[Floor ∆ - OP] Musings of a Madman

[Lium 1]

Legs were shaking beneath his frame. Wiping his lip with a sleeve, as rain drips from his hair into his eyes. He was sore already and now Haze was here to kick his ass too. "I know I fucked up" his hand dangled to his sides staring down at the ground. A sudden strike to the sternum and another uppercut to the bottom of his chin would sent him flying backwards. Sliding across the ground in the wet mud, he felt like he got hit by a train. Earlier it was just a bus but dam Haze strong. Getting slowly to his feet holding the trunk of a tree as he does, "When I escaped I thought" a pause breathing heavily he felt like all the air had been sucked out of his lungs. "I regretting leaving you but I couldn't just" coughing with a split after, the heavy rain fall washed whatever stain was left from it. "If I came back I would have been caught again" another punch right in the face right before she grabs the back of his neck and thrashes in hard against the tree. Tossing him like a rag doll, he would tumble and roll on the ground. there closing his eyes holding his breathe, it hurt to even breath right now. Three months and Haze had passed him by what would seem like years in training. He got it, she did what she had to to survive, so did he. 

"I can help you Haze" he knew at one point that she wanted more than anything to break from Genma's chains, as did her. The only difference his that he did and she couldn't. He would hear her yell -BULLSHIT-. She would grab the scruff of his neck and slam his head against the ground twice. "Give me one week" raising up his hands, he was very weak right now in more ways than one. "In one week if I can beat you in hand to hand combat then you will let me help you. You have no reason to trust me I know but you did once. Let me prove to you that you can do it again." Thinking about what Genma would say or worse do if she didn't come back with him. "Tell Genma that one of his mooks trashed the place and you needed to find me again because I never went back to the hut, then actually trash it. If I can't then I will walk back with you willingly and stay with you." Slightly getting up but only to lean on a hand that sunk into the mud. "Please I want to help, give me a chance." She would be able to see the worry in his eyes, that fear, one that she saw time and time again back in the day. "If he sent you after me, you are higher in rank. He will believe what you say over a smuk." If he sent her that means that there is some level of trust there. She just needs to last a little bit longer. He will figure out how to get her out now that he knows that she is still alive. Haze hated Genma just as much as he did, was there a reason for her to start liking him or at least be okay with him.

Edited yesterday at 08:40 AM by Lium

[Haze 0]

Another potent jab leaves Lium clambering for a chance, some out like a mouse scurrying for a hole the moment the light flicked on. Such a far cry from when he was in the complex, where he was much more resolute and actually willing to even try to fight back. Clearly there wasn't anything special left, when he turned his back on it all and ran it was as if all the courage and strength was sucked out of him. What was even more interesting that he believed that he even stood a chance. A fact Haze couldn't help but squeeze out a laugh among the heavy drizzle, almost drowned out entirely by the sound. Her head tilts as if to question if he was serious, if this was his escape strategy. Asking for pity or mercy from someone he didn't even offer it to. That expression of hers twists to one of shock, as if the attempt was so stupid it had rubbed of on her. "Are you serious?" She barked across the field waiting in a moment of silence for some show that it was a ploy or trick. But Lium's look showed it genuine, in a truly strange way he believed that spiel would work.

"You aren't listening." The girl folds her knuckles into the palm of her other hand, cracking them sending shivers of power that causes the rain to become blocked.

"I" A slam to his stomach causing him to fold in half around an upward strike.
     "Don't." Another chain of that sentence is followed with a downward fist across the back of his skull, a heavy handed haymaker.
          "Need." Her left leg raises with a knee as her hands collect in a weave behind his head and smashes into his nose, causing it to bleed profusely.
               "Your help." The final piece as Haze collects her right elbow and jumps dropping it into his spine, knocking him straight into the thick and wet mud.

Her attacks quick and technical, fluid as if without thought and flowing easily like the rain. There was some serious power behind every hit, easily dwarfing her size. Leaning down to collect a fistful of his collar, a hand scrunched into a tightly wound fist. Those hands of his work to shield his face from attack, causing her to hesitate for only a brief moment.

Splat

Her expression grows cold as she drops Lium, empty as she stares up into the heavy rainfall. From her side she takes out that bottle to numb the pain, another swig that stings her tongue and sutures the holes in her heart. Haze takes steps from Lium and her attention shifts aimlessly into the clouds as if in silent prayer that the rain would wash it all away. The girl cannot help but see even the attempt at hope foolish, so much so that it causes her bust out laughing as a shield. "Fuck it, I'll bite. What do I have to lose? You aren't beating me, and frankly your sucking all the fun out of this acting like a coward... One week" Her eyes don't even shift down to look at him. Her stance shifts wide and her arm grows hot in dark blue, starting at her hand and ripping up her arm. Tucked behind her it becomes rampant and violent, wild and overbearing. A single punch forward sees a fissure cut into the ground, a clap like thunder by an unseen force. Lium's little shack explodes on its own, the force of the attack extended far beyond its usual reach. That's how much power she held, pieces of it falling in shrapnel leaving a shell of it behind. "You get one measly week. When you fail, walk your own sorry ass back so I don't have to drag you. Huh, Looks like it started raining...."

Her hair stuck to her in knots, she doesn't even look back at Lium as she walks away leaving him stunned and laying in the filth. The tears on her cheek being provided the most elegant camouflage in that downpour. The only hole in her armor that she'd worked so hard to construct wasn't revealed because of a little rain.

WC: 702

[Lium 1]

Laying in the mud still unable to move. Every inch of his body was in pain, her could feel the jolt of each impact shatter through and up. With her last words she left him there, watched as with a single strike to the hut it was gone. Haze took the offer, she still wanted to be saved, it was up to him to make that happen. Fingers would begin to regain feeling, he would push himself up stiffly to his knees because it was all that he could manage at the moment. One week is all he had, was it enough to prove to Nisa that he was worthy of his title, not a dam clue. It was something, it was worth trying, Haze was worth fighting for. If he could provide even a fraction of hope for that girl then he was going to work harder than he ever has to make sure she can break those chains from Genma, this time for both of them and for good.

Turning toward the hut as rain pours violently against his frame. He would see a black robed figure standing there by his destroyed hut, at first he thought that maybe it was another one of Genma's men but they would never wear something like that. A sudden message is received, Lium jumps at the timing of it. Glancing up it was from Nisahime, what they hell was all her thought as he would open the content and read. They would start early tomorrow, and to get rest because he was going to need it. How the hell did she know, glancing up at the figure that was no longer there. Confused as fuck he began to get up. It would take upward to an hour to get back to the ship. When Celeste saw him he would just raise a hand and walk past, practically falling face first in his bed. He had to work through the pain like he did when he was training with Genma. It was the only way that this was going to work. He had to save Amaya, it was the least that he could do for leaving her behind the first time around.

WC: 370

[Eruda 0]

PH

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Guild Rank 5 | +5% Final EXP/Col Reward
Mega Slime Farm | +10% Final EXP Reward

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Eruda | HP: 1100/1100 | EN: 122/122 | DMG: 8 | MIT:184 | TAUNT | F-SPIRIT | BRN-IM  | FL.AURA: 16 | FL.THORNS: 8/16 | THORNS:72 | BH:61 | REC: 8 | BRN: 56 | LD:4

Spoiler

Eruda, Unbridalled Fury
True Tier: 13
Level: 35
Paragon Level: 86
HP: 1100/1100
EN: 122/122

Stats:
Damage: 8
Mitigation: 184
Battle Healing: 61
Loot Die: 4
Stealth Rating: -5
TAUNT
BRN-IM 
FL.AURA: 16
FL.THORNS: 8/16

REC: 8
BRN: 56
Equipped Gear:
Weapon/Armor/Trinket: 
  - Consuming Pyre - Surt T4: (Burn 2, Taunt)
Armor/Trinket: 
  - Reinforced Plate - Lily T4 Demonic: Flame Aura 2, Flameproof, Recovery 1
Shield/Armor/Trinket: 
  - Stalwart Defender T4 Demonic: Thorns 2, Recovery 1, Flame Thorns 1

Combat Mastery:
  - Combat Mastery: Mitigation R3

Combat Shift:
  - AOE Shift

Familiar Skill:
  - 

Custom Skill:
  - Supernatural Fury

Skills:
  - Battle Healing R5
  - Curved Sword R5
  - Fighting Spirit
  - Heavy Armor R5
  - Howl
  - Searching R4

Extra Skills:
  - Block R5
  - Concentration
  - Survival
  - Brawler

Inactive Extra Skills:

Addons:
  - Focus
  - Iron Skin
  - Stamina

Mods:
  - Night Vision
  - Shield Bash
  - Tracking

Inactive Mods:

Battle Ready Inventory:
  - Rhino's Horn | [253007c] x1
  - Rhino's Horn | [253007d] x1
  - Rhino's Horn | [253007e] x1
  - Rhino's Horn | [253007f] x1
  - Teleport Crystal x1

Housing Buffs:
  - Basic Kitchen: Increase the effectiveness of a single food item consumed in a thread by +1 T1 slot. This can exceed normal Cook enhancement caps. Ex: A perfect T2 MIT food gives 35 MIT instead of 30.
  - Storage Closet: +1 Battle Ready Inventory Slot
  - Living Room: Increases out of combatHP regen by (5 * Tier HP) and decreases full energy regen to 2 Out of Combat Posts.
  - Guest Room: Players can have one «Amenity» in a «Guest Room» and the «Amenity» cannot be recovered. Players are allowed to change which «Amenity» is in the «Guest Room». Multiple instances of the same «Amenity» do not stack. This buff affects the player and their choice of up to two party members.
  - Master Bedroom: -1 energy cost for the first three expenditures of each combat
  - Mega Slime Farm: +10% EXP to a thread. Limit one use per month. Must be used on a player's first post in a thread. Cooldown begins counting down when used in a post.

Guild Hall Buffs:
  - Trading Hall: Reduce LD needed for Salvage by 5 (10+ for Alchemist crystals, 6+ for everything else). +2 EXP per craft. Rank 9 crafters and Rank 4 merchants/performers receive +1 crafting/identification attempt per day. Rank 10 crafters and Rank 5 merchants/performers receive +2 crafting/identification attempts per day.
  - Treasury: +5% bonus col from last-hit monster kills and +10% bonus col from treasure chests.

Scents of the Wild Totem:

Wedding Ring:

Crafting Profession:
 - Tailoring[exp] R1
Gathering Profession: