NPF Avatars IV, Chapter II: The Doom That Came to Earth Temple

[Premmy]

"So, uh, how do you ride one of these things? And what do you suppose would happen if I cast Levitate on it? Or myself?"

Premonitions gave his new companion a rather unsettling smile "You, just sit somewhere. I'll have to stand, I'd suggest using that spell of yours, might make it last longer. Ohh, and uhh. get ready to jump if it starts fading."

[PyrosNine]

Somewhere out there in the great wide dimensionverse o'fun, PyrosNine sneeezed.

"Damn...I feel like someone else just stepped on the grave of one of my own jokes..."
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Meanwhile, Somewhere in the Alps...

"Helen, do you think that the memories we have shared together on this cold mountain, will remain with us forever to warm our hearts?"
"Oh Phillip..."
"And yet, I want more than memories, for they are only lavish pictures to be hung upon the gold embroidered walls of our minds, and to be leapt in during our dreams."
"Oh Phillip! More than Memories?"
"Yes. I want to be with you forever, so that I won't need such things to idly gaze upon in my olden days! FOREVER!"
"Oh Phillip! Forever?"
"Yes Helen. And the only thing that can bind young birds of love such as ourselves for all eternity is...marriage!"
"Oh Phillip!"
"Helen....Will you marry me?"
"Oh....PHILIP! There's someone watching us!"
"Wha?"
"I see a red light up there and I see the outline of someone's head!"

Asheth winced. She'd been spotted. As she remained in the ceiling space clinging to the AC system, her tape recorder's recording light must have been seen.... Perhaps she could just cover it up, and they'd keep going...

"What? I don't see anything!"
"Look right there Philip! You can see where it's lighting through the flesh of a hand!"
"Oh...Now I see it. HEY YOU! Get out of there!"

"Oh Phooey!"

Asheth slid away a ceiling panel and slowly eased her way out, hanging upside down with her ankles wrapped around the AC ventilation. Fortunately she was wearing a climate appropriate clothing for the area other than her normal persian garb, or else there would have been indecent exposure in this act.

"Oh...Forgive me Darlin's, I'm afraid I needed to use ya'll for some re-search, and had to go under them covers. Y'know!"

"What? You just come down from there and go! You've disturbed my ladyfriend!"

Asheth dropped down and landed gracefully on her hands, then went from a handstand to a roll to a stand, using every bit of those 3 years of Gymnastics World.

"OH Come on! I'm needin' some juicy romance talk so I can lasso me one of my own for sugar talkin'!" Asheth got down on both knees to beg.

"What? Get lost, you weirdo!"
"Actually, I happen to have this "Get hitched in less than 30 days" book you could probably use then."

The man who had been called Phillip held up a 'Complete and Total Idiot's guide' in the dim lighting of the nighttime ski resort. "I picked this up in the lobby and it's been working fine for me."

"True like honeyed oats and butter? Can I have it?"

"The lobby? Have you been reading from this book? Why would you need a thing like that, Phillip?"

"Umm...Umm..." Phillip flipped through the book quickly and got to the page entitled 'What to do when you've blown your cover and revealed this book's existence':

Originally Posted by 'What to do when you've blown your cover and revealed this book's existence

Step 1: Get rid of the book, you ditz!

Step 2: Stop reading, and DO IT NOW!

Step 3: Also, DUCK!

"Wha-" SLAP!

Phillip got a red handmark imprinted on him by Helen. She was indignant.

"I can't believe you Phillip! And to think I was this close to marrying you after you used some cheap dirty book!"

"I know! I do declare, that boy's dirtier than a two-timin rat that done fallen in the manure pile!"

"Well, Actually the book was a good $50 bucks at retail..though I think I might have overpaid a bit....but at least it was working!"

Originally Posted by CATI Guide

Step 4: Shut up you, you're not helping your case!

Step 5: Also, $50 is a fair and reasonable price, considering how much you actually pay to be here in the Alps. Can you believe a martini in any Swiss Alp's resort costs over $100!? It's highway robbery, believe you me!

"If this is the basis of all our love, then I know when to give it up! Goodbye Philip! I hope I never see you again!"

"You go girl!"

Helen stormed off, leaving Asheth and Phillip alone in the Resort hall as it overlooked the rest of the mountain and the quaint easily snow buried cottages.

Phillip sat down upon a nearby bench and sighed. "Well, darn! I rented this Alps resort for the honeymoon too! Now what am I going to do?"

Asheth playfully wrapped her hair around her finger and blushed. "Well, you are here with little ole me...I'm quite the available."

Phillip looked Asheth over, then decided to check the book on this one:

Originally Posted by In the Case of Asheth:

Step 1-10: RUN! RUN AND NEVER STOP! RUN LIKE A SNOWMAN OUTTA HELL!

Phillip bolted down the corridor just as the snow began to come down, laying a gentle white blanket upon the still sleeping resort, through which Asheth ran after Phillip in the pale light of the moon as it peaked through the clouds.

"Oh darlin, don't be that way! Come back!"

Originally Posted by The guide

Step 11: RUN FASTER!

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(back at Arhra's.)
Pyros was a bit miffed that this Dragonsbane person was now feeding the dragon lady dead corpses and had saddled her with bones, but at least she wasn't snapping at him anymore, and she seemed happy about it all.

But he did realize the fellow he crashed into was still hurting from their earlier encounter.

Pyros flew down to Ecurt and picked him off the ground.

"Oh, do forgive me, I'm afraid I forgot about you. This world's chaos doth make me absent minded. Are you alright?"

(Addition: Also, Ecurt, if you're ever going to be Esheth again, If you don't want to talk like Rogue with the Louisiana drawl like you did before, I found a link on Southern American English!)

[Truce]

"Are you alright?"

It was supposed to be such a simple question, but Ecurt was having trouble finding the answer. Though, from one perspective, his body was in working condition, a person had to take into account that he had been through a lot since Christmas. His life was a train wreck, the world was about to be destroyed, and most of all he was sure that Pyros was acting...normal.

"No, I don't think I'm alright. I'm not alright at all. Then again, when has that ever stopped me?"

Standing on his own feet, he brushed the dirt off his clothes, before looking up to the sky. It was a beautiful day outside today, and one would not ordinarily assume that beyond those cloud free heavens was a multicolor armageddon heading their way. If he focused though, he could sense the disturbance, somewhere in that black abyss.

It gave him the same feeling of dread that Asheth gave him, truth be told.

"It's time, I suppose."

With motions not unlike a conductor, Ecurt willed the invisible threads of reality to be woven together. First he formed a concept in his mind, imagining what the object would be, about what it would look like and what its purpose was. Then he focused on the tiny details, such as the details of its construction, its dimensions and capabilities. Finally, dramatically pointing to the ground that was in front of him, he called forth his creation with a single word: "Prodeo."

Without a flash or a bang or any effects of the sort, it simply appeared, as if it had just been pasted into the world. His almost forgotten motorcycle, from way back in the original NPF Adventure, had returned, if modified to be fit for use by a human, as it's first design had been designed for a duck. Bigger, sleeker, and with a new sidecar in place, this cruiser also sported a new emblem, a symbol that inspired fear everywhere except the hardiest of fools--Asheth in a wedding dress.

"Get in," he said, putting on a helmet that vaguely resembled the head of a mallard. "And you'd better buckle up nice and tight."

[PyrosNine]

"Me? You desire my company? Very well then, I shall come with you." Pyros said, always happy to make new friends. He enjoyed the way this motorcycle looked as well, and the picture of the woman in the dress, while a bit girly for a motorcycle, was a pretty sight.

She did seem familiar though. Maybe Kings would know...never mind.

Pyros, always the goody two shoes, buckled up tight, and even then made sure both hands and feet were in the vehicle at all times. He even put on the helmet that had been in the side compartment, which looked like a stuffed cat with long hair. It seemed like something a child would where, with it's plush fur, but Pyros just assumed that this was the way helmets were in this world.

"I am ready for vehicular travel, Mister-...by the way, what is your name?"

[Truce]

Ecurt paused for a moment, wondering if something was wrong with Pyros.

...it was a really short moment.

"I'm Ecurt," he said as he settled into his own seat on the motorcycle. He had no reason to lie, or ask any questions that may initiate any change from this much less chaotic version of Pyros.

[Skyshot]

You, just sit somewhere. I'll have to stand, I'd suggest using that spell of yours, might make it last longer. Ohh, and uhh. get ready to jump if it starts fading.

"Sure thing," Skyshot answered. "This lasts about an hour."

He silently focused on the carpet a moment. "Levitate."

(OOC: Premonitions, it's your carpet, so I'll leave the result's description up to you. Levitate, on most targets, just makes them float a foot or so above the ground.)

After he finished, he wished he hadn't cast it. He had been below his maximum mana reserve before he arrived, and given that he was about to be thrust into a life-or-death situation with no apparent tactical plan in place, he was going to need every bit he could manage.

Oh well. He could meditate along the way. Hopefully that'd get him where he needed to be for the coming battle.

[Fenris]

As the car sped off, Fenris leaned back in his seat and sighed.

"Finally, after all this time, I'm starting to actually be useful again!"

'Psh, you haven't even done anything but be poisoned.'

'Oh, leave him alone.'

Fenris looked around, startled. "Did somebody just say something?"

(OOC note: No, nobody just said something.)

[Premmy]

It came, screaming out of nowhere, the horrible sound Came crashing down upon them. Premonitions jumped off the carpet and screamed madly"AHHH KILlITKILLITLKILLIT!" He kicked it into the air and whipped out his laser pistol. He fired as amny shots as his trigger finger would let him. And waited for it to hit the ground, then fired into it again, the horrible screeching and drunken cursing filling his ears.

Premo growled and produced a rather large bomb. He lit it with a laser blast and ran to the carpet. He stood up and shifted his feet. The carpet shot up into the air, Skyshot barely clinging to the fabric beneath him. the stopped abrubtly high above the mansion. Premonitions sank down on the flying carpet with a heavy sigh as he heard the bomb go off down below. but then.. a noise, like.. like.. something they'd play in hell, like music, but evil, like...
"OH GOD-DAMMIT!"
flying up towards them. He had precious little time, He whipped out the Home-run bat "Come on. Come on" The speaker came zooming into view. Prem tightened his grip, gritted his teeth and began to charge,the bat sparked and he began glowing. He Held his breath as it came, screaming something about walruses, "NOW!" he swung the bat, It connected with a loud crash and sent the bringerof pain flying over the horizon. He sighed deeply once again and dropped the bat over the edge. It clunked down somewhere beneath him and he faintly heard what he thouhgt was a voice cry out in pain. He got up and shifted his feet again, his right one pointing forward, the carpet shot off.

[PyrosNine]

"Very nice to meet you, Mr. Ecurt. I am called Pyros. Though some call me Pyros of the nine, and on one continent of my world they call me Efreet. But that's just because me and Ifrit are still gotten confused with due to some races not knowing about the passing of the torch."

Pyros caught himself. There he was, telling so much information to a new acquaintance, information that this person wouldn't understand in the least. Perhaps he could just sum it up.

"I'm from another dimension!" Pyros blurted out.

[Tarrin]

Tarrin looked on with an exasperated look on his face, He had seen the large dragon swipe at piros and had decided to fly a little higher from Rhiya's area.