Cirque du Mort - Team 2

[Jabberwocky]

While three Minish were playing trapeze inside, outside of the circus tent was a man pacing back and forth. He was short and his entire body was covered by a cloak. You couldn't see his face, but bugs constantly fell from it and to the ground below where they skittered away.

"I have a good deal for three people! Three lucky people for the last tickets!" he called into the air as loud as he could in a low enough tone that none of the circus men would hear him.

After all, when you are scalper who waits only for the most desperate people tend not to like you.

[No posting order throughout the thread. Just post once between my posts when you can!]

[Ba'ggun]

"RRRRRRrrrrrrmmmmbllrmblrmblrmblrmblrmblrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmblllllllllllllllllllllll." A sudden quaking and the flow of the crowd around the carnival split before Ba'ggun, as she rumbled and rolled to what she believed would be a potential bargain. You see, the one thing that Ba'Ggun enjoyed even nearly as much as the thrill of the race, was a great opportunity at a bargain price.

As the crowd parted for her beeline to the little man, the whirling boulder that was Ba'Ggun parted, her feet planting down and sliding a short ways past the scalper, kicking up a small cloud of dust in her trail. When firmly stopped she glanced around, blinking her smokey doe eyes for something she'd heard about tickets. She'd thought they'd all been sold out, but clearly not. "Yes! I'd like one!" She called out, holding out a pouch of rupees. "Is this enough?"

[joseph]

Joseph walked along the crowd, seeing what looked like a large tent in the distance. As he walked toward it, Joseph could hear what sounded like someone offering tickets. However, it was quiet enough that he could only hear what was being said as he got closer. He was about to accept the offer for a ticket when what seemed like a goron suddenly sped past him.

Mumbling something about rudeness and dangerous actions, Joseph stood back as the female? goron spoke to the man about tickets. He moved to the side of her, a little wary, and looked at the strange man in the cloak, wondering about the bugs but decided it'd be a bit rude to ask about it. "Yes... I am wondering how much it'd be for one of these tickets to the circus. It's always good to get in some relaxation time."

[Sir Hadrian Ecclesius]

If it was one thing Hadrian didn't miss it was carnivals. The only reason he was here was because of an associate that dragged him along, and it seems she's run off again. He was dressed in his normal combative attire despite a somewhat safe environment. Being an officer in the Hylian Knights meant to always be ready and his appearance needed to be sharp as well. On the small of his back, his weapon, Buster Brave was slung. It was very rare for him to be separated with his blade at any time.

The old man looked through the rushing and weaving crowds, looking for the familiar face of his friend but of course he didn't spot her. She was most likely off playing on the rides and seeing the attractions. Instead of spending his whole day searching for her, he'd try to have some fun on his own.

The area was loaded with people, making it slightly difficult to traverse the avenues but he finally stopped after hearing a man with a low voice. He was attempting to reel in three unsuspecting victims into his show, ride, or whatever he was peddling. Hadrian gazed over at the man, he couldn't see his face which automatically set him off but he ignored it. With his white staff in hand, he paced over to the man with bugs falling from his face. At one point, Hade thought he had stepped on a few.

"How much for the last ticket?" he asked, raising a brow and hoping to be able to haggle the price down a big.

[Jabberwocky]

The group all gathered around the scalper. The hooded figure snickered quietly at first. And then louder and louder to a full out cackle. As his body shuddered while he laughed, more and more bugs fell out from the cloth and the darkness within.

"It has been so long... So long since we've been released... I haven't had anything to eat in centuries... But now..."

His body suddenly enlarged, shredding open the cloth that held him in. Now standing ten feet tall was a creature resembling a maggot. Its pail body stood on its tail and several heads protruded from its top, each sporting a mouth with a ring of teeth waiting to sink into the flesh of anyone close enough.

"The price of the tickets is your lives!"

Maggot Beast
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ZILTH

ZILTH:

BA'GGUN:

JOSEPH:

HADRIAN:

[joseph]

An older man and a female goron. Both of them also wanted the tickets that the man with the bugs was selling. Joseph was surprised at how popular these tickets were, wondering if the show was really that good. It made him want to know just a bit more what the show was like, but there was a part of him that was starting to regret his decision.

Mostly because the man who had called them over was now revealing a truly monstrous form, but also because the beast was asking for a price he wasn't willing to pay. With a backward jump, using his staff to push him back more-so, Joseph was glad that anyone who was close before was now running backward in fear.

"I don't know who you are, but I am definitely not going to pay for those ticket now." Joseph said, holding his staff in front of him, ready to defend himself and possibly counter-attack.

Summary: Using his staff similar to a pole vault, Joseph has jumped back while pushing himself backward with his staff to put distance between him and Zilth. (stealing idea from Toasteh lol)

[Ba'ggun]

Ba'Ggun was more than a little dismayed by the sudden gathering of competition for what appeared to be a rather limited number of tickets. What if the people coming up just now, were going to attract even more people to inch up on her bargain!? What an outrage. The young Goron shot a less than happy look at the two men inching up on her turf, and turned her attention back to the salesman, only to see a massive, writhing pile of gross white log-shaped bugs.

This day was getting better and better. How are you supposed to buy tickets from something that's just a giant gross pile of bug matter? And clearly, he didn't seem interested in payment with Rupees, so Ba'Ggun was absolutely at a loss. Absolutely furious, even! Her shoulders hunched together, and she launched herself at the monster in a diving sort of tackle before rolling up into a ball, stony spikes shooting up through the cracks in her rocky skin plates, becoming a whirling porcupine deathball on a cannon path with the invertebrate offender.

Summary: Ba'Ggun leaps forward, enters her [Trailblazer] state, then activates [Allomancy] [Spike Tread].

[Sir Hadrian Ecclesius]

The old man didn't even flinch when the man's garbs ripped to reveal a festering maggot-like body. He, instead, just stared at the creature, still within range. Like second nature, he was already dissecting this creatures composition.

It looked like the creature was actually a cluster of smaller, but still massive maggots. Breaking it apart should make it easier to dispose of. Hade gripped his staff with one hand while outstretching the other towards the creature. A large wall of light energy manifested in front of him instantly. Instead of leaving it sit, using it as a shield, Hade launched his hand forward and the solid wall of energy bolted forward at Zilth. The wall closed the distance fairly quickly since the space between the old man and the creature was short.

Hadrian took a single step backwards, just enough distance to be able to properly prepare for a counter attack. The old man acted with such precision and experience, almost unphased by the danger all together. All this was accomplished before the Goron made it to Zilth.

[Jabberwocky]

Zilth swung one of its "arms" made of maggot heads at Joseph, but instantly the man jumped backwards to safety. A wise move.

Hadrian on the other hand blasted a wall of energy at Zilth. Its formation and movement all happened far too quick for the monster to move. It struck Zilth head on! Its body wobbled backwards a little bit, stunned. And just as it did the Goron spun into it like a Donphan. In a disgustingly loud shriek, maggot chunks splattered all over as the Ba'ggun's spikes shredded Zilth.

In a swift maneuver, Zilth shifted to the side. Its tall maggot body was missing pieces now, but small maggots flooded up from within its body to patch its dripping wounds.

Immediately after Zilth's arms expanded like tentacles, ensnaring the nearby Hadrian and Ba'ggun and smacking them together as if the giant bug had just clapped to kill a misquito. Zilth then tossed them away from it as it retracted its arms.

ZILTH:

BA'GGUN:

JOSEPH:

HADRIAN:

[Sir Hadrian Ecclesius]

Hadrian rolled along the ground after being thrown, but got up right away. He charged back to the maggot, rearing his staff back. It whisped through the air at the creatures arm and right before contact, a free burst of light energy exploded from the staff at the maggot to inflict more damage. Hopefully, the attack would be able to completely rip off the monsters arm, if not more.

The old man backstepped again, out of the range of the creature, keeping it a specific distance away if it tried to move. He extended his hand towards the creature and a ball of light manifested and threw itself in the creatures direction, another free burst attack.

If the group could keep the monster on the defense, this fight would be easy to win.

[joseph]

Joseph was done with him just standing out in the background, knowing it was time for him to attack his opponent. However, in the field there wasn't all that much that he could really do, though he kept his eyes on the large maggot creature, trying to figure out what would be best for him to do against such a beast.

With this all set up, Joseph pressed his left hand against the ground and called forth the three vines to rise from the ground 5 feet near Zilth. Once they grew out to their full length of twenty feet, Joseph caused them to twist together before causing the vines to curl together into a fist-like extension.

With this done, Joseph then manipulated the vines to strike out at Zilth, going from a downward angle to strike the walking collection of maggots in its "stomach".

Summary: Joseph used "Left Arm for Vines" to plant the vines near Zilth. They then twisted together and the ends curled up into something similar to a fist which Joseph them used to punch upward at Zilth.

[Ba'ggun]

Ba'Ggun blinked, somewhat shaken from her hard body being rammed into the Hylian and then thrown. It was a surprise that the man recovered as quickly as he did, but now was no time to question the elder's fortitude. Soaring through the air like a pebble thrown she wrapped back up into herself, and when she hit the ground she was already rolling well away from the battle zone, already at least twenty feet past the wizard and the knight.

However, all was not as it seemed. Her skin plates were digging into the ground at an odd angle, creating a tension which built friction. She began to heat up.

Summary: Ba'Ggun recovers from the throw and re-enters [Trailblazer] state. If knocked out of the state once more, she will enter the enraged [Trailblazer], and won't be removed from her rolling until she attacks. She also moves twenty feet past Joseph and Hadrian, while charging [Friction Blowout] for one turn.

[Jabberwocky]

Hadrian darted like a bullet forward and swung his staff at the maggot's arm. A split second before it struck, light burst forth and aided in the severing of the monster's arm. Flying through the air briefly, the arm soon landed in the background and melted away. Zilth let out a scream of agony and as it went to counter, Hadrian had jumped backwards to escape attack.

As he did so, he charged up another burst of light. It flew through air at a high speed! Only for it to be blocked by a fist made of vines. Oops! The fist came out of no where and was undamaged by the light attack. It didn't even notice it as it continued its uppercut into Zilth's stomach. The strike hit dead-on at the slow beast! The force of its strike forced Zilth high into the air.

But the Maggot Beast wouldn't let this opportunity go to waste. Before it started falling, it opened all the mouths over its body and shot out mainy drops of a green liquid. The spray fell down over the combatants like rain, burning their skin.

Fortunately for her, Ba'Ggun was charging up an attack in Trailblazer and was thus protected from the spray of acid.

ZILTH:

BA'GGUN:

JOSEPH:

HADRIAN:

[joseph]

Joseph felt the acid spit on his skin, and felt it burning away at his flesh some. Quickly wiping all off him as he could, he groaned a bit at the burns, more pissed off then before at this maggot creature. He still had his vines to control, and now he was going to treat it to Joseph's hellish treatment that anyone who decided to attack him deserved.

Lifting both hands up, Joseph split his vines up into three parts and had the middle vine go to wrap around the creature's body and squeeze as the other two vines pulled back as far away as they could, as if gaining momentum and rolling up the tips into fist sided balls. The two vines began to spin around somewhat, gaining momentum before Joseph clapped his hands together, bringing the two vines against the side of the creature in the same way, using the centrifugal force to strike even harder then before. Luckily, the speedy female goron hadn't launched yet.

[Sir Hadrian Ecclesius]

Hadrian quickly shook off the acid but not before it burned his skin enough to cause minor damage. Like instinct, Hadrian formed another barrier in front of him with his left hand, aiming it at the creature as is descended. In his right hand formed a long golden spear. Hade launched the Barrier into the path off the falling creature. And with precision timing, he lunged the golden spear. The spear met up with the barrier in its flight path, hitting the backside. If all went well, the Barrier would hit the maggot creature, sending him towards the far wall while the spear pushed through the barrier to pin the maggot between the wall and barrier, holding it there.

The old man stared, with eyes of fury, at the monster.

[Ba'ggun]

The scene was set. Joseph with one vine wrapped around the creature in mid-air, two vines set to collide with it on either side. Hadrian pounding a barrier into it's center, attempting to pierce the barrier to pin the monster.

Ba'Ggun whirled around, her course now determined, the blur of her goggles barely visible while she spun in place. "Mm!"

"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMBLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL" The sound of her tearing across the fairgrounds back towards the group was well and truly, the most audible sound at the moment. At high speed she curved around Joseph and righted herself, aiming towards the center vine and with perfect grace centered right upon it, riding the vine straight up to the belly of the beast.

"MMOOVVEE AASSIIDDEE PPLEEAASSEE." Her voice vibrated near moments before collision, though Hadrian had likely heard her approach before. If not, he was completely and totally deaf.

If the Spear and Barrier were still in place by the time she reached the maggot's body, she would have the force to send the spear through it, for sure, but not with the precision Hadrian desired. It would probably shatter the barrier, and when her smoking torso collided with the maggot monster, the heated plates providing additional unpleasantness, she would treat it to a familiar attack.

Summary: Ba'Ggun rides up Joseph's center vine moments after the two other vines had made their attack, and Hadrian had made his. She has charged [Friction Blowout] for one turn, adding bonus heat damage, and upon contact with the maggot monster will use [Spike Tread], for additional havoc.

[Jabberwocky]

[Ugh. Why didn't my bookmarks show me that this thread was posted in?!]

All strikes struck just as planned. The beast was weak and shaking. Zilth still had enough strength to fight. Enough strength to devour them all in one swoop!

But before it could counter or before anyone else could attack once more, where the larval monster once was exploded a dust cloud. It lingered within the air for a moment, possibly causing those nearby to cough a little as it spread out and thinned. As it cleared out, a figure began to become apparent. A fat, devilish man with big pointy ears was bowing where Zilth once was if he had just given a performance. A pink umbrella was pointed outward in one hand and against his chest he held a large top hat.

"I do apologize for this inconvenience," the creature stated through his comically exaggerated grin. "I will see to it personally that you are satisfied with our performance."

It wasn't that Zilth had disappeared, but instead was now beneath the fat creature as if he had blasted down from the sky. Zilth groaned as it came to, eyes focusing upon the thing standing on top of it. Zilth began to speak.

"Mast-!"

In one swift movement, the pink umbrella spun around in the thing's grasp via the curved handle and then its spiked point was plunged into Zilth's head without hesitation. Green slime burst out against the pink fabric and that was the end of Zilth.

Still bowing towards the group, the man spoke once again, "Allow me to personally welcome you to Cirque du Mort!"

[Ba'ggun]

Ba'Ggun frowned as the result of their collective attack finally acquired the attention of a customer service representative. "Hmph, well yes then." She said walking up to him, and making to pass into the circus tent.

[Sir Hadrian Ecclesius]

The old Knight was profoundly befuddled at the event of the strange, fat man disposing of the creature and bowing as if it were the introduction scene to his amusement ride. But for all Hade knew, it probably was. He was still speechless, however.

[joseph]

Joseph growled a bit to himself, before composing himself, the vines that had hold of the creature returning to their normal up-right positions before they shaped themselves into what looked like a small chair, one in which Joseph took a seat, leaning on his staff and looking at the new stranger. Something was up with this fellow, and the fact that the creature was dispelled so quickly didn't sit well with him.

"Well, if the rest of the show is like the one we just 'enjoyed' here, I hope you'll treat us better then the beast who is beneath your foot." Joseph said, his left arm resting at his side, a small deku baba looking thing looking around near his shoulder.