Oh Crapbaskets-Quest Thread

[Sai]

Sai was going to ask Diamond what he meant by weapons like these here, only be interucted by the voice of the golem. Hearing the name Catastor Zelendo mentioned she snapped her head to golem now this was getting intresting for sure. The most she knew about him was the little her father/boss told her about was that right now any item that he informous Zelendo had created while on his path for conquest fetched a good price on the black market if you knew the right buyer.



The mention of an intruder made her snap her attention back to the entrance of the temple, her mind only thinking one thing at the moment action and possible new blood for her to drain. She watched Adrain for a second as he used some type of magic it felt simlar to what he used on her earlier. Before following she waited to see what weapon Diamond would pick up if any and would grab the other with promise to hit Adrain over the head with it once the mission was done. She didn't care that he was magic cause magic wasn't helpful in combat even she knew that a rusty dull blade was better than nothing at all.



Deciding to stay closer to the back of the ground incase something came at them from behind, she took one last look at everything outside. She wanted to make sure that they wasn't being followed by anyone as she berated herself for having missed the person who had gotten pass them and enter the temple without them noticing. Once inside she turned back to follow close to everyone being careful of where stepped not wanting to set off any traps.

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Diamond nodding his head to Iris and looks at the remaining two weapons and was going to take the polearm. But seeing Adrian though figured that he would need the weapon more then him. Since the weapon could keep enemies at bay from attacking him if he was charging up a spell or something.  He had to laugh though that the wolf would be using the white tiger as a weapon. So he picks up the sword and then gets the polearm. Then hearing the golem say that a evil mage had placed his ultimate weapon here of all places, which made Adrian get far more serious and filled with dread in some underlieing tones. He then picks up the polearm and walks over to Adrian feeling a bit faster and raised his eyebrow. It seemed that he had used a spell to enhance and boost most of the party.  "Here take this, you might need this more then me" he said and held the weapon to Adrian. "Also whats the deal with this guy that was mentioned" he said as he was not sure on who or what this Dark Magus was at all. He did agree that they would have to move quickly to deal with whatever or whoever got inside while the fighting was going on.

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"I CAN NOT COMPLY WITH THAT REQUEST, I CAN NOT FIT INSIDE. I WOULD BE A BURDEN THEN A HELP MASTER. I AM SORRY. THE WEAPON I CAN NOT IDENTIFY AS I WAS NOT GIVEN INFROMATION ON IT. MAIN DUTY WAS TO GUARD THE ENTRANCE" Drei said as it looked at the entrance of the temple. It was set up for at least normal people or at least something that was not a steel giant like himself. Once the party would enter the temple it would seem that several tourches had been relit. But as they would continue several traps had been roughly been disarmed by either a fireball or a bolt of lightning. Seals had been deactivated, as they continued on they would see several skeletons, some other dead bodies that had been there for a long time.  There were some that had been more recent then others.  None the less they would be able to quickly catch up to the person that would be ahead of them. As they got closer to the assailent they would hear a groan of displeasure coming from this man as the voice was male. "I don't have time for these morrons.......well I have plenty of fodder.....RISE MY HOLLOW SOLDIERS, RISE AND REND MY FOES ASSUNDER" he called out. As the skeletons and other dead started to rise and attack the group. The moans of the dead could be heard as there undead eyes glowed red as well as give a minor red aura off of them.

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"Fine, stay out here and stop anyone who isn't with me now from coming in to the temple." Adrain states to Drei. He was disappointed that the golem didn't have anything useful about this item. As Diamond bothered him and insisted he take the spear, he blinks, looking at it, but then nods. "Thank you...and for your question, Zelenos is an infamous, almost mythical figure whom wanted to conquer the world with magic and oppress it, whom was powerful to the point I'm not entirely certain that I could even handle him." he states, looking down for a moment before he then focused once more at the task at hand.

"If there is any truth to this, this is something that needs to be dealt with immediately." he states going down the hall. He noted that the intruder had to be a mage of some sort who had elemental proficiency. When the group caught up to the intruder and he began to animate the undead, he growled a little. This wasn't a good place to use large scale magic attacks. It could set off traps to the harm of his allies or cause a bigger issue if some unstable artifact gets triggered and explodes.

Alternatively, he holds his hand up as a sphere of fire energy manifests behind the party. "I can't use a wide attack here, too many variables to risk setting off a chain reaction...put your weapons in this sphere and it'll temporarily imbue them with flame energy. The undead are a distraction, the necromancer is the real target."

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Diamond asked her question before she got the chance, but she too was curious who this person was, and why both Adrain and Sai seemed a bit shaken up about him. Thankfully Adrain knew enough to explain about him, and it didn’t seem good. Iris held in a groan, but looked up at the sky. This “in and out” job had just become even more of a burden. All she’d wanted to do was make a little extra cash. The creature – she refused to believe it had a name – went on about how it couldn’t fit in the temple, but the only thing Iris could think of, was if it couldn’t fit, then why was it trying to guard it? Someone could slip by unnoticed, and easily take down the thing. All well, it wasn’t her problem to worry about, but at least the thing seemed to be on their side for the time being. As they left it behind, Adrain giving it his orders, Iris was careful to watch her step, her hooves making clear sounds on the stone ground.

Despite her annoyance of the situation, Iris would never just abandon the group, so she followed them down the hall, behind Diamond, but in front of Sai, and not long after like everyone else, she heard the groan and voice of their little intruder. ”What’s going on? What did he do???” She glanced between her group members, hoping one of them would answer. She had assumed more magic was involved, but she didn’t understand what. Soon enough she could see figures wobbling towards them, but she still didn’t know what was going on. ”What the hell are those?” She asked, doing as Adrain asked, and placing her crappy sword and newly found shield into the sphere he’d created. She then registered the tail end of his sentence, her eyes going wide. ”Excuse me? Undead??” Her yellow eyes were huge as she looked to Adrain for answers, but knew he may not have time to answer them.

[Sai]

Sai was glad that Diamond took the spear and made Adrain take a weapon at least she wasn't going to hit Adrain with it once the mission was over. Now the golem was useless if anything and she were given the choice she would have said they dismal it right then and there before heading into the temple but she wasn't the owner, of it and it did seem like it was better to let it live until they emerge. Also, she was thankful for Adrain having to explain who Zelenos was better it came from him than her for sure.


As they walked down the hall she noticed the torches had been relit which wasn't a good sign for them at all. Followed by some of the traps that she was been disarms, stoping for a moment to get a closer look at the trap she noticed that some of the rope was burnt, it would explain how all the torches so far were lit. Speeding up her footsteps to catch up with everyone as they came upon they intruder.


Her eyebrow rose as she heard the male voice and what he said about them. So he didn't have time to deal with them and now was going to use an army of undead to fight his battles. Oh, she was loving this guy more and more. Seeing that she didn't have much of a choice she reached for her back to grab her knife pulling it out it was the size of her arm from elbow to waist. "Iris, how well can you fight unholy undead souls?" Placing her knife in the orb letting it become imbued with flames as her mind started racing ahead on how she would kill the necromancer.


She knew that there was no hiding and trying to sneak around unless she used the body of the undead and as much as it excited her she knew that it wouldn't work. The other option was a frontal attack rekilling the undead, pushing her way through and putting the knife into the heart of the necomancer, but killing him right away when he might have answers was going to be hard. Now she cursed herself for not having lace a blade with posion it would have been so much easier. "Real question who want blood on their hands." A smirk appearing on her lips finally happy for some right action on this job and protetal blood on her hands, lips and knife.

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Diamond nods his head and heads in with the rest of the group. When he heard about the dark magus, he then thought about the four items that they got. "If he was this powerful though he might have made some enemies then. Might explain these things that were hidden away. These things are based on guardian creatures out in the territories I worked in for a long time. Anyway.....maybe we will find more clues on this" as they all got closer in. Diamond like a few others saw the traps disarmed, and the torches relit along the walls. As they got closer to there target although it seemed that things were not going to be easy for them. As the mage had made the dead rise again and hears Adrian on embuing his weapon with fire and placed both of his katana's into the sphere. The blades now enhanced with flame looks at the undead mob that was coming at them. He hears Iris with several tones of panic in her voice. "Yeah....rare occuarence from where you came from" he said as one of the shambling corpses came at them. Diamond just cannon balled into the enemy group with his blades slicing them down some of them going up in flames.

"We got this, don't give into fear. These things can go down easy, we just gotta keep pushing forward" said Diamond again as he was going into the fight with ease. Combat was what he had been craving again and this was saiting his desires. But he was trying to clear a path or at least weaken most of the undead so that the others could get at them. Or disable them so that they could move forward to the mage that had called these things back from the grave.

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Most of the undead that came after the group were shambling corpses and not that agile or deft in there movements. Nor were they attacking them like a mindless beast. They would be only there to impead there progress and slow them down. And preventing them from catching up to the dark mage that was getting ahead of them.  As one of the hollow beings came at the party, it was swiftly cut down by Diamond.  Its flesh being burned and destoryed by the flames that were enchanted on to the weapons.  They would need to quickly move to catch up on the dark mage.  It seemed at least this mage knew of the Dark Magus Catastor. The group can push or knock them into the disabled traps as some of them had spikes on them.

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Adrain looks at Iris at her apparent confusion when the idea of the undead was brought up. Odd, he thought the term was common enough such that anyone who heard the phrase would know what it means. "Magically animated corpses, they don't have thoughts of feelings, at least not usually. They are a distraction. Destroy at will." he states, then only having seen Diamond charge in.

The mage notes a number of traps that had spikes nearby, and seeing the other mage move ahead, he decided that he would try to use the undead to their advantage. He holds his hands up as green mana becomes visible, running forward and central as much as he can while trying to stay out of the path of where Diamond was swinging his enflamed weapon. When it looked as though he had enough space, he thrusts his right hand forward, causing a powerful gale to blow at least some of the undead forward at high speeds and into the area ahead they hadn't yet gone to in order to use them as a decoy to trigger anything.

He kept vigilant to whether something would come this way and prepare to react accordingly to help the group.

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Iris snapped her head to face Sai, a look of surprise clear on her face. ”Not well at all I’d wager.” She cleared her throat, swallowing a lump that was in it. Next to turned to Diamond, wondered how he even knew where she came from; ”Obviously, yeah.” She ran a hand through her hair for a moment, her sword ready, but unless one got close enough, she would not be able to strike. The sheild was in her other hand, but she didn’t know how useful it would be in its condition.

”I knew what they were… I just didn’t think someone could be powerful enough to bring them about… I was wrong.” She spoke to Adrain, mumbling that last part to herself. She didn’t know how to use the magic or whatever he had done to her sword and the rest of their weapons, but watched as Diamond charged ahead, bringing one of them down. She followed a bit father behind, slashing on down that came to her right, using the shield to keep it from getting to close before slicing off one arm at a time, then cutting through its chest and bashing its head with her shield. Methods in Rome were far less graceful.

[Sai]

Sai smiled at Iris seeing the surprise on her face. "It's okay just bash them in the head or cut bones." She said as she followed Diamond forward wanting to catch up to a mage as soon as possible. Roundhouse kicking the heads of more bony corpses the others she would kick into the some of the disables traps wanting to save her knife for the one thing that was with that could bleed.



She cursed when she had to use her knife embedding it into and twisting into the chest of the few that got too close for her to kick away easily. Barely noticing that that Adrain was using s undead as decoys for any more traps that might not have been disabled yet. Not wanting to risk the loss of another weapon by throwing it to try and slow down their friendly soon to be dead dark mage.



Sai licked her lips seeing that there was making some moving quickly but not quick enough for her taste. Using her knife she pushed forward avoiding Diamond's swings as she ducked under him going in front to get to the mage and hopefully get enough knock a member of his undead army into the mage to slow him down.

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Diamond was just ripping through the hoards of undead with ease of both his blades. As Adrian had said the undead were just mindless but there were many and these could swarm them if they were not careful. But it seemed that at least they were pushing through. And was impressed with Iris as she was taking down enemies in brutal ways. It was simple and effective and something that he was not going to poke Iris about. Sai was also doing the same but had some more elegance to it but again they were destorying undead. So there was not much of a challange. As they kept pushing through a few undead were going to get him. But saw that Adrian had flung some into a trap and got rid of them.  When he turned another corner there were a group of them "How many people died in here? This is insane" he said and continued to slay the undead with his flaming blades. Several of these corpses that he put down went up in flames and the smell of the burnt flesh did irritate him but kept going. Since whoever this was had a lot of magical power to raise this many undead to attack them. "How are you guys doing" he asked since he was paying a bit more attention on the enemies in front of them.

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With the group thining out the many undead in this temple they would see a doorway that was once covered by rubble. But it had been cleared away by the mage. "BLAST AND COUNFOUNED IT! ITS GONE CATASTOR'S WEAPON IS GONE WHO IN THE MORG TOOK IT. ONCE I FIND THAT SOD THERE ASS IS MINE" a voice would roar in anger. This moment of anger stopped the undead as they stood still. As perhaps the mage lost some control while controling them. This would be the moment for the group can use to push forward and get to the heart of the matter.

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Adrain could sense the presence ahead and deciding to be a little more aggressive, empowers himself to run more quickly, raising shadow armor around his body as he ran, running past any of the aggressors that were still lurking about. The undead seemed to hesitate, but once Adrain had charged through far and fast enough to get into the room where the other mage was throwing a tantrum, Adrain held his hand up and channeled time magic as the mage's movement slowed to a crawl within the entirety of the room, standing in the doorway.

"Talk or I will kill you myself since you must be a rogue mage." he says with a coldness not normally found to him. "Who are you, and why are you looking for a weapon from a name long since declared anathema."

While he demanded answers, his mind's eye scanned around looking for any other presence or entity in the area as well as looking for any hints or signs of trouble.

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”Will do!” Iris called back to Sai, as she did as was instructed, bashing in heads, and slicing off limbs. This sword was proving to be not as useful as she’d hoped, but she had to keep pushing forward with it. Iris vaguely heard Diamond ask how many people died here, but she ignored it, not wanting to think about all the people when the lived. They weren’t alive now, and that was what made it okay to rip them to pieces. Had they been innocent people, being manipulated to attack, she wouldn’t be so blood happy. But as it was, she was shredding each creature as it approached her, making due with her beginners sword and bent up shield. It was better than nothing though.

Iris eyes darted towards their destination as Adrain sped past them all with his magic. Shortly after, she heard a loud voice, no doubt from their attacker, and all the undead paused for a moment, becoming disoriented, giving Iris the chance to chop of three heads, and cutting the last one in half. With that, she flicked the remains off of her blade, thankful that they were too long dead to still have blood running through them.

She jogged up to where Adrain was, coving his back as he dealt with the mage, incase one came up behind him. She was both surprised and impressed with how he talked to the mage she didn't think he had that kind of threat in him; but then again, she didn't know him.