(OOC: Ooh, me! And Shade, I guess you could teach Kuli something, but he's probably at the limit for training, the idea would be to give Icarich something to use when Kuli leaves his body.)

Kuli stumbled through the portal just as Ungarrant brought his sword through a great arc meant to cleave Shade clean in half.

Shade, however, was too fast for him and he leapt easily out of the way. Kuli took the chance to toss the mlaelstaff like a javelin straight at Ungarrant's middle while he was reeling from the swing.

"Weaklings!"

He spat disdaindully as he easily knocked the staff to the side.

"This might take some planning." Kuli called to the other champions.

Kiyobashi made another strike at Ungarrant's unprotected back but it dashed harmlessly off the plates.

He's a bit tougher than I had hoped Shade communicated to Kuli telepathically...

Just then the other champions came through the portal...

"Get down, go for cover!" Screamed Kuli when they appeared...

(OOC: Okay, I thought Highemp or Geb were supposed to post for Ungarrant so I don't want to go to far yet. )

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Actually, Pengun, you all seem to be doing well as it is! So carry on! Though, Shade, you're making your character just a tad too powerful.

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yeah, yeah, yeah. i'll hold back alittle more.

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Er...better make that "in a few days".

Don't give me that look

Oh I'll give you that look alright >

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here are my responses, numbers correspond.
1. i don't really care.
2. what was wrong with my idea? shade is very powerful, therefore by making him inconsistent (as in less active) he is balanced out. when he uses these huge attacks, they exhaust him, and while he is in battle he keeps goign mainly on adrenaline, but once the battle is over, thud. he's out cold for a day, or more depending on the amount of power he uses. I'm very busy right now, what with all that is going on in my life. I say we leave the synthegrams out of this. that would be rather detrimental to the plot that is being set up. instead, let's have shade still go rage, but after the elven king joins in, that way we have one character everyone can play who is Ungarrant's equal, then, once Ungarrant is dead, Elivar will separate into the people who made him, and Shade will collapse from the exertion of maintaining such a meld of beings. then he is out of the way for a couple of days, and then the bad guys will have a good reason to get to work on bringing in everyone's nemesis, and tiem to do it. plus it will allow me to handle #3 with out having to do Shade as well (at least for starters.)
3. I'll take Ogres and Wraiths. more to come on them after Shade is out cold in the Amber Fortress, or I have some time to plan it out.

please take this into serious consideration, I am very stretched right now what with the end of the first quarter of the school year. will be fine once next nine weeks starts up...I think.
thanks a bundle,
Shade

afterthought:the weremen thing...they should only have one fixed alternate form, not the ability to turn into anything they want. you know, sort of a hereditary thing? just a thought.
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[This message has been edited by shade (edited October 15, 2001).]

ALright, I'll go with Rocs and Chimeras. By the way, are Chimeras the usual Greek version? Because the actual definition of a Chimera is a creature made up of different animals...so could I choose? And if they are the Greek version is it Lion, Goat, Serpent? I've seen a few variations.

And I agree more with Highemp's idea Shade.

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Shade, I'm not disagreeing with your idea, I'm merely adding to it. Elivar is formed from the powers of the champions, but they are not powerful enough to defeat Ungarrant singlehandedly. He IS virtually all-powerful, understand.

BTW, clarification on the chimaeras, wraiths, and weremen. I was envisioning the chimaeras to be the Greek version, but if you have other ideas, Pengun, that's fine. Wraiths are shadowy beings who can become noncorporeal for certain amounts of time. And each wereman has ONE different alternate form, but that form is different for each wereman. Sorry I didn't make that clearer.

Also, just out of curiosity, how old are all the writers? I'm 18, turning 19 in December.

Another note: not only do I not require cursing in this story, I strongly discourage it. Naturally, I don't have absolute power over you, so I can't make you not do it, but anyways. . .

Oh, and if ANYONE has thoughts on who the Dark Being should be, even if you're one of our READERS as opposed to a writer, your thoughts are also appreciated.

I do believe that's it.

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Shade, I'm not disagreeing with your idea, I'm merely adding to it. Elivar is formed from the powers of the champions, but they are not powerful enough to defeat Ungarrant singlehandedly. He IS virtually all-powerful, understand.

BTW, clarification on the chimaeras, wraiths, and weremen. I was envisioning the chimaeras to be the Greek version, but if you have other ideas, Pengun, that's fine. Wraiths are shadowy beings who can become noncorporeal for certain amounts of time. And each wereman has ONE different alternate form, but that form is different for each wereman. Sorry I didn't make that clearer.

Also, just out of curiosity, how old are all the writers? I'm 18, turning 19 in December.

Another note: not only do I not require cursing in this story, I strongly discourage it. Naturally, I don't have absolute power over you, so I can't make you not do it, but anyways. . .

Oh, and if ANYONE has thoughts on who the Dark Being should be, even if you're one of our READERS as opposed to a writer, your thoughts are also appreciated.

I do believe that's it.

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2. i agree Highemp. its better for the brothers t destroy theirfather in the ultimate betrayal.
3 ill take the faeries, and the weremen. ive got a few ideas to go along with that.

anyway. ill post on what ford does soon. im sorry i havent had much time lately.

Here is my conceptual line drawings for the Roc and Chimera.

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I call dwarves and centaurs!

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dibs on satyrs and pegusi

*waits for TLTE to post his post*

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errrm, pengun, that little red x thing is very pretty, but it suggests to me that you should try to put that pic somewhere else. your current source doesn't seem to want to load.

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My goal in this post is to establish all nine champions in the battle with Ungarrant, so that each writer doesn't have to sketch in how his character got there, but rather just plow on into the fighting. That said, I'm trying my best to be as accurate and true to as possible, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to be able to read your minds, so in your subsequent posts, you can correct any gross inaccuracies I've made

The battle between King Ungarrant and Ganelon's nine champions had begun in earnest. Kiyobashi, Bob and Shade were now backed up by every other champion, and they all brought their skills to bear, in a combined attempt to bring down their opponent.

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Confident that he had the situation well in hand, Ti-Shen extended his palms, and a fountain of deadly crimson energy, manipulated by mastery of tones, streamed out from them. The blast would have vaporised a normal man.

Ungarrant caught the blast on his sword, deflecting it harmlessly up into the air and turning without a second glance back to the others.

Ti-Shen gritted his teeth in frustration and ran off in another direction, hoping to catch the King by surprise...

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Drawing upon the unique magical powers of his race, Yoda007 took careful aim, and launched a deadly glowing fireball at Ungarrant's head. The Dark Lord took the blow square in the face, and took a forced step back, temporarily forgetting the legion of assaults on him by the other champions.

Then, suddenly-violently-he charged up to Yoda007 and swung his sword upward at him. Yoda007 leaped back, but too late. The blow gashed a very deep wound down his chest and torso.

Satisfied that he was dealt with, Ungarrant resumed his duel with the others.

Yoda007, however, knew he was fine.

He summoned his other unique racial trait-that of healing-and the deep line of red down his body unmade itself, like an eraser rubbing out a pencil marking.

Leaping to his feet, Yoda007 readied another attack...

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Icharich had drawn his longsword, and was unleashing a flurry of rapid blows onto Ungarrant's sword, which moved rapidly forward and backward, deflecting every stroke, its speed deceptively good for the sheer huge nature of the weapon.

Finally, the talented champion was bested, and Ungarrant swung upward with all his might, sending Icharich's longsword clattering away.

Ungarrant hovered his blade inches from Icharich's neck, grinning.

"Beaten."

Suddenly, his sword was blasted away, and Ungarrant turned, snarling, to Ford, his pistol barrel smoking. The sharpshooter champion grinned, and pressed his attack, firing more and more rounds at Ungarrant. The Dark King's body shuddered and his armour shrieked as the powerful weaponry found its mark, but Ungarrant himself only laughed.

Finally, Ford's gun was dry, and he took a hesitant step back, as Ungarrant's hands glowed purple, seeming to mold an invisible circular object in the air.

The invisible object soon took physical shape, in the form of a glowing purple ball.

Then, Ungarrant's palms opened, and the purple ball flew toward Ford at the speed of sound, impacting with his chest and sending him flying several dozen feet backward, landing in a cloud of dust.

Ungarrant's attention turned back to Icharich-

The champion had already backflipped several times, and with deliberate precision, snatched his longsword off the ground, glaring at his foe.

With a dismissive grunt, Ungarrant turned back to the other warriors.

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Eluidath had found himself in a disagreeable situation. He had so far been able to do battle with his foes in hand-to-hand combat, and win with ease.

However, with Ungarrant's scaly armour and swift sword, he wasn't sure he wished to get that close. His aged mind searched for another way to defeat the Dark King, and he soon found it.

Lifting a poleaxe from the corpse it was attached to, Eluidath ran nimbly toward the rapidly-shifting form of Ungarrant, digging the shaft of the weapon into the ground and pushing himself up into the air with all his might, his bare foot outstretched in a lethally-strong flying kick.

The blow struck its mark, and the noise it produced was akin to a heavy crate dropping from the top of a skyscraper. Visibly stunned, Ungarrant was still fast enough to grab Eluidath by the leg as he fell back to the ground, holding him upside down.

Eluidath glared at the Dark King's inverse leer.

"How obliging of you."

Then suddenly, he drew Eluidath back and tossed him, with supernatural ease, at Kiyobashi. The two of them collided and went tumbling across the war-torn battlefield.

Kiyobashi growled as they struggled to their feet. "No time for games, old man! This is serious!"

For his part, Eluidath just sighed.

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This actually takes quite a bit of backtracking and research to make sure I'm factually correct, so if the 3 remaining champions want to post their individual sections, you have today and maybe tomorrow to do so. Otherwise, the show must go on

two things TLTE. one fords weapon will never "go dry". the only thing that would happen is that the balst would get progressively weaker, as his life force got progresively depleted. so my best guess is that ungarrant sensed Ford was getting weaker, and threw the purple thingy at him.
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Ford got up and shook his head groggily. he didnt know how long h'd been out for, minutes, hours, weeks? in his mind, it felt like years. he tried to summon up his energy, but he found himself vastly depleted. he saw eluidath nursing his severely broken leg, and crept towards him.

"are you allright?"

"yes, yes. ill be fine. ahh!" eluidath said as he moved his leg.

"Let me help you i cannot completely heal it, but i can take the pain away, and start the bone coming back together." with this, ford put his hands od eluidaths knee, and slowly, drawing forom eluidath, focused energy into the lege straigtening it, the bones shattered bones coming back together with the ease of two powerful magnets.

eluidaths eyes widened when the pain was suddenly gone, and his leg seemed straight again. "how.."

"Shhhh. dont try to get up, your bones will need time to heal properly. now ive taken some of you energy, not much, but enough so i can get inthere and fight. your leg prevents you from doing so. is that allright?"

"yes, good. at elast i can be of some help. thank you ford."

"dont mention it. we'll be back for you."

with this ford tured back towards the battle. there would be no fooling around with his pistol this time, this was time for pure unrefined body energy. nothing more, nothing less.


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well here we go, now im back in the battle. ive got to do some thinking and go to school, but i promise therell be more later. quick poll: who is your favorite character? mine is icharich, has ben since he first post about him. anyhoo. on with the story.

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Icarich is your favourite? Cool.

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I rather like icarich as well. him and shade seem to make a good team. that might be because they share the same arm count. adn the fact they both come from opposite ends of the warrior pool. shad eis one of the most powerful fighters, icarich, well, isn't. no offense pengun. but here, shad eis going to lone icarich (his buddy) a useful toy to help him out. enjoy!
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observing Icarich once again go after Ungarrant after reclaiming his blade, Shade winces as the annoyed old warrior shatters Icarich's blade with one mighty swing

"shi- that must've stung. ICARICH! HOLD ON!" Shade bellows out as Ungarrant turns on the now defenseless Icarich to deal a killing blow

Ungarrant:"I gave you a chance to leave you annoying little runt. now I will kill you and use your pathetic corpse to wipe my blade."

Shade:"not if I can help it. you'll have to get through me first. *to icarich* how ya doin'? here, stick these gloves on, they project a small field of heat directly in front of the knuckles and can melt through most alloys. I'll delay him for a couple of-"

before Shade can finish, Ungarrant makes one massive swipe with the broadside of his blade, knocking shade several yards and causing his Bio-tech armor to reshape for a few seconds.

Ford:"what's the matter Ungie? to OLD and FEEBLE to face your opponents head on?"

as Ungarrant turns to face the now rearmed ford, Icarich finishes putting on the GLoves and delivers a set of four-beat punches to the small of Ungarrant's back, leaving a small, glowing, yellow dent. Ungarrant turns to face Icarich with a roar of pain, but is then surprised by several well placed shots to the same heated spot, further thinning the armor there. as Ungarrant spins around in a rage, Shade slowly gets to his feet, his eyes now a solid crimson color and little flamelets dancing around him.

???:catch your breath champion, rushing back in will help no one. remain with me while you heal your ribs."

Shade (in a VERY chilling voice, one that seems convey the feeling of millions of beings getting torn limb from limb by some massive righteous beast):"who are you?"

???:"I'm Murdrain, King of the Elven People. now Harness your Rage until Ungarrant has been weakened some."

having said this Murdrain then outlines his idea, and shade, still in some pain from his fractured ribcage and bruised internal organs, agrees, after choking down his Rage.
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sorry, trying to bring in Jaccik for you guys and keep the story going and such, Shade is going to take a little bit to bite back his rage and heal his fractured ribs, then he'll be back by the time that spot int he small of Ungarrant's back is popped open. then one of you can figure out how to send Shade into a full blown Rage. I'm stumped after that. (can you tell I run an RPG myself? apologies to you high emp if I stepped on your toes there. I just had sudden inspiration and ran with it.)
have fun guys.
AFTER EDITING kay, modified it some, for info on what murdrain's plan is, read my next post. it tells everyone (including highemp) that I apologize for missing that detail and that I will correct it. it then tells what murdrain's plan is. ta-ta!

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[This message has been edited by shade (edited October 25, 2001).]

Okay, a few things.

1) Very good post, TLTE.

2) You can all start on your two races. Describe the government and geography of them, then have Ganelon contact their rulers somehow.

3) Shade, sorry, but we need CONSISTENCY! King Jaccik (whose name I am changing to Murdrain, having suddenly remembered that I plagiarized it from SoD) was described a frail, weak king (physically) due to his debilitating battle with the Dark Wizard Corling. He has some latent magic power, but he doesn't know of it yet. So basically, he can't do much but direct the battle. Don't worry, I'll bring him into the battle myself, but I really DO appreciate your initiative!

*waits*

People, come on!

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okay, so just discount anything involving him going to battle. we'll just say he told shade to contain his rage and then the two of them linked power so that murdrain could talk to the champions through shade's telepathic communications without Ungarrant knowing. any other complaints? oh and about the battle bit, i just forgot about that. sometimes I just miss those important details. good thing I know how to adapt huh? I will change that right now.

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Yeah, just remember that Icarich isn't controlling his body right now so he is, essentially, Kuli.

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sry havent posted earlier but TLTE Yoda007 cant shoot Uggarnaut with a fire ball....yet i'll do more on that later but he can just shoot him with that gun and HighEmp does the amber Citadel have a library or some other information thingy.
Everybody else good job on the posts. I myself am not to good at posting battle scenes but once the battle is over i got some ideas.

Yoda007, that's fine. Do you mind emailing me your ideas at Shadowlord37027@yahoo.com? And the Amber Citadel has the biggest, most comprehensive library in the multiverse, so don't worry.

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My favorite guy is probly Ford.

getting started on planning out Ogre and Wraith info and such. can Ogres and Dragons be hereditary enemies? but who would the Wraiths have as enemies?

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okay, so wraiths won't have any enemies, will get to work on them. have wraiths up soon.
where'd y'all go to?

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I had written a big long response but then I had a crash and lost it. I don't feel like re-writing it now. By the way Shade, I think I'll stick with the mlaelstaff, gloves just don't suit Icarich's style and I doubt they'd fit his shape of hands.

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sure they will, one size fits all. literally in this case.

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Then Trini woke up. He said, "HEY IM NOT REALLY MOORDIAN THE KING OF THE ELVIAN PEOPLE! IM TRINI! IT WAS ALL JUST A DREAM! I BETTER CONTINUE MY JOURNEY TO FIND THE LIVING BREATHING TREE. HE WILL HELP ME SEEK THE STONE OF GLOWING CHEESE!"
As he hopped out of his garbage can house, he jumped into his taco mobile and sputtered down over the lush mountain of cheeseburgers!
"AHH HOW I LOVE FOODLAND! IT IS THE BEST PART OF WACKKY WORLD I KNOW! NOW I MUST COMB MY AFRO WITH THIS FRO PICK OF GOLD AND FIND KUNG FU JOE!"
As he sputtered along on his taco tastic automobile he left a trail of guacamole. He heard a voice.
"HEY ID LOVE A CHIMICHANGA RIGHT NOW!"
It was kung fu joe. Trinis long lost cousin, who is actually the father of his long lost brother Tabago!
"Hop in Kung Fu Joe!" Trini yelled "I'm on my way to the Living breathing tree who will tell us where to find the cow of saphire who will give me the ultimate fro pick so i may attain the final leve of afrotude and oust Blargaloo from the throne of largalook.
"INDUBITABLY" Yelled kung fu joe as he hopped onto the moving cheeseburger mobile.
They sped along the highway until finally they reached the village of the crazies
The announcer said "The Village of the Crazies... They'll never make it out alive
"AY THATS A BUNCH A BLOOK FLAGGIN BLARNEY YA TINGLE FINKING DAISY KISSER" said Hank.
"Yah youre right" trini said "dont listen to him"
"As they entered the village of the crazies an old woman yeled "MWA MWA!"
"HEY MON! THAT WAS CRAZY MON!" said kung fu joe.
"Then they entered the Giant Castle of Cows and...

Pugler, what was the point of that?
i mean, other than to show off how utterly stupid and inconsiderate you are. if you want to do stuff like that, pick a story that has room for it. stay out of this one.

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I must concur in other words.... LEAVE THIS STORY ALONE!!!!

Murdrain sat in his litter, carried by four strong elves, as he was too weak to stand up for very long. He took his eyes off the creature known as Shade as soon as that was settled and watched the battle between the other eight champions and Ungarrant.

Ti-Shen fired golden bolts of acoustic energy at Ungarrant, which he shrugged off as though they were gnats. Eluidath created illusionary creatures to distract the Dark Father. Kiyobashi and Bob continued to work as a team, searching for weak points in Ungarrant's armor. Yoda007 carefully aimed his pistol at the small of the Dark King's back, where his armor had been weakened, whispered a quick prayer to whomever might hear, and fired.

He missed. The small of the back at least. But he did hit Ungarrant in the back of his head, causing it to snap forward with the concussive force of the blow. The King whipped around and sliced into Yoda's shoulder. The diminutive champion bit back a cry of pain before retreating and healing himself.

King Murdrain of the Elves tensed. As he came closer to the Dark Father, he had sensed something inside himself growing in answer to the dizaablan's power. He didn't know what it was, save to know that it was there.

Ungarrant finally threw up his arms, and energy burst from his form, knocking all the champions backward. Murdrain howled as the energy swept into him, then. . . something within him howled in response. Power swept up out of his very being, slamming into the Dark King, causing him to stumble in surprise. Murdrain looked at his wasted hands in surprise. How had he done that?

But there was no time to consider it as Ungarrant readied another attack. . .

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Shade, I suggest you do your amalgamation bit now, if you don't mind, and have Elivar attack Ungarrant along with Murdrain.

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As the energy blast hit the group Shade was the first one to stand up again, his eyes blazing and the air around him shimmering from the sheer energy radiating from him, one by one the other champions stood up, compelled to stand by Shade by some unknown force, Ungarrant, staggering from the sudden blow from Murdrain, slows and stops as realization dawns on him that he has awoken something better left undisturbed
Shade, no GLowing, begins muttering in an odd halfway familiar voice, casting some new spell, one that reaches out and touches each of the Champions, exploring and weaving itself into each of them, creating a connection. then with a sudden brilliant flash, Shade's head snaps up, with him, all the Champions suddenly look Ungarrant straight in the eyes and begin speaking the same spell in their own home language, each contributing to the massive spell.
Ungarrant:"what is happening? do you think you can stop me with some little spell?"
The Champions, as one:"we don't plan on casting just one spell, but the spell.
POWER UNITING US, ONE AND ALL, ALL AND ONE, MANIFEST AND BIND US TO EACH OTHER IN A UNION DEEPER THAN BROTHERHOOD, BRING FORTH THE MOST ANCIENT BEING!"
Shade, by himself:"Elivar, Come forth!"
with a sudden maelstrom of rampant energy the Champions find themselves unraveling, merging into each other, forming one mighty Being with power to rival even that of Ungarrant's.
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OOC:that's it, my creative juices are all tapped out. you guys can argue out what he looks like. or just leave him a maelstrom of enourmous amounts of rampant energy flowing continuously around one core conscious mind. just remember, he is all the Champions, and he has everyone's abilities and power. whee!

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