Re: Intense Struggle! (Round 6 - Frozen Destinies)
09-22-2011, 07:23 PM
Originally posted on MSPA by Aryogaton.
Statues. He dumped us in a city full of statues. Aegis examined the nearest: a stern-looking woman who seemed once in a hurry to get somewhere. The statue was perfect—each individual hair, the texture of the skin, every detail captured in solid stone. Aegis nearly missed the dwarfish man fused halfway into her abdomen, in mid-stride and his face buried in stone. Creepy as all hell.
Aegis snapped off a single strand of hair, its shape staying completely rigid before crumbling from being too thin. From the Fool’s description, these people were still alive somehow, which made the situation that much more unsettling. Aegis figured it’d be best to find somewhere more iso-Oh gods I’m going to be late! Master’ll surely-lated.
…
Yes, now was probably a great time to get the hell away from these statues.
Navigating through three crowds’ worth of bustling town was difficult enough. Finding a building with an operating door was harder. Half the time a being or two were fused into the door, making it unusable. Other times, the doors wouldn’t have a visible means of opening. And yet others, even when operational, simply led into a building made unusable by the presence of another building inside. All the while, Aegis kept hearing voices—thoughts—which seemed to compel him to follow the will of an arbitrary statue.
At last, Aegis found a small, rather isolated building. The inside was rather empty compared to the rest of the city, save for a few benches and a tight crowd in the center of the room. The crowd was mostly dressed in a variety of peasant clothing, save only for a few regal-looking individuals in fancy noble attire.
Curious, Aegis moved aside the crowd of statues one by one and saw what the apparent attention was all about. As he lifted the last peasant out of the way, he simply saw two figures: a grown man dressed quite differently than the rest—some sort of mage, Aegis guessed—and a young boy of no more than 13 perhaps. The two sat on the opposite ends of a small table, stone pieces of various shapes strewn throughout. A chess game, made impossible to make sense of due to lack of color.
Disappointed, Aegis exited the crowd and sat on a bench. Strategy. That’s their game. Aegis had always acted on whim, relying on brute force to overcome obstacles. To be fair, it worked most of the time. Maybe, however, it was beginning to falter. Despite his strength, he couldn’t lay a finger on the flying bugman. And earlier, Bae killed B, then B killed Bae, but now Clara was Bae and B was never Bae? It was confusing, terribly confusing. He’d have to be more careful towards Clara now? Was that the best way to go about this? Maybe he could just smash everything instead.
Y’remind me of me when I was your age, lad. Your play is strong, we shall find out exactly how strong.
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Knight to b6.
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Knight to b6.
Aegis stood up and approached the table again. He was certainly taught how to play at least once in his lifetime, but he’d forget it all the day after.
Knight to b6.
Aegis picked up a piece that looked like a horse and moved it to b6.
Statues. He dumped us in a city full of statues. Aegis examined the nearest: a stern-looking woman who seemed once in a hurry to get somewhere. The statue was perfect—each individual hair, the texture of the skin, every detail captured in solid stone. Aegis nearly missed the dwarfish man fused halfway into her abdomen, in mid-stride and his face buried in stone. Creepy as all hell.
Aegis snapped off a single strand of hair, its shape staying completely rigid before crumbling from being too thin. From the Fool’s description, these people were still alive somehow, which made the situation that much more unsettling. Aegis figured it’d be best to find somewhere more iso-Oh gods I’m going to be late! Master’ll surely-lated.
…
Yes, now was probably a great time to get the hell away from these statues.
Navigating through three crowds’ worth of bustling town was difficult enough. Finding a building with an operating door was harder. Half the time a being or two were fused into the door, making it unusable. Other times, the doors wouldn’t have a visible means of opening. And yet others, even when operational, simply led into a building made unusable by the presence of another building inside. All the while, Aegis kept hearing voices—thoughts—which seemed to compel him to follow the will of an arbitrary statue.
At last, Aegis found a small, rather isolated building. The inside was rather empty compared to the rest of the city, save for a few benches and a tight crowd in the center of the room. The crowd was mostly dressed in a variety of peasant clothing, save only for a few regal-looking individuals in fancy noble attire.
Curious, Aegis moved aside the crowd of statues one by one and saw what the apparent attention was all about. As he lifted the last peasant out of the way, he simply saw two figures: a grown man dressed quite differently than the rest—some sort of mage, Aegis guessed—and a young boy of no more than 13 perhaps. The two sat on the opposite ends of a small table, stone pieces of various shapes strewn throughout. A chess game, made impossible to make sense of due to lack of color.
Disappointed, Aegis exited the crowd and sat on a bench. Strategy. That’s their game. Aegis had always acted on whim, relying on brute force to overcome obstacles. To be fair, it worked most of the time. Maybe, however, it was beginning to falter. Despite his strength, he couldn’t lay a finger on the flying bugman. And earlier, Bae killed B, then B killed Bae, but now Clara was Bae and B was never Bae? It was confusing, terribly confusing. He’d have to be more careful towards Clara now? Was that the best way to go about this? Maybe he could just smash everything instead.
Y’remind me of me when I was your age, lad. Your play is strong, we shall find out exactly how strong.
…
Knight to b6.
…
Knight to b6.
Aegis stood up and approached the table again. He was certainly taught how to play at least once in his lifetime, but he’d forget it all the day after.
Knight to b6.
Aegis picked up a piece that looked like a horse and moved it to b6.