IntSys Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 (edited) Tai "I...uh...we need help." And I need to try! Enough having my head in the clouds, if I ask something, I'd at least get something! "The Tenth God...why are you gods so afraid of him?" Tai asked. "What makes you think that we, mere 'mortals', can achieve what you cannot?" Now that he's really thinking about the whole idea, he began to smell a rat. If the First God was living up to its name, they would've fought the Tenth God and the entire competition wouldn't have taken place to begin with... Wait a second... A horrible thought went through Tai's head. Are they going to keep hosting competitions until someone manages to slay the Tenth God? Edited September 25, 2016 by IntSys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamitako Posted September 25, 2016 Author Share Posted September 25, 2016 Seeker Well that was certainly a loaded question. But it wasn't unanswerable either. "There's simply to much risk involved." She explained, "If the Tenth were to defeat a god, she would gain a real Plane to govern rather than a fake one. It's actually not beyond the realm of possibility that even defeating me would grant Nil legitimacy over one of the current seven Planes, despite the fact that I no longer possess godhood." The holographic girl beside the boy decided then that she would voice her opinion, "Whoever you send will die." She said coldly. "I don't believe that, there are several among the contestants who stand a very good chance of winning." "Not one of them stands any chance, the Tenth God is still a god." "And the Eighth God earned his place by defeating a god. While I am sure that none of them have achieved that level of strength yet, I believe that by the end of this tournament one will earn the right to be the Eleventh." The girl seemed to be getting angry now, "You really don't know anything. I've seen this play out already, it's a lost cause. Not one of them stands a chance." She insisted. "Well I'm not exactly the person you should be trying to convince of the inevitability of any outcome." Seeker retorted, "You ought to have more faith in them." "Faith is for cowards, as you're clearly demonstrating." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutoratosu Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Sully "Eh, it's already complete...shouldn't take me very long" the Mechanic said. He couldn't help but glance at the screen, as the names fleeted by just momentarily. Something about them...he just couldn't put his finger on. "Aquarius...Pisces...why do those sound so familiar? Are they pilot aliases or something? I know I've heard em somewhere..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntSys Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Tai "What do you know anyways? You can place faith in us because you can easily afford the loss. We give birth, we age, we die, we're simply expendable to you! Is your whole plan is just throwing thousands, or even millions of us one by one against the Tenth God, until one of us succeeds?" Tai vigorously retorted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamitako Posted September 25, 2016 Author Share Posted September 25, 2016 Seeker Seeker's usually stoic facade actually faltered. Not with any form of guilt, but rather a stifled laugh. "Oh hardly." She said, "We only have enough time to try this once before it won't matter. If the winner of this tournament does not defeat Nil, then there won't be time to find someone else. Frankly, you're assumptions are shallow. What gives you the right to complain about your supposed expand-ability while asking us to risk an entire Plane's worth of people on your behalf? You really don't seem to understand the implications of failure. If one of us fights and loses, or even takes too long to win, then the Tenth gets everything. Until it's the last resort, we're not going to risk that." "Or maybe you're all just too weak and afraid yourselves." Cardinal suggested. "If that's what you think then I'm sure we can prove you wrong." Seeker answered calmly, "In fact a plan to do so is already in the works. The sentiment of our possible weakness has been spreading, and we do have a small margin of time we can use. So after the tournament fights in Greed there's a plan to have a sort of exhibition. If any of you can beat one of us, then they'll be treated as the tournament's winner without having to challenge Nil and we gods will come up with a new plan--which any new gods will be privy too of course." "You seem confident you won't lose, but if you won't lose then why would the Tenth?" "Because the contest is not static, the competitors are improving constantly. One of them will surpass Nil by the end of it, they have to." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntSys Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Tai "A new plan? If any of us beats you Gods, that wouldn't just mean they won the competition. That would also mean they're the strongest out of the competitors. If the victor doesn't have to challenge Nil, you'd have to send a comparably weaker second placer to fight against him, right? If anything, that actually lowers the odds of one of us beating him." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_H Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 (edited) Upon seeing Mommo fall backwards, Lawrence got out of his chair and quickly scanned the room for any alarm button that he could press in order to alert the medical staff to the situation at hand, as he was not skilled whatsoever in the practice of CPR and dealing with choking accidents. If he found one, he'd hit it. As he looked around, he yelled out to the other standing contestant. "Don't just stand there, keep her from choking to death until the medical staff arrives!" Edited September 26, 2016 by K_H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komodojoe Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 (OOC: I'm not gonna lie here. I'm a bit skeptical about this, but it's the best thing I can think of that would actually help. Just... someone tell me if this is a bit too much.) Morgan Morgan's eyes widened when she saw the Giant fall backwards onto the floor. She quickly got up from her chair, but didn't really do much else. The girl actually just found herself a bit stupefied, just standing there and looking over where Slumbering Giant was sitting before like there was nothing serious going on. While this situation really shouldn't be at all surprising, she was still taken aback by the whole thing. That was, until another contestant snapped her out of it. "Don't just stand there, keep her from choking to death until the medical staff arrives!" "R-right." Morgan quickly rushed over to the choking girl. She didn't really know who said it, but she's definitely thankful for it. At least now she isn't standing there like an idiot. Luckily, CPR won't be necessary just yet, or hopefully at all. What a choking person would need is abdominal thrusts to dislodge the object, which in this case would be a piece of steak, from their throat. In a simpler term, what said choking person would need is the Heimlich Maneuver. Morgan stood the chair back up. Then she turned back to the Giant. "Don't worry. You'll be alright." She said just before she used all her might to lift the Giant back onto her chair, she didn't have enough strength to keep the Giant up along with herself for an extended period of time while doing this. Once Morgan managed to sit the Giant back up, she quickly went around behind the victim, reached around with one hand over the Giant's shoulder and the other arm under the opposite shoulder, grasped her hands together under the abdomen, and pulled her arms inward, then upward. Morgan's sure she's doing this right, but the question now is will it be enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamitako Posted September 30, 2016 Author Share Posted September 30, 2016 Seeker "Well the choice will still remain to fight Nil, since they'll be included in our planning." Seeker said, "So if you have an issue with the way we're doing things, you had better be ready to beat one of us. But keep in mind that there's more to this tournament than competition." Seeker wasn't certain who the holo-girl was, but she had a feeling that this encounter wasn't Tai's idea. This girl was clearly trying to sow doubt among the competitors. Seeker considered trying to take the device she was using to communicate, but thought better of it. Doubt would only help filter out who was actually capable of growing. Diviner "Alright then, go ahead and upload to the schematic to one of those terminals over there and take off your shirt." The Diviner directed, pointing to a collection of terminals by the extraction table. The mention of his designs caused him to look up. "You've heard of Aquarius and Pisces? They're historical terms so I doubt you learned from their origins. You're a mechanic yourself, yes? I suppose it's not unreasonable for you to have heard the rumors of artificial mech creation, although I thought I had kept these two concealed. Pisces and Aquarius are incomplete, unreleased I don't even have receptacles for them yet. I can tell you more after I get your modifications started. Since you're such a powerful pilot you're bound to find out anyways, I may as well brag while I have the chance." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutoratosu Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Sully That's right, I remember now, all that crap about mechs that could be piloted by anyone...like a one size-fits all suit...but... He wandered over and placed a single hand on the face of the terminal, the screen flickering as he mentally wrote a few lines of code that sent the image he'd held locked in his neural databank for so many years streaming down the length of his nervous system and right through his arm, bioelectric impulses being amplified by the tesla sphere embedded just beneath his wrist and transmitted as wireless data. It was smaller than the ones he'd based the Revenant's systems upon, the things presence not even noticeable at a mere glance at his arm, but he'd done special work on this one... he hadn't needed raw output, so much as a method to covert raw impulse into coherent enough direction for binary systems to read, and the Tesla Spheres original designs had been brought into fruition using conventional means first; it was only after he had known they would work under regular physics itself that he'd bothered to translate it to Favor-ready format... she had left him just this... this one little thing, this idea. If he was gonna do it, he was gonna do it right... Regardless, with the transfer complete, he took his palm away from the screen, nonchalantly tossing his shirt aside and turned to face the older man. "So these Artificial Mechs," he continued "they're more than just rumors then? I mean... sounded kinda impossible, the way I heard it...almost like an egalitarian poor man's dream" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntSys Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Tai With a second of silence, Tai left the car and returned to his room right away. "No point, I'm better off beating them." He said, rather annoyed. "And that's exactly what I'm going to do. Unless you have other plans, I'm going to return this weird set of device and fix my mech." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bfroger6 Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Mommo - dying (naaah) Mommo's frame convulsed and choked on the floor. She could only barely make out the jist of the commotion that was transpiring around her. The old guy from the table was shouting around and then some other person came (that's where it got too blurry for her to recognize them or give a shit about what was being said to/about her). She felt herself getting pulled up and then force being applied to her body from behind. Enough force to dislodge the piece of meat that got stuck in her pulmonary system and send it flying through a cough as she finally managed to breathe out again. She coughed a few more times after that, slowly regaining control over herself. She was both grateful and confused at the moment. Also, pretty much feeling stupid as well over what had happened and how she thoughtlessly nommed the food up so swiftly when she usually ate slowly and only periodically. She wasn't ready to eat like a normal human yet! She just wasn't!!! And she should've known that. Oh, right, she was confused because had they left her there, she would've died and they would've had less competition to worry about. Or a thought similiar to that. She wasn't quite able yet after the shock to put together logical word lines in her head muscleblagsjs. So she decided to go with the 'I'm grateful' attitude rather than the 'wha- why would you save me, you idiot' attitude. "U-uhm... *cough* T-thanks..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_H Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 (edited) Hearing the person no longer choking and now able to speak came as a relief to Lawrence. However, what irked him was the complete and utter absence of any way to alert any medical staff that might have been on the train, which he knew could only be attributed to the people who chose it. He decided to voice his opinion aloud. "We're lucky that at least one of us knew how to do the heimlich maneuver, as there is absolutely no way to contact any medical staff from here as far as I can tell. We should check to see if there even are any medical staff on board..." As he finished speaking, he thought to himself. What in the planes is wrong with the Gods? Don't they understand that there is almost always a chance for someone to choke while eating? Lawrence was still mostly trusting of the gods at the moment, but a small seed of doubt had planted itself in his mind. Edited October 1, 2016 by K_H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamitako Posted October 2, 2016 Author Share Posted October 2, 2016 Black Idol Black Idol was too flustered to respond to Kagari's proposal, but she ended up not having to. A whizzing sound went through the air and something show into the back of Kagari's hand hard enough to cause it to reflexively release the zipper she was tugging at. "No boobs!" Blink yelled angrily. Black Idol looked down at the flying object as it hit the floor and was able to see that it was a game cartridge. How odd that Blink not only carried a system, but even an actual cartridge. Black Idol actually felt kind of sorry for her in that regard. "All y'all sit straight and keep your eyes on me, I'm telling you a fucking story." Blink insisted. The goddess actually went so far as to stomp her foot, it was kind of an adorable tantrum she was throwing. Black Idol resisted giggling, preferring not to have the game system follow the cartridge through the air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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