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As though traversing such an expansive desert wasn't a menacing enough concept on its own, this one moves. The underground plates beneath the planetary surface on which this desert presides shift erratically, sending surface waves throughout the sand to make it shift as though it was the water of an ocean. Yes, it's basically a desert with constant earthquakes that make the ground a fun house.
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Post by Learpabru » Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:26 pm

*Lear spontaneously appeared near the northern border of the region, just as K had said. Neither of them had been vocal about it, but she really did miss him very much. It had been a few years, and their visit was pleasant, but brief. That was her sensei! She had a lot of catching up to do! She sighed.*

I guess that he probably knows about what's been going on with me, anyway. It's nothing new for him to have lots of stories for me, too. It really isn't a big deal.

*Lear had to choose which way to go. She felt a chilly wind from the nearby mountains. This helped her first decision.*

Hahaha, not in this outfit!

*Burngoo or no, that was too cold. She had Freezegoo to skate on across the sand, which would be a trippy way to go, but would work. It wouldn't be fun to do that on the mountains. The choice of Sacucasu or Xuten was an odd one, though. She knew pretty much nothing of both of them. After standing there for a bit and playing a mental game of Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe, she randomly chose to go west to Sacucasu. That sounded interesting. She painted some Freezegoo onto the sand in front of her and observed it. It shifted at random; she'd just have to power on through, so that's what she did. Using her usual paint-and-skate travel method, she started west across the desert.*
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Post by Choh Lehko » Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:06 pm

)(By sheer coincidence, after Choh left the city, she happens to amble in a northeasterly direction. It will be a good deal of time before her path would cross with Learpabru's, of course. I wonder what I can find out here to spar against. I should grab some snacks to help my energy, first. Maybe I'll get lucky and get a moist catch. Choh uses Huntcall to send out a pheromone that seeks out and attracts the nearest wild game as she continues northeast. It occurs to her that she hasn't stopped to sell her Poachstrike contents, yet, so they are still weighing her down a bit. Still, that can be taken care of after a quick test.)(

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Post by NPA » Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:20 am

&Some generic-looking sand scorpions (though we are talking about the man-sized, hostile kind with two strongly venomous tails) sprung from the ground before Learpabru's path, and others to the sides. They numbered three at the fore, two at the right, and one at the left. The left was mere yards away when it came up, while the rest were slightly further out. They each approached, and the closest attempted a classic sting.&

&Meanwhile, Choh's Huntcall summoned a nearby wolf. The wolf caught the attention of a behemoth that had evidently been hiding in a den. Yes, a den in shifting sand. It had to be a big den. After a short mental debate about how hungry said behemoth was, it charged out and began to chase the wolf. Their direction was east-southeast, so Choh wouldn't have to go far to be right in their way.&

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Post by Learpabru » Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:00 pm

*Learpabru skidded to a halt and stepped onto the sand before her, so as not to kick it up into her face. She first sidestepped the initial, predictable sting, then tried to swat the creature away with an R-L swing of her her Poundslime-tipped Slimebrush. She assumed that these scorpions were limited to close-range attacks, so she gave herself a circular base of Poundslime in hopes of knocking the foes upward/away to give herself a chance to react. This circle (using the term loosely, thanks to the shifting sand) was to be about three meters in diameter when finished.*
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Post by Choh Lehko » Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:58 pm

)(Choh jogs rightward into the path of the chase. She thinks to herself about whether she wants to take down the wolf immediately, then challenge the behemoth for her meal, or whether she wants to catch the wolf, Cannibalize it, and use the temporary enhancements to try her hand. She is looking for a decent challenge to test her healing, but she isn't too sure of how strong the behemoth is. Best to play it safe. Choh stands in the way, awaits the approach, and mixes her Turnlash with Beast Tongue in an attempt to calm the wolf enough for the behemoth to engage it. As she lashes the wolf with her Switchsnake, she commands,)(

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Post by NPA » Sat Sep 29, 2012 11:35 pm

&The struck sand scorpion was blown back. As it picked itself up, the scorpions from the right, then those that were directly ahead closed in to stab Lear, but they were blown skyward upon stepping onto the pool of Poundslime. In the air, they tried to aim themselves so that their claws and stingers would land right in Learpabru's body. The first scorpion was on its way back.&

&The wolf wasn't hard to sway. It calmed down, so its adrenaline rush was hindered. It therefore slowed down enough that the behemoth was catching up. It may as well do as the beastmistress said, right? The wolf turned around to fight for its life. Taking its higher SPD to its primary advantage, the wolf went for the first strike. Its fangs breached the tough skin of the behemoth and drew blood at its right foreleg. The behemoth howled and shook the wolf off violently, then ran toward it and tried to heave the wolf skyward with its horns. However, the wolf recovered and jumped back just in time that the tip of a horn barely scratched its nose. It backed up further, and the behemoth slowly approached.&

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Post by Learpabru » Sun Sep 30, 2012 12:17 am

*Lynette brought her brush back behind her and swung it overhead with Slimeslash, controlling the Poundslime that was behind her to shoot over her head and intercept a couple scorpions in their fall. Once the brush was aimed about 45 degrees between her front and above, she stopped to jump back. This was to avoid the others that wouldn't get pounded away. She drew a line of Electrogoo around her. Then, she picked an area that was just a couple meters to the front as she shimmied and danced around quickly, causing what appeared to be purple clocks to fall on a three-meter radius area. They disappeared upon hitting anything, and any foes within the area would have time passage cut by a fourth for half a minute. Slowing her foes down to get more hits on them before they can get her is one of Learpabru's best ways to deal with multiple foes.*
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Post by Choh Lehko » Sat Jun 29, 2013 5:23 pm

Sic 'em!

)(After issuing the command, Choh waited a moment to prepare herself and see how much the wolf could do before getting into the fray. She knew that it could very easily meet its end quickly, but she estimated that she'd at least have a chance to buff up with Full Wool and Brutality. Her chakra was focused throughout her body, and a sheep illusion appeared around her, inflated, and disappeared, giving her Protect and Shell.)(
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Post by NPA » Sat Jun 29, 2013 6:00 pm

&The aerial scorpions fell right into the area of effect, with the exception of a couple that had been blown away a bit too far with Lear's Slimeslash interception. Those landed and soon surpassed the slowed scorpions in their continued approach. They were clearly dependent on close-range attacks. They walked right into the Electrogoo line, too, momentarily paralyzing them. Their goal was to eventually overcome the traps and sting Learpabru to death.&

&The wolf took a moment to breathe, then darted in for a quick bite to the behemoth's right foreleg again. The gargantuan beast expected it, this time. It lowered its head and charged right at the wolf, then ripped its horns skyward. The wolf had seen this coming and redirected its course around to the target's left, but the behemoth had a backup, too. As its heaving attack gave its front half upward momentum, it brought up its front claws defensively, then swept outward as it came down. The wolf didn't expect this and was swatted away a short distance with a noticeable gash. It again paused to breathe, but the behemoth turned to assault it directly.&

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Post by Learpabru » Wed Jan 08, 2014 6:25 am

*Just as she expected, the scorpions weren't the brightest bulbs in the box. Learpabru backed up a couple steps and painted a thick line of white ooze with black streaks approximately five inches in front of the line of Electrogoo that was shocking the scorpions at the moment. They'd walk right into it, get stuck, and still have their back halves touching the Electrogoo, so they'd be fried to death before they could possibly escape. She expanded the Spiderooze to her sides in order to snag the slowed scorpions and the one that had been sent flying back by her Poundslime slash. As an attempt to compensate for the shifting sands and the notion that one of them might just barely walk around the trap in order to get around the other scorpions, the artist started to make a small, circular well of Gravitygunk.*

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Post by Choh Lehko » Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:15 am

)(Choh can tell that the wolf can't take much more. She finishes analyzing the behemoth's weak points and preparing, then approaches at a steady jog. She wants the behemoth to land one more good hit, enough that the wolf will be barely conscious or less, before she is close enough to enter the fray. She makes a point not to wield any weapons so that the behemoth will find it easy to keep its attention on the wolf.)(
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Post by NPA » Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:41 am

&All of the sand scorpions except for the one that had been recently swatted away were successfully trapped, though those on the ends of each side were out of the Electrogoo range, since the sticky line had been expanded, but not the electric one. Pushing its way around the rightmost trapped one, the free one approached and performed a little hop, made slightly smaller with the gravitational addition that was being implemented, to snap its claws at the girl.&

&Seeing that the behemoth wasn't going to let up and that it was about to go down, the wolf got a shot of adrenaline and just snapped. It, too, had sensed a weak point on the behemoth: There was a wound that had mostly healed and scarred on the big guy's left foreleg. It was right around the joint, curving from the inner side to the back, about a fifth of the way around. The wolf couldn't tell all the details, mind you, but it knew that there was a not-entirely-healed wound right there, so it sprang forth and took a bite out of life. When it did so, the behemoth stood up to crash itself down and crush the insurgence, but the wolf instinctively jumped to land its bite, anyway. The behemoth roared in pain as it came down on the wolf, smashing, biting, and clawing it. From its mouth, the behemoth tossed the wolf forward, intending to eat after licking its wounds . . . but Choh was getting close, now. The behemoth turned to keep one eye on her and one on the wolf, who could barely muster a whimper as it lie there, conscious by technicality alone. Choh didn't concern the behemoth too much, yet; it stuck to licking the bite, right now.&

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Post by Learpabru » Wed Jan 08, 2014 8:38 am

*Learpabru had to decide whether she should take the hit in order to refrain from interrupting the generation of her gravity well or to break and hope that things hold together well enough. Since she wasn't sure of just how far she had to go or how dangerous these things were, she took the latter option. She pulled away to just barely get out of the snap, brought up her brush in one arm while still sideways, and, much like a fencer, took a quick thrust, this time with Freezegoo to chill the foe into slowing down enough. The thrust had a downward angle, since the lump of Gravitygunk would make evasion in forms other than ducking impractical. She was tempted to flip around to the backside of the trapped scorpions so that she could Slimeslash the previously used line of Poundslime up, over, and down into the free one, but she worried that it might corrupt her otherwise ensnaring combo. Now that she had it on its last legs, so to speak, Learpabru aimed to finish the free scorpion with three downward, hammer-like brush pounds, each tipped with Freezegoo. That should be enough to either take it down or weaken it enough that it'd be unable to even strike out before getting trapped with the others. Hence, Learpabru stuck her brush back in the gravity pool and painted it bigger. She also added a crust of Freezegoo on the outside of the gravity well, just in case one of the scorpions would have managed to reach far enough to hit her while being sucked toward her.*
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Post by Choh Lehko » Tue Mar 04, 2014 11:09 am

)(Discreetly, Choh focuses her chakra internally for Brutality as she approaches. After just a couple more steps, she abruptly draws the Asseisha Tatsumasa downward at her right and swings it with a slightly upward angle to her left while dashing, intending to slice upward at the behemoth's wound (from left and curved around behind, since she is off to its left side). The attack is a Sidewinder, too. After that, she brings up her axe to block while jumping back in anticipation of the behemoth's retaliation. She could stay close and continue the assault, but she wants to assess the damage and draw her big target away from the small one.)(
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Post by NPA » Sat Mar 08, 2014 3:30 am

&The free scorpion fell pretty easily to the freezing, vertical strikes. It wasn't dead, but it lacked consciousness. The others remained trapped. As far as anything could be seen, Learpabru had them right where she wanted them.&

&The behemoth assumed that Choh was swinging for its head and leaned out of that while it stepped up to try to keep its leg from catching the heat. It wasn't fast enough, though, and the slightly upward angle on the swing made it a direct hit on the weak point. The monster roared in intense pain, then countered by swinging its other claw while leaning back on its hind legs. Unfortunately for it, Choh had predicted this and dodged back quickly enough that the claw didn't even meet the blocking axe. It didn't immediately change its position, though. Back on all fours, it crouched forward, lowered its head, and gained a purple glow for a moment. It then released the spell that it had charged, Thundara. It came in the form of a circle of blue lightning with a similar orb in the middle, that being where Choh had been standing, that appeared to be sending out streams of electricity to the circle, and it dissipated after half a second. After the spell, the beast paused to let its mental processes catch up and reflect on what was going on.&

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