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Post by zandyne on Nov 28, 2009 19:24:22 GMT -5
He had already begun setting up a second tower because for whatever reason, whatever impending death was to be had hadn't arrived yet.
At Jorken's critique, Ivan scoffed, his reply was mildly chiding and irrationally enough, sounded friendly, "Oh ye of little faith, just let me set up my silly playthings and then after the battle is done, you can start handing out evaluations and whatnot."
Inwardly he was thinking on having an 'accident' where the towers would happen to fall on one of the prehistoric men, it'd make for a good laugh but then he'd have to clean up the rocks and caveman bits off of them. Oh decisions.
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Post by Ninmast on Nov 28, 2009 20:13:49 GMT -5
Jorken scowled up at the man. "Mahal, get these eyesores down before they get us all killed."
"My pleasure," agreed the giant of the man, moving over and wrapping his large arms around the base of the first one. With a roar, he pulled up and yanked the entire tower out of the ground. He then carefully moved it over and laid it down so it wouldn't shatter and get in everyone's way, then moved over to the one Ivan was working on to do the same to it.
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Post by zandyne on Nov 28, 2009 21:00:41 GMT -5
"Freaking meathead," he muttered to himself.
With the shadow of the remaining tower he ended up generating a doppelganger of Mahal. The creature stretched its maws quietly at him as it motioned to leave the budding tower alone. The hands that Ivan was using turned to the downed tower as they manifested dark blades and sectioned off bits of it so that if they were vertical again, they would have been Mahal-sized.
Anger glowed at the edges of his response, "You want help right? I think you're being daft for thinking 'oh noes the demons will be able to see us even though they already know where the hell we are' but hey I can be a team player. I'll make them lug-head sized since it worries your little hearts. Sound good?"
It was really beginning to annoy the hell out of him that they considered armed people on dinosaurs were deemed less conspicuous than rearranging rocks. He ended up chalking up the annoyance to the rock-squatters being sore just because they could be.
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Post by Ninmast on Nov 28, 2009 21:40:57 GMT -5
"They will be able to use your towers as guides for their siege engines outside the range of our own," he answered as he walked right through the doppelganger and grabbed the other tower. "Do not assume," he told the shadowmancer as he ripped the second tower up, "that you know everything there is to know simply because you have been present a few moments." And regardless of whether or not Ivan removed himself from the tower beforehand, it was soon laying beside its brother, Mahal looking none the worse for wear.
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Post by zandyne on Nov 28, 2009 21:53:51 GMT -5
He stretched as his rocks were thrown to the side, as long as they were still there they could still be used. "Well commander of war, if you want your 'allies' to know something, say it next time. You didn't share intel so don't be an ass over me not knowing it. It doesn't take a lot of time to explain things to us outsiders. And petty honor system you have or not, you aren't in any position to be snooty to whatever additional forces you can gather. So forgive that lapse in communication. Now are there any other 'warnings' I should know about what I can or can't do or do or what. If not I'll be preparing my own things."
His head whispered some dark hatred about this Mahal person, he could have easily stopped him when he was still building the first, instead he just wasted time and energy. Another spite that prickled on the outside of his thoughts is that the village was being packed away, this wasn't the first attack either and whatever outer forces there were were probably going to find them anyway. Masses of blood weren't hard to find and beyond that nuking that area wouldn't be a big loss to the enemy if they were as terrible as the natives were implying.
At the lack of cooperation thus far, and at the rate whatever 'friendly relations' was decaying at, he'd probably end up defecting to Kali's side just for the sole reason of getting to have a good reason to wail on Mahal, regardless of the rightness or success of it.
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Post by Ninmast on Nov 28, 2009 23:29:40 GMT -5
"I have something you should know," Mahal told him as he came to stand behind him, large arms crossed across his massive chest. "If you continue to act in this disruptive, destructive manner, you will be detained until the battle is over. Do you understand?"
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Post by zandyne on Nov 29, 2009 0:28:15 GMT -5
He retracted all of his magic back immediately. At this point he was mentally saying fuck preparations, let this miserable base suffer for their lack of cooperation. He took the time to take a deep breach and school expression into the blank stare he'd learned for hanging around high and mighty nimrods from back home.
Despite that, it still took some effort to keep the bitterness of sarcasm out of his voice, the damned caveman was being deaf to his general inquires and blind to overall priorities, "Sure thing. Anything else I can do, head hanchos? I only want to help."
His mind was screaming all manner of rage at the turnout of this. How about a battle plan or simply telling me what will hinder this defense operation? I know I'm an asshole but you can't fault me for trying to help and your fighting every step of the way passively by withholding information isn't winning you anything. He lingered a bit on more on the idea of heading over to the other side and it was looking like a better and brighter prospect, yet at the same time the original challenge was to beat Kali, not join him. He mentally cringed at how it wasn't good form to ditch such a delicious task.
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Post by Ninmast on Nov 29, 2009 2:46:41 GMT -5
"Perhaps you should first give them opportunity." It was a woman who answered verbally the thoughts that had gone silently through Ivan's mind, and it was a woman who looked decidedly out of place. She seemed almost Grecian in her sculpted body, an impression increased by the white toga-style robe she wore as she walked toward them with staff in hand. "They fully intend to describe their plans so that you may help, but have not yet had the opportunity."
"Ah, our seeress," Jorken introduced the blonde woman with the styled hair that looked decidedly from a different era. "Melina."
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Post by zandyne on Nov 29, 2009 3:15:51 GMT -5
At first he was dumbfounded by the random reply. He glanced to Agari and Deva who were hanging behind him and quickly mouthed, Dammit I thought I told you to keep my thoughts private. He just as quickly focused his attention on the newcomer. Unlike the way he'd brashly addressed Jorken and Mahal, Ivan was suddenly very cordial and being freakishly polite.
Even if he thought differently and sourly at first about the rotten exchange earlier, the former anger he was nursing immediately subsided. He bowed as low as he could physically permit without taking his eyes off her, "I'd be honored and grateful if you would permit me be part of this operation and allow me to contribute my services to your cause."
Though the change was certainly a one-eighty from what the others had witnessed, it was perfectly in-line behavior considering that the magician was of the philosophy Do unto others as they do unto you.
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Post by TrueBlue© on Nov 29, 2009 20:23:55 GMT -5
"O-o-okay," Interlacing and then untangling her iron fingers, Epic True politely turned her Ivan-studying skyward, as if the man had torn his pants or something. "Now tha-at we're all friends, um, we should probably move this al-along."
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Post by Toriji on Nov 29, 2009 20:40:21 GMT -5
Toriji rested his head in disgust over the comment about the war. There was always one in the crowd. He tossed out an idle 'You must've known what I meant.' He glanced about, analyzing the terrain and several other factors as he formulated his own personal battle plan. He glanced back and gave a bow to the Melina out of politeness before he went back to his calculations. He tossed out another idle question to anyone who was listening. "Who all here is capable of wiping a mass of targets out at once? I'd like to know for plannings sake."
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Post by Kagetsuki on Dec 2, 2009 23:47:15 GMT -5
Kagetsuki's eyes now turned to Melina, focused before as they'd been on the horizon. She offered Toriji a simple, "I." in response to his question, but her attention was clearly on the new woman who looked so out of place among the other barbarians. The amount of disgust radiating from her did not change, of course; civilized as she looked compared to the other men, she was still a human and so no more deserving of respect than they. But a seeress...that was worth at least some attention. Judging by the way she looked, there was also a high possibility of her not being from this time period...much as they weren't.
The demon queen said nothing, though, finding it unnecessary to speak to a human unless it was absolutely necessary, as when Mahal had grabbed her before. They would all say what they would in due time, anyway.
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Post by Ninmast on Dec 3, 2009 23:41:17 GMT -5
"I," Mahal answered the bone prince, as well, as might have been expected from his performances thus far. "Indeed, our plans require me to be at the very spear point of the engagement. As our plan stood before your arrival, I would break their lines and our warriors would engage in my wake while they are still recovering. In addition, our catapults will rain fire-rocks on their forces further back, and our sky-borne warriors will make ... ah ..." He fumbled for a word that was foreign to him, from another time as it would turn out as Melina provided it for him.
"Bombing runs," she finished as she moved toward Kagetsuki after curtsying in response to Ivan's attentions and thanking him for the gentlemanly greeting and offer of service. She then bowed low before her, as a foreign dignitary would do greeting a ruler. "Welcome, Your Highness. And yes, you are correct in your conclusion. Allow me to provide an exact time for you. You have arrived precisely thirty five thousand two hundred eighty one years, four months and three days in the past relative to your time of origin."
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Post by zandyne on Dec 4, 2009 3:09:52 GMT -5
For the most part he ignored the open claims of how the others could clear the field. He didn't see much point of it, where was the fun to be had in blasting?
At the brief battle plan overview, Ivan nodded in silence, after what he assumed was the two of them finishing, he half-raised his hand, "Some questions, if you'd permit. After felling something, does it leave behind anything? Does it have a gimmick or something we should be wary of? As for what I can contribute, just tell me specific goals and essential limitations in whatever must be acheived and I'll try to fulfill them to the best of my ability."
According to the law of fun of course, his mind added as a disclaimer that wouldn't really help anyone, especially to people named Mahal. He was careful not to let his mind focus too much on such specific vendettas, as interesting as he thought Melina's possible mind-reading was, he didn't like her poking her powers where they didn't belong.
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Post by Ninmast on Dec 4, 2009 3:18:26 GMT -5
"To date, the enemy has entered combat much like us," Mahal informed him. "They have few gimmicks that we know of. They come upon us with swords, axes and clubs, but they are stronger than what is natural, and take more to kill. Also, their weapons are of materials we do not understand, and hold a greater edge. We salvage what weapons we can after battles so that we might use them to supplement our own armories."
He turned to face Ivan directly to answer the remainder of his question. "They also possess similar ranged weaponry to our own, so you must avoid taking actions that would give them clear indications as to our forces' exact locations. It would make us an undue target when we cannot aim at their catapults in return. Beyond that, we cannot afford attrition, so you should not take actions that may harm our own warriors."
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