Description
A heavy hood shrouds the piercing yellow eyes of a predator. He watches you
passively, a face in the crowd you would never notice. Nondescript. He is a
blur of grey that defies light and color, a flickering thing at the edge of
vision. He moves like a soft wind, a ghost form shadow barely discernible
against the background, save for the fleeting glint of a blade catching the
light, ever so slightly creeping toward you...
Role
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE LADDER: PART 1 - "STANDING"
Added Sat May 25 22:23:39 2019 at level 45:
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE LADDER
The Teachings of Sensei Shryker Aoi'Ikita
PART I -- "STANDING"
LESSON I: THE DIRT
The student's training begins, as was the way encountered by Sensei Shryker as
a child many ages ago. The trusted Sensei abandons the novice student in the
forest for many weeks, lost amidst the wilds. The student stumbles in the
feces of animals, swarmed by insects, hunted by beasts. Soaked, starved.
Terrified and alone. The first lesson is a test of survival, nothing more.
Not all will pass. This misery is the foundation upon which the ladder
stands. The student begins to look upwards. He strives to climb.
LESSON II: THE AGONY
Several weeks pass before the Sensei emerges from the fog. Bewildered and
disoriented, the student welcomes a warm meal. A simple yellow belt indicates
his modest advancement. Only then do they encounter the next lesson. The test
of pain. The Sensei leads the novice out of the woods only to find another trick.
The next weeks he knows only chains and torture, despair. He dangles at the
edges of death and madness, until pain is a thing that can be harnessed, an
emotion effortlessly overcome. Only then is the student ready for the first rung.
LESSON III: THE MOUSE
A quiet night in the forest, under soft glow of moonlight. They stand
together, the student still weary. The Sensei offers him a strange gift. A
small cage contains a live mouse. The Sensei gestures for its release. The
student opens the cage and watches as the freed mouse scampers into the
moonlit woods. An owl strikes down immediately, seizing the mouse and carrying it
away into the darkness. This vision of the raptor, a shadow burned into his mind, his
instincts sparked. The mouse is the lesson of the hunter, the transition from
prey to predator. The student now sees clearly how to climb from the misery
of the dirt. He is ready to learn the nature of the ladder.
PART 2 - "CLIMBING"
Added Thu Jun 6 12:27:48 2019 at level 51:
PART II "CLIMBING"
LESSON IV: THE SENSEI
The student has trained in survival, mastered pain, become the predator. The
student has set his sights on climbing. The Sensei is wise, cruel, ruthless.
The student is challenged to a duel against his teacher. They spar through
the night, rarely landing any blows. The movements flow, rolling from one
into the next, back and forth until the student is ultimately exhausted and
defeated. The lesson of the Sensei is the test of becoming for the young
assassin. The student will never defeat a worthy teacher. The student must
become the Sensei to defeat the Sensei. And so begins the final phase of
teaching.
LESSON V: THE TRANCE
The student is taken by ship across the sea to a place where the cliffs rise
up into the clouds. He is given a hallucinogenic tea and enters a deep
meditation. When he awakes, the Sensei is gone. The Sensei will never be seen
again. It is unclear whether he actually existed at all. The assassin stands
alone on the empty boat. The sea slams the cliffs. Sensei Shryker often spoke
of his vision quest, the most important moment of his life. The lesson of the
trance is to see clearly a vision of the pure self. As he stood at the base
of the cliffs of Insanity, he became a being of shadow. And he began to climb
toward the clouds...
LESSON VI: THE LADDER
Sensei Shryker scaled the cliffs through two nights, lost in the depths of
trance. The clouds became thick, obscuring all vision, and slowly they turned
into darkness. He reached a strange plateau, where shade creatures began to
swirl around him. A shadow dragon circled amongst dozens of raptors soaring.
Below he could see wild creatures circling wildly, running in fear. In the
distance he could see the Imperial Palace, swarmed by nightwalkers. The
ladder seemed to continue up forever. He climbed forever, as if trapped in a
dream. Sensei Shryker would later speak often of the lesson of the ladder,
the fabric of Darkness and Order upon which predators rise from the misery of
wild nature and chaos. Only rarely, in great secrecy, would he whisper of
what he witnessed as he climbed further. The lesson of the ladder was the
beginning of The Prophecy of the Shadows. It began as a dream, a vague image
as if seen through smoke or vapor, burned into Sensei Shryker's mind like the
remnant impression left behind after one stares into the sun. Pure blackness.
PK Wins
May 9, 2019 |Lv 34|The Galadon Sewers|Trur vs 2: [33] Jilfvi (66%, hit), [34] Shryker (33%)
May 13, 2019|Lv 35|Darsylon|Crextifin vs 2: [35] Shryker (10%, punch), [35] Michke (89%)
May 13, 2019|Lv 35|Hamsah Mu'tazz|Trur vs 2: [35] Shryker (32%, punch), [35] Michke (67%)
May 22, 2019|Lv 43|The Imperial Palace|Jumbel vs 1: [43] Shryker (100%, ground control)
May 25, 2019|Lv 45|The Imperial Lands|Pangenoot vs 2: [45] Shryker (26%), [47] Phiyruhk (73%, punch)
May 26, 2019|Lv 45|The Spire of the Blood Tribunal|Isthrela vs 2: [35] Darmok (17%), [45] Shryker (82%, double spin kick)
May 27, 2019|Lv 49|Mortorn|Jilfvi vs 2: [49] Shryker (0%), [50] Michke (100%, frigid chop)
May 28, 2019|Lv 49|Fortress of Light|Bendegoh vs 2: [51] Graitel (51%, noxious mist), [49] Shryker (48%)
May 29, 2019|Lv 49|BattleRager Village|Dheljan vs 1: [49] Shryker (100%, punch)
May 29, 2019|Lv 51|The Inn of the Eternal Star|Quingong vs 1: [51] Shryker (0%, ) *Assassinated*
Jun 3, 2019 |Lv 51|The Ruins of Ostalagiah|Bendegoh vs 3: [51] Viya (37%), [51] Malgren (62%, chilling touch), [51] Shryker (0%)
Jun 4, 2019 |Lv 51|The Ruins of Ostalagiah|Kvorak vs 1: [51] Shryker (0%, ) *Assassinated*
Jun 5, 2019 |Lv 51|BattleRager Village|Dheljan vs 3: [51] Grunkul (0%), [51] Malgren (52%), [51] Shryker (47%, punch)
Jun 5, 2019 |Lv 51|East Sumner's Road|Pangenoot vs 2: [51] Michke (65%), [51] Shryker (34%, double spin kick)
Jun 13, 2019|Lv 51|Balator|Emmalise vs 3: [51] Malgren (64%, cleave), [51] Graitel (28%), [51] Shryker (6%)
Jun 18, 2019|Lv 51|Hamsah Mu'tazz|Blunde vs 3: [51] Shryker (20%), [51] Graitel (33%, dispel evil), [47] Phiyruhk (45%)
Jun 18, 2019|Lv 51|Khalid River|Kolta vs 3: [51] Malgren (10%, flaming bite), [47] Phiyruhk (26%), [51] Shryker (63%)
Jun 21, 2019|Lv 51|BattleRager Village|Kolta vs 5: [51] Malgren (46%), [51] Cuoi (0%), [47] Jilfvi (43%, imperial vengeance), [51] Shryker (4%), [47] Phiyruhk (5%)
Jun 24, 2019|Lv 51|The Imperial Palace|Jumbel vs 3: [51] Shryker (0%), [51] Cuoi (52%, claw), [51] Graitel (47%)
Jun 24, 2019|Lv 51|BattleRager Village|Pangenoot vs 3: [51] Graitel (89%, virulent venom), [51] Shryker (8%), [51] Cuoi (1%)
Jun 29, 2019|Lv 51|The Eastern Road|Sekpak vs 2: [51] Shryker (85%, punch), [51] Malgren (14%)
Jun 29, 2019|Lv 51|The Imperial Palace|Cyrll vs 2: [51] Shryker (35%), [51] Graitel (64%, slash)
Jul 4, 2019 |Lv 51|BattleRager Village|Anyar vs 3: [51] Shryker (15%), [51] Astingoth (69%, slash), [51] Cuoi (14%)
Jul 5, 2019 |Lv 51|BattleRager Village|Sekpak vs 5: [50] Mamzisk (0%), [51] Astingoth (9%), [51] Graitel (39%, noxious mist), [51] Shryker (35%), [51] Michke (15%)
Jul 5, 2019 |Lv 51|The Imperial Palace|Sekpak vs 3: [49] Noheris (0%), [51] Cuoi (50%), [51] Shryker (49%, punch)
Jul 5, 2019 |Lv 51|The Imperial Palace|Bendegoh vs 3: [51] Shryker (96%, punch), [49] Noheris (3%), [51] Cuoi (0%)
Jul 20, 2019|Lv 51|The Imperial Palace|Wudrac vs 2: [51] Shryker (72%, double spin kick), [51] Graitel (27%)