Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Whitebrand » Sat Sep 24, 2022 10:28 am

Brand and Emilia looked around on alarm. What had happened? Had the mad chaos of the place caught up with them?

Gayle stared down the hall.

"What the hell?"
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Redfield » Sat Sep 24, 2022 10:38 am

"It's different, it's definitely different" Mercuriel states shaking her head, she moved back to the other door looking to the room beyond it was the same, the staircase was still present. She moved back over to the door and stood beside Gayle; the human shook her head as she looked down the corridor moving to put a hand on the woman's shoulder. A single stream of sand began to pour down into the corridor pooling on the floor, a similar stream began to pour down in the corner of the room they were in.

"Well that can't be a good sign."


Down the corridor insight of Brand something was present, it was a tall figure looking very much like it was stretched out. It's clothing was ragged, and bones were visible with old skin. The head was boney skull resembling the head of a wendigo, there was a blue mist surrounding it and the air in the corridor seemed to chill, it's gaze seemed fixed on Brand. Boney hands pressed against each side of the corridor, it was unmoving.
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Whitebrand » Sat Sep 24, 2022 11:21 am

Brand knew instantly what this thing was. A Maher or priest had done the unthinkable and become an undead version of themselves...usually voluntarily. He scooped up Emilia and tossed her over his shoulder. Then he ran, leaving behind a wall of force the wretched lich would have to break through if it were to come after them.


Gayle went pale.

"Up the stairs!" She said loudly, panic in her voice. "This place might be coming down!"
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Redfield » Sat Sep 24, 2022 11:33 am

"We don't know where the others are" Mercuriel states taking a deep breathe she takes the woman's hand in her own as she looked out into the corridor "we have to wait, we have to give them a chance to find us before we leave." She states keeping a firm grip on the woman, the pyramid shook once again as she stood their, the sand began to pour in more rapidly now, making a sizeable pile on the floor.

The lich didn't move, it made no great effort to follow Brand, it's gaze on him as he left, instead it turned and began walking through the pyramid, it's jaws opening as it let out another howl.

Mercuriel winced the pyramid shook, the wall in the corridor began to crack, sand pouring in, the wall burst open and the corridor began to quickly fill up with sand, it piled on the floor. The nineteen-year-old shook her head, she knew what creature lurked out in the desert, the sand was one thing, but she was hoping that was all that was coming through.
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Whitebrand » Sat Sep 24, 2022 11:43 am

Brand held out his palm as he ran and a ball if light appeared in it. No point in hiding his magical powers now.

"Point me to Mercurial!" He told the light.

Instantly the ball left his hands and zinged out ahead of him. Unerringly the seeker spell did its work while Emilia was frantically trying to get her terror stricken brain to start working again.


In front of Gayle and Mercurial, skeletal hands began to emerge from the accumulating sand, slowly clawing their way to the surface. The skeletons they were attached to began trying to wrestle free of the earth.

"Oh gawd," Gayle said, looking around frantically at the dead coming for them. "Do you still want to wait?"
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Redfield » Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:57 pm

Mercuriel tensed her eyes on the skeletons before her, the human looked at Gayle then back to the skeletons, she looked down the corridor and bit her bottom nervously before slamming the door shut. The risk posed by the skeletons was definitely too great, she nodded "yeah....Yeah ok lets go we can always wait at the top of the stairs." She states giving a small smile to the red head flashing her a somewhat hesitant thumb up.
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Whitebrand » Sat Sep 24, 2022 1:45 pm

Brand burst into the room as the skeletons were still fighting to free themselves from the sand. Emilia screamed in horror at the sight of the dead things moving around.

Brand lifted his arm and blasted the skeletons into fragments with a single shot of lightning. Mercurial and Gayle could hear the detonation on the other side of the door.

"What was THAT?" Gayle wanted to know.
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Redfield » Sun Sep 25, 2022 6:33 am

Mercuriel took in a breathe before she pulled the door back open, her lips turning into a grin as she spied Brand she gave him a wave. A relaxed sigh escaped her lips and she stepped out into the hall to greet him, when she saw it.

A Boney hand reached out through the wall before her, Mercuriel cried out in surprise as the lich emerged from the wall. It was laughing it made a gesture towards Mercuriel and Gayle before it turned to Brand standing between him and the girls.

It took a step towards the dragon mann "My domain" when it spoke it's voice had a scratchy drawn out feel to it.
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Whitebrand » Sun Sep 25, 2022 7:05 am

"You can have it," Brand replied. "It pretty much sucks. We just want the exit. You can make this a lot less painful for everyone by just leading us out of here."

Lightning began to crackle around Brand. Real draconian fury was beginning to show around the edges.

"Outta the way, rag-boy!"
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Redfield » Sun Sep 25, 2022 12:05 pm

The lich laughed, it didn't seem to care or understand Brand's threat, it seemed focused on something else, it turned it's head down to look at Gayle and Mercuriel laughing again before it turned back to face Brand. "My Domain" it spoke again "you belong my domain" It laughed pointed a boney finger at the red head and Mercuriel "get girls" it laughed as it spoke, but it didn't seem to be speaking to Brand this time.

The lich's attention turned fully onto the dragon man and it began to step towards him "you no threat....You disobedient pet!"
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Whitebrand » Sun Sep 25, 2022 1:10 pm

"Now I'm mad," Brand said. He set down Emilia behind him. "They girls are mine, and I belong only to ME!"

Brand's next stunt would have looked spectacular in a Dragonball Z scene. Electrical bolts shot from floor to ceiling. His muscles clenched. His eyes exploded with golden light. Sparks flashed along is body and between his horns. The air around him seemed to vibrate with terrible intensity.

"KYAAA!" he thundered.

In the blink of an eye he had crossed the distance between them, blazing fists that could rend steel and stone homing in on the cursed lich.

"RUN!" He shouted as he slammed into the vile undead thing with nearly everything he had.

Emilia bolted for the staircase.
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Redfield » Mon Sep 26, 2022 1:07 pm

"Don't have to tell me twice!" Mercuriel yelled watching the fight for a moment before turning to give Gayle a quick push "time for us to make like a tree and leaf" she says a half hearted attempt at a smile on her face. She grabbed the red head's hand and pulled her along running through the room towards the stairs, grabbing her satchel along the way the sounds of battle behind her.

The lich laughed the man's blows impacted the undead, but he seemed unmoving, he remained firm on the ground standing between the man and the girl's making no move against Emilia. It tutted, a close look would show that it was being pushed backwards even if it didn't seem to care too much for Brand's attack.
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Whitebrand » Mon Sep 26, 2022 1:12 pm

The fact that the lich had taken some of Brand's worst shook the dragon a bit...but he did notice that the thing had given ground. Barely.

His follow-up was, instead of the usual uppercut, a right cross designed to move the monster enough to let him get past it.

Not good...

Emilia ran after Mercurial and Gayle, eyes wide and her legs moving as fast as she could make them.
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Redfield » Mon Sep 26, 2022 1:20 pm

The lich laughed, it knew what the man was up to and wasn't about to let him get away with it. The lich's fist slammed into the wall and it let out a roar in the face of the dragon man, the pyramid shook the stone behind him shifting to form a barrier. Brand would not get through it not without punching his way through the stone and the lich would be eager to attack.

It let out another roar before it's hand moved out swiping quickly to counter Brand's attack.
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Whitebrand » Mon Sep 26, 2022 1:40 pm

Brand kept up the physical attacks as the girls escaped up the stairs. Somehow it was neutralizing both his physical might and his magical power. Very bad indeed. Worse, while Brand was resistant to cold, the claws of the lich had necromantic energies...dangerous even to him.

Double crap...

The dragon spoke a world in draconian. A detonation went off, cracking the stone barricade. A good start.
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Redfield » Wed Sep 28, 2022 6:55 am

The Lich laughed, it did not care about the man's attacks to it it was like watching a child have a tantrum of this it was confident about.The lich opened it's jaws to let out another roar swinging it's arms at the man. It didn't seem to be using any magic against him at this point in the fight.

As Mercuriel ran up the stairs her head sunk into cold water, she pushed her way up the stairs and her body was coated in more water. The nineteen-year-old garbled at the unexpected resistance before her head emerged on the otherside. She gasped standing on this new floor, it was a light blue colour and filled with water that stopped around her stomach.
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Whitebrand » Wed Sep 28, 2022 4:14 pm

Brand no longer had any illusions about beating this thing. It wasn't even really trying. But that didn't mean Brand was helpless. The lich's overconfidence gave Brand a chance to pull off a surprise amid his ineffective blows. He set off a gravity bomb.

The curse was centered just inside the skeletal rib cage of the thing. For the next few vital seconds the lich's body became the center of gravity. That was when the dragon touched off his detonation spells. Rock exploded. A ton of broken rock and debris fell straight at the skeletal mage.

He has no hope that this would kill or even harm it. Brand just wanted to inconvenience it with heavy obstacles long enough to follow his girls...and that was exactly what he did amid the gravitational chaos. He bolted for the stair, leaving the monster to deal with the aftermath.

Gayle stared around at the half-water-filled chamber, amazed. Emilia just shrugged.

"First a desert, now this," she said. "I'm gonna watch out for sharks. Or Rod Serling."
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Redfield » Sat Oct 01, 2022 3:29 am

The lich howled behind him, the pyramid shook but Brand's escape was unimpeded his pursuer seemed to be making no effort to follow after the dragon man and he was free to ascend the stairs.

Mercuriel shifted about the water was fairly easy to move in, she gave a small laugh looking back at Emilia "or crocodiles could also be crocodiles." She teased looking around the room, her wet clothes stook to her and she folded her arms "guess we wait here for a bit see if he shows up or not....Might be dead for all we know."
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Whitebrand » Sat Oct 01, 2022 11:19 am

A very not-dead dragon man hurtled up the staircase and burst into the room with a comically huge splash. The three girls, already wet from the waist down, now got a thorough drenching.

"What the blazes?" He said when he emerged from the water, his kilt soaked.

"We were just trying to figure out what kind of things might attack us here," Emilia said. "You okay?"

"Definitely not!" Brand said. "I hit that thing with all I had and it just stood there. I delayed it but it will be coming after us. We need to move."

"Where?" Gayle asked.
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Re: Day 101: Escape (Whitebrand and Redfield)

Postby Redfield » Sun Oct 02, 2022 10:22 am

"Somewhere that is definitely not here" Mercuriel stated shaking her head "as long as we keep finding the stairs and going up we should someday make it out of here." The human stated looking to the stairs before looking back to Brand.

Her attention then shifted around the room, there were many doors here, the trick was to find the right one, the first door she opened she was almost swept away. Water surged forward tumbling down a large waterfall, but she was able to close the door and was quite relieved nothing too bad had happened to her. She laughed shaking her head looking back to the others "got to be careful when opening these doors."
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