To go with your crew...

[highseasmods]

Who: Everyone who is fighting in the battle to kill the witch.
Where: The Black Fortress in the East
When: Jan 24th-25th
What: The grand battle to get back what you have lost, get revenge for what was taken, and avert disaster.
Warnings: Language. Death. Victory. Defeat. True love. Miracles.
Style: Text or prose
Status: Open to all



The black fortress ripples with shimmering iridescent energy, the piles of black coral heaped on roped together barges around it, bobbing in the waves. On the largest barge stands a slender man with a copper belt, wearing a face mask, orange red hair flecked with black from ash or dust. As the dawn slowly folds over the ocean, he'll look up, as if hearing some hidden voice.

At the top of the fortress, a figure climbs into vision, a woman, dressed in gray, features obscured by a hood with impenetrable darkness behind it. She staggers a moment as if she is weary, then straightens to her full height. As she speaks, her voice comes out of the journals, echoing over the water, low but clear.

"This is no small task ye do. She that rots within'll do anythin' ta stop ye. Don't hesitate to kill what ye find. If they were human once, they hain't no more. Watch out for her golems, too, or they'll drain ye dry quicker'n a wink. But if ye can get rid of 'em, it'll weaken her." She hesitates, cants her head to the side. "And if ye lot aren't as much of a bunch'a idiots as usual, ye might come out alive through this."

That said, she raises her hands. After a moment so does the man on the barge. For a moment, nothing seems to happen and then iridescent light shimmers over the coral, seeming to match that which surrounds the fortress. It crackles and dances like a fire, and then without warning bursts into a furious life, slamming against the energy of the fortress. There is the sound like thunder and light snaps and crackles, zipping with energy. Then with a woosh the light flies upward, taking the figure with it. The man on the barge lets out a cry like a seagull and dives into the water as if intending to swim after her.

For the boats that remain, a part of the fortress will crumble away into the sea, revealing a small harbor and an open doorway. Enter all ye who dare.


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Comments

[gokai_red]

"HUNDREDFOLD WILDFIRE!"

A swing of the Rekka Daizantou, and a massive burst of fire followed. Many, many more of the undead were incinerated in the next instant, and many more left... well. There wasn't much LEFT of some of them, yet they still twitched and tried to grasp at the pirate-turned-samurai.

Sighing, he turned to look at Luka's handiwork. And... stared.

Beneath his helmet, he rolled his eyes, and propped the massive sword up on his shoulder.

"Funny."

[missvicegirl]

"Isn't it?!" Luka exclaimed with a girly leg pump. As if she were rubbing it in.

Then... she took aim at Marvelous suddenly, only to open fire at several zombies advancing immediately behind him.

[gokai_red]

Marvelous didn't so much as flinch as she did this. In fact, as she fired, he ran forward. The Rekka Daizantou glowed, shrinking back into the Shinkenmaru as he held it ready to slash while approaching her...

...and passed her, cutting down a trio of zombies that were nearly on her back in one slash. He then stood upright, resting the blade on his shoulder as he stood back-to-back.

He didn't say anything, because right then he didn't really have to. The message of them having one another's back was quite clear.