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Post by Trase on Nov 19, 2015 4:55:04 GMT
The Ace of Death and his mostly machine friend, ELISE found themselves inside of Seven looking for a place where ELISE would feel like she was a part of something and not some type of outcast. Cirven related to it a lot more than others would have because of his being part demon. His pointed ears, his sharper than usual teeth and the way he sometimes carried himself were all something that people looked at harshly. He had always blocked it out of his mind and stuck to who he was above everything else in hopes that people who he could trust would accept him for who he was. He did know that not everyone was exactly like him and was able to simply shoulder the stress and keep moving on which was what ended up causing the duo to go to Seven. Their short time in Seven caused them to be sucked into a fight against a regenerating wolf mech in order to save a small child for her mother. The mech was an issue at first but after they figured out how its regenerating worked they were able to quickly destroy it. ELISE would then get an idea to take the chip from the mech's head to analyze it and figure out what exactly was going on with the attempted kidnapping among other questions. The two would separate when they found themselves being chased by two more of the mechs that were cloaked, one bigger than the other. This ended with ELISE using her magic to disguise herself as a child in an attempt to trick the mechs. The smaller of the mechs would run off to find their target while not knowing that it was right in front of it. The bigger mech would start to escort ELISE but was stopped abruptly by an attack from Cirven who had been watching and waiting for a good moment to attack. He wouldn't find it exactly though because the big mech would catch his attack with one of its hidden arms and then engage Cirven. It was a four armed mech with multiple eyes around its head making it a much harder opponent. As the fight raged the two Eclipse Soul members would find out that this new enemy had an enhanced version of the regeneration that the wolf mech from earlier had. The two would find that destroying the mech's head completely was how they could stop the regenerating from happening. Cirven would take soem of the metal from the destroyed mech and eat it to regain some of his strength. They now were inside of a shop where they just had found out the info on the chip which gave info on the project for the regenerating mechs and the location of the headquarters were that it was all happening. --------------------------- Cirven made sure not to mess up anything else inside of the shop than what had already been done from the earlier fighting. His partner mentioned that she had to pay for some damages already so he didn't want to make it worse. They were in a country that they were not from so if they caused any issues it could cause big issues for them, Eclipse Soul and even Fiore. He wanted to avoid any confrontation with the Magic Council again. Not many knew but he had been pardoned for his crimes in the past for some sort of future assignment they would give him. An assignment he knew nothing about still. He shook off the thoughts of the Magic Council before he got too deep into it all and looked at the screen that his partner was looking over. " Project Eden Genesis...? Organic mechs that are born from humanoid mothers...?" He read over bits and pieces that popped up on the screen as ELISE spoke to him about what it all was. " A metal that uses ethernano from the atmosphere to shape itself or regenerate too. Thaumium." He mumbled out loud back what ELISE had said to him as he remembered things from his past. " Robo, we might be dealing with someone here that I know. Someone I wish I never had met. Is there any actual coordinates to that place where they are? We have to stop this now." |
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Post by ELISE on Nov 19, 2015 10:50:13 GMT
The words that she had spoken appeared to trigger something in the mind of Cirven. Memories of an individual he had met in the past. For a brief moment she was...jealous of such a feeling being triggered even if it was a negative one. What she wouldn't give to remember even negative memories of her past. However, she could not. The last clear memory she had was seeing the face of Lumina after ELISE had first formed this new body. This feeling however quickly faded washed away by the urgency of Cirven's tone. She focused and more screens spread out. She tilted her head and then dismissed a bunch leaving three. One contained a full map of Cyberhaven. Another a map of the nation of Seven. The third contained a lot of information. "The wolf mech did not have co-ordinates within the chips I removed. However, it does list various 'sounds' and 'smells'. So it seems that it found its way using those." she stated and indicated the three screens. "This third screen contains details of how its home 'smelt' and 'sounded'. IT seems to have no visual data. I suspect it was actually blind though that begs the question of how it identified my colouring. Perhaps I just didn't take out its visual memory chip."
"Actually there was one wee chip that my machine couldnae read ya ken?" the owner of the store said holding it up. "It disnae appear to be damaged, but it just wouldnae load." ELISE turned and took the chip holding it up in her hand to the light. "Sorry I forgot to tell ye, but it slipped me mind till just now." The chip was in perfect condition, but it was a slightly different version of the chip. A much newer version. It seemed the wolf mech had only just got this chip recently. The machine was too old to read it. ELISE however did have such a device able to read this one. She moved aside the two screen being projected by the machine and generated her own screen. This one looked much more advanced. She began to scroll through a menu and eventually stopped and pushed a button. A bright glow began to form in front of ELISE and then a machine appeared that seemed to be a much newer version of the machine currently projecting screens.
"Unfortunately, this doesn't read the older model chips so it will be harder to correlate the data especially as any video files will be without sound. However, visual representations of what the wolf mech was seeing should allow us to more easily identify the location of the base particularly if we can link it to what it was hearing and smelling at the time." She said as she inserted the chip. It instantly began to project another set of screens. Again, like her own screens, this appeared more advanced than the other machines, though not quite as advanced as her own. She began to move these about and dismiss some until she was left with twenty four small screens all playing a video. "Each of these is an hour long and shows what the wolf was seeing for that hour. Each of these is from the last 24 hours up until the point of its death with the oldest being in the top left and the newest in the bottom right. Its the smallest amount of time I can easily cut the videos at using this device. Fortunately, its time stamped for some reason as is its smell and sound records. That will make correlation somewhat easier" She moved about the screen that was displaying the sound and smell data and broke that down into twenty four screens as well and put it next to the relevant video file.
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Post by Trase on Nov 19, 2015 12:23:49 GMT
The robotic girl quickly got to work with finding out the information they needed. Cirven wasn't too accustomed to things like computers and technology so he decided to stay out of it and not bother her so much as she worked. It hadn't taken her long before she found the multiple files and had started to put something together. "Hmm.. That is a lot of info to go through and twenty-four hours of it will take too much time. Even if we only listen to the relevant stuff that is still too much time we would be wasting. Is there any way you can quickly go through this info yourself?" He had hoped that they could get the information they needed before the possibility of more enemies coming to find them like earlier. It was not only them that were in danger now but the people of Cyberhaven too.
A feeling rose in his gut suddenly as a voice echoed in his mind. It was a older man's voice that was somewhat raspy and a bit high pitched. "Hmm.. You are a failure aren't you?" His eyes widened as he remembered the voice and without a word ran out of the shop and started to look around. He was there somewhere. Cirven just knew it. He couldn't let him get away. He couldn't just run away and allow someone like that to just be. He could feel his heart pumping faster and faster as he remembered more of what happened in the past while he was forced to be a Cor Torva member in order to save his sister. Memories that he would rather have completely forgotten. "ELISE, I'm sorry but I can't sit around here. Contact me on my communicator lacrima. I'm going to search for that other mech. We can't just let it roam around the way it is to gather anymore people for their project. I can't let Drume have his way." With that Cirven ran off into the city and towards the area where he thought the cloaked mech from earlier had gone.
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Post by ELISE on Nov 19, 2015 20:01:04 GMT
Cirven was correct in his summary. Siphoning through all this data, even when being able to break it down into twenty four pieces that could all be analysed at once it was still an hours worth of footage each. It would take too much time and there were more mechs out there. The data showed that quite well. However, before she had a chance to even think of another way to deal with the information Cirven had ran off mentioning someone's name. Drume. It was not a name she was familiar with, but perhaps it was the person Cirven suspected was involved somehow. This left her alone with the women with the accent who seemed interested, but didn't seem to be offering any help. There had to be a way to unite the data together and process it a lot quicker. If she could get it all into her own body then she could process it all rapidly. However, there was no easy way to do that. She paused as the thought came to her mind. There was a way, but only if it worked. She pulled up one of her own screens again and began to scan through it till she came across an item labelled 'Model Onyx Prototype'. It was a model she had been working on for specifically these sort of situations. Unlike her other forms which could stand alone in battle in their own way this one was specially designed to use other machines to its advantage. Alone it was weak though. So far she hadn't got it prepared for combat. However, perhaps it might be good enough for this situation. "Limiter removed. Access Model Onyx." she said and her body began to glow brightly. The glow at first was her current colouring, that of red, but soon it faded to black. When the glow faded she hadn't changed in size, but her form had changed. From the top of her head extended pale blue hair like tendrils. These came from two protrusions. Most of her body was black or dark grey. Rather than crystalline eyes she had one large black screen across the middle of her face, beneath which two pale blue eyes glowed. On the rest of her body were pale blue marking. She focused and from her hands extended two wires. "I will be purchasing this older model machine after this." With that the cables attached to the two machines and began to glow brightly the glow going from her to the machine and then back again. Her pale blue eyes glowed brighter and brighter and a screen formed in front of her displaying the videos one after the other, but only for a fraction of a second. She stood there for around five minutes and then nodded retracting the cables. "It seems the prototype at least works for this test. But its not suitable for combat" She nodded and then focused and her body transformed to that of the red form once more. Perhaps she would use Model Onyx later at least for another test. It would be quite useful if it worked and she could harness the very machines they fought against whoever controlled them. She flicked up a screen again and selected an item which caused a money bag to fall on the table. Then with her hand she scanned the second machine which then vanished along with the one she had summoned. Now she had an older version of the machine for herself. She planned to combine the two into one machine later, but for now this would do. She raised a hand to the side of her head and began to speak. "Organism Cirven. I've located the base. Its on the outskirts of the city to the south, a hidden door either by the river or in the river at the bend. I will meet you there." With that she bid farewell to the strange woman and headed off towards the city outskirts. Hopefully Cirven would be able to handle the mech he was facing. For now she had to find the base and hopefully not be detected whilst she did so. That was of course why she had chosen Model Ruby. It was her infiltration and spy form. {Spoiler} {Spoiler}  |
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Post by Trase on Nov 19, 2015 23:07:01 GMT
As he had run off into the city he dug into his pocket to find his communicator lacrima. It was a a headphone that clipped over his ear so that he could use it quickly and receive calls quickly. It would be needed if he were to get caught into any sort of situation. He stopped for a short time and put if on his ear before continuing his search for the cloaked mach from earlier. He knew that he could rely on ELISE to find the information they needed. He didn't know anyone else he could trust with being able to do it really.
In a convenience store not too far away from Cirven a cloaked person had walked in and started to sniff around the area. The sniffing could be heard from how loud the person was with doing it almost like they were some sort of dog or animal. The young woman who was working the register at the shop looked at the person confused. It was weird for someone to come in dressed in such a way where you could not see their face and then even weirder for them to sniff around like that. "Umm.. Excuse me? Do you need some sort of help?" She spoke out in a friendly tone in an attempt to make the person feel more comfortable. Her words caused the person to turn their head to face towards her where she saw it had some sort of elongated face that came out some like an animal's snout would. It moved towards her and continued to sniff the air over and over. "Yes.. I am looking for a red machine-like woman.. I thought maybe you have seen someone like her here.." He spoke out in between sniffs. His voice was deep and had a menacing tone to it like if she did not answer him the way he wanted then something bad would happen. "No, I haven't seen anyone like that here. I'm sorry." She quickly answered in hopes that he would simply leave without coming any closer but it quickly moved towards her and sniffed near her. The sudden movement caused her to freeze in shock as she was sniffed. It then stopped its sniffing. "That's a shame. Maybe you could help me with something else..." A toothy grin formed on his snout and his hand reached out and grabbed the girl by her head. The palm covered her mouth so she could not make much noise. "We need more subjects to be remade and you look like a perfect specimen for it."
Before it could do much more though a black bullet flew through the store and would have hit its arm if it did not let go of the girl and move back. "Hey. Do they sell those cinnamon covered sugar sticks here? I haven't had one of those in so long." Cirven stood at the entrance to the store with a smoking finger pointed towards the cloaked person. He then received the call from ELISE of where the destination of the enemy was. He placed his finger on the communicator. "Don't wait up for me. I'll be late. Have a feline problem to deal with." Cirven replied to the call as he locked eyes on the face of the now revealed lion mech that rushed towards him with its claws extended towards him.
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Post by ELISE on Nov 20, 2015 14:33:46 GMT
Finding the curve in the river had been easy. Getting there without detection had also been easy. The ruby model possessed a built in cloaking device that hid the user from sight almost completely. She did shimmer slightly if she moved too quickly and moving objects would also be distorted slightly. It wasn't perfect, but unless you were specifically looking for her it would be tricky to find her. As for magic detection well this hid her almost entirely from sensing via that method. It was still detectable, but it would be a lot harder to do so then before. Moving whilst invisible though was not easy as it seemed. If you couldn't see your feet it was very easy to misstep. Hovering was of course one way round this, but she had yet to find a way to silence her hover jets. Though in truth having to go slowly probably worked in her favour as it made the shimmer less obvious. Eventually she had arrived and now she was looking for any sign of the base. She stood silent, stock still going over the information she had absorbed back in the store. There had to be some further clue that she had missed the first time. Something to give a further clue as to where the base was. Unfortunately, she could not find such information. It appeared either data had been lost or she'd missed some memory chips from the wolf. Unfortunate, but not a complete catastrophe.
She began to focus. If her eyes had been visible they would begin to glow brightly as she began to slowly scan the area looking for any signs of a hidden doorway or other entrance. It didn't seem likely that they entered the actual river itself in order to get to the base. Especially as their cloaks didn't look at all water damaged nor water resistant. Sure, they could of dried them somehow, but that would take time and if they had such a plan time was not something they would want to waste. The difficult part was even if she found the entrance would she be able to open it. It might require some signal to be sent out by the mech in question or some scan or something. She could mimic the form of organics, but thus far she had not found a way to mimic mechs. Perhaps if she could get ahold of some of this thaumium then perhaps it might work. Though would it be better to have a single thaumium body purely for mech transformations or modify her magictech archive so that she selected a form and her body molded into it. Would that even work as a partial organic? She wasn't sure and it was something she would have to experiment with. Something she looked forward to.
The message from Cirven suggested she should enter the base and begin the rescue/assault without him. So she'd either have to leave a clue for him or tell him how to get in. Assuming it was possible for an organic to get in themselves. Then again with his metal magic it was possible he might be able to. Though before that could be considered she had to find the entrance or the trigger to revealing it. She stood silent scanning the area processing all the information she was receiving plus all the information she had received from the wolf mech. Strangely as she was processing this a thought came to her. Not one of the wolf's, but one of her own. A young girl with black hair and pale skin, her body bruised and broken, emerging from a tunnel in the river side. The memory was strange. It was not one she recognised. Perhaps...a memory of her former self?
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Post by Trase on Nov 21, 2015 23:15:52 GMT
The clawed hand of the beast mech swiped towards his head forcing him to dodge it by quickly jumping back. Another swipe came from the other claw that he dodged again by stepping back. Claw after claw swung out only clashing with the air as Cirven continued to dodge over and over until the two of them were out of the shop. Cirven ducked one of the swiping claws and lunged out his right hand in an attempt to slam it into the mech's chest. The lion mech jumped to the side quickly just as a black spear formed from out of Cirven's hand. "You are a bit quicker than I thought. I thought tigers were supposed to be more like powerhouses than speed demons." He spoke as the black spear moved back into his arm. The lion mech stared at the blue-haired mage with a twitched eyebrow. "Did you call me a tiger?!" It spoke out trying to hold back its frustration. "Yeah. You are a tiger after all." The mech grew angry and used a new found speed to approach its enemy. Cirven was caught off guard by the speed and took the full force the clawed hand of the beast mech causing him to be sent tumbling across the ground and into a wall of a building. The wall was reinforced to take heavy hits from things but still almost broke from the impact and cracked around his body. "You idiot! I am a lion! I am a King! A King of the pathetic creatures of this world! A King of all that lives and all that doesn't!" The mech yelled out and even sounded slightly surprised by his own new found power. His pride made him stronger it seemed.
Cirven chuckled and simply landed on his feet from the wall. He placed his left hand on his right shoulder and started to wind up his right shoulder. "A King? You? If all Kings hit like you just did then they couldn't rule much at all." He walked forward as his shirt had been ripped where he was hit showing that his body had black metal under his clothes. "What? What is that?! You cheated a King?!" Cirven gave the mech a toothy grin showing his sharp teeth and more of his demonic side. "What is a tiger King in the presence of a demon?" The mech looked confused as Cirven used his speed to move faster than the mech had just done earlier in its attack. The mech then had a black metal clawed hand slammed into his side the same as he had done to Cirven earlier and was sent rolling across the ground in a similar way. The mech managed to stop himself from rolling on the ground and regained his footing. He stared a hole through Cirven, completely consumed by his anger. "I will say it again...!" The mech growled out and used its speed again to quickly get within range of Cirven but this time swung his clawed hands around at an attempt to rip the hybrid apart. Cirven to managed to block and parry some of the claws but the speed of the attacks were getting faster and faster with each strike and they finally made contact with his body over and over. "I AM A LION! I AM A KING! AND YOU ARE NOTHING!!!" The mech yelled out as his claws slashed his opponent over and over. He ended the barrage of attacks with a powerful slash that sent Cirven flying into a dark alley between two buildings.
The lion mech walked over to the body of his enemy and grabbed him up from the ground by his throat. "It does not matter what you are because all will bow to the perfect being that I am. All will bow to the King!" The mech then straightened out his fingers on his hand and stabbed it through the chest of Cirven. Blood shot out from the mouth of Cirven as the hand protruded through his body. The mech pulled his bloodied hand from out of Cirven's body and tossed him to the ground. "Take this as an honor to die by the hand of the King, you fool." The mech then spit on Cirven's body and laughed only to suddenly have his right arm be cut off. His eyes widened from the pain and from pure shock as his arm fell to the ground limp. He looked at the limp body that laid on the ground in front of him as it started to disperse into dark energy. "I thought that fake would have lasted a bit longer than that with how you have been so vocal with claiming to be a King and all." The mech turned his head to see the real Cirven standing there alive and well. "Let me guess." Cirven cleared his throat and mimicked the lion mech's voice. "I demand as the King to know how you did such a feat and trick me!" He coughed after mimicking the deep voice. "Seriously don't know how you do that voice without coughing up a organ or something but I'll tell you. I can manipulate darkness and metal magic to do different things. Like hiding myself in darkness or something even more complex like making a fake of something or someone."
The lion mech's eye twitched in anger again from how he was being mocked by Cirven and by how humiliated he felt. It wasn't over though. It couldn't be over. He wouldn't allow it to be over. "YOU FOOL!" The mech's arm regenerated and he lunged to out to grab Cirven but was caught off guard by his opponent ducking down and slamming his hand into his chest. "You think, I'm dumb enough to forget that you and your mech buddies can regenerate or something?" Cirven then moved his hand from the body of the lion mech and stepped back a bit. "I'm not as blinded by my emotions like someone like you would be. I call this spell God's Bloom." Multiple metal spikes then erupted out of the body of the mech destroying it from the inside out. The spell was something Cirven had recently come up with for completely destroying the mechs and their ability to regenerate.
"Looks like I answered my earlier question. A King is nothing compared to a demon."
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Post by ELISE on Nov 22, 2015 20:07:36 GMT
She stood there caught in the memory for a short while. Just who was this girl? Could it really be her? Had she really looked like that once? She would have to ask Lumina what she had looked like before she transformed. Perhaps if she could confirm if that was her she could find this place and perhaps trigger some more memories? It was her first and only cue to who she was before. That's if it even was a clue. Still, it was the closest thing she had to a clue. It had also given her an idea. Her gaze turned from the river's surroundings to the river itself. Focused on a rather specific thing. After about five minutes she nodded. "Peculiar for a water formation that is not the sea, but the sides suggest that the river has been lower and higher than this." she said analytically and began to walk down the side of the river till she spotted something rather unusual. It was a natural formation, but one that reeked of magic. A large stone that prevented this from becoming a natural horseshoe lake. However, if the stone was removed then it would. That would open up the 'curve' and she suspected that the curve fading away would reveal something. However, there was no obvious way for the stone to move. She began to scan through her records and came across something particular. The memories from the wolf suggested the 'guardian' would 'sleep' and the door would be revealed. Could this stone be the guardian? And if so what did it mean by sleep? Perhaps if the magic faded then the rock would recede or dissapear or something. The question was if that was triggerable or if the trigger was something that automatically happened at various times. There was no obvious answer to that. However, perhaps if she analysed the magical aura emanating from the rock. Model Ruby wasn't suited for that. Nor was Sapphire, Onyx, Emerald, Amethyst or Obsidian. She did have a model suitable for it, but activating that model would remove her cloaking ability briefly. Enough to reveal her presence. However, without that form she had no way to easily analyse the stone. The form had certain equipment she could use, but the model was specifically wired to process that information unlike her current form. It was a risk, but was it one worth taking. Then again if she was spotted and the enemies emerged she would have the base revealed. The form she had in mind did have some combat based properties, especially for groups. Yes, it was time to bust out atheform she had developed for such occasions. Her hand stretched out forming the screen and she scrolled through it. "Activate Model Charoite." she stated and her body began to glow bright purple and then it grew and formed into a taller figure. When the glow faded what was standing there was a tall slender purple machine with a body that formed into a natural metallic dress. Atop her head was a large mitre, also purple in colour, with protrusions of a darker colour in the shape of diadmins and in the centre of her brow was a single purple gemstone that was almost red. From the mitre flowed several white pieces of metal that seemed like hair. She extended her hand and a staff formed in it with a large purple gemstone at the top. Its white eyes glinted as it pointed the staff towards the stone. A beam of light fired form it and this light seemed to go from the tip of the stone then gradually flow its way down the stone. A screen appeared next to her. She did not have to rush although she couldn't take as long as she would like. Heading in without Cirven would be foolish. He seemed to know more about the leader of this then she or potentially. However, waiting for too long would put to many people at risk. "Analysing scanned data." she said and then slammed her staff to the ground. Small crystals rose up out of the ground near her, but none of them were obvious. She nodded and began to look through the data gained from the scan of the stone. |
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Post by Trase on Nov 23, 2015 0:49:58 GMT
The lion mech's body fell to the ground bloodied and full of holes after the spell from the God Slayer. Cirven waited to see if there was any signs of his spell not completely finishing the job just in case. He couldn't afford to take many more attacks before being able to meet up with ELISE at the enemy's HQ. The body of the mech did not regenerate and did not move to his relief. " Good to know that worked..." He moved closer to the mech and looked it over more. The metal it was made out of looked to be the exact same as the earlier mechs but that did not explain how it was stronger than the others. All he could think was that Drume was getting closer to perfecting his work. He hoped that this mech was the pinnacle of his work because if it wasn't they would be in for a lot more stress than they would have thought. " Either way, this mech being in this type of shape gives me a great idea.." He reached out and touched the body of the mech causing dark magic energy to swarm over it. --------------------------------------- Some time later the lion mech arrived into the riverside area that ELISE was in. It was completely healed and moving around perfectly fine. There was also no sign at all of Cirven. The mech noticed ELISE as she switched her forms briefly but it did not say anything to her at all. It instead approached ELISE calmly seeming like it did not notice her at all. It was up to what she would do with the situation that would lead to what exactly happened next. Would she blow her own cover in an attempt to quickly deal with the mech or would she wait and see what it was going to do...? |
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Post by ELISE on Nov 23, 2015 8:23:34 GMT
ELISE did notice the mech, but seemed to do nothing at all. She merely continued to read through the scanned data as the creature approached. As soon as the mech got within range the crystals she had caused to form earlier all sent out a beam of ultraviolet magical light at it from every direction. As each of these hit the lion mech it would feel a surge of energy pulse through its body. This would not cause damage. No, instead it would just hold the lion mech in place. "So are you the 'feline problem' that organism Cirven spoke of?" she said without turning to look at the lion mech. "If so then you being hear causes the probability of him arriving to be almost zero. Unless of course he fled, but that does not match his style parameters." The purple machine tilted its head raising a finger to the side thoughtfully. "That of course raises the question of what I should do with you if you did in fact delete or severely damage my friend." The energy holding the mech in place began to grow stronger. To a level where it would actually begin to squeeze ever so slightly against the metal. "After all for a mech such as yourself, even with thaumium, escape from my prismatic prison will be difficult thus I have time to ponder on methods of your destruction that would likely cause the members of Eclipse Soul who already fear me to have a valid reason."
Again a memory flashed through her mind. A memory of that same young girl. This time not so battered, but still grey in skin and a ragged dress. Her eye was seemingly sealed shut, but what was most interesting about the memory and likely the trigger was that she had a plant creature chained up so no part of it touched the ground and its body would of formed a near perfect X if it wasn't for the head. A trapped creature. The girl had a small knife in her hand and was slowly whittling the body of the plant creature laughing the entire time. "Escape will be difficult for you and so I can think of new ways to play to make the guild fear me even more." the girl said. These were not ELISE's exact words, but they were similar. Could this girl really have been her? Were these more 'torturous methods, allowing her to access those memories? Would she have to become like that girl in order to find out about her past? Did she really want that?
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Post by Trase on Nov 23, 2015 12:24:07 GMT
The mech didn't answer her at all. It stayed silent as it stared at her as she spoke about her options and her questions. Its head slowly gave a nod but this nod was weird. It wasn't the typical nod that someone would give someone else in an effort to say they understood by moving their head down and up. Instead, this 'nod' moved the mech's head up and down like it was pointing at something. The mech's shadow would then wave to ELISE and not move the actual body of the mech. The shadow itself did not have the shape of the mech at all but instead the shape of a certain someone she knew. "I'd like it if you didn't destroy my temporary body. Pretty good disguise, right? The lion mech spoke in its own voice but the words did not match its earlier way of speaking.
This was another spell Cirven had at his disposal, Dark Marionette. Using the darkness of a dead or unconscious person's shadow he could control them for as long as they were dead or unconscious. He had not shown this spell to many people at all and all the people who did know about it were not of the living now. He could only control the dead or unconscious as long as he remained in the darkness of their shadow which in some cases could be easy to prevent if the people who were being tricked by it figured it out. To make sure that it was more believable he had used his power with metal to 'repair' the mech to a condition where it looked to be still alive and well.
Using this spell again brought back memories of when he was ordered to kill over and over. He used this spell to control people and have them attack their allies to cause huge confusion between all of them. Something that he was forced to learn in his sped up training while forced to be a Cor Torva member. Just the thought of those memories caused him to grit his teeth subconsciously. The shadow form he was in though wouldn't allow his face to be seen or any part of his body for that matter. All those around him could see was a shadow.
"So any idea on how we can get there? Maybe this mech has something that works with it..?" He questioned to see how far along his partner had come in her investigation while he was gone.
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Post by ELISE on Nov 25, 2015 8:43:32 GMT
"You are fortunate that I wanted to capture a mech. Otherwise the trap would likely have eliminated the body instantly and I suspect heavily damaged your organic body as well." ELISE said as she observed the shadow that so resembled the one she knew and fought along side. It was an ability she had not seen nor heard of such a thing happening. She had heard of manipulating a shadow to control someone and even hiding in a shadow, but to combine the two was new to her. Especially as it allowed him to speak using the mech's own voice. "Based on prior engagements with these mechanoids your vocal work needs improving before it becomes a true disguise for infiltration." she replied turning back to the scan results screen disabling the prismatic prison trap as she did so. "Also, unless the place is dark and thus the shadow not properly visible a quick observation will reveal that something is wrong with this mech." It was shortly after this that her analysis of the scan results was complete and she began to formulate a strategy for them to proceed.
"The way into the base is to do with this stone, the guardian. Either it is sleeping now or it is needs to sleep. That will allow the water to flow down the straight path and open up the bottom of the bend. I have noted drainage points within the bend which will accelerate the draining process." she stated calmly telling Cirven exactly what she had found so far. "I suspect there is some sort of pressure release that opens up a door when the curve is devoid of water. The issue though is getting the guardian to do what it is supposed to do. My analysis shows that naturally every four hours it will trigger some sort of magical process, likely the awakenging or sleep, but so far I have found no manual way to activate that process. Fortunately, based on the straight part of the river it is close to when the process will trigger. I estimate around twenty three minutes"
She turned round to the lion mech dispelling the screen and staff as she did so. Another screen formed and she once again resumed her base form of Model Ruby, named in honour of Lumina Rubyscale. "Our best course of action is to wait. Though I realise time is not something we wish to waste either. So let us use this time to discuss exactly what you think we are up against in there. Who is this Drume?"
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Post by Trase on Nov 29, 2015 1:36:05 GMT
The lion mech sighed and shrugged in place of Cirven to how his impersonation of it seemed to not be as good as he though, at least to ELISE. It grinned slightly as it started to speak. "This only needs to last for a short time. I don't expect us to get very far before we are figured out. Drume really is not the type to let small details go unnoticed." ELISE would not be able to tell but Cirven was gritting his teeth after speaking the man's name. Constant flash backs of what you went through while he was in Cor Torva came over him like a movie in front of his eyes.
The lion mech leaned its side onto a nearby rock. It crossed its arms and looked towards ELISE after her question about Drume. "Drume.. He is a man that took his creative mind with technology down a dark path. I don't know if he was not this way before hand but he is a member of Salindra's guild, Cor Torva. They are a guild that is hell bent on taking over the world through any means." The lion mech clutched its hands into fists, something that Cirven was trying to hide but failed. "They are the guild that I was forced to be a part of in order to protect my sister from them. I did a lot of things that I'm not proud of but I had to for her even for the short time that it gave her..." The lion mech dug its claws into the rock that it leaned on and slowly ripped them through it. Cirven did this in order to calm himself down some as well as to not cause too much of a commotion. "He was there.. He was there when I watched her die, laughing." The claw ripped through the rock faster and cut five clean gashes into it.
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Post by ELISE on Dec 6, 2015 21:07:58 GMT
ELISE stood silently listening to the words that Cirven spoke. "I apologise for asking you to recall such a negative memory Organism Cirven." she stated and then nodded as if coming to some personal revelation. "It seems like this opponent is one that will be interesting to face. I wonder whose technology is greater? That of this Drume or that of myself?" As she spoke these words the stone began to rumble and then two large spheres lit up on it a vivid blue colour. They were gemstones of some kind, possibly lacrima, cunningly coloured to look identical to the surrounding stone until lit. The rumbling grew louder and a large stone figure rose out of the ground and walked over to the other part of the river. However, whilst it had done this the ground itself had seem undisturbed and what's more the river's flow had not yet changed. It was gradually beginning to take the shorter path, but it would take time naturally. The stone guardian turned its gaze upon the lion mech and its red companion and though it did not show it visibly the two would feel like they were being searched.
"I...don't...know...you...red...one." It said slowly is voice like a man gargling gravel. "Speak...the...words...or...fight. Lion...cannot...speak...words...or...we...fight...even...if...correct" ELISE observed the creature. It was a golem of some kind. A machine of stone. A creation of Drumes? No, not unless he had been here for a long time. The entity seemed ancient. It was large, at least 15ft tall and bulky. Bringing it down would take time. Getting hit by it could also be a potentially fatal blow. ELISE glanced at the lion mech. So even if Cirven could somehow work out the password he could not tell her unless he could do it in a way without the guardian knowing. "I...will...know...if...falsehoods...or...deceiption...are...used. You...are...in...my...zone." It was at these words that ELISE noticed a faint glow or shimmer to the air. Almost as if something was there. It must be some kind of truth field. There really was no way for Cirven to assist now.
"Before I answer...how long do I have?" she asked and gems on the golem lit up. Five of them though these were purple. "Do I receive more than one attempt to vocalize the words?" This time three gems lit up. Each of these was green. Three guesses, five minutes. She knew several key words relating to the group. Perhaps it was one of them. The initial thought was thamium, but that was not 'words'. It was a word and this thing seemed quite literal. [color=red"Eden Genesis?" One of the green lights turned red. Two more guesses remained. Perhaps the name of the group behind this. The name Cirven had spoke of a few times. "Cor Torva?" Again a green light went red. That wasn't it either. She stood there almost silently and before she knew it four of the five purple lights had turned off completely and the final one had only about a tenth left. Ten seconds. She had no idea what it could be. Her scans of the memories taken from the wolf did not reveal anything. Perhaps she should of tried and extracted information from the lion whilst she had a chance. Too late now. Was this it? Would she have to fight this towering figure? It was then a flicker of a thought came through her mind. Of a man with a scepter standing over a small girl and behind him a large figure with glowing green markings on it. The scepter whispered two words and those words ELISE spoke. "Arcanum Majora" The beast rumbled and then sunk into the ground blocking the flow of the horseshoe bend and forcing the water down its natural path. It was now an oxbow lake and the remaining water somehow drained almost instantly. Just what was Arcanum Majora? And who were those figures? Who was the girl? Could it really be her? But if it was how was she seeing the girl from such a perspective? Questions to be answered later. She slid down into the river bed and began to look around. Eventually she noticed a key difference in the soil consistency. "Organism Cirven. Come stand in front of me. If my analysis is accurate there is a panel of some kind beneath here...it may respond to the lion"
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Post by Trase on Dec 9, 2015 3:25:26 GMT
Cirven stood silent during the entire event with the passwords. He didn't know much at all about what they could have been and figured it was better to leave it up to the robotic girl to figure out without him possibly throwing her off. He hated just standing there and waiting but knew that if she had any sort of mistake that they would not be allowed inside and possibly have to deal with more than just that issue. Drume would probably be alerted to what was going on and quickly try to deal with the duo somehow or he could even escape the area which would throw all of the work that they had done into the air causing them to have to restart in their search for Drume. He had faith that ELISE could do it though and found that his faith was in the right place once she had finished. "That was pretty stressful to just watch.. Will be asking who Arcanum Majora is later once this is all over by the way." The lion mech spoke out in Cirven's place as it took a few steps to get in front of ELISE and stand on a panel.
Once the lion mech's feet made contact with the panel a purple magic circle appeared below its feet. The mech attempted to move its feet but could not do so at all. It was as if its feet were super glued to the ground. A similar large stone figure like earlier, appeared from out of the ground and approached the duo. "The... Master.. Has one... More test... For you... You cannot move... From.. Position... And will have... To stop... Multiple... Metal spears... If hit by three.. You will fail... If mech fails... Both will... Die.." The stone guardian moved away from the lion mech as slits from all over the walls opened that were facing the lion mech. The lion mech did not speak as a metal spear shot out as fast as a bullet towards it. It instead quickly swung its hand down to slash the spear away but was quickly shown that these spears were not merciful as another spear shot out from behind it and stabbed into its back. Blood spilled out from the mech's mouth but there was no time to worry about the failed defense as multiple more spears shot out. The mech quickly swung both of its arms around to slash the spears away, this time even hitting the ones that came from behind. Cirven was confused as to what this test was really showing but figured it was some sort of known pattern that each mech knew so that they knew how to dodge them all if they ever were tested. He knew all he could do was deflect the shots over and over with only seconds to do so for each of them. Another spear sunk deep into the mech's body from a barrage that was too sudden for Cirven to have the mech react to.
The last barrage of spears readied to be shot out and this time it would have been completely impossible to dodge in the time Cirven would have to do so with the lion mech's body because they would all come out only split seconds behind each other. Cirven quickly used his magic as the spears flew out towards him to use the shadows under each spear as they approached to his advantage. Black metal walls shot up just in front of each spear and stopped them from getting close to the mech. Cirven let out a sigh as he felt the grip on the mech's feet release and watched as a nearby door opened fro them to travel through. "A bit too close, right?" Cirven himself spoke out as he had the mech pull the spears out from its body. He knew the next issue was that he had destroyed the mech's regenerating ability earlier in their fight so now the mech would have to just have the holes on its body out for everything to see. He would need to hide them somehow and decided to mask them in metal because he had control over metal through his magic. He would have to keep the mech near him to maintain the metal over its wounds but it would not be much of a problem or at least he hoped it wouldn't.
He had the lion mech go through the door before ELISE and changed the mech's shadow into its own instead of looking like Cirven. The inside of the enemy's base looked like a giant laboratory that you would see out of some sort of science fiction movie. Test tubes were everywhere with humanoid looking things inside them.
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