Complete Comms Challenge YOUR PRINCESS IS IN THIS CASTLE

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Unfolding the Unknown
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Weather: Infernal


The overwhelming smell of sulfur invade your nostrils. Your lungs burn with the suffocating air. The surroundings try to destroy your resolve, but... Your Princess is in this castle. Talk with your fellow heroes, before you cross the bridge and wage war against the nefarious and outworldly creature that captured the castle of the ██░░▓▓▓▒▒▓▓▒ Kingdom, and snatched its princess away, for its wicked entertainment.

But be careful, do not rush in just yet... Plan, think. After all, you don't know what horror the monster inside of it will pose.

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Whelp! Looks like the bottle-messengers I sent came up short. I don't know if I can really blame them, considering I, Glamora Dark, did not in fact give them brains, but in my considerable defense, birds are said to have small brains and get the job done just fine. Woe be it for me to think that my own genius would rub off on them. The apple has been tossed VERY FAR from the tree, indeed, with all the power of an NFL ring-swimming hall of famer quarterback.


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And so, it looks like it falls to me, just like always. And by me, I mean you guys doing exactly what I tell you to do.


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Which should be very easy, because you were, after all, crafted by a genius. That genius being me. Glamora Dark.


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I like that enthusiasm! Okay then! Ranks are formed. All's that's left is a forward marrr... hm...?


Is that a peoples? Huh.


Maybe my bottle-messengers got through after all? Good job me. Sometimes it's scary how smart I am.

Well, I'm sure they're bound to be a just a little confused, I'll be nice and exposition a bit.

After all, even if they did just wander here by chance, I can work with that.


*Deep Breath* Welcome and how fortunate you are to land on this cruddy of all places! I suspect you have may have come across one of my bottle automatons carrying a message calling for aid in a grand adventure. If you did, you may have found yourself a little curious and touched it. If so~ then~ congratulations! If all of the above has happened, then you have been 'cursed' and subsequently teleported here to embark on a great and noble quest! If not, well, aren't you in luck! Of all the places you could be, you have been blessed with a chance encounter with a top witch, and genius extraordinaire; the one and only, wondrous, Glamora Dark!


(Speaking out of the corner of her mouth) "yaaaay, wow, so awesome... woooh.. she's so cool..."
 
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"Matte... how can they move if they have no brain?" Crouching low she inspects one of the little ones, an index finger poking lightly to see if it topples over. "Doesn't that require at least one braincell?"


She remembered coming across one of these in the cobblestone roads of the village... though what had happened after was still somewhat hazy in Toko's mind. When she'd come to again the hare had been unceremoniously dropped into who knew what forest along with the little "messenger" and—figuring it was better to stick together instead of going around in circles by her lonesome—Toko had decided to follow the bottle-thing through it... though she never uncorked it to retrieve the message inside.

It had felt like a violation of its privacy, and surely whoever animated the small bottle-thing could explain things too... maybe? Hopefully?

"Ah, naruhodo... you're the reason we're here then." Well, that explained one thing, although the name of Glamora Dark rung zero bells inside her mind... though after noticing the self-proclaimed witch hyping herself up Toko decided to join in with a half-ass attempt, clapping her hands lightly. "Uwaaah... Sugoi dess... Subarashii."


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"Not sure I appreciate being whisked away like that, brat."

Glamora might be a bit surprised to see one of her creations flying right past her head at dizzying speeds, followed by the sight of a very miffed striped beastkin emerging from the shadows.

Harper's day was going well for once, the beastkin was leisurely enjoying some training with the nearby wildlife consent for their participation notwithstanding until she just so happened to stumble across one of the bottle-messengers laying on the ground amidst her rampag- I mean, training. Needless to say, curiosity killed the cat-girl, and now she was neck-deep in whatever mess this was. And boy did she have a few words about it, the tigress starting to march her way towards who she thought was the cause of all of this.

"I don't know what your deal here is, but if you think you can just go and kidnap me, you are dead wro- Oh hi there Bugs!"

Her attention would drift upon spotting an old acquaintance, the tigress giving the lepri a playful slap in the back as a hello. Well, as playful as she could manage with her level of strength anyhow. "Anyway..."

She'd pause as she looked up and down at Glamora, a quizzical look in her face. "...Do I know you? Yeah... Yeah I do! You're the girl from that game table who almost cried after losing from way back then! Man it's been a while, how you've been?!" As if forgetting her previous animosity, she'd extend a furred hand towards her, the other hand resting on her own hip.

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"Bottle automatons? Nope, never seen those before."

The wine-haired woman made her entrance, walking from behind the three that already assembled.

"Although I did kick something really hard moments before being transported here." The woman pondered for a while. She then turned to @Glamora Dark, inquiring her about this 'quest'. "Alright, explain."

 
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So I've somehow managed to pull some strong-looking people but at this point it feels like I might need to ask on some forums to see if they're worth anything... was this a gacha game all along...? Actually, I think I recognize them from that murder-tank incident, so maybe I lucked out... maybe.


So first I pull a bunny, then a tiger, and finally an assassin-looking sort. If our last guest had a sequined dress, I'd say we might as well just open up shop in Vegas, but alas~


*Ducks sailing bottle soldier* Tough crowd. Oh... It's you... great.


Well look who the witch dragged in. Hello @Harper.


Has the bull come to tell the china shop what it should be feeling? Well, I did cry. A lot. A well-rounded heroine should always save a few tears for when her dreams get utterly and barbarously trampled. As for how you got here, well, Stockholm Syndrome isn't in your warranty, which is why you should always read the fine print. I didn't kidnap you, you kidnapped yourself.


But that's neither here nor there~ because I've already gained and lost that substantial amount of money at least three times over by this point. What can I say~ I'm a busy witch~ (*crying emoji behind laughing mask emoji*)


*Approaching, Glamora places the previously thrown bottle-soldier in the outstretched tigress's hand*


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Now I'd appreciate you not scaring the troops, yes? Except that one there. Congratulations, it's yours now. I don't know if it's into being thrown but it's imprinted on you now, and I don't want it.


*Glamdark blows a whistle, and the scrambling bottle-soldiers form ranks once more.*


Right. Hopefully that's it for reunions. Mine are never fun.


*Glamdark finally notices @Toko cheering her on*


I would die for you.


*E-hem* As for how these things can move without a brain. Well, if you've seen the average Terrasphere player in a raid, and I know you have from my very vivid memory of you slamming that massive tank, then it shouldn't be all that surprising that things can move around without brains.

Anyway, I hope you'll be pleased to meet the bottle-talion bottle-soldiers: a portable fun-sized raid of dark-alchemical bodies to throw at whatever gets in our way. Totally green too, on account of all the glass I've recycled from my left-over bottles of pudding to make them. They aren't smart, or strong, or really all that useful, but what how did that saying go? 'The bottle-talion only has to get lucky once, our enemy has to get lucky for the rest of their lives.' Something like that anyway. And aren't they just a little bit cute?


*nods at @Lune* Right, the point then. Since you lot were kind of enough to accidentally appear here on my behalf, I guess I should hurry up and explain the situation.


*Glamdark points at the castle* So there's a castle. Said castle is said by Queen to have her daughter, a princess, trapped in it. Whomever retrieves this princess will receive many fine treasures as thanks. The only problem is, is that said castle is guarded by a dragon.


Yes, I said a dragon.


As we know, dragons don't exist.


Case in point then: this is going to be a very easy job.


'So why is she asking for help?' You may be wondering. And to that, I invite you to look back at the castle once more. Does that castle look up to code? Obviously not. It looks downright condemned. Would you trust the bottle-talion with carrying a VIP over lava? Would you want the headache of guarding a VIP all way back to her kingdom from who knows what? Dragons may not exist, but unless the Queen has had her royal chef preparing only the wrong kinds of mushrooms for her nightly mushroom soup, then I can only assume the princess is real.


Right. So let me sum it up: I hate escort missions. This is a logistics problem and upon arriving I realized I didn't have enough logs. We can divvy the reward up evenly, how's that sound? That's right, you didn't just fall into an adventure, you fell into an opportunity.


I'm not sure if more people are coming but for now that's the that about this. So maybe we should introduce ourselves? Well, you know who I am. I have a squishy ball to toss around if we're feeling a little bit shy~? *tosses*
 
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Her ears twitch upon catching a faint sound before the lepus takes a few steps to the right, just in time to avoid a different bottle-thing that whizzes by in a straight line for the witch. She whistles in admiration upon seeing the frail looking woman duck in time to dodge it too, before crimson eyes land on the familiar stripped figure of another player who’s in the process of berating Glamora.

"Yo, Harper-chan!!!"



A wide grin spreads on her lips as she waves to Harper, the greeting seemingly enough to turn the tiger’s ire away from the witch momentarily as she heads for the rabbit instead. The slap on her back, strong enough to topple most, only tickles her before Toko taps the shoulder of Harper with the back of her fist.

"Eeeh? Aren’t you a lucky one, To—ra—chan~"



Seconds after being given the bottle-thing Harper feels a finger poke the side of her cheek, a teasing smirk on Toko’s lips before she turns to look at the latest arrival. A wave is given to the woman, Toko’s sure she’s seen her around before though if she had a name for the face it eludes her right now.

I would die for you.



The unexpected proclamation catches the hare off-guard, a light rosy tint coloring her cheeks before the lepus choose to focus on the bottle-legion instead as the witch offers an explanation to how they work… and, honestly, they do sound quite useful. Eventually the conversation is reigned towards the elephant in the room as the wine-haired player demands an explanation, one that Toko’s also curious to hear.

"Ryuu ka...? Wouldn’t it be funny if it turns out to be a massive slimeodile?"


What Glamora describes to them—if one ignores the mentions of a queen, princess and a dragon—sounds no different from any other Terrasphere quest… although perhaps a bit on the more elaborated side. There’s hardly a reason for Toko to mull over it as she nods in agreement, it sounds like a fun afternoon, before her hands reach out instinctively and catch the squishy ball that the witch tosses.

"Guess I’ll go first then… Hajimemashte, I’m Toko~" She waves in the direction of Glamora and Lune. "Eeeto... I’m what some call a scrapper, and... uuuhm... I'm pretty quick and nimble on my feet? Yoroshku onegaishimaaass~"


She finishes with a light bow of her head, before lobbing the ball gently in Harper’s direction.

@Glamora Dark | @Harper | @Lune
 
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The tigress would shuffle her shoulder after it was tapped by Toko, Harper giving her a smirk before turning her attention back towards Glamora with an raised eyebrow.

"Hey, I lost some good money too and you didn't see me getting misty-eyed over it! You're thinking too hard about it, it was just a fun night of games, you feel me?"

Not pictured here: The absolute path of devastation left through the nearby forest by the distraught beastkin that day. There weren't any tears, true, but there were much more destructive displays of one's grief that night. Those poor goblins.

Harper tilted her head at being given back the bottle creature that she had recently just yeeted. Her confusion was only doubled upon being told that apparently it now somehow had feelings for her. Didn't she just say those things didn't have brains? Toko's teasing was met with a chuckle and an light elbow to her torso.
"Zip it, Bugs. Besides, you have your own avid fan too. One with an acutal brain, at that." She'd turn to face the bottle on her hand. "No... Offense? Can you even get offended?" She'd throw the bottle behind her, catching it with her tail and holding it there for the time being as she listened in to Glamora's explanation.

"Honestly? As long as I get to fight something, I'll consider it as time not wasted. Also, the flying heck even if a slimeodile?" She would inquire, before having the Squishy Ball of Introductions thrown at her. Shrugging her shoulders, she would start throwing the ball between her hands as she introduced herself. "Well, name's Harper. If Toko there is a scrapper, then that makes me the grappler I suppose." With a lackadaisical and effortless motion, she threw the ball on the ground hard enough to kick up dust and send it bouncing high into the air. "I can throw a hobgoblin sideways like the best shot putter you know and choke a golem into submission, so let me do any of those two and you'll be in good hands! Can throw a mean lefty if needed too."

As the ball finally came down, Harper shifted her head to headbutt it towards Lune, who was the only one here she did not recognize. "Your turn, Red."

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Slimodile. Heh. How long has it been since the mega slimodile incident where she was technically a whole different person? (Yes, hello, Moonsong).

It's rare to see Toko playing the game, as she only remembered seeing her last during the battle against Szofrit. But maybe it's good since it means she's one of the smart, non-addicted players.

"My turn? Hmmm," Today, she really didn't feel like introducing herself as Lune. Gets old every time she has to reintroduce herself after changing her face every now and then. The tiger girl gave her an idea, though.

"I actually really like that nickname. Call me Red for now. Guess you can think of me as sort of a wildcard. Adapting is my forte."

Upon hearing that the quest would be easy-peasy, she motioned the others to follow her into the castle. "Then let's just cross the bridge and get on to it, shall we?"

Obviously, the journey to the throne room was uneventful. But when Lune finally caught a glimpse of the things inside, she stopped, looking back at Glamora. "Dragons indeed doesn't exist," She pointed at the monsters. "Komodo dragons, however, are."
 
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Slimeodiles? Huh? Are those a thing? Don't be silly, you're just trying to scare me, right? I mean look at all these guys trying to shoot us, they're just small fries. I was hoping this place would be empty, but this should still be an easy sweep. I can see it now with my witch's intuition: their boss probably just goes by 'the dragggooooon' or something, right? We have absolutely nothing to fear! I guarantee it. Just in and out, quick princess adventure. 5 minutes tops. (Not counting the annoying trip home).


*Enters room*


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oh...


Oh hey, a dragon! Tehe.... just kidddinnnng dragons don't exist...


It's probably just a bunch of magia in a suit, right? That's what they like to do, right? Costume parties?


Wait... I think that'd be just as bad...


*Glamora is struck by fear eyebeam!*


Nooooooo....


Ahhhh what is it doing...


waaaah its glare is peeking into my headddd~ noooooo~


i don't wanna be stuck in middle management...


aaaa it's getting worse now! I'm in terrible debt! Worse than usual!


nuuuuu now hanno's giving me a loan and saying i don't have it pay it back...


aaaa now they're calling me a buddynaut and being my friends...!


i don't want to be happppppy i want to be riccccccchhhh!


*unintelligible wheezing*


*gasp*


oh... oh... it was just a dream...


Never before have I been so happy to be about to die so horribly.


Everyone be careful! It has some kind of power that makes you imagine yourself living an ordinarily happy life! It crushes your dreams!


Your dreams! (says it twice)


Also in my defense, komodos, (Were they always that big? Oh, okay, thank you Miss Red), are not -infact- dragons. If it was a dinosaur I'd maybe apologize a little bit for getting us all killed.


Okay team dragon busters! (Giving up on life.)


Let's'a go!



@Lune @Harper @Toko
 
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With the introductions over and done the small group starts making their way towards the castle, before the hare raises one eyebrow questioningly as she looks at the tigress. She'd always assumed the fellow fighter had been playing this game for a while, but perhaps she'd been mistaken?

"Just some slimy and mean-looking crocs, hence the slimeodile name, that like to barrel roll in the swamps—" She pauses as the little witch doubts their existence, the lepus waving her hands in the universal sign of 'no, I swear I'm not pulling your leg with this one' as she continues. "They were involved in a quest a while back... about a year ago, I think?"

Toki ga tatsu no wa hontouni hayai na...... She wonders what's become of those she met then, the names of some having acquired a seemingly permanent gray coloration since a while back—she can only hope they're alive and well in the real world.

"... ah." The sight that greets them upon pushing the gates of the castle open is a sharp contrast to Glamora's claims of this being a quick in-n-out rescue mission. There's Komolds as far as the eyes can see and, lounging right in the middle of the room, there's a humongous reptilian that's... drooling?

"Uwaaah... kare wa dekai desu ne." In size alone this Komo-kun places any slimeodile Toko had seen before to shame, although... "He doesn't look too bright...? I wonder what's going on in that head of his.

The cries of what Toko can assume is the princess they're meant to save ring out bringing her attention over to the back of the room before something catches her attention. "Hey mina, doesn't it look like they're guarding something over in the back?" She points in the direction of a small group of komolds huddled close together to an item, though it's hard to make out what it is from where they stand—especially with the DebuKomo-kun in the way.

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Woah~ good eye Toko! (Must be all the carrots.) I think that may in fact be our princess. The only problem is all the death between us and her rather heartbreaking cries for help.

Anyone have any bright ideas? If not, I'll settle for any entertainingly stupid ones. I'm going to be honest, I've pretty much lost all hope of survival. I am fully in a panic but I just hate to lose.


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"The princess...? I mean yeah, she's shouting from up there." She points high above, the screams for help having made it easy enough to pinpoint the location of her cage, before the lepus shakes her head. "I meant down there, though."

Her index shifts downwards, pointing to a gap that occasionally forms when Komo-kun's massive tail moves. "See, there's a bunch of chibi tokage close together... and I think there's something between them?" She squints, while her eyesight is good enough to determine there is something Toko isn't exactly sure what it might be—or if it's even useful for them—but there is someone that perhaps has a better view of it.

"Yooo, Hime-chaaan!!!" She cups her hands around her mouth, allowing her voice to ring loudly through the place—and hopefully clear enough for the captive royal to her them. "What's that thing down there?! Where the chibi tokage are bunched up!"

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The chained figure jumped slightly at the sudden yell, and trembling, she responded-

"H-Hime-chan?! Ah... AH! It... That thing down there? It is the Axecalibur... A-A powerful and legendary weapon..."


"Komo, komo KOMO!!! KOKOMOOO!"
(Don't tell them that, they have the meta information written on the DM post)


It menancingly waved its sharp saber up at the princess.

"EEEEEEK! O-Okay, okay! Pl-Please, don't hurt me! I will stay quiet!"


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"Axecalibur,"
The woman muttered unenthusiastically. "With a name as silly as that, it must be something significant."

"No one has any plan for an oversized komodo twice the size of a mega slimodile."
Perhaps if there was a certain Russian woman here, she could've somehow already planned something. "In that case, we'll just do our usual starcalled thing." Shrugging, Lune proceeded to stretch her muscles. "You girls ready?" She looked to the others, cracking her knuckles.
 

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"Hahah, so there were dragons after all! That makes this so more interesting!"

They had scales, tails and teeth. They were dragon enough to justify Harper going all out on their asses. And the others seemed pumped as well... Save for one witch.

"Oi, Glaaaam! I spot someone being a scaredy cat!" A pat on the back was in order. Coming from Harper though, it was almost enough to push her lungs out of her body through her chest. Giving her a confident smile, she'd puff her chest as she rested her hands on her waist.

"Look, I know this must be really scared right now. I mean, those things are scary, for sure! But you know what the thing is?" She would put her arm around Glam, turning her to face the rest of the group. "Those girls? They have seen way, waaaay worse. So if you can't trust in yourself to make it through, trust in us that trust in yourself to make it through! Everyone here will be looking out for you, I promise!"

While Harper still liked to tease the witch, she wouldn't just stay still as a fellow comrade was falling to fear. After all, they would need everyone to be on their A-Game to topple that komodo dragon. No time to shiver their timbers, that's for sure.

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Glamora Dark's eyes followed to where @Harper was pointing.
Then, her gaze continued onward looking past the girls to see the glittering Axecalibur.
It was at that moment, that Glamdark realized she had forgotten something very very important...

You know what Harper? You're right. I'd totally forgotten. If I can't pull this job off and come up with a big pile of treasure out of it, my creditors are going to literally kill me anyway. So, what is there to fear? I am already dead.

If you and these other Terra-Super-Stars can ruin this komodo's life as well as you ruined my own, I have absolutely nothing to fear.

Yes, my calculations were correct in accidentally summoning you. I am certain of it now.

I might win, but even if I don't, I literally cannot lose more than I am already losing at this very moment!

That's right!

I'm basically invincible!

Mwahahaha~!


And so, feeling questionably encouraged, Glamora Dark rallied her troops.
 
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*Glamora shurgs at The Princess*

Well, I never said you were unreasonable... and look! You've already taken the first steps towards world peace! Komolds and us... joining claw and hand... in beautiful erm... economic... harmony.

Maybe the lesson here is that sometimes it's good to take a hard look at ourselves from an outsider's perspective. That's why my magic mirror is a window. And, so I'll know where the stones they throw will be coming from.

Take a bit of witchdom from a road-dusted broom: While it may take a penny for some thoughts, in my experience, feelings tend to be conveyed by brick.


...


I would now like the room to stop spinning, please.
 
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