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While Lament walked, he started to feel increasingly drained, more than what one would usually feel on a hot day. Perhaps it was this mud the shadow demon covered him in, as his fatigue increased slightly with every blob of mud that floated off him. If this was so, Lament thought, he'd better wash it off as soon as possible, as it was boiling at an alarming rate. After a few more hours of walking, the blobs suddenly decreased in rate. Suddenly, Lament came across an unusually coloured hound emitting a cold aura, running through the forest. Lament was suspicious. Quickly darting behind a tree, he decided to keep a close watch on this hound, in case it tried to use its powers in the same way the demon hand did.

Edited by KidneyBeanBoy

Covered with a few thorns and muddy boots, the figure had no luck of an easy exit out of the woodland. Glancing around one more time in hopes that he missed an obvious egress, the man reached into his sleeves, and pulled out a long slender rod. Made of metal, the rod has intricate, Victorian-age markings on the handle, curling around the baton. Hoping that no one would see him, he waved the baton, the end issuing out a spectral mist. The haze lingered in the air, waiting for orders from it's owner.

 

"Help me find an exit. When you find one, report back to me."

 

The fog begins to swirl, reforming itself loosely into a tiny squirrel, the skin waving and boiling. The creature darts up one of the many trees, and it was gone. The man slides his baton back into his sleeves, and continues to search.

(No ideas so I just threw Eve into the forest Pecival described.)

 

Eve wandered these woods for awhile. In truth, had it not been for her increasingly dwindling supply of purple gems, she'd have lost track of the passage of time long ago. Now things were serious. She was down to her final two gems, one of which was already deep set into the socket of her chest piece. Time was running out. Which incedently led to her current prediciment. Sleep had been a precious comodioty these last few days and Eve had made the decision to avoid it when she could. After a particularly nasty run in with a pack of hounds, she had stopped by a particularly large tree to rest. Using her right arm to hold herself up, she had fallen asleep. When she awoke hours later, Eve had found her arm stuck inside the tree up to her shoulder. Her corrosion had eaten into its bark and now refused to let her exit.

 

She had contemplated simply readjusting her arm so that the corrosion would eat its way out but she simply didn't have that kind of time. Only one options left. She licked her lips before opening her mouth, revealing the wicked sharp canines that she had since evolved. With a feral scream, she chomped down into her own flesh. She tore at it, tossing the pieces she got onto the ground. On several withdraws, teeth broke, came loose. By the next few bites, they had grown back sharper and deeper rooted. Soon, a small pile of skin, muscles, ligaments, and tendons lay scattered on the ground around her. A loud crack signaled her arm bone being pulled out of its socket. Eve dug her feet in and gave a great pull. Another CRACK and she went stumbling onto the ground, free of the entrapped limb.

 

She turned to look at the tree and watched as the bark became slimy black, the severed arm leaking whatever now flowed through her veins. She felt a strange tingle in her armless shoulder. "Let's see what I am gifted." A new arm thrust itself out, covered in black slime that hissed as it hit the ground. Eve gave the new appendage a look see. The rectangular swirling patterns had become more pronounced and her nails had been replaced with what she assumed were claws. But other than that, the same. She picked herself up and continued her way. She had to find her way out. 

(My god. I forgot that you are a great writer.)

 

(Oh, you're gonna be entertaining to meet, when my own character finally crosses paths with you.)

(Oh stop, you two. You're making me blush. Now to wait for the scrutinizing gaze of Dimentio.)

Edited by Luggs

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((I like this new person. Not quite as much as 23, but our unspoken bromance is stronger than any of you could possibly know. Oh yes.

 

On a completely different note, I already know how David can trounce Eve, regeneration or otherwise, thanks to her incredible resemblance to a character of my creation.

 

My only question is this: Does she feels pain?

 

Well, scratch that. She's invincible. I lose.))

Edited by ShadowDimentio
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(I wouldn't say invincible. Just implacable. Forgot to add to her downsides that too many regenerations in succession drain the gem faster. She's limited to about two major ones(regenerating major limbs) an hour. But if you're not inflicting major wounds and are just giving her nicks and cuts, she's going to keep coming at you.)

((Criticizing Shadow is back, motherfuckers. And he's mad.

 

Alright. Ignoring that she's 'powered' by gems, her powers are absolutely too much. Regeneration, especially in potent forms such as this, are fine in my book so long as it doesn't turn someone invincible. Regeneration needs very careful consideration in it's limits in that regard, as it's extremely easy to break any mortality of the character by using it. From what I understand of her, her mortality is utterly ruined with the combination of full regeneration and an immunity to pain, and now comes across as over the top and ridiculous. With the simple addition of a pain immunity, she went from 'highly resilient' to 'very nearly, if not completely immortal', since literally nothing I can think of can stop her, or even slow her for that matter. Even binding all of this to her gem usage likely won't fly for long at all, since such a gimmicky constraint would last a half dozen posts at best.

 

Advice? Give her a severe vulnerability to pain. Sure, if she lost an arm she wouldn't die from it, but she should certainly be in a whole lot of pain since she just, y'know, lost an arm. This would not only make her 'mortal' in a sense, but would give me us a way to defeat her. Pump enough damage in her, overload her senses with agony, she falls out of consciousnesses for a while. Bada bing, bada boom.))

Edited by ShadowDimentio

(It's actually quite funny. I was just coming on to ask Tes to remove that as I also was thinking that made her too powerful. However, I disagree with needing to make it a severe aversion to pain. By simply changing her from pain resistance to normal human threshold, it adds the interesting prospect of her having to deal with these regenerations. For the record. No need to get angry at me. Just tell me what's wrong(preferably in a pm so we don't clog up the thread.) I'm always listening which is why I edited in the, "waiting for dimentio's stare" I like to hear feedback and from what I observed in this one and the previous one. You're pretty good at that.)

(I don't think I will remove that trait for one very-specific reason. While the character does have an apparent immunity to pain, that brings with it something else, the complete inability to use the sense of touch for one's own aid. This comboed with the fact that if certain limbs go, Eve won't be able to easily adjust to the use of the new limb due to the lack of ability to 'get a feel' for the use of the limb in question. Try doing anything with your eyes closed and without using your sense of touch to know where you yourself is. It's a pain in the tail end to do anything.

 

This inabiliity increases the length of time needed to get used to new body parts, possibly to an infinante amount of time, which greatly increases the chance to lose them in combat in rapid succession. Imagine trying to slap someone upside the head and you don't realize until after you fail to make the action that your arm seperated from you due to a blade that you didn't feel and therefore couldn't react to before it could do something else, such as slice off both off your legs. Your awareness would have to increase in other ways to counteract this weakness.

 

Just because something looks like it's nothing but a strong point, doesn't mean it is.)

Edited by Tesability
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((O-oh. I didn't think of that. Well I suppose I could wait a little longer and see if she's as bad as I thought...

 

Also: Phoenix's reactions are so applicable in these situations, I have to use them. I must.))

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