Re: Epic Clash Round 3 - The Ascended City
06-12-2010, 11:00 AM
Originally posted on MSPA by suomynonAyletamitlU.
"You don't say..."
Spender's smile was wide. He felt like crying, somewhere inside, but he caught his facial expression before it reflected that, and simply let the smile stay. All for the show, my friends, whether you consent or not.
He switched beats, lifted off the platform, hovered menacingly, then flew backwards, ducking down behind the platform on the other side and charging straight for the ground.
Behind him, dozens of coins spilled into the air, their activations keeping time to the wicked metal beat, their explosive payloads impacting the bottom of the floating platform, blasting holes in it until something inside broke, and it started to slide off sideways, then plummet.
He impacted the top of a waterfall, causing a large geyser of water to shoot up. While he was shielded by it, he grabbed the water around him, opening up another pocket dimension, and stuffed hundreds of gallons into it, then sealed it off temporarily. He also threw more of the watery fuel down into his reactor plant, just for good measure, even as the earth around him crumbled slightly from the ongoing disintegration.
Thomas was coming, but Spender didn't stay in one place. He rocketed off, instead; behind him, with the force of the launch and weakened by the impact and the spellwork, the waterfall collapsed slightly, causing a load of rock and muddy soil to slide off the edge and into the pool below. Spender didn't notice; he aimed himself at the underside of a particularly large island, making sure to just miss impacting it at the last second, then flew tantalizingly close to his new metal ceiling.
Around him, again, bronze crumbled into dust and swirled in his wake, most of it catching up to him, some of it drifting away on the wind. Idly, a part of him thought that it would sting quite a bit to fly through, but he didn't pursue the thought.
As soon as he got out from under the platform and into open air, Asteira's mesmerized robot opened fire, and only a delicate evasion pattern let him evade while making forward progress. Halfway frustrated, he ducked down onto the deck of the large platform, and rammed his way through a doorway and into a long metal corridor, one that stretched the length of the island. On his left, a metal bulkhead stretched onwards, occasionally broken by doorways; on the right, huge windows looked out over a large marching ground, and then into open air.
Spender slowed, and suspended his disintegration spell momentarily, trying to puzzle out the complex to find the engine for this particular island.
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Spender's smile was wide. He felt like crying, somewhere inside, but he caught his facial expression before it reflected that, and simply let the smile stay. All for the show, my friends, whether you consent or not.
He switched beats, lifted off the platform, hovered menacingly, then flew backwards, ducking down behind the platform on the other side and charging straight for the ground.
Behind him, dozens of coins spilled into the air, their activations keeping time to the wicked metal beat, their explosive payloads impacting the bottom of the floating platform, blasting holes in it until something inside broke, and it started to slide off sideways, then plummet.
He impacted the top of a waterfall, causing a large geyser of water to shoot up. While he was shielded by it, he grabbed the water around him, opening up another pocket dimension, and stuffed hundreds of gallons into it, then sealed it off temporarily. He also threw more of the watery fuel down into his reactor plant, just for good measure, even as the earth around him crumbled slightly from the ongoing disintegration.
Thomas was coming, but Spender didn't stay in one place. He rocketed off, instead; behind him, with the force of the launch and weakened by the impact and the spellwork, the waterfall collapsed slightly, causing a load of rock and muddy soil to slide off the edge and into the pool below. Spender didn't notice; he aimed himself at the underside of a particularly large island, making sure to just miss impacting it at the last second, then flew tantalizingly close to his new metal ceiling.
Around him, again, bronze crumbled into dust and swirled in his wake, most of it catching up to him, some of it drifting away on the wind. Idly, a part of him thought that it would sting quite a bit to fly through, but he didn't pursue the thought.
As soon as he got out from under the platform and into open air, Asteira's mesmerized robot opened fire, and only a delicate evasion pattern let him evade while making forward progress. Halfway frustrated, he ducked down onto the deck of the large platform, and rammed his way through a doorway and into a long metal corridor, one that stretched the length of the island. On his left, a metal bulkhead stretched onwards, occasionally broken by doorways; on the right, huge windows looked out over a large marching ground, and then into open air.
Spender slowed, and suspended his disintegration spell momentarily, trying to puzzle out the complex to find the engine for this particular island.
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