BZPRPG: Kumu Islets

IC: DorumDorum was not happy at being thrown off of the ice giant. He looked up at the floating thing and roared angrily several times. Out of pure rage, he turned around and charged through whatever was left of the tavern (along with anyone who happened to be in it at the time) before collapsing to his knees and reverting back to his normal, slim form.

OOC: Okay, guys. Here comes Wrath.Before anyone says anything against him appearing now: Not only did I originally plan on him having a base in Kumu, but this fight has been pretty darn loud and could feasibly catch a ton of attention. He can easily spot stuff like this.IC: A lone toa, drawn by the sounds of combat, stood by the burning wreckage of a certain tavern. His plate armor was blackened and bloodied, the occasional pit revealing horribly scarred skin. A single sword rested on his back. His figure was straight-backed and powerful, long arms at sides and massive back suggesting great strength. His visor gazed out through the smoke and flame, dull eyes catching glimpses of ice giants flying and skakdi being punched.Someone was leaving the islets. Some sniveling coward was running, trying to return to the corruption from whence he spawned. Some so-called 'hero' was trying to save his worthless hide.He closed his eyes beneath the mask. The rage he felt constantly built up, goaded by pictures sent by the thing on his back of the corrupt one escaping to tease him with his very existence. The pain of his wounds increased at a speed matched only by his continued maddening.Some hero would be terminated, and with extreme prejudice.Spikes sprouted from his knightly armor. Claws grew from the dark figures' hands and feet. He hunched slightly, spines protruding from his back. Power surged through his limbs and caused them to nearly burst from their armor as masses of muscle and sinew.His rage finally reached a crescendo as his eyes opened, and he howled once as it exploded into his body, filling it with purpose and energy. The pain he let loose further added to his strength. His teeth gnashed as the dual sensations fed on each other and grew in return.The howl could not be caught over the crackle of the flames...He had made sure to transform far enough away that the enemy couldn't know of who would attack. It was his second time. He had enough experience to do that, at least.Satisfied with the transformation, he drew his sword. There was no time to waste. Ta leaped onto a portion of crackling timber and sped off for battle.Just as Zokan's eyes spat heat and Psyzhran sent forth ice, they failed to catch a certain blur behind them. Said blur having just leaped from a piece of frozen ocean to the tahtorak-sized giant in midair so hard that the platform exploded. In mere microseconds, it had made its way onto the construct.Hanging onto the giant was a cinch for Ta. Between its size and his spikes, his leg alone would ensure enough stability to fight. So one foot exploded into its back to support him for a few fractions of a second.Simultaneously, his incredible speed sent his sword slicing at the skakdi's hip. This was not a slash; rather, his skill and immense power meant that it was a full-blown cleave. He had enough momentum and strength to cleanly bifurcate the skakdi across his waist if it landed. Even a block could only slow it down thanks to the surprise factor behind this attack.Due to Ta's surprise and speed, there was no time to extend frost to his armor. Trying to generate ice within his body would fail due to his constant leaping about. As Psyzhran was enclosed within a bulky suit of ice, visual distortion and slowed speed meant that he could barely even catch a glimpse of the toa. And Zokan was being attacked while distracted, which left him very little room to maneuver. It was doubtful either could get an accurate counterattack in on him.Ta was in a very good position. He was probably about to eliminate the weaker target and could soon move on to the strong one. And he had only just activated his Parakuka. He had almost a full ten minutes left to fight.OOC: Putting all that stuff about why Psyzhran can't really hit Ta right now aside, he should be pretty darn low on elemental power. He just created a ton of ice in seconds-minutes. And that's excepting that bridge earlier and the constructs...Toa don't recharge that fast. He's probably very low on energy right now.

IC: Psyzhran"NO," he thought as he felt another spikey thing leap onto his armor and started to shred it. In desperation, he ejected from the armor, made an ice tether attached to a ferry headed for Le-Wahi, and closed the remains of the armor around the spiky thing and sent it straight for the docks of Xa-Koro, right at Kynarea. He then proceeded to launch a risky operation to shorten the tether and effectively "Spiderman" his way onto the boat.IC: Zokan"DUDE," he shouted. MIND YOUR OWN @##$%^&*(&^$%#^&())##@@#^&*)()(*^^&%$%$&*(^*()&&P&*+)*_*&()*^&R$%&^EIJYGHKVYU>SWFNLUF%^$#^@#(&*&(%(*$%#@YLN)#*OTN(OPWRU(P#*OF I CP<SOPI(*U:P?DOPUDPNO*FNOF?EGJ(P&(P@#*O&%()#@&( BEESWAX! !!!! !!!! !!! !!!" The sword slash caught him on the leg and he howled in pain before grabbing the thing by the throat and attempting to smash its head against the armor. Had it not taken out a chunk of ice before it had hit him, he would have been dead. He then was flung off of the armor as it was turned into a big ball and discarded. He was sent flying up in the air but managed to grab onto the Toa of Ice's leg.OOC: Psyzhran and Zokan are trapped in a gravity well, so they're currently flying in the air right now.IC: The MafiaThe Mafia sat on the outskirts of the Kumu Islets. He needed to make his own gang, but how? Then he had it. Stealing a cloak, a sword, a boat, and a mask from a matoran vendor (though not without quite a lot of injury), the Mafia set out for the main island.OOC: The Mafia to Le-Wahi

IC: PurgatoryPurgatory walked over to Dorum, "Well that was very entertaining." he said, sheathing his double-sided blade and putting away his launcher. "Seems we successfully broke up The Pyro's little group." The Purgatory said. "But no matter, they were all cool dudes and cowards, they didn't have the backbone to do anything truly great." he said. He then saw what seemed to be Zonkan and the figure that was in the ice giant floating in the air above. "Hm seems like some of them are still around." he said, taking aim, and blasting an explosive Zamor sphere up there, trying to take Zonkan out, the sphere would probably get pulled into the gravity sphere, and explode. Purgatory couldn't help but notice what seemed to be another Parakuka user, who jumped onto the ice giant and shredded it. "Where are these guys coming from?" he wondered.

OOC: He's moving at nearly Kakama-speed. He can dodge stuff like ice armor crumpling up on him. Stuff will have to be a little faster and less predictable.Also, assuming Zokan got his legs chopped off. Nothing was said against it.IC: The silent attacker did not relent. Contorting around the ice with consummate agility and grace, it sprung from the sphere to sever the ice tether at its base. He followed by landing on the ferry.Ignoring the cries of an angered ferrymatoran and what few passengers he had, Ta howled again to show he meant business and flew to its means of self-defense. A single bladed-disk launcher was at the prow of the boat for repelling pirates and rahi. But he would not use it against either.The figure sheathed his sword in a microsecond before his clawed hands settled around the controls. In spite of his berserking rage, they fit around the crank with expert poise and efficiency. He wasted no time in hunching behind it.The shooter swiveled about and then pulled up so that its sight aligned with the floating toa and his injured skakdi companion. Then it let loose.OOC: Yes, he'll get out before the passengers try to kill him. I don't think them weak.

IC: PsyzhranPsyzhran saw the zamor coming. Using what little of his power he had left, he intercepted it with a ball of ice. He then saw the disk coming and launched another ice ball to knock it out of the air.IC: ZokanZokan saw Purgatory and Dorum and blasted his heat vision at them. He needed to get a new leg...

IC: Kellin (Ruins, Xa-Koro)"Pff-too! Pff-too!"The Pehkui-wearing Toa of Sonics finally clawed his way out of the dirt and grime and rubble, pushing himself out onto the ground and deactivating his mask; feeling for his weapons, he turned back towards the massive cave-in and observed it, looking for any sign that Nilyn could have escaped. He had seen the Toa of Lightning desperately firing bolts of lightning at the falling rocks before curling up into a side cavern she had dug up. Kellin debated the merits of going after her for several seconds and bit his lip before sending out a shaped sonic blast through the center of the packed dirt and stone: if Nilyn was alive, and able to dig her way out a little bit, she could. Otherwise...Kellin shrugged and took a lightstone out of his pocket, holding it up at shoulder level and advancing forward once again through the bleak tunnel...-Teezy

IC: PsyzhranPsyzhran saw the zamor coming. Using what little of his power he had left, he intercepted it with a ball of ice. He then saw the disk coming and launched another ice ball to knock it out of the air.IC: ZokanZokan saw Purgatory and Dorum and blasted his heat vision at them. He needed to get a new leg...

IC: PirokPirok sighed. He'd had enough of this.He walked out of the door, paying no attention to anyone. He kept walking until he reached the docks.From there, he could see where Proditor had died. And it was all his fault. If he had realised earlier, if he had grabbed the mask back... but no. His friend was dead. There was nothing he could do now.He looked down, at the water, at his reflection. He seemed older, somehow, as though that one event had aged him. As he looked down at his Calix, he was reminded of another, much like it. Merror.He could try to find him. If he got a boat to Ga-Koro, he could make his way to the canyon in Po-Wahi, he could try to figure out where he went from there...Admittedly, it wasn't much, but it was a plan.OOC: Pirok to Ga-Wahi.

OOC: Actually, Ta was trying to chop both legs off. But I understand if that's a little much.Do act as though he just lost one, though. That is to say: Please write him as though he's losing a lot of blood and not in very good shape.IC: Ta saw that his attack had been neutralized through a haze of bloodlust. He snarled. Disks were too slow.But before he could switch weapons, the berserker felt something in his side. His head whipped around to catch it as he leaped away. The matoran had armed themselves with the boat's other weaponry in the form of primitive polearms. They were trying to advance on him cautiously, one having sliced at his torso. Thanks to his increased speed, he had been able to avoid a serious hack, but a red line had been drawn in his armor.He snarled again, hanging on the rail of the ship as he made his way around to avoid attacks. He did not respond in kind. Even in his rage, he knew better than to make unnecessary enemies. He was busy and they were too. He couldn't afford to waste time on matoran. Soon enough, he caught sight of his foes. But he could do nothing. Even the polearms of the boat could not reach them right now...Nothing here could hit the suspended toa and skakdi. And the denizens of the ferry wouldn't help.So Ta let go of the boat. He kicked off from it, strokes powered by immense strength granting him the speed of an aquatic rahi. He had enough activation left to reach Xa-Koro and then continue the fight.

IC: DorumDorum stood up on wobbly legs and managed to flop to the side and avoid the heat vision. As he lie on the ground, looking up at the scene before him, he noticed another being latched with a Parakuka. He gave a loud cry, as if cheering the massive beast on.

OOC: I thought MU inhabitants didn't bleed?IC: ZokanThe last thing Zokan saw was another zamor heading for him...(Zokan is dead)IC: Psyzhran"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!" he screamed as the zamor struck him and Zokan, shattering the tether. As he flew up into the air, he created another tether and shot it at the ferry. "MORE WEB ICE!!!!" he thought as the tether made its way for the boat

IC: DorumDorum slowly and shakily stood back up, drawing his dagger as he did so. With the weapon bared, he hobbled over to what was left of the dock, jumped in the water, and swam for the ferry. He climbed up on the boat, using his dagger to inch his way up the hull, and soon made it up to the deck, where he started sawing at the ice tether with the serrated edge of his blade.

OOC: The tether hasn't hit the boat yet? The zamor destroyed the first one and the second has yet to touch down.IC: PsyzhranPsyzhran continued to shoot web ice from his wrist. He needed more ice to attach himself to the ferry...

OOC: Might I point out that a strand of ice isn't exactly the most stable thing to place your weight on?

IC: VileVile was working on the tree when something nearly took his ear off. Roaring in pain, he swung behind him and fired the pickaxe at the assailant. "MIND YOUR OWN [...] BEESWAX![...]" he roared.

IC: DorumDorum continued to hack, kick, and punch the ice tethers and cast a rather obscene hand gesture at Psyzhran.

IC: PsyzhranIn response to Dorum's sawing, he fired a tether at Dorum while absorbing his tether attached to the boat at high speed, sending him flying down towards the boatIC: VileThe blow sent Vile reeling (not putting anymore info because I don't know where Baruk is in relation to Vile).OOC: Arc, is Baruk sitting on top of Vile? Or did he just hit him?

IC: DorumDorum swung a fist at the side of the tether that came at him, shattering it into countless shards of ice. He stumbled backwards in an attempt to get out of the way before Psyzhran smashed into the ferry.

IC: PsyzhranPsyzhran smashed into the ferry. He bounced off and landed in the water. When he got back up, he noticed he had made a dent in the hill. He got to his feet and saw one of the spiky things (Dorum) that had tried to destroy his armor earlier. He looked back at the sky and saw the body of a skakdi being sucked into outer space. Knowing that the spiky thing had tried to sabotage his escape attempts, he charged. "I'm not dying this day," he thought. "Not on the masks on my mace."OOC: He was only charging fast enough to escape the gravity well

IC: DorumDespite his weakened state, it was very easy for Dorum to dodge the Ice Toa's charge, as he had been watching Psyzhran fall."Going to have to do better than that," Dorum cackled, twirling his dagger.

IC: KynaeraMorningRemains of the Black Muaka, Xa-KoroThe ice thrown at Kynaera wasn't a problem: She simply increased the gravity directly below it so that as its boarders leaped away, the ice slammed into the ground a ways from Kynaera and shattered. However, the cold, prickling feeling in her stomach remained. She ground her teeth; she couldn't see the ice and so couldn't grab it with her mask, and adjusting gravity inside her body could be detrimental to her organs' work, so all she could do was fight from a distance.The Toa of Ice had struck a boat at the Docks and landed somewhere behind it. Carefully, so the prickling feeling wouldn't increase, Kynaera jogged in a loose crescent till she stood at an angle where she could see the Toa of Ice.Ensuring she was situated behind a building and out-of-sight, she increased the Toa of Ice's gravity so he would stumble.

IC: PsyzhranPsyzhran attacked Dorum again, but suddenly, there as another gravity shift and fell off the boat, landing in the water. "Mistakes," he thought as he started to freeze the water around him and then absorb it...

OOC: Constructman, is Psyzhran still wearing the ice armor?IC: DorumDorum looked down at Psyzhran and laughed an insane, piercing laugh.

OOC: NoMeanwhile, Psyzhran continued to absorb ice and cold. Then, creating a pillar of ice, he rose out of the water (OOC: cue angelic choir). He then decided against getting back on the ferry and turned the pillar into a boat. He set off for the island...

IC: Dorum...Only for Dorum to hop on the boat with his dagger at the ready. He shot forward, aiming to plunge the weapon into Psyzhran's heart.

IC: Ta had expended thirty seconds getting what he needed, but was back in the water. He saw a boat of ice through the haze and howled again. Even in his rage, he knew he couldn't attack directly.So the toa took a long breath and dived into the ocean. He held the air in his lungs as he churned down and then straight towards where he'd last seen the boat. As he'd caught what looked like fighting on it, and the toa had just expended a lot more elemental energy, it was probable its movement would not change enough to cause a miss. Now he would get in close and use the tools he had acquired for this job.Even if he missed, he would have around eight minutes of activation time left. Another eight minutes in which to use the fruit adhering to his back...

OOC: there's a gravity well around Psyzhran so...IC: PsyzhranPsyzhran struggled to turn around, only to see Dorum fall into the same gravity well as well. The two toa slowly got back to their feet, with Psyzhran readying his shield to block any further attacks. Then he decided against it, and using the frozen footstep method, he dashed back onto the ferry as he sent the boat away

OOC: Correction: Psyzhran's gravity is increased.IC: DorumDorum continued his lunge, as the gravity change only effected Psyzhran.

OOC: OhPsyzhran continued to freeze his footsteps in an attempt to get back to the ferry, but the gravity shift was making it hard. He attempted to run in a zig-zag pattern

IC: Ta blurred out of the water to grab onto the boat and jump in. Seeing that it was no longer occupied by his prey, he looked around for the absent Ko-Toa. His eyes caught him in seconds.The berserker charged, bounding from footstep to frozen footstep as he drew his sword. Then he brought it down towards the toa's body in a right-to-left diagonal slash with all his enhanced force behind it--the most powerful master stroke of a longsword.OOC: I should think the people on the ferry probably don't want anyone else on their ferry, considering all that's happened in this fight...

IC: PsyzhranPsyzhran whipped around and put his shield up. He then decided to use the gravitytational shift to his advantage and swung down with his mace in an attempt to land on top of the berserker, knowing that he would be bringing double his weight onto the spiky thing. "You should learn to mind your own business!" he yelled as he swung...

IC: Venedico (Xa-Koro)"The irony of that statement coming from you..." came Venedico's voice from the right of the duel as his whip wrapped around the mace; Dico's weapon coiled around Psyzhran's and tore his strike away from Ta, and the Toa of Plantlife allowed himself a sharp smirk before creating a series of thorns that embedded themselves in the weapon's grip.-Teezy

IC: Ta didn't reply. It merely sheathed its sword. And, in the same motion, proceeded to grab two madu cabolo stuck with oil adhesive from its back and jam them onto the other side of the protosteel shield.Its activated hands retreated before the explosives detonated. In all probability, the Ko-Toa's couldn't.

IC (Greed)The fighting was always better left to someone else.Not that Greed wasn't a perfectly capable fighter- he was. He knew how to use his scythe, his element, and his mask in conjunction to unleash attacks of dizzying swiftness and power, whirling around his opponents in a blur of silver and green. But the best way to win a fight was to win by letting others fight it for you.Greed didn't know how, but somehow a group of beings had randomly chosen a certain bar in Xa-Koro, which just so happened to be the bar that the Toa Daedra were using the back room of. The beings had then decided to rob the building, and even though the establishment was no doubt chock full of Xa-Korans who probably knew how to fight, seeing as they lived in Xa-Koro, the beings were able to get away with it with ease.Then they broke into the room that the Toa Daedra just so happened to be in, and instead of only demanding their valuables, they also demanded to take one of them hostage, which just so happened to be the prisoner whom they had been interrogating.Oh, and they also set the bar on fire, and even Xa-Koro had just undergone an enormous, devasting fire only about a week prior, nobody seemed to care. Even though the street was full of Xa-Korans, many of whom had weapons and powers and knew how to use them, it seemed nobody really cared that someone had set their city on fire again.The only way this situation could get any weirder, Greed mused, would be if all these supposedly random events were really being orchestrated by some otherwordly gamemaster, desperate to find a way to rescue one of his game pieces from being interrogated and disposed of, even though there was no logical or reasonable way for him to do so.But these events had taken place, however randomly, and as the battle raged on, Greed, decided to find some allies.Activating his Kualsi, the Toa of Air warped out of the bar, which had been burning fiercely before being extinguished by Greed's vacuum. He appeared in the street outside, where a large crowd of beings had gathered. The crowd was murmuring angrily as thy watched the smoke from the burnt bar rise slowly into the sky."What's going on?" someone cried out.Greed smiled. This was almost too easy."Brothers and sisters," The Toa of Air shouted, calling forth a soft breeze to carry his words to the farthest reaches of the crowd. "Short days ago, someone set our city on fire, thinking that there are no laws here because it is Xa-Koro!"Now, someone has done it again!"The crowd began to grow more excited. Greed continued on."A group of beings who think they can do whatever they want have set this bar on fire, and begun to tear up the city as they battle my friends. I saved this bar from burning down, but many of the culprits have escaped unpunished! Is that right?"The crowd roared. Weapons were pulled from sheaths and from over shoulders; eyes and hands and masks began to glow as elemental and maks powers were called forth.Greed raised his hands. The crowd quieted somewhat."These are the vandals, the arsonists who wish to see our city burn: "A white and silver Toa of Ice with a Kanohi Tryna and a mace, as well as black and silver tubes connected to a backpack running down his arms!"A Toa of Fire with a black body and red limbs and a silver Volitak, carrying an axe!"A Toa of Plasma with an orange body, white limbs, and no mask, carrying a baseball bat!"A brown Skakdi of Stone, carrying a pickaxe and a sledgehammer!"A Matoran with a silver body, black limbs, and a black Huna, carrying a fencing sword and explosives!"These are the scum who have dared to attack the city of Xa-Koro! Will you let them?"The crowd roared in disagreement, beings stamping their feet and pounding their weapons together in fury.Greed's honey-smooth voice rose to a fever pitch. "Then search the islets until you find them! Search the island! Bring them to me alive or dead, and you will be rewarded!"Go, and protect our city! For Xa-Koro!"OOC: To make everything crystal clear, here's the deal: Greed just placed a bounty on the five of characters of Constructman's who attacked the bar and the Toa Daedra: Psyzhran, The Pyro/ Ira, The Mafia, Vile, and Londar. A great deal of Xa-Korans are now searching the city and the islets for them.Anyone who brings one of these five to Greed, dead or alive will be rewarded.Constructman, that also means that these five characters can't enter Xa-Koro without being disguised, as someone's probably going to recognize them and try to capture or kill them.It also means that a good deal of NPC's will be joining the fight next time I post.

IC: KynaeraMorningDocks, Xa-KoroKynaera saw the Toa of Ice swing his mace and promptly reversed his gravity as best she could. The momentum used to propel the Toa of Ice's mace over his shoulder now worked against him, throwing him off the ground in the sudden absence of a grounding force.Once he had floated high enough for a fall to hurt, Kynaera reversed gravity again. She was starting to tire, but she pushed herself anyway.

OOC: The intent was for Baruk to land on Vile, yes. I'm assuming the attack connected.IC: Baruk smiled as the Skakdi broke his fall and crumpled under his weight. "Mind my own business? I could say the same to you. There's a lot I could say to you, actually, but I think I should be going. I trust you'll wait here for me to get back?" He swung his fist at the Skakdi's head again. Apparently this one's skull was incredibly thick, but there wasn't much he could do to dodge the blow this time.

IC: ZokanThe last thing Zokan saw was another zamor heading for him...(Zokan is dead)

IC: DorumDorum twirled his dagger. A crooked grin split his mask and his eyes were focused on Psyzhran."You're as good as dead," he cackled.The creature on his back wriggled and sent him images of the Ice Toa, dead by the blade of his dagger.

IC: VileVile strained against Baruk's weight. Another punch landed on his head and he started seeing stars. In desperation, he opened his mouth, aimed for Baruk's crotch, and took a bite...IC: Psyzhran got up in a daze. Apparently, the fall had triggered a personality split of some sort as he was now convinced that his name was Bob Dylan and that he was a singer. He walked off, and fell into the water, while singing-Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for meI’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going toHey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for meIn the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you...He swam out of the water and continued to sing while backstroking off in a random direction

IC: DorumDorum dove at Psyzhran with his dagger aimed directly at his target's heartlight.