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Kaida was happy to see the horde was finally beginning to dissipate into more of a crowd. That meant they were near the end. Kaida looked towards her shadow helper who got himself a couple more swipes in before jumping up onto her shoulder again. She booped her little friend on the nose and said, "We're doing well. We've almost got em."

The blonde threw her keyblade in one direction and went the other with the single keyblade in her left hand as he knocked out many shadows in her path, while the other one created a domino effect in the opposite direction of her. She stopped when she'd reached a tree and she jumped up and kicked herself off of it. She raised up her hand to recall her keyblade to her and she swung her keyblade back and forth a bit until thunderbell and blizzara to create another explosion of magic.

Kaida then took a breath and dropped her keyblades quickly to point towards a group of shadows. She clenched her hand into a fist and felt a bit of fire surge into her. The girl pulled back her arm and a firey punch formed around her fist as she punched into one of the shadows. The small creature flew back into a crowd and another explosion was heard. Not as powerful as her other firaga explosions but what was she to do. She could tell her aura was adding some nice potency to her fire spells and that made her feel pretty damn good. She looked at the small remainder and took a breath, "Just a couple left of you now... We can do this. Yep. Definitely."

Word Count: 280
EXP Earned: 28
EXP Total: 363
Blessed Thief: 70 Munny
Sweet Memories: 2 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Remaining:
22 Shadows
26 Neoshadows
64 Darkballs

I am generally in agreement with most of Ego's points here, especially in regards to the rigitiy of these systems. It depends on the host of the rp though. I'm in one rp where talking with the RP owner makes it very easy to help get the stats in a direction you'd want to go, while another one forces you to just kind of take what you get and deal with it.

The flexibility is a big deal, and this is specifically light chaser: at the beginning there really weren't any aggro abilities available and I wanted my character to be built as a tank so I went to arch to ask for an ability on it and that essentially gave everyone a "special snowflake" ability. So I was able to build my character as a beginning keyblade wielder with a tank lean (granted now two other people are like that but eh).

Now over in SOS, I have a character that I want to essentially build as someone who can essentially move so fast and manipulate time at their leisure that she can seemingly defeat her enemies in the blink of an eye. Obviously it's a bit unrealistic an expectation, even though my character has hit the rank of master there. But the point is I wanted to build it so she's really fast and really loves throwing spells. But it's nearly impossible to work this sort of play into the system that we have.

Now, both of these rps have drastically different systems. SOS has a brawl/bodyguard fight system, and a boss system. In the boss system, we all look like chumps. But once we hit brawl missions we can flavor our fights however we want without it effecting stats. So like, we suddenly have an infinite amount of MP and HP and our gauges basically become full for the purposes of flavor and we can do combo attacks you've never be allowed to pull off in the boss fights.

LC uses a system that is the same for boss and random encounters. There are abilities that can only be used with bosses, but overall the system is exactly the same. This makes it so characters stick at roughly the same combat level for both encounters, so characters aren't unstoppable badasses in random encounters and barely hanging on in boss fights.

Now, I think there's benefits and drawbacks to both systems. I think LC's mechanics ground everything in the same level but as a result the creativity and flexibility has to go into character development and backstory rather than boss fights. SOS makes it so all of the creativity of the RP shows itself in brawl missions and then everything else becomes stagnant.

Now, I have seen an rp that tried to do a "levelling" system that made it so a character became stronger through their own training montages and their abilities as a result became whatever the RPer wanted it to be so long as people tried to not become unbalanced. But the problem with that one is slightly discussed in another thread

I don't know where the happy medium is. I know some people prefer combat over character moments in these types of rps. I'm the opposite. But I understand the want for flexibility.


(btw in that fire scenario you described, I also had my character decked out in fireproof stuff. He was trained for firefighting type situations in his homeworld because of his villages constantly being burned down so his stuff is built to not burn. And that didn't factor in either. In this situation it comes down to 'the need for the rp owner to push the story/threats' which I might make another thread for just to discuss in detail there)

>two hp boosts
>one ap boost

>reflect
>cura

Kaida listened to Hikaru's explanation intently, keeping an eye out for more potential heartless. When he finished speaking his mind, Kaida made one of her keyblades disappear as she reached out and placed a hand on his shoulder as she replied, "I don't want you to feel like you have to make promises you can't keep. I understand the need for secrets, and well, now I know why you were so focused on Aux. I wish I had known, but that can't be helped."

She looked at him and said, "I do not know if you've come to terms with this yet, but regardless. Your bonds are real to me." Kaida shifted into her pocket and held out the bird charm he had made for her and said, "This was your making and your work, of your own volition because you cared enough about our bond. Even if it turned out to not be real at the start, that's your impact." she put the charm back safely in her pocket, "Please don't forget that."

Kaida resummoned out her keyblade and stood in a stance as she said, "Now if you'll excuse me. I feel recharged enough to jump in with pipsqueak back into the horde. Shall we?" she looked down at the shadow who climbed up into her hood. She looked at Hikaru and nodded at him before she jumped into the horde once more.

She moved at her top speed through the horde, causing them to separate before she held her hand out and said, "Stopra!" the heartless froze around her and the girl closed her eyes as she quickly flashed through a group of twenty. She flashed between them moving back and forth between them as they stood still, taking whatever damage the blonde managed though they didn't feel it while they were frozen. She flipped around a couple times and the small area seemed to try to flicker back to the normal timespot.

When she was done, the girl stood still and snapped her fingers for time to unfreeze and for the heartless to explode. She turned her way back to deal with a couple extras that managed to not get destroyed in her cool moment. The shadow also jumped out and helped out with a few extras as well. She looked back at it and said, "Thanks little guy."

The shadow made a noise back, and Kaida stepped slightly away from it mostly out of concern.

Word Count: 410
EXP Earned: 41
EXP Total: 335
Blessed Thief: 40 Munny
Sweet Memories: 2 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Remaining:
204 Shadows
95 Neoshadows
149 Darkballs

Kaida hit the heartless a couple more times and throwing another fire spell into the crowd before the little shadow came back with another coconut and she chucked it into the crowd, knocking a couple of shadows into each other like a domino effect. She tensed up a bit as a couple more jumped at her and she knocked them down. She had fun flipping her keyblades around and knocking a few more. She waited for Hikaru's response patiently, but a form of dread was beginning to creep in that she couldn't quite shake. She took a deep breath as she waited for his answer.


Word Count: 105
EXP Earned: 10
EXP Total: 294
Blessed Thief: 10 Munny
Sweet Memories: 2 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Left:
231 Shadows
97 Neoshadows
149 Darkballs

Kaida at this rate was not going to be allowed the chance to process this and grab a raincheck on the convo since Hikaru was still yammering away about it even though he was trying to be as indirect as possible. Kaida knocked away the horde to get herself standing again. She got up just as Hikaru's fairth blasted all of the shadows out of a nearby and she quickly stepped back out of worry it might friendly fire, but she turned out alright. She took a deep breath and held her keyblades in a stance as she focused in and felt her keyblades begin to glow a bit.

The blonde smirked and quickly dashed in and in a flurry of attacks, red slash made her keyblades clash together in a beautiful combination of thunder and fire. As the shadows took the damage, Kaida backed carefully away and without much struggle she jumped her way back onto the dock. She looked down at the heartless and said, "I don't like how you talk about yourself like this is your fault."

The girl took a knee as she continued looking down at the heartless, watching the shadows jump up as the little friend ran over to grab a couple more coconuts. Kaida focused in to point her keyblade and yell, "Thundara!" the heartless were struck by the lightning bolts in an instant, and the shadows stood paralyzed.

"The circumstances were clearly not under your control. And you're talking to me as if you... took something from me." Kaida stood up and looked towards Hikaru and said, "I met you first. You. Not Aux. Even if... you had Aux's memories... that wasn't what we based our friendship on." she sighed as a shadow jumped up to attack her and she slashed it away and it disappeared with a poof noise.

She turned to focus on the group before she asked, "What do you mean... once we cross the portal... the remnant will return to him?"

Word Count: 333
EXP Earned: 33
EXP Total: 284
Blessed Thief: 80 Munny
Sweet Memories: 1 crown

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Left:
259 Shadows
97 Neoshadows
165 Darkballs

Kaida was going to take a while processing what Hikaru just told her. Because it simply hit her in a way that she was definitely not fond of and it was only emotionally taxing on a different level. The blonde sent multiple projectiles back into the horde and was going to respond before she was pulled down. In a yell, she was under the horde and keeping up guard as she said, "Get back to me in a bit... you dropped a lot on me and now I'm being chowed on by shadows. Raincheck on the convo please!" and she continued her fight as best as she could, annoyed at the interruption.

Word Count: 112
EXP Earned: 11
EXP Total: 251
Blessed Thief: 50 Munny
Sweet Memories: 1 crown

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Remaining
345 Shadows
103 Neoshadows
178 Darkballs

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Takehiko wasn't doing particularly well after that last hit, though the boy was trying to keep himself together. He felt like he was on the very last of his energy and he wasn't about it. He knew his reserves weren't spectacular, but he didn't think he had a choice here. The dark room suddenly glowed in a green light as it surrounded Take, giving him a bit more of a leg to stand on. While his keyblade was out he focused on it and began emitting a glowing light for himself and Adalric. He looked towards Torrin and Boreas for a minute before saying, "That eye thing you guys have seems very useful. Kind of wish I had that. Anyway."

The boy made his way over towards the rocks and stared at it saying, "This will be a bit inconvenient." he looked towards Torrin, "You can make portals, right? That isn't affected by magic, is it?"​

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When Hikaru ran over to check on her, she was still in recovery stance staring down at the horde. The little shadow was still sitting near her looking down and bumping the ones crawling up on the head to knock them down. When he asked her how she was, she looked up at him and said, "Well, I think I got a little ahead of myself, but I'm doing just fine. I somehow recruited a little friend... we will see how this ends." she looked down towards the little shadow who looked up towards Hikaru and swiped slightly at him before swiping more at the others.

Kaida stood up more fully and pointed her keyblade outward and another thunderbell came crashing down on the crowd, together with some firaga. The shadows went flying a little and the little shadow friend jumped down and the girl asked, "Was Aux alright? He wasn't looking so good when I ran in. Did he stick somewhere that there's no heartless?" she looked towards the blue haired kid and shrugged, "Not that I think he can't handle himself. But no one can really handle themselves when they're like... dazzled and discombobulated. That's a word right?"

Kaida kept her guard up while darkballs seemed to fly over and she yelled, "No! Back off! Go find someone else. I'm not ready to deal with your floaty bloaty hijinks!" the shadow crawled over with another coconut and she grabbed it and chucked it in the direction of the darkballs and they flew off. The girl used her keyblade to keep knocking other ones down, even going so far as to destroy a few more while she had the chance.

She looked out to see how the others were doing, she saw Beuce and Stratos and their beginnings of teamwork and strategy. Kel seemed to be struggling a bit with an invisible but not at a level that made her completely worried. Others were getting into the thick of battle as well. Particularly, she saw Luna starting to run in and get ready to tank. Kaida cupped her hands and yelled, "Yeah you get 'em princess! Show the dark beings what it means to be a being of pure light! Or... don't! I can't stop you but don't you drop on me. Convert that health to strength somehow!"

Kaida looked over at Hikaru and said, "I don't think I'm helping. I feel like Kuma when he's far too excited about training newbies and the next thing you know twelve year olds are flying all over the place."

As soon as Kaida said that, the shadows seemed to finally stack up on each other to form a ladder and the girl panicked and began swatting at them, "Oh no. Oh no they're starting to plan and scheme. Soon they'll be building gummi ships and starting colonies and taking over the world with their might of thousands. Unless that's cause Hue has control over." she knocked the ground successfully down trying to keep the wave down.

The blonde fixed her hair when the pile was low and said, "You don't have to stick around though, if you think someone might need more help. I'll just be up here. With pipsqueak. And coconuts. And praying my MP keeps regenerating as fast as it has been. Though before you go. I know you didn't just run off without Aux so I'd rather get an answer to that question. If he isn't I'll run down to find him and get him to... well, this spot is as good as any. Can Aux climb trees? He'll learn."

Word Count: 602
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 240
Blessed Thief: 20 Munny
Sweet Memories: 1 crown

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Remaining
Defeat 638 Shadows
Defeat 183 Neoshadows
Defeat 196 Darkballs
Defeat 1 Invisibles

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Takehiko pulled himself together a little bit slowly, but was completely pulled together by the time the voice echo'd. The attempts at escaping the tunnel was a bomb and that only made Take a bit more nervous, but he took a deep breath to calm himself down. To focus inward and keep himself calm. Once he was... the darkside appeared. The boy stared up at this thing and backed away. For a moment, the boy pictured this thing with large wings. And with the ones in front of him, there was a part of him where the boy way genuinely worried this thing was about to roast them all alive. Without even a second more's thought, Take ran right past the group and charged at the thing, putting his all into three large combo attacks. One slashing him to the left, one slashing upwards, and the last slashing down with blitz. When the boy hit the ground, he took a deep breath to keep himself calm.

It's not the dragon. It's not the dragon. It's not the dragon. You can do this. We can do this. Stay calm.

Stay calm.

AP: 0/50
HP: 29/75
BP: 0/3
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Kaida was more than amused when Stratos came charging on in with a hunter limit and she said, "Well, it's not quite a strike, but you knocked 'em down alright." the girl spun her keyblade as she too went to charge on in. She kept her keyblades outstretched as she sprinted as fast as she could into the crowd. After knocking back a good amount, the girl went in for killing blows. The little shadow kept itself pinned to her back as she quickly spun around. The shadows flew upwards and disappeared into puffs of black and purple smoke.

The blonde stood herself up to keep good balance. Thinking she was doing alright. Though one thing she had not necessarily anticipated though she should was how the environment was going to play an impact. The storm swished a piece of wood past her and the girl had no focus in that direction as it slammed into her face, knocking the girl back onto the ground. She turned to focus more on the debris since the wind was more in focus on that direction, while she was not in focus, a group of darkballs suddenly went in with an attack. The blonde went flying into a palm tree and she gasped out winded and she slid down. The shadow had jumped out of the way in time and clung to a branch. Kaida took in a couple breaths as she watched the horde crawl towards her. She temporarily took a knee and waited for the horde to come towards her a bit.

The girl was genuinely curious how she was going to manage to keep going with this at this pace. She watched the darkballs fly off for other victims as other heartless began to join in with the shadow swarm. She was not going to focus on them yet. She had fully decided she would be the one to take out all the littles. Someone had to after all, and she felt like she was cutting into this lot like butter.

When they were just close enough. Kaida hit backwards into the palm tree with force and felt a coconut fall kindly into her hand. She then swung the coconut at them and ran forward once more. Trying to hack and slash a couple more as she avoided the palm. She managed to get herself upwards onto some sort of dock above the rest of the heartless and tried to dig at a few more from the high ground.

She rolled back slightly and suddenly stopped herself, keeping on leg planted firmly behind her as the rest of her.

She pulled her keyblades back and pushed all of her body weight forwards as firaga and blizzara came out of her keyblades. The two spells started out in a straight line before the two swirled around into each other. Kind of like a dance. Then the two bounced into each other perfectly and knocked each other in separate directions into the shadows. The firaga's power was a lot stronger than Kaida anticipated since the little heartless seemed to fly up in the air on fire. The blizzara stuck those in the impact zone onto the ground.

The heartless began trying to find their way up to her and the girl took a couple of moments to recharge herself. She was just grateful at this point to be above the horde. She thought she had gotten a bit too excited jumping into the horde her first time. She looked up to check on the others, making sure nothing horrible was happening to the others.

Word Count: 602
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 180
Blessed Thief: 90 Munny

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Remaining
Defeat 689 Shadows
Defeat 183 Neoshadows
Defeat 196 Darkballs
Defeat 1 Invisibles

The risks involved in being completely surrounded by shadows was kind of fun, and mostly worthwhile. Kaida had no idea if this meant that she was suicidal or an adrenaline junkie. She kind of hoped it was more the latter, since she would like to think she was pretty happy with her current mental state. Though she kind of wished her hobbies led to her jumping out of airplanes with parachutes instead of these kind of risk activities. Kaida swung her keyblade a bit as a wave jumped over and got a few, but they seemed realize that this tactic was not working out.

They were evolving quickly. This would not do. Kaida kept herself in a defensive stance as she paced around carefully in a circle. Then something she didn't expect happened. The group began to jump and try to hit Kaida and the girl dodge rolled just in time. The shadows as a result piled up and missed, and one shadow was a bit disoriented as another one accidentally hit it. The shadow grumbled and a noise was made before the heartless slashed at the other one.

This resulted in a brawl that made Kaida stand on edge for a while, but the shadow that seeked blood seemed to successfully defeat the other and let out a war cry. In the distraction, a couple of shadows jumped at Kaida giving her a good scratch on the back and she let out a yelp. The shadow turned towards Kaida's attackers and ran at the two and attacked them back. They backed away quickly and jumped behind Kaida's guard and the girl raised an eyebrow amused and said, "Well, okay pipsqueak. I'll help you out if you help me out a while."

The shadow seemed to look at her with a bit of a connection and the girl nodded and began slicing and dicing at more of the heartless while this little shadow seemed to keep up the backend, knocking any heartless that tried to jump at the blonde away from her. It seemed overly excited to be helping out in this manner but Kaida was definitely not going to turn away something helping out. Kaida swung her keyblade a bit to charge up thunderbell and blizzard at the same time and she pointed them in the crowds again. A loud ringing sound seemed to be heard and the little shadow flickered away scared a minute before it rushed back to knock out another attacker.

Kaida took a deep breath and looked around at the others, checking up on their progress a bit. Aislinn was having a hell of a time with a neoshadow, and Stratos seemed to have.... be fighting something with wings. Mumbling to herself, "Well, that's new. Go get em, Stratos!" before another heartless jumped at her and she rolled away to dodge.

Kaida noticed a bit of an afterimage as she did so and blinked a bit and mumbled to herself, "That...is... really new." she quickly got up and stabbed at a couple more heartless and tried to get out of the circle. Her new heartless friend jumped up on her shoulder as she dodged away. The swarm followed her as she tried to run out, but only so she would not be surrounded anymore. As they all ran their way into a straight line. Kaida grinned a bit, thinking about how easy it would be to mall this group down as she shouted out, "Anyone wanna go shadow bowling?!" the girl threw her keyblade, only knocking them back and not being able to give them much damage at this time. At least she'd give people an opening.

Word Count: 607
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 120
Blessed Thief: 60 Munny

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Remaining:
Defeat 815 Shadows
Defeat 199 Neoshadows
Defeat 200 Darkballs
Defeat 5 Invisibles

As they appeared on this island seemingly lost to storm, Kaida looked around with more concern than curiosity. Everything seemed so... broken. But the man with the cybernetic arm ended up catching the most concern anyway. Kaida did not approach, since others seemed to be going for that anyway and she'd rather just listen. The girl played with her new ring that Hikaru gave them just a bit to try and adjust it right, since the girl was not entirely used to the feeling of jewelry. After some strange explanation of the Red Society, the next thing she knew, Aux was remembering everything and keeling over in pain. When the man threatened to have them submit, Kaida immediately held out both of her hands to summon out one of her keyblades in defense and ready for action. The amount of heartless that seemed to begin pouring out made her back away a bit and when the number ten thousand was mentioned she was about ready to faint.

Ten thousand heartless? Everyone else had told the story about how they had fought only around a thousand. This was absolutely ludicrous. She wondered if this was where she was going to end up dying after all that effort was placed into becoming a master. But then she shook it off. Not here. This would not be the place she would fall. It would be far too anti-climactic. She was not entirely sure why this man seemed to have this sort of complex about Nequa and this unhealthy want to please her when she had already rejected him. Perhaps at this point he just really wanted to take his anger out on what he considered small potatoes, despite the fact this group had proven to be anything but.

There was almost a relief and joy Kaida felt upon hearing Shiro's booming voice come out of nowhere to confront Hughes. She was a little worried why the man did not have a shirt but that was definitely something she was not worried about questioning at this time. When he mentioned being glad to see her safe, and his congrats to her passing the Mark of Mastery, Kaida held a thumbs up towards him when he congratulated her and she said, "Thanks. Now's not the time though."

When he told them to leave Hughes to him, that no doubt meant they were going to have to fight the horde. Kaida looked over towards the rest of the group but because people beat me to the punch, I'm not gonna have her do the wink and smile at the crowd anymore, so she just mumbled under her breath, "Let's do this then." and the girl quickly charged in.

Kaida had jumped into the horde of shadows, if only because that sounds incredibly badass in writing and also cause I wanna focus everything in one place and so would Kaida. The girl first started by flinging a blast of fire into the crowd. The shadows blew back at the impact and the girl landed in the center and pointed her keyblade at one group of heartless and side eyed to see the crowd aiming for her back and the girl reached her hand backwards and summoned out one more keyblade. The girl smirked and readjusted her posture, one backhand and one front hand at the crowds trying to provoke them to draw near. Then the girl ducked as they jumped in so they flew straight above her head and the girl blasted two projectile spells crossways at the different parts, watching more heartless fall. She took a breath and got back defensively again.

Word Count: 606
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 60
Blessed Thief: 30 Munny

Heartless Defeated:
25 Shadows

Heartless Remaining:
Defeat 851 Shadows
Defeat 199 Neoshadows
Defeat 200 Darkballs
Defeat 6 Invisibles
Defeat 1 Darkside

As the core was placed, the system lit up in response as the monitor flickered in to show two boxes to be filled, asking for a username and password. A buzzing noise could be heard as everything just seemed to be overheating a bit but it was working.

The darkness was beginning to form more of a bestial shape.

8 days until shape takes full form

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Takehiko certainly was not expecting an explosion, and when it happened, he went immediately to try and guard in time... only for it to poof out harmless stuffing. A little note seemed to floof out towards Take and the boy, still a bit on edge considering her could have very well just died there, grabbed the note and looked it over.

"I bet you can't BEAR to wait for the next part of my plan."

There was a long pause of silence before a small squeaky noise started coming out of the boy, and then he started full on laughing. Perhaps to Torrin, Boreas, and Adalric this was nothing, but Take had not laughed in years, and he had no real idea why he found this in particular so amusing. He let his keyblade disappear and the boy tried to contain the laughter, hiding his smile behind his broken hand as he turned towards the three, still letting out bits of laughter as he managed out, "O-Oh.. Oh no. Ya know. I bearly considered it was even a bom-aaahAAAA." Take started laughing again but even harder. His laugh was definitely echoing through the tunnels at this point.
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Well, Torrin's reasoning made sense. But something felt off about it. He had no proof to say otherwise, but that trip he wouldn't have classified as a short trip considering between him dropping Aria off and them finally seeing him again, a full day had passed. Even ignoring the time it would have taken from them to bring Tinarah and Gero back, something seemed wrong about it. But he couldn't put a finger on it. He shook it off as paranoia, still wanting to believe this Torrin couldn't possibly be as bad as the other Torrin that Tinarah described.

As they walked further into the tunnel and the sound of the gears turning, then music playing... Takehiko was confused nonetheless. When they walked closer only to find a windup bear, Take looked really confused and asked,"Is... the music coming from the stuffed bear? How is it doing that?" he approached cautiously, summoning his keyblade with his bad hand, before he suddenly gasped out and switched over to the other hand and maintained a keyblade's length away from the bear as he kept a careful and light footing, "I don't understand."
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