Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen

[culbutiri]

Characters: Nesir Aeser, you
Setting: Floor sixty two (beach), floor seventy two (door maze)
Format: Either
Summary: It's Nesir's birthday, she decides she should actually get round to reading her regain, and then sets herself a challenge
Warnings: Maybe talk of assassins/murder/last event. Nesir is generally not a nice person though she is not actively murderous at the moment...

[Beach] Nesir was quite surprised when she saw the date, though she knew it was coming up. In a few days she would have been in this place for an entire year and today she as sixteen. Nesir's birthday had never been celebrated and she wasn't about to start doing so in this fake place but she noted that she was a year older and that in her world she would have been considered an adult today. Ready to be apprenticed or to go out and find work, if she hadn't been a temple acolyte, if she hadn't been a dark trained assassin who had been training and working since she could walk.

The last few days she had spent training, working out her anger and frustration of being stuck in a room with Sephiroth for a week, of the hallucinations and the hunger. It helped that they ahad decent food, even if it was all pumpkin flavoured, which reminded her of her first month here, a year ago. She failed to see why in a world where everything was an illusion they had to eat pumpkin, surely there were other foods they could pretend to give them.

As it was the 'reward' she had been given had been thrown into her trunk and ignored for the last few days. Because as curious as she was, she at least knew when she was too angry to deal with more things. But today was as good as any day.

She liked the beach floor, because as little as she had actually spent time on the seafront as a child the sound of the sea reminded her of home, so she sat on the sand, cloak drawn around her and took out the folder. As expected it didn't have that many answers, the first few entries were almost medical, her and her sisters birth was recorded; they had been early it seemed and no one had expected there to be two of them.

Anyone on the beach floor would see Nesir lost in her reading, a half angry, half confused, sad look on her face.

[Maze] It was always good to be challenged, and Nesir needed something to focus on. For once she didn't feel like killing things, though she would, if need be. Her daggers were ready. She hadn't tackled this maze before but she set off, determined to solve it.

A decision she was beginning to regret a few hours later when she opened yet another door, to more doors, helplessly lost.

Comments

[terreifying]

[They go through the next door. This one only leads to one door.]

Do you think this might be the exit?

[culbutiri]

"It might be being, it do no be being like we do be having a choice but to be going through it." She grinned and went to pull it open.

[terreifying]

Rei watches the door with baited breath. She's rather disappointed when it's not the exit. Instead, it leads to a room full of bull fairies.

"...Aw, man."

[culbutiri]

Nesir sighed, "It do be being your turn this time." She had killed the last monster, and bullfairies were easy."

[terreifying]

She cracks her knuckles, one at a time, and then charges forward. One sweep of a lengthened arm, and half the bullfairies are stains on the floor. Another sweep pulverizes the other half. Then, she opens the next door.

"After you."

[culbutiri]

"I do be being impressed." She raised an eyebrow and grinned before moving through the door.

"There do be being three choices this time." She sighed before moving to the right hand door, like they had planned.

[terreifying]

Rei nods and follows her, but not before casting a quick look at the center door. For some reason, her instinct tells her to go to that one.

[culbutiri]

Nesir paused before opening the door. "What do you be thinking of?"

[terreifying]

"N-nothing."

Rei's gaze is still fixed on the center door.

"That one...just...feels..."

It feels right. Moreso than the other doors.

[culbutiri]

"Do you be wanting to go through that one instead?" She frowned again, but their plan was not that great, so she was fine with changing it.

[terreifying]

"I...don't know. Do you want to go through that one?"

[culbutiri]

"I do no be knowing. We might be regretting it if we do no be." She told her, frowning.

[terreifying]

"We might if we go in too."

She heads toward the center gate.

"But I'd rather regret something I did than something I didn't.]

[culbutiri]

She grinned, "I do be liking your thinking." Far better to regret something they did than something they didn't do. She walked towards the center door.

[terreifying]

Rei more or less kicks it open. As they walk in, they find an orc staring at them.

"...Who gets this one?"

[culbutiri]

Nesir grinned, this was more like it! "Shall we be doing this one together?"

[terreifying]

"Yep! I'll get in close and you give me covering fire! Sound like a plan?"

[culbutiri]

"It do be sounding good." She drew her knives, and threw one at the orc, distracting it so Rei could get a hit in.

[terreifying]

Rei's first attack is a kick which swipes at the Orc's legs, making the orc bend enough so she can punch at its face. It roars, calling out for its comrades, but it's rather secluded from them because of the maze. One hand draws a sword from its belt. It waves the sword and tries to slice at Rei.

[culbutiri]

Nesir stepped forward, throwing another dagger this one aimed at the Orc's shoulder, the Orc roared again, bringing it's sword round, missing Rei.

[terreifying]

As the orc turns, distracted by the knife, Rei grabs its head and pushes it down hard into the floor of the room. She would have gotten in a fatal blow, but it struggles, throwing her off.

[culbutiri]

Nesir throws another dagger and runs forward a bit, incase Rei needs more help, the good thing of being about to fight close up with daggers as well as throwing them.

[nottheonly]

Her aid comes just in time. While Rei climbs to her feet again, the orc's sword is about to chop down on her head. The thrown dagger gets embedded in its wrist. It howls in pain and drops the sword.

"Nice shot! Best shot!"

Rei gives her friend a thumbs up before pulling the sword out of the orc's reach.

[culbutiri]

Nesir grinned and threw her fourth dagger, aiming for between the Orc's eyes. "Be finishing it Rei!"

[nottheonly]

She acts quickly upon Nesir's command. She puts a hand around the orc's neck and, with one quick move, breaks its neck.

"Whew. Got him."