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Author Topic: The Three-Edged Sword: Rallying to War  (Read 113733 times)

Offline Fallen Templar

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Re: The Three-Edged Sword: Rallying to War
« Reply #100 on: June 17, 2025, 08:53:22 PM »
What Phaerys had initially assumed may have been a pocket dimension was in fact the top of a great tower amid a city of ebony. The Shaiton capital, he presumed, currently besieged by their allies. Almost a pity they were not here to study the architecture.

Against the oncoming beam of darkness, Phaerys launched himself skyward to evade it, projecting a wave of fire above himself to temporarily shield against the rain of dark orbs. He bought himself a few precious moments to hurriedly fabricate a shield out of alloys, hopefully allowing some margin for error as he steered himself away from more potential hits. Occasionally he was able to capture an orb in an orbit around himself, before flinging it back towards Darkness with considerably more force than it previously had.

Hovering round his vantage point from on high, it was hard not to notice the incongruous glimmer of gold some distance behind their foe. As if on cue, the Ataran heard Kitharsis' voice, echoing his own suspicions of the unknown object. Phaerys reached out and replied:

Hypothesis: Seraphim artefact, not Shaiton. Salvage, not sunder.

Offline Shadow Chorus

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Re: The Three-Edged Sword: Rallying to War
« Reply #101 on: June 17, 2025, 10:41:17 PM »
"'Sabout time." The warboss growls as Darkness finally begins to fight back. Eager to finally have an opponent worth smashing, Gulgrim surges forward, his size increasing rapidly to match his opponent, but rather than try and block or deflect the downward swing of the blades aimed at him, the Warboss simply stepped inside their reach, his massive frame belying the speed the Avatar could move at when motivated. In a perfectly timed approach, Kitharsis's blasts of energy and the hilts of Darkness's swords pass just over Gulgrim's escalating shoulders before his height grows to eclipse the trail they leave behind. Surging past the inside reach of the blades, Gulgrim performed the unexpected (well, perhaps for anyone but Gulgrim), and rather than bringing a weapon to bear or otherwise staging a more traditional assault, utilized his increasing size and rapid momentum to slam his Adamantine-hard, unreasonably thick Orkish skull towards Darkness's own, an Orkish salute headbutt that threatened to connect with thunderous report if his opponent did not give ground.

Underestimating Gulgrim's Kunning mind was a dangerous proposition, in both the metaphorical and quite literal sense, as he was not afraid to put his head to good use when the need arose.