Day 19 - Noon:
The Gigas Chieftain succumbed to the wounds he received during the battles with the demons. Upon inspection we found out that he had a venom bolt stuck in his arse and failed to mention it.
As such, the Gigases spent the past twelve or so hours competing over who would be the next leader. They're so god awful loud that Cai and I headed down to the basement for some peace and quiet.
That was where we ran into the first peculiarity; the dolls had been immobile before, and now they most certainly were changed. Attempting to massacre us counts as mobile, I'd say.
Cai and I managed the first one with some difficulty. The second one, quite a bit harder, managed to knock Cai sideways, across the room, and into a wall.
To which he turned his attention to me and started rushing at me.
Now, I'm a bit squishy; I was never the heavy armor type for the most part--besides that one time I tried the eastern ways and found that it just wasn't for me, but I digress--and was nowhere near as sturdy as Cai. Therefore I did the only thing I knew how to do: paniced.
I was more afraid of the doll than the Turned because this was an enemy that I was not familiar with that seemed like I was no match against. At least the Turned were slow, stupid, and just as squishy as I was. Demons were more focused on trying to take the Gigases and Alyria out and were more human sized.
This doll was at least two times my height, moved quickly, and was able to knock Cai out on the first unparried blow.
So of course, that meant I would probably die on the first blow. Jolly.
I managed to stun it to buy myself the precious seconds I needed to think. Without much of any other idea, I thought back to when I had traveled the world a bit as a Red Mage; my friend and I had beaten a sea monster and I had gotten a sword that was in my bag.
I took the sword out of the sack on my back along with some shihei and began to fall back into the ways of the duelist as the stunning spell wore off.
The problem with dueling is that you have to keep track of terribly much in your head; how many shadows you have left, how long until your haste spell wears off, what spells of enfeeblement you have to cast, and so on and so forth. I was never too good at all that.
But at the same time, knowing that one wrong move would wind up with a dead Sect and Cai duet made me both entirely too nervous to try this and entirely too desperate not to.
It worked. For a while, that is. By "a while" I mean to say, long enough for me to toss a few curing spells at Cai until he suddenly jolted back to reality.
Then I ran out of shihei, and all I knew was darkness after that.
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Aim For The Head.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Aim for the Head.
Now mind you, Tarus can run fast for creatures that have no visible knees.
OMFG, Brilliant!!!!!!
OMFG, Brilliant!!!!!!
Simply curious, how many of you would like this to continue indefinitely? Need to know if I'm making this a long term project or wrapping it up soon.
Midgardsormr.Sectumsempra said:
Simply curious, how many of you would like this to continue indefinitely? Need to know if I'm making this a long term project or wrapping it up soon.
Gotta atleast have a 30day story! >o
By long term I mean 150+ at least.
Midgardsormr.Sectumsempra said:
By long term I mean 150 at least.
I would LOVE long term. So long as it's all about me! jk.
But for real, keep going it's awesome
Midgardsormr.Sectumsempra said:
By long term I mean 150 at least.
EDIT: and someone would have to make it into a book...or file.
Or somehow make a topic that only you can post in maybe. I don't know if that's ever gunna happen tho
Asura.Ludoggy said:
Midgardsormr.Sectumsempra said:
By long term I mean 150 at least.
EDIT: and someone would have to make it into a book...or file.
I'm considering mirroring it on my blog.
I would read it. Gib URL if you do that.
Day 19 - Night:
Cai yelled at me for writing and threatened to knock me out for good if I didn't stop; in a sort of fraternal, only half serious way, that is. Apparently, you're supposed to rest if you spent your morning bleeding out the back of your head.
Fancy that.
From what I could gather, Cai went into some kind of berserk rage and *** the doll up badly. I remember glimpses of trying to open my eyes and feeling like I was moving, which must have been him carrying me back to safety.
But, I digress.
According to Cai, there was a demon down there that seemed to have been using the dolls as marionettes that hid once spotted.
The dolls, for now, have gone back to being their usual, passive, ugly selves.
I'm tired, but Cai says I have to try and stay awake for a while. He's reading passages out of Meg's alchemy book to see if there's any sort of notes on medicine. He found a ton of stuff on how to make a potion, but none on when which is needed.
Besides, there's also the problem that I'm kind of the only one of us that has any experience stewing a cauldron and brewing potions; Meg made me help her out.
Everytime I mention her name, I feel sick.
Cai yelled at me for writing and threatened to knock me out for good if I didn't stop; in a sort of fraternal, only half serious way, that is. Apparently, you're supposed to rest if you spent your morning bleeding out the back of your head.
Fancy that.
From what I could gather, Cai went into some kind of berserk rage and *** the doll up badly. I remember glimpses of trying to open my eyes and feeling like I was moving, which must have been him carrying me back to safety.
But, I digress.
According to Cai, there was a demon down there that seemed to have been using the dolls as marionettes that hid once spotted.
The dolls, for now, have gone back to being their usual, passive, ugly selves.
I'm tired, but Cai says I have to try and stay awake for a while. He's reading passages out of Meg's alchemy book to see if there's any sort of notes on medicine. He found a ton of stuff on how to make a potion, but none on when which is needed.
Besides, there's also the problem that I'm kind of the only one of us that has any experience stewing a cauldron and brewing potions; Meg made me help her out.
Everytime I mention her name, I feel sick.
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Did you put that on there? or someone else?
That's mine. Just put it up.
If you want btw, can use firefox's live bookmarks to grab directly from this feed:
http://abeardedbard.ath.cx/category/random-stories/stopworrying/feed/
http://abeardedbard.ath.cx/category/random-stories/stopworrying/feed/
definetly go long term with this if you can. i have you bookmarked now too.
Another vote for a lengthy story. Threw the RSS into my Reader toooo, so thanks!
I'm standing in qufim and it seems like it should be much more epic now...
It's not.
It's not.
Decided to bring my blog to the top level so you'll have to update your url's, sorry >_>;
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You still going to post it in here too?
Yeah, just mirroring it so you can easily scroll through rather than search for entries.
I caught up on my reading of your story and gotta say I was quite entertained. Thanks for writing and please keep writing :). I love when you introduce new characters based on FFXIAH forum lurkers. Do you ask them or just stick em in?
Also... can we have a gigas side love story! (just kidding.... or am I?)
Also... can we have a gigas side love story! (just kidding.... or am I?)
Some of them I ask, some ask. And I think we're almost done with the Gigas part :X
but... I want a gigas side love story! D:
I'll just write one on a piece of paper then hold it in bed crying D:
but like I said, I'm quite entertained reading your work and really enjoy it. Rock on King Kong! :)
I'll just write one on a piece of paper then hold it in bed crying D:
but like I said, I'm quite entertained reading your work and really enjoy it. Rock on King Kong! :)
I can imagine finding a group of antagonists taking over Jeuno and having something like an "Escape from New York" situation.
"Say it!"
"You are the Archduke of New Jeuno! 'A' number 1!"
"Say it!"
"You are the Archduke of New Jeuno! 'A' number 1!"
Day 20 - Morning:
Cai refused to wake me up this morning and instead went back to investigate the basement alone. I estimated that Alyria and company would return in the late night or early morning with any survivors.
Cai came back as I ate breakfast and said that he found the demon walking around some sort of room that had a map of each floor in the tower. He quickly retreated before he could be seen, lest the demon retreat further into the tower.
Meanwhile, the competitions for a new Gigas Chieftain continue. I wish I had some saruta cotton to stuff in my ears. Altana only knows what they're comparing now. Before they appeared to be arguing over who had the most spikes on their club.
They had to stop; they realized that they couldn't count on beyond four, and so declared it a stalemate on that account.
Cai refused to wake me up this morning and instead went back to investigate the basement alone. I estimated that Alyria and company would return in the late night or early morning with any survivors.
Cai came back as I ate breakfast and said that he found the demon walking around some sort of room that had a map of each floor in the tower. He quickly retreated before he could be seen, lest the demon retreat further into the tower.
Meanwhile, the competitions for a new Gigas Chieftain continue. I wish I had some saruta cotton to stuff in my ears. Altana only knows what they're comparing now. Before they appeared to be arguing over who had the most spikes on their club.
They had to stop; they realized that they couldn't count on beyond four, and so declared it a stalemate on that account.
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