Epic Realms: An Escapist RP Crossover RP

[NeoAC]

"Oh?" Shann answered. "Do you know what it's like to lose your whole family? To be looking down as your father's body as the blood runs from it like a demonic river? To be alone in the world for so long? Then when things finally start to happen, to be wrenched out of that world for no apparent reason?

And then to finally meet someone who you can kinda see as a friend, and who's looking out for you, and have to watch them get their guts clawed out because they couldn't take the fucking pressure? Do you really know what it's like? To live through that?" She knew she was piling on Daniel, but she couldn't help it right now. Maybe the pressure was finally getting to her too. Maybe after so long of holding it in, she was finally cracking.

 

[CounterAttack]

Shocked, Daniel visibly paled at Shann's words. "My life may not be as... troubled as yours, for lack of better words, but I get the picture," he said quietly. "I think we may have had similar experiences. Everyone from my home town thinks I'm dead or missing. I... I can tell you about it, if you want. The whole story, from the night I was stolen away to the final days of the Tournament I was forced to participate in."

He hesitated for a moment, remembering the events in vivid detail.

"I can allow you to forget the present, for a time, and learn of the trials I endured. Maybe it can help both of us to get by in this insane place."

 

[NeoAC]

Shann stopped crying. At least there was someone else acting sane. Someone who could actually be talked to. She sat up and tried to compose herself once more.

"Well, if you want. I guess it's not fair that I put all my troubles on you without you getting to do so. Go ahead."

 

[CounterAttack]

Daniel took a deep breath, and began to speak, diving deep into his memory.

"It all started when I was kidnapped in the middle of the night. I knew it was a kidnap because I fell asleep in my bed at home, and woke up somewhere completely different, somewhere I'd never seen before in my life. I woke in an unfamiliar hallway, with seventeen strangers I didn't know. Two of them introduced themselves as Principality, or Prin, and Arcana. They said that they were the only two people on Earth who were important to me, and that I should heed their words if I wanted to live."

"Each of us was given a device called a System -" Daniel pulled his out to demonstrate "- and two secondary units called Associates." Again, Daniel took the two cartridges out of his pocket to show Shann. "We were to use the two Associates we had been given - everyone's was different - to fight against each other until one remained standing. Prin and Arcana called the contest the Tournament. Some rules were set down, and the next thing I knew, all my valuable items had been taken from me, the System and Associates given to me in a backpack, and I was knocked out again."

"I woke up, my head aching, to a plateau of ice. It was unbelievably cold; there was a blizzard raging at all hours of the day. I managed to find my way to a border, or so it seemed, between the ice-world and a ruined city."

Spoiler: OOC

I'm not done, just giving you time to respond.

 

[NeoAC]

Shann stared at Daniel. A lot of this was going over her head, but the visual aids did help a little bit. It still was a lot though. I wish I had some booze right now...

"Go on," she said.

 

[Fury Is Me.]

Jericho sat in his garden of illusions, quietly. It had been a while and he had calmed down. Maybe... Maybe I should go apologize... I mean, they're in this with me too... It's not like i'm the only guy who's got problems... All I did was use my powers to harm an innocent woman and a boy... Damnit i'm an asshole. Jericho got up and the garden vanished. He walked back the way he came.

 

[CounterAttack]

"Once I got out of the cold, I met up with my first opponent, a guy called Olan," Daniel continued. "At this point I should explain as best I can how the System works. It's a strange device, I suppose you could call it magical, there's no other way to explain it. I believe it takes information stored in an Associate inserted into it -" he slid his Engineer cartridge into the slot in the System "- and somehow brings the person depicted on the Associate to life in front of the user. Do you want me to demonstrate further?" he asked. "If not, I can continue without an example."

 

[Sporky111]

"It's a bit serious." Ian replied flatly, glancing at Xandus. The fact that he was eating Jaime wasn't disgusting at all to the lycan, just very disrespectful to her.

Ian was really more interested in the story of Daniel's home world. It seemed very foreign and magical, but also very frightening. He's being knocked out and revived in all kinds of different places, all against his will...he must be much stronger than he lets on.

 

[NeoAC]

"Well, was it that weird looking guy that was battling this asshole, who's eating my fucking friend! What the fuck is your problem?" Shann was beside herself that this guy could behave like this. It was like he had no concept of anything that was decent in the world. She was holding in every urge in her body to just start blasting this stupid buggers brains all over the street.

 

[Sam G]

"Hey." Sam walked up to Jericho and hugged him. He started speaking quietly into the older man's ear. "You're in agony. You just did something horrible, so you're being torn apart by guilt. You were just shunned by the only other intelligent beings on the planet, so you feel rejected. And unless I'm very much mistaken, the one thing you need more than anything else right now is a friend." Sam released Jericho from his grip, stepped back and held out his hand. "Hello. I'm Sam G. I'm your new best friend."

Oh, this was no good at all. To think, after not even one day, they had already started killing each other?
The GM leaned back in his chair, his face in his palm. This was far too early! Wanton acts of murder were fine, but if they started dying at this rate, then by the sixth day there'd be none left! The way the GM saw it, there was only one thing to do in this situation. He flipped open his laptop and started to type.

"So, uh..." Sam turned to his friend. He and Jericho had walked all the way back to the park in an attempt to remedy things with the others, but along the way Sam had spotted something lying in the street: Jaime's body. He wasn't sure how it had got there (Had it walked? Had the others dumped it there?), but they couldn't just leave it lying there like that. It felt... wrong. "Should we... bury her, or something?" Sam continued. "Is there anything you want to say?" He walked over to the body and crouched next to it. Sam leaned over what was left of Jaime, placed his hands underneath her and attempted to pick her up, when suddenly her eyes shot open and she sat bolt upright.
Sam's eyes widened. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but instead just opted for passing out. And so he did.

Spoiler: OOC

And thus, Jaime lives again! That may have been easier to do, had Xandus not decided to eat the body, but hey! Donkey, you're back in the game!

 

[CloggedDonkey]

Jaime gasped for air as she sat up. "I *breaths heavily* What the..." She stared at her hands. She could see that she was very much in her old body, large claw marks across her face and all, but for some reason she was alive. "Did... did I just come back to life?" She asked herself not noticing the two men around her. "How did..." She looked around her and saw The man that attacked her. "Didn't you just kill me? How am I alive? Did you revive me or something?" Jaime asked as she sat. Okay, first I show up here, then I meet fucking Darth Vader, then I die, and now I'm alive. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?

 

[CloggedDonkey]

"You tried to..." Jaime said as she looked a gash in her arm. "I have seen physio murderers burn down my home twice, I have killed my own father, I have even betrayed and abandoned my friends, but in all my years in the hell that was my old world, I don't think I have ever seen or done anything as horrible as cannibalism." She reached for her shotgun, but for some reason she couldn't move her arm at all. "What the hell did you do to me, you sick fuck?" She screamed while taking a defensive stance. Ho Jaime, don't try that. I just brought you back from the dead, don't go and start killing, or you'll just be dead again soon.

 

[CloggedDonkey]

"You just ate part of my arm! I'm not some fucked up freak like you who just take mutilation in stride and eats people! I'm going to fucking kill you!" Jaime yelled as she attempted to run at Xandus, but was unable to move her legs. Now I told you to stop that! Now, calm down, it's just a custom of his world, just let it go. Jaime sighed and unclenched her fist. "I don't think I can do it. but as soon as we stop this god, I'm shoving my shotgun down your throat and letting you see what lead taste like when it's moving at a few hundred feet per second."

Jaime turned to Shann, who was sitting next to the pool of blood that was where Jaime's body was. "You okay? You look like you've been crying."

 

[CounterAttack]

If looks could kill, Xandus would have been annihilated by the expression of hate Daniel was giving him. "You disgust me. Have you no respect for the dead?" he asked coldly. "I think you should be going as well. You clearly need to find some way of maintaining civility and common sense around us. That includes not trying to kill us or anything else that we don't like. And hey, I for one don't really care about your backstory, not until you can prove that you're a decent guy. If you can't... then get going."

With that, he turned to Jaime. "I don't know how you're alive, but you need help. My System can heal you, if you so wish."

 

[CloggedDonkey]

"Your 'system'? Is that the thing you used against the freak?" Jaime asked while looked at the piece missing from her arm. "But yes, some healing would be nice."

 

[NeoAC]

Shann was still silent. She couldn't believe what she had seen. Her one friend, now missing a chunk of arm, was back, alive, despite everything these other two had done to her. She didn't know what else she could do. She hugged her.

"Yeah, yeah I was crying. I thought you were gone, like almost everyone else in my life. You know what something like that does to someone.

Oh, and when I said I would have the dog eat you, I'm sorry I let that freak get the first bite in. I just.....I'm so happy you're not dead."