Single post in Chronicles of Gaia (RP)

"Awesome! Follow the leader everyone!" Laura smiled, clapping her hands together and leading the way through the mirror she'd summoned. The mirror's surface rippled and folded around her as she went though, a strange liquidic like appearance that seemed to both welcome her presence as much as it rejected her presence in this alternate reality. Still, it was merely a step and another before the Siren was through, floating in apparent total darkness. "Alright! Time for your mission briefing!" She called out to those who'd followed. Her words appeared above her in a floating-silvery text that was easy to read in case anyone couldn't hear her for some reason. "Welcome to HE.LL. Don't worry about the acronym, its not important. What is important is that you are substituting in as high security guards at HE.LL's Treasure research academy. Many of this world's rarest discoveries are held and studied closely here, meaning its just one big target for thieves and collectors. Laura snapped her fingers and suddenly the darkness changed. It was still dim, but the lighting was distinct enough to clearly make out their new surroundings. Or, as it was, the surroundings that were below them. The group was now floating in the air over complex of 5 buildings, arranged together in a long U. The buildings appeared to be constructed out of an unrecognizable material, and followed a strange architectural design. Similar buildings could be seen in the distance, a city several miles away. Perhaps most notable was that despite hovering at a great height, the group did not appear to be in the sky, rather, there was no sky. The entire world appeared to be an endless cavern. Dotted rarely by a natural pillar between the floor and ceiling, a height that rivaled some of the tallest skyscrapers. "Those buildings below are the ones you'll be guarding" Laura pointed downward at the U shaped courtyard and buildings. The 4 buildings making up the sides were around 3 stories high, while the building at the head of the courtyard rose up to nearly 5 stories in height. The courtyard itself was about the width of a building and a half. Laura waved her hand again and a mission statement appeared over her head, detailing the win-loss conditions. A thief has unleashed a powerful monster upon the Treasure Research Academy (TRA) in order to cause a distraction while it steals valuable articles. As a high security guard it is your duty to subdue the monster before the Thief escapes. However you must at the same time protect the buildings themselves from destruction, as it would result in the loss of many irreplaceable treasures. To Win: Defeat the monster before the thief can escape. The Thief will be captured upon the monster's defeat. Conditions: -If more than half of your teammates are killed, the mission is an auto failure and must be restarted. -All buildings must remain completely intact. Minor damage to the exterior is acceptable. "Alright, read up quickly because I'm about to give you all some insider information on what you're about to fight." Laura clapped her hands together, pausing to make sure everyone had finished reading the directions before continuing. "The 'monster' you will be fighting is a native to this dimension called a Plague Dragon. Its a large beast, usually around 18-20 feet tall, and its a little different than most dragons. So, first things first: Plague dragons breath a deadly gas. Do not breath this in. If you're lucky and only get a small breath or two, you'll just get paralyzed. If you really inhale it, it's gonna shut off your brain functions and leave you essentially dead on the ground. Your won't actually die unless it steps on you or eats you, but you're dead weight to everyone else now. No one's got an antidote for it so you're not getting up again. If you do die, you'll just get kicked out of the mirror and have to watch." Laura paused, evidently thinking about what next to warn the others about. "Its blood is extremely acidic. If it gets on you, it'll burn through your flesh in just under a minute. And as a warning, that doesn't go away if it gets soaked up into your clothes. It may slow down a bit, but you're gonna lose your skin if you don't ditch anything that's got the blood soaked into it. Now cause of the Blood plague dragons can't fly- their own blood burn away their wings. But it also means their flesh is hella dense and hard to damage, or else it would've burned away too. Now, plague dragons can absorb life energy from plant life. All the stuff in the courtyard is gonna die as soon as it arrives so don't worry about it, but if anyone tries nature magic on it, it's not gonna be pretty." That should be about it for the dragon, when you guys drop in you'll all be placed around at different buildings at random. Good and spread out like. You'll find yourselves with the standard weapons for guards. One will be the Plasmic spear. You can use it like a normal spear if ya like but its got a much more useful plasma-beam function for shootin your enemies. Other weapon is a heavy style blob-shocker. I know, real good name right? Its launched a blob of a sort of electrified jelly, grenade launcher like, when that blob hits something it sticks like glue and all the electricity is released AoE style. 'Bout a 3 diameter effect. Course you'll all have your own weapons still so just drop the guard ones if you wanna." Laura paused again, this time because she'd realized a bit of her old dialect had started to creep in while she was rambling about the dragon. Talk about embarrassing. She was glad that angel wasn't around to hear her slip up. Still, she'd said everything that needed to be said now, no need to keep waiting any longer. "That's all! Have fun!" Laura clapped her hands again and suddenly each member would find themselves standing on the ground, spaced evenly in front of the 5 buildings. They'd barely have time to examine the spear in their hands and the launcher strapped to their back when a ground shaking roar blasted across the courtyard. Which was then followed by the ground shaking crashes of enormous feet as the dragon suddenly came into view, charging madly in through the open end of the U into the center of the courtyard. The grass and foliage, which had been a pleasant blue color, wilted immediately. The beast roared again, waving its useless wings threateningly before letting off a blast of Poisonous gas. The fight had begun.