2.2 - Finding A Three For One Is Not A Good Thing
shibosho
The Face of Procrastination
- Location
- The Land of Oz
2.2
You decide to go looking for some golems in order to make your star stronger. With the Gifted of Ichiyama threatening your school, as a Gifted you feel obligated to protect North Rizen High. Being relatively new however to the whole Gifted situation, you were sure that whoever is in charge over at Ichiyama was stronger than you.
Therefore, you need to get stronger.
Searching for golems was a simple matter of using the power of your star. Just by concentrating on it, you were in a sense able to send out a 'ping'. The location of any golems within range would be sent back to you, leaving you free to pursue them at your own pace. Or at least that was the basic theory.
In reality, it wasn't that easy. Namely due to the fact that other Gifted were also using the Ping as well. When you tried to get to where the nearest golem was, someone had already defeated it, leaving nothing but quickly fading clumps of clay. So instead of spending the afternoon defeating golems for their sparks, you winded up trying to chase after golems before someone else managed to get them.
You were close on your third attempt but you arrive just in time to see someone cut through a one-eyed golem with what appears to be a plastic lightsaber. You kept in the shadows and watched as the person whose gender you weren't able to tell thanks to their hoodie made a fist pump and leave without ceremony.
After the fifth attempt, you were on the verge of giving up and going home. For the golems to be defeated this quickly after you detected them meant that either there was a really fast Gifted or there were a larger number of Gifted in Yorizen than you thought there were. Taking a short break to catch your breath, you receive a text from Lucille.
Huh, you didn't take Lucille to be one to use emoticons. And lucky her.
After accepting her invite to meet up later, you finish up your break and head off to try and find a golem one more time. When you send out the ping, something happens however. You feel it - a deep sharp bloodlust like a katana emanating from nearby.
A golem.
A golem stronger than the ones that you've fought before.
Strangely, you don't falter or collapse like you did the first time. Instead, you simply turn to where you felt the golem's bloodthirst and ready a notebook as you start walking. A minute later you find it.
The golem stands at least several heads above you. It has a long muscular right arm and a mouth on the side of its waist. A one-armed headless ogre was the best way to describe the golem.
And it had three eyes.
You're in trouble, aren't you?
The golem is standing across the street opposite of you. It strikes a strange chord in you, seeing how everyone passing by - pedestrians, the rush hour traffic, animals - are completely ignoring it yet moving around it almost unconsciously. Your eyes glance towards the traffic lights and you realise why it is just standing there.
It's waiting for the lights to change colours.
Why the hell is the golem obeying traffic laws!?
No, this isn't the time to complain about stuff like that. You need to move a less public location. While showing off your powers in public is always an option, it comes with a canful of worms that you don't want to deal with.
If you want to fight this thing, then you're going to need to relocate, asap.
You start running the moment the lights change, making sure to avoid colliding with anyone. You can hear the golem start plodding after you on its large trunk-like legs. Okay good, now where to go?
An alleyway in the shadows of a tall building catches your eye and you immediately head into it. You run through a wooden gate and find yourself in the backlot of a building. There are old rusty cars left here and it looks like people have been dumping old furniture as well here. The smell is musty it is only a mere annoyance. There's nobody around and the windows in the building are all boarded up. There's also a ladder that leads up to the fire escape.
Most important however is the recycling bin for paper and cardboard.
You now have a suitable place to engage the golem.
However, is it really a good idea?
It's a three-eyed golem, with a more dangerous atmosphere from the one-eyed golems. It's got to be at the very least tougher than the one-eyed golems plus you haven't seen a two-eyed one yet. Your paper manipulation has gotten better and you've got an ample supply right here but will it really be strong enough to fight. Plus there's also a good chance that some other Gifted is gonna end up showing up as well to fight the golem.
Considering your last interaction with a Gifted that wasn't Lucille, you're kinda anxious about it.
Still, if you managed to take it down by yourself, it'll net you a large boost in your abilities. And if another Gifted shows up, well at the very least you'll get partial credit plus it might be good to try and make friends with another Gifted.
You can always keep running. It's not that fast and you're bound to lose it.
What should you do?
[ ] Stand firm and prepare for battle
-[ ] Plan
[ ] Run away
You decide to go looking for some golems in order to make your star stronger. With the Gifted of Ichiyama threatening your school, as a Gifted you feel obligated to protect North Rizen High. Being relatively new however to the whole Gifted situation, you were sure that whoever is in charge over at Ichiyama was stronger than you.
Therefore, you need to get stronger.
Searching for golems was a simple matter of using the power of your star. Just by concentrating on it, you were in a sense able to send out a 'ping'. The location of any golems within range would be sent back to you, leaving you free to pursue them at your own pace. Or at least that was the basic theory.
In reality, it wasn't that easy. Namely due to the fact that other Gifted were also using the Ping as well. When you tried to get to where the nearest golem was, someone had already defeated it, leaving nothing but quickly fading clumps of clay. So instead of spending the afternoon defeating golems for their sparks, you winded up trying to chase after golems before someone else managed to get them.
You were close on your third attempt but you arrive just in time to see someone cut through a one-eyed golem with what appears to be a plastic lightsaber. You kept in the shadows and watched as the person whose gender you weren't able to tell thanks to their hoodie made a fist pump and leave without ceremony.
After the fifth attempt, you were on the verge of giving up and going home. For the golems to be defeated this quickly after you detected them meant that either there was a really fast Gifted or there were a larger number of Gifted in Yorizen than you thought there were. Taking a short break to catch your breath, you receive a text from Lucille.
Lucille said:
Huh, you didn't take Lucille to be one to use emoticons. And lucky her.
After accepting her invite to meet up later, you finish up your break and head off to try and find a golem one more time. When you send out the ping, something happens however. You feel it - a deep sharp bloodlust like a katana emanating from nearby.
A golem.
A golem stronger than the ones that you've fought before.
Strangely, you don't falter or collapse like you did the first time. Instead, you simply turn to where you felt the golem's bloodthirst and ready a notebook as you start walking. A minute later you find it.
The golem stands at least several heads above you. It has a long muscular right arm and a mouth on the side of its waist. A one-armed headless ogre was the best way to describe the golem.
And it had three eyes.
You're in trouble, aren't you?
The golem is standing across the street opposite of you. It strikes a strange chord in you, seeing how everyone passing by - pedestrians, the rush hour traffic, animals - are completely ignoring it yet moving around it almost unconsciously. Your eyes glance towards the traffic lights and you realise why it is just standing there.
It's waiting for the lights to change colours.
Why the hell is the golem obeying traffic laws!?
No, this isn't the time to complain about stuff like that. You need to move a less public location. While showing off your powers in public is always an option, it comes with a canful of worms that you don't want to deal with.
If you want to fight this thing, then you're going to need to relocate, asap.
You start running the moment the lights change, making sure to avoid colliding with anyone. You can hear the golem start plodding after you on its large trunk-like legs. Okay good, now where to go?
An alleyway in the shadows of a tall building catches your eye and you immediately head into it. You run through a wooden gate and find yourself in the backlot of a building. There are old rusty cars left here and it looks like people have been dumping old furniture as well here. The smell is musty it is only a mere annoyance. There's nobody around and the windows in the building are all boarded up. There's also a ladder that leads up to the fire escape.
Most important however is the recycling bin for paper and cardboard.
You now have a suitable place to engage the golem.
However, is it really a good idea?
It's a three-eyed golem, with a more dangerous atmosphere from the one-eyed golems. It's got to be at the very least tougher than the one-eyed golems plus you haven't seen a two-eyed one yet. Your paper manipulation has gotten better and you've got an ample supply right here but will it really be strong enough to fight. Plus there's also a good chance that some other Gifted is gonna end up showing up as well to fight the golem.
Considering your last interaction with a Gifted that wasn't Lucille, you're kinda anxious about it.
Still, if you managed to take it down by yourself, it'll net you a large boost in your abilities. And if another Gifted shows up, well at the very least you'll get partial credit plus it might be good to try and make friends with another Gifted.
You can always keep running. It's not that fast and you're bound to lose it.
What should you do?
[ ] Stand firm and prepare for battle
-[ ] Plan
[ ] Run away
