Run From Fate: An Escape RP (Accepting Escapees, Started)

[UnusualStranger]

The red man looked at the pair for a moment, seeming somewhat surprised at the question as to why they were armed in the first place. Exchanging a look with his comrades, who spread out to look around for a bit, the man spoke again.

"Well, I don't know about you peace loving folks, but I imagine that isn't smart to NOT be armed in the first place." He almost seemed to take a tone as if explaining things to children, only to quickly become grim at the prospect of it not being safe to stay there.

"And it isn't safe because this is a ship. And if this IS a ship, that means The One is coming, and he doesn't much care for ships, especially if they could be brought back to functioning. And he also doesn't look kindly on those who know how to build a ship, making it a very bad idea to stick around one..."

Suddenly, one of the men started waving, and said something in an odd set of clicks and moans. The red man nodded, and then the group seemed to start looking over the ship almost immediately.

"Now, grab whatever you damned well can. The One is apparently ALREADY on the damned island. Bastard moves faster every time, I'm sure."

[hr]

As The One made its way into the town, it detected an odd set of signatures, and knew to quickly go and examine the problematic source within the town. As it made its way towards the source, it quickly noted where it came from. A pair of individuals, one clearly robotic and the other less so, were going along the street. The One approached the pair, and stopped in front of them.

"You. What is your primary function?" The One asked the A.I., and without waiting for a response turned to the maid looking Luna. "And you, what is your function here in the streets?"

 

[Texas Joker 52]

\ \Juda/ /​

Juda listened carefully as the red one out of the bunch explained what was going on, namely that the planet was hostile, particularly due to someone, or something called The One, who seemed to particularly dislike ships, be they damaged, functioning, or in the progress of being constructed. Apparently, being unarmed on this planet, whatever it was called, was a very bad idea as well.

His thoughts were promptly interrupted when another said something in some indiscernible language.

"Now, grab whatever you damned well can. The One is apparently ALREADY on the damned island. Bastard moves faster every time, I'm sure.".

His eyes narrowed a little as he glanced back at his sister, and the ship. Staying there was no longer an option, if the locals were to be believed. Even if this 'One' was something they made up, being out in the open was a bad idea regardless, particularly around something that drew attention, like a crashed shuttle. As it was, it looked like a dead loss to him, though he was hardly an engineer.

After a moment, he looked back at the scouting party and grunted softly. As it was, the situation was far from ideal. They didn't know the locals, or the land, and there was nothing yet to really indicate that the scouts were trustworthy. But there were four of them compared to him and Sieran, and while they could possibly fight them off, he didn't like the odds. For the moment, they would have to make do, and go with them.

"Wasn't planning on staying much longer. Lets go, Sieran.", he told her firmly, flashing her a look that said that he wasn't in any mood to argue.

If need be, he could always pick her up and drag her to safety kicking and screaming. She may be wily, but he had the strength to do it if necessary.

 

[RandomMan01]

Kesin had followed the golden-looking girl towards the forest, as had the human. For the time being, he had stayed behind the girl, as he didn't know about these so-called, "forests".

Arriving at the edge of the forest, Kesin took the girl's pause as a chance to look around. The forest was, different. The foliage stood many feet in the air, and everything was green. Not a green like seaweed, or his hair, but a lighter green. An inviting green. Still, this was not the ocean, and Kesin wished for the day he could return to his underwater home, but as long as The One was still around, that was not an option.

Kesin was so distracted, he almost didn't notice his guide strip down and run into a bush. Almost being the operative term. As she flung aside the cocktail dress, he felt his face suddenly go crimson. After a few moments in the bush, the girl returned, wearing a gown of leaves that made it almost impossible to see her.

"Try to keep up."

Kesin nodded and followed her. He debated trying to do that himself, but convinced himself that it probably wouldn't work out right. For the time being, he'd stick to running away.

 

[drmigit2]

"Try to keep up."

Fromanzio watched her change clothes with a disinterested look. She wasn't nearly as powerful as him and that would mean there is only one worthy fight on the entire plane. He would have to fight and kill The One. He sounded powerful, almost impossible to beat, but Fromanzio knew that nobody exists without weakness. Ascended magi could rip the plane in half, but a sword with enough hate behind it could sunder any defense made by one. Now wasn't the time to pick a fight though, Fromanzio figured he should disguise himself as well and decided to change his form.

"Fromanzio can do that too! Watch!"

Fromanzio's body began absorbing the light around it, slowly shrinking into the shape of a jungle cat. Perfectly designed to hide in the forest and never be seen until the time to strike was right. The One would be just like the oranges at some point. Some day, he would be drinking One Juice and it would taste...onederful.

 

[BeerTent]

[Pretty bad when you fuck up your own chars name.]
Rikar watched the others as he too jumped into the forest. He was on his own though, a fair distance away from them. He wanted to see if The One would go after them. Importunately, his own method of going in and hiding wasn't... Well, it wasn't good. Tearing through and snapping branches, forcing his way through paths too small for him. "Errngh."

He eventually found a good hiding spot. Well, as good as it was going to get. He crouched down and started to look around, trying to find where his little 'bait' experiment was. Wait... Where did those people go? With an almost vicious growl, he called it off, standing up and taking a more nimble approach to going through the forest and trees. He occasionally picked a leaf off a branch, eating it to see what it tasted like. Not too bad... Could use some seasoning.

 

[drmigit2]

"Deer, you up for a game kitty? Shame to waste those pretty little claws, long as you don't mind getting your pretty little coat red."

It was strange. Most people by now were deathly afraid of Fromanzio, running away and calling for guards to do terrible things. Although, if she was impressed by the panther, perhaps another spell could make her even more impressed. Fromanzio himself never had to eat, demons who did eat did so out of an addiction, not a need. Still, food did taste good, that never changes. Fromanzio's voice was still whimsical past the panther disguise, though if he felt like it, he could change that too.

"Fromanzio could do that. Killing is his specialty after all! Though he assumes you want less of a show, more brutal, less fantastical. That's fine, Fromanzio can do that too. Just point him in the direction."

 

[lionrwal]

Kara looked out upon the forest as she and the others came to it's edge. "Smart hiding place," she mumbled. It would be to easy to find something that could sufficiently hide her from The One. But she wasn't worried about herself. She turned her attention to the lizard and saw it noisily thrashing around. If it's going to follow us... she thought to herself. It definitely didn't appear to know how to move silently. The two humans (at least she thought they were humans) and the flying jester may not know how to move without making themselves noticed either, and if The One knows where they are, it wouldn't be long before it found her.

Kara escaped her thoughts to see what had happened so far. As she looked up, she noticed the woman stripping down and walking into some brush in the forest. Kara was completely lost as to what just happened. She assumed nothing important would happen for at least a few minutes, so she left the group temporarily to see the current state of the empty town. As she approached the abandoned city, she heard what sounded like talking coming from it.

I thought this place was deserted. Who is that?

She hid behind a building at the edge of the town and listened in to what sounded like an interrogation. She could tell one person was asking all of the questions, but she couldn't understand exactly what was being said. The whole thing confused her. Why would someone stand in the middle of a ghost town and interrogate people? She was thinking about who would do that when the realization hit her like a truck. She wanted to take a look just to be sure, but she didn't want to risk being seen by something as dangerous as it. Instantly, Kara made her way back towards the group at the edge of the forest, where she was greeted with the sight of the woman, now covered in leaves and dirt, talking to a panther. Kara grabbed the woman's arm and made her face her.

"Listen to me. Stop playing with that cat and start moving forward. I think The One is already in that town."

 

[drmigit2]

"You aren't forest people I take it?"

Ha, forests. Forests were Fromanzio's least favorite places on the anything ever. Especially ents. Screw ents and everything that made them. Those were the worst creatures. Stoic, boring and powerful. Such a waste. Fromanzio would turn them all into firewood if he could, and he can, and has.


Fromanzio laughed at that and said simply. "Fromanzio was killed in a forest once, if that helps. No, he isn't. His extent of tree hugging involves burning down entire forests, killing all that inhabit them and then turning the trees into pulp. That, and enjoying nice walks somewhat near them. Do oranges come from forests?"

 

[Captain Anon]

As David was walking down the street, he did some fancy trick with his revolver when for out of nowhere, a skinning looking thug in his 20s comes at him with a small pocket knife and says "hand over all your bullets and money now" David just stare at him with a blank look on his face then just started laughing, the thug was completely confused "what are you laughing about?!, I've got a bloody knife!" he said when David suddenly stopped laughing.

"first you're too sickly and skinning looking to be threatening boy, and second if you don't stop pointing that "knife" at me i'm gonna shove it up your ass and then mine will through your goddamn throat......are we clear?!" he said letting out a huge amount of blood lust however the thug being stupid and not knowing the danger lunged forward in an attempt to stab David but David quickly grabbed the thug's right hand (the hand that was holding the knife) with his left hand and did a 180 degrees spin before elbowing in the right side of the face.

The thug dropped the knife and it hit the ground just before he himself did, "i guess not" said David before he lit a smoke and then throws the knife as far as he can "stupid boy" he mumbled looking back then shaking his head and walked on out of town and heads into the forest.

OOC:let me make it clear that i am not trying to "jump on anyone's back and be involved in their story" i just prefer to kind of co-op style RP with someone

 

[RandomMan01]

Billy was getting more and more confused, first the strange looking woman had magically made herself leaf clothing, than the jester had turned himself into a cat. These magical types were strange. Than again, he could become half shark in any body of water, so he didn't really have reason to talk.

The jester-cat and the strange-looking woman had started talking about a hunt. Kesin would have been more than happy to help, it had been awhile since he had last sunk his teeth into anything good. However, this was interrupted by the regular-looking human running up.

"Listen to me. Stop playing with that cat and start moving forward. I think The One is already in that town."

Kesin's heart jumped to his throat.

Him, here. Already? We've got to get out of here!

The strange looking woman was significantly less concerned.

"Fine we'll eat later."

Kesin didn't know if this woman was insanely brave, or just plain stupid. Either way, she had already started on her way, and Kesin didn't know the forest, so he was kinda forced to follow.

The woods were hard to navigate around, Kesin was easily able to keep up, but how could he be quiet with all these damn leaves and sticks making so much noise whenever he stepped on one? Eventually, the strange-looking woman turned towards the group.

"You aren't forest people I take it?"

Kesin shook his head, "No, I'm significantly better in the water." Kesin replied.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

Sieran listened to the red creature, and nodded. "I suppose we've no other choice then." She went over to them, but cast a quick glance back at her ship. It had been her chance to get away from her home, and find adventure, but it seemed that it would be harder than expected. She'd ended up on some backwater planet, which was apparently ruled by an entity they called the one. Maybe she'd be able to find or build another ship. Maybe the shuttle would still be there if she returned.

Her brother said something to her, trying to assert an authority he'd simple never have. She ignored him, and turned to the red one. "So, who are you?"

 

[Texas Joker 52]

\ \Juda/ /​

As Sieran promptly ignored what he said and turned to the newcomers, he simply rolled his eyes behind her back. He understood that on the Tarsonis, neither of his siblings much respected him, or really understood him. And on the ship, that was fine, mainly because he kept to himself as much as possible. True, he resented their disrespect, the fact that both his younger siblings considered themselves superior in just about every way, but there he could accept it, because there he could make sure that sort of bullshit was limited.

The fact she refused to listen to him at all was frustrating, and was starting to test even his even temper. Though, he was sure they were both being tested by the crash landing earlier, and the death of her friend.

As he followed and listened, he wondered if part of the problem was his approach, and decided that he'd need to try a new one if this was going to work.

 

[UnusualStranger]

The One looked over the androids for a time, and noted that perhaps they had suddenly deactivated. Unfortunate and annoying to happen in this city. However, the other beings here would take care of them in due time. There were other circumstances that needed to be looked into, and chances are it would get more annoying to hunt them and their possible disturbances that could be happening. He made his way away from the town now, towards the woods as it would likely be the first place they would flee....meaning it would be easiest to just hunt them down now.

While it was possible for The One to simply destroy the forest and then take whatever problems lingered about, he decided that the small island needed the forest all the same. Besides....the trees did little to hinder his highly advanced sight, and he began moving forward, with the trees offering no problems to himself....and finding some odd ripped bits of clothing as he walked. Something had indeed happened here, meaning that he perhaps was already on the right trail.

[hr]

As the red man continued to work, with his comrades saying something now and then before taking it out of the ship, the man turned to Sieran for a moment to look her over.

"Me? They just call me Red. Pretty damn simplistic, but I don't think I give a damn on this planet. Besides....my actual name is a bit annoying for most to say, and I would rather just deal with Red. And you are...?"

The man who called himself Red continued his work on the ship, seeming to grab anything that distinctly seemed to have a charge or some property that might have interest and tossing in a bag. They worked relatively fast, and seemed intent on getting out of there right now.

"You can come along for a bit. We got an escape ship here, so we are not stuck on this silly island. Hate for your...donations to do nothing for ya, eh?"

 

[Captain Anon]

as David walked through the forest he felt a sense of danger and that he should hurry up he did just that suddenly he heard a voice
?In another hour or so we?ll be so deep in here it would take days to find us, but the main land will be better, much more room to manoeuvre. We should eat soon; we?ll need it to keep our strength up, especially if we want to get to the mainland. When the sun goes down.?said the voice.


people! finally someone who might know what's going on around here

thought David as he headed to where the voice was coming from "hello? anyone there? i'm not gonna hurt you if you don't have hurt me" he said to the group of Kesin, Fromanzio, Vask

 

[drmigit2]

Fromanzio was hearing his new allies go back and forth and back and forth on plans. It was frankly getting old. He had his own plan, it might not go that far, but it was still a plan. The Jester came out of his panther-form in a surprisingly conservative flash and said simply.

"If you fear this "One", you may want to keep moving away from here. The forest is a fairly obvious hiding place and some form of scout has to have been sent. Fromanzio could kill the scout, but who knows what that would do. We recommend a simple distraction."

Fromanzio thought for another moment and figured the shark looking one could be useful. "You, shark looking guy, go get in water and start gathering food for everyone else. Fromanzio doesn't eat so don't worry about him. This part however, is important. Can anyone other than Fromanzio start a fire? If not, Fromanzio can do this by himself."

 

[RandomMan01]

"If you fear this "One", you may want to keep moving away from here. The forest is a fairly obvious hiding place and some form of scout has to have been sent. Fromanzio could kill the scout, but who knows what that would do. We recommend a simple distraction."

Kesin nodded his head, for all this Jester's wacky talk, he still seemed intelligent enough, and his planned seemed like a better idea than, hide in the forest on the same island as the thing we want to get away from. Kesin was snapped back to reality when the Jester began talking to him.

"You, shark looking guy, go get in water and start gathering food for everyone else..."

To say Kesin was caught off-guard would be an understatement. His eyes quickly scanned up and down his body, looking for anything that gave away his identity, but other than his skin-color and teeth, nothing really screamed "Cetean". To top things off, how did this Jester know that he was a hunter?

"How did you...never mind. I'll be back with the food later. Try and stay closer to the shoreline, though, I don't want to have to go through this place and risk the One finding me first."

With that, Kesin took off away from the town in the direction of the opposite shoreline. Once he reached it, he quickly stripped, packing all his clothes away in the watertight bag, and dove into the water. His change was much swifter and a lot more comfortable than becoming a human. Back to his original state, Kesin began the hunt.

 

[Captain Anon]

OOC: ok i'm scratch this post because i thought someone else in the forest and then had found another town when they were still in the forest my bad people carry on

 

[Lambi]

Having been hiding for a while, Sylvia thought that now she should perhaps try to attack the strange creature that terrorized this planet. Perhaps she could take it down. Perhaps she would die. Either way, she didn't really have a home to go back to, so why should she care?

Quickly running between the trees of the forest, she jumped into the air, higher than humans could, letting out a battle roar and threw a spike of ice towards the giant creature, trying to do as much damage as she could before she'd start to slice it with her katana. If nothing else, this would serve as a distraction for others.

 

[drmigit2]

"Now I'll help with hunt."

Fromanzio laughed. "That's the point! Fromanzio will use a bit of misdirection to lead the ones tracking us to another location. He can move much faster than they can after all. If Fromanzio is to do it alone, that is fine. He will be back soon. Try not to die too quickly now!"


Fromanzio held back a laugh as he knew it might make him more obvious. He gave up on most sense of subtlety and began flying around the trees, dodging, weaving and twisting to ensure he got to his unknown location as soon as possible. Really, just a way to keep The One off his tail until he could learn a bit about the creature, besides, Fromanzio never had a disdain for forest fires. He still hated the forest.

A simple fire spell would do. Start a small spark to spread on top of a tree, branches fall and soon the nearby shrubs and trees are on fire. It would take a while for anyone to notice, plenty of time for Fromanzio to be on the other side of the forest with his group.

"Right! Time to do this. Ready Fromanzio? You know the chant...right? Oh what was that chant? Damn it all! Firan moto borialah? No...that wasn't it. Come on! Slow flame spell...BORIAS!"

A huge jet of flames erupted from Fromanzio's mouth as he said that and set the nearby trees ablaze. That wasn't a slow fire spell, in fact, it was already getting hot. Fromanzio turned around and flew as fast as he could away from it. By the time anyone moved in close enough, he would already be long gone. Flames were like that.

 

[UnusualStranger]

Spoiler: Organizing

Notice that it is getting somewhat confusing as to where some individuals are. So, I have a small group in the woods trying to work together, a pair of largely deactivated androids in town, an old fashioned vampire hunter off on his own, and the family group starting to make their way away from their ship.

We mostly clear, or do I need corrections?

As Sylvia attempted to jump him, the slashing weapon was grabbed by The One, who quietly regarded the beastlike woman for a moment. As he quietly looked over the attacking one, he realized that perhaps it would be better if she was instead closer to more of what should be in these forests. The ice spike, which had struck him in the arm, was regarded quietly for a moment until he finally turned all of his attention back to the beast, and let a glow fly from his hands into Sylvia. As she fell to her knees, she began to change. Soon, she was more of a beast than a standing assassin. He regarded her for a moment longer, before continuing on his path, leaving the beast to its own devices. As fires suddenly burst, The One knew that the escaping figures had to be reasonably close now. With one of them being 'sacrificed' to try and slow him, that meant that he would be upon them soon, and that would be the end of that.