-= An infection in the belly of the beast=- [DE]

[Astrid Vess]

Marik had seemed to decide he was going into the void and by proxy walk wherever it was going to take him. Completely having ignored the statue and most of what Astrid said prior from the looks of it. Silent treatment would be her response. She growled lightly but ultimately waited a moment as she considered what to do. She didn't NEED to follow him. She didn't want to in a way. But . . . perhaps there was good reason to follow him. Perhaps whatever had attacked them were worth eating? Astrid DID come for a solid meal. And considering everything that had gone on thus far? She really hadn't gotten that solid meal yet. If anything, she'd eaten, has some psychedelics, and then had burnt throughout whatever calorie's she'd eaten. All in all, if she wanted food, she'd have to follow him.

She eventually decided to throw the statue out the window and walk into the fridge-void with Marik. She was only going to get more pissed off at her indecisiveness, especially if she got attacked AGAIN. Before she started following Marik though, she let out a loud growl to all her follows. Waited for them to come into the kitchen and then motioned to the pathway Marik had used. "We're following him. . . for now. Look for anything suspicious. NO MORE SNEAK ATTACKS." She motioned for her canine companion and the chicks to go first. Then she followed and after her saika squad followed behind her. When she walked into the void and out it's other side, she realized she was in a tunnel now.

It mildly concerned her but ultimately, she just shook her head and waved it off. It didn't matter where they were just yet. However. . . the vines along the walls were. . . concerning. She couldn't sense energy but even she didn't need to be told when a plant was unnatural given, she herself was one such plant. Still, she didn't like the look over it and made sure that her saika were especially focused on them as the group followed Marik. Eventually he decided to speak up to Astrid, though again not looking at her directly, which was starting to piss her off, but she held the growl at bay. She frowned however once he got to the end and asked her why the brains tasted weird. It was. . . hard to explain. For one thing while they were "Fresh" it was fresh from the jar. Not "fresh from the body". The warm iron taste of blood really wasn't there anymore given the liquid that was used to engulf them wasn't blood. They were also softer and chewier.

All in all? They were weird because they weren't picked from the body of something and eaten then and there. To actually describe it beyond that was hard for Astrid so did the best she could with what she had. "They. . . were weird because. . . they weren't. . . Fresh? They'd been in . . . whatever that liquid was for a time. Whatever the liquid had made them different, but the brains also didn't have blood in them anymore. It's just. . . very different. The added memory fragments from them didn't help either." She started to growl a bit quietly as she remembered that. The world seemed like it fragmented around her when she started to get hit by the memories. Definitely the most unpleasant part of eating the brains. Interesting but annoying. Astrid much preferred when she could eat and be left alone or perhaps when she could hear the spirits of those, she was eating cry out within her inner world. But otherwise? She wasn't fond of getting to know her prey. It was a waste of time. Either way, Astrid and her flock continued to follow him, many sets of eyes looking over the world around them until they got to the more open cavern.

It would be at this point all spirits involved would glance at the room before looking back at Astrid. She'd been caught off guard as well, wondering just where in the hell Marik had taken them. Still, it was interesting in its own right. Namely for the purple crystals. It quickly started to remind her of Greed though and Astrid immediately looked to the Saika spirits and had them focus their sensory capabilities on the earth beneath them, while the chicks and canine were to look around them. The last thing she wanted was yet another worm of some sort to try and catch her off guard again. Let alone collapse ANOTHER cavern on her. AGAIN. She'd gotten lucky the first time. She wasn't certain she'd be able to do so for a second.

[Maria Ashwin]

Marik Ashwin

tag: Astrid Vess

Paragraphs: 6

Inovation

is the corner stone of being lazy

It opens doors to make life easier

(1) Marik would let out a loud low whistle as he looked out over the structures and crystals , "seems like these fucks where hard at work" he would say with a light laugh. as he examine the grand open space , then looking up at the cieling 'well seeing as we are probably several miles underground and the overhead is dirt no blasting our way out unless we wana be buried' he would think to himself with a light huff.

(2) Whipping around to face Astrid his one good eye looking into her many , His left eyebrow would go up in a 'huh?' type of way as astrid mentioned memories and an awkward taste. "i know this may seem a little crazy but...you think maybe someone else might be in the back seat up there?" he would ask lightly tapping his cranium with his index finger.

(3) There was no clear concern displayed on his face at the moment and his body language was relaxed as it always was , but the idea that someone....or something might be loose in astrids mind was..troubling. He didn't know the full effect or ramifications of eating what she had found and he wasn't egar to find out.

(4) "anyway i was thinking maybe we split here? i've been feeling spiritual pressure below us for awhile and im figuring maybe one of these doorframes might have some mystic voodoo on it" he would say rather nonchalantly , which may come across as foolhardy on his part.

(5) "About our wager , are you still on for the race?" his question lacked any real excitment or atleast it came off that way , as his voice sounded rather drousy and listless. Almost as if he was preparing to sleep , some habits truly did die hard but marik knew better than to fall into a bout of laziness now

(6) He would wait till he got a response from astrid shouls she have somthing to say , he wasn't one for interupting so if she spoke up he would listen intently but he would have one remark to make. "it's nice to actually hold a conversation with you , gets boring when everyone you meat just screams at you or trys to eat you" he would yawn out.

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Stats:

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{Spoiler}Strength: 400->[240]
Speed: 400->[700]

Spiritual Pressure: 400
Riatsu Strength: 400

Light Aura: 50
Dark Aura: 50

Instinct: 200
Sense: 200

Energy Sensory: 300
Healing Expertise: 0

Techniques Used: N/A

[Astrid Vess]

Astrid simply nodded at his first comment. Whatever this place was, something had been going on. Sure, the structures that were broken showed some work on somethings part but more the crystals still held Astrid's concern. One could argue that it was paranoia but having seen her spirits get killed for simply touching a crystal had Astrid very concerned that these brightly colored and eerily glowing crystals had a similar effect. That was also implying. . . that they weren't attached to something. Thus, at the nearest cluster of crystals she made a gesture of keeping her eyes on the crystals. However, before she could order a set of spirits to watch the crystal her mind got immediately dragged away by Marik's comment. Namely that for one reason or another she may not be the one in charge.



That finally drew forth a very vocal and VERY pissed off growl. Her energy lashing out as she started to accidentally use her gravitational pressure on the area around them. Certainly, Marik wouldn't be bothered by it in the slightest given he was a higher class but the ground, crystal clusters, even some of the vines and the nearest structure started to buckle under the weight she was throwing around. "SHUT YOUR GODDAMN MOUTH!!! OROBAS ALREADY DID THAT ONCE AND STOLE MY CONTROL. I. WILL NEVER. ALLOW IT AGAIN!! I'LL FIND HIM. AND I'LL FUCKING KILL HIM. NO, I'LL DO WORSE. I'LL TEAR HIS SOUL OUT OF HIS HUSK OF A BODY AND TEAR IT TO SHREDS. THEN MAKE HIM FERTILIZER. THEN SPIT HIM OUT AND DO IT AGAIN. AND AGAIN. AND AGAIN. UNTIL FINALLY HE'S NOTHING BUT FUCKING SPIRIT ENERGY."



Astrid was furious beyond belief. While Marik had made a valid point and was likely something to look into Astrid having been immediately reminded of Orobas's mind control over her was thrown off the deep edge. And this time she wasn't going to calm down. She wanted to kill Orobas. She wanted to kill and destroy everything he had around him. And Marik bringing him back up because he thought Astrid so weak, she'd fall for something similar again had her nearly attacking him for that alone. Consequences be damned and fuck his spiritual power. He was saved however by his comment about spiritual energy because one of the saika made mention of sensing "something". It was obviously frightened to interrupt Astrid, and for good fucking reason. She immediately grabbed the Saika and glared into his flaming eye sockets promising bloody violence.



Yet she still needed him. She needed the spirits around her. Especially if there was another shithead that was stalking them. This just continued to make her rising anger skyrocket past the ceiling. She was almost tempted to just collapse the whole place just to ensure she got sent back to Hell alongside whatever the fuck was here. Astrid however just let out a roar laced with unrelenting hatred, namely at Orobas but also to whoever or whatever was trailing them. This went on for a solid minute and reverberated through the entire large space. Then once she was done, she flared her energy further but instead of using it to reinforce her gravitational pressure she focused it on herself and activated her infernus.



Her body collected itself and began to condense and warp into solid bark from the vines she was originally composed of. Her body shifted and warped until instead of being a quadruped into something more humanoid. Specifically, into a dryad as the tree on her back formed into a bush that acted something like a cloak. The wisteria vines trailing down her back with the sakura blossoms spanning in between the wisteria flowers. Her face warped into a mask with several holes for eyes that were a deep burnt orange in color and her mouth literally tore itself open from the lower third of the mask. Eventually she finally finished her transformation though what felt like a small eternity was done and over in half a minute at the worst.



Unlike most instance however when Samson came out instead of a slow and controlled process Astrid shot her hand into her chest and grabbed him by a horn. Then she pulled and pulled and pulled. Samson's head with its crown of horns quickly became apparent and from the look on his skeletal face even he was surprised. But he made certain that once his first set of arms sprouted out that he pulled the remainder of himself out as quick as possible. Once he was out and standing, he looked with no small amount of concern at Astrid as he could sense she that she was seething with anger and still flaring her energy. Then with a surprisingly slow turn of her head she glared at Marik with nothing but hate. It'd be hard to hold her hatred of losing control of herself when he brought back that memory, let alone had concerns she'd fall to such again.



She had to take a moment to calm herself enough to speak but it was slow, forced, and she was clearly not willing to continue speaking with him at the moment. "Fuck your race. Fuck speaking. I'm going to find whatever is trailing us. So, help me, if I cannot find you when I'm done or you've made no progress to find whatever the FUCK we are here for, I will hunt you from Hell itself. I DID NOT fight against the Sanctus JUST to lose myself again to someone else and be leashed. And fuck you for thinking I would fall to it a SECOND time." Astrid jumped up onto Samson's back, drew up her teleportation sigils and placed them on the backside of each hand and inside her chest. Meanwhile Samson immediately gunned for the first foreign energy signature he could lock onto. The spirits that Astrid had summoned quickly followed suit and if Marik watched, he'd notice that Astrid was busy summoning others from the bush on her backside.





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There was an issue with Astrid's manic and rampant surge of reiatsu. While Astrid was undoubtedly going after whatever Marik had sensed. . . she'd accidentally woken up something that was resting beneath the relatively undamaged gate. A good 20 or so feet beneath something stirred. Having been effectively blasted by an air horn from how volumous the energy Astrid gave off was, its slumber could not have been woken up in a worse way. And sad to say when it finally decided to use its sensing capabilities to look for the cause, it found Marik. And thus, was how it decided that he'd pay for having its peaceful rest disturbed so rudely. With merely a thought it teleported, its body warped into a singular point in space before that point just decided that it suddenly was in the space of the gate.



From there the singularity created grew bigger and bigger until it finally was about 7 feet in height and shattered outright. From it came an abomination that would have Marik struggling to determine just what in the fresh fuck he was looking at, let alone sensing. It had a base just a slab of flesh with tentacles protruding in all directions. Tentacles that didn't look terribly good for walking. It had two sets of wings from the incredibly thinned out midsection that were 3 times larger than its entire body. And it even managed to have humanoid arms up until the hands which were three fingered and ended in claws at least 6in long. The head could only be described as a squid with an especially elongated head that almost had a tail for how comically long the backside was. A massive singular eye that was orange and held no iris but was clearly pissed off by how many veins of eerie green-yellow were pulsing in said eye.



The worst part? This thing didn't have a mouth. Or ears. Or even ear holes. It didn't even seem to have a nose or some kind of mouth in general. And yet if Marik focused his ears, he could swear he was hearing mumblings, ramblings, possibly even ravings of something. Yet it was so jumbled and gargled that there was no chance in any universe he could understand it. The most he could truly grasp was how utterly pissed off this thing was. And when it let its wings extend, its energy spoke for it. This thing had enough spiritual energy that it rivaled Mariks own in volume. Then with just a flick of its right hand it fired out 3 spheres of goop. Brown-orange in color and they moved very fast. Arguably as fast as a standard cero yet they were the size of a basketball. All three were aimed at Marik's midsection. With its left hand it started to draw some kind of squiggling glyph on the ground. Mind you the shapes were hard to define and since its alternate hand was only focused on doing one section at a time it was in the middle of creating a singular quarter of what would likely be a circular symbol. In the meantime, its eye was ever in Marik and the tentacles at its base wriggling and slamming into the rocky foundation of the gate.

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{Infernus information}

Class 2

1/10 posts used

20/40 spirits summoned

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{Astrid/Samson form reference}


Samson:

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{Samson and horde stats}

Horde of spirits:

Strength: 550

Speed: 400

Reiatsu Strength: 0

Spiritual Pressure: 0 (immune to cutback)

Instinct: 250

Senses: 250

Energy Sensory: 200

Healing Expertise: 0

Durability: 1,800



Samson:

Strength: 800

Speed: 450

Reiatsu Strength: 0

Spiritual Pressure: 0 (Immune to cutback)

Instinct: 300

Senses: 250

Energy Sensory: 150

Healing Expertise: 0

Durability: 3,600

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{Reiatsu}

-225 for Infernus
-150 for three sigils
-500 for ten additional spirits

Total reiatsu used: 875

11,250 - 875 = 10,375 reiatsu remaining

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{Elder Thing info}

Class: 1

Type: Soldier

Rank: 3

SP total: 1900 (Hollow SP used)

Strength: 200 (100)

Speed: 300

RS: 400 (800)

SPPR: 400

Instinct: 200

Senses: 100

ES: 300

HE: 0

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{Elder Thing reference}


There are a few changes to its physique but the overall is on point.

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{Elder Things reiatsu}

-100 for teleportation
-75 reiatsu for acid splash (25 per)

Total reiatsu used: 175

4,000 - 175 = 3,825 reiatsu remaining

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{Elder thing techs}

Teleportation:

Class: 4

Effect: Allows the user to condense themselves into a small particle. This particle is then transported into any space within 40 feet of the user. Cannot bring a user into a space that is inhabited by another. Living or inanimate. This is a step technique. User need not see the place they want to teleport to, only requirement is to name a singular destination. This moves at 12x the user's speed.

Drawback: If the user is hit while being condensed into an orb, they are blasted out from the orb in the opposite direction of the attack.



Acid Splash:

Class 5:

Effect: The user is able to conjure up as many balls of acid as they are willing to spend reiatsu. These form in front of the user. From there a direction is chosen and the orbs are launched at 800 speed. Upon coming in contact with anything they explode outward for 10 feet, covering anything that is smaller than that in acid. This acid uses the users RS and will slowly eat through whatever it is in contact with. This lasts until the end of the post after it comes in contact with something.

Drawbacks: Can be wiped off as the substance is surprisingly thick. If done the victim will only suffer for the singular post.

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{Elder Thing skills}Battle Analysis: 3

Pain Tolerance: 3

Magic: 3

Bleeding Tolerance: 3

Focused Eye: 3

[Maria Ashwin]

Marik Ashwin

tag: Astrid Vess

Paragraphs: 5

Inovation

is the corner stone of being lazy

It opens doors to make life easier

(1) Marik himself could stand to abide many things, some could speculate he was simply too lazy to act upon a reaction or he simply was unbothered and in a way, they would be right. The youthful-looking Arrancar would sigh as his already unimpressed looked shifted to complete and total disappointment, the look on his face conveying a very simple statement about her hot-bloodedness giving her an 'i couldn't afford to give a fuck if I had it financed look' naturally she wasn't looking directly at him but that would be the site she was met with when she started on the second portion of her tyraid.



(2) "Fuck your race. Fuck speaking. I'm going to find whatever is trailing us. So, help me, if I cannot find you when I'm done or you've made no progress to find whatever the FUCK we are here for, I will hunt you from Hell itself. I DID NOT fight against the Sanctus JUST to lose myself again to someone else and be leashed. And fuck you for thinking I would fall to it a SECOND time." these where the words she had spoken to him but given the situation he was a tad more interested in something else that was dancing on the edge of his sense's.



(3) Her outpouring of power had attracted something...whatever that something was marik would continue to look off in the distance where astrid was running or so it would appear. In truth he was looking at the creature from the corner of his eye with caution , he would stuff his hands in his pockets as the forming creature shattered the door frame he would turn to face the mind-breaking creature. He would look over the creature with an eye of curiosity as he had never seen anything like it before in his entire time being alive.



(4) He would take notice of several things his paranoia kicking in as he watched the creature simultaneously fling balls of goop and imprint its spiritual energy onto the ground. Having a split second to reply in kind to the creature that was fifteen meters to his left, quickly whipping around at his max speed he would lash out with a kick creating an invisible Spiritual energy platform that would not only act as a wall but in that exact instance of Marik turning and flinging out his right foot a pillar of pressurized bludgeoning wind would fly forward. Seeing as the wind had no way of outright destroying the liquid it would most likely be back blasted by its own attack.



(5) The wind itself wouldn't be entirely hidden as not only would the splattering acid give away the pillar but the ear it carved away on the cave floor, which if it connected with it destined target it would carve through the earth at the creatures feet slamming into it and most likely destroying whatever it had just been carving. 'i wonder what miss plant is doing..' he would think to himself with a sigh as he was now on his guard , watching this abomination closely.

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Stats:

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{Spoiler}Strength: 400->[240]
Speed: 400->[700]

Spiritual Pressure: 400
Riatsu Strength: 400

Light Aura: 50
Dark Aura: 50

Instinct: 200
Sense: 200

Energy Sensory: 300
Healing Expertise: 0

Techniques Used: 

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Viento divi -300

Riastu Pool = 3700

[Maria Ashwin]

Music

Corruption roils

it will spread across the heavens bursting from these lands like a festering ulser

(1) As Astrid traveled further into the cavern , she would be met with the sight of less and less doors , the sound of gravel and shifting stones beneath samson's feet would soon disappear as the tunnel started to slope into a downward incline plane. Soon the foot falls of samson would be that of flesh against stone.

(2) any light that was spoken of before was knowhere to be found , as they where now surrounded by pitch black. If they kept moving foward they would soon feel and hear a loud crunching in the dark , the odor of the air was stale and tepid as she entered the lair of the children "Of she who seeks knowledge" and they sought food.

(3) The light sound of skittering could be heard among the bones , first it would start as one then two then three growing to a light cochany. The skittering noise shifting with each and every step her and advance her summons made. If she would take a moment to examine the skulls she would be met with thh sight of many children skulls.

(4) and for the briefest moments it would appear as if the long gone hollowed out eye sockets would glow with life , before two fist sized black widows crawled thier way out thier sockets. attempting to crawl off and skitter away , or so it would seem they where running off.

(5) They seemed to be crawling deeper into the cave , now as the dm of this event please roll either a d20 or a d6. In the event that astrid rolls anything 3 or below or 10 and below they would hear the sound of many bickering voices from what she can discern it is mearly three individuals.

(6) She may turn back if she wishes or she may push foward to sate her curiosity should she seek to push onward, Then again maybe her rage isnt so great that she doesn't rush in sword first. Only the test's of time will tell and we for one are on the edge of our seats to see what she does.

by Mizo.❉ of ww.

[Astrid Vess]

HoyzEs4X1-20



The thing's singular eye was ever present upon Marik. Thus, came as no surprise that Marik was going to retaliate in some capacity. He would not have let out that massive amount of spiritual energy if he couldn't, right? Thus, the thing had to keep in mind possible counter plays but all of that lied with regards to sigil it was creating. It just needed a bit more time. And few more things to distract and pester with this ant before it. However much to its surprise the attacks it had lobbed over were in fact, thrown around and back at him along with a surprisingly potent air blast. He didn't exactly have much time to deal with everything thus he had to pull out his main offensive spell. A quick flare of energy and its entire body glowed a deep purple and then moments later sections of the gateway that were lying on the ground previously began to rise and come to the thing


Thankfully given the objects moved at his RS they were able to intersect and save it from being blasted by his own acid. Though the rocks didn't exactly survive the endeavor. However, that now meant there was only the gust of air coming towards it and thankfully that was able to be seen because of the acid inside it and the tells on the ground. The thing flexed its energy again, but the breeze didn't stop thus revealing it was spiritual making this far harder to deal with at the moment. With such little time before it would collide the thing only had one other method of dealing with this. With a small wave of its hand the ground in front of the sigil was pulled up and around the body of the Thing. This came not a moment too soon as the pillar slammed onto the rocky barrier and was steadily eating into it. . . until it started to move. The rocks creating it spun faster and faster eventually exploded outward repelling the remainder of the wind and shooting out rocks 2 feet in diameter all over the place, with the underside of the Thing the only exception. With the immediate threat dealt with the thing reached out for another 3 objects, which ended up being more debris from the gateway.


This debris hovered around the thing waiting for an instruction to be given. In the meantime, however it switched its hands, using its left now to control the gust of wind and direct it after Marik. Meanwhile its right hand, pointed behind it, was now continuing to draw the sigil from directly behind it. Slowly but surely the sigil was getting more and more complex as other inscriptions of some strange language began to fill in the space underneath it. Meanwhile the outer circle of swirling and intertwining lines continued to form. At over halfway done, there wasn't much more time needed before it'd be done. However, given Marik had a surprisingly adept control over his energy sensing capabilities he'd start to get the beginnings of just what this circle was used for. It was beginning to remove the latent reiatsu from within its bounds and a short distance around it. It was hard to say if it was "cleansing" it or "pushing it away" but somehow reiatsu was rapidly being reduced in quantity around it. And yet its energy. . . whatever it was, remained unaffected. This would not bode well.



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Astrid was effectively bleeding off molten reiatsu from how utterly pissed off she was. Her emotions continuing to gorge themselves off Marik's reactions. . . or lack thereof. He wasn't scared of her. And why should he be? He was capable and powerful in his own right. Yet that wasn't what bothered her. It was his continuing reaction of looking down on her. And his ranging expressions only ignited more fury from within her. So hard was she gripping a horn of Samson's that even Samson had a few concerns about his physical well-being. Still with Astrid's order clear cut, he'd continue onward deeper into the cave, even as it started to get darker. Enough that the spirits had to start registering where one another was by using their energy sensory. . . well most of them.


Thankfully the saika siblings were basically sentient burning skeletons and thus their bodies served as ample light. With a loud growl towards all her spirits she had the pack condense some. The saika were each about 20 feet away and were giving off nearly 50 feet of light from how bright they were burning despite the otherwise all-encompassing darkness. The chicks were hovering around the saika one each shoulder looking behind them. Meanwhile the other spirits, namely wisps, were completing a square formation at about 30 feet in each direction of Astrid and Samson. They glanced around one another and the environment as a whole. It took Samson huffing several times at Astrid to finally get her attention, namely at the ground. Wherever they were at in this cave was now the feeding grounds, if the bones lying around, were any indication.


She glared down upon the bones, slowly realizing that they were akin to young children. She rolled her eyes however, immediately realizing that she only knew of this thanks to the plethora of random memories she'd seen earlier. As some of the young children looked similar, albeit more alive, than those being crushed beneath Samson's feet. Pathetic. Though she didn't feel anything for the kids, she did begin to focus her rage somewhat and hone in on her surroundings to see if anything was around to actively harm them. She didn't exactly have stupidly supernatural capabilities to do so but that didn't mean she wasn't going to try.


Still two things caught her attention. A pair of aggressively large spiders decided to just hop out a skull that was somewhat close to Samson. And these aggravating voices. One of which was a child. A young one. And it was in distress which only proceeded to make her more aggravated. Samson however, already realizing that Astrid's next order would be to destroy the spiders if nothing else, immediately swiped a right arm in front of him aiming directly for the spiders and the path they were traveling. Assuming it hit and they weren't something special or unique blend of spider, they'd be exploded or otherwise slammed into the ground. Possible even speared through given all the bones lying around that were now being thrown around.


With the spiders dealt with Astrid then turned her attention to the voices. She wasn't fond of them, and she wasn't going to fuck around and find out where they were hiding. So, she let out a loud roar. The attempt was for it to be in their general direction of the voices but given she was within a cave it no doubt reverberated and would actually drone out some and sound like several loud roars one after another. From there she then pointed at where she thought the sounds were coming from and yelled out an order to Samson. "KILL THEM!!" Samson followed suit in roaring and bringing a set of arms before him as he stood up and let loose a set of shockwaves in an X formation that were going directly towards the voices. Well at least where Astrid originally heard them from.


Within seconds the shockwaves travelled out of the range of the light and into the darkness. Thankfully avoiding the wisps, saika, and chicks by proxy of them running out of the way. Slowly but surely, they returned to their position, and everything grew quiet from Astrid and her pack. She wanted to see what would happen or more accurately hear what would happen. She knew there were things around and she wanted to make certain that they weren't duped again. Thus, she made sure to glare around and catch each spirit's eye. The unspoken order of "Keep on guard for everything." Each gave a silent nod as they continued to look over the area around them while the chicks used their energy sensing capabilities to scour the area spiritually for anything abnormal. Astrid and Samson in the meanwhile simply continued to look around from side to side, with Astrid focusing more on hearing than seeing.

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{Infernus}
Class 2

2/10 posts used

20/40 spirits summoned

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{Sigil information}
3/5 Teleportation sigils created

2/5 posts used

One on the back of each of Astrid's hands, and one in her chest cavity.

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{Telekenesis}Class: 2

Effects: The user of this technique gains the means to control all physical objects within a range of 100 feet. This can include physical attacks, weapons, etc. produced by the opponent. However, it cannot target another individual. Ranged physical attacks or objects produced by an opponent must be equal or lower in class than this technique to be controlled. As well as the user must have double the OS of the attack. Any and all objects/attacks that are under the control of the user move at the users RS and have an OS equal to the users RS.

The user can only control so many objects at once, however. 1 object for every 50 instinct the user has. The more objects that are controlled the less the user can do to react around them in general without releasing control or otherwise throwing an object in a direction. Objects that move out of the user's range return to the ground or under the control of the opponent, if applicable. Fine control is available so long as the user desires it. Thus, making this spell highly versatile.

Drawback: Limit on how many objects in question can be controlled. While fine control is allowed, the larger an object is, the more "objects" it's counted for. Thus, requiring more instinct. For every 6 feet of controlled object this qualifies for 1 object. Objects thrown can be reclaimed but only once they've moved 40 feet away.

Only one attack can be controlled at a time. And any duration or drawbacks listed in the technique, still apply to the user. I.E. a tech has a range then once that range is exceeded the technique expires.

Lastly if the user has 75% or more of their total object capacity currently in use, they act as though their instinct is halved for the purposes of reacting to an opponent. Lastly this lasts for 4 posts and has a 3 post cooldown.

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{Elder thing reiatsu}-600 Telekinesis

3,825 - 600 = 3,225 reiatsu remaining

1-20

[Maria Ashwin]

Marik Ashwin

tag: Astrid Vess

Paragraphs: 7

Inovation

is the corner stone of being lazy

It opens doors to make life easier

(1) Marik's eyes would widen slightly as he watched debris raise from the ground and form a shield , the acid splashing against the rocks. 'this bastard has a few nice tricks' he would think to himself a small smile spreading on his face a new feeling bubbling to the surface.

(2) five black one inch would manifest with a bright green flash within the palm of his hand , which was currently in his pocket. He would keep his eye's locked on the target as the rocks began to spin flinging flecks of acid about the area.

(3) "what the fuck is he..." that thought would be cut short as marik was soon assailed by flying rocks , he would activate his sonido unable to avoid the rocks with standard movement.  The entire worldaround him was painted black and white as he moved.

(4) Marik couldnt explain the joys of sonido to many people but this ,,,,this was somthing he figured almost everyone could enjoy. A world of black and white where everything around you moved so slow they almost seemed stationary. He had to commend the beast for such quick thinking.

(5) He was egar to see how the beast would react to his next assualt , seeing as he had seemingly vanished when discared it's shield to create that bombardment of stone. Marik would come to a stop twenty five meters behind the creature hiding behind another gate  frame.

(6) Wasting no time he would pull his hand out his pocket and release all five judan which would race at a speed of sixhundred twoard the ground 1 ft infront of the creature. Normally this would appear like a missed shot but in mariks case it wasn't.

(7) He often used the judan as a hollow and found it was at it's most deadly when a target was indirectly struck by the tech , the shockwave and flames where just the begining. The size of the attack combined with it's blast radius made it a rather good way to chip away at an enemy. or outright reduce them to ashes.

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Stats:

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{Spoiler}Strength: 400->[240]
Speed: 400->[700]

Spiritual Pressure: 400
Riatsu Strength: 400

Light Aura: 50
Dark Aura: 50

Instinct: 200
Sense: 200

Energy Sensory: 300
Healing Expertise: 0

Techniques Used: 

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{Spoiler} Judan Class 7x5 -375
Sonido - 100

Riastu Pool = 3225 remaining

[Maria Ashwin]

Music

Corruption roils

it will spread across the heavens bursting from these lands like a festering ulser

(1) As samson brough his mighty appendages down , the entire cavern would shake with the force of his blow. The cavern rood becoming rapidly unstable as debris began to fall in large chunks , preparing to impact the group below with a great deal of force possibly causing a chain reaction of explosions among astrid's summons.

(2) Several large chunks of the roof would collapse and fall completely blocking the entrance and or exit which ever one would call it , the cave still trembling as his second onslaught began. The x shaped shockwave slamming into the three humanoids at the end of the cavern hidden within the darkness.

(3) The sound of bone snapped and the wet splat of blood would have been heard had the earth and stone above her head not been further aggravated. The spiders that where once hidden would begin emerging on mass , now that thier home was in danger a tsunami of rithing chittering black spiders the size of dogs would emerge with each stone that fell.

(4) Should astrid not be able to remove herself from the cavern should would find herself taking a one way trip back to hell , in a very uncomfortable and painful dirt grave. The sudden destruction causing ripples to echo through the stone and wake somthing else not of this world somthng that hungers.

by Mizo.❉ of ww.

[Astrid Vess]

The thing was certain that this nuisance would be hit. Hell, likely even thrown around by the rocks. And then they disappeared. Its single eye widened, and it froze up for a moment as it tried to find the individual in question. Its eyes and physical senses didn't pick him up however that didn't stop him from picking up Marik's energy when he had finally stopped moving. The thing however did not move around as it needed to complete its sigil and thus dropped any control it had with the remaining rocks using its free hand to instead speed up the process of its sigil. Given it was mostly done already and now he was using two hands, he was able to complete it by the time Marik's attack landed in front of him. The sigil glowed a deep purple and then shifted to dark blue.



Mariks Judan exploded throwing up dirt and debris and the explosions themselves slammed into the Thing's backside, however any momentum was stopped as the thing had willed up a slab of earth in front of it so that it could be flung into. Its backside was torn into as the five separate blasts from the Judan slammed into it at the same time. Flesh fell from it and revealed the spine, but thankfully there was enough flesh to allow the Thing to move its body, but it was bleeding heavily now. The force behind the blast also slammed his front side into the slab smashing its face, eye, and chest into it. All in all, the Thing was injured but not unable to continue fighting, especially with the sigil having been completed and warded off the flames of the explosion. The reason being his sigil dispelled all reiatsu in and around its vicinity. The flames that attempted to be produced were dashed away like a powerful gust of air had blown through. And all reiatsu within its bounds and 5 feet of its exterior was gone. As far as Marik would be able to sense it was like the thing existed in a bubble where inside it was just a void for spiritual energy.



With the explosion and the injuries dealt with the Thing turned around to look at Marik, even though he was behind a pillar. From there it simply held up its hand and spun all its fingers together into a pointed fist. Where Marik was currently at, with a space of 10 feet in all directions around him the ground would erupt in 4 spikes that would twist around him and form a cone. The inside of these spikes had more bladed spikes within making the Thing's intent easily understood. If Marik couldn't escape, he was going to be placed into an iron maiden of sorts. The only difference being it was made of bedrock, and it would be a separate motion after he was trapped to enclose the entire spiked tomb into his body. Should he escape, this barrage would only be the beginning of his concerns. See the Thing was going to attempt to take something that Marik likely valued. His sight.



The means by which he did so was simple. Using both his "hands" he created a circle. Within this circle a small black sphere formed. This sphere and radiated with alien energy and then it blinked. Should Marik look at the Thing, the Thing would clap its hands together and make a black flash. Marik would thereafter immediately find himself blinded and if he focused his energy sensing abilities on himself, he'd see that his eyes were coated in the alien reiatsu. The Thing at this point would keep its eye on Marik to see what he'd do. It wasn't going to lose him this time, at least it was determined not to but Marik at his max speed was beyond what even its alien eyes could see.







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Astrid smiled with malicious glee as the first pair of spiders were effectively evaporated. However, she was immediately regretful of this decision as she heard the ceiling above groaning out and starting to rumble. For a moment she even had a flash back to her worm monster that had decided it was going to collapse the roof upon her in Greed. She narrowed her eyes however and immediately gave off her order to Samson while quickly drawing out her own personal sigil. The sigil was akin to a rudimentary skull held within a circle. The sigil glowed with a dull purple hue and quickly flung itself into Astrid's chest. Once there it melded into her flesh, and she started to appear ethereal. Her physical form fading out somewhat with her physical edges becoming muddled in a thin cloak of the same purple energy.



She breathed a sigh of relief for a moment as she saw the sigil work and its energy cover her entire body. She smiled to herself but then quickly realized that she was yet still in danger. The ground beneath Samson and her spirits was rapidly cracking and falling apart with spiders coming out of every which way and point. Meanwhile the ceiling's rumblings and structural integrity was beyond failing from Samson's several shockwaves. Astrid knew that her spirits were going to be unaffected given they too were ethereal thus that meant she had to quickly draw up another sigil for Samson. The sigil took a moment but thankfully Samson was able to use his multiple arms to smash into the rocks that would have fallen onto Astrid and himself. Not long into the cave's inevitable collapse Samson found himself covered in the same dull purple glow and saw the spiders as well as the rocks simply phasing through him. Astrid smiled wide as she'd managed to not only save herself but her companion. Now there was only one other thing she needed to deal with. The spiders.



But these things didn't look that strong at all. Maybe compared to their brethren given they were large as hell in size but in their actual capability they seemed to be weak as more and more rocks from the ceiling fell upon them and killed them. So, Astrid decided she'd just free them of their immediately misery. . . by cursing them into trees. She charged up her energy within herself before expelling it out in a short wave of reiatsu. Every spirit she had out, grew a small sigil over their heart that looked akin to a rotten and decrepit tree. The sigil itself was a dark rotten green color and that color spread out in "veins" that appeared on the spirits. Though the spirits themselves didn't seem to be affected by this the horde of spiders almost immediately became affected. One after another stopped moving, their bodies snapping and breaking before contorting into a barren tree with rough black bark. Within a handful of seconds as the cave collapsed completely every spider present would find themselves turned into a tree with no evidence of their previous form remaining.



Astrid smiled widely as she saw her work for the short duration that she had sight. There was however. . . one issue. Technically two. Her own spirits were damn near useless at this point. They'd convert into trees themselves and thus wouldn't be of use to her any longer. However, . . . she did have a short duration before that. So, if she were quick perhaps, she could get some use out of them. For the time being she simply yelled out an order to stay put. Though most of her spirits didn't hear her, their link to her allowed them to understand her will and thus remained in their present position unharmed, yet unmoving. Meanwhile Astrid and Samson quickly moved through the debris back to the direction they came from. No use in staying in the dead cent of an explosion waiting to happen as she had every intention to use these spirits to the utmost.



However, given that Astrid and Samson were ethereal at the moment they weren't given the luxury of using her teleportation sigils for travel. Thus, Samson had to barrel through boulder after boulder, phasing into and out of each portion of the collapsed cave. Still Astrid was grateful that is nothing else, she was still aboard Samson's backside. Had she not been, even she wasn't certain she'd be able to get out of this section of cave within a reasonable time. She had one possible means to do so. . . but it was dangerous. And could inevitably result in a further cave in from whatever was above them. So, she wanted to save that spirit until she started to see the signs of her body returning to physical reality. But that was an unlikely occurrence given Samson's speed, so she placed that idea on the backburner for now focusing solely on her need to escape this section of the cave.

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{Infernus information}
Class 2

20/40 spirits

3/10 posts used

The spirits are cursed. Anything that comes in contact with them will induce a clash.

1/3 posts for the cursed horde before they become trees.

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{Sigil Information}
3/5 Teleportation sigils created

3/5 posts used

One on the back of each of Astrid's hands, and one in her chest cavity

Draugr's Crest is inside Astrid's chest cavity with Samson's inside his chest cavity

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{Things Reiatsu}
-400 for Dispel Magic
-150 for Blindness

550 reiatsu used

3,225 - 550 = 2,675 reiatsu remaining

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{Astrid Reiatsu}
-400 (2x) for Draugr's Crest
-600 for Journey to Eternity

1,400 reiatsu used


10,375 - 1,400 = 8,975

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{Journey to Eternity}
This is a particularly sinister technique amongst Astrid’s Infernus techniques. What this does is apply a curse to any number of hordes Astrid currently controls. From there the hordes slowly over the course of 3 posts grow into a small forest of trees equal to the number of spirits in the horde. On the post activated no signs of the curse are present. On the second post the wispy nature of the spirits starts to decrease and they become more physical than ethereal. This causes them to lose the ability to phase through objects. On the third post their limbs have now become akin to trees with their skin becoming akin to bark. By the end of this post all hordes afflicted with this curse become trees without leaves. This curse is inflicted and spread to every being that comes in contact with the cursed horde that isn’t Astrid or Samson.


For non-spiritually potent beings such as humans they immediately transform into trees. For summons created by another they transform into trees in 3 posts so long as they come into contact with the spirits and they have equal or lower OS. Once cursed they too can spread the curse to others. If the summons are stronger by 25% they can resist for an additional 2 posts and do not spread the curse. If they are 50% stronger than they are immune. For RPC’s that interact with the curse they have an inherently longer duration before transforming into a tree. This takes a minimum of 6 posts assuming Astrid’s OS and Class is equal to the opponents. If the individual has a higher OS up to 24% then they gain an additional 2 posts and do not spread the curse. If they have 25% or higher OS they are immune. If they have a higher class than the technique they are also immune.


This however is not the end of the curse as once the forest of leafless trees is made the tree’s begin to generate a miasma. This miasma takes the shape of budding flowers on the trees akin to that of wisteria trees. This miasma however doesn’t transform targets as much as it consumes reiatsu. In a single post of the forest being present it consumes all reiatsu in the forest's environment as well as up to 5 feet around it. This prevents the usage of reiatsu abilities that manipulate the terrain unless reiatsu is fed into the area. (I.E. Soul command does not work because it requires there to be reiastu present. Quincy reiatsu draw doesn't function as there is no reiatsu within these areas. Meanwhile a step technique would function because the user supplies their own reiatsu for it.) In addition this area incurs a 25% increased cost to all reiatsu abilities used by anyone while within this forest. Lastly while a person is walking through this forest, the miasma drains 50 reiatsu per 5 feet travelled through. This can be negated with a higher class or an OS of 25% or higher than Astrid’s.


Drawbacks:

To start this costs 600 reiatsu and Astrid must target at least one horde she chooses. If this horde merges with another horde the entire horde is considered cursed and is at the post counter the prior cursed horde had. For the duration of the initial curse Astrid can only summon half as many minions. After the trees are grown Astrid must pay the increased cost for her reiatsu techs while within and pays double the costs for walking through if Samson is also walking in the forest.

To heal the curse is simple. One needs either a tech equal in class to the curse or to use a technique of class 4 or higher with more than 800 HE behind it that is actively removing the curse. Having a higher class than the curse also negates it. Destroying the horde also stops the spread of the curse.

Should the curse create trees, the tree’s themselves can be destroyed. One simply needs to use an attack or a series of attacks that equal or exceed Astrid’s OS per tree. Higher class negates the reiatsu drain and an increased reiatsu cost. 4 post set up to get the end AoE effect.

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{Dispel Magic}
Class: 3

Effect: As the name implies this technique creates a sigil that expels and otherwise prevents the use of reiatsu abilities within its presence and within a short distance from it. This distance is 5 feet away.

All reiatsu abilities that are used while this technique is active must clash with the users RS. If the individual has higher OS than the users RS the ability is allowed to be used without hindrance. If the clash is won by the user the ability fails outright.

Drawback: Reiatsu cost and the sigil takes 3 posts to draw out completely. The sigil has a 3 post duration. In addition for every instance of clash in a post the OS of this technique is reduced by 100.

[Maria Ashwin]

Marik Ashwin

tag: Astrid Vess

Paragraphs: 7

Inovation

is the corner stone of being lazy

It opens doors to make life easier

(1) As his hand unclasped releasing the black pearls of mayhem upon the battlefield , he would watch from his assumed hiding place his smirk growing into a full blown toothy wirey grinn. As brief as that explosion was due to the creature pulling some sort of spirit energy cancling shenanigans.

(2) Though it served to stoke a passion in marik. Something long forgotten what was it he couldnt truly say dear reader , but that smile was soon widened as he bore witness to the creature smuffing out his flames. an errie green light being cast on the stones before the flames went out.

(3) “What a fun day” he would chide to himself as the rocks around him began to swirl taking note of the spikes he would make no visible effort to dodge , his form obscured once more by the creature using the debris to it’s advantage. Just as the stones and spikes started to close in the world around him slowed once more. As a chuckle escaped his slips , from where he had no clue it was as if his form was moving on it’s own.

(4) In a bright flash of green and great burst of sonido marik had activated arguably one of his most effective but not deadly techniques , activating Regressando and sonifoing through a gap in the clunky stones. Entering the still world of speed once once more no longer taking the hit and run tactic as he believed he had seen all this creature had to see.

(5) Appearing behind the creature as he re-entered normal time he would instantly begin kicking the creature as fast and as hard as his body would willingly allow , the feeling of his muscle fibers straining and screaming in protest with each strike only seemed to heighten the adrenaline running through his viens.

(6) “Now turn to dust!” he would exclaim at the top of his lungs as the first kick was flung , which was in truth the feint for the thousands of kicks he had already flung. Each kick flying foard with a speed of 1400 with an os of 940 per kick, He was unasure if the dammed thing could survive this barrage but he didnt care anymore.

(7) He wanted to keep dancing this feeling coursing through his bones his viens was beyond any high he had ever felt before , no this feeling was not knew it was as if he was re-uniting with an old friend ; and oh how he had missed this feeling. Should hid blows land his smile would widen relishing the feeling of bone and flesh cracking and tearing under his assault.

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Stats:

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{Spoiler}Strength: 400->[240]
Speed: 400->[700]

Spiritual Pressure: 400
Riatsu Strength: 400

Light Aura: 50
Dark Aura: 50

Instinct: 200
Sense: 200

Energy Sensory: 300
Healing Expertise: 0

Techniques Used: 

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{Spoiler} Regresando- 100
Sonido - 100
Sen Pekku

Riastu Pool = 3125 remaining

[Maria Ashwin]

Corruption roils

it will spread across the heavens bursting from these lands like a festering ulser

(1) As the ground and walls shook a creature of slime and flesh would make it's way through the collapsed portion of the cave. Boneless limbs slithering and sliding through the cracks between the stones , "heheheh food food food is on the way" it would chide in a sing song voice.

(2) Growing slightly more agitated with each twist and turn in the stone , the creature would growl its jaw unhinging as let loose a multitude of serrated tounge that dripped with black ichor that sizzled upon contact with the stone.

(3) within seconds a great blast of flowing ichor would leave it mouth dissolving all in it's path , traditionally moving at cero speed but due to the stone being in the way that speed was cut in half leaving the speed at a measly 400 as if raced down the corridor.

by Mizo.❉ of ww.

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Strength: 400 ->[900]
Speed: 200

Spiritual Pressure: 200 -> [134]
Riatsu Strength: 200 -> [400]

Light Aura: 0
Dark Aura: 100

Instinct: 200 -> [134]
Sense: 200

Energy Sensory: 200 -> [350]
Healing Expertise: 0[/spoiiler]

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Acid blast (just a cero but acid)

Riatsu Pool 1,340-200= 1,140

[Astrid Vess]

The Thing would have smiled if it could. Certain that nothing its newfound prey could do would allow it to escape. Hell, it even saw a flash of light, showing that Marik was making an attempt. However, the rocks closed around and then were compressed into one another and assumably, Marik. That is. . . Until Marik reappeared. The world around the Thing slowed for a moment as it was slowly turning around and mind coming to terms that it sensed Marik immediately behind him. Which didn't make sense, he'd just collapsed the rock. . . . he'd caught him while he'd tried hiding like an insect. Or a rat. And yet. . . he was here. It was impossible as far as the Thing was concerned. But that didn't stop it from trying to escape.


The problem was, though its body rapidly began to collapse, Marik was much, MUCH faster. And due to the condensed mass, every kick that came his way was only made that much more impactful, especially considering that it was physically pretty inferior to even average humans. The body slowly was uncondensed and returned to normal form. Wounds rapidly appeared on its body. Flesh torn off. Bruises formed and then made into holes. Blood, gray-green in color flowed all over the place, painting the rocks and ground around. The Thing died well before Marik had finished his complete arsenal kicks. Likely even before the latter half had even been thrown. What remained at the end of all the kicks was simply a pile of blood and flesh. Near finely pounded into a small mound. The thing was dead. The sigil faded. Any energy Marik could sense was long since gone. All that remained in the main cavern was himself and his high from killing this thing mercilessly.


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Astrid and Samson were on their merry way to the entrance of this section of main cavern. Intent to be nowhere near the repercussions of her actions when she had to detonate them. And yet. . . that's when Samson made a noise of his own. A curious groan that Astrid mentally picked up on. With a raised bark above her eye, she silently asked what he was picking up on. And that's when she heard it. Softly but surely, echoing through the rocks. Something was speaking, though she wasn't exactly certain what they were saying. Either way that implied that something was yet STILL alive in that collapsed area. And for once, Astrid had to admit she was mildly impressed by whatever's tenacity was present there. She could not have survived normally. Nor could Samson. Nor her spirits. So, for something there to survive on their own? It was worth her respect.


But that respect meant nothing as it would quickly fuel Astrid to further destroy the tunnel and see just how well, if at all, the entity deeper within could handle it. Astrid opened her hand, spreading her fingers out some and making the closest thing to an open palm that she could. From there she mentally ordered her spirits to come to her. Said spirits, were at this point, turning into tree's themselves as the sigil upon them was changing them to physical objects causing them to be forced into strained and pinned positions. Though they were not inherently killed by this, they were absolutely hindered by this. But something within their shells started to glow. Small spheres of different colors, really depending on what flower they spawned from. Some were red, others were gray, somewhere just speckled with white and black. At the end it didn't matter.


When an orb left the body, the shell started to glow a bright pink. Glowing more and more as the second went by. The previously dark muddled green veins rapidly turned pink. Moments later the entire section of the cave and even the main cavern by extension began to shake incredibly strong as bright pink light filled the entrance to the cave as well as all the free spaces within. The rocks, trees, and even ichor spewed forth by whatever was deeper within was utterly evaporated. Shockwaves from the force of the black slammed into and travelled through the rocks that surrounded the 120-foot blast zone. Interestingly enough while the blast and rumbling were occurring, a plethora of sakura petals flew through the explosion with ease and rapidly made their way towards Astrid and Samson. Both of which were safe from the explosion due to their constant running away from the problem children.


What these petals and the sphere's from before created was interesting. From her palm came a collection of various bones and blackened twigs. They collected and formed something of a chain that she immediately placed around Samson's neck. From there a cloak started to form. Long and flowing with black spiritual energy. If one were to look at it, it'd appear like something was living within the cloak as the cloak moved unnaturally and without Samson or Astrid forcing it to move. If one looked closely, they may even see wrinkles or creases that made something akin to bones from various bodies. Astrid became covered by this as Samson was wearing the cloak and she chuckled to herself. At least they served me well in the end. Let's see how you handle that strange voice from the dark.


As Astrid looked herself over, she started to see that her form while still strongly ethereal was flickering some. Her eyes narrowed. Surely, they had to be near the entrance, correct? Samson was running at top speed through everything and unlike herself should be able to sense Marik, at least in a general sense. She needed to be certain just in case and thus summoned out another small horde of spirits. This time she picked a pack of hason she'd consumed via the invasion against Soul Society. They should be capable enough to aid her and Samson to make sure they left the collapsed area while alerting her to other threats. Namely that voice if it came back again. Thus, when they all finally spawned from her backside and encircled her and Samson, she mentally bade them to spread out and find the main cavern as well as inform the pack of any threats that they found. The spirits nodded before running out on either side and in front of Astrid. Sans one. One stayed behind her, about twenty feet away and continuously looked behind her so that it could inform Astrid of anything come from behind.

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{Reiatsu}
-500 for 10 spirits
-300 for Resentful Cultivation

800 reiatsu used

8,975 - 800 = 8,175 reiatsu remaining

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{Resentful Cultivation}
This technique aims to defend Astrid or an individual she chooses to give it to from attacks they cannot see, don’t have a means to intercept, or simply in addition to their own defense aid them. Ultimately what it does is by sacrificing a minimum of 5 spirits from a given horde (or an entire horde if it’s only 5 minions strong) Astrid is able to make a cloak out of their bodies. The cloak covers the shoulders and is connected by branches around the collarbone of the wearer. These branches are a deep brown and if one inspects closely seem to connect with human fingers as opposed to branches. The cloak itself spans the entire length of the individual’s backside down to their ankles. It’s made of the same wispy material that the spirits are manifested as and it rolls and moves slightly on its own as though a slight breeze is present.


At its core what this cloak does is intercept an attack on behalf of the individual wearing it. A spirit will reach out and attempt to grasp or otherwise defend the user from an attack that is directed at them or that would otherwise affect them. For example it will attempt to grab a sword swung at the user just as it will attempt to block a fireball aimed at them. The OS of the cloak is equal to Astrid’s OS but the spirits that defend the user have an OS equal to 75 x spirits sacrificed. Thus making this cloak more potent the more minions are used to fuel its creation. This is still limited to the 3x OS rule and thus cannot exceed 3x Astrid’s OS. The speed at which the spirits move to intervene is 600. Lastly they have senses and energy sensory equal to 200 and can use the wearer's skill points to aid it in determining if a stealthed attack is coming towards the user.


Lastly this cloak costs 300 reiatsu to form with a 3 post duration. This duration is increased by 1 for every 5 minions sacrificed.


Drawbacks:

300 reiatsu cost, minimum of 5 minions sacrificed with more for higher OS, has a cool down of 3 posts after the duration is used. Cannot form more than one at a time. To give to others the beneficiary must be within touching distance. If the cloak itself is attacked it’s durability can be decreased to 0 cancelling the technique regardless of remaining posts. This is most easily done with stealth techniques that it cannot perceive.


AoE attacks are mitigated for the wearer because the cloak takes the damage for them if possible. Attacks from the front of the wearer do not cause the cloak to react. Nor does it protect the user's front side whatsoever. Lastly an attack that has more OS than the cloak has for defensive purposes damages the cloak. Cannot be created in response to an attack. Must be created prior to an attack for it's reactionary abilities to be used.

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{Infernus information}
class 2

10/40 spirits summoned

4/10 posts used

Cloak posts: 1/7 posts used
Cloak OS: 1,500
Cloak Durability: 1,200

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{Hason Spirit Reference Image}

[Maria Ashwin]

Marik Ashwin

tag: Astrid Vess

Paragraphs: 7

Inovation

is the corner stone of being lazy

It opens doors to make life easier

(1) Marik smile would remain in place his eyes dancing with joy with each kick and blow , striking harder and harder with each kick. The minor fracturing in his legs reminding him he was alive. When he finally winded down naught remained but a pile of flesh.

(2) Blood coating his legs up to his knee , the smell of iron heavy in the air as he stepped over the corpse of his enemy. "thanks for the fun i actually broke a sweat " he would chuckle out as he made his way deeper in the depths.

(3) 'if thats what thier miniions look like i cant wait to see what those bastards can do who are in command' he would think to himself sliding his hands into his pocket as he began to stride with purpose. Everyone here was going to die and it was going to be messy

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Stats:

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{Spoiler}Strength: 400->[240]
Speed: 400->[700]

Spiritual Pressure: 400
Riatsu Strength: 400

Light Aura: 50
Dark Aura: 50

Instinct: 200
Sense: 200

Energy Sensory: 300
Healing Expertise: 0

Techniques Used: 

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{Spoiler} 

Riastu Pool = 3125 remaining

[Maria Ashwin]

Corruption roils

it will spread across the heavens bursting from these lands like a festering ulser

(1) The creature would let out an annoyed shriek as it slowly stood from the liquefied remains of stone. How dare this walking vegetable salad box it in! after that massive explosion , not only had the entrance been caved in once again the damn roof had fallen in once more. 

(2) Luckily for the creature having a body that possesed no bones meant quite a few things , for one a cave collapsing atop of it did little more than piss it off . Not wanting to tase anymore energy then needed the creature would burst into a swarm of slugs.

(3) Slithering forth with unparalleled speed through the cracks in the rock and along the cavern ceiling. moving at a speed of  2000 slithering directly to thier goal. The beast would slowly attempt to reform above astrid and strike out with another blast of vile ichor. This one unobstructed by rubble

(4) in the event she is intercepted she will react accordingly as the situation see's fit.

by Mizo.❉ of ww.

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{Spoiler}Strength: 400 ->[900]
Speed: 200

Spiritual Pressure: 200 -> [134]
Riatsu Strength: 200 -> [400]

Light Aura: 0
Dark Aura: 100

Instinct: 200 -> [134]
Sense: 200

Energy Sensory: 200 -> [350]
Healing Expertise: 0[/spoiiler]

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{Spoiler} Acid blast (just a cero but acid)
modified shunpo in the form of a swarm of slugs

Riatsu Pool 1,340-300= 1,140

[Astrid Vess]

As Samson continued running forward growing ever closer to the exit Astrid was focusing, as much as she could, on the thing that was coming after them. Turns out, from the shriek, whatever it was, had survived ANOTHER collapse and her explosion. Astrid while under normal circumstances might have been further impressed, was now tired of dealing with this thing. And tired of dealing a would be collapsing fucking cave. This was now, the THIRD time she'd had a cave collapse upon her and regardless of why she was fed up with it. Caves either needed to get stronger or she needed to stop going into caves. That was it. As she was slowly thinking up a plan however, Samson and by extension, the cloak he was wearing, realized that the beast was here.



And the beast was unironically one hell of a woman. Another checkmark in Astrid's mind if she were honest and not about to be attacked. Still there were more pressing issues such as the spray of ichor that was about to get thrown from its maw. As the woman was about to vomit up her acid the cloak came to life, an unnatural accursed life. Arms and hands came out in troves, the entire backside of the cloak sprouting out one arm after another, but it wasn't just a skeletal arm the arm was coated in metal and on fire. This was because of the saika's souls that were used in its construction, and they were all actively coming to Samson and by extension Astrid's aid to defend them from the attack.



While the acid spray would be fired out the hands and their flames effectively prevented even a drop of it from reaching Samson or Astrid and worse yet, didn't even lose their flames. If anything, the flames changed from bright red to red-orange then orange-yellow, and they kept getting brighter. The heat near them increasing as well as the light showing from them. But they were quickly receding back into the confines of the cloak. The attack dealt with, and their goal accomplished. Astrid decided however to take advantage of this. Turning her back to the monstress she charged up reiatsu into her backside and produced 2 large spikes of pure rugged obsidian. Once formed she immediately fired them into the torso of the beast above them.



Assuming they hit their mark they'd pierce through her easily and if she stopped, they'd further cut through her body given they were incredibly dense with Astrid's reiatsu. But Astrid not being one to wait and see if she killed her new sluggish stalker immediately decided to shatter the obsidian spikes. . . inside her body. The portion of the spikes that were external to her body shattered and flew upwards and into the body while those within the body shattered and flew outward in all directions. If this thing took the spikes in the first place, there was no chance in hell it was surviving. The volume of 2 3-foot spikes being shattered into 50 shards each should be more than enough to thoroughly shred through whatever flesh remained.



Astrid and Samson in the meantime were running out of time on their incorporeal nature. Thus, why Astrid bid Samson to continue onwards until they were outside the collapsed section. And since the slug woman couldn't physically touch them, there was next to no chance they'd be stopped. Thankfully, they didn't have to wait long they'd actually been almost to the entrance when she'd arrived, their slow down to deal with her making it seem like the last stretch was longer than before but once they picked up their speed again post Astrid firing off the spikes towards the beast, they quickly found themselves along with 7 of their hason spirits, out in the main cavern.



Samson ran out about 10 feet from the "entrance" to the cave and spun around to face it before letting out a loud roar towards it. With the means to actually move himself when he became corporeal, he was ready to fight whatever was after them personally. Astrid herself poked out from the cloak's collar and looked directly at the tunnel entrance. Until she got confirmation from a chick or Samson about that things demise, she wasn't taking any chances. She wanted it dead and gone in no uncertain terms and she'd send in her own spirits to make sure the kill was done properly if she had to.

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{Reiatsu}
-1000 for Form:Obsidian (2x)

8,175 - 1,000 = 7,175 reiatsu remaining

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{Infernus}
Class 2

5/10 posts used

10/40 spirits summoned

Cloak OS: 1,500
Cloak Durability: 1,200
Cloak Duration: 2/7 posts

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{Form:Obsidian}
Class: [3]

Technique Type: [None]

Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): [All Races]

Technique Element: [None]

Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect): [Insert Below]

This technique hardens the user's reiatsu into an obsidian-like crystal, and it can be molded and shaped into anything as long as it does not exceed the volume of the user's own body. The newly hardened reishi has a durability and piercing strength that depends on the cost of the technique. For every 100 reiatsu the user puts into it, the durability and piercing strength of the technique increases by 250 (ex. a cost of 200 reiatsu gives Form: Obsidian a durability and offensive stat of 500). The user can either hold Form: Obsidian or launch it as a projectile at the same speed as a cero.

Once Form: Obsidian is used, the user has the option to activate it once more. By doing so, he can cause the obsidian to crack into as many pieces as he’d like, anywhere between two uneven pieces to a million little grains. He can cause the obsidian to shatter with a speed of up to 600, spreading out to a maximum distance of 15 meters in every direction. The user can control the speed of the shattering and the distance that the shards travel.

How to use technique (How is it activated?): [Insert Below]

Stated above.

Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc) (Insert Below)

The cost of this technique increases greatly depending on the desired offensive stat. The minimum cost is 100 reiatsu and the maximum cost is 400 reiatsu (an offensive stat of 1000). In addition, the user must pay 100 reiatsu for the second activation that causes Form: Obsidian to splinter.