Second Generation [Currently: 2nd Floor]

[29]

Mars Phi

The not secretary offered to help Mars write about the greenyes and join her in her journey.
She began thinking. You could even hear the gears in her head spinning, each rotation offered her another possibility. She could find a secretary another day, but her proposal was intresting. Soon stars appeared in her eyes, flowers and rainbows surrounded her. She fell down at the poor woman's feet and hugged them. It was a very strange sight. She was rubbing her cheeks on the woman's legs while repeating "BRILLIANT!!!!!".
After a while she realized that she was scaring the woman. She stood up, dusted her pants and extended her hand to the woman.
"Welcome to the crew, new first mate."
The smile on Mars face was so big that it was almost spliting it in half.

[elveraeris]

Zephire Aleera

Mars keep thinking for a long time when suddenly she fell down at Zephire's feet and hugged them and shouting many times "BRLLIANT!!!!" "BRILLIANT!!!! As that was happening Zephire was thinking "Well, she's definetly NOT in her right mind". Then she stood up, cleaned the dust on her pants with her hands and extended one of them while she said:
"Welcome to the crew, new first mate." As she said that she show a huge smile at Zephire.
"I'm honoured. My name is Zephire Aleera, nice to meet you!" Said Zephire as she hold her hand.

[Phrygian Q'yth-az]

Phrygian Q'yth-az

The start of the first test found Ian the Cephalodian amongst a group of other regulars. To his surprise, he didn't attract much attention. Perhaps because of the towering reptilian figure nearby, a small octopus-man went unnoticed. That suited him just fine - he wanted to observe and explore - not fight to the death. Soon enough a short, white-haired human female challenged the reptilian to a duel. Why?

The announcement just stated there would be 200 winners. Why not form a group with the regulars here and fight anyone we meet 12 to 1?

Then the duel started, and like the others around him, Ian watched with intent. He observed the others around him as well, including a shifty man with a face mask. When the man started to dash toward the fight, dagger in hand, a quick tentacle wrapped around his ankle and tripped him.

"Do not interfere."

[Arianna]

Arianna Nil'Torch Ikard



This was it. This was what she had been practicing for, preparing, training. She thought she was ready for the challenges the treacherous tower had in store for her, and everyone around her. However, she found herself utterly perplexed by the situation at hand. Confused and disoriented, she tried to make sense of the scene.



In just few seconds after the announcement had been broadcasted, the people around her started fighting. The girl stood and watched the mess, unable to admire the vast field with tall grass, the clear blue sky, and the floating construction in the same clear sky. Looking around, she could see that several people and creatures had already fallen to the dirt, as the wind were blowing across the landscape, making the grass look like a green ocean, as well as covering blood and bodies with a layer of dust.



With an inner voice screaming to her that she had to get a move on, she managed to snap out of her own thoughts and return to the battlefield. When doing so, she realized the threat that lurked around her. A crazed, distorted, humanoid looking creature came running towards her with something that might not have been a weapon, but didn't want to get hit by the thing regardless.

I know what to do, the standard kill, or be killed scenario. Now remember your training, she thought to herself with a slight smile, before concentrating. The result was the glow of the pendant, giving a calm, soothing aura, followed by a flash of something looking like a ball of bright light. The flash struck the attacker in the chest, with a big "Oumphhh", sending him to the ground where he started whimpering, hurt and dazzled but not lethally wounded. Arianna knew the baang she just used wouldn't be enough to kill, but she was happy with the result none the less. She wanted nothing to do with the person, and decided to leave. So she turned around by spinning on her heel, and started running.

*EDITED*

[Rein]

Rein

Settling into a low crouch, the white haired brawler looked directly above and shouted aloud, "FORFEIT!"

As soon as the lizardman looked down and leaned his head forward, Rein launched into the air with a vertical backwards somersault. Both feet were kept tight and connected against upper chest and then chin in quick succession. The lizardman fell backwards causing a small cloud of dust to dissipate around him after his contact with the grasslands underneath. After reaching fully double the height of the opponent, Rein's forward momentum was such that the point of contact post-descent was the lizardman's stomach. Feet made contact with lizard gut and another small cloud of dust was the result.

"Hey, you've clearly lost. So then, you will forfeit?"

No response. Rein walked forward, still on top of the fallen foe, leaned forward and smacked him across the head with both sides of their right hand. But he remained motionless.

"Tch. Must have miscalculated."

[Phrygian Q'yth-az]

Phrygian Q'yth-az

The masked man, now the tripped man, spun around and struck at Ian's tentacle with his dagger to free himself. Ian had already released him, however, and was instead busy watching the duel between the reptilian and white haired one. The latter dashed in - a feint - dodging the lizardman's sword to close distance and...!

...Ian sighed. The tripped man, now the angry man, was attacking him. He wielded his dagger icepick style - blade pointed down - and lunged at Ian. It was by no means a clumsy attempt, but one that was so stale and boring it presented little challenge to the seasoned Cepholodian Ju Jitsu user. Ian ducked into his fighting stance, bringing his body two feet straight down and well out of the way of the attack. The angry man - now the surprised man - was presented with a sea of tentacles, and stopped for an instant to choose his next target. It was all Ian needed. Three tentacles curled around the dagger wielding arm and tugged; the surprised man, now the foolish man, tugged back. A dagger shot out from beneath Ian's cloak; the foolish man, who was quick - but still quite foolish - swayed even further back to dodge. Ian already had him by the ankles, however, and the foolish man became the re-tripped man. Ian pounced, pinning down his weapon arm and choking him out. The re-tripped man, deprived of blood to his brain, became the sleeping man.

Ian looked up just in time to find the white haired one finishing her duel. He cursed the sleeping man in his terrible native tongue for causing him to miss the climax of the fight. The crowd, however, had not missed it, and were hooting loudly for more. Apparently they fancied white hair vs. octopus as the main event. Caution told Ian the better move was to propose forming a team, but Ian was never known for his caution, and he wanted to know how the white haired one beat the odds and KO'd the giant reptile. The only question: was the white haired one interested in another fight?

[Arianna]

Arianna Nil'Torch Ikard

She just kept on running, through the fields and the tallgrass that covered the floor all around her. Arianna could feel the wind in her hair and whipping of grass against her bare legs, arms and face, giving her small red marks on er skin that quickly faded away. Along the run, she could see countless battles, and with those, several struggles. Some were fair, others, others were just being toyed with. She knew she had taken her attacker by surprise, something that wouldn't happen again. At least not often.

She eventually stopped, as she more or less ran in the blind. Not just with the tallgrass obscuring the sight, but also her own thoughts. Thus, sh decided to take a cautious approach from that point onwards. She hoped she had ran from the mot intense areas, but couldn't be certain. After a little while, she stumbled upon another field, and in the cover of the vegetation, she observed the few fights in front of her.

On the field where at least two though Regulars, a white haired boy that looked really strong, mainly due to his elegant but brutal aerial assault on his opponent, and an octopus? who must be strong as she saw him strangle his opponent through a grappling move. She sat down and watched the two, somewhat expecting them to duke it out against one another.

[Lumière]

Light-Bearer Instructor and Test Administrator,
Lumière

Less than twenty minutes has passed and the fights continued all around the testing area. At the beginning of the test many tried to hide and avoid confrontation, eventually however;  everyone alive got tired from running, fighting or both. At this point a lot less than 200 regulars remained alive in such a short time. A blinding light shined from the floating light-house followed by the test administrator voice.

"Message to all Regulars: Congratulations, you are still alive... If you can hear me that is. Stop fighting now or you'll be disqualified!" She said with her sweet voice. "Before you can move on to the next testing area, you will have to make a team with two more regulars. Only 3 person teams will be taken to the next test." She stopped and muttered something, as if reading something she had forgotten. "Oh! Yes" She exclaimed. "And you have to do it in five minutes. Please make sure you are touching your teammates at the end of the 5 minutes, that's how I'll know you are a team!" A timer displayed a '05:00' on every face of the Light-house. No more words came from it. '04:59'...

[29]

Mars Phi

This time Mars heard the Ranker's words.
"Hey! This is easy."
She looked at her new friend and smiled.
"Aren't we lucky that we found one another before all this. Now we only need to find another lucky person who would be delighted to join our noble cause."
She looked around once, twice. Nope, she could not see another person except the greeny.
"Looks like the Gods made my path intersect with my rival again. Now my dear friend if we want to pass this test we need to tackle the lonely greeny, my rival. So let's go!!!"
She ran to the man like a kid who saw a candy store. She didn't even wait to see if her new friend was OK with all of this or if she was following her.

[Rein]

Rein

Well, that was quick.

Rein straightened up, pushing the hair from their eyes, hopped off the prone body, and looked around. Spotting a humanoid octopus holding onto a masked man, Rein calmly approached.

"Please confirm that it is not only my own assessment. This test ended rather quickly. We must be a particularly lethal floor 2 group." Rein stopped 5 feet away and continued, "Would you two agree?"

[elveraeris]

Zephire Aleera

Zephire listened carefully to the Administrator's words, she didn't want to miss them again.
Mars started talking and saying that they were lucky to have each other and then she loocked around twice. Zephire couldn't understand why did she need to look twice because it was obiously only the green guy near them.
Then Mars said something about him being her rival and run at him like if he was a firend that hadn't been seen in ages.
"Hey!! Don't run like that!! We want him to be our friend no to make him run away because of your silly behaviour!" shouted Zephire.

[upm]

Cyan Chlor

Cyan heard the Ranker's words and frowned. He didn't like the idea of working together with others, they will only drag him back, but he didn't have other choice.
Then he heard an annoying voice so he opened his eyes only to see Mars running his way shouting about being team mates. Now the idea of forming a team was even less appealing than before.
Mars was followed by a woman who he assumed it was her friend. He was surprised that the woman made more sense, because he was expecting a Mars 2. Still he wasn't tented to join them, maybe he could find someone else, but first he had something to do.
He stood up, took his hook in the hand and lunched an attack towards Mars.

[Phrygian Q'yth-az]

Phrygian Q'yth-az

"Negative. Lethality implies killing; I have seen none." Ian let his victim fall to the ground, offering no explanation to the white haired one. "I am called Phygian Q'yth-az, and according the the test administrator, we must now form teams of three. Your name?" It was an electronic voice. Since Ian had no apparent mouth to speak from, his voice must come from his pocket. It wasn't altogether uncommon in the tower.

The white haired one had stopped five feet away - still within Ian's difficult to grasp strike range. But the ranker's announcement dulled his (and the crowd's) desire to fight, so he didn't make any moves, instead looking around carefully, as was his habit. The white haired one showed a very casual manner, probably satisfied with the result of the duel and ignoring the crowd completely. The crowd gave mixed replies, booing that the fights were over, and sighs of relief that they had passed. More than a few seemed to want to team up with him or the white haired one. There were also a pair of regulars who had stumbled upon the clearing, a tall one with a spear covered in blood and a smaller one trying to conceal themselves in the brush. The extra addition of these two meant there were ten regulars left standing, not a divisible of three. Ian hoped there wouldn't be another scene...

[Arianna]

Arianna Nil'Torch Ikard

She was startled and surprised by boy's remark, and almost formed a baang out of reflex. It ended up as an almost unnoticeable flash of light. Letting her arm fall to her side, where it stayed, she realized the problem at hand.
Arianna had to ignore the instinctive urge to run away, and she couldn't move forwards either. Her irrational fear of socializing and will to climb the tower collided inside her head. She even wanted to engage both of them in combat, rather than saying hi, a bad idea if there ever where one. She was slightly annoyed about her futile effort of hiding, as it turned out a failure. Both of them, the white haired one and the octopus, knew she was there. 

Seconds went by, she could see the counter decrease, and she mustered up enough willpower, courage and strength to stand up. There she stood, taking deep breaths, before taking a couple of steps out from the useless hiding spot. She had opened her mouth as if she wanted to shout out to them, now standing in the open. Regardless of her intent, she just stood there gawking with a half open mouth, staring at them with frightened eyes. 

Arianna closed her mouth and tried to take a step backwards. However, she was petrified by fear, unable to do anything but looking like a complete idiot. 

[Rein]

Rein

Rein blinked. Red eyes glanced about and fixated on the red haired female. Someone new here.

"It is Rein", continuing with their glance returning forward, "I had assumed that an unconscious Regular was still a Regular. Either that is not actually the case, or this is an example of a test administrator that will give unclear directives."
A useful thing to note in any case.
"Yet another possibility remains in that elsewhere on the battlefield many are already deceased."


Rein extends their left hand to the Cephalodian, "I have no interest in endangering my progress with further duels if they are unnecessary. Would you like to ally?"