Re: Inexorable Altercation [Round I- The Sleeping World of Rock]
05-28-2010, 03:27 PM
Originally posted on MSPA by The Dr..
At OTTO's request, she placed her hand on his tail, and the stripe on her arm again began to glow profusely. This time, only the tips of her fingers turned blue; there were no sparks, no crackles. She lifted her hand away a moment later, the stripe continually glowing. "It's done, then."
"Thanks." Again, OTTO opened his mouth, revealing the circuitry inside, and fired another blast - this one, however, at the Bruiser that O'rylath had been working away at. It was already beginning to back down from the pressure. It slammed against the Bruiser, and the dark sphere in the middle slowly began to fade away; the columns surrounding it sunk downwards the less powerful the gravitational pull became.
When Apathy looked, OTTO had again been drained, and moved sluggishly, but she wasn't focused on that at the moment. She looked towards the final Bruiser, which was the only one of the remaining two that could move. It had strange encryptions carved into the arms, which Apathy couldn't read. It seemed to be some sort of dead language, much like Latin; the only reason she had really noticed this was because the Bruiser had swung its arm into the second floor of the colosseum, in a lazily-constructed punch. It crushed the rock away with its massive fist, and embedded itself into the wall. "You say that the only way to kill them is structural damage, then?" Apathy backed up to the back wall, and charged at the railing. Upon setting foot upon it, she thrusted herself off of the railing and upwards, getting a good height of 30 feet between her and the Bruiser's arm. "I'm up for that." As gravity began to do its work, Apathy lifted her leg up, and brought it down full-force on the connection holding the arm together. The rest of the group had expected her to break her leg, but instead the exact opposite happened: the connector rattled a second, and when Apathy hopped back from the arm, they saw that there was a clear indention in the soft connective joint holding the Bruiser's arm in. It pulled its fist out of the solid rock and brought it back to its side, albeit sluggishly. It was obvious of the structural damage that Apathy had inflicted upon the Bruiser, but it was also obvious that Apathy was both in serious pain and exhaustion.
"I'm not going to do that again for awhile," she said, only between hurried breaths of air. "You guys can handle this for the rest of the way, right?" She collapsed on the ground, her leg stiff. "Yeah, definately not for awhile." She grimaced.
Will nodded. Noting the encryptions on the arms of the Bruiser, he took a rather rash move: The next time the Bruiser readied itself for the punch, he ran up to it and jumped on its arm, upon it crashing into the ground. In his multi-tool, he flipped to a small, durable knife, which he then began to chip at furiously. Specifically, he was going for the symbols on the arm, carving a small tunneled path between the two. The Bruiser began to swing about a bit, but since it was so sluggish, it hardly provided enough force to knock a man of average strength off. Suddenly, it stopped, and Will grinned, slowly dropping away from the arm and backing off. OTTO, in the background, noted something about the Bruiser being at 75% after Apathy's attack, but quickly reconfigured it upon the arm dropping clean off.
"Just as I thought," Will said, closing his multi-tool and slipping it back into his pocket, "the Bruisers depend almost entirely on those symbols embedded on their limbs. If you can just mess with them a bit, break a couple of symbols up, the force behind it just stops working."
OTTO nodded, impressed. "Let me reconfigure that, a bit. Structural integrity... 70%. Good job, Will." O'rylath had been too focused on the first, crippled bruiser to give congratulations to them. He was slightly annoyed that no one had yet taken care of it. "If you want something done, you've to do it yourself, then," he said, pushing the bruiser back with one final blow and dismantling it.
At OTTO's request, she placed her hand on his tail, and the stripe on her arm again began to glow profusely. This time, only the tips of her fingers turned blue; there were no sparks, no crackles. She lifted her hand away a moment later, the stripe continually glowing. "It's done, then."
"Thanks." Again, OTTO opened his mouth, revealing the circuitry inside, and fired another blast - this one, however, at the Bruiser that O'rylath had been working away at. It was already beginning to back down from the pressure. It slammed against the Bruiser, and the dark sphere in the middle slowly began to fade away; the columns surrounding it sunk downwards the less powerful the gravitational pull became.
When Apathy looked, OTTO had again been drained, and moved sluggishly, but she wasn't focused on that at the moment. She looked towards the final Bruiser, which was the only one of the remaining two that could move. It had strange encryptions carved into the arms, which Apathy couldn't read. It seemed to be some sort of dead language, much like Latin; the only reason she had really noticed this was because the Bruiser had swung its arm into the second floor of the colosseum, in a lazily-constructed punch. It crushed the rock away with its massive fist, and embedded itself into the wall. "You say that the only way to kill them is structural damage, then?" Apathy backed up to the back wall, and charged at the railing. Upon setting foot upon it, she thrusted herself off of the railing and upwards, getting a good height of 30 feet between her and the Bruiser's arm. "I'm up for that." As gravity began to do its work, Apathy lifted her leg up, and brought it down full-force on the connection holding the arm together. The rest of the group had expected her to break her leg, but instead the exact opposite happened: the connector rattled a second, and when Apathy hopped back from the arm, they saw that there was a clear indention in the soft connective joint holding the Bruiser's arm in. It pulled its fist out of the solid rock and brought it back to its side, albeit sluggishly. It was obvious of the structural damage that Apathy had inflicted upon the Bruiser, but it was also obvious that Apathy was both in serious pain and exhaustion.
"I'm not going to do that again for awhile," she said, only between hurried breaths of air. "You guys can handle this for the rest of the way, right?" She collapsed on the ground, her leg stiff. "Yeah, definately not for awhile." She grimaced.
Will nodded. Noting the encryptions on the arms of the Bruiser, he took a rather rash move: The next time the Bruiser readied itself for the punch, he ran up to it and jumped on its arm, upon it crashing into the ground. In his multi-tool, he flipped to a small, durable knife, which he then began to chip at furiously. Specifically, he was going for the symbols on the arm, carving a small tunneled path between the two. The Bruiser began to swing about a bit, but since it was so sluggish, it hardly provided enough force to knock a man of average strength off. Suddenly, it stopped, and Will grinned, slowly dropping away from the arm and backing off. OTTO, in the background, noted something about the Bruiser being at 75% after Apathy's attack, but quickly reconfigured it upon the arm dropping clean off.
"Just as I thought," Will said, closing his multi-tool and slipping it back into his pocket, "the Bruisers depend almost entirely on those symbols embedded on their limbs. If you can just mess with them a bit, break a couple of symbols up, the force behind it just stops working."
OTTO nodded, impressed. "Let me reconfigure that, a bit. Structural integrity... 70%. Good job, Will." O'rylath had been too focused on the first, crippled bruiser to give congratulations to them. He was slightly annoyed that no one had yet taken care of it. "If you want something done, you've to do it yourself, then," he said, pushing the bruiser back with one final blow and dismantling it.