The Last Poster Wins! [V9]

[Ganyu]

Maybe the Black wanted us to meet them?

*almost trips over an old wooden rod that seems to have nothing but silver ribbons on, possibly for decor*

[Sir Sivelos]

Maybe… But how do we know that!? *LL!SIVELOS, if you didn't already figure it out, has compressed his Fiery Aura down to a comfortable body temperature, as to avoid killing the SHADOWY FIGURE just by grabbing them.*

Apoph: This is an interesting mace...

Yeah. It belonged to a bird lady!

Apoph: A what?

I'm not sure. It makes you look cool.

Apoph: Heh. Guilty as charged.

Mr. Ice: So, this loot I got… What do I do with it? It- oh! *MR. ICE's -INSERT LEGENDARY WEAPON HERE- suddenly morphs into a cyan and red rifle; the colors are split down the middle, with the red side letting out fire through a metal grate, and with the cyan side having ice crystals sticking out of it. The barrel of the rifle is emitting some sort of smoke, or mist. This legendary weapon is the WEATHERMAN'S BANE, a powerful rifle that blasts ice and fire to a scary degree. It is also known to screw over weather patterns due to its elemental power.*

Mr. Ice: How coincidental… I love rifles.

DMK: ... *inspecting the MIRROR'S EDGE with a somber look in his eyes.

Mr. Ice: Is something troubling you?

DMK: Master… I saw his corpse… Does that mean… That I'm free?

Uh… Yeah, actually. A new Dark Mind will spawn sooner or later, due to Mirror World physics… But he won't be the same one. No memories of his rule over the Mirror World, no memories of you serving him.

DMK: Heh… Hahahah… I'm not sure whether to be glad, or crushed. I can feel those mental locks fading already...

*It seems that DMK wasn't serving DARK MIND of his own volition… DARK MIND placed mental inhibitors to prevent DMK from disobeying, as well as a powerful mind control that was laid over his subconscious.*

[Wander]

//slowly grabs THE MEGA BUSTER and equips it

aaaayyyy im sort of relevant again ahahah-- //shot down hard

also could i also take the transistor or can i just take one weapon--

[Sir Sivelos]

Whatever you want to get, friend, take it. Apart from the stuff in the back.

[Wander]

//also equips THE TRANSISTOR

aaaayyyy

//goes to grab any L00T thats left

[Sir Sivelos]

Fufufu… *LL!SIVELOS, APOPH, MR. ICE, and DMK join BAHAMUT on the teleporter.*

[Ganyu]

*The wooden rod appears to be a truth seeker device; picks it up, maybe it could be useful to someone else.*

*gathers at the teleporter*

[Sir Sivelos]

Ho hum... *The fiery blade on the end of the WAR CANE lets out a reddish glow. You feel the temperature increase slightly.*

[The Nonexistent Tazz]

*LL!SIVELOS grabs the TETRIXCALIBUR for later use. LAVA LORD isn't very good at using swords.*

*APOPH grabs the HAWKWOMAN, and equips it, binding it to him.*

*DMK takes and equips THE MIRROR'S EDGE, binding it to him. How fitting.*

*LL!SIVELOS offers BAHAMUT the XERXES.*

I think you might make good use of this. Want it?

*THE TETRIXCALIBUR binds to SIVELOS! THE HAWKWOMAN binds to APOPH! THE MIRROR'S EDGE binds to DMK!*

*Inexplicably, though not impossibly, the weapon BAHAMUT has is the XERXES.*

Bahamut: No thanks, for obvious reasons...

OOC// OOOOOh. So long rp's i can just do a little one.

A shadowy figure jumps out and steals XERXES

*XERXES is bound to SAMU! You'd better hope he's good at archery.*

*chooses the Nitrous*

*finds Something Absolutely Cold and Icy lying almost unnoticeably on the floor*

*NITROUS binds to Ecrivain!*

*There is nothing lying on the floor! Everything here is neatly and smartly placed. In any case, there is a cache of metals of incredible variety in a barrel on one of the racks. You take ALL OF IT. Though none of it is SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY COLD AND ICY, all of it is LEGENDARY; this includes ETERNAL ONYX, ETERNAL GOLD, ETERNAL SILVER, ETERNAL BRONZE, ETERNAL PLATINUM, TIME'S REGRET, SOMETHING IMPOSSIBLE, and most startlingly...TIME'S REMORSE!*

*The Eternal metals are all unbreakable metals of the material type given (the Onyx variant is a black metal instead of a black stone). TIME'S REGRET is just some metal imbued with power, having existed long enough to give it temporal powers-effectively an ELDER SOUL as far as metals are concerned. SOMETHING IMPOSSIBLE is a glitch-prone sphere, possibly just as old, holding a power that no longer exists in reality, hence the glitch effects. Well, except not now, as this place has no reality. Here, it is a simple sphere of a metal curiously similar to brass, radiating a power that you think heals souls. You are strengthened by this otherwise-impossible effect, permanently-your HP no longer sucks! Lastly, TIME'S REMORSE is the daddy of TIME'S REGRET, a metal so old that it basically predates any sense of time. Trying to date it is useless. It's power is insane, it is imbued with practically every power in existence. It is a one-time use and you only have one. You'd better SERIOUSLY think of how to use this. You immediately think to consult an ULTIMATE BLACKSMITH, or alternatively your relative substitue for one, JIRACHI-TAZZ.*

*LL!SIVELOS grabs the SHADOWY FIGURE by the throat and points the sharp end of the WAR CANE at this person's throat.*

Who are you, and how did you get here!? Were you following us!?

*You automatically know he is a good guy and don't question it, because he is a player. It's not that serious.*

Maybe the Black wanted us to meet them?

*almost trips over an old wooden rod that seems to have nothing but silver ribbons on, possibly for decor*

*You do not trip over anything. NOthing here looks even remotely old, and you'd never know if not for rarity and/or the fact the owner is ages old himself. Also, upon closer inspection, it is a STONE rod, painstakingly patterned to look like wood. You have found a SILVER RIBBON ROD OF DIVINATION. This could be useful...Somehow.*

Maybe… But how do we know that!? *LL!SIVELOS, if you didn't already figure it out, has compressed his Fiery Aura down to a comfortable body temperature, as to avoid killing the SHADOWY FIGURE just by grabbing them.*

Apoph: This is an interesting mace...

Yeah. It belonged to a bird lady!

Apoph: A what?

I'm not sure. It makes you look cool.

Apoph: Heh. Guilty as charged.

Mr. Ice: So, this loot I got… What do I do with it? It- oh! *MR. ICE's -INSERT LEGENDARY WEAPON HERE- suddenly morphs into a cyan and red rifle; the colors are split down the middle, with the red side letting out fire through a metal grate, and with the cyan side having ice crystals sticking out of it. The barrel of the rifle is emitting some sort of smoke, or mist. This legendary weapon is the WEATHERMAN'S BANE, a powerful rifle that blasts ice and fire to a scary degree. It is also known to screw over weather patterns due to its elemental power.*

Mr. Ice: How coincidental… I love rifles.

DMK: ... *inspecting the MIRROR'S EDGE with a somber look in his eyes.

Mr. Ice: Is something troubling you?

DMK: Master… I saw his corpse… Does that mean… That I'm free?

Uh… Yeah, actually. A new Dark Mind will spawn sooner or later, due to Mirror World physics… But he won't be the same one. No memories of his rule over the Mirror World, no memories of you serving him.

DMK: Heh… Hahahah… I'm not sure whether to be glad, or crushed. I can feel those mental locks fading already...

*It seems that DMK wasn't serving DARK MIND of his own volition… DARK MIND placed mental inhibitors to prevent DMK from disobeying, as well as a powerful mind control that was laid over his subconscious.*

*THE WEATHERMAN'S BANE binds to MR. ICE. He's taking the loss of HIS king rather calmly.*

*On that note: DARK MIND was ANNIHILATED! His power may resurface, but the guy himself is deader than dead. HE is NOT COMING BACK. You may want to find whoever scored those awesome mind-control powers...*

//slowly grabs THE MEGA BUSTER and equips it

aaaayyyy im sort of relevant again ahahah-- //shot down hard

also could i also take the transistor or can i just take one weapon--

*THE MEGA BUSTER binds to WANDER.*

*You can take more than one in theory.*

Whatever you want to get, friend, take it. Apart from the stuff in the back.

//also equips THE TRANSISTOR

aaaayyyy

//goes to grab any L00T thats left

*THE TRANSISTOR binds to WANDER! A tag is attached to it, with writing.*

*ALL the L00T has been taken! However, only what's relevant has been shown. For various reasons, none of it eclipses your gear TOTALLY. However, some of the other stuff is roughly equal.*

Fufufu… *LL!SIVELOS, APOPH, MR. ICE, and DMK join BAHAMUT on the teleporter.*

*You're at the TELEPORTER.*

*The wooden rod appears to be a truth seeker device; picks it up, maybe it could be useful to someone else.*

*gathers at the teleporter*

*You're at the TELEPORTER.*

Ho hum... *The fiery blade on the end of the WAR CANE lets out a reddish glow. You feel the temperature increase slightly.*

*DARK WRIT JUSTICE takes THE MAX! It binds to him!*

*REBECCA takes PIERCE THE HEAVENS! It binds to her!*

*The trio, along with everyone else, stands on the teleporter, somehow. The key activates.*

*You are in the largest area yet: Another city-like area, mostly gray in color. There is someone waiting to greet you on the other side. He looks at BAHAMUT, surprised, but then looks let down.*

???:...Almost thought it was him...But nope. Another ES...And this one isn't even familiar. Bluh.

Bahamut: Erm, I-

???: No time for that, mercenaries. We've sorely underestimated the RaGNaK, and paid dearly-we couldn't use our powers over the nameless substance to clear out those pigs, they clustered too close to the entrance. What we attempted to get out to match their ships was blown away instantly! Lucky there weren't any casualties...They've long since left, but I think they're trying to hunt him down. Lucky for us...I got the corpse.

*The mystery man shows you the corpse of THE BLACK, including his very decapitated head.*

???: My name is Dionysious...Or rather, codename. Heh. We all like calling each other that, our real names are rather irrelevant-'specially to you mercenary types. All you need to know is this: We're still around. We're still kicking. We are hunting down the Black's soul. We have his corpse and we don't travel by the usual rules-we have a huge advantage. However, we can't defeat them in a head-on confrontation. You did good, but you saw what happened out there...So, you're going to do something different.

*He hands APOPH a card. On one side is a picture of a mask-half white and half black. The other side is a dark velvet blue.*

Dionysious: You'll be visited shortly thereafter returning to your base and just waiting. In a static location, can't be moving around. We usually don't give THAT to, well...Anyone. However, I was deemed second-in-command of the Wraithguard. Not Inheritor, unfortunately-I couldn't possibly take that job up...Quite a stressful one. Can't begin to imagine it. Plus, The Black is still alive in some odd sense, and the Wraithguard have the duty to find him, not you mercenaries. In any case, you have more firepower than we do, sad to admit...But you still need more. A fleet. A POWERFUL fleet. I know what you did in there-and if you don't need it, sell it, and use the money to buy enough ships to make a mighty fleet, and assemble it. While waiting, of course.

Once you've been properly visited-and you'll know when that is-Return the Card to ME. I'll grant you our...Specialized services to get anywhere, at that point, at which time it will be your duty to find the power to defeat the RaGNaK, save existence, yadda yadda. You know, all in a days work for the both of us, I think. I'll also tag along with you once that's done-everyone else got assigned by myself except Kronos. He seemed to be rather sour about having Suits left alive...I don't know much other than his name and his ability, but I agree, trusting a Paradox-wielding man is dangerous business. In any case, he's off with Don, and good thing, I think he's one of the few people Don actually gives pause for outside of The Black.

Now get moving.

*He spoke all of that surprisingly fast, just enough for you to understand but not enough for you to actually interject. DIONYSIOUS flashes his arm to the left of him, and a hole in THE NAMELESS SUBSTANCE opens up, back inside your ships-which have smartly retreated far away from the combat. He shoves you in there with a kinetic blast before you can react.*

Dionysious: And by the way...Don't do as I say, and you'll be getting, as I call them, "Unhappy Visits". Are we clear? The fight with the RaGNaK ISN'T OVER, it takes TOP PRIORITY, and those scumbags aren't done for until they are all DEAD or they are all DEAD. DON'T get off-task unless you've got a good reason to!

*The void portal closes. You are back aboard your ship, right next to JIRACHI-TAZZ's forge. You have obtained THE BLANK MASK CARD. You have obtained new instructions. And you are definitely so, so screwed if you do not immediately obey them, apparently.*

*You all de-transform out of your super forms, as your ship detects no RaGNaK presence nearby. They are still in the same, primary and massive SUPERDIMENSION you are in, but nowhere near you.*

*JIRACHI-TAZZ notices you.*

JT: Well. I'd say being around in deep space isn't doing us any good for our fuel...Let's get back to home base, I'd rather smell the greens for our wait. In the meantime...IF you need anything crafted with that barrel fulla' materials and your previous weapons...Lemme know.

*Due to events, EVERYONE gets a class-up! ECRIVAIN gets two class-ups because he was very close before.*

[Sir Sivelos]

*SIVELOS classes up to ODYSSEY OF STORMS! He gains a nifty ability that basically functions as a LIGHTNING ROD that also heals him.*

*APOPH classes up to LIGHT BEARER and inspects the BLANK MASK CARD.*

Apoph: What do you reckon this does?

Something important, I bet. Wait wait wait, we had another one similar to this… But LC has it, and he's… incapacitated.

Also, HEALS SOULS!? We need that! We can finally heal LC's soul, and re-fuse him. We'd need to spare DC, though… But when we re-fuse them, it's basically the same as killing him.

*THE WEATHERMAN'S BANE binds to MR. ICE. He's taking the loss of HIS king rather calmly.*

Mr. Ice: I'm aware that my king is dead. Yes, it is a shame… But End Knights are taught that casualties during war are only natural, and bound to happen eventually. A deity must eventually fall is a popular saying from my culture. Now that the End King and his Caretakers are dead, I suppose I inherit his title, as his second in command. I knew my King would die eventually, but in a place like this? Heh. Color me surprised. *MR. ICE is mourning his King's death, yes… But he was trained to keep a level head and, for lack of a better term, 'be cool.'*

---Somewhere else---

???: HEY!! They're gone!?

???: Yeah! Where are they? They couldn't have...

???: No. We would have noticed if the Ultimate Blacksmith succeeded. Rather, we would not feel anything, as we would all be swimming in the Void.

???: Décevant… Oh! Perhaps we could go meet them? Those ones we've been keeping an eye on.

???: Yes… If the Ultimate Blacksmith is on the move, something must have gone wrong. Perhaps, the Oblivion Lord cannot just be 'killed,' as one might know it. The Ultimate Blacksmith has proven himself to be quite dangerous… Then the AntIvOId is our only hope.

???: …We must depart.

???: Ooooh! Can I drive!?

???: If you must.

???: Ahohohohahaha! Most excellent!

???: Let's hope that thing I installed in the ship works...