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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4635 on: August 21, 2015, 04:18:11 PM »
You always worry about that but honestly you never actually do. :XD:
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4636 on: August 21, 2015, 05:36:16 PM »
Eh, I'm consistent then. ;)

New chapter.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN:
Let Us Out!

"How do we get out of here?" Abby asked.

"If we knew that," Sak said, testily, "do you think that we would still be here?"

"No need to bite my head off," Abby replied defensively. "Where's Saffa and GH?"

"Still in the gladiatorial ring or the cells ringing it," Underseen said. "They haven't lost yet. We did."

"So this is a gladitorial ship," Cloak said, and already he had a sneaking suspicion who was kidnapping these beings. But he didn't really have enough evidence to make a solid conclusion. "I wonder . . ."

"Wonder what?" Helen demanded sharply.

"Gamemaster," Cloak said.

"But he's in the Oblivion Gate," Shadow said.

"It's the same deal as with Collector," Cloak said. "Clearly there was an escape that the Council doesn't want anybody to know about. Could have been at the same time as Collector for all I know."

"Oh."

"How does that help us leave this dank death pit?" Abby said.

"How about there?" Gaz said, pointing to a shoot whose ends seemed to have swollen shut, as if it was some sort of sphincter. "Cloak and Shadow can pop that thing open --"

"If they could do that, that alien with the floating metal head would have managed it when he tried." Underseen pointed out.

Cloak nodded, unsurprised. He looked at the sphincter thing. "It is likely supertangible as well, to prevent phasing out. So you might as well back out of Psycholeopterran morph, Abby."

<Aw, nuts.> she muttered as she complied.

"It has probably been treated with a variety of ways to account for a variety of abilities of a variety of species that he uses as fighters," Cloak said, thinking aloud. "But there may be one way -- something that Gamemaster, if it is indeed him, did not account for."

"And what is that?" Gaz asked.

"Other Realm Walkers," Cloak said, with a deliberative finality, "Shadow, shield them."

She complied, but asked, "What are you going to to do?"

"Something potentially dangerous and catastrophic," he answered simply, floating up to sphincter alone, fingers at the hem of his cloak's hood. Prepared to lower it very minutely. . . .

***

"You cannot be serious," Saffa and GH said simultaneously.

Their next opponents?

Each other.


Book 189: "Shenecron's Pets"
Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
(January 7, 2020)

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4637 on: August 21, 2015, 05:59:27 PM »
I was lying down and reading and then I sat up.

You cannot be serious.

Also, some Saffa concept art I drew up at 2 am because I couldn't sleep. One for each power. And combat boots. :D There's a lot more detailed look if you click on the image.
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4638 on: August 21, 2015, 06:14:40 PM »
Excellent, Saffa!


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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4639 on: August 21, 2015, 06:44:11 PM »
Amazing Saffa!!

And crap I kinda should've seen that coming.
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4640 on: August 21, 2015, 07:03:07 PM »
Thanks, guys :D

Yeah, I'm still mad at the plot twist. :P

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4641 on: August 21, 2015, 07:17:01 PM »
Oh, there's another twist, but you're gonna have to wait until tomorrow, my time, for it. For now I have to go to bed, because I have to go to work in the morning.


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Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4642 on: August 21, 2015, 07:28:31 PM »
Stoooppppp Cloaky you're tormenting me
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4643 on: August 21, 2015, 07:47:16 PM »
Holy crap Saffa, that is awesome!
And Cloak, I think we had this discussion before. I can't keep checking RAF when I'm at work, so stop making these so damn good. :P

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4644 on: August 21, 2015, 07:52:20 PM »
Alrighty, Abby, the chapter after this one will be written after work, then.

Sorry, GH, can't be helped. I've actually been looking forward to writing this particular book for a while.

New chapter.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN:
Surprise!!

Saffa and GH stared each other down. Each one worried about hurting the other, and sure that they could get an easy victory from the other. Although neither said it outright.

"Match . . . begin!"

"What? You mean you're being legit?" GH said, certain that this was jusf some sort of joke.

"You mean he's serious?" Saffa asked, incredulous.

They stood motionless for more than a minute. They made no effort to battle with each other, the direct center of the battle arena between the two, equidistant from the two. The two were still suffering from the shock from being presented with the opponent that they least expected.

"Battle," Gamemaster ordered, deathly stern, "now."

But, just then, a furious plume of smoke or sand -- it was difficult to tell -- funneled upward in a spiralling plume about the diameter of a monster truck wheel. A myriad of voices cried out, strangely amplified, somehow.

"We are the terror that flaps in the night!"

"What the deuce?" Gamemaster demanded. "I did not will this. Nothing happens on this ship without my say so!"

"We are that neighbor who wakes you at three a.m. with loud music." the chorus of voices sounded off again, ignoring Gamemaster.

"You dare defy me?!" Gamemaster shouted, having decided to come down in person. Not too surprising as the the arena and cells made up a majority of the ship, with the entechment machine and the engines taking up the second most room. "Who dares?! Who has the energy?!*"

As the owners of the voices made themselves known as Cloak, Shadow, Sam, Underseen, Parker, Phoenix, Helen, Abby, and Gaz, they shouted. "We are the RAFians amuck!"

Gamemaster was none too pleased about the interruption that he had no foreknowledge of. He did not like being in control of every little, minute action on this ship. "You insolent, ungrateful insects! You dare to interrupt the efficient little schedule I have for these matches? You have no rights here!!"

"And who are you to decide that?!" Cloak roared, a tirade ready to spew forth from him. "You are the one with no right to do what you've been doing, Gamemaster, you chimp chump!! You are the one who has no right to steal beings from their homes, to rip them from their homes and families, to take them away from all they know and love, just so they can battle to the death in your little pit arena!! This is why you were tossed into the Oblivion Gate to begin with!!"

"Don't dare you talk back to me, you stupid . . . st-t-tupid . . . st-t-tupe . . ." Gamemaster said, before he recognized Cloak. Recognized him and allowed fear to over take him. "Um . . ."

Gamemaster looked throughly terrified. His eyes began to dart around fervently. Until he suddenly said "Bye!" and fled like the coward he was.

"Not so fast, you chimpanzee charlatan!" Cloak roared, easily assending to his balcony and giving chase.



*Essentially Realm Walker for "Who has the balls?".
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4645 on: August 21, 2015, 08:01:13 PM »
It's hilarious how scared of Cloajy he is. And go to sleep so you can work!!
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4646 on: August 22, 2015, 03:46:31 AM »
Well, he is a chimp. And Cloak is a tiger. So there's that.

New chapter.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN:
Big Gamemaster Hunting

"What do we do now?" Saffa said.

"We let Cloak take care of Gamemaster," Parker said, taking command, "the rest of us take control of the ship. From there, we return as many of these kidnapped beings to their rightful homes as we can."

There a deafening cheer at this, as the people in the cells could hear the conversation below. All of them would prefer to go home instead stay here in constant battle and substandard food.

"But," Saffa said, concerned with the logistics of such an endeavor, "there are over eight hundred people, and that's a conservative estimate, it would take forever."

"He did in the span of a year or so," Parker said, "if he was freed at the same time as a Collector, that is."

"Uh, since no one will be, uh, 'repurposed'," the word left a bitter taste in Underseen's mouth, "the ship will eventually run out of fuel."

"I called ahead." Parker said. "Our version of Mogo is on her way."

"Huh?" GH said.

***

Cloak landed upon the balcony with a feline grace and silence. He swept further into in the balcony and through the threshold of the door at the back. Cloak's footfalls were soft and soundless, he didn't see Gamemaster, but could hear his slapping footfalls, smell his pungent scent, and "see" him with Earthsight.

One would think that he would make an effort to not make his location so obvious. Granted, he may not know of Cloak's Earthsighf ability, hut he surely knew of his acute hearing that came from him being a tiger-form Realm Walker.

He came to a corridor beyond the door. He took the left side of the corridor. He prowled and streaked, finding the dim lighting here to his advantage. It did seem odd to have dim lighting here, his night vision is on par of that of humans, and Cloak's feline eyes easily penetrated the gloom.

He kept close to the trail. He would overtake Gamemaster at this rate, with ridiculous ease.


Book 189: "Shenecron's Pets"
Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
(January 7, 2020)

RAFians Referenced Specifically: Demos.

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4647 on: August 22, 2015, 07:44:16 AM »
Three chapters left, yep, still enough time for that plot twist of yours. :P

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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4648 on: August 22, 2015, 08:33:04 AM »
Oh always. Cloaky is way good at that.
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Re: Memoirs of a RAFian
« Reply #4649 on: August 22, 2015, 01:27:10 PM »
Three chapters left, yep, still enough time for that plot twist of yours. :P

The fact that you didn't have to fight GH was the twist. Sorry about the bluntness, I just had a really difficult day at work.


Book 189: "Shenecron's Pets"
Chapter 4: "First Attempt"
(January 7, 2020)

RAFians Referenced Specifically: Demos.