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[Brutus Dahlgren]

With Ilya clawing him free, Brutus was freed up to take care of the other two as the charged forward towards him. He let out a grunt, eying his health bar as it had dipped to about half, and then decided that he would need to step things up. He charged forward, tossing a canonball up into the air as he swung his Canon wide and fast, clocking one of the creatures alongside their head. and sending them tumbling back. He then planted his boot into the "gut" of the other sending it backwards. He aimed his canon to the sky, catching the previously tossed ball and loading it with the power of gravity.

"Boom" Brutus grunted with a grin.

BOOM went his canon as his shot fired off, dusting the creature in front of him with ease. The last one dove on him, but met once again with a wall of flame, searing it to little more than charcoal. He would turn back to Ilya who'd finished brutally dismembering her plant foe, he would let her catch her breath before giving her a gentle clap on the shoulder.

"Good work. We should scope the area out for more. There's supposed to be some sort of...mud spring here? I guess it's like one of those...hot mud baths that're really good for your skin?"

@Ilya

 

[Ilya]

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Huffing and finally catching her breath she would return Brutus' shoulder clap by tapping his back. "Good work as well Brutus. I think scoping the area sounds like a good idea. Do you think that's all of the monsters we had to deal with?"

Ilya took charge and took the lead in walking forward. Her beast ears flicking towards every sound as she was relaxing, still staying aware of her surroundings. "Not going to lie, I would kill for that right now. Sounds pretty relaxing." Ilya didn't mind getting dirty.

"Though..." Ilya sniffed her tunic, before turning up her nose. "I smell like shit, and i'm sure you don't smell too good yourself." The mud spring would surely help get rid of the stench right??

Ilya kept moving eyes peeled as she kept going further and further into the territory. It was pretty calm now that they had killed a few of the plant-life that had it ought to eat their brains.

Ilya chuckled at her own joke, might as well call this the start of the apocalypse. Cracking her knuckles, Ilya focused on conservation of her energy. She had lost quite a bit of health, as did Brutus. They also had gaps in their energy meter.

The sooner they got to the place Brutus had mentioned the sooner that the two could refresh themselves and their need gauges.

 

[Brutus Dahlgren]

"I don't know if a Mud spring is necessarily a good source of...cleaning and getting the stench of battle and roughin it in the woods off you, but I imagine the mud comes from somewhere. You don't just get mud, it's water and earth, and unless the earth is hot, there's probably a hot spring adjacent."

He watched as she scanned the surrounding, and he did so as well. His game sense was tingling, that seemed like an introduction battle. If he had anything say in the design (which he didn't) he would imagine another battle along the trail and then some sort of big boss. None of these creatures seemed like a Plantera, they seemed like...Planties? Nothing that seemed so bad that they would get a cool ass name like Plantera.

"Stay frosty, I don't think we've torn the Plantera a new one yet. These seemed pretty...wimpy for a board posting."
@Ilya

 

[Ilya]

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Spotting a frog, Ilya could only do one thing. She began hopping after it, wiggling her tail in excitement as she played a game of chase. After much effort, Ilya finally was able to grab the frog in between her hands. "His name is Fred." The frog let out a loud scream before she put it on her head. Now the frog was unmoving out of severe fear.

After hearing word of potentially facing more monsters, Ilya would get serious. Clasping her hands together she would make a short prayer to one of the many gods in this world, before both Ilya and Brutus were healed in a flash of divine light.

"Now we're at the right health. My mana will restore, plus I fight with my fists and not my mana. So we're in good shape!" She offered a sideways thumbs up before continuing on the path. "Hot springs sound sooo good right now! But I also wonder what kind of monsters we'll face..."

The cry of the frog seemed to alert more monsters to their foreign arrival. Out of one of the mud pools came out a MASSIVE frog, at least TEN times the size of Brutus.

Ilya let out a squeal, "CAN WE KEEP IT, IT'S SO CUTE!" Only the frog had other ideas, opening its mouth. It snagged up Ilya, causing her to dangle into the air. The frog on her head let out a cry of relief as if to say "MAMA!" Before it hopped off her head, across the frog's tongue and onto Mommy Frog's head.

 

[Brutus Dahlgren]

Brutus balked at the large frog that had the blonde in it's tendril like tongue. He blinked a couple times and had one simple thought cross his mind. That's not a Plantera. he found himself thinking. His canon was out faster than you could say "FIRE" and BOOM. The gun sounded and a single canonball pelted momma frog in the face. The creature hissed and dropped the catfolk, letting her plummet to the ground. The giant cursed and rushed forward, sliding across the dirt as he caught Ilya. The creature hopped backwards, creating distance between the two. The giant would right himself and set the lioness on her feet, reloading his canon.

"Alright, stay frosty, this fucker has some god damn reach."

The creature let a large howl, gurgling from some of its injuries. Brutus returned a shot back in response, the crack of booming thunder and fire, this time he hit the creature in the eye with a gush of blood and a scream.

@Ilya

 

[Ilya]

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A damsel in distress, the classic fairy-tale encounter that almost every child into Barbie movies wanted to happen. However Ilya was not one of them, she was the one that would save a damsel or damel, the male version.

However, Ilya was thankful for her new bestie. He had saved her life, she could have been gobbled up like yesterdays soup and chicken legs. Nodding her head Ilya would stay back a little bit.

"I can only do close range attacks with accuracy.... But I can support you!" Lucy ignited her magic circuits.

Her eyes narrowing in on Bruce, focusing solely on him and not on the CUTE ass giant frog. It was hard, her attention kept almost diverting. But she had a job, blessing her companion, Ilya ignited God's blessing on him. His speed increasing, his muscles... moving and glowing? #ChadEnergy. His senses sharpened, and time seemed to move slow around him in his eyes.

The Goddess' Blessing
<CONDITIONS MET>
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The strange words popped up on Ilya's UI. Her head tilting to the side not sure what it meant... What the fuck... Now wasn't the time to figure it out. It blinked out of view as she continued to focus on Brutus.

 

[Brutus Dahlgren]

Brutus charged forward, powered up and ready to go. Canon in hand, he swung wide, slamming into the Frog's body. The blubbery body absorbed the shock of the blow, and the creature reared a froggy leg up and SLAMMED it downwards, trying to crash into him. The Giant dodged handily, his busted speed buff carrying him easily enough backwards. Snapping his canon forward, he sent another shot flying forward, aiming for the other eye.

The Frog hopped away, dodging that attack, but it wasn't ready for the giant to loose a gout of flame from his canon scorching the amphibian with a raging inferno. The creature screamed and reared back, buying the speed demon Brutus another round to reload and shoot another shot off. The creature ate the shot on the chin and roared in pain. The Lion Man roared back savagely.

"COME GET SOME YOU FROGGY FUCK."

It was on, like Donkey Kong.

@Ilya

 

[Ilya]

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Brutus was fighting for his life, okay not actually. But it still inspired Ilya, not wanting to look weak she would shout out... "BRUTUS! DUCK! NOW!" Ilya held both of her hands forward, aiming at the frog. Her palms connected and she began to shoot out a ray of bright light, if Brutus hadn't ducked... It woulda hit him and very easily knocked him to his booty, and taken a chunk of hp out of his bar.

Ilya fought to hold the magic energy stream, her body shaking as she began to exert her mana. Gritting her teeth, Ilya felt the pressure of holding the spell for so long. It was causing the frog to turn bright, glowing with all of the magic now bearing down on him.

Her body began to crumble, she fell to her knees... Still holding on as long as possible until all of her mana reserves had ran out. Ilya let go of the spell, watching her mana bar drop to empty. She leaned forward on the ground, her hands propping up her top half of the her body.

Hopefully she had helped, though now she had no magic to utilize and she was completely useless... How could she fight, if she couldn't get close to the beast.....

Ilya felt her mind slowly slipping into chaos.

ƬΛIПƬΣD ᄂIӨПΣƧƧ ƧƬΛGΣ 1- ᄃӨMPᄂΣƬΣ.​

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[Brutus Dahlgren]

Brutus duck underneath Ilya's Finales Funkeln he watched in awe as the creature began to glow yellow with the power of god and anime bearing down on it all at once. It screeched and howled in pain, tossing its head back and sending its child skittering back into the mud. The Giant rolled backwards, reloading his canon and blasting off another shot. Taking advantage of the creatures stunned state, this attack landing squarely into the creatures singular remaining eye.

The creature screamed and keeled backwards, collapsing into a pile of flesh and blood. The Giant brushed himself off, with a fight taken care of he turned to his partner. Ilya had collapsed, and he found himself hissing as he surged forward and slid to his knees grabbing the blonde catwoman and cradling her carefully.

"Ilya? Ilyaaaa." He would give her a little shake. "Comeon, wake up. Wake uuuuuup." He would give her cheek a light slap. "Seriously? I need a little help here. Still got a Plantera to kill."

@Ilya

 

[Ilya]

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lion's pride...

Cold... Everything is cold.... Everything was black in the mind of the lioness, she was floating in an empty void. She couldn't move... couldn't breathe.... Time seemed to freeze in place, or rather she couldn't tell how long she had existed in this plane.

She felt empty, like she had no energy left. She couldn't even move her eyes from side to side... The only thing that made her aware of time was the sound of Brutus' voice urging her to wake up. Suddenly....

SLAP Everything suddenly changed... Her soul being sucked back into her body, her eyes slowly blinking. She came to, and saw Fred holding her in his arms, saying something about Plantera.
Ilya still felt drained, but a quick look at her UI bars, she saw that the only thing that had exited her body was her mana bar...

Ilya would croakily let out a moan before attempting to speak. "H-hey there cowboy... I'm still kickin!" Her voice was feeble and her mouth felt dry.

"Bru, I need water-" All that Ilya could do was feebly grip on Brutus, the fact that she despised physical contact was at the back of her mind. It would come to her later, but not now. For now she would be thankful that Brutus was holding her, should she pass out or stumble.

@Brutus Dahlgren

 

[Brutus Dahlgren]

"Mornin Sunshine."

The giant carefully pulled out a waterskin and raised it to her lips, gently pouring some water for her. He wasn't quite sure what had happened, other than her overdoing it, but he did his best to nurse her back to proper health. He needed his partner back to full fighting strength, as soon as possible. He didn't think he could take a Plantera on his own.

After the woman was hydrated, he would pull out an apple from his inventory and pass it to her, wrapping her fingers around it. "Eat this and relax, you blacked out there for a little bit, most have pushed yourself too hard." His eyes shot to the mudsprings just over the hill, looking past the giant frog corpse. That fucker was huge, the Plantera could only be bigger, right?

"We've got a little more to go, you think you've got it in you? Or do we need to come back another day and wrap this up?"

@Ilya

 

[Ilya]

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lion's pride...

Water as sweet as candy was poured into her mouth, the only reason for it's excellent taste was the fact that Ilya's was parched. Shortly afterwards, she would be carefully tended to. Unfortunately the water was pulled away too soon and replaced with an apple. The lioness eyed it carefully, what a delectable treat. Her mouth watering as her hands weakly snagged it up. She bit into it, closing her eyes. Apple juices soaking every corner of her tongue. Mmmmmm The apple was amazing, it hit just right.

Another mention of having more stuff to do, Ilya would get serious. She would nudge Brutus to let him back down on the ground. She could at least stand, right? He set her back on the ground, still holding onto her to make sure she was okay. Ilya would tentatively take a step to see how her balance was. Still weak... Ilya clenched her hands into fists. She had to push herself harder than before.

Nodding her head slowly at Brutus so he knew to stop supporting her, he would let go and she would stand still. Daring to take a breath without support, smiling at the fact that she had managed to stand on her own. "Let me see if I have any potions or anything that might... Help me recover faster." Ilya opened her palm menu, but what she caused the smile on her face to falter. "At least we know what's wrong... My mana is nearly depleted. It looks like I used it all up in that last attack, and it's slowly recovering."

Ignoring the giant red exclamation mark that was covering the right corner of her skills button, Ilya tapped her inventory to cycle through. Finding her target, she selected it and reached into her floating inventory box. Pulling out the mana potion she opened it, swigging it down in one big gulp as if it were a shot.

Taking another look at her bars, she made an auditory note of it being full before checking out the giant exclamation mark. What she saw filled her with dread.... Her Divine Magic mastery was greyed out, and when she tried to tap on it to pull up a list of skills she's used, a message popped up in the middle of her vision.

Divine Magic Unavailable
Reason: Cursed​

Closing her UI menu she would nod to Brutus, "I'm ready to head out. Just know, I won't be able to use magic until further notice, including my heals." Ilya figured the two could talk about her mastery being gone after the big boss fight.

@Brutus Dahlgren

 

[Brutus Dahlgren]

"Well then, glad to see you're back on your feet."

He watched as she chugged her mana potion and took her tentative steps. He would stay lingering closer to her as she went about the process of putting herself back together. Her note about not being able to use her magic sent a light tut from his lips, he shook his head and sighed. That was going to complicated, the lack of healing would mean any injuries sustained would be something they would have to deal with. There was no magical solution, they would have to lick their wounds the old fashioned way.

"That makes things difficult, but do your best to stay close to me and we'll make it through this in once piece."

He shouldered his canon, making sure it was loaded. He took a deep breath, checking his bars, he would eat a quick apple to top his hunger off and take a deep breath. Marching up the path, he would find a small building that was marked as a changing room. Pushing past it, he would approach the main mud bath. Bubbling mud and the smell sulfur greeted him, but he was more concerned about the large green thorny tendril that was half submerged in the mud. As they grew closer, staying a healthy distance away from the pool, he spotted another tendril snaking upwards to the north, feeding into a bubbling pool of hot spring water.

"I think we've found our Plantera." He would grunt, squinting. All in all, about eight tendrils roughly a foot and a half in diameter were splayed out of the mud pit, each easily thirty or so feet long based on what he could see, there was no telling how much tentacle remained coiled under the surface.

"You ready?"

@Ilya

 

[Ilya]

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child of nature...

The mud pools were interesting to look at, it seemed like a little touristy- hot springs. Except this one was over-run by the Plantera. It's tendrils spooling out of the mud bath, this would be a hard fight... But Ilya was ready for it.

Brutus asked her if she was ready, she shot him a nod. "I'm ready as I'll ever be." Ilya didn't wait for Brutus to make the first move. She dashed to the edge of the mud pool, leaping into the air as she went for where she thought the Plantera's body would be.

Her body splashing into the mud, she couldn't see anything because, well, mud. But this didn't mean she could sense her surroundings. She was using an ultra secret martial combat routine from Episode 79 of Combra Kai.

Her body sensing her surroundings she noticed she wasn't that far off of the body of the beast. Her fist drawing back, using sheer force and Total Concentration Breathing from Demon Slayer. Her body then launched it forward, smacking the Plantera in the gut. It let out a wither, and began to surface from the pool. Ilya wrapped her body around the plant.

As it broke through the surface it let out an inhumane scream. Ilya took this as her moment, letting go of the Plantera and using one of its tendrils to land on, "Your turn Bru!"

@Brutus Dahlgren

 

[Brutus Dahlgren]

Brutus could tell the moment she struck the slumbering creature, the tendrils immediately tensed up, but unfortunately for one of them, Brutus would bring down his canon as it shot out a gout of flame. The fire, condensed and traveling at high velocity, sliced through the tendril. The creature wriggled and writhed as it shot to the surface bearing Ilya riding it cowgirl style.

It was sporting one gimp tentacle, but the other seven thrashed about wildly as it howled in pain. Brutus would duck, dive, dip and dodge various attacks. He wanted to shoot the body, but didn't want to risk hitting Ilya.

"Illy! I need you to get away from the body so I can shoot it safely!" The creature gnashed plant like teeth howling, acidic drool sizzling between its teeth. If either of them managed to get grabbed it would be game over. Another tentacle swiped at him, forcing the giant to hop over it and smash his canon downwards, crushing the vine and causing it to bleed green chlorophyll blood.

@Ilya

 

[Ilya]

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lion's pride...

The tentacles were slithering around in annoyance, Ilya who had managed to drop down on one of them was in the danger zone. The tendril she was on was moving side to side, Ilya had to muster as much strength as she could to not be thrown off of it. The other six tendrils of absolute buff plant would flick over to her, attempting to snag her up.

Ilya threw punch after punch at each tendril that went for her, impact causing it to be pushed back. Each time she hit one, it would start instantly heading right back for her. Her attack of surprise had dealt some damage, but not enough.

Ilya narrowed her eyes, thankfully Brutus had handled one of them already, now it was her turn. Only her punches weren't strong enough to take care of one, evidently she should only attack the body or the head to deal massive damage.

These little shits appeared to be immune to Martial arts. Not being able to use her magic offensively sucked ass, I shoulda made a different contract, so I didn't lose the ability to use it completely... Biting her lip, Ilya focused letting the world ebb away as she focused on her movements.

Legs moving instinctually, now changing her direction of attack. Going from punching the tendrils to dodging them as she ran along the tendril she had been standing on. One hop away from another pounding fist, she leapt off the tentacle. Her fist making quick contact with where she assumed was the Plantera's face. The mud that soaked her face made it hard to see details.

After planting her fist in Plantera she would use her momentum to push back. This time she hadn't been able to land on a tendril. Her body falling into the mud pool. Thankfully, it was near the edge so she would be able to crawl out.

At Brutus' cry to move out of the way, Ilya would duck below the surface of the mud... But not before shouting out at Brutus to shoot so the Plantera would be trying to recover rather than trying to stop her future escape from the pool of mud.

This was her only chance to escape the mud and get to safety. The duo had to time it perfectly, or she might very well get snatched up. One of the tendrils that had been trying to grab her began lunging for her. It was now or never.

@Brutus Dahlgren

 

[Brutus Dahlgren]

Brutus did his best to line up a shot. This creature looked pretty fragile at it's core, the problem were the massive tentacles that wriggled and writhed thrashing about. The entire area was a danger zone, and between the constant extremely dangerous version of jump rope and trying not to hit Ilya while she thrashed futilely smacking vines away from her, it would be a nigh impossible shot. The cannoneer could only pray for an opening, occasionally slicing and smashing at the tentacles to cripple the creature further.

Finally, the stars aligned, Brutus was left unmolested as Ilya made her mad dive away from the core of the creature. Apparantly she'd really pissed it off as it snaked after her with most of its appendages like some sort of questionable eastern comic. Brutus leaped over the one sweeping vine coming for him, clearing it like a track high jump, aiming his canon and lining up the shot. He squinted, time seemed to slow, and then pulled the trigger.

Click, BOOM.

His shot rang out like thunder, nailing the creature right in it's screeching mouth, entering in through it's acidic gullet and exiting through the back. One shot, one kill. It let out a hideous screech, but in one fell swoop, all of the tension in the creature's body went limp. Tendrils dropped in place, sinking into the murk and muck as the body plummeted into the center with a loud SPLOOSH.

Brutus, for his part, did not stick the landing, crashing down on his shoulders as he rolled backward onto his feet, still cradling his canon. His eyes desperately scanned the murk and muck looking for his partner. "ILYA!" He roared. "ILYA WHERE ARE YOU?"

@Ilya

 

[Ilya]

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lion's pride...

The sound of a cannon being shot off, the feeling of the mud crashing and swirling as the beast plopped dead in the water. Shouts were then heard, however muffled... Ilya burst from the mud, spitting out a mouth full of the hot goo. "All good here!" She once again had to wash her face. Flicking it out of her eyes, looking for a way that she could actually get it out all the way.

Ilya noticed the pool of water streaming into the mud pool. She waddled over and splashed her face with the hot water until most of the mud was off. She would push herself up and out of the pool, walking along the edge with heavy feet as mud dripped from her body.

She walked over to Brutus as she started to shake her body free of any mud, unintentionally coating Brutus in the process. "Whoopsies, my bad!"

Ilya took her hands and moved them to her ears, scooping mud off of them (and out of the insides) until she was satisfied, now turning to look at Mr. Planty. "So where do we bury the body?"

@Brutus Dahlgren

 

[Brutus Dahlgren]

Brutus would stare at the flecks of mud now splattered over his jacket, then back to the corpse of Plantera sinking into the muck. "Well." he would drawl, "We probably need to pull it out of the mud pit first." Like lighting, the large Felis scooped a hand around Ilyas waist, and with another swift tug sent her flying back into the muck. He would wait until she surfaced again before canonballing into the sludge, sending another wave of mud sloshing over her.

The heat was bliss on his tired muscles, and he could feel his body beginning to heal from the various fights they had partaken in. Rising to the surface, he would shake his head like a dog, sending bits of mud and muck flying away. He would reach a hand up to his face and wipe away the murk, before shooting her a grin and laughing. "Oh dear, did you slip Illy?"


Taking a few slow, hesitant steps, he would slog through the waist high murk for him and make his way over where he thought the corpse was. "Help me find this fucker

@Ilya

 

[Ilya]

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lion's pride...

WHOOOOSH! The wind surrounding Ilya flashed, stinging her skin where the mud still clung. Before she had time to react she had, quite literally, been swept off her feet. Her body now launching into the pool. With no added mobility she couldn't change her landing position. SPLAT! She bellyflopped into the pool.

Ilya's mouth opened as she yelped out in shock, however her body had already submerged. Instead of sounds, mud filled her mouth. She struggled to get back to the surface, spitting out the mud in her mouth. She opened her mouth to complain to Brutus at just the wrong moment, his cannonball sending more mud... into her mouth.

Ilya once again spit out the mud, she shook her hands free from mud, wiping her face again. When Brutus resurfaced he shot her a grin. Her anger quickly dissipating as his laugh filled the space. "Yeah, damn... The edge is more slippery than I thought." She playfully retorted back to him, ready to get revenge.

Her tail which was half-way in the mud and half-way out began to flicker playfully as her plan entered her head. Brutus had began to take slow steps towards the corpse, asking her to assist him. A devious look in her eyes as she made moves towards Brutus, acting as if she was going to help.

She got close enough to put her plan into action. "Nyaaa~ Gotcha!" Her "nyaa" coming out as a noise of joy rather than a meow, a clear sign she was having a blast.

Flicking her leg out she hooked them around Brutus' legs. She pushed them so he would loose his footing as she simultaneously jumped on him. Her arms pushing Brutus' shoulders forwards so he would sink under the mud face first.

Unfortunately due to having no footing, she followed, and under the mud she went... Again... Her body accidentally entangling with Brutus' as she tried to fight to get back to the surface.

@Brutus Dahlgren