Axael
Accepted Character
Posts: 16
Full Name: Axael Zyzael
Species: Skimander
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Skamad 8
Height: Crouching: 6'; standing: 12' - Length: 22 feet
Weight: 247 lbs
OOC Name: Hugglez
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Post by Axael on Feb 5, 2014 19:35:25 GMT
fish heads,roly poly f i s h h e a d s,
Axael croaked. His eyes bugged out of his head.
He was sitting, half-submerged in the muddy water. Of course, he was panicking. One moment, he'd been nestling down to sleep in his disgusting, slimy pile of riches. The next, he was on his back, in a muddy stream. Now, he'd been suddenly in uncomfortable situations before, but those usually involved swampy genitals, not swampy land. The former was jarring, but the latter was upsetting in a way that just couldn't be articulated. Especially since he didn't have his jewels with him. Axael's vocal sac expanded, pushing his head up out of the water. He produced a noise not unlike a bullfrog call. Except for his call wasn't so much frog as it was a Satanic, low-pitched buzzing.
The nictitating membranes flickered across his eyes, then retracted, as he tried to get a sense for where he was.
Pushing off against the muddy bank with stronk legs, Axael kept the top half of his head above the murky water. The flaps on his nares rose, and he inhaled. Nothing but pond-stink, which he didn't mind but it also didn't help. So far, his only guess was that Xyria had dumped him on a foreign planet because she was tired of him, and that was upsetting but not unpredictable. It saddened him. He didn't like her, but he at least thought he might be a little more valuable than that to her. As it turned out, he wasn't. He croaked sadly, and came to a stop, front half on the bank, back in the water.
At least it seemed quiet. The waterway couldn't possibly hold anything that could eat him!
Unless the entire bed of the water was covering up a large serpent. Axael screeched, and scrambled out of the water. He hopped out and nestled in the largest patch of reeds he could find, sinking low into the peaty soil. He kept up a low, cricket-y hum in his throat, hoping he could blend in with the natural noise of his surroundings. Being twenty feet long and pink kind of offset that. Don't tell him.
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Lukas Odeskog
Accepted Character
Swedish Mage
Posts: 38
Full Name: Lukas Jerk Odeskog
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Modern Earth (Parallel Universe)
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 300 lbs
OOC Name: Rott-i-kins
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Post by Lukas Odeskog on Feb 5, 2014 20:58:02 GMT
Lukas Odeskog was drowning.
Lukas had woken up because water had been thrown on him before. He and his friends were the sort of people that showed how much they cared about each other by playing pranks on each other. This was nothing like that. It was an entirely different sensation. He was shocked out of sleep not by the feeling of having water flicked at his face, but the sensation of being completely submerged in water, rolling in a murky darkness that he could make no sense of. There was no up, there was no down. Nothing was solid, not even him. He was suspended, floating weightlessly in layers of suffocating brown-green depths around him.
He'd inhaled water in his shock, filling his lungs with it. The need for air grew to a panic and he kicked out instinctively. Lukas' legs were brushed by something, the fins of some giant monster or just plant-life, he didn't know, and he shot upwards. Or at least, he went in the direction that he thought was upwards. Lukas was not entirely sure which way was up or which way was down any more.
Shimmering light rippled in front of him.
Lukas broke the surface, gasping as he drew breath, hacking as he coughed water out of himself. He paddled toward what he could only assume was some kind of bank, his bare chest scraping along muddy ground. Seizing at reeds that grew close to the shore, he drug himself along until he was hanging half out of the water.
Lukas vomited, and then went still. It took him several long minutes to catch his breath, head drooped onto the muddy ground, his blond hair slicked down to his head. Swallowing heavily he just waited for his heart to stop pounding in his ears before even thought about moving.
When he finally did lift his head nothing made any sense. His first instinct would have been that he was dreaming but that just couldn't be true. That had felt far too real. This was too real. The bits of reeds that he was clenching tightly in his fist were real. The last thing he remembered was falling asleep in his own bed, not being in swamp.
Slowly, he pulled himself out of the water further until he was on sure, surrounded by tall aquatic plants and buzzing, shimmering insects. Lukas listened to the hum of the wildlife. He had to do something, right? Like get up and try to make sense of everything? The problem was, Lukas was not so sure that he wanted to stand at all. Maybe he should just sit in the thick growth for a while longer and wait for Dante to come out of hiding so that he could promptly slug him in the face.
No Dante appeared, so Lukas slowly stood. From what he could tell, he was in some kind of marsh. There were pools of water behind him, but ahead of him was nothing but tall reeds and intertwined roots of different kinds of brush. Looking down at himself he sighed, making note of the fact that he was completely naked save for his undies. That being, what he had gone to bed in. Of course, he was soaking wet too so that made him an interesting spectacle indeed.
What else was there to do but attempt to navigate this place and try to figure out just where he was? He struggled through the sea of plant life in front of him, sharp blades of grass scraping his nearly naked body. All the while his brain buzzed with possible reasons for him to be here, but before he could even think about all of this too hard, Lukas stepped on something, thick, squishy, and slimy.
Yelling, Lukas stumbled back and flopped backwards into the aquatic plants and tumbled into the muddy stream that Axael had just extracted himself from not too long before.
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Axael
Accepted Character
Posts: 16
Full Name: Axael Zyzael
Species: Skimander
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Skamad 8
Height: Crouching: 6'; standing: 12' - Length: 22 feet
Weight: 247 lbs
OOC Name: Hugglez
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Post by Axael on Feb 6, 2014 3:45:28 GMT
fish heads,roly poly f i s h h e a d s,
Axael was "enjoying" his soak in the sun and mud precisely until he was stepped on.
He screeched, and leaped out of the reeds. His intention was to leap forward, but his feet stuck and he stood, tottered dangerously, and flopped over backwards, landing belly-up in the mud. He struggled to get himself back up, but sunk down into the peat. By the time he realized that he was digging himself deeper, it was too late. He was stuck. His arms, from the elbows, stuck out of the thick mud, and his toes peeked through as well as a good deal of his head. His vocal sac expanded and deflated rapidly, producing an intermittent, loud buzzing. (It was a panic sound, not that Lukas would understand that.) As he searched for something that maybe he could grab to pull himself out, he saw it. The creature. He croaked again, eyes bugging out of his skull.
It was pink.
It was too pink. Covered in mud, sure, but from what he could see, it was pink. Pink and hairless and small. Truly horrifying, but not in the predatory sense. It certainly was smaller than him. Maybe it was something he could boss around. Axael thought for a second, and then started making nasally croaks, vocal sac half-inflating as he did so. His gills, though buried, wiggled, causing the mud to move as well. For a second, he expected a response but then, nobody would understand his own language. So he tried again, in what he knew to be a fairly common merchant language, which was more structured and easier to understand. After all, the insults in his language were mostly just disgusting noises.
"You stepped on me!" he cried, deathly offended. "What is wrong with you?! You walked over here and placed a foot on my head like it was a stepping stone! How rude!"
He paused for a second. Then continued, "How would you feel if I stepped directly on your brain, wherever it is? I have a feeling that you would not like it! At all!"
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Lukas Odeskog
Accepted Character
Swedish Mage
Posts: 38
Full Name: Lukas Jerk Odeskog
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Modern Earth (Parallel Universe)
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 300 lbs
OOC Name: Rott-i-kins
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Post by Lukas Odeskog on Feb 7, 2014 1:19:54 GMT
Lukas caught sight of something huge and shiny flopping around as he rolled over onto his hands and knees, pushing himself into a stand as quickly as he could. He stared at the strange arms sticking up out of the much. Yes there was definitely something huge stuck in the mud, something that was making a terrifyingly loud buzzing sound. Staring at it, he didn't so much as move a muscle. Lukas was used to giant, strange creatures. His profession called for a rather thorough knowledge of large, scary beasties. But this beastie looked like it was very stuck and so not going much of anywhere.
Lukas took a few tentative steps in its direction, sure to stay clear of the muck that it had managed to get itself caught in so that he didn't end up stuck himself. If Lukas had to guess what the large slimy beast was, he would say demon though. Definitely not extraterrestrial.
The next thing he knew it was yelling at him.
Well, it was a sentient demon which was good and bad depending on how you looked at it. At least he might get some answers, but it also might mean the frogman could just be an absolute assbutt at him. Demons were like that. Lukas knew how to interact with demons.
"What is wrong vit you? Putting your head in places 'at it can be stepped on! How irresponsible!" Lukas made a huffing noise. "I probably vouldn't be having ver' many thoughts about that. My 'ead would probably pop like a teek if you stepped on me, considering how fat you are."
He is Swedish as hell.
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Axael
Accepted Character
Posts: 16
Full Name: Axael Zyzael
Species: Skimander
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Skamad 8
Height: Crouching: 6'; standing: 12' - Length: 22 feet
Weight: 247 lbs
OOC Name: Hugglez
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Post by Axael on Feb 8, 2014 4:49:36 GMT
fish heads,roly poly f i s h h e a d s,
He glared, which was actually kind of scary.
Axael made a thick, wet noise in the back of his throat. He wiggled his trunk-like upper lip, and then hacked up a ball of-- something-- that hit the ground near Lukas. It was thick, whitish slime, and it smelled like pond scum. Kind of like everything else around them. The creature wiggled in the mud, and as he became more visibly distressed, he started secreting the stuff he had just spit. He started jerking his arms, and after a few moments, was able to get them up and out of the thickest part of the mud. He kicked and struggled some more, and a leg came loose. He used it to push himself out on his back, and a few moments later, he slid into a puddle (or, what could fit in the puddle slid into it).
He flipped over, and then sat on his haunches, still glaring.
"Good. I am glad that you appreciate my mass. Yours, however, probably not so great. Small thing. And pink," he noted, completely missing the fact that he was mostly pink himself. He spoke quickly, and through the mucus and vaguely Slavic accent, sounded pretty irritated. As he sat there, though, it became obvious that he was staring at the thing in front of him. His nares flared, and his pupils dilated (essentially, they just thickened out). The 'demon' was studying the alien creature before him. Small, hairless except for the head, bipedal, ugly, with creepy little hand-type appendages... He stretched his frontmost left palm out, and tapped it with five fingers on his frontmost right, leaving the outside grasper to curl and uncurl absently. A tongue poked out between his lips. It appeared to be a blood-orange sort of color at the tip.
He jerked, and it almost looked like he was about to jump into the air. "Ah! Yes! I know what you are now, small thing!" he announced.
"You're a human," the monster told him, in conspiratorial tones. "Yes? Human?"
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Lukas Odeskog
Accepted Character
Swedish Mage
Posts: 38
Full Name: Lukas Jerk Odeskog
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Modern Earth (Parallel Universe)
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 300 lbs
OOC Name: Rott-i-kins
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Post by Lukas Odeskog on Feb 8, 2014 21:58:24 GMT
Lukas stared at whatever it was that had just been coughed up at him, curling his lip up slightly. He had absolutely lovely manners. Quickly distracted from this by the creature attempting to wiggle itself out of the mud, Lukas took several quick steps sideways, suddenly not so sure about this entire situation any more. Running probably wouldn’t do him much good, and diving into the water would be an even worse idea. What he could say was that this monster was a lot heavier than he was and so a lot more likely to get stuck in all of the muck.
If it came to magic, he would utilize it, but it was always best to save something like that as a last resort.
Lukas remained calm and cool on the exterior, even in the face of a now free fish creature. He was used to keeping his head around giant terrifying monsters.
“I am excellent, I don’t know vhat you’re talking about,” Lukas said, and promptly raised his hands above his head to flex his biceps. He flashed a brilliant, white smile. “Makes the ladies go crazy. And the men.”
Lukas kept smiling even through the tongue ordeal. Internally, he shivered.
It was very strange that something like a demon wouldn't know what a human was. Their favorite pass-time was making poor little human lives hell, and because of it they were often very experienced with the intricacies of humans and human emotion. Either this demon was less intelligent than he had thought initially, or they were a very inexperienced demon.
“Correct. I am very nice 'ooman. Prime example of my species.”
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Axael
Accepted Character
Posts: 16
Full Name: Axael Zyzael
Species: Skimander
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Skamad 8
Height: Crouching: 6'; standing: 12' - Length: 22 feet
Weight: 247 lbs
OOC Name: Hugglez
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Post by Axael on Feb 9, 2014 3:07:44 GMT
fish heads,roly poly f i s h h e a d s, Axael shrunk back, his head receding in a way not unlike a turtle, when Lukas flexed.
It looked like he was baring his teeth, arms raised for the attack. But he didn't move to strike, like Axael would have thought. He just stood there.Belatedly, he realized he was showing humor. A smile. Yes, of course! Xyria sometimes smiled but not often, and her face was drastically different than this human's. The monster licked his lips, and then leaned in closer to study the small creature.
"A prime example," he repeated. "Yes. Yes. Very good, let me-- can I--"
He reached out with his foremost right hand, and then touched Lukas' face. His fingers were slimy and warm, but squishy and soft. Axael held them there for three seconds, before giving himself a violent shake. He croaked.
"Too soft! Oh! It is like, it is like--" he looked around quickly for inspiration "Oh! I do not know. No words. You are so small," he whispered.
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Lukas Odeskog
Accepted Character
Swedish Mage
Posts: 38
Full Name: Lukas Jerk Odeskog
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Modern Earth (Parallel Universe)
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 300 lbs
OOC Name: Rott-i-kins
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Post by Lukas Odeskog on Feb 10, 2014 1:16:21 GMT
He was surprised that the creature shrank away from him slightly once he raised his arms. Lukas didn't immediately lower them, however, opting for keeping them up above his head for a little while longer before he allowed his arms to drop to his sides. The lip licking made Lukas take a tentative step backwards, staring up at the creature looming over him. It was going to eat him. It was going to lean down and pick him up and gulp him down in one huge swallow, and that would be the end of Lukas Odeskog.
Instead it just poked him in the forehead.
Lukas blinked.
"Vhy you 'ave so many complaints about me, beastie?" Lukas asked, putting his hands on his hips and cocking them to one side. "Very rude things for you to be saying, yah? Calling someone small? So not nice. Should be more polite."
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Axael
Accepted Character
Posts: 16
Full Name: Axael Zyzael
Species: Skimander
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Skamad 8
Height: Crouching: 6'; standing: 12' - Length: 22 feet
Weight: 247 lbs
OOC Name: Hugglez
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Post by Axael on Feb 11, 2014 3:11:53 GMT
fish heads,roly poly f i s h h e a d s,
He croaked again. It was an offended croak.
"I am not 'beastie', human. I am Skimander," he blurbled. "Besides, that is just observation, not complaint. Not rude. True anyway. So." Axael leaned in close again, tilting his giant, slimy head. He was quiet for just a few moments,then his vocal sac inflated.
"So do humans have names?! I know my species has names-- at least, for the most part-- but what about you? What are you like?! Do you have a name yourself?!" His eyes bugged. The monster seemed to be studying Lukas as he made tiny little hops around him, making interested buzzing sounds.
There was so much to be learned here! He could just write all this down when he got home.
If he got home.
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Lukas Odeskog
Accepted Character
Swedish Mage
Posts: 38
Full Name: Lukas Jerk Odeskog
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Modern Earth (Parallel Universe)
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 300 lbs
OOC Name: Rott-i-kins
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Post by Lukas Odeskog on Feb 12, 2014 4:51:14 GMT
Skimander. Definitely no demon that he had ever heard of. Lukas leaned away slightly as the "Skimander" leaned in toward him. There were a couple of tense moments where he wondered if he should just turn tail and run before it decided to bite him on the face. When his sac inflated, Lukas jumped.
He was barraged with a volley of questions as the creature hopped around him like any good giant monster frog would. Lukas made a face of disgust, trying to watch it as it hopped around him but at the same time not able to keep up with its movements. "Lukas!" he said, quickly. "Lukas Odeskog!"
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Axael
Accepted Character
Posts: 16
Full Name: Axael Zyzael
Species: Skimander
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Skamad 8
Height: Crouching: 6'; standing: 12' - Length: 22 feet
Weight: 247 lbs
OOC Name: Hugglez
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Post by Axael on Feb 15, 2014 1:50:40 GMT
fish heads,roly poly f i s h h e a d s,
He made a delighted croak, eyes bulging.
Axael straightened out his neck, shoving his nose far into Lukas' personal bubble. He bumped the tip of his snout on the mages' collar. After a few seconds sniffing him, he reached out and picked him up easily, holding him up in the air. The alien turned him around in his foremost arms, head swiveling from side to side. He was making disgusting noises to himself, apparently talking. It didn't sound anything like an actual language, but that wasn't stopping him.
"So-- so you have surnames?! How interesting! Do all... humans... have surnames? Or just you? Or is that even a surname? That is so strange. I was not sure how civilized and/or advanced your... people are! Huh. Tell me all about it. I want to hear."
He dropped him, and stared intently.
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Lukas Odeskog
Accepted Character
Swedish Mage
Posts: 38
Full Name: Lukas Jerk Odeskog
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Modern Earth (Parallel Universe)
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 300 lbs
OOC Name: Rott-i-kins
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Post by Lukas Odeskog on Feb 16, 2014 2:11:39 GMT
Lukas couldn't stop himself from grimacing now. The creature was ultimately cute in the way that disgusting smiley things were cute, but it was way too close for comfort for him to okay with it even if it was cute. His hands balled into fists at his side, his nose wrinkling up slightly. He was seized with the urge to begin pummeling Axael in the face multiple times with his fists but by some miracle he did not. Instead, he just smiled as pleasantly as he could manage at the frog man.
"Why don't you tell me a little bit about where we are first? And then I'll tell you all about me."
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Axael
Accepted Character
Posts: 16
Full Name: Axael Zyzael
Species: Skimander
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Skamad 8
Height: Crouching: 6'; standing: 12' - Length: 22 feet
Weight: 247 lbs
OOC Name: Hugglez
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Post by Axael on Feb 16, 2014 2:23:13 GMT
fish heads,roly poly f i s h h e a d s,
Axael didn't seem to notice that the scrunchyface the mage was making denoted disgust.
He paused for a second, going still. The salamander... thing made a low, humming noise in his throat. He thought about it for a second, and then realized that he had absolutely no idea where they were. None at all. So he shrugged all four shoulders, and shook his head.
"We are in some sort of wetlands environment, I think. It reminds me very much of my home planet, except it is less... oh, I do not know. Competitive and frightening. Also these plants are very much different. More spiny, I suppose, that is the word. Spiky. Liable to cut you up!" He nodded enthusiastically.
"I am sure that I was unceremoniously dumped onto this planet by my captain and, regrettably, my best friend. That does not explain why you are here, though! And you said, or, this is what I took from it, that you do not know where you are, so... this is not your planet?"
He frowned. "Strange predicament."
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Lukas Odeskog
Accepted Character
Swedish Mage
Posts: 38
Full Name: Lukas Jerk Odeskog
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Modern Earth (Parallel Universe)
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 300 lbs
OOC Name: Rott-i-kins
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Post by Lukas Odeskog on Feb 17, 2014 21:06:50 GMT
Lukas thought very long and hard about torching the frogman. Again. This was because the frogman deemed it necessary to inform him of the fact that he was in a wetlands when he was, you guessed it, soaking wet. His curls were still plastered to his forehead and he still had beads of water rolling off his body. Lukas pressed his back molars together, but forced himself to relax.
Whatever frogman rambled about initially made no sense, and wasn't terribly helpful either. It was still in his best interest to go about attempting to pick apart whatever all of that nonsense had meant though.
"Your captain?" he repeated. "Vhat captain? Vhat home planet? No, I am not from 'ere, do I look it? I am not vell adapted to blending in vith this environment? Or do I look like fish to you? I just voke up, in the vater. Nearly died. And now you here, yelling at me for stepping on you. Very upsetting! Is this a yoke?!"
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Axael
Accepted Character
Posts: 16
Full Name: Axael Zyzael
Species: Skimander
Gender: Male
Homeworld: Skamad 8
Height: Crouching: 6'; standing: 12' - Length: 22 feet
Weight: 247 lbs
OOC Name: Hugglez
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Post by Axael on Feb 18, 2014 4:31:10 GMT
fish heads,roly poly f i s h h e a d s,
He croaked yet again.
He paused, frowning deeply. "Yoke? Forgive me for being... thick, but I..." He swished slime around in his mouth, then swallowed it. The mud on his skin was slowly rolling off as he spoke, being replaced by clear mucus that showed off his pretty pink skin. After a moment, he brightened, missing the insulting tone. "Joke! Ah! Yes. No. I meant to say, this is not a joke. Not at all. I could not tell if you were from this planet and disoriented or not-- I have seen many strange forms from many strange worlds, my friend!"
He patted him with a huge, slimy hand on the head.
"Besides, being stepped on is upsetting to me. Would be upsetting to you as well." Axael shrugged. "So you say, you woke up just in the water? Without knowing your method of arrival?"
He started hopping around again.
"Interesting. Hm."
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