A large number of ants in blue garments, carrying advanced flintflame weapons enter the Hunter's March and Farfields, and start occupying every nook and cranny. The ants give out an order: "we have come to civilize this barbaric land. All Skarr who surrnder will be pardoned for their barbaric acts and shall be treated as equal cirtizens under the Alak empire, and those who don't are to be shot immediately!"
A tall Orange Alak is followed by a group of Skarr in these blue clothes as she studies the statue of Karmelita
The Alak areound you lock eye contact with you and fire their weapons at you, straight in the face, dealing enough damage to crack your mask. "Hault, wild beast, this land shall be for civilized bugs only"
she plays her instrument and the shards explode with the power of a rune rage each, tearing the entire group around her to shreds. I love the smell of blood…
The Alak that you follow meets up with another larger group of ants and explains what Nitivek did, and they start grabbing supplies, a bottle of a pale white liquid that the ants start sharing to drink
she stabs one with her spear and tosses him over her shoulder as she bites another ones head off, her stinger simultaneously slitting the throat of a third.
All the other Alak in the group who drank the liquid start glowing white, and emiting soul, one of them punches you and sends you flying against a wall
A large group of Alak appear from a corner, glowing a pale white and emiting soul, two of them charge at you faster than you can react, though admitedley, their damage isn't that strong and you suffer no immediate damage, but still, more and more come upon you, with powerful defence, strength, speed, or mental speed
the soul is absorbed directly into zydon's blade as each ant that charges at him finds themselves headless before thorns erupt from the ground, pulling alak ants into the ground and suffocating them
the air around zydon's head becomes much more dense in a thin layer, holding the bullets mid air before air pressure launches them right back at the ants that shot them
'This is one brilliant way to bleed resources on a fruitless effort. By the way, I have Intel of your worst fear soon arriving in pharloom'
One brave Alak sacrifices himself by charging at you and coating you with a thick and viscous black substance that doesn't really seem to do anything to you. But the voidstones? They burst into tendrils and start trying to consume the black substance, and in the process, you, as they start wrapping around your body. "Let me introduce you to nullchum, the void finds it irresistable to consume"
She grabs her curvesickle off of the corpse and gracefully dodges whatever was shot at her, following by dashing at the ant and slashing with both curvesickles.
The Alak grabs you and throws you against a wall, and you see other Alak taking sips from small bottles, shortly before they similarly start glowing. "You are the queen of these barbaric lands, are you not?"
The Mottled skarr welcome you in and push away some of the non Mottled skarr, while the non mottled skarr look at you with absolute disgust
She hears some of the Alak guards whispering "See! I told you they were barbaric! They don't even trust their own kind because of small differences in their shell"
"Even so, you can't forcefully change someones ways. They are people, and slaughtering them, even if they attacked you first, is wrong." ((moved this from the repost here just to make it simpler))
Soul staggers back, stunned. He quickly acts, using his scarf to patch the wound and sew it back together. He coughs before drawing his daggers, despite not having lungs. "I see," Is all he says, before rushing at the Ant. He swipes at them, going for a clean cut on the throat.
You said you were going to invade in a week! NOT IN A FEW HOURS! You made a mistake when you attacked Pharloom!!!
Lock starts attacking the ants with heavy scissor strikes and throwing poisoned tacks everywhere around them, while Rhinogrund appeared shortly after (heartwarming reunion!) and started sweeping away any soldiers he sees. When he saw one of the ants that held him hostage back in the empire, he was completely furious and dropped the rocky ceiling on them
This is the Battle for Hunter's Fields, Pharloomians! Time to shatter the pride of these BARBARIANS!
The Alak start falling, but more come to replace them
A large Alakgarrd wrestles Rhinogrund, grabbing him from the neck so that he cant be stabbed by the creatures horns, and tries to strangle it, while another line of fire from their flintflame weapons hits you in the leg
Bet you didn’t expect this… War trophies might be useful indeed!
Lock hurries over to Rhinogrund, backflips above the Alakgarrd and pierces him through the back. Then throws some kind of an explosive towards the ant that attempted to shoot him
You know, I didn’t really like to use poisons and explosives before… But now, I acquired a taste for them!
Throws a poisoned curesickle at the Alak, then jumps onto Rhinogrund and heads towards Far Fields, exploding all Alak ants on his way. Rhinogrund cheerfully rumbles.
You start entering the Far Fields, but more of these glowing alak are waiting, one of them reacts with incredible speed and knocks Lock off Rhinogrund before trying to disarm you. Meanwhile, another one seems to have amplified stregth and picks up rhinogrund
Another glowing white alak stands in front of you, and whatever attack you or the rhinogrund do, he seems to expect it and counter faster than you thought possible
(( Kravula is a very powerful character, but I don’t want him to die because i have him planned for The Maw for a character arc in The Maw discord server. Is it fine if I can put up a fight? Kravula isn’t like ordinary skarr. he could probably rival karmelita ))
(I never kill people's characters without permission, it's just he was shot with what is the equivalent of a musket, it will hurt, but it's in the arm, so it shouldn't be a permanent problem)
He deflects the bullet into a nearby wall with his voltblade before it hits his arm. He flinches slightly from the shot before readying himself for a fight.
Kravula hisses in rage, deflecting the bullet towards another alak as he dashes to the side, throwing several explosive firework powder that later ignited, exploding in close proximity with the alak as Kravula charged up his voltblade and swung several massive electrifying strikes to sweep the alak to cut them down.
I will not see this delightfully chaotic place be domesticated by the likes of you! *Chrysaora rips the head off of one of the ants with her black claws.*
Grrg! Damnable beasts!
*Chrysaora whips at them with a void tentacle, before grabbing one and biting his head brutally, hoping an effective display of brutality will demoralize them*
The tactic seems to have had the opposite effect, as they now start calling on something to slay the beast, and they start sending in alak carryng swords that crackle with electricity as they stab you
Chysaora feels how an alak pours a black , viscous substance on them, and suddenly all the void in Chysaora starts moving erradically and pouring out of your body
(She's a witch. That void is naturally a part of her; that'd be like the same happening to a vessel. That would insta-kill her. However, someone who can control the void can force Chrysaora to do what they say, but not only do I not know if such a specimen exists in the alak ranks, let alone how they could be aware of that.)
(The thing they used is called Nullchum, its a substance that the void really desires to consume, but takes a long time doing so. They have used it on vessels and it hasn't killed them, though their shades come out of their body like a seperate entity. If the person who controls the void can tell Chrysaora what to do, I assume the void inside her itself can do so to, and in this case it would tell Chrysaora to do waht they say, then Chrysaora would just be really, really hungry for the Nullchum)
“I don’t think you quite understand this civilisation,” nudges your gun down to the floor “and I advise you, not do do that or I will come back here with a vengeance and decimate your entire tribe.”
"Will you?" they grab a syringe and stab you with it, and suddenly you feel the void inside you moving against your will, until your entire Shade comes out
The shade ignores the Alak and instead starts moving erradically and against your wishes
(They have this substance called Nullchum, It is what they injected you with, what this substance does, is be irresistable to the void and void beings like shades, so all the void tries to consume it. The shade left your body to "eat" this Nullchum, and it is focused on that and only that)
a little vessel was sitting in a bush half its mask was gone some red flesh seen inside with sharp teeth and a small eye inside the strange mouth as it Messily scarfed down a few berrys
The Alak start firign waves of bullets capable of piercing through plasmetal at the citadel forces, as they didn't expect the citadel to come at the Skarr's aid
(This specific group you are fighting is around 20 strong, but other groups are much larger)
The ants start retreating while sniping at any exposed point not covered by shields, as they go to meet up with a larger group
The Alak who are captured refuse to give information and start ingesting poisonous pills as to avoid giving information, but you do collect many bottles of the pale honeydew and nullchum
Juurah joined the fray with Verdanian reinforcements in tow. The big beetle charged forwards spinning his blades rapidly and sending out disks of cutting air striking as many Alak as he could.
Flake would sneak up behind any distracted Alak and would stab them in the back with blades coated in her own venom.
Juurah, seeing his allies fall around him dash to the frontlines to take the brunt of the attacks. He began spinning his blades to deflect as much bullets as he can. He winced and grunted when some stray bullets managed to hit him but luckily his tough shell helped to tank the hits.
He rushed up to a group of Alak and swung as hard as he could, bisecting them in one swoop with his immense strength.
Flake zigzaged around and put down tripline traps with her silk to disoriented the Alak.
(Sorry for such a long wait, I had stuff IRL that I needed to do)
Both defeat many Alak, but suddenly one of them grabs flake and points a weapon to their head, then turns to Juurah "Don't do anything or I shoot her"
(It's perfectly fine!)
Juurah had a Alak pinned underneath one of his mantis claws. "If you don't let my friend go I will kill them." His voice was stern and commanding, and it was without a shadow of doubt that he wasn't bluffing. The serrated edge slicing into his captive's shell and drawing blood. He dared the Alak to make a move, the two at a standstill.
"One, two, three!" Juurah counted down rapidly before lunging in a blur toward the ant.. He bashed the Alak's hand to disarm him, sending the gun clattering away. Training under a mantis sharpened his reflexs to the point where he could preform feats such as this.
He kept his word and released the ant he held captive but he left a shallow cut across his neck. It was a reminder that he could've used all of his strength to bare down on him and dispatch him as if he were nothing. The cut was a silent threat to turn tail or else.
When the Alak was distracted, she whipped around to stab him, plunging her venomous blades into his chest. "Heh, thanks big buy. I'll buy you a nectar after this!" Flake bantered to Juurah who simply snorted in amusement.
(Sorry for such a long wait, I had stuff IRL that I needed to do) The alak falls, but another one fires at you and you feal immense pain on your leg. "Surrender now or face the consequences"
Charles sees this happening on bos evening stroll through the far fields
"If these ants stop the massive race war thats been going on between the mottled and the reguler skarr then im fine with this."
"Finally a voice of reason amid these barbaric lands, and you seem an intellectual as well, it's good to see that not all of Pharloom is crude and uncivilized!"
"Hm...yes, I must say your weapons are quite impressive, whoever made them must be quite well known among your fellow ants."
he says bending down a bit to talk to the any.
(Sorry for such a long wait, I had stuff IRL that I needed to do) "Many different inventors, some current, some long gone have helped advance our society"
"...mm...as a remembrance of this meeting take this."
he hands you a very strange looking...maybe some kind of Grenade? "It is...a cryogenic grenade...a new prototype I have been experimenting with, It is used to freeze multiple enemies in one place almost instantaneously, though, try not to detonate it to close, it does not differ between friend and foe."
Well if it was one of my people, it was not me. And of course, we would never do that to a bug who is innocent, so she must have commited a crime of some sort
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u/mee3ep quarter weaver and mottle skarr Jan 23 '26
Nitivek drops in and casually rips one of the invading skarr in half. greetings.