[Private] Hunter Or Hunted?

[Tesh]

"There Is More Than One Way Forward" ☒ Kitferge Angelo ✐ 000 ✉ level 2 now and not soo much a plebbling guys! ^-^ Tesh Lv2

Holding his ground, in his neutral stance, defending himself from the unknown third kobold, who has out of his vision currently, Tesh saw the other two fighting with the first two kobolds that showed up. Angelo seemed to be sparing with the dagger wielding patrolman, learning his movements and trying to discover an opening where he could make a move and attack. Kitferge barely dodged an attack from the mace wielder, pushing Tesh back as for him not to take a hit Kitferge ended up taking the blow instead. “I’m good” Tesh said replying to Kitferge as he asked if he could defend himself for a moment, while also pointing out the last location of the kobold who was further off in the distance. Tesh watched Kitferge in the corner of his eye while he struck the kobold in a furious manner, making a slashing stab combo followed by another three stabs, he successfully cared it out, paralyzing the kobold. This was the first time Tesh had seen the paralyzing status effect in action, he had only heard about it, but seeing how it was being used here, he could tell just how handy it could be in these types of situations. Seeing the still nearly full health kobold paralyzed, Kitferge shoved him towards Tesh, calling out to him to attack in a rather careless, teasing manner. This gave Tesh the chance to take him on without taking any damage, hopefully. As the kobold came stumbling towards him, Tesh shifted his right foot backward and pushed from the ground with his left, raising his great sword to his right shoulder, stepping into the range of the kobold he struck down, diagonally across the hard, leather-like skin, chest of the kobold. It looked like it was trying to let out a screech…possibly to inform nearby enemies of their location? Either way it was unable to due to the paralysis luckily. Now too close in range of the monster, he let loose his grip slightly in his left hand, shifting his grip, now holding it upside down, with the tip of the pointed downwards at the floor, grabbing the hilt with both hands, he smashed it into the chest of kobold, directly where the red gash was opened up from his first strike. The impact of his hit sent the kobold flying backwards about six feet. He could see the paralysis being fading off as it began to regain some of its movement back in his neck and wrists. I have to strike now before it’s too late, Tesh thought to himself quickly, having shifted his grip back to his normal, and re-entering his neutral stance. Leaping forward using his acrobatics this time to cover the gap, he raised the sword high above his head, aiming directly for the top of the kobolds head, he was just about to land the attack when the kobold managed to raise his mace high enough to stop the blow for a moment. Fighting with brute strength now, as if it was an arm wrestling match the kobold tried to deflect the blow, but after a couple seconds passed the hurt kobold was no match for Tesh’s sheer strength and weight of his sword. The mace blew out from his hands landing on the ground as Tesh’s great sword cut down into the kobolds neck, on the left side, digging deep down all the way till about the bottom of its sternum. What seemed to take minutes, was only seconds, the kobold leaned his head backwards sluggishly, tongue hanging from his mouth, bursting into many different pixels. The feeling of the kill was invigorating to Tesh, it got him excited again, he hadn’t been here for quite some time now and was rather nervous coming back again, but this time was livelier for him. He looked forward seeing Kitferge outline going after the last patrolman. Looking to his right he saw Angelo dealing with the trooper. Trying to decide where to go to help out next he noticed a message popped up on his HUD saying “Congratulations on reaching level 2”, the feeling was potent, he had being trying so long for this, but now wasn’t the time to celebrate. He knew now that he could take on the trooper, so he looked over at Angelo first, knowing that Kitferge was level 3 and could easily manage a level 2, he shouted to him “Tell me when to shift Angelo, I’m ready if you need me!” He reentered his neutral stance, holding the blade upwards and out in front of him preparing to assist if Angelo wished for his help, while at the same time trying to keep a peripheral view on the outlining of Kitferge in his left eye, as to make sure he was okay and not jumped by any more monsters that went unnoticed.

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[Angelo]

Overpowered? Pft.

Overpowered? Pft.

The strikes were becoming easier to see and predict the more the battle went on. Angelo's sword was deflecting most of the quick attacks thrown out by the Kobold Trooper. The others were dodged with bodily movements. A few glancing blows hit his extremities, but they were superficial and didn't lower his health down much.

Although it wielded a dagger, the length of the kobold's arms more than compensated for the distance the monster needed to strike Angelo from. Tesh shouting at him temporarily made the boy lose his focus. Shouting at such a loud voice in such a dark, dimly lit hallway was like the worst thing you could do to the nerves of a seventeen year old. The monster saw this and delivered a short series of attacks on the boy. He backstepped and cursed out loud at Tesh. He glanced at the top left corner of his vision and saw that his health dropped down a bit. Gritting his teeth, he thought of another idea.

Adopting a two-handed grip on his curved sword, the white-haired teen would leave an opening on his stomach on purpose to entice the kobold to attack that specific spot. This kind of technique was used often by martial arts to narrow the kinds of attacks the opponent would throw to the person and also give a greater chance to counter attack.

Like he predicted, the dagger-wielding kobold thrust his dagger straight towards his stomach. He sidestepped the attack while moving forward nearer the monster, leaving it completely open on its arm. Angelo brought down his sword swiftly upon the arm, cleanly cutting it apart. The hand and part of the forearm shattered into tiny pixelated pieces, leaving the dagger skittering on the floor. The boy followed up on his assault; a single slash to the right leg, two diagonal slashes on its back making an 'X', and a single thrust piercing the kobold's heart from the backside. He left his sword in the kobold, watching as its health slowly depleted from yellow to red. As it almost reached zero, it shouted a pitiful cry before exploding into thousands of glowing blue polygons..

Kitferge Tesh

[Kitferge]

"You think you know something, just one thing about me? How absurd." ☒ Angelo  Tesh ✐ 000 ✉ *randomly does stuff* Kitferge Lv3

Kitferge faced down the Patrolman, biting back a curse as his eyes widened at the sudden attack the monster made, a flash of light glinting off metal the only warning he had before the monster struck. The cold sensation of icy cold material hit his cheek. Kitferge swore. Hard. His words echoed inside of the room, and he hissed when he placed two fingers on his left cheek, only to draw the digits away when he saw small clumps of blood drowning in vivid crimson. "Merde! Allez pourrir en enfer!" Fluid French slipped out of his mouth, and droplets of blood streaked down the hilt of his dagger as he switched hands. How could he have been so careless? A rookie move. He should have moved as soon as he stilled. A constant flow. That was what he depended on. That was his line of defense. With his constant movement, it would be hard to land a hit on him at all. Kitferge had fluid, smooth movements, and then erratic spasms of rougher, faster attacks and defensive maneuvers. Without knowing where your opponent might be, it would be harder to hit him, if at all. The blonde cussed again in French, but this time much more quietly. The sound of metal against metal rang inside of the room, making his ears tingle. It was such a harsh sound, and the dreadful screech once swords slid or a mistaken move was made made him almost want to stop fighting. There. An opening. Kitferge narrowed his eyes before lunging quickly, pouring all of his speed into that one attack as he stabbed the Kobold deep inside of the monster's shoulder, piercing its thick skin. The monster's hide made his weapon slide against its skin, making him panic, and he had to push hard, his weapon refusing to go in before he threw himself at the monster, feet coming forward to push it on its back before it collided with the floor with a dull thump, the blonde's eyes momentarily cold and emotionless before he pulled out his dagger with a sickening crunch sound that told him he had hit bone. But the monster wasn't done yet. The Kobold stood unsteadily, and he raised an unimpressed eyebrow before flinching at the sound of a hit, and then...a locking sort of sound. The Kobold had raised its weapon, and it had been aimed precisely above his collarbone. A red gash oozed there with an uncomfortably large sliver of metal. It seemed it had been torn off with the sheer strength of the impact of the strike. Kitferge delicately plucked it out and examined it, the room eerily quiet to the blonde. He lowered his eyes before leaning forward, feeling as if he were wronged, somehow, by this monster that wasn't striking again, for some reason. He leaned closer, and then flicked the piece of metal away. It clinked against the metal somewhere else, and the sound echoed against the walls of the dungeon. "I'm sorry," He said lightly, conversationally, quietly enough that only people very, very close to him could hear, and then brushed his bloody hand through his hair, leaving a blood-streaked tip at the edge of his hair. "Am I supposed to be afraid?" And then he pulled his dagger up and let the blade gleam wickedly before the blonde sighed and then plunged it into the Kobold's eye, then withdrawing it with a little tug. It turned out that the attack had also taken away the monster's eye, he noted with some disgust, a strangely-colored liquid dripping down the surface of the eye. How odd. Was it like...monster blood, or something? How disgusting. It wasn't even as brilliantly beautiful as human blood. He stared at his hand for a second as he narrowly dodged the Patrolman's next attack. And then he struck again, embedding his dagger to where the monster's collarbone might have been, if it had a collarbone. He leaned closer. "Is it bad," He breathed solemnly, seeing the monster's HP drop to zero, his voice so quiet that only the AI could hear, "that I find pleasure in your pain?" And then the monster burst explosively into blue and white pixels, leaving his dagger to clatter onto the ground before he bent down and picked it up, sheathing his dagger onto his side. He raised a brow at the others, not that they could see it. "I've finished up here. Should we go on or turn back, fearless leader?"

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[Tesh]

"There Is More Than One Way Forward" ☒ Angelo Kitferge ✐ 000 ✉ notes Tesh Lv2

Tesh stood there in his neutral stance, keeping his focus more so on Angelo, being that he was the one fighting the higher level Kobold, while maintaining as much of a peripheral view of what was going on with Kitferge off to his left in the distance, just in case she needed some assistance as well. After telling Angelo that he was here and ready to switch in with him if he needed help, he realized that his words were slightly too loud, slightly scaring Angelo and making him break his focus, causing him to get hurt from the Kobold that was in front of him. This was not his intention, he gauged the volume of his voice based off of the sound of the battle that could have overwhelmed and drowned out his voice…he must have overcompensated for the volume of the sound of battle. This made Angelo look rather displeased with him. This not being the intention of what he was doing he felt rather upset with himself for being the cause of letting his friend get hurt from the Kobold. Quickly after taking the damage from the Kobold, Angelo refocused himself, and managed to take down the Kobold after taking a two handed approach with his curved blade, making it appear as he had an opening that the Kobold could take advantage of. Delivering its death blow, the many pixels of what was the monster dissipated in the corridor, and Tesh drew out a sigh of relief seeing him mange to finish it off without taking any more damage than what Tesh already caused upon him. Angelo relaxed slightly in his stance after the battle finished up and Tesh took a few paces forward, approaching Angelo, he apologized sincerely for breaking his focus, saying, “Hey Angelo, I’m sorry for causing that upon you…that wasn’t my intention, I’ll be more careful with my voice from here on out…I don’t want to do that to you again.” Opening up his inventory menu, he scrolled down towards the bottom and clicked on the button that read ‘health potions’. One appeared in his hand, as he raised it up to Angelo, he said, “here, take this…it is the least I can do for causing you to break your focus and get hurt.” Tesh reentered his focus now solely onto Kitferge who seemed to be finishing up her fight with the other patrolman as well. His careless mannerisms continued to flow over into this fight as well. Was he always like this? Or was something on his mind that was causing him to act more in the way? Maybe it was him showing off to the lower leveled player that was in there party—Tesh. Either way Tesh didn’t let this create a picture of the person that Kitferge was, just yet in his mind, he wanted to give the player a fair chance to show him their true self before he deemed a judgement on what type of person they exactly were. That wouldn’t be fair to anybody to this to, after all, Tesh didn’t know his past, or what he felt, or what he deals with on a daily basis, so he wanted to give the guy some time to really some himself to him before he made any decisions with or about him. He managed to finish off the Kobold Patrolman with relative ease, Tesh watched as he bent over to pick up his dagger that he left in the Kobold after managing to get through its thick skin. Not being able to completely make out his face or body, since he was relatively far off in the darkness of the corridor, in the dungeon, he asked if they should continue on in there venture of the dungeon or if they should turn back now, adding in a little bit of tease and snark at the end, by calling him the fearless leader once more. This was obviously just to play with him, and Tesh was starting to find it rather funny of him to do so. Walking up towards Kitferge and the end of the first corridor, Tesh said, “I’m all for going further, that’s why we are here right? But it’s up to you Angelo, you pick.” As he rested his great sword over his right shoulder, grip more relaxed now, moving his braid in his hair back to the correct position after it having been moved into an awkward place during his last fight.

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[Angelo]

Stop Saying Fearless!

Stop Saying Fearless!

Nerves rattled, he collected himself and turned to face the final battle happening before him. Oh how gruesome it was, at least the ending part of the battle he saw with Kitferge. Angelo closed his eyes and listened to his surroundings, ignoring all the noise coming from Kit and Tesh. So far, there were no other sounds in the immediate area.

The battle was done. Tesh was by his side while Kitferge was a few meters away. The blonde spoke up, mentioning the word 'fearless' once more.

"Kit," he started, laughing weakly, "I'm not fearless, I'm feeling the opposite rather."

Angelo still remembered the directions Kitferge took to get to that specific point in the dungeon. Hopefully it didn't change on its own while they were fighting. He didn't want to replay the scene from 'The Maze Runner' where the walls began moving. "Let's keep moving forward."

His eyes had adjusted to the darkness just enough so that he could see farther down the corridors. Angelo began walking. Straight, Straight, Back, Back, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A. Where it led the group was a passageway that branched out to three different locations from where they stood.

The left and right corridors were a mirror image of each other, leading them farther into the darkness. Those with the detection talent would see that the right side hallway had bits of red on the floor and walls, indicating at least one trap or more. The left corridor had menacing-sounding growls deep within. The middle-most hallway led to a closed door five meters away from the intersection; the door's outline was covered in red. Perhaps there was treasure after taking care of the trap inside that particular room?

Angelo faced the other two in his group and asked what their thoughts were on proceeding.

Kitferge Tesh

[Kitferge]

"You think you know something, just one thing about me? How absurd." ☒ Angelo  Tesh ✐ 000 ✉ Gruesome? XD Kitferge Lv3

"Feeling the opposite, hmm?" Kitferge glanced over at Angelo, his eyes running over the other. He was about to suggest pausing for a bit but then Angelo suggested moving on. He sighed, sent a semi-concerned glance look over, and then tapped Tesh on the shoulder, motioning with his head his idea of them leaving. God, was he out of it today. What was with him? He hummed in growing unease as they went deeper and deeper into the dungeon, Kitferge telling them when they were too close to a dungeon. He saw a party of green players, faintly, but they disappeared out of his vision once he turned, so he dismissed it. They were laughing and talking, and seemed like they were fine in the dark, anyways, so the brunet stepped forward and sent his glance back before him. Angelo turned and asked the others' opinions, and Kit examined the three options in front of him with a critical eye, and then gave a mischievous smirk to the others. "Definitely the left. When in doubt, never pick the best option. It'll probably become the worst. Happiness is fleeting, pain endures, all that stuff. And besides...I think we can handle it. Unless you have a different opinion?" He sighed lowly. "Three different doors, three different people. We could always go the suicidal route and spread out. Not that I recommend it-" His eyes flickered up to his menu, and his frame froze for a second before he tilted his head at Tesh. "Congratulations on reaching level two. Next time mention it a little more, yeah? Don't want to be late in my congrats." He then turned on his heel and watched Angelo, but his tone was sincere enough and yet detached enough that he wouldn't seem overly chummy.

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[Tesh]

"There Is More Than One Way Forward" ☒ Angelo Kitferge ✐ 000 ✉ notes Tesh Lv3

Angelo voted, as the party leader to continue moving forward into the dungeon. Subsequently, Kitferge would tap Tesh on his shoulder and give him somewhat of a signal that maybe they should just leave. Tesh didn’t want to just leave yet though, they had only entered the first corridor and he wanted to continue going deeper as well, even though he was with two that weren’t exactly close friends to him he still felt that he could rely on the other two’s skills in combat. After all, he wasn’t here to make new friends he was here to achieve what had already happened, which was to get some good experience so that he could level, and even though he had already achieved that, he thought that since he was already here they might as well make the most out of it while they were here; in addition, he would no longer have to be totally babysat as only being a level one. He felt confident that he would be able to hold his own from here on out, the only downside was the darkness, it wasn’t this dark the first time that he came here. He questioned to himself whether or not this was something that was normal for the dungeon. Does it constantly change? If so that would be rather tricky, either way he knew that he wanted to continue trudging forward and see what lay in the next rooms. When they reached a cross section in the paths they were left with three options. Tesh agreed with the first idea that Kitferge came up with, in regards to heading straight into the room that obviously had monsters in it, the other two had to be a trap of some sorts. The only thing was, is that he was slightly drawn back when Kitferge made the idea of each of them splitting up and going into all three rooms at once. It was most likely just a joke to poke more fun at Angelo, but it was definitely suicide, and Tesh was absolutely opposed to doing such a thing. He looked at the other two members and spoke in a softer voice saying, “I think we should go in the room to the left, just like Kitferge said, and take on the monsters that are waiting there, the other two rooms would most likely be traps the way that this is set up.” Tesh had played many different types of games in his time and this was an obvious recurrent theme in many, to make the players believe that the room that is the most dangerous, in indeed the most dangerous, when in fact it is most likely quite the opposite. With his hand on the hilt of his sword that was sheathed to his back, he waited for the leader to make the decision as to what they would do.

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[Angelo]

	Man, and I had such high hopes for the middle passage.. Oh well. More monsters it is.
	Angelo Level 3 | HP: 50/60 |

Both Kitferge and Tesh recommended taking the path on the left, not because it had monsters in it, but because the 'best' option may become the 'worst'. He looked back at the glowing red outlines on the door and the walls to the right. Guess they're right. Angelo chuckled to himself.

"Left it is." The more they headed towards the hallway on the left side, the more the sounds within became louder and louder. He stopped when he saw an intersection ahead. To the right were flicking lights that seemed to emanate from a fire source. The left was dark. The kobold sounds were coming from the right.

He turned around to face the other two while crouching next to the wall. "So, I was thinking-"

Several footsteps came from where they originally came from. Angelo's eyes widened as he realized just what kind of situation they were placed into. Options. What are they? Option one: Fight the oncoming group before the others. Option two: Hide in the dark corridor ahead to the left, hoping that the oncoming group would pass them by. Option three: Head into the light on the right and see whatever happens there.. It was by far the worst option he thought of, and so decided to keep it to himself. The boy did quietly ask the other two about the first two options and gave him own suggestion, saying that he would rather fight the group that was heading towards them right now rather than later.

[Kitferge]

"You think you know something, just one thing about me? How absurd." ☒ Angelo  Tesh ✐ 000 ✉ Gruesome? XD Kitferge Lv3

Kitferge's eyes widened slightly before his eyes lightened in quiet realization. Indeed, it had to be another group. How odd. Interesting. His fingers gently rapped against his copper dagger, fingers twisting on his development ring, one crafted by himself. It was familiar, and yet, he didn't find himself calmed. He was excited, more like it, and he could hardly hear the sounds of Angelo's voice brushing against the two. The blonde blinked slowly. Those were all viable, logical choices, but his eyes flitted over to the others. He didn't think they had Night Vision, and were relying purely on Detection, judging from the way their eyes were closed and they stepped carefully. He relayed that information quietly, and then brushed his blonde hair back. There, he had an advantage. But what choice would they choose? He ran over them again in his head, and then let out a quiet sigh. "Why can't we just pass them by? I mean, if they strike first, we retaliate. And if they don't-it's a winning situation." He fingered his dagger delicately, the cool metal reassuring under his touch. Then he straightened up, sending an uncharacteristically serious gaze to the others as he held it between his fingers, letting the sharp sides graze his skin before moving it away quickly, a nervous habit, sliding it over and under his fingers as easily as he would have if he were making a basket. "Your thoughts, Tesh?"

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[Tesh]

Nothing left to say

What's standing in your way?

You had the chance to never walk alone

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As Angelo decided to go along with what Tesh and Kitferge had to say they continued moving forward up against the wall, as the sounds began to louder Tesh began to question just how many were possible in there, and were they going to be able to handle them if it is more than three of them this time? Keeping his thoughts to himself, he continued along, crouching down up against the wall as they approached the intersection, Tesh would have his blade resting upon his shoulder, holding it in his right hand, while holding himself off the wall with his left, with one knee down on the ground, waiting for Angelo to analyze the upcoming situation.

As they sat there for the moment, gathering their surroundings, the footsteps from behind could be heard by the entire group. An uneasy sensation flowed through Tesh’s stomach for the first time since they had entered the dungeon. This could be really bad if we engage both groups at the same time, Tesh thought to himself, with a droplet of sweat running down his cheek, dripping off of his chin. The air continued to get more, and more, musty as they continued deeper into the dungeon, and the smell was unbearable. Angelo, putting words to the new situation that had occurred on hand, put the group into another place where they would have to make a decision, one that could be very detrimental to their survival if not thought through.

On one hand they could wait to see if they attacked, which is what Kitferge was suggesting they do, and on the other hand they could enter the left corridor and hope that they wouldn’t follow in as well. Knowing that the following room had some sort of monsters, and without the knowledge of how many there were, was a death wish. Agroing the monsters from inside that room without knowledge of what it was that was following them down the hallway, and whether or not it was hostile, meant that they would have to just assume that it was something hostile for the time being; furthermore, if it was hostile than it would most likely hear their footsteps and follow in to attack.

Kitferge would look over to Tesh and ask I’m his thoughts and he would explain this too them quickly but with a soft pitch, as to not have any of the monsters hear them speaking. “I have to agree with Kitferge here, we should hide out and see, and if they/it are something hostile then we can kite them back into the room we came from, without agroing the monsters in the left corridor. Going into that corridor completely blind and without knowledge is going to get us killed.” Tesh would say to the others while he continued to crouch up against the wall, beginning to sweat more and more from the anticipation of what was to come next.

Sorry for the late reply!

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[Angelo]

	Man, and I had such high hopes for the middle passage.. Oh well. More monsters it is.
	Angelo Level 3 | HP: 50/60 |

Little by little, the small group of monsters that were walking behind them came into view to Kitferge. Two scouts wielding daggers and a trooper with a wickedly long spear. The group opted to wait in the shadows to let them pass. Angelo didn't think that that would have been a good idea if they were discovered. He just hoped that they had made the right choice. As he sat there pretty much blind as a bat in the narrow corridor, he could finally make out the outline of three humanoids walking slowly.

There was a small error in judgment on the group's part. As the kobolds got closer, the scout in the front stopped just a couple of meters from the group and raised his head slightly. Its slits for a nose expanded and retracted repeatedly, as if it was trying to smell something. In this case, it was them. The kobold's head turned to Tesh's direction and opened its eyes, revealing a dim red glow emanating from them. A snarl came out of its mouth as it suddenly attacked Tesh with both daggers. The trooper in the back howled loudly, its sound echoing and bouncing off the walls repeatedly. A few seconds later, similar howls could be heard from the lit room in the distance.

What surprised Angelo slightly was that the one wielding the spear was behind the other kobold, as if it was protecting its sides. They are getting smarter every day. They had to do something quickly, lest they- two more kobolds appeared, one holding a two-handed sword and the other a curved sword.

The corridor was big enough for two kobolds to walk side by side, but that also meant that swinging-wise, it would be a bit narrow. This made the long blade of the two-handed weapon to be slightly detrimental here for both the kobold and Tesh. Angelo protected Tesh's backside and sprang forward to the two kobold on the northern side of the corridor, blocking their path to his other teammates. Still, the situation looked dire. They were surrounded on both sides.

[Kitferge]

happiness is poison.
● ● ● ● ●

BUT WHY SHOULD I FLINCH AWAY FROM THAT POISON? I WOULD RATHER DRINK MYSELF TO A SACCHARINE DEATH THAN BE LEFT IN THIS WORLD WHOLE.

Kitferge spotted the group of monsters first, and raised an eyebrow at the sight, but stayed silent. Two scouts, one trooper, spear and daggers. They were pretty slow...caution, or was it the way that they were programmed? One scout saw them, and a snarl came from its mouth. It was a matter of seconds before they were surrounded and Tesh was attacked. Kitferge's eyes narrowed as he stared down the other monsters, eyes icy. How rude. You dare to make a fool out of me? He asked silently, eyes a burning inferno. His grip on his dagger tightened, and he barely resisted whipping it out of thin air, and slicing the monster's throat, but he couldn't be hasty.

They were now surrounded on both sides, and Kitferge rolled his eyes in annoyance before lashing out quickly, taking out one of the dagger-wielders with a quick swipe across their throat, a red mark appearing after he quickly squeezed the hilt of his dagger three times. It was a thoughtless, mechanical motion, and he stayed silent as the monster stilled mid-stab. Honestly. His fingers ached from the pressure he was exerting on his weapon to keep it still, but he ignored it and pressed on, stabbing the monster in the shoulder as he slipped past it and then behind it, his slim, tiny frame managing to slip by. On the other side of the corridor, Angelo and Tesh were facing down the other dagger-wielder and the spear-wielder. He relayed the current turn of events to them.

Then the blonde let his dagger rest in his fingers as he lunged forward, bringing the buried hilt of his dagger down with all his strength, fingers taut as he did so, as if he were playing a particularly difficult instrument. He pushed the monster over and ground a heel into his chest area, eyes dark as he savagely ripped a rough cut on the monster's chest open, red liquid pouring onto the ground in a pool of dark crimson. The rough, scratchy sound made him roll his eyes, already regretting his decision due to Kayaba's theatrics.

The monster spewed blood as it twitched, now back to the normal condition of being able to move. A cut automatically appeared on Kitferge's other cheek, mirroring his previous injury, and his eyes flashed in sudden anger, before he lashed out, focusing on a certain point on the monster, eyes darkening with the full force of his fury as he stabbed the monster cleanly on the hip, and red script suddenly filled the room, proclaiming that he had hit a critical. His first, actually. The blonde watched in surprise as his blood-stained fingers twitched lightly, pulling his weapon out of the monster.

The monster disappeared in a flash of pixels, and he felt the sheer physical exhaustion of the fights press on him, threatening to cause his knees to buckle, but he braced himself and slid back to the others, murmuring lowly that he had finished up his opponent, but he was in worse form than before, and might need a bit to recover, but would cover the others if they were going to attack instead of staying on the defensive. He wondered if Tesh even noticed the fight-it had been incredibly silent, after all.

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Angelo  Tesh
# 000
WONDERING WHAT WE'RE DOING, NOW...

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[Tesh]

Nothing left to say

What's standing in your way?

You had the chance to never walk alone

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As the three remained crouched up against the wall of the corridor, the group of three Kobolds grew closer and closer, until one of the scouts, wielding a dagger, snapped its head toward Tesh and began to snarl at the young man. Sweat now pouring down his face, from nerves and the stale, musty air, Tesh stood up to defend against the attack from the duel wielding dagger Kobold. How can they dual wield? I thought that wasn’t a possible talent. Tesh thought to himself quickly in the midst of raising his sword up off of his shoulder to block the oncoming assault from the Kobold.

The hallway in this corridor was small, not allowing Tesh to be able to fight in a functional manner…his sword was even longer than the width of the hallway, and this would be a problem. As Tesh stood up, bringing his sword up with him, it scrapped along the wall of the hallway, sparks flying from the two materials colliding against each other. The Kobold drew closer. Tesh unable to get his sword up into a proper defensive position, used his left hand to grab onto the right arm of the monster to stop the attack, but was unable to stop its left arm from attacking him. As he grabbed onto the right arm, its left drove the metal dagger straight into his right side. As it pulled out he could see the red mark that stayed visible on his side, the pain was excruciating, but he needed to act fast before it was too late. Kitferge had seemed to kill off the other dagger wielding Kobold quickly, being able to use his dagger efficiently in this environment.

Pulling the arm of the Kobold closer to him, he head-butted the beast as hard as he could, not to inflict damage but to try to daze it for a moment while he got his sword up into a position that he could fight in. The attack hurt the both of them slightly, but with his strength at least, he was able to send the Kobold back a couple of steps, allowing him to raise his blade up. The pain in his side continued to throb, but this was a matter of life or death, and Tesh wasn’t going to let it hold him make now. Raising up his sword, he drove it deep into the throat of the Kobold, pushing it back into the other Kobold behind it, which it was protecting. “Get the Spearman Kitferge” Tesh spoke quickly, so that it wouldn’t have a chance to pierce him while he was pinning the Kobold with the dagger down to the ground by its neck. Tesh continued to drive the blade further and further into the neck of the Kobold hoping Kitferge would be able to get the attention of the spearman.

BOBBI

[Angelo]

	Man, and I had such high hopes for the middle passage.. Oh well. More monsters it is.
	Angelo Level 3 | HP: 42/60 |

The spear-wielding trooper had turned around to assist his ally against Kitferge. Just as the blonde pushed down the dagger wielder, the kobold thrust his spear forward into the side of the human, dealing a bit of damage. He pulled out and thrust once more in the same place, putting more force into the human. However, the blue eyes of Kitferge were bloodlusted upon his ally and the spear-wielder knew that there was no more hope for his friend. He quickly turned around and turned towards Tesh. His other ally on the other-hand was doing rather well, getting a strike or two in while pushing back the gray-haired teen. Despite the advantage his friend had, it was quickly turned around when he was knocked backwards and stabbed in the neck. The twitching body of the dagger kobold collided with the trooper's which made it hard for him to save his ally. He shoved the tip of his spear into the stomach of Tesh while behind his friend, leaving it there because he couldn't do much else.

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The kobold with the curved sword was in front while the one with the two hander was directly behind him to the right. Pointing the blade forwards like a spear. Angelo stood in their path, blocking the advance as long as possible to buy his teammates enough time to deal with the three kobolds.

Angelo's own curved weapon was out of its sheath, held in both of his hands. It was pointed towards the front most monster, the left side of his body facing the kobold to reduce the striking area. His opponent began attacking with a diagonal slash to his chest. The boy stepped back while parrying the blow. The two-handed weapon zipped into view, impaling his leg. A pained grunt escaped his mouth as he stepped backwards to take the blade out of his leg.

The boy took a more offensive approach to his current situation and pointed his sword towards the kobold's chest. His blade turned red and continued heating up until it spontaneously combusted. He charged at a speed normally impossible for a human to achieve and smited the kobold from its head to its waist. A burning red line appeared on its body and was just as instantly paired with another horizontal stripe across the kobold's chest. The flaming crimson cross that appeared as a result of his sword art stayed on the monster's body as it howled in pain. What surprised Angelo was the fact that it did not die immediately as a result from his attack. These were a step up from the regular monsters that patrolled the floor. With his body partially paralyzed from his sword art, he couldn't help but not defend against the slash by the furious opponent. The two-handed weapon flashed out of nowhere yet again, this time stabbing him in his stomach. 

The paralysis phase ending abruptly, he knocked the thick blade of the twohander downwards with a quick smack using his weapon. Emerald eyes glanced at the top left hand of his vision, seeing his health recede quite a bit. That was the problem with using sword arts with multiple  enemies close by. The post-motion delay would render him vulnerable to any counter attacks. This wasn't really a problem before because Angelo was able to bring down his opponent down to zero in his sword art strike. This was probably the first time he experienced such a drawback to his move.

The boy lifted his sword once more and renewed his assault upon the curved sword user. He parried and dodged as much as he could, occasionally getting a few hits in while taking a few glancing blows himself. When an opportunity presented himself when the kobold's guard was down, Angelo brought down his sword upon the monster's crown. However, before he connected, the flaming cross on its chest flared up before the entire body was consumed in blue light until it shattered into several thousand pieces. Now it was just him and the two-handed wielder. One on one. Angelo wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth as teeth gleamed in the darkness.

[[GM] John]

Thread closed due to spring cleaning. This is a flat reward, no bonuses will be added. I apologize in advance for the cut taken to your hard work of the past, however full credit cannot be issued due to the nature the thread ended in. You will be rewarded similarly to how solo threads do just without the cap, enjoy the xp from dead threads

The following players were credited for their posting: Tesh, Kit

Tesh word count: 5145
Flat XP rate: 514

Kitferge word count: 3790
Flat XP rate: 379