Aanaarden

Zak reluctantly opened his eyes. He felt tired, but knew that staying asleep on the ground wouldn't make anything better. Using a nearby wall, he slowly stood up and took note of his surroundings, brushing his hands together to sweep off whatever it was that he touched. Mold...trapdoor...nothing too weird... His legs were sore, and so was his head. Maybe from how he landed. There were some others on the floor, most likely with the same fate that he had met.

Still leaning on the wall, Zak noticed someone walking back towards this room. He slowly crouched down and picked up his stave, then stood back up, groaning a little at having to stand on his still tired legs. "Who's there? I am well-...well, I am armed!"

Dakar awoke to voices filling the room. In his grogginess, he was unable to decipher their meanings, but he could tell that they were at least human. "Ugnh, my head. W-where am I?" he said, his deep voice echoing throughout the room. He looked up, waiting for his blurry vision to clear. He saw a chamber, a dungeon to be exact. It was old, grimy, and disgusting with mold crawling up and down the walls. He looked around, seeing rusty cell doors and chains. He then focused his vision on the four others standing a ways away from him. He stood, turning his large, muscular figure towards them. He had no idea of their intentions, whether they had ended up here just like he had or not, but he could never be too cautious. He approached them carefully.
"Excuse me. My name is Dakar fon Giruvagen. Can anyone tell me how we got here?" he asked the group of strangers.

Dakar peered into the darkness Kross was looking into, down the hallway (if it could be called that). His focus seemed to be on that of another person in the dark. He was uncertain of what to do, not knowing if they were dealing with friend or foe. "It's the cunning that hide in the dark. Be on guard", he warned Kross.
"E tuh'd ghuf fru oui yna...." a voice came from the black. It was a woman, and Dakar recognized the language: this woman, whoever she was, was Al Bhed. "Un ruf oui kud rana...Ymm E ghuf ec dryd oui'na y boy", she finished. Dakar heard her footsteps, and she stopped under a lantern in the corner of the dungeoun. Dakar could only see her hair now; a stange color purple. Dakar raised his left eyebrow in curiosity.
"Al Bhed........how peculiar", he muttered to himself. He thought for a moment before turninig to the others. "What should we do?" he asked.

As he watched Kross go down the hallway to the left, and the mage follow the one called Heart, Dakar saw no better choice than to follow Kross, seeing as he was going alone. He turned to look at the Al Bhed girl again, and she seemed to not want to follow. Dakar turned away from her, following down the hallway to the left. At first, he couldn't see where Kross was until walking down the hall a little ways. "Greetings", Dakar said kindly as he stepped forward to join the other warrior. Suddenly, he was pounced on by a goblin. The creature stood on Dakar's shoulders, trying to force it's dagger into the large man's head. His helmet had deflected the dull blade, however, and Dakar was able to grab his enemy in his right hand, and deliver a sound, bone-breaking punch (-30) into the goblin's face. The goblin lashed out at Dakar, skinning his leg (-5). Dakar then reared back with another forceful punch, crushing the ugly creature's face (-20). The goblin disappated, and a tiny blue orb shimmered where it had been. Dakar grabbed it, and it dissolved into his body, and he felt the slightest surge of strength flow through him as he stepped forward to join up with Kross.

(+5 EXP)

||| Ignore this post. I kinda failed and put it in Aanaarden on accident. Oops. |||

Kross watched Dakar take care of the goblin with ease and decided it was safe to put his daggers away. "Nice work, you aren't half bad." Kross complimented him and turned continuing down the hall. He walked a couple steps before his inhuman ears picked up a slight noise coming from behind them. It was too quiet for normal human ears to hear but it was as if it was right next to Kross because of his large elf like ears.
"You can come up here you know," Kross yelled back into the darkness where he knew the girl was following, it had to be her. "I won't hurt you. I'm not like most of those uncivilized humans, I treat ladies with the utmost respect."

(ugh just noticed I also forgot to click dungeon, first mistake)

||| OOC: Dude, wtf. I didn't think that posting in the chat put something here. That's dumb. |||

"Not a problem." Zak then saw the blue aura sphere that his ally had offered him. He grabbed it and felt a small burst of energy flow through his being. "Hah, thanks." Maybe I can trust this guy. The others...I'm not so sure of. He followed behind, as his new friend walked cautiously down the hall. Another split? Okay...I'm a lefty so- "Let's go to the left. Maybe we'll meet with everyone else." At least if they're hostile, I'll have a chance with an ally, instead of a free for all.

(+5 EXP)

Zak watched as Heart killed two of the creatures, but get attacked by the last. Heart told him to attack the last one with his magic. Zak waited for the vermin to back off of Heart's leg, and while Heart stabbed it, Zak casted fire yet again, finishing off the last of them (-12). Watching the vermin dissipate, he walked up and took in the aura, leaving the other two spheres for Heart, believing that he deserved them. "I don't think we should stay in the same spot for too long. We could be attracting a lot of attention with this noise. And attention is the one thing we don't need here." Especially since I don't fight too well in close quarters...

Zak: 44/52 HP 15/27 MP
Vermin 1 HP: 0/20
Vermin 2 HP: 0/20
Vermin 3 HP: 0/20

(+3 EXP)

Onwards. And, hopefully, upwards. Zak couldn't help but feel like he was being watched. And the more he reasoned to himself about the mold, the more he felt watched. Mold could easily get water from the air. Well, possibly. What about food. There's no sunlight, so no plant based life would be able to survive...or at least, shouldn't survive. He continued to philosophize about his surroundings and almost bumped into Heart when he stopped walking abruptly. Zak was about to apologize through habit, but saw why he had stopped. He watched as Heart's sword slipped through the monster like...well, a sword through flan. "I'm pretty sure I could flame broil this thing pretty easily. Zak began casting his more powerful fira magic, and attacked the gelatinous blob (-42). Zak watched his handiwork turn the blob into a crispy looking desert. He then watched as it flaked away, leaving behind a sphere, which he grabbed for. He felt a strength flow through him significantly stronger then the rats' spheres had.

Zak: 44/52 HP 9/27 MP
(+12 EXP)

Kross watched the other man use a move called defense breaker on the enemy which would make this battle infinitely easier allowing more damage to be done with each attack. Moving in slowly from the Oni's left side he slashed his left dagger down across its midsection (-21) then followed up with his right dagger stabbing into its chest (-21). Jumping backwards as fast as a cat he landed beside the other two.
Just as he did the Oni rushed at him and swung his fist at him, with flames revolving around it. The claws slashed at Kross and hit him across his chest a fire spreading across his body engulfing him in flames before they died out a second later (-11).

Kross HP: 32/60

Oni HP: 89/230

(NO! I did it again!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Kross saw the mage come in and was relieved that they now had four people to help fight off this demon. Seeing an opening Kross slid within range of the Oni and slashed with his left then right dagger at its chest and midsection (-21,-21).
The creature looked at him and flicked its tail in his direction hitting him square in the chest sending him flying back to the others (-11)
"He seems to be weakening..." He said to none of them in particular.

Kross HP:21/60

Oni HP: 43/230

Kross watched the other man finish off the beast and pick up his share of the experience. Kross stuck his two daggers back into their sheaths and walked over to a blue orb and reached out absorbing it up his arm. This time thought eh flow energy felt stronger than ever before, it was almost perceptible.
"Good fight," Kross said reaching his hand out for the other that had originally been in the room when he attacked the Oni, "The name's Kross, ex-captain in the king's army. Nice to meet you...?" He paused waiting for the other to fill in the blank.

(+50 exp)

((Damn it I keep forgetting to click the dungeon lately))

Laying on the ground, an unconscious Elezan girl was waking up. As she regained consciousness, she blinked her eyes several times while leaning up and rubbing the back of her head. "What happened? I was just helping a child and then..." After she had gotten her senses back, she looked around her surroundings, "Where am I? How did I end up here?" Moving her hand to her side she felt something touch her fingers and brought her hand back swiftly. Looking over in that direction, she only touched her bow which made her sigh. Picking it up, she pushed herself off the ground. The area was unfamiliar to her and had a dark presence surrounding the air. She took one step, and another carefully watching the darkness around to. She had no idea what was waiting out there, so she tried her best to be as careful as she could.

After walking just a few yards, she could hear a battle somewhere nearby. Even though it surely meant humans she still kept herself from overreacting and approaching swiftly but quietly. She found a group of humans and some other races. It seemed they had just met a blue mage, which she could only infer due to the fact he was wearing a blue robe, and that they had some of their attention towards him. The group made her nervous for some reason making her hesitant to walk up to them. She put an arrow in her other hand just in case, and said in a loud voice, "Excuse me, hi. Do you know the way out of here? If you do I would like to leave as soon as possible."

Kross watched as two newcomers showed up out of no where and walked up to their group. "It would have been of you to be here when we killed that demon," Then he noticed that the new female had arrived, and interestingly enough she was of his own race.
"You can put that arrow down dear, if we wanted you dead you would be. We are on the same side, the side of the ones trying to get out of this dungeon," He walked up to her and bowed slightly, "My name is Kross, ex-captain in the King's army. It is always a pleasure to meet a fellow Elezen."

Kross looked over at Heart and shrugged his shoulder, putting his hand on top of Heart's. "As long as this helps kill that asshole of a King I'm in."

(Sorry been like a week so I forgot. You are like only person I know that cares where we post lol. Also sorry about shortness didn't really know what else I could put in there.)

Kross felt the power from the orbs flow into him and he felt a lot stronger than he had before the chant. "It seems your little trick worked Hear..." Kross stopped mid-sentence as he heard a rather large noise coming from down the hall where they had originally awoke. "Excuse me but something calls my attention back at our cell... I will go see what it is by myself no need for anyone else to come with."
Kross turned around and walked down the hall they had come down to get to the room filled with books, although this time there were no monsters. As he neared the cell he saw a large creature in it, one he recognized as a chimera. "This should be interesting!" he yelled as he drew his daggers and charged the beast.

(no one come down to help me, this is Kross's first shard fight so even if you did come you would not be able to enter the cell to fight)

Ito couldn't understand what just happened but she liked the feeling. She felt a little faster and stronger than she had before. Before she could thank the red-head, the other Elevan went off to fight a monster of some sort. So she followed what the red-head had asked and went over to grab a book. Nothing looked interesting so she grabbed a book on archery. Flipping through the pages everything in there she had already knew, Aim, Quick shot, tell me something new.

Setting the book back in it's place, she grabbed another book on animals and monsters. She had read a similar book when she was younger, but this one had a page on a monster she had not seen before, Behemoth, ferocious beasts with regal, fluttering manes and roars violent enough to shake the earth itself. After rending foes with long claws and horns, they usually use their sharp teeth to deal the killing blow. Also known to use high-level magic, Behemoths are enemies of the top rank. I would definitely not want to fight one of those by myself. Ito turned the page to see an actual picture, and she was even more frightened of it.