#ok but her weapon is 100% a rapier

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The required lace redesign after I drew hornet silksong

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Heya, have a question, what is the basic concept of your The Amazing Digital Circus au? and do you have any name ideas yes, if you have the concept, perhaps that would help figure out a name?

Hi thanks for this ask, since this is one thing I've been struggling to pin down, but I do have some ideas, I'll put all the info below a Read More though since it's, a lot of waffling, sorry lol

Okay I imagine the setting to be a sort of mix between modernish day, 1920's and 1830's, yeah huge difference in stuff, like the 1830's would be the society sorta thing, for example, Jax was heavily inspired by Dodger from Oliver Twist and the boys from Newsie's

1920's would be the setting of how the world looks mostly, but also for costuming sort of, not every character follows this rule though, for example Kinger will look abit more modernish.

Modern day would be technology to an extent, tv's from the 90s, trams, maybe cars not sure there, elevators etc.

That's the setting, but I also imagine the theme for the setting to be similarish to Sonic SATAM

The world isnt 100% safe, it isnt 100% hostile, but there is a big bad (whom I imagine might be the company, C&A itself) and our gang are part of the plucky resistance, mostly.

They have to 'live' normal lives, some in the public view such as Ragatha being a seamstress who I imagine is pretty famous for her work, and others who have to live in the shadows, such as Caine (and possibly Zooble? I have some idea's for them but nothing concrete)

The residents in the world are the manaquins, and the NPCs we've seen, the enemies are a mixture of abstractions and these little robotic bugs ala Badniks from Sonic, specifically only bug versions, for reasons.

Basically I just wanted to draw a world where folks got to have giant weapons of unusual items, Ragatha with her giant needle rapier, Jax with his giant wrench for example, but the rest of hte stuff I've explained all begin popping up in my head, here's what I know of the other cast members.

Jax: a street urchin, but he has a one room place he lives initially, he works as a mechanic, but mostly pick pockets and steals from richer folks cause that's easier. He's good at fixing other things, but when he tries to build things they only have a 15% success rate of not exploding or back firing. And only a 3% chance of them surviving fully operational how intended.

Ragatha: A semi-famous seamstress, she isn't super famous so her name isn't well known, but she has made outfits for the likes of Princess Loo. So she has some connections to the upper class. As for her vigilante role, she can fight with the best of them, but doesn't want the notoriety to affect her day to day so she has the disguise, which works surprisingly well; in the Sailor Moon sense lol. She fights to defend innocents from the Abstractions, injust and the bugs.

Now for the ones i've not drawn yet.

Kinger: Kinger is so adorable, but he's still got a few screws loose cause it wouldn't be him fully yknow? But ok his design would be the same except for the robe, instead of a robe he would have a fuzzy scarf made by his (late?) wife Queenie and a lab coat, because he's the inventor of the robot bugs, yes, he works with C&A BUT he thinks he's working with the good guys, he made the bugs to defend innocent folks from evil, not realising that meant they were protecting C&A, the abstractions and stuff such as that. Why's he working with C&A otherwise? Well I imagine that's due to Queenie, she was abstracting, but Kinger prevented her from fully abstracting putting her in like stasis, so she's asleep, C&A found out about this an offered to heal her if Kinger helped them protect the world from those with ill intent. So he has no clue they're the reason for the abstractions and everything.

Caine: I imagine Caine is the de-facto 'leader' of the resistance, trying to find the cast members to bring them all together to help fight C&A, so far he's only found 2, Zooble and Gangle, he usually tries to stay hidden since C&A would really like to get their grubby mitts back on their 'ring master'

Zooble: They're interesting, but very obvioiusly a cast member, due to their unfortunate circumstance of their body being a big give away; they were the first Caine found, so they both 'work from the shadows' but Zooble with more 'humanish' body parts can somewhat pass without raising much suspicion, unsure what their weapon will be yet, BUT they are very very close to another cast member, the next one infact.

Gangle: She i imagine is a news reporter, not the kind where they go and get the news, just the writer and cartoonist. BUT that doesn't stop her from doing her own journalist investigation in her off times that doesn't involve her drawing and visiting art galleries. I imagine she sort of has a vigilante self too, but less The Mask of Zorro and more Sailor Moon, but dont know what her weapon is yet either.

Bubble: I imagine bubble is very very susceptible to being corrupted and taken over by C&A so like Caine and Zooble, Bubble stay's hidden, and is more like a guard dog, letting the gang know when any unwanted attention is lurking near. They're still weird and cheeky but also a bit more timid in general.

And finally, Pomni: The newest member to the resistance, and the freshest face in this 'world' so she has the most potentional to blend in, she's the one that will stumble upon Jax and Ragatha when out one day, so it's trying to convince them to join the resistence, I imagine she has a big weapon too but still thinking about what that could be.

NOW after all of that, I have one more new idea, this is still the digital world, so headsets an such still apply, but the Abstractions happen the same, folks loosing themselves, sometimes forced too by C&A because they're trying to make more realistic NPCs, unimpressed by Caine's NPCs they began well, torturing other players til they lost themselves, so C&A could 'reprogram them' into NPCs, some were successful, like Gummigoo and Princess Loo, but most were not, Abstractions, Queenie.

I imagine the cast are aware this world doesnt feel right, but not sure what it is. Some have more idea that this world is just 'another adventure' such as Zooble and Caine (and bubble) others have some idea's like Gangle and Jax, they're like 75% sure this world seem's...not right. Ragatha and Pomni are around 50% like normal folks, is this real? nah it isnt, is it? It feels and seem's real. Kaufmo (I have NO clue for this fellow) and Kinger (Current) are fully immersed, Queenie and (old) Kinger were pretty sure this world wasn't all it seemed too.

Jax and Ragatha though at some point I can see joining forces, making their own 'resistance' unaware of the other cast til Pomni happens upon them.

And yeah that's...Pretty much all I have, it's a lot but at the same time it's not much, yknow?

Oh, but this gif makes me think of Zooble and Gangle (and alil of Ragatha and Jax when they join the resistance)

But yeah sorry this was all over the place, but thank you so much for the ask!

[curlyparmesan]

OC + Random Associations

tagged by @lesbianaloy, thanks for thinking of me <3

It's Flit, the half wood-elf thief! Specifically Flit as she has grown throughout her misadventures.

🗡 animal - Raven, but not in the gloomy sense, mostly as a hoarder of shiny trinkets and harbinger of death (ok, maybe a little gloomy)

🗡 colors - White and scarlet, avoids drab colors at all cost

🗡 month - October, when the greatest bounties of the land spring forth

🗡 songs - Pays Imaginaire by Polo & Pan, luckily she woke up from her dream with Shadowheart still by her side (runner up is for sure When I Die by Pepper Coyote, since everyone will remember her as a reluctant hero instead of the 'live fast die young' thief she really is)

🗡 number - 57877, the amount of gold she stole before reluctantly saving the world

🗡 plants - I immediately thought of a blackberry plant since they're so prickly, then I learned blackberry plants are part of the rose family and flower! She used to eat them growing up on the outskirts of Baldur's Gate

🗡 scents - honeysuckle and seedy taverns

🗡 gemstone - aquamarine (she's been wearing the caustic band ever since she found it, and refuses to take it off)

🗡 time of day - the afternoon, when everyone heads to the tavern

🗡 season - harvest season

🗡 places - tree houses, locked vaults, downtrodden taverns, aristocrat bedrooms (most of the time stealing things)

🗡 food - thick skinned grapes and Waterdhavian cheese shavings

🗡 drink - mead made from giant bees

🗡 element - air, she's so light on her feet, and strikes as fast as a hurricane

🗡 seasoning - sage and lemon (she always makes her iconic sour scrunch face, like all the time)

🗡 sky - dark storm clouds on the horizon

🗡 weather - the level of rainy that traps most people inside, but not her

🗡 magical power - will cross the room and stab you 3 times before you can blink, despite not using the weave

🗡 weapons - A rapier gifted to her by an old sea salt. Also known to use two daggers for maximum puncturing

🗡 sweets - muffins, especially with fruit and honey

🗡 method of travel - Barefoot 100%, it's the only method of travel where she feels like she's in control. She is quite fleet of foot afterall.

🗡 art style - Van Gogh sunflowers, not that she paints, but the vibrant yellow feels and big brushstrokes

🗡 fear - poverty ever since losing her parents

🗡 mythological creature - blue dragon, very tricksy and (hear me out) she's literally carrying around 116 pounds of gold. She can be quite cruel to those that have wronged her.

🗡 stationery item - a metal fountain pen that's sharp enough to cut.

🗡 3 emojis - 🤔👛🔓 (She seriously *always* looks confused. Sometimes it's just to deceive someone, but she's not all that smart)

🗡 celestial body - the rings of Jupiter, very faint but easily a destructive force

@grayembers if you find the time, I would love to hear about one of your BG3 chars! @ace-of-games would love to hear about your character too! (no pressure of course)

[sacred-stanning]

Chapter 6 Part 3: In which we learn about various characters' ethical frameworks

When we left off, Seth was about to take a beating. Maybe. On the other hand, it is Seth.

So remember how the Halberd was the biggest concern due to effective damage? Well, 25 damage is a lot, but 22% hit is NOT a lot. So Seth was fine.

Franz deals with the guys coming from the other direction.

It turns out that 23% hit is ALSO not a lot.

And this is the moment when I realized Franz was actually in range of 2 guys, not 1. Not that he's in any danger.

Yeah, 39% hit is a bit better, but, uh, zero damage?

This guy needs to hit the gym.

And it was worth it to do the weapon switch with Colm last turn because Eirika is able to destroy the cavalier who comes at her.

So here we are. Both cavaliers near Franz are hurt, and the other guys are not big threats.

Meanwhile, we have 1 armor below, and a soldier who is way out to the right.

Artur easily finishes off the guy with the iron blade that is weighing him down.

LUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joshua is fast enough to finish off this archer on his own, so he does that.

Colm moves to this hill and torches up again, and we finally can see the boss and the two guys near him in the upper right.

Eirika attacks the soldier and sets up a kill for Ross.

I command Seth to go kill the unarmed healer, and he does it twice over without question.

Seth's personal ethics are pretty simple. If it helps Eirika, it's good. If it harms Eirika, it's bad.

Vanessa hangs out next to Lute some more.

They're friends! :)

This also will let her get attacked by the soldier way to the right.

The soldier runs in and gets himself hurt, meaning that he is easily taken out by a child.

Said child beefs up.

I then command Vanessa to imitate Seth and attack this other unarmed healer.

Vanessa has a more nuanced sense of ethics than Seth does. She sees the value in all human life, even that of soldiers who have invaded her allies' homeland. As a result, she loses her nerve and misses one of her javelin throws.

How about Ross?

Not surprisingly since he is young and not yet jaded, he also loses his nerve and misses.

Let's see how Joshua feels about the sanctity of huma--

Oh, 100% hit. Ok.

Not surprising for a gambler, but it looks like Joshua must have made a deal with the devil when he chose to take out that healer. He is handsomely rewarded.

So the spider is getting kind of close, which means we only have about two more turns to finish the map.

I also noticed this armor knight here. Hmmmm...

But first. I attempt to set up a kill for Lute with Artur. He would have done just enough damage to set it up perfectly, but he goes and misses one of these.

Oh yeah, and jumping back down here, Eirika takes position on the forest tile. This time I remember to make sure she has her rapier equipped.

Since the map ends once the boss is dead, and since Eirika wasn't that close to the boss, I figured she might as well go and grab this experience instead.

I send Vanessa to start smacking this soldier.

Eagle-eyed readers, can you spot my error?

Since Artur MISSED one of his hits, Lute can't finish this mage off, so I just have Franz do it instead.

Alright Franz!

On enemy phase, the soldier attacks Vanessa. She missed one of her four attacks somewhere between player and enemy phase, so she leaves him at 1 HP.

Uhhhh...

Everything is FINE

The situation is UNDER CONTROL

I am TOTALLY CALM

And with the small child's life on the line, let's break it here!

To be continued!

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My Top Posts in 2021

#5

sick and tired of pig/human buff/noodle techno design discourse i wanna know everyone’s takes on what The Fuck is going on with his legs

so like presumably we’ve got red pants/shorts and then the uhhhhhhh chain mail/fishnet/checkered patterned whatever and like either maybe two toned boots or hes got like, leg? warmers? anyways

i feel like, i should be pretty confident that the bottom black part is shoes right?

but

they don’t have any soles????

like, they’re the same as his hands hooves are just out; biblically accurate techno doesn’t wear shoes? you’re telling me this man has 4 distinct leg sections and none of them are shoes? king how many layers of legwarmers do you need?

but

that isn’t fucking all-

id like to direct everyone’s attention back to the “pants”

are they pants? are we sure? because they’re a very similar color to his coat

“but waite, they’re clearly separated from the coat by the trim“

oh are they?? are you fucking sure????  dear reader have you ever noticed that the trim just stops at the front? it doesn’t wrap around

are His PANts attached?!!? To hIS coat? is IT a jumpSUit???

whatisthetruthimlosingitoverhere

716 notes • Posted 2021-08-13 08:27:48 GMT

#4

Taking a quick break from spreading rapier technoblade propaganda to instead spread messer nihachu propaganda

What is a messer?

Its a big knife, just a hugeass fucking knife, sword sized but knife shaped which is the vital distinction. Messer is like literally german for knife.

C!niki should have one and heres why i think that:

German

I think this one is self explanatory

The history of the messer

So basically messers exist to exploit this lil old loophole in 15th century german laws where most people aren't allowed to make or have swords but they are allowed knives. So a messer, in a very "behold a man" sort of way, is technically a knife bc of the construction of the handle and only having the one sharp side. (I think there's more minutia to that distinction but im too lazy to look it up rn, handle, sharp on one side is the broad strokes)

So anyway remember how during the Schlatt administration Niki specifically got her taxes raised n stuff? Now ok hear me out, hc that at some point during that time period Niki also gets disallowed from owning weapons for like, probably similar petty reasons to the taxes so she just, gets a Really Big fucking knife and goes on her merry way.

Knife like cooking like baking? Slice bread in bakery with giant knife?

C!niki is a baker so having her weapon b kind of tangentially culinary is p neat i think. Also the mental image of niki like, serving pie w her Huge Knife amuses me.

In conclusion niki nihachu deserves a giant knife, thank u for coming to my ted talk

1196 notes • Posted 2021-08-12 05:30:42 GMT

#3

So like, the new skin Phil's got on namemc huh? I know that logically probably I should be going buckwild over like is this another death flag? Wings got blown up canon??

But I will be completely honest, I just can't unsee the black as one big shirt and the green as overalls and thats the thing that my brain has latched onto today

1479 notes • Posted 2021-02-24 08:05:22 GMT

#2

"Don't talk to me, or walmart me, or Philza Minecraft, or my dog, or my dog, or my dog, or my dog, or my dog, or my dog, or my dog, or my dog, or my dog, or my dog, or my dog, or my dog, or my dog, or my dog, or my dog ever again" -Techno probably, canon killing the next sorry fucker who tries bothering the tundra cottagecore retirement bois

1862 notes • Posted 2021-01-10 08:17:46 GMT

#1

I love bird mumza as much as the next guy however if there is not enough panda!death goddess art out there I guess I will make it myself.

Well yknow,, shes American so shes got the right to uh, b-bear arms?

3751 notes • Posted 2021-06-05 06:55:33 GMT

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THE AIRY PEAKS – THE TOWN OF FOOT. PART 3 (06)

Let us continue our look at the town of Foot from last article.

7. The Carpenter. This shop smells like sawdust as soon as you enter it. There’s wood, stain, saws, hammers, levels, crank drills, chisels, and all other manner of tool and wood around the shop. Sarah Hanner is a short stocky and well muscled woman in her late 30’s. Healthy and always wearing a wry smile. Sarah specializes in furniture and the wooded parts of a wide variety of farm equipment while also being able to patch up buildings that have seen better days. She loves her work and does a wonderful job, even if she’s sometimes a little late.

8. Fredmon’s Thread and Stitch. Fredmon Tailor comes from a long line of tailors but came to the Airy Peaks to seek adventure. Then he lost his foot to a spikey mawed beastie. After than he decided to get back to his roots and sew for adventurer’s instead of going on adventures. Fredmon can work with cloth and leather while being quite versed in the layering of a variety of materials and cloths. He often works quite close with Kurnig on the undergarments of armor.

The shop is a clean place with a variety of different sets of clothing displayed on wooden mannequins. It’s all functional dress for farmers and adventurer’s which gives the clothing a high contrast. Fredmon also specializes in bags and pouches for every day adventuring, seed carrying, and any other function a bag could serve.

9. The Torn Page. Lillard Copse is a wizened old man who wears glasses, can barely see, and is stooped over with age. That is, until the sun goes down. Once the sun dips out of view this old man straightens up, moves with the vigor of someone half his age, and can see just fine.

The shop is filled with books and mpas which he buys and sells. Some are from adventurers and others are more mysterious in origin. Even though he has tons of maps, those maps are all quite contradictory in their descriptions and depictions. If asked, Lillard is convinced the Peaks might even move and rearrange themselves, or at least the Fire Tube Tunnels do.

10. The Goblin Wares. Jacob Flack is a thin unassuming man with brown hair, who runs one of the most common shops in town in one of the more unique locations. His shop is in a tunnel just inside one of the entrances to the Airy Peaks. The shops entrance is marked by a wooden sign with a goblin painted on it with its eyes xed out.

The shop is just a small cavern lit by oil lanterns and an torch that burns with a magical light that never consumes and never goes out. On the walls are mesh nets and hanging from them are all manner of weapons, larger adventuring gear, and armor. There are crates stacked in rows with potions, rope, pouches, trinkets, small devices, and the other smaller, more portable things one might find useful when traversing the Airy Peaks.

Sometimes special things find their way into the Goblin Wares, sold to Jacob by adventurers who don’t know what they have. This is also the place that gear gets shipped to from the outside world. If you want to show how the gear changes from week to week in the Goblin Wares you can make this move every third time the party makes camp or when you have decided that a week or so has passed.

When time has passed roll 2d6 + nothing. On a hit a delivery occurs and restock according to the refresh. On a 10+ roll a d10 twice. Each roll adds the interesting item listed below to the goblin wares. On a 12+ a magic item finds its way into the Goblin Wares. Create the magic item and place it in the shop. On a miss the refresh doesn’t happen.

Special Item List

Hunters Bow

Dueling Rapier

Elvish Arrows

Elven Bread

Oil of Tagit

Bloodweed

Goldenroot

Serpent’s Tears

Bag of Books

Edged Black Steel Weapon. Add 2 piercing and 100 coins to any edged weapon

Black Steel Weapons come from the Dragon Fire Forges within the Airy Peaks. Edged weapons forged there have 2 piercing.

Jacob’s has the following on hand when an Airy Peaks campaign starts:

Dungeon Gear

Adventuring Gear (x100)

Bandages (x10)

Healing Potion (x4 refreshed 1d4-1 to a max of 4)

Antitoxin (x1 refreshed to a max of 1)

Dungeon Rations (x 50)

Dwarven Hardtack (x3 refreshed by 1 to a max of 3)

Halfling Pipeleaf (x1 refreshed to a max of 1)

Armor

Leather (x3 refreshed by 1 to a max of 3)

Chainmail (x3 refreshed by 1 to a max of 3)

Scale Mail (x2 refreshed by 1 to a max of 2)

Plate (x1 refreshed by 1 to a max of 1)

Shield (x3 refreshed by 1 to a max of 3)

Weapons

Ragged Bow (x5 refreshed by 5 to a max of 5)

Crossbow (x3 refreshed by 3 to a max of 3)

Bundle of Arrows (x20 refreshed by 5 to max of 20)

Club (x5 refreshed by 5 to a max of 5)

Staff (x5 refreshed by 5 to a max of 5)

Dagger (x5 refreshed by 5 to a max of 5)

Throwing Dagger (x3 refreshed by 3 to a max of 3)

Short Sword (x5 refreshed by 5 to a max of 5)

Axe (x5 refreshed by 5 to a max of 5)

Warhammer (x5 refreshed by 5 to a max of 5)

Mace (x5 refreshed by 5 to a max of 5)

Spear (x3 refreshed by 3 to a max of 3)

Long Sword (x3 refreshed by 3 to a max of 3)

Battle Axe (x3 refreshed by 3 to a max of 3)

Halberd (x3 refreshed by 3 to a max of 3)

Rapier (x1 refreshed by 1 to a max of 1)

Ok folks. I’ve reached my word count limit for this installment so next time we’ll be talking more about the town of Foot. Enjoy and we’ll get back to it next month.

THE AIRY PEAKS – THE TOWN OF FOOT. PART 3 (06) published first on https://medium.com/@ReloadedPCGames

[horgons-vengance]

Chapter 6

Ken sat in the small, dark chamber alone, breathing steadily, studying every part of the room.

After 20 minutes of studying the room, Ken pulled a bull’s horn out of his coat, and began to describe the room to the horn, down to each tile, and each crack.

This took an hour, and once Ken described the last crack, put the horn away, put his hat on, stood up, and began to move to leave, when the door flew open and hit him in the chest, causing him to stumble back.

“What the hell!”

Davin laughed “Well don’t stand so close to the door, dumbass.”

“Don’t open the door so fast, no reason to try and break our house.”

Ken stood a solid 2 feet over Davin. Not because Davin was short. Matter of fact he was exceptionally  tall for a human.

Kenshiro was a Minotaur, standing at about 7’10.

Massive compared to nearly anyone, Ken was the largest resident of Bronte, and also its Mayor.

     “My mistress wants to see you ‘Mister Mayor’ about your taxes.”

    Ken sighed “Why does this not surprise me that she is upset at a small tax. Lead the way.”

    Davin turned to leave the small room, and stepped into the foyer of the small Castle. Tapestry hung on the walls decrypting the symbol of the succubus, a small pair horns on an attractive woman with a tail in the shape of a heart around her. Mahogany tables with expensive center pieces every 10 feet. Ken looked at them as they passed and thought to himself

  “She’s upset about a Hundred gold a month tax, but has five Ten thousand gold center pieces in one room. I can’t believe this woman.”

  Davin opened a large door at the other end of the foyer into an office, and at the other end of the Office sat a woman, her skin a slight purple, small curved horns sticking out of her head. She was wearing skin tight leather suit that left little to the imagination, and her tail was flicking around, similar in fashion to a cat about to pounce. Her hair was a bright pink, long and Curly. She was staring out the large bay window facing over the town

  “So Ken, what right do you think you have to tax my business such an outrageous amount.” The woman, still looking out the window.

  Ken sighed and said “Well for one, I’m the Mayor, so its kind of my job, and two you are rent free, and you make a hundred gold in about 3 customers. Im making you basically pay chump change.”

 She turned, Her piercing blue eyes squinted angrily. “I shouldn’t have to pay a tax, I let you live here.”

“Listen, Lilith, I’m not the town, you are paying taxes to help the town, not me.”

Lilith got even more upset “ But you made the tax you idiot, and I don’t want to pay it. Now pack your stuff and get out of my house, I’m sick of you and your Taxes and town problems. Come back when you have real things for me to worry about.”

   As Lilith said that, there was a knock at the door.

“Come in” Lilith know only towns folk knocked, and they don’t bother her unless it’s important.

   In stepped Jake, the local mage's apprentice, with a worried look on his face. “My lady, Kenshiro there seems to be a large group of soldiers approaching, with their banners raised. I think it’s the Paladins again.” It had been quite awhile since the Paladins tried to bother them, since last time they killed the goblin that threw bombs at whatever moved and Ken had struck back by cleaving one of theirs in half with his massive axe. They called truce, and said no more blood needed to be spilt, then left.

   A voice behind Jake spoke, like a breeze of wind, soft and quiet and gentle, but at the same time, eerie and disturbing. “It is time. This is the final step to our plan.”

   Ken jumped slightly, startled by the sudden voice. “Ok, we seriously need to put a bell on you Shia.”

   A figure walked in from behind Jacob, wearing a midnight black cowl, with armor so dark that one couldn’t tell if it was cloth or part of the abyss.

      Shia’s face was not visible in the cowl, looking more like a specter then another person. The only thing visible on Shia’s person was the bow on Their back, and the rapier on Their waist.

   “No time, we must meet our guests” Said Shia, Their voice crept out from the cowl, with there being no sign of them saying anything, no movement, just a voice.

  Ken sighed, getting sick of the fact no one in the group had a sense of humor. “Fine, get Balgam and Abraham, and we will finish this.”

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Ken stood at the edge of the forest surrounding Bronte, now donning his Dark blue Half plate armor and Wielding his Giant great axe, which sparked with electricity.

   Abraham stood next to him, in his blood red gi. Abraham was only other decently tall person in the group, standing at 6 foot 5 inches, though Ken still towered over him.

  Abraham’s hair was spiked back, which, to Ken at least, made him look like a large porcupine.

  His eyes glowed red in anticipation of the battle about to commence. Battle was really the only reason Abraham was there. Not once has he cared about the plan that Shia had in motion, nor did he care about his deity telling him to ensure this plan went through. He just wants a good fight.

 Balgam stood beside him, stirring some sort of concoction. Balgam was a large rat, about the size of a ten year old. One could smell him from 20 feet away and it only got worse the closer they got.

  There were bumps and large puss bubbles all over Balgam, and his fur was stuck to his body with fluids. He quite literally looked like the plague and smelled like it. That’s all he was, a large plague rat that wanted nothing but to spread his own personal plague.

  Lilith stood in the same clothes she was in before because, in her words, “The enemy will get distracted.” though now she held a wooden staff.

  Davin stood next to her, now in black full plate, with a scimitar and a purple tower shield almost the size of him. The tower shield had the same insignia as the tapestry back in the castle.

  Shia stood the same as before, though now with the bow drawn, and an arrow notched.

   Davin decided to break the silence in typical Davin fashion, by asking a stupid question.

  “Where are they? I thought they would be here by now.”

“I already told you, I had my underlings slow them down so you could play dress up.” Balgam responded with a snarl.

  “Would you prefer that I come out here in a sleeveless shirt and Leather pants and just flex at them?”

   Lilith laughed “I would.”

Ken laughed as well then turned his face serious as he saw the approaching band of men. “Time to Focus.”

 There were about 17 soldiers approaching,some with crossbow bolts sticking out of the cracks in their armor and blood on their chest from Balgam’s underlings they had killed.

  “Oh great, now I have to get more.” Balgam said, then fell into a coughing fit.

  Most of the men were in metal armor with four in the back in leather armor and wielding bows.

  One man in the front had bright shining armor that glowed with the radiance of the sun, and a insignia on his shield depicting the sun. His war hammer glowed the same as his armor, and all of it looked clean, even though it was obvious he was just in a battle.

   “Thats our target.” Shia said.

The man in the shining armor held up his hand to stop his men about 100 feet away from the group standing opposite of them. He motioned for something to be brought forward. It was a table and a jug of ale, and had the men bring it to the middle of the two groups, and sat. He motioned for someone of Ken’s group to come forward.

  “So, whos gonna go talk the shiny idiot?” Lilith asked.

  Ken sighed “I’ll go, maybe he will make this easy for us and give up.”

  “Probably not dumbass”

  “Thanks Davin, glad to see you still haven’t figured out sarcasm”

  “Eat me.”

Ken walked to the table and sat down, he could see all of the men in the army become tense as a giant minotaur approached their leader. This is the usual reaction, though Ken was the best negotiator of the group, because he didn’t try to immediately kill them if it doesn’t go his way.

  “So Ken, we meet again.” the man spoke as he approached. “Glad to see they sent the sensible one to come out and talk.”

“What do you want Dan? Im sure you didn’t come all this way to share a drink.”

 “We both know why I’m here Ken, we know you are close to finishing your plan, and I have to atleast try and stop you.” Dan said, pouring the ale into two cups and offering one to Ken.

   Ken took it, and held it up for Dan to clink his cup with him. Dan did, and they both drank.

    “Well, that makes sense Dan. If it’s any consolation, I’m sick of this plan. I just want to continue being a mayor. But if I don't go through with this, It's obvious what would happen at this late into the game.”

“Aye. Well, Best of luck to you in this battle to come.”

“You as well Dan.”

     They both finished their drink and stood. They shook each other's hands and turned to return to their respective groups.

     “You done talking to your boyfriend Ken?” Lilith said as he returned.  

  “Pretty much, lets end this so I don't have to keep talking you people.”

  “Agreed.”

     Ken turned back to face Dan and his men whilst pulling the axe off of his back, and held up three fingers and began to count them down.

  “Three.” Davin shifted his shoulders and popped his neck. Abraham cracked his knuckles and smiled.

    “Two.” As Ken said two, Shia Shot an Arrow at one of the archers and Balgam threw his vial into the main mass of the enemy. Davin and Abraham charged. Lilith just laughed.

Ken just sighed, raised his weapon, and charged, figuring there was no point in finishing the count down.