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 Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 3:15 pm
*The Gauntlet is Orb's second greatest creation... second only to the security system, EKASS. It consists of ten rooms (each with emergency exits and sophisticated monitoring devices) of intense and often deadly trials. Orb's Gauntlet (which Anastasia and Jerrit only grudgingly approve of) is his means of testing 'prentices. The testing procedure is as follows. Orb removes his own forehead protector and puts it at the other end of the Gauntlet. The goal is to traverse the ten rooms using both strength and wit, and to come back through to the other end with Orb's forehead protector. In the quite likely event that the 'prentice dies in the process, Orb usually has Anastasia on watch to revive them. This system was used long ago, before the Ramen Noodle School was founded, by Orb's ancestors... though their Gauntlet's were not nearly so complex. It is said, furthermore, that Orb regularly changes the Gauntlet's obstacles, so that retesting 'prentices don't have an advantage.*
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:40 am
*Enters the room and waits for Orb to arive*
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:45 am
*walks in*
Alright... Do you have your kunai knife?
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:48 am
Good. *Orb gestures to the door* That leads to the first room of ten. If you want to give up, say, "I surrender" and an escape will lead you out. When you're ready.... walk on through. ^_~ Good luck, 'prentice.
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:48 am
*reaches down his leg very fast and grabs a kunai out of a leg "holster"*
"yup, got it right here"
((So is this going to be like sparing, but just with the room?))
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:50 am
aqvilifer *reaches down his leg very fast and grabs a kunai out of a leg "holster"* "yup, got it right here" ((So is this going to be like sparing, but just with the room?)) ((Yep. Some of the rooms will just be physical challenges, but not all...))
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:51 am
*stands waiting for Orb to set everything up*
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:53 am
*opens the door to the first room... but an illusion makes all beyond the door to appear to be a black void.*
Step through to your first trial...
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:53 am
*looks into the void and slowly enters*
((sorry it took so long to respond, i had to help finish moving))
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:54 am
*The first room is pitch black… nothing can be seen at all. It is a corridor filled with whirling blades, which loudly slice the air while spinning unpredictably. To get through alive would be extremely difficult, but the hardest part would be trying to guess where the blades would be so you could dodge them. There are a total of nineteen blades in all, and if one was caught between them, he would quickly be shredded to slices.*
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:05 pm
*stands there, adusting his eyes to the dark, slowly he is able to see faint glimer of sharp metal*
~thinks~ "Ohh, well, at least i like the dark"
*taking off his shirt he slowly begins to walk forward untell the sound of moving metal is close, he takes the shirt and beggins to swing it around in front of himself, on the ground, and in the air untell it comes in contact with a blade*
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:10 pm
*Orb grins to himself* Not bad... not bad at all, 'prentice.
*the blades hungrily rips at the shirt, and it is quite easy to terll where they are, now... they tug at the shirt (mostly shredded, now) at every turn. However, halfway through the corridor the shirt is beginning to run out, and there are still quite a few blades... suddenly three blades swing out in a direct course with the top of aqvilifer's head.*
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:12 pm
((how high is the coridor? is it high nuff to jump over the blades? or not?))
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:13 pm
aqvilifer ((how high is the coridor? is it high nuff to jump over the blades? or not?)) ((Sadly, not quite that high... sweatdrop ...by far.))
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:38 pm
*hears the sound of several blades moving towards his head, and instictivly ducks down to avoid them, nearly tripping on a shread of the thing that was once a shirt, but catches himself with his arms, also nearly hitting his head on the wall, he rights himself and begins movining slowly past the overhead blades, moving slower then before listinging for the next blade*
((how many blades would you say i've gotten past now?))
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