sat there, horrified, staring at a Clan mate he now hardly recognized.
Trixie ran infront of him.
Trixie: That’s Enou-
Trixie was grasping at her neck, helplessly. Her body was lifted off of the ground, which gave Spike an awesome view of ‘other’ things that were died with Black No. 1. Spike wondered why you would bother using such an expensive dye on a garment so thin and small.
Crysania: KA…
Lalandra went pale.
Crysania: ME…
Dandd knew this from somewhere…
Crysania: HA…
Balreth recognized it himself.
Crysania: ME…
Everyone hit the deck, instinctively
Crysania: RAY OF MOTHER@#$%ING JUDGMENT.
The clouds parted, and the beam of light bathed a suspended Trixie. The screams of burning pain did not last long. As the light faded, so did the cloud cover and Crysania’s appearance returned to normal.
Trixie’s corpse was released to fall and quickly collected and brought to the Clinic.
Rain, practically frozen with fear: Ok…uhhh…you…you can lead!
Crysania, smiling again: Thanks! I’ll be sure to tag you in too.
Dandd leaned to Balreth: I guess for Smiting Monks, it pays to be Holier Than Thou.
Spike thanked Crysania for the ‘entertaining show.’
Rain: I don’t get it! How did my Technique lose? I ALWAYS win!
Crysania looked at Dandd, Balreth, then back at Rain: I guess you didn’t read Page 31.
Highfives around.
Everyone heads back towards the gym, getting ready for some QWF action.
Rain: What was that?
Dandd: That was the Forcechoke. A little worse than normal, I must admit.
Rain: Wow…
Angel turns around and paralyzes him through rapid cavity strikes and soothing song.
Lalandra proceeds to drop grenades, use hammers, hexes, shouts, and such all in rapid succession.
The barely-alive Rain stared at the girls: How did you? …what? The…you can’t be that many professions all at once!
Dandd: Lalandra? She can switch too rapidly to keep up with, so don’t try.
Rain: NO! I won’t be taken that easily.
Then came the large red arrow.
Everyone together: SNIPPY SNAP!
Rain: DAMN IT! I’ve died more times today than… wait. What just happened?
Dandd: THAT was sniper.
Rain, knocked down a peg or two: You guys are MONSTERS!
Crysania: That’s why We’re officers, and you aren’t.
Rain nods, with a newfound sense of enlightenment.
The group took no more than a few steps when Trixie came around from the other side of the Tower.
Trixie: Look, I just want to say-
At that moment, an ear-piercing explosion went off in the direction of the Menagerie. The group didn’t have time to react. The corpse of Trixie was instantaneously flung, at high speed, across Quinhalla. Nyx came running out, Georgia following quickly.
Nyx: Sorry! We were fixing Janie, and her gun went off.
Vekk came out too.
Vekk: I am Riding the Lightning, but I can’t charge the Battery Through the Never. I wish I could just Hit the Light, but the Metallica Couplings are going to haunt me All Nightmare Long, it’s Sad But True. That gun though, That’s Some Kind of Monster For Whom The Bell Tolls. I got Whiplash just being near it. Even if I do get it, it may just One who tries to Seek and Destroy Wherever It May Roam. It won’t be the Golem That Failed under my watch. I am the Aerosmith!
Rain stared in horror, but the officers just laughed.
Vekk: What’s the matter Bookah? You look like The Unforgiven.
Rain: You’re all so calm about this…
Crysania: Just another day in Quinhalla, Let’s GO!
–
So the QWF Matches Began.
In the first match up, Team Paladin was beaten by The Corvus Connection after Galard proved he was just too rusty to keep up with Lalandra.
The second match up showed that not even Achi and the Stabbith Day could keep up with Crysania and Rain. It was hard to follow with all the speed, bodies flying everywhere.
The third match ended very quickly when Jora almost killed La Chad for comments about her being more of a man than he is.
The fourth match ended as Angel convinced Spike that he shouldn’t hurt someone so cute. It worked, and Spike just left.
In the fifth match, Lalandra capitalized on Rain’s lack of focus and proved that versatility has a place in combat again.
In the sixth match, Angel’s charm did not work against an equally cute Gwen and was eventually beaten.
In the finals, a Lalandra still vividly remembering the embarrassment of Silkball worked hard to ensure another defeat would not be suffered. While Volusja and Jora were evenly matched, Lalandra beat Gwen in a wildly celebrated final.
The Corvus Connection of Volusja and Lalandra won the first QWF Tournament. Nyx had a guardian Golem for her Menagerie, equipped with custom firearms. Vekk proudly proclaimed himself ‘The Aerosmith.’
Rain, during the final match, leaned over to Crysania: What can you tell me about Lalandra? She’s HOT!
Trixie, recently revived, hears Rain and runs away very sad and jealous. During her run, she gets hit in the side of the head, then tackled, by a Raptor Bone and a Large Dog.
Spike leans in: She’s got nothing on Brickhouse.
Rain: You want to make something of it?
Spike: Maybe I do!
Crysania: Boys, save it for the next tournament. Maybe we’ll have a ‘Mortal Kombat’ tournament next time.
As Rain and Spike glare at each other, Dandd, and Balreth just burst out laughing.
Crysania mutters: …there are no rivals like friends…
–Aftermath–
Henchman 1: Dandd, how did you know they had a Canthan background?
Dandd: I’ve known Crysania and Rain since they were very little.
Henchman 1: Really?
Dandd: I knew Balreth back when he was making pizza too.
Henchman 1: What’s Pizza?
Dandd: Nevermind.
[Dandd Walks Away]
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Episode (32)
5 Nov 10
Notes: Like Lalandra, many Asura are spiteful. Nyx is good with her hands, most NecrosRangers are. Enter the Raptor Bone! This isn’t the last we’ll see of Dearheart. Crysania is usually easy going, but takes the guild pretty seriously. Thankfully, Monk Tossing never caught on. While The presence of the Neveah Clan marks the beginning of the Factions, Trixie, Rain and Spike complicated matters. ‘SuperSania’ is the most powerful being known to the Quin, and its never pretty.
References: Aerosmith [Angels, What It Takes, Livin’ On The Edge, Sweet Emotion, Cryin’, Crazy, Jaded, Pink, Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing, Same Old Song and Dance, Walk this Way, Janie’s Got a Gun, Dude Looks Like a Lady, Hole In my Soul, Dream On],
Metallica [Holier Than Thou, Ride the Lightning, Battery, Through the Never, Hit the Lights, All Nightmare Long, Sad But True, Some Kind of Monster, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Whiplash, One, Seek and Destroy, Wherever It May Roam, God That Failed, The Unforgiven,]
Guild History, Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Dragon Ball Z, D&D, Mortal Kombat
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