Adventuring Party 3-To Defeat a Mad Goddess

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Kail had seen the dream and it seemed that his gut feeling that Helena would rise up again to cause trouble but not something like this though. The blond had set out to Nova to perhaps gather a party or something. As that place seemed to be the center of things in this entire world. "Ok Fate you god damn bastard, if you don't want this world to end before whatever you want to do. Give me some help or else your ass is grass" the blond thought as he gazed at the Knife of Destiny. This was close to what he knew as one of those end game bosses or akin to that. He had brought all of what he could of his arsenal of weapons. Right now he was in his Black Skull Drake armor and the Panzer Breaker gauntlets. On his left arm was his winged shield and hidden short sword. On one side was his lightning blade Mirage and the other side of his waist was his whip. On a thigh holster was where he sheathed the Knife of Fate. His last weapon was a compact bow that was on his back with a small quiver on the back of his waist. The blond was ready for a fight that there might not be a return from.

He was currently walking around Nova looking for people to join him. If the siege was one thing but this thing that could end all of them. It seemed that Helena had went mad for vengence apon them the fated which were a extension of Fate himself. This had to end and was now more then willing to end it. At the same time, Kail knew that fighting Helena himself and alone was just as mad as that goddess. So he needed help since, the last time he fought her. The blond had help from the arch mage of well the arch of ages. Although if Kail did not find anyone at all, he was steeled enough to go on his own to stop her.

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Aqua had found her way to the main city of nova once more and was a bit lost as always. After all directions were never really her strong suit, nonetheless she still found herself in the area she was heading for. Her dreams as of late had been strange, she continued to have the same nightmare over and over telling her to head to north. Not trusting being safe anywhere she wore her iron-chain armor under the outfit she had when she fated over to offer protection against magic. She also had with her the spear and the bracelet Arthas had enchanted for her with an Ice gem and a water gem respectively. When she arrived to the northern wall. "Well.. someone i know is bound to be here..how do i find them?" She stopped for a moment wondering how she was going to find them and then a thought hit her. "if i dance i could most likely inspire the other warriors around me and bring up morale while finding some allies" after that she began to dance, and sing casting bewitching dance  and summoned 1 guard to play her lyre without using up much of her magic energy, as aqua dances, people would find themselves unable to take their eyes off her and began to cheer her on.
 

music aqua is singing and dancing to

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Arthas had used the four days to make sure he was where he needed to be early and use some of it to study maps and any lore he could find about Morgg. With all that done he made his way to find the group he was assigned to work with. He knew two of them already the other two he didn't know yet. He was looking for either the hyper blue haired girl Aqua or the man he had met briefly who went by Kail if memory served.

He found Aqua easy enough, making a big spectacle of herself so he figured she would still be there if he left her be for now and sought out Kail. He found him, armed to the teeth and wandering around a little bit. "Kail, over here. It has been a while. I take it you are headed for Morgg as well correct?" Walking up to him with that same calm and somewhat distant look on his face as the day he had met Kail in Bane.

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Iris had woken the first morning, confused and uneasy. The dream was startling to say the least and very confusing for her. She wasn't from this world- she'd had no clue what the Deyu were, who most of the pantheon were, or what most of the dream had meant. Startled, she spent her next four days in the libraries (both in the Arch and in the city), trying to learn as much as she could about the Deyu, the Novian Pantheon, and Morgg. She had hoped that understanding who the Gods where and what they stood for could help in the long run- besides, it was high time she stopped praying to her Gods when it was highly unlikely they could even hear her anymore. She wasn't good with books- no one had ever taught her to read; that was a skill she'd taught herself somewhere in her early twenties. So of course her reading was rusty, but it was good enough that she now understood who Helena was, along with the rest of the Gods- turns out she has a fondness for Teleska.

On the last night, before the morning she would be heading out, she gathered what she would be bringing. Of course her sword and shield, as well as her armor, which had been hand crafted and gifted to her by Adrain; allowing her suitable gear for being his bodyguard. Along with that, she would have a medium sized pouch attached to her hip, within it she had prepared the following;

• 3 lunar flowers
• Small vile of Sleepy Willow thorns
• Fruit
• Water
• Canteen of Ale
• A dagger

When she slept the final night, it felt that she hardly slept at all. Now, Iris wasn't one to be spooked, but the gravity of this mission... was high. When morning came, she dressed in her armor, having a regular top beneath the armor (not really needing bottoms, she packed a loin cloth just in case). She strapped her pouch and sword to her hips, her shield ready against her shoulders. She put her helmet on, not wanting people to know who she was when she arrived; just in case. 

She set off before the sun had risen, already having informed Adrain of her leaving. When she arrived, she saw a man whom she vaguely recognized roaming the halls of the Arch, a blue haired women she'd also seen doing the same recently, and a blonde male she knew all too well. She approached them all, not saying a word, her helmet not allowing them to see her face. By now they would have taken notice of her, as she just walked up to them, stood in the middle, and said nothing at all. It would be quite the awkward scene at first, as she looked between them all. After another moment or two of silence, she lifted up her hands and removed her helmet, shaking out her golden hair, a massive array of curls falling around her shoulders and face, a large grin on her tanned face. Howdy! She laughed to herself, winking to Kail. This is gonna be fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnn! 

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Kail sees that destiny was at least was in his favor as he walked about as saw Aqua performing. He desided to wait and it seemed that he was now gathering his stars of destiny to him. As Arthas had come to this area as well "Yes.....and this is bad.....I had a feeling that she would rise again. But not to this extent.....she has gone too far. If all of the gods had to seal this thing and were not able to destroy it. Why unleash something like that.....I wish, I had more to try and destroy Helena" he sighed and it seemed that another person had joined them as Iris came trotting over. Her sarcasim made the blond laugh a bit and made him sigh. And once Aqua joined them Kail would begin speaking "I guess this will be our group. To you three almost a year ago, Teair Nova was assaulted by Helena and her unrelenting legions of undead all of them Fated. I was apart of this battle fighting the many undead with the help of one woman and Nyx. We were able to fight off them off. Then.....Helena herself came seeing that everyone was turning the tide" he said begining a tale of what happened. This was still very much vivied in his mind as that day was a major turning point in his life.

"And at that time I had felled a zombie giant.....and it seemed that with Helena coming baring down at us.
A lightning bolt had come down and was striking me....if it was not for the basic knowlage of how spellcasting worked I would have been dead. As I channeled the lightning into my own body....Helena had arrived. In my fury and rage I ran like lightning and jumped swinging down with my lightning blade. This attack would have not been sucessful with out the help of the Archmage of the arch. That strike took both of helena's right wings off. After my attack though it seemeingly that I caused her to retreat" said Kail as he then touched the chest piece of his armor. There was a slight discoloration to his armor as if caused by a burn or flame. "As a parting shot, she tried to burn me with her acidic blood...if it were not for the armor I was wearing today. I would have been gravely injured or worse" he said and then had a small chuckle. "Sorry for the long tale, its that most of you don't know the finer details of what happened that day" he said as it seemed that the blond had been through a lot.

"Plus letting you know what we are up against. This bitch wants us dead and it seems everyone else now too. So we have to give her a ass kicking to tell her to knock it off. Since Zepon or the other gods don't want to give her a spanking. Besides I want to see her face when we rip her a new one. So you all with me for this" he said wanting to encourage them. Since this was going to be a pretty big event for everyone including others that were going into the danger zone.

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While dancing and inspiring the nearby crowd, she saw a few familiar faces in the crowd but continued to put on the show. After finishing her dance and song for the crowd, She bowed. Some of the mercenaries had gotten a bit too rowdy from seeing the beautiful fated dancer and tried to lay a hand on her. in response to this the guard moved over towards her with almost lightning speed and knocked them all flat on their asses in one fell swoop. She laughed and said "Now remember that next time you try to lay a hand on me without permission" She laughed.  She saw Killian and Arthas and what seemed to be a new ally with a unique but beautiful all the same appearance and ran over immediately. "Mind if i join your party?" she asked politely while smiling.

She listened intensely to Killian's story about the goddess who launched an attack before. Nyx had mentioned the story before of her and Killian taking down Helena's wings but she didn't give exact details on how that event had occurred. As killian spoke of helena, she jotted down some notes on Helena's abilities of acidic blood and lightning magic. When he finished telling his story, Aqua looked at him and began to speak "Don't worry about long tales, Id like to have as much information as possible so I can gauge what kind of enemy we are up against and form a strategy." as she scribbled more notes into her book. She closed her journal and put it back into her pack "Lets take this bitch down." She grinned in response to Killian's morale boosting

She then looked over at iris "Oh I forgot to introduce myself, im Aqua aingeru" She smiled "I think I've seen you around the arch before. Am I right?" she held her hand out towards Iris for a handshake hoping she would return the warm introduction. "I hope we can be good friends and allies"

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Arthas kept quiet though did nod to Iris when she joined the group though he had thought that Satyrs were myths until he had been dragged to this world. He wondered if they had been driven to extinction by the xenophobic humans of his world which turned them and a lot magical beings into myths or legends. He knew that there was a lot of documentation in his old world of when the gods that ruled over it left, they had made a pretty big show of it. Listening to Kail talk about the siege had him cross checking facts he had gotten from the written accounts finding that they were fairly accurate though he could understand some info being kept out of them.

He let Aqua introduce herself before adding his own name into the mix, "Arthas Pellandar, runic mage specializing in close quarters combat." While he didn't say much about himself he was doing what was needed to make sure things went the way they needed it to. He was more than fine letting Kail who knew what they were up against take the lead on this, what little info he had he would offer but that would depend on if the others didn't know it. He wondered if the undead here were similar to the undead back in his world they tended to be a pain in the ass to deal with since you had to destroy a large amount of the brain to get them to stop coming at you or kill the mage who summoned them.

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The dirt crunches a bit a large blonde man walks to the area where the group had begun to gather. As a change from the people who know him the grinning man was actually kitted out in his armor this time. A black armor made of interlocking coins covers his torso and hangs down past his waste. Leather armor with strange black scales cover his legs and lower arms and across his back is a bow stave and sheathed sword. To top it both his boots and belt, from which another sword dangles are made of a dark almost black leather. Finally a pack containing various implements, but mostly rations and a large crystal made of Mysu is slung over his shoulder and in his other hand is a steaming meat pie.

“Greetings everyone, I apologize for being late, I got lost on my way here.” Then after looking down at the pie in his and he gives a slightly guilty shrug. “Then I got a bit distracted.”

As he looks at the group he was surprised to see a couple of familiar faces. “Well I’ll admit I did not quite expect this group, but familiar company is always welcomed.” He greets with a raise of the hand holding the pie.

“It is a pleasure to meet all of you, or to see those whom I have already met again.” He greets with a grin. “My name is Deidric, and looking at our group I suppose I’m the cannon fodder.”

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Iris let out a laugh as Kail laughed at the mere sight of her, shaking her head. She turned her head as the singer approached her, claiming to have seen her in the Arch halls and wanting to be friends and allies. Iris grinned, Well sure sweetpea, how could I say no to a face like that? Iris threw her arm over the smaller girls shoulder, the grin still on her face as Kail rambled on about his past and why today was so important. Iris understood and respected it all, she was just pumped for the battle. She arched a brow as Kail swore, nodding approvingly. Her little caterpillar was almost a butterfly, learning to swear in public! She was so proud.

Iris looked over at Arthas when he introduced himself, nodding her head at him in acknowledgment. From behind Arthas she saw a familiar face walking towards them. An even brigger grin than before spread across her face and Iris removed her arm from over Aqua to go and approach him. After Deidric made his introduction Iris moved to stand beside him. How've you been gorgeous? She asked with a smirk.

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Kail gave a nod as it seemed that everyone was ready to get the show on the road. Then Diedric came walking up and it raised a slight eyebrow. But then it went from a eyebrow quirk to a frown as he himself was reckless but not to the point of calling himself cannon fodder. It was that or the man had a large ego on him, which would not do well for intricate plans. But for simple smash and bash to clear out the enemy was far better for a guy like this. The one thing that Kail was worried about Diedric if he had, a thing for showing off. But it seemed that out of the bunch there were a few cool heads at least with Arthas and Aqua. And Iris would at least listen to what he would say. "I have several supplies at my farm house, so if you don't have any. You can take what I have, since this is one of those dire situations. I'm Killian Lancaster, Sir Diedric" he said and then started to head to the main gate to start moving out. "I will get transportation for us since speed will be of the essance. If you all don't mind, I will lead for this. I have a bit more experiance with dealing with Helena" the gravity of the situation with Helena had a small effect on his personality. As he was a bit more serious then normal.

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The party would not have that many issues on to getting to Morg. Although as they would get closer and closer the dread and the gravity of the situation would be a heavy one. As the fate of this was on them and many others to stop Helena, as this goddess had went out of control and it seemed that the gods were seemingly powerless to stop Helena. But in truth for Kail, the gods cared little for any of them. Novian or Fated. They only cared a little just to give them a small heads up. The other thought was in the blond's mind was that perhaps they wanted them and them in the tense of mortals. To try and grow even stronger so that they could solve a problem like this? Life was not fair but still they had not nipped the bud with Helena. Kail wanted to finish Helena off and this time to kill her. If they could kill a goddess, he had one ace up his sleeve just in case. Although hoped that he would not need to use that.

The area around Morg was hotter then anything else in this world and Kail led the group to a spot where they could gauge where to go. Kail hoped that they could find a side entrance and be a bit sneaky and get some of Helena's followers caught by surprise.

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Aqua was happy when iris had welcomed her as a friend so easily, it was really nice since she couldn't remember a time someone regarded her so friendly. 

That's when another familiar man came by the group aquas eyes opened up "Dei, its nice to see you again" She then blushed because she was reminded of the awkward situation at the tavern. "How are you? I havent seen you in a while" She tried to ignore the fact she was still embarrassed from that.

When Kail had began to speak once more aqua agreed with him " that would be lovely, and i have no issues allowing you to lead, seems like so far your the one who has the most experience in dealing with her.
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Once they arrived to morgg aqua was amazed, she had never seen anything like this before. However she was a bit worried that due to the lack of water in the area she might struggle but her bangle managed to keep her calm. "I'll have to thank Arthas again" She thought to herself 
As they had met in the spot where kail was scouting the area, she used her bangle and magic to create her wings and allowed her to get an aerial view of the castle to size up what the group is going to be dealing with. She took special care to make sure that Helena's followers wouldn't see her in the air.

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He remained quiet while they traveled and dealt with things only when he needed to. Taking a moment to survey the area a bit switching between his thermal vision and aura vision runes from time to time just to look for anything that might be attempting to track them or ambush them. If he wasn't here to help stop the end of the world he might be more interested in the structure and its history but there was a very clear goal for this group....stop the rampaging Goddess from killing everyone by freeing some sort of excessively hostile elder dragon.

He had no issues with Kail taking the lead of the group he had joined. He was going over combat formations as they traveled but was keeping most of it to himself as he wanted to see what each person would want to do in regards to combat. Each person would have their own forte and while he was close quarters combat and knew Aqua could handle mid and close quarters combat he still wasn't certain what each of the others specialized in.

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Deidric gave Iris as high five as she came over and a wide grin split his face as Aqua greeted him. "It's good to see you again, yeah sorry I have not been around as much, I've been busy exploring and meeting new people. This place is pretty interesting," he admits.

When Killian introduces himself Deidric holds his hand out and says. "It's a pleasure to meet you, I am kinda new to the area, but my people have no love for Helena so I look forward to working with you." Deidric looked Kail up and down and soon found himself nodding that's a lot of artifice. "It looks like you are the one in charge so I'll put myself in your hands."

Blinking a couple of times he looked over and Arthas, he didn't recognize the man but there was a lot of magic happening over there, not that Deidric had any clue what any of it was.

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Deidric followed Kail up to the spot where they were scouting for entrances. Some black scales had become visible around Deidric's eyes as he began to use some of his inner nature to stave off the exhaustion that the heat would cause. As Kail seemed to be looking for a point of entrance Deidric tried to gauge what was in front of them. "I could probably carve an opening in one of the walls if you think that would work Sir." Deidric offered showing the proper respect for Kail's role as leader. The man's jovial manner had not fled him entirely, but more of the good nature had melted away to reveal a calm military discipline beneath, one didn't survive on unfamiliar battlefields with bravado alone.

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Iris slapped Dei's hand with some force, a grin glued on her face. When Aqua greeted him too, and he her with a smile, Iris looked to Aqua with a bit of surprise. You know him too? Iris asked, walking back over to where her blue hair companion stood. Iris arched an eyebrow as she seemed to flush with a bit of colour. Glancing back over to Dei, she wondered what had gone on between the two to make her new friend so squeamish.

Iris shrugged off Kail's offer for supplies; she had plenty of her own and could easily make do in a sticky situation. She also snorted quietly when Kail referred to Dei as "Sir". She just found it funny. Even when Kail offered to take point, she simply shrugged. Iris knew the bare minimum about this Goddess, so if Kail felt he was their best chance, then Iris would back him up on it; plus it would no doubt supply her with some ammo to tease him about later.

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As they traveled Iris stuck close to Aqua's side; something about her made Iris want to make sure she was safe. Plus she had a feeling the rest of her party was a tad more qualified to protect themselves; though she wouldn't be entirely surprised if Aqua had a few tricks up her sleeve. She had, after all, decided to take this mission in the first place. As they went on it got hotter and hotter and Iris was sweating under her armor, but she knew better than to take it off. When they stopped and Dei offered to make their own opening, Iris approached them. Perhaps drawing more attention to ourselves isn't the smartest option... Though an entrance they aren't expecting would be a good idea. She was torn.

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Kail had tried to keep the group as much out of sight as possible as they were getting closer. As he did not want to get too much attention to the group. Before they had left Teair Nova, the blond picked up one more weapon. This was his first major weapon he had ever made and figured that it would be a good luck charm. As soon as they got close to the fortress, Aqua went ahead to scout from the air. This had surprised Kail a bit as he did not know she could fly. With that in mind, the blond found a small spot to hide for the group to wait at while Aqua would return. His vision turned to Diedric and his offer to blast a hole in one of the fortress's walls. While tempting to use it would bring a bit too much attention to them. As Iris voiced her opinion on the matter "I agree with Iris, but at the same time its a option on the table. Lets wait for Aqua as she might have seen something that we could use to our advantage. I don't want to burn a lot of energy right off the bat unless we have to" he said as the situation was dire. But at the same time they could not be reckless as that could really screw them over. The blond was resting against a rock and was pondering on what Aqua would be able to find. He was trying to be careful with the lives of this group and wanted them all to come back alive at least.