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| ------ Tavius's Demise ------ |
| As you walk into the establishment you are greeted by a beautiful tiefling girl wearing a skimpy black leather outfit, and you see that this is the standard dress of the barmaids here. She smiles at you and says "Welcome to the Leather Tiefling. If you're here to drink, I can take your order right now and show you to a table. If you're here for pleasure, talk to the ogre over there he'll set you up. If you're here to fight in the pit, challenges are taken on a first come first serve basis - just walk into the pit and someone here will probably challenge you. Enjoy your stay..." The Leather Tiefling Loud music assaults your ears from a band playing on the stage at the far end of the building. As you look around you see the place is dimly lit by torches that line every wall. To your right is a 10 foot deep sand fightning pit. To your left you see a large, burly ogre standing guard at a door which seems to lead upstairs. A sign above the door reads "5 GP/hour". Against the far wall you spy the bar, with it's many patrons seated on it's stools. Behind the bar stands a scrawny tiefling with a long grey beard and a stained white shirt - obviously the bartender. Trinity looks araound at all gathered Tavius looks wary as Trinity enters.. Tyrone sits with Tav Trinity notices Tavius in the crowd, and glares back at him Tyrone says, "Hey there Tavius" Tavius says, "Hello.." Tavius puts his hand on his sword-hilt as Trinity glares at him.... White flies up to a rafter to look down at the room after seeing that everyone's ignoring him Trinity looks around to see what the others are doing Tavius sips his ale, eyes on Trinity Fovoham flies in dramaticaly on her broom. The wicked witch of the west theme song plays. Tyrone eyes the snake like thingy Tyrone says, "What in the Nine Hells is that?" Tyrone points to White... Ego is sitting hunched at the bar. Trinity grins Fovoham alights next to a table near to the Fighting Pit. Shikina frowns, and growls slightly, looking from one patron in the bar to the next, her hand on her sword. Tyrone nods to Fovoham Trinity approaches Tavius, trying to knock the mug out of his hand and the ale all over himself Fovoham looks to Shikina. "Whats the matter dearie, don't like the patrons?" Tavius, having had his eyes on Trinity the entire time she has been in the tavern, sees this coming, and slides back before the ale has a chance to hit him. Mubodius floats above the bar. Tyrone sighs, "Not again..." You say, "Well coward, you still wish to duel, or are you afraid of a fair fight" Tavius stands, his hand on his sword hilt, "What do you want, half-breed?". A little annoyed. Trinity glares at Tavius Tavius laughs, "Me?! Afraid?! Tavius draws his rapier, a slight howl pervading the room, along with a wind... Tavius points it at Trinity, "I will take none of this from one such as you. One who must take the blood of other.." White leans further out over his rafter, seeing the fight... "Oo! This getting interesting!" Fovoham hops on her broom and flies up next to White. Tavius says, "We end this here. Now.." Mubodius wonders what the problem is. You say, "Tonight I dine upon your blood, and so much more, mongrel" Tavius says, "Mongrel?!" Tavius laughs again Tyrone mutters to himself. White looks over at Fovoham. "You gots a pomegranate?" Trinity playfully knocks Tavius's sword away with Whisper Tavius brings his sword down to the floor, glaring at Trinity, "I have no knowledge as to why you should hate me, but I can see that you will inevitably. So, would you prefer to settle this peacefully, or shall we seek to destroy one another?" Fovoham produces a incredulous pomegranate. Trinity glances at Fovoham, "You are aware pomeganate seeds can be poisonous" Tyrone mutters to himself, "Entropy,... death!" Ego glances at Trin and Fovoham, "Maybe he wants a stay in the underworld?" White says, "Ooo... thanks!", reaches out and gobbles it up, returning his eyes to the fight below. Fortunately, he's lying down, so the digestion process can't be seen. Tyrone says, "Destroy! oops..." Tyrone says, "Doomguard habit..." Fovoham giggles, as the pomegranate had a powerful sleep potion in it. Fovoham flies back to her table. White looks somewhat drowsy Trinity steps intowards Tavius as he lowers his sword to try and shove him again, this time with greater speed and power behind her You say, "What do you fear, all things come to an end, including your misserable life" Tyrone nods Tavius steps aside quickly, seeing her intentions, and makes a sweeping motion towards the pit, "As you wish." Shikina draws her sword, and approaches the dueling two. "You, a half-breed who seeks violence for prides sake - you shall die." Tyrone looks at Shikina White's eyelids droop Ego looks at Shikina. The big fat ugly and disgusting Judge of the Pit go sits on his big fat bench. Tyrone says, "Okay bitch, I'm tired of you always poking your nose in others buisness, let's clear this now!" Shikina snarls at the stares. "Those that practice evil upon others shall beware that it not be practiced on them," she spits. Tyrone gets up Tavius jumps into the pit, and holds his rapier up at his chest, parallel with it, and makes a quick slicing motion to the ground, holding it there in a defensive position. Trinity glares at Shikina, then leaps over her into the pit, ignoreing all except Tavius Fovoham thinks Shikina should go stuff a monkey in her mouth. Judge "Here's the rule: 1)No weapons 2)No flying 3)No magic, whatsoever. Do you all agree to them?" Tavius looks up at the judge. Ego marvels at the compexity of the antagonism in the room. Judge: "What? This is a rumlbe?" The judge looks at the cheering crowd: "Fine then! So be it!" White falls asleep, and soft snoring can now be heard from the rafters. Tyrone glares at Trin and grins with complicity Tavius holds his rapier close to the ground, nearly touching it. After leaping into the pit, Trinity makes a sweeping motion with Whisper and motion for the sinker to advance Mubodius looks relieved as Fovoham leaves. Shikina leaps down from the outside of the pit, through the flames (suffering a substansial bit of damage as she does, though she attempts to shrug it off), towards Trinity's back with her sword drawn, attempting not to scream from her damage as she attempts to land a slashing blow along the tiefling's back as she hits the ground. Sefer yells, "Trin!" Tavius nods to this invite, and whispers harshly so that only Trinity can hear, "I have no intention of killing you, but if I must, so be it.". With that, he rushes towards Trinity with amazing speed, and makes a quick,slashing motion at her arm. He puts all his weight on his right foot and comes to a grinding halt, sliding under Trinity's legs and appearing behind her. Tyrone jumps in after Shikina, annoyed at her ever-constant interruption in other's buisness, seeing that he could promote entropy by the way... he takes out his axe while falling toward the lupinal and waits for a clear blow... Trinity notices the smoldering lupinal approahing from behind as Sefer yells a warning, and and the sinker rushing her from the front, and performs a hasty backflip, landing just behind th lupinal, performing a round house as she lands, attempting to shove Shakina into Tavius. Upon seeing Trinity doing a near-impossible backflip from behind, Shikina realizes her position is compromised. Ducking immediately into a crouch, she attempts to make sure that whatever blow Trinity is trying to land on her from behind will fail. Sefer watches the attack and tries to decide whether he should interfere. Shikina's crouch enables her to avoid Trinity's shove - Trinity's attempt to shove her goes through thin air, perhaps causing her to fall over Shikina into Tavius. Tavius skids to a halt on the sandy, dust filled floor of the pit. He looks back towards Trinity, and swears slightly, seeing she was too fast to get her arm sliced open and have to muscle spill out onto the floor. Looking up at Shikina, he comes to a dead halt right before her, and quickly rises to his feet, spinning around quickly, trying to run back towards Trinity.. White jolts awake, the effects of the drugged pomegranate finally wearing off. Very faintly, you can hear someone calling, "Here, White!" White flies away quickly, in search of his master. Tyrone falls behind Trinity who now stands behind Shikina, he wobbles a bit while not trying to fall down while also trying not to hit Trin with his prepared hit for the lupinal... he swiftly jumps back and keeps his balance and waits for things to clear up a bit, grinning evily... Sefer swoops into the pit, but hovers above the fight; he decides not to interfere unless someones about to die... especially Trinity Shikina concentrates for a second. Suddenly, her form becomes blurry, and you're not too clear where she is anymore. A harsh blood red light burns out from behind Trinity's shades. Trinity gracefully leaps into the air, and lands a good distance from the others in the pit, glaring at all with a distastefull look on her face. Tavius pays no heed to the blurry Lupinal, and instead concentrates on Trinity. He advances slowly towards her, every sense on full alert. Moloki Looks about for familiar faces seeing none he takes a seat at the bar Ego looks over at Moloki. "They're fighting," she explains. "Trinity, Tyrone, Tavius, and Shikina are having a free-for-all." Tyrone plants his axe in the ground and it starts moving and turns grey... the ground begins cracking up and start drawing a thin line all the way to the other side of the pit... the line gets bigger suddenly and creates a gigantic chasm Tyrone says, "Love my dust entropy blade!" Ego says, "Until the sides look uneven, I'm staying out of it." The big fat Judge of the Pit puts his face in his fat hand: "Not again... I hate that dwarf..." Trinity grins at Tyrone Moloki Orders an ale. Then gulps it down in one draught. Moloki then turns to the fighting pit and smiles. Seeing the crack widening, the blurred figure of the lupinal leaps towards the side where Trinity stands. Though it's nearly impossible to make out details, it looks as if the blurred figure of a sword is being raised high. A voice, soft as flowers, but as harsh as steel, can be heard, "Surrender now, dark one. I have no quarrel with you, but if you bring violence on others, only violence will be brought upon yourself." Tavius feels the grounds crumbling beneath him, and makes a mad dash to the solid side. He nearly misses it, but with a well formed long jump, he lands safely on the other side. Seeing the lupinal about to bring her sword down on Trinity, he runs at her, screaming, "No! This is between me and her, celestial!" The blurred form stares at Tavius, and asks, "Would you practice violence on she that would kill you? Would you seek violence for its own sake? I only fight to protect you from this unprovoked aggression." Tyrone swears as he sees his action didn't get the lupinal and runs around the chasm toward the blurred form, going to try and tackle whatever he can... The judge looks at everyone with stern disapproval. Tyrone runs with his axe in hand, although not trying to hit, but tackling the shifting lupinal... he jumps for her legs, but the blurry form dodges in a swift movement. Tyrone misses only by a bit and falls down and rools into a small ball and stops on his knees and gets up quickly, facing the lupinal Shikina turns around, and stares at Tyrone. "Would you seek to kill me for my 'intrustion' into the affairs of others?", she asks. "Then feel how it is to feel the sting of good, foul dwarf." With that, the blurred images makes a movement (perhaps raising a finger), and suddenly four magical arrows appear from the finger and fly towards Tyrone, striking him straight in the face, one after another, burning Tyrone with the purest essence of goodness. The judge continues to look disapproving. The crowd is cheerful and happy In the pit are Trin, Tavius, Shikina and Tyrone, fighting around a large gap. Moloki looks about Trinity leaps once more int othe air, passing over the chasm and laning in a croach. As she stands to her feet she mutters, "Dodge this!" and raises Whisper, pinting towards Tavius, sending a searing bolt of electricity at him Tavius is struck dead on by Trinity's lightning bolt. His body is coursing with electricty, but, as it is, he manages to scream out a couple command words in(apparently his wind madness has taken over), and his sword begins to buzz as his body convulses. THe sword emits a loud, shrieking howl, as though the pit was in the deepest reaches of the Harmonica itself. The sound envelops the entire arena and will most certainly deafen the folks within it, if not madden them. Tavius falls to a knee, smoking from the lightning bolt. Moloki stands and looks around bored. Etzain winces as the winds take over his mind. Moloki takes wing and joins Sefer. Ego does not move. Shikina howls in a high-piched voice as she clutched her head and attempts to rise above the din. Suddenly, an idea seems to hit her. "Stop the fighting!", she demands. Sefer likes that idea, and yells at the top of his supernatural voice, "STOP FIGHTING!!!" Tyrone falls down to the ground when the missiles hit him... he takes out his buckler and then the sound reaches his brain... total barmines is the only description of what Tyrone does hearing the winds Etzain looks at the others in and around the pit. Tavius is still smoking from the lightning bolt, looking much, much weaker.. Godofred starts eating his bread Sefer realizes how cold everything is, and starts flying around in circles, shooting out flame. Shikina clutches her head, repeating a single word, over and over again, "Heregul..." With that, she slumps to the ground, exhausted from the mental effort she has expended to stay sane. Ego is at the bar, slumping. Id is in Ego. Moloki Quickly tries to cover his ears as the winds reach him. However he is too late and flies screaming for the bar Heregul walks in, summoned by the mental gibbering of his student. Etzain looks at all the barmies. Delguran smirks Heregul observes the strange reactions of everyone, and looks a bit concerned. "What's going on here?", he demands of anyone able to understand him. Ego murmurs "Hush, Id." Etzain looks at Heregul, "I was wondering that myself, actually.." Tyrone says, "Oranges, oranges! imitating Calvin and starts running around in circle on his side screaming Woboopoooboowoopwoop!" Ego turns to Heregul. "Everyone's fighting. Their minds snapped. It happens." Etzain looks surprised to see Calvin the monodrone roll in. The Chaos Imp on Calvin's shoulder sinks into him with a wicked grin on it's face. Calvin starts to fizzle and buzz, then starts throwing bottles of ale at the walls, shouting, "Oranges! Oranges! Red is House? Good! Ale! ALE!" Calvin is apparently tweaking. Moloki lands on the bar with a CRASH! Heregul walks over to the edge of the pit, and passes through the fire as if unaffected. Taking hold of his servant, apparently careless of what has happened, her drags her again through the fire. Looking at the entire tavern, he says, "I hope you know better than to continue to madness." With that, he heads out the door. Godofred finishes his bread looks around and leaves A pleasent yellow light is emited from behind Trinity's shades as she mummbles a prayer Trinity shudders at the onslaught of the howling, but grits her teeth and continues on unheeded. She leaps acrost the cavern and lands in front of Tavius as silence envelopes her. She realeases Whisper, allowing him to hover in the air beside her, and picks Tavius up with one hand, lifting him off the ground, attempting to sink her fangs into his throat and drain his blood until he is a quivering mess near death.... Godofred says, "ANYONE?" Moloki shakes his head and stands looking about confused. Tavius winces as the fangs sink into his neck, and grabs her tunic(whatever you're wearing as a top layer), and puts his other hand on her neck, his grip fading as the blood is drained and his muscles begin to fail as he slips into the final peace of everlasting death... Tavius is nearly dead Sefer says, "Trinity! Don't kill him!" Tyrone is still acting barmy, bashing the ground with his axe Etzain looks at Sefer..."Hush friend, it must be." Etzain takes a running leap into the pit and walks over to Tyrone. Ego wonders who Trinity will oppose now. The Judge looks around at the guards: "Could someone stop this barmy dwarf please?..." Sefer's hair bursts into flame Etzain looks up to the Judge. Etzain nods. Calvin peers at Moloki, "You ain't to pretty yourself.." Trinity lowers Tavius's body slowly to the grounds, his blood still dripping from her lips. She then removes an object from her pouch which is difficult to make out, but seems to made from some type of crystal. Trin then places her hand over the quizering sinker's forhead, and in a few moemnts, he simply lies there, motionless.... A small white paper falls out of Tavius's tunic as his body goes limp. Examining it, you see it is Tavius's last wishes(he carries his will on him. Most sinkers do, as they are always expecting Entropy to take them). Only one thing of real importance is read from it: "And for the disposing of my body: I wish to be cremated and my ashes cast into the winds of the Harmonica with all those who knew me present.". An overwhelming nostalgia takes you over as you glance back at his cold, limp body. Tavius is dead. Sefer says, "Trinity... that wasn't necesary." The madness seems to have faded from Sefer. Tyrone seems to wake up from a trance as the howling winds fade... Tavius's rapier falls out of his grip as he dies. Trinity stands up, retaking Whisper and secreting the crystal away, before grabing Tavius's sword, and leaping out of the pit, hurrying for the door You pick up your rapier and sheath it. The howl gets a little fainter, but it is still present. Moloki Looks at the Monodrone inquisitivly. Ego Ego watches Trinity go. Tyrone looks at the limp body of his comrade and goes over to it, walking around the chasm and takes it in hand and climbs out of the pit |