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Irekeek claps and praises the song as well. "Singing in battle might be a good idea. The entertainment would vastly outweigh the confusion our opponents would have at Why our cleric is singing away with every swing and spell, but the tactical advantage would still be there."
Irekeek's rage vents in a roar, allowing her body to shrink down to normal Strix size. In princess mode, she helps her opponent off the ground while regally lecturing them on the merits of striking an opponent in inappropriate places during battles that should not be considered deadly. "To us, this is about victory. To them it is about entertainment. Allowing one team to crush all opponents too quickly will rob them of that. Think of their demand as a declaration that they are worried we are capable of that very scenario." the princess suggests with a gentle shrug.
"Annoying is what they are." the giant bird woman banters with Nomi slightly, now that a good amount of violent frustration has been taken out on the enforcer that stabbed her. She twirls her tree-sized pole arm elegantly, swirling the wind around before stabbing the blind woman in the guts, lifting her up and slamming her poor body back to the dirt.
The massive bird woman's yells out in surprised rage as the human slips between her legs and stabs up. "You.Do.Not.STAB.PEOPLE." she shouts as she hacks into the woman like someone chopping wood. No elegance, no Show, just anger and blood.
Irekeek roars in battle rage, her polearm slamming into the human enforcer, ripping through their flesh.
"Gomwai" the 'princess' nods her head to him and his humans in greeting, then gets ready for a fight. To her companions, she lets her anger at the situation out "they can take what we've won and risk nothing. I do not understand this part of the tournament." As the fight begins, she lets go of that rage. Charging forth, as she grows in size, and tries to spear at one of the humans.
Irekeek considers the voice inside her head shouting about what sane people would do, then with a heavy sigh, she runs, rather dejectedly, after her teammates.
The words Pouring out of the leshy startles Irekeek for a moment. She had been standing on the edge of the tower, enjoying the wind weave around them. "Ingdani says No, and I believe her, but just because she did not know of them, does not mean the game leaders did not." she sighs, knowing that even if they did, it does not change her plans.
The angry bird lady had no target, which made her angry, but the princess of all things Hot remembered to bring the glitter bomb and then POOF a hazy and very irritating ghost can now be HIT!
The scream is terrible, eating at the corners of her mind, but her anger is stronger today. Roaring back, she rushes and attacks.
"or its full of cobwebs and dust, lots and lots of dust." the skrix says softly, suddenly worried about allergies because that is all she or anyone needs. Itchy crappy irritating dust blooming redness and leaking out of places that have no business leaking anything. And sneezing. A strix's sneeze can kill people, documented fact. She does follow their bouncing cleric though and forces herself more into character "Maybe aaa... Tea horde, guarded by the mega Spoon, a construct of such metallic power that he stirs all he sees until they are nothing but mixed up with the surrounding."
Irekeek finds words to express her respect of the twin's skills, and gives them a curtsey in return. Then to the other Lights, "Shall we explore or retire for the day?" the barbarian is showing a little burned edges but nothing too extreme.
Irekeek roars a battle cry of victory and grabs her nearest teammate in a massive barbarian bearhug, only to come to her senses and her normal size to look suitably chagrined about her behavior to give the minuscule audience a short curtsey. "Akira, can you awake our foes so we can honor them for the glorious battle they have given us. The massive cone of fire was intoxicating to the senses if nothing else."
The ice crusted staff brings out a grunt of pain from the massive feathered princess, but not as much as it should. With Nomi's magic, the thundering mast spins and slams, shaking the room whether it smashes into the ground or into the tender flesh of her opponent.
aoo if allowed:
Since Orchid choose his opponent and this is a performance as much as a battle, Irekeek the Giant bird princess moves after the other. Using her massive reach she swings her now treetrunk-sized polearm.
Hopefully there won't be many stealth missions :)
Oh those are cool, can Irekeek buy a thundering rune?
Irekeek greets their opponents with her name, and a bow suitable enough since she doesn't know anything about them. She notes the twirling melee weapons and the announcement of monasteries, and decides defensive is a good way to start. The strix pulls her wings in, covering herself briefly before she exploding in the air, as her body Grows, to nearly sixteen feet of feathers, armors, and terrifying beauty. Landing with a shuddering thud, she rises into a stance with her polearm ready, hungry smile, and gestures with a 'Come At Us'.
Irekeek already has a greater striking rune so doesn't need that. Wand of remove curse seems important for some reason. Bag of holding if no one has one already.
Did Orchίd want the hook sword, not sure why I have that in my head.
A decanter of endless water sounds neat. Does anyone have trouble with climbing or swimming? Irekeek is my one super strong character so doesn't need the rings but if we need to keep them it would be fine.
Barbarian 12! more hit points, yep 212 now.
Irekeek wipes her brow with a smile on her lips after all the cleaning is done "Hard work for a good reason is worth one's time." After a long toe curling stretch she adds "But... I am glad it is over. Shall we explore the market or rest here to be ready for the morning?"
"What does it do?" Irekeek asks, as her eyes drink in the lovely glinting gold and ruby. The 'shiny' beckons all.' her mind purrs. Secretly she hopes Akira tells her it bosters combat strength as she can make a case to wear it instead, but she has little hope.
Releasing anger is hard for the strix, but she does her best here. Closing her eyes, she grinds her teeth for a second, before she forces out a deep breath. Opening them again she looks at Ingdani, and says "I apologize for my implied accusation. One should always be allowed to move on from death. Yours is a good and decent creed." she dips her head in respect, ready to move on.
The strix's lips turn down in a low boiling anger. Turning toward their escort, Ingandi, the tall warrior says with a growl "I understand the need for obstacles. Challenges to test our abilities and risk our lives, but if the powers behind the tournament decided to prolong that woman's suffering to do so, they should feel a deep and abiding shame."
"The desire to help your friends is noble. Yes, we will do as you ask." Irekeek says softly, dipping her head in respect for the woman's request.
"I am always amazed how healing magic not only mends the flesh, but also expels the grit and grime from the attack." Irekeek says as she watches Hot-bottoms magic do its work. Then she gives the flaming sprite a deep respectful curtsey, using her leather faulds as her skirt. "May the heavens see fit to grant us both long life, on so I can continue to express my gratitude to you until we are but shriveled raisins in our dotage." She gives a grin and then is ready to wander with the others. "A shiny indeed." she notes, leaving it to the raven to retrieve. "South?" she suggests, for no particular reason.
The giant bird woman hacks down in two-handed fury at the first sand monk that comes at her but then has to weather fists and kicks to all manner of bad places to be fisted and kicked. "ARRRRAAA!" she yells, very unprincess like, spinning her weapon rather ineffectively until the end where she spears the unlucky monk that last hit her.
"Do not fear, poor ghostly warriors, we The Searing Light of Divinity, shall put you to rest!" Irekeek performs loudly as she grows several sizes too big, swinging her polearm at the nearest enemy in a Wide swing.
"And such a beguiling home it is." Irekeek says with trailing skepticism. After Akira and Hot-bottom administer to their wounds, she gives them both sincere thanks, not just the fake princess graciousness. "So..." Irekeek thinks about what Ahmitar told them earlier "... all we have left is the angry ghosts? And to look for as many hidden shines for Shigi of course." she smiles at the pretty bird.
Even with several new holes in her body (standard fighting practice for the warrior), Irekeek spins and hacks into the beast like an angry dancer, a weird combination of grace and brutality.
Irekeek opens her mouth to yell her combat readiness. Instead of the pure tones of eager rage, she gets a sputtering gagging mess due to inhaling the creature's noxious vapors. The effect is rather creepy and gross. With a mighty flap of her wings, she clears some of the worst fog. At the same time, the motion lends her the speed to get around their enemy and hack at it with her polearm.
"Do you think the monks left there or the tournament inserted them to give the place a better feel?" she askes out of general curiosity.
"We're probably going to have to do something about it sometime..." but there is nothing for her to hit. She leaves the last part unsaid since princesses are not supposed to be JUST about hitting things. "Later seems like a good choice now though."
"A potion of tongues?" Irekeek looks baffled "Why would you want to drink a bunch of tongues?... Oh, maybe you pour it somewhere else..." she shakes her head free of errant thoughts and moves toward where Nomi is suggesting.
The giant warrior woman beats her wings for effect, doing little more than stirring up all the dust around her. Her ghostly polearm slashes through the dust clouds and the ghost behind it as well.
Normally Irekeek would say something about laying the dead to rest, a minor speech about something or another, but the lack of audience gives her a chance to skip that and just mutters "Ghosts" before raging into a large size and hacking away with her newly ghost touched weapon.
Hot-bottom's sense of caution overwhelms Irekeek's concerns so she asks affixes one of the runes to her polearm (which help if needed). "To the courtyard then?"
Irekeek nudges Niom, lightly, or at least she tries for it to be lightly. She had suggested many times over the last months that the half elf exercise more. "We are riddled with Ghosts. Were we not just handed special 'gifts' by an opposing team to deal with just those kind of enemies? Should we be impressed at how they knew we would need them, and secondly should it make us Grateful or Worried?"
As the tiny man appears, Irekeek tightens her grip on her pole arm, shifting her stance to cleave the miniscule male in two... Then Nomi starts talking to it. Which leaves the warrior in an awkward pre-slice stage. No graceful way to slip out of that, and staying in it just looks dumb as the others have a pleasant conversation, so she clucks to herself and straightens, trying to hide her annoyance, by staying quiet.
"Two down, how many more before we sleep." Irekeek feigns weariness, but the rose in her cheeks and upturned corners on her mouth let everyone know she is enjoying herself. "Would your majesty do us the honor of looking over that door for traps?" the warrior princess asks the fairy princess.
Irekeek keeps it simple. Thrusting, hacking, twirling and flinging spider blood everywhere.
Irekeek faces the onrushing garacu-spiders, polearm ready and without fear. The winged warrior tries to dodge right, but ends up getting bitten by the spider on the right, then dodge left and ends up getting bitten by the spider on the left.
Irekeek cocks her head, a sign she is impressed as the HUGE spiders uncoil and menace them. "If this is just the front door, we are in for quite a treat." the anticipation in her voice could be worrisome. Smiling bright, she raises her hand, pointed as a fist to the nearest many-legged things. On her ring finger is a heavy iron band shaped to look like the head of a ram with stylized horns and all. "hello, pretty pretty pretty." she coos before a heavy force slams into her foe.
"'TRI'cera'TOPS'? Humans really named a creature after the number of protrusions out of their head?" she groans in irritation. Then forces herself to concentrate. "we are meant to clear the temple, and this is the front door of the temple. Also if we run into anything just inside the doors, it will probably disturb the sleeping spiders and we'll be wedged in." opinions and thoughts laid out, she around to see if anyone thinks differently. Another thing time has taught her, each of them are not prone to being Ordered about. Which is a good thing.
Once they are away from the other group, Irekeek hands the runes to Nomi, "Are they what he says? No tricks?" The time together (and the feigning of lack of language knowledge) has taught Irekeek Nomi has a suspicious mind, much like her own, but more intelligent so can find more twists and patterns than she can.
At the temple, the bird like woman crouches and whispers "can anyone tell what it is, other than ugly"
Irekeek catches Orchid's shake of the head and agrees wholeheartedly. "Accomidations before fun, I am afraid. Once we have secured our temporary home, may... be..." the princess smiles.
"And greetings returned." Irekeek says with only a light dip in return to his bow, (princess and all). 'And here I thought we would be the oddest group here.' her mind smiles, but at the same time recognizes a scouting mission when she sees it. Still, politeness is important. "Of course. While we are destined to be opponents, that does not mean we cannot be cordial in between bouts. I am Irekeek, and my fellow warriors are..." she then gives the names of each of the others, pausing at orchid, wondering suddenly if she should introduce him as Akira's familiar to throw them off. So she simply raises an eyebrow to the kitsune in question on how she wants to proceed.
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