**Arl's body ignites with a faint light as she tears her neck away from the grasping hand, putting a summoned helm and additional armor for her neck/chest between her and the freezing limb. She tries to plunge her blade into the attacking limb while keeping the dagger on the other side of her shield.**[282]
Olo watched the initial exchange with curiosity. As it turned to a more violent discussion, he figured it was time to step in. For a quick test he cast mindlash at the puppet while throwing his mind boomerang in decoy.
The mind lash didn't seem to have any effect. The puppet ignored the decoys as well.
Arl's sword stabbed clean through the puppet's forearm but the blood that was released was a black ooze. The puppet's other hand released the dagger and grabbed the shield. The corpse kicked at Arl's chest.
The actual boomerang smacked the puppet in the back of the head, causing it to snap forward wildly. Arl is likely pushed backwards by the off balance puppet.
**Arl shifts her weight, already perpendicular to her opponent, and throws her spirit into the ground to keep herself in place. Her spiked shield remains (or is port-held into place if the puppet's earlier pull had been strong) between her and the forward lunging puppet.**[284]
**The girl port-thrusts her blade towards the puppet's remaining arm, slicing the veil in front of the shadow-ball with her spiked shield as it is pulled away from the limb as part of the maneuver.**[285]
Sighing a little at the lack of effect from the mindlash, Olo catches his boomerang and charges at the puppet from above and behind. When he gets close he draws out smile and goes for the attack imbuing it with topaz and jasper while the sheath adds ruby.
The stone shots threw the puppet's legs out from underneath it just as the smile met its neck. The head of the corpse went flying and the light faded from its eyes.
He wasn't sure why but the corpse didn't respond to his commands nor did it decay the way he expected it to. Perhaps it was because the thing was already dead when he attacked it.
Arl - "We followed you into some mysterious dark forest that you seem to have prepared for us ahead of time! How can you possibly consider fighting us here on our own..."*Sighs*
**Arl, and presumably the others, head off in the direction the moss is growing in, fusing her weapons back into her neck as she does so.**
There were long periods of silence as they traveled. Time seemed to lose all meaning in the shadowy forest. After a time they heard from the voice again.
Garrote - "I hope that you're proud of yourselves brave heroes. You all killed an intelligent being to get here. It's amazing how telling something that losing a simple key orb will end them motivates them to fight."
Olo mutters under his breath a bit as they walk. "Don't worry Arl, that last thing wasn't alive. And the guardians, well they will be avenged. As for the forest, my first guess would have been some kind of mind magic, but Damek sees it too. I want to try something, so don't freak out too much." He decided to test a few things as they walked. He used his Earth dagger to test the area to see if it was made of what it seemed to be, assuming they saw any rocks. He also set it on fire and began igniting the trees if possible.
The earth dagger didn't seem to have any more effect than any normal dagger would have. The trees somehow resisted the flames. There seemed to be no response from the assassin.
Garrote - "Wouldn't you like to know!"
Go ahead and run, you'll only die tired.
Those who might never meet are pooled together
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Acelin's Characters (since her sig won't work).
Arl's sword stabbed clean through the puppet's forearm but the blood that was released was a black ooze. The puppet's other hand released the dagger and grabbed the shield. The corpse kicked at Arl's chest.
Go ahead and run, you'll only die tired.
Those who might never meet are pooled together
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Go ahead and run, you'll only die tired.
Those who might never meet are pooled together
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Go ahead and run, you'll only die tired.
Those who might never meet are pooled together
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Go ahead and run, you'll only die tired.
Those who might never meet are pooled together
Acelin's Characters (since her sig won't work).
Go ahead and run, you'll only die tired.
Those who might never meet are pooled together
Acelin's Characters (since her sig won't work).
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
The head went bouncing down to the ground.
Go ahead and run, you'll only die tired.
Those who might never meet are pooled together
**The girl's magically enhanced roar of a challenge echos through the dark forest.**
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Garrote - "And fight on your terms? Never! Come find me puppets! Follow the moss!"
The group now realized that there was glowing purple moss on the trees. Though it only grew on one side.
Go ahead and run, you'll only die tired.
Those who might never meet are pooled together
**Arl, and presumably the others, head off in the direction the moss is growing in, fusing her weapons back into her neck as she does so.**
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Garrote - "I hope that you're proud of yourselves brave heroes. You all killed an intelligent being to get here. It's amazing how telling something that losing a simple key orb will end them motivates them to fight."
Go ahead and run, you'll only die tired.
Those who might never meet are pooled together
Arl - "No Garrote, I am not proud. But I am here. Where are you? How are you controlling the forest like this?!"
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Acelin's Characters (since her sig won't work).
Go ahead and run, you'll only die tired.
Those who might never meet are pooled together
Nervada - 98% fat free, high in fiber.
Eizen - Collected
Yack - Walking
Miko Wydberg
Tanya
Garrote - "Come, I'm on the other side... If you can make it."
Go ahead and run, you'll only die tired.
Those who might never meet are pooled together