MDSVeritas

Kamyn Adriev frowned as he heard Ryu's words, but his expression softened when he looked towards Griver and Vortimer. "Think nothing of your failure to eliminate Vaefrius. He was strong enough to challenge even me, and he is dead now anyway." Adriev focused on Vortimer's arm, and a swirl of magic energy coalesced around it, and after several moments it disappated to reveal a mechanical arm in place of Vortimer's lost one. "Either way, the mission I have for you two next will be to eliminate a new traitor it would seem. The moment Ryu shows himself again, we will be there. I'm growing tired of this charade anyhow, before long I will simply destroy these humans."

Iron Sanya slammed into Vaefrius, who's white hot eyes glanced down then at the fiery tear in his torso. He fell to the ground, and for a moment his eyes returned to normal. "Ha...haha....ha..." His laughing was interrupted by huge spouts of blood. "You fools.... heh.... you don't even know.... you think they are gods.... you think that some special magic you all have.... hahaha.... there's so much you don't understand.... couldn't... hahhahaha... couldn't understand." He stared with cold, hateful eyes towards Vortimer, Griver, Emert, Sanya, Cathos, Alice, Morgan and the Doctor. "It doesn't matter though.... because you'll all be dead!" He raised his fist and pounded it into the ground with ridiculous force, tearing himself apart in the process, but also bursting the entire area of ground the group stood on, forcing them to tumble deep below.... When they finally hit something far below the surface the group found themselves in a eerily lit chamber with torches, somehow still lit, hanging on all the walls. There was nothing in the room besides several barren altars and a single sword set into a stone as well as a gigantic stone door on the other side of the chamber. "Griver, Vortimer." Adriev's voice sounded within the minds of the two Kamyn. "Make your way back to the main base. We shall consult more there. I will handle this group for now." Then in the silence of the underground chamber, where The Doctor, Alice, Cathos, Emert, Sanya, Morgan all now lay, Adriev's voice entered their mind. "This is unexpected. I do apologize for Vaefrius's intrusion, but in the end it seems no harm was done. Welcome to the ceremonial chamber. Long ago this place was used for religious purposes of a belief system long lost... but." The hole by which they had all fallen in suddenly seemed to seal above them, leaving nothing but the ominous torchlight. "This room shall be very useful indeed. You see the only door the remains you must be opened by the ancient rite of blood sacrifice. That sword must be used on someone in this room. It need not kill, but the wound will be severe beyond repair. To progress you must pick someone..." Adriev left a thick silence in the room before offering his final bit of information. "I'm here to help though, so let me give you some information. You all are well aware you endeavor has been infiltrated by spies, yes? They seek to kill you all and still my people's power. Let me be so kind as to give you the information that may prove so useful...." "Morgan.... or The Doctor...or Cathos. One or more of these three is the spy you seek. Perhaps there in lies the answer as to who to sacrifice. Either way, I'll leave you to some talking and a very important decision...." Silver As the giant mechanical spider fell to the ground, defeated, the door at the end of the room finally opened. "Counter-measures failed. High-level status confirmed. Entry allowed." The familiar voice intoned throughout the room again. The room beyond the door was filled with newly-made bandages, fresh food including various fruits, pies, and meats of various types. The room was all white like before. There were three doors in the room; the one that connected the Silver team's room to it, another door very similar to that one, and a huge metallic door with strange symbols written on it. It seemed safe enough and it was probably worth discovering what they might find in the room ahead. ...or who. Gold Taking a huge amount of damage from Cornelius's attack, and then the follow up from Amber's punch, the light figure exploded in super-headed waves, which struck anyone in the nearby area, searing them. But as the explosion faded the exit to the cave became more clear, and now nothing stood between gold team and their destination. Right beyond the exit to the cave lay an open grove. A good place to resupply and possibly talk a little bit after such an ordeal. In the center of the grove was a single pedestal with a button on it, waiting to be pressed after the team had perhaps relaxed a bit. Platinum "Ryu," Adriev's voice reached his subordinate. "For now I must ask you to retreat. You will get a chance to battle fools like this very very soon, but there is something for more interesting for them to encounter and time is of the essence." Behind Ryu the door to the underground area opened up to the Platinum team. Apollo, Lance, Varion, Fairy, Aya, and Sairi now faced their newest challenge. The room beyond was all white, and was stocked with needed supplies; fresh foods like fruits or meats, and bandages and medical supplies. Besides the supplies, the room had two doors. One was a huge metal door that had symbols all over it. The other was a now open door... to another room where three people were coming in from... Kinzoku, Tristan, and Jasper... the Silver team.

Being remedied as we speak. EDIT: Now the fun starts.

Okay, my busyness got extended for one day after the long weekend but I've now returned. Let the RP recommence! And Sora, wachutakingbout?

Just a quick heads up guys, I'm in the middle of a super busy weekend so don't expect any big motion on my end till Monday.

There ya are Gold Team, sorry about the wait! Also, for those of you in The Experiment... this is the fun part where the trials get to be less outright fighting, and more pitting players against each other and giving the tough choices...

Silver As if in answer to Tristan's idea, the giant spider-like mechanical behemoth turned its heads towards Jasper, and jolted forward in what was as much of a leap as it could get. All of it's legs repositioned and pointed downward towards him, leaving Jasper very little room to get out of the way. It was looking for blood. Gold (Oh hey Gold team, long time no see!) Finally in the distance of the labyrinth a white light appeared, calling to the Gold team who had been so long trapped in the darkness of the cave. It was within reach... finally an exit. Then in an instant a silhouette appeared in the far off doorway. The voice that came next was infamous. Adriev the leader and the the one who communicated to all humans of the Kamyn's powers. "Looks like you nuisances need a personal touch." Adriev tossed a strange orb towards the Gold team. It hit the ground and rolled ominously towards them. Finally it burst out in light. Some sort of flare of flash grenade? But then the light that exploded from the orb reformed and made ridiculously bright figure made entirely of light in some of humanoid figure. Adriev disappeared and the light figure formed some sort of spear in it's hands. Everything around it was fully illuminated, and as the figured bean to charge the group shadows morphed and changed around it. Eventually the figure was sprinting... directly toward Amber. It jumped in the air as it got near, it's luminosity more or less a blinding effect before the whole team, and it threw the spear at Amber only a few feet away... In Sandrew's head while this occurred, Adriev's voice returned. "Do you wish that this could all go away? All this pain? This anguish? I can make it so. Think on it and soon I will let you be free from all of this if you so choose." Iron Vaefrius had his mind shattered. Even as a Kamyn he had lacked the composure and reason to see through the trap or survive it, but now Cathos's trap had broken most of the psyche that had remained. As Vortimer overpowered him and began to choke him Vaefrius's fist went white hot, as he mindlessly channeled every ounce of momentum into them, and drove them into Vortimer's left arm. Before even looking to see what effect it had on Vortimer, Vaefrius, with his bland rage, smashed his hand into the ground, and the intense vibrations caused two separate rifts in the ground, snaking towards Griver and Cathos, and then ripping open form the force of the initial punch, and opening up a gigantic pit beneath both. Vaefrius then turned to look what his attack had done to Vortimer, because he wasn't done yet... all while Sanya's ropes of fire drew closer and closer...

Iron Vaefrius was not pleased with the situation. Not pleased in the least. The judge fellow has blown away his attack, and Griver had now arrived. "Griver? You're here too? I'm so honored, I get two lap dogs for my trouble." He then looked to the sky... Vortimer's work. This could get complicated. "All this for me, Vortimer? You really do go all out don't you? So sweet." Vaefrius plucked a pebble from the ground and glared at Vortimer. He asked for it... "Hey Vaefrius! You just destroyed your own tower. I bet that sucks. How does it feel to be cast out by your own kind?" a voice taunted behind him. He turned to face Cathos. "You cocky little freak..." Vaefrius went from annoyed to infuriated. "Nobody cast me out of anything. I left. Anything I want, I get...If I want you dead..." He threw the pebble at Cathos going somewhere around mach speed and then leaped towards him, his fist cocked, unbelievable force building in up in it as he jumped. "Then I'm sure as hell going to be able to kill you!" Silver Now with one spider on the ground, disabled and flailing about, one cut in half, and one without a couple legs and a head, the voice returned to the white chamber as all three disappeared in a sort of vaporization. "Initial counter-measures failed. Deploying final counter measure." Then it appeared. It could be described as a spider but it had 3 times the legs, and most spiders didn't have three heads... all equipped with the magical beams. It was about the size of one third of the room, and it towered over Jasper and Tristan. It raised two of it's it legs and snapped them down towards Jasper as all three heads focused on Tristan and fired at him from slightly varying angles, making them difficult to block entirely.

lol, sorry about that one, man. Should I rename it Kuroi team? In all seriousness, though, I'll try to keep mention of the team name to the colored divider I use in my posts, and try to go by the names of the members for the rest of the time. I'm not entirely sure what that means, but you're cleared to do what you wish as long as it doesn't get too overpowered or hurt anyone else's experience. BTW, I noticed there's a little confusion at who's the rogue element of the Kamyn here, and I just wanted to clarify that it's Vaefrius. Vortimer and Griver are still with the main group. Also, to all Gold team members, I won't leave you guys hanging too badly. It seems that Schemer has good reason to not have the chance to be around as of late, but after tonight I'll cover your guys adventure if there are any major time gaps, and whenever he gets back if you guys are still in the cave he'll be able to get right back into it.

If that was in reference to Silver team causing the landslide I mean that it's actually the "Silver Team" as opposed to "Silver's team." Maybe I should have picked a better metallic element... Also, the teams that are gonna be meeting up haven't been disclosed just yet, so try not to jump to any conclusions, and I never said one team has to meet up with only one other team or you'll only be meeting up with other's once...

Huh. One day I decide I want something to do, come up with an idea of a bunch of people waking up on an island with a bunch of tests, turn into an RP, and now I'm Tier 1 on the RP list. You know what, I'll take it!

Sure. On the Iron team side, a new Kamyn not affiliated with the primary Kamyn group or the climber's appeared and starting engaging both sides, obviously a bit crazy, so right now that entire area is focused on fighting him. For Platinum, after weathering the landslide, the team was shown via projection how it was Silver team's doing that the landslide even happened and then a doorway was opened up by the landslide carrying away dirt. Before they can get to the doorway, though, the team will have to go through Ryu, who's standing in their way.

((Awesome. BTW, I don't want any of that to come across as being on you. RP situations can just stagnate in general at times with no fault at hand and I don't want people to feel they are in a situation where there isn't a clear goal or next step and with the landslide coming to an end and Ryu not directly obstructing them I wanted to be sure that Platinum members didn't feel like they didn't have a direction. I previously edited my last post based on your character's actions you pointed out as well, so don't worry, I'm reading them :wink: . I don't mean to step on any toes here, I'm just trying to keep things moving as RPs can slow down or stop entirely easily enough without any direct cause. If there's anything else you feel like bringing up about the RP, don't hesitate to post in the discussion thread and I'll be around to help out as best I can, I want this to be cool for everyone involved.))

((If any of that was to me, I also read your post, but as nothing was happening in that section I moved it forward because Ryu wasn't directly engaging them, and there wasn't any progress.))

Teams are about to start meeting up with each other, so feel free to put forth requests if you want your team to join up with a specific other team.

Iron Vaefrius scowled as the ice shards tore into him, and hurled his makeshift weapon of the upper tower towards Vortimer. "You bastard! This is my part of the mountain! You fools know nothing!" He then leaped in the air and dove downward towards the Iron team behind Vortimer, specifically aiming for the Doctor and Emert, and punched the ground next to them, hoping they wouldn't avoid it fast enough and the shock would enough to kill them instantly given how close they were. He had to end it now, before Adriev got involved. Kamyn Adriev was still grimacing. "Griver. Go to assist. We must stop Vaefrius now. If he gets too desperate... he will try to level the entire mountain. That. Cannot. Happen. You and Vortimer must finish him, then either face Iron team or report back, it matters not." At the same time, though Adriev looked down at the projection from team Gold. Dante was toying with them, but Adriev was already thinking ahead. That Sandrew was a fickle-looking kid and didn't want to be there. There could be much use for him very soon... Platinum As the rest of the landslide moved past them, Platinum team got a chance to rest for but a moment. Soon a projection appeared in front of them, showing what had transpired with Silver team; the orb that would cause a landslide explained by Adriev, and Kinzoku activating the orb, and causing the landslide they had only just survived. Afterward it disappeared and in it's place Platinum team was shown the next step in their journey: the landslide had uncovered an underground passageway entrance not far ahead of the shack. It was a metallic white door, and only by approaching it would the figure out what lay within... Silver The spider that was attacked fell over with the clumsiness that came with a lack of two back legs. The beam from it's head started firing all directions, but the spider was slowly slowing down. The other two went fully hostile at that point, leaping directly onto Tristan and trying to fix their aim on his head before firing...

Silver "Identification not recognized. Goodbye." The voice faded as a strange whirring sound grew lousing around the room. Then in a moment three large machanical spider-like beings materialized around Tristan, and in a moment some sort of red magic beam shot from each of their heads towards him, blazing in his direction at a blistering speed. Immediatly after they leaped towards him. It would take all the Silver members that remained if these were to be defeated... Iron "Vortimer..." Vaefrius grimaced. "Come down from your master, lap dog? Well alright then. I'll take out all you intruders together." He smashed his fist into the ground, and a perfect sphere of rock erupted up in front of him. With a minor flick he sent it barreling towards Vortimer. As it flew he began smashing his fists into the ground, and more spheres leapt from the earth. With several punches, Emert, Alice, Morgan, and the Doctor all had very real threats heading towards them... And that was before he picked up the upper half of the tower that remained next to him...

(Sorry about that. Seems that Schemer has been busy so he may not have the time to work on anything for Gold like we were planning. If there's nothing from him by tonight I'll start taking over to give you guys stuff to do)

(As quick note, while Sanya was near the tower, she wasn't the one who crashed into it) Iron "Knock knock..." His pale eyes only contrasted with his crimson eyes as the man who had crashed into the tower looked across the ruins of rocks and bricks at the group below. He looked over to see the girl who had become ash. Then there was the one who had summoned the strange creatures. These weren't the people he was used to on this mountain. "Looks like I came in too fast..." He laughed to himself as he looked over the ruins of his tower. This was the place he had considered his home after the others stated he was no longer welcome at the mountain's peak. The moment he felt the presence of others near his home tower, he rushed back from the other side of the world where he was presently engaged in destroying a merchant city for no real reason. This was the Exile Kamyn. The one shunned by the others. Too taken by his own madness to be of any true use. Vaefrius. Now he was going to be a complication on both sides. "You!" He called down to Iron team. "What are ya doing at my home you pigs? You think you can waltz right and up take someone else's home for your own?" He raised his fist.... Vaefrius was a master of momentum. Any force he could slow or speed up at will. A coin could be given the force of a thousand boulders, and a bullet could be a feather. "You people have no respect for property! That makes me so angry!" He smashed his hand into the ground, obliterating the rest of his tower, and killing all the trees in the area in an instant as he formed a crater around himself, just him, Sanya, and the Iron team. "Three seconds." He started walking towards Iron team, then running, then moving at a speed no human could. "Three seconds to give me an excuse I like before I pound you all into dust!" Kamyn Adriev grimaced. He hadn't expected Vaefrius to come back. He turned to his peers. "I find your answers agreeable enough. Now we face another issue. Vaefrius has returned. He will almost certainly kill their Iron team, but we must end his life before he becomes a bother on any of our other plans. Which of you all wish to go oversee his fight? We can until he finishes off their Iron team and then combine our strength to end him. So who wishes to fight today?" Platinum The landslide slowed due to the smaller bounders, but there was still the need to stop the smaller and still fast-moving rocks rushing towards them that threatened to break the wall is one final force didn't fully end their momentum. They would have the move fast too, the main group of them were bearing down on Platinum team and the remains of that shack that instant.... Silver a voice that seem to come from everywhere in the room spoke out to Tristan. "State name and credentials for admittance into the records room."

Iron team was trying to climb a cliff when it was revealed the cliff was actually a giant rock golem. They fought and defeated it, but then the Kamyn Efenton appeared, fought with them a bit, and then let them continue up the rest of the mountain. The remnants of the cliff led up to a giant black tower. While heading to the tower, a mysterious figure hit the tower and broke off the upper half, sending it crashing towards them.

Silver The trapdoor unlocked above them, and the gate at the end of the tunnel slowly grinded open. On the other end was a huge metallic room that was entirely white. There was a single door at the other end of the huge room, but it seemed to have no handle. The moment the gate opened some sort of magical lighting appeared all around the room. Platinum As the group continued to resupply and talk a rumbling started further up the mountain. It got louder... and louder. Soon it became evident that is was coming closer. Before anyone could realized what was going on a huge boulder slammed into the shack knocking almost every member to the ground, but luckily hitting one of the shack's supports and sliding off in another direction. The utter destruction of the shack that it had caused though, allowed the group to see up the mountain, where a huge wave of rocks and dirt was flying down towards them. In the very front were 4 gigantic boulder, rocketing down the mountain at them. Within 5 seconds they would all be crushed to death if they didn't act immediately.... Iron As they continued the trek up the rocks, the tower before the Iron team was d suddenly hit by a mysterious figure at a ridiculous speed. The top of the tower broke apart, and came tumbling down the mountain, down the cliff... Several hundred pounds of brick and stone... Coming right at everyone in Iron. Kamyn Adriev smiled at Kinzoku's choice as he stood looking over the projections in his white room. He noted the presence of some of the other Kamyn as he watched. "Tell me..." he asked the dieties of his who were not currently engaged with the humans. "Do you think this is the right course, to continue to play with them and let them gain some more ground? Some of them certainly seem to have more strength and conviction than I had anticipated." He turned back towards Girver, Efenton and Vortimer. "I have come to realize that not all of you are as dedicated to our cause as I want to believe. So speak your truths now, are you prepared to continue doing what needs to be done with these pieces of filth before they become too much of a threat? To us and themselves."

Silver As the dark tunnel underneath the house became a little more illuminated as their adjusted, it became clear there wasn't much around the remaining members of Silver team besides the trap door above them and a small continuation of the tunnel leading to a large wooden gate. The trapdoor had luckily kept in one piece even after the explosion above was heard. Then another sound was heard, like a sort of locking mechanism that came from the trapdoor. "What's the phrase you people like use?" Adriev's voice echoed from the other side of the tunnel. "Out of the frying pan... and into the fire? It seems this is a step further you all have found yourself in. Out of the fire and into... well..." he motioned around the dark tunnel he and most of Silver team were in. "here." He knocked against the wooden gate on the other side of the darkened tunnel. "It looks old, but assure this gate is reinforced several times on the other side. That trapdoor? I made sure to give it the same treatment. Neither will open by anyone's hand but my own." He slowly walked towards Tristan, Kinzoku, and Jasper. "You came here because you're such moral warriors, here to fight the evil Kamyn, right? You humans are always so... black and white. You have no room to judge our actions. You just left your own comrade to die." Adriev now stood mere feet from the group. He picked up one of the jugs of kerosene and brought out a lit match, waving it around carelessly as he spoke. "Though I'm about to make you prove how humans will make the same kind of choices if they were in our situation." He dropped the kerosene and the match. As the kerosene spilled out, it only just missed the match, staying unlit. Adriev showed a projection of a few people in a small shack. "I'm sure these people are familiar to you. This is the Platinum team right? They seem weary, looking to get some resting in?" The projection disappeared and a small magical containing orb appeared in Adriev's hand. "This is the key to you leaving this tunnel. Channel any amount of magic in here, and both the trapdoor and gate behind me are unlocked." He dropped the orb at his feet and began walking away. "Oh, but it will also trigger a landslide just further up the mountain from Platinum team. So the question, dear humans, is do you wish to starve to death in this place, or do you trust your comrades to save themselves from your wrath?" He walked a little further, before he seemed to evaporate with a last few words. "Have fun." Iron As Emert prepared to climb the rocky remains of the golem and cliff, he may have noticed then the black tower that sat at the top. It was three stories tall, and looked ancient, but it may be a place to regroup and plan the next move.... not to mention what secrets may lie within. It was time to finish the climb and start the next step of their journey.

Silver Robert then began to take in his surroundings... It looked to be a bedroom, or at least there was a small futon in the corner. The rest looked like a supply area. There were some building supplies and tools, and some lanterns, and... a doezn or so jugs of kerosene. The fire hadn't reached this room as badly as it had the other, but it was creeping in very quickly. On the floor was the answer the group had been looking for, though; a trap door that led somewhere below. It was bolted shut, but there was not other way out, they had to tear it open one way or another, or else in a few seconds the fire would reach the kerosene supply and they would all be finished....

Sounds great! You're accepted, and I'm gonna put you in the Silver team as they are the lowest population. Given how early it is, I'll just put your character in as if he's been with the team all throughout so far. Currently Silver team has entered the gate, and located a house. They all ventured inside and accidentally activated a trap which sealed the house and set it on fire. Now they are trying to found another way out within the house. Feel free to start posting immediately. Accepted. Just be sure not to over-play the power of this other being and it should be fine. We've got two teams that you can pick from that have low populations- Gold and Iron. Take your pick. Lulls happen, unfortunately. From the posts I've seen it seems to be mostly people being very busy, but looks like we're getting back into the swing of things now.

Should be alright, I should be able to pull of adding them in, especially considering we're still fairly early.