[DROP] I don't give a fort

Edmund's eyes go wide with panic when he spots Maeve. "Well.. I...uh..I left a note? On the kitchen table?" The teenager's voice rises a few octaves with each word, only to end in a small whimper when he sees the tears in his Mum's eyes.  The only reason he remains on his feet is the strength of her grip. "I.." He can't say he's sorry, now can he? He hates that he hurt his family, but he doesn't regret his choice. Instead, Edmund bites his lip anxiously and shakes his head, pulling his hood back on, "Not here." Tearing his arm away he backpaddles, "I'll send a letter, I promise." With that, he gives into the instincts that have been screaming at him. It's too cold and this conversation is just too much. He needs to get out, now. He quickly begins to shift, rushing it enough that the Ancient can't help but flinch. As soon as he's able, the molten tiger urns and sprints away. He can't do this today. ~ Edmund panics seeing Maeve and decides he's too cold and too stressed to do this. He shifts into his molten tiger form and tries to flee the drop. Edmund the prince of torchline

kaiden

There is no shame in survival
Only strength

Kaiden ignores the raised voices on the shore and decides to follow their ears. Swimming upstream and maneuvering around ice, they try to track the marching sound. After a moment, Kaien ducks behind a large rock in the stream and makes a snowball. They keep their eyes in the direction of the noise and brace themselves.

The second the source of the noise appears, Kaiden is going to let their snowball fly. The best defense was offensive in their mind. They'd strike first and ensure their victory or survival. Whichever was the goal in what appeared to be the start of a snow-based fight.


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Kaiden ducks behind a rock in the river and gets a snowball ready. They're ambushing whatever appears!

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Sah

What is knowledge without wisdom?

Sah ducks and blocks as much of the onslaught with his forearms that he can. It distracts him from Maeve's conversation, but he can pick up the gist of it. Seems like her eldest has a bad case of wanderlust. He really hopes neither of his pups develop the same habit. It'll drive him up a wall.

For now, he focuses on ducking snowballs and determining from what direction the marching is coming from. It's getting closer from what he can tell. Calling his magic, the mageglass on his neck warms. With a flick of his wrists, Sah attempt to shape the ice and snow around him, piling it up until he has a rudimentary fort surrounding himself.


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Sah uses his magic (water, air, and telekinesis) to create a fort of snow and ice around himself. He's defending!

Water manipulation: Can manipulate water. Must be within a 5ft radius, control is weak and unstable and requires concentration. Can manipulate water in glasses and puddles
Type: Light | Rank: Basic  (Using mageglass)

Air manipulation: Can create and control the air. Must be within a 30ft radius.
Type: Grey | Rank: Mastered

Telekinesis: Can move large objects.
Type: Grey | Rank: Mastered

Type: Light | Style: Other | Level: Mastered
Mageglass Necklace | A pendant made of mageglass. Will amplify the magical abilities of Abandoned by one level. (Basic becomes upgraded, upgraded becomes mastered, and mastered adds on additional basic damage)

What is desire without instinct?

MORGEN

Come down from your fences

Well. This certainly ain't what Morgen had been expecting to do with his day when he'd got up this morning, but fuck if he wasn't willing to roll with it. 'Y'know what I'm thinkin?" He murmurs to Sweets, who, given she was mentally linked with the man on her back, pinned her ears and offered him a side-eye that said were you born stupid?

Hoping to act as a distraction, Morgen hunkers forward and grabs a handful of the mare's mane. The unicorn needed no encouragement at all from his lower leg, and soon she was off, racing across the imagined battle-field. With her tail streaming behind her and her breath coming in fast bursts of white, the mare put on a burst of speed to avoid being hit.

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Morgen on his unicorn SuperSpeeds across the 'battlefield' in order to provide a distraction.

open the gate

"Snowballs, but can't see who's throwin' 'em!" Tal called back to Noah, a frown of confusion on his features. Of course, seeing Sah get hit by one of the mysterious snowballs made him snicker and gave him ideas.

Terrible, terrible ideas.

Whatever else was going on, the sound of marching was enough to send the courier off with the rest to investigate. Boreal gave him a cheerful whuff and then let out a small roar of greeting to Lilly and Pad, inviting them to come hunting with her while their humans did incomprehensible human things. Hunting blink hares was definitely a group activity!

Tal, meanwhile, had gathered up a few snowballs as he walked, tucking them surreptitiously into his Bag of Holding so he'd have plenty of ammo when they found the source of the marching sounds. Except the sounds stopped with nothing in sight.

Well, it would be pretty much illegal to let snowballs go to waste, right? With a wicked grin the courier wound up and threw his first snowball--

Right at Sah in his smug little fort.

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Tal attacks!

...Sah. (he's not sorry)

Noah nodded at Tal's response, a confused looked narrowing his eyebrows together. He looked to Deimos for a moment and shrugged, May as well see what this turns into He said over the bond. Noah followed the marching until he was upon the battlefield. It was quite a trek to get there, and had he not built the endurance he had over the last years, he might be out of breath. He noticed as Tal made several snowballs and stuck them in his bag. It didn't take the courier long to choose his target, and Noah decided he didn't want to be the next one struck. Motioning for Deimos, Noah started to move snow to form a wall for shelter. He was distracted, though, as Morgen raced across the field. -- Noah starts building a wall/fort then is distracted by Morgen. Noah Olson When the night is cold and you feel like no-one knows what it's like to be the only one buried in this hole You can make it to the sunrise

Kaiden's presence was welcome, but it was the distraction that served to land a snowball directly to the left side of the king's face as he opened his mouth to greet his fellow Mer.

The mouth closed. The snow was wiped away. Hadama considered the situation and then met Kaiden's eyes squarely. "We battle," he rumbled, though despite his stoic expression there was merriment dancing in emerald eyes.

He swam along the river, following the marching sounds and the humans - many of whom he recognized, to his surprise - who had joined them. When the marching died away the mermanta considered their options and saw a human making a defensive construct nearby. He studied it for a moment and then reached for his own water magic to begin building a much rougher barricade between the land and the river for himself and Kaiden to shelter behind.

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Hadama uses water magic to pull together a defensive wall of snow along the river bank for him and Kaiden to hide behind.

Water manipulation: Can manipulate water. Must be within a 30ft radius. Control is excellent
Type: Light | Rank: Upgraded

I carried my own ashes to the mountains

No explanations made themselves known, and the Sword was forced to reconfigure movements while striving to understand where all of it was coming from. Flora or fauna somewhere in the midst of King’s End?

Before long though, Noah hastened through his mind, and Deimos followed through on the notions of shelter. All right. Hang on. Quickly and efficiently, his strides took him towards the Sentinel’s started fortifications, and as a creature of habit in defenses, began assisting.

Unbothered by anyone else heaving and racing through, the Warden summoned his Mastered Water incantations to utilize the snow and ice to fortify their makeshift domain.

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Deimos uses his Mastered Water to use the snow/ice to build a wall/fort with Noah.

Water manipulation: Can create and control water. Must be within a 30ft radius.
Type: Light | Rank: Mastered

DEIMOS

Like some child possessed, the beast howls in my veins

This was just the kind of chaos Melita savored. And while there wasn’t imminent destruction (yet), there was enough savagery, wildness, and the imminent unknown that spurred her onward.

Undaunted by the volleying and rallying snowballs, or by others doing the same, she ducked down behind her chosen rock, and began forming her own with the snow nestled nearby. With a massive smirk, she poked her head over the boulder, and watched the others – seeking out a target.

Ah, perfect. Talyson. She’d been waiting for the opportunity so many times over.

Then she heaved her snowball creation forward, hoping to hit the courier dead-on.

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Melita ducks behind a boulder and heaves a snowball at Talyson.

Melita

Lena

let me wander
with the ones

The Caretaker stood wide-eyed as the mayhem carried on. Earlier, she might’ve waved at Morgen and an assortment of others she recognized, but for now, she could feel the familiar rise of apprehension beginning to summon itself within her chest.

Like Stormbreak, breaking apart at the seams in the middle of the war, or as the hospital came apart and her sister was in the rubble –

Choking down a breath, and stuttering for some manner of support, the Attuned shifted into an Arctic Fox, ducking behind a rock, blending in with the compound, and hoping she wasn’t caught outright – by whatever was going on.

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Lena shifts into her Arctic Fox form and ducks behind a rock, trying to blend into the surroundings.

who are tangled in stars
and tethered to promise

Darkeye

Nine strikes

It has only been snow and he wondered am I out yet. He did not know and ducked behind snowdrift and tried as far as it was possible to seek shelter. Was the maschieren the other people. What was that? Can that really have been the people here. He was cautious. It could be another bad joke. Maybe some people here just wanted to have fun. He could still throw snowballs. He dug himself into the snow and tried to dig himself a kind of hole to the outside. Let's see what happens.
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Darkye needs more info on what is happening. He goes on defense for now.

each for one sin

What could it be, what could it be?

It's soldiers, friends. The answer is soldiers. Memory snow soldiers.

Snowballs fly from the trees from the quickly forming battalion - Sah, Talyson and Melita all get hit despite their attempts to defend or otherwise (though if they get hit multiple times because they're, y'know, pelting each other... well that's on them). But before they can form a true unit, an unlikely hero SuperSpeeds across the clearing.

It's Morgen on his hooves of lightning (ok not really but shush), and all snowballs are directed towards him, giving the group an unexpected opportunity to run through! Do you follow Morgen, or do you attack the snowmen?

You have 48 hours to decide.

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Edmund has decided to flee the drop and does so successfully!

Unfortunately Maeve did not reply in time. She is out of the Drop and will be unable to use it for levelling/MP!

I carried my own ashes to the mountains

Head slightly above the rendered fortifications, the Sword’s eyes widened only briefly as the culprits came to fruition. Soldiers, but carved and sculpted out of snow, brought him back to too many lives interwoven, too to many altercations, to too many visions cut and sharpened out of bridges of war.

He wouldn’t be fleeing.

Even if they were snowballs, the sheer amount of sedition and defiance suddenly rippling through him had every part to do with amusement and experience, revolution and insurgency. Glancing at Noah, he ensured his magic seared and stuck, forming more defenses, before snagging at some of the snowballs coming near, and utilizing his Water and Air incantations to force them back upon their opponents.

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Deimos uses his Mastered Water to further enhance his and Noah’s fort, and combines it with Mastered Air to throw the incoming snowballs back against the memory snow soldiers.

Air manipulation: Can create and control the air. Must be within a 30ft radius.
Type: Grey | Rank: Mastered

Water manipulation: Can create and control water. Must be within a 30ft radius.
Type: Light | Rank: Mastered

DEIMOS

Lena

let me wander
with the ones

Not an individual seeking out fighting given most situations, Lena found herself still cowering behind the rock. For half a moment, she simply shuddered against its cold wake, watching volley after volley, marching, beating drums of things she couldn’t quite fathom or understand.

But she did see the familiar unicorn, taking onslaught after onslaught; which could’ve been an inspiring motion, if the Caretaker deigned to see it that way.

For the most part she acted on pure instinct though, and with her heart giving a thunderous lurch, replaced her fear with impulsivity and inherency, utilizing her ivory shift to blend into the surroundings, striving to avoid the snowballs, and racing after the opening the unicorn and gave.

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Lena tries to follow Morgen and the unicorn, running through in her fox form.

who are tangled in stars
and tethered to promise