The Temple of Wind

[umslay]

Who: Ales, NPCs, any Heroes here to fight
What: Confronting the Archfiend of Wind
Where: Outside Trano Golsaucia, Trano Golsaucia, Temple of Wind
When: May 15th
Notes: Toplevels will be unlocked as progress is made. Replies will be made at least once a day. See the OOC plotting thread EDIT: OOC dungeon information

Mingle at the Camp
Approaching the Temple
The Flying Fortress
Ales Mansay, the Archfiend of Wind
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Comments

[not_most_days]

[Mary cries out as Ales' shot strikes her, a numbness spreading through her leg at the impact. The thrashing of the dragon shakes her loose but she's able to scramble to find another handhold. She's still on the thing but she's now fallen further down it, unable to regain ground or do much else as she tries to keep herself from being thrown.
]

All we ever expected of you was to do your part to help save this world. Thinking for ourselves and acting as needed where others couldn't is what I gathered the Assassins for! [Plans had not always worked out as much but that had a lot to do with the scheming of their enemies and certain investigations being dead ends, or at least less fruitful than she'd hoped. But that didn't mean she took him for granted.]

[jadethenecromancer]

[Jade takes the Heavy Shot fired at him stoically, swiftly healing himself with Curaga immediately afterwards.]

Really now? I'm flattered. [He doesn't sound very moved.]

You know, I do understand how people like Kalki and Palitutu think. There was a time in the past I might have even agreed with them. However, Kalki's goal... [He shrugs and shakes his head, as though they weren't in the middle of a battle.] There is no meaning in a world without life and death. There would be nowhere left to go. No reason for people to change. And Palitutu... I tried to enact her plan myself in the Sage's vision and turned into a literal monster for it. Makes a man reconsider his priorities, doesn't it?

[Jade smiles glumly, casting Enlightenment to double the party's attack power.]

People like us are not meant to decide the fate of the world, Ales. We get too enamored with our own brilliance to acknowledge when we're wrong.

[umslay]

[The Slow Dance gives Ales only one move this round though the Mechanical Dragon still takes it single action per round. As it finishes up with powerful strike, Saori's thunder attack hits the crystal, causing it to grow bright. The head shook and it roared.

Ales frowned at those below him.]

I am choosing my own destiny. Kalki offered this chance, and I took it knowing what had to be done. You think I can instate a new order in the Glade of Dreams if I allowed myself to cry over every little loss? I had to cut off my emotional ties to Betilla when I locked her up, else she would try to stop me!

[He fired a Heavy Shot at Reno, amplified by River of Blood. ]

This new world will be free of the Calamity! I won't make the same mistakes in the Glade, in the vision, and I will risk my life for order in the world!

[With that, the dragon swoops up to the top of the chamber, circles the Wind Crystal, and dives downward with its teeth bared, aiming at the group of heroes for a Bite attack.]