things no man should ever smell. (mod)

[John Nicholson]

Here John was again. Since yesterday, he was determined to get himself back up to speed wit things. He figured the best place to do so would be the sewers that had brought him so much hardship in the past. After all, the army had thaught him various things to know about tough times, with the chief message being that adversity maks one stronger.

with this idea in mind, John all but charges right into the dank, damp, smell of the sewers. He is stoped almost immediately by the familiar, ghastly smell. After turning back a bit and rearranging his gear to cover his nose, he descended into the darkness of the sewers proper.

Strangely, some parts of the layout were not as he remembered them to be, It was like the caves had expanded since the last time he was here. The idea seemed absurd at first, but it seemed to be more and ore f a reasonable assumption eah time he passed yet another passage tat shouldn't have been there. He was pondering about the meaning of this when the ground suddendly gave way out from under him.

John tumbled into yet another, deeper, level of the sewers. If the cavernous hole of decay and rot he now found himself could even be called that anymore. Seriously, how deep did this place go anyway. John was assaulted by yet more hellish and foul odors, it was likely a large part of all the refuse and garbage of the cit was located right here in this deep cavern. He was just starting to think how he was going to get back up to the surface when he heard some sort of being approaching from one of the myriad corridors. He was not sure where it was coming from or even if it was just one enemy, but he was quite convinced that whatever was approaching right now would not hesitate to tear him apart if given the chance.

[Kitten4u]

CAUTION CAUTION
An enemy has appeared

Derpy Giant Maya
Navas Nebula
Crazy Chain
Poison Arrow
Power Charge

Null: Physical
Weak: Magic

[John Nicholson]

So it was anothe rone of those blob things? It seemd to be quite a bit larger than its weaker kin although it moved noticably more awkwardly than the average maya. John almost let his guard down due to these goofy movements and the fact that maas were usually little more than insignificant annoyances. He was sorely reminded that apearances can be deceiving as the amorphous creature formed several sharpy edged pseudopods and assaulted John with them. John's armor took quite a large portion of the hit although the maya still managed to inflict quite a few gashes and cuts on John's less protected body parts. The wide-ranged attack laso caused quite a bit of collateral damage to the walls and ceiling in the cramped corridor, which dislodged some rubble from the hole John had inadvertedly created some moments before. The chunks of stone landed on the Maya with a spalshing noise.

John wondered what kind of damage this would cause to his enemy and was disappointed to see that the shadow's amorphic body simply reformed whaever damage was cause, expelling the rocks in the process. It seemed physical attacks would be completely ineffective in this fight. It would not matter that much as he had more metaphysical means to damage the enemy. With that said, John called forth the masked man and channeled his power to strike at the enemy with the force of darkness itself. Te darkness given physical form made the maya recoil and quiver as if in pain. it also seemed to become less able to retain its shape. The shadow did not immediately retaliate to John's attack, instead growing smaller, as if condencing its mass. John was not about to wait around and see just what kind of attack it was preparing now, and continued his assault.

The damage the maya sustained was not enough to kill it before it could launch the mystery attack. It thrust forward a sharpened psuedopod which had been condensed to the point of being hard as steel. The makeshift lance hit John in the upper leg. As it retracted out of him and back into the amorhhous mass, the open wound started exuding a putrid smell strong enough to overcome the ambient stench of sewer water and refuse. John knew immediately that the wound would only get worse. He turned his attention to the maya, which was again condensing it's mass to try another such attack. John wasted no time and unleashed a barrage of attakcs, determined to finish the shadow off before it could do just that to him.

His final assault bore fruit as the maya completely lost it's form, melting away into the sewer water. John Sat himself down on the ground and wondered how he was going to get back to the surface after this, especially with a poisoned wound in his side. Still, he savored the hard fought victory for as long as the feeling lasted.

[Kitten4u]

That was a fierce battle!



Almost as fierce as me!