OOC: OK! BIC: Tera Roth, Tyre, and Highwind followed Xane up the stairs into the final room. No one was there... "Or so it seems," Azull said from nowhere. "I can't believe you were able to sneak up on me like that. But now it's my time to play. Let's see...what if..." "Shut up," Highwind said, pulling out his sword. "We're not leaving until you're dead." "Finally realized that fighting the Brotherhood was futile without killing me?" Azull said. "Finally?" Tyre frowned. "I"ve been waiting for you to attack me so I could kill you of course," Azull said. "What a joke," Tera Roth said. "Even I know that's a lie..." Azull was silent, as hundreds of beasts suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
OOC: Sorry, unobligatory family meeting that lasted forever. I started falling asleep. Now, we can fight Azull if you want to.
OOC: Yeah, but I'm here for a bit. Might be slow responding.
OOC: I was here earlier, but had to do homework, and my brother got on while I was gone..."doing homework" of course, of which he just got off. And now I'm being told to go to bed, because I have a cold, so I'm labeling myself as sick, coming up with something great for tomorrow, and going to finish my homework. See you tomorrow guys.
OOC: Bah, I have to go. My parents are making me. I'm really sorry guys... "It worked well enough," Tyre said, tapping Tera with his foot, who twitched. "Whatever," Highwind said. "First trap sprung." Running forward, he ran up the stairs, dodged a giant spike that erupted from the floor, and another from the ceiling, then sidestepped a spear that flew at him. Reaching the second floor, he looked around... It was another study. "Hmm," he said.
OOC: Well, I was waiting for Nulix to post but it doesn't matter... BIC: Tera Roth ran up the stairs in front of Xane, laughing. "I got there first!" So he was the one who sprung the trap. So he was smacked fifty yards back by the giant hammer that swung. "Booby traps, how appropriate," Tyre said. "I don't think these are illusions. Be careful."
"I ran into it while not believing in anything," Tyre said, putting the papers back down. "It's real. Whether Azull is home or not is something else entirely." *** At that moment, Azull was sleeping...completely unaware of his visitors downstairs. *** "Only one way to find out," Highwind said, pointing at the stairs. Tera Roth finally put the jug of water down, now completely empty and walked towards them, the sloshing noise really loud.
OOC: A great big castle of illusions... BIC: Tyre ran into a castle wall. "Ow. OK, here's where Azull lives...Now, to find the door..." He groped around for a bit, before reaching the edge of the castle about 200 feet to his right, then he circled around, making it a long long long ways down before circling back around and...etc, etc. He found the door eventually, don't worry. It was 3 feet to his left from where he'd started. "Moron," Highwind said, stepping through the open door into the large spacious castle. There was only one room, with a staircase leading up. Inside the room was a fireplace which wasn't burning, two chairs, and a table, and some iced water that Tera Roth guzzled out of. Tyre began shuffling through some papers on the table. "Would you look at that..." he said to himself. "Azull's been busy..." On the papers were thousands of calculations written in tiny handwriting... "Or at least he wants somebody to think so," Highwind said.
OOC: Yes, bah. But today I'll be smart and won't get on until the time you got on tonight. EDIT: I meant yesterday. Um, let's see, what can I mess with, by editing random stuff into this post while I wait for people to get online...Well, technically, Pirate was on with his last activity being 7:20 and as it's about 7:30, I'm not sure he's still online, so I sent him a PM asking him such, but if he's not online, he won't answer, so I guess it was pointless. That's a run-on sentence for you that technically isn't a run-on sentence, because everything in it flows together, a lot like this one, and I'm really good at them; in fact, I wrote a five-line paragraph once that was entirely one sentence without anyone noticing the difference. Kinda funny.
OOC: Unfortunately, I wasted all my time waiting for 3 hours for people to get on...So I can only post this one post. *sigh* BIC: "Illusion is how you perceive it," Tyre said, ducking under a fern. "What you don't perceive as an illusion isn't, and what you do, is. If you think of this tree as an illusion..." He stuck his hand into the tree and waved it around. "It is." He shrugged. "It's hard to get your head around, but I spent a month training in a complete environment like this for a special assignment."
OOC: Yeah, I completely just made that up... BIC: "Yes," Slimy Pepperoni the Pig said, biting Nulix's arm. Tyre shot it in the face and it died. "They're just illusions, don't worry about them." Tera Roth was meanwhile slicing through about ten billion vines that decided to grow up. Tyre walked straight through them. "Don't believe in them, and they have no effect." "Easy for you to say," Tera Roth managed out as a vine tried to choke him.
Then Tiger, Ribbit, Awl, Slimy Pepperoni the Pig, and all the others jumped on Xane and began gnawing on him. OOC: I gotta go tonight. So we'll start tomorrow with Azull. You guys can traverse the Forest of Death in two posts if you'd like to...
"We should kill him," Tyre said. "Like I'm going to kill Winnie the Poop." He pulled out a gun and shot the thing in the head. It died. "So, if I'm right, Azull should be through the Forest of Death where all the other lovely illusions live...Yes, this is the world Azull is head over." "Then why are we here?" groaned Tera Roth. "Well," Highwind said. "You said something about..." "Shut up," Tera Roth said, walking into the Forest of Death.
OOC: I don't want to even know...OK? Not even... Now that the PMing spree is over with, I can do this... BIC: Trent looked at Zaxor. "Should we?" "Why not?" Zaxor shrugged. "But I'll..." "Fine," Trent said, opening a portal. Zaxor opened his own and they both stepped through. *** Tera Roth froze. "Crap." "What?" Highwind asked. "I smell Azull," Tera Roth said, shivering. "That guy gave me nightmares..." Tyre got out of the ship. "He's here, yes. But it's nothing to worry about. At the moment, he's just having fun with our brains by producing the illusion known as Winnie the Poop, while he holds the dark Winnie the Pooh captive." "How do you even know that?" Tera Roth asked. "I'm a genius," Tyre smiled.
It worked, and the yellow bear fell on the ground, temporarily stunned. Tera Roth walked up and kicked it. "Stupid Winnie the Poop," he said. "Nothing like Winnie the Pooh. I liked that guy, but this guy's just vicious." Winnie the Poop spat at Tera, who kicked it into a tree. OOC: lol, and you thought he was making fun of Winne the Pooh, XD.
OOC: From what I gathered, I'll need to think of something good to do for the next plot line...The UPA won't be the main one, and we don't have to stay a large amount of time in the 100 Acre Wood...although I'm probably going to do something with it. Give me some time to think, and post some random bits or something. Respond to this... BIC: A bear about the size of Xane's arm leaped out from some nearby bushes and tried to gnaw on him...
OOC: *wince* Blatant no...Actually, that's kind of what I thought. So, what are we going to do instead? I'd just like to have a feel for what's going to happen first before I plow into another plot...thing...
OOC: Argh, gotta go. Nulix, post whether or not you'll bring the UPA here, OK? Since I didn't ask before... EDIT: OK, actually I have a bit of time...I can stay for a bit...
OOC: Good, because yes, that's our base of operations for a while...until you can get Land of Dragons ready, that is... BIC: Tyre shrugged. "I've already checked it out...There's a large unpopulated area where a large scale battle can be held over a distance of about 300 square miles without major residual damage to the area around it." He smiled sheepishly. "And I've already sent the communication, so there's no stopping it now, anyway..." He piloted the ship to the 100 Acre Wood, landing in a small clearing. *** Trent and Zaxor scoped the land out as they stood on the top of a large tree. They watched Tyre's ship land, and Trent nodded, satisfied. "Perhaps this won't be so hard after all," Zaxor said.
On cue, Tyre's custom-made ilium ship roared to a halt near the group. "Get in! The Enigmatic Knights are coming in to clean up here, so we can safely move on!" Highwind jumped in. "Brotherhood?" "Tracking them...Seems like they're heading for the One Hundred Acre Wood..." Tyre said. "I just got a notice from the UPA tap...they've just proclaimed war on the Brotherhood." Highwind was silent for a moment, but Tera Roth filled the silence. "Tell them where they're going," he said. "Let the 100 Acre Wood be the grounds for the war." "Why?" Highwind asked. "I hate Winnie the Poop," Tera Roth said.
