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[Ruadh Speir is a Huntress-in-training from the academy of Lantern, on the continent of Verse, here to fight the monsters of Grimm. Sound familiar enough? She's from a RWBY-based tabletop campaign, so you can think of her as an OC from an AU of RWBY, and that is way too many capital letters.

Ruadh is a shy, withdrawn girl who uses a spear-staff, using Dust attacks as her primary method of combat, and close-ranged finishers with a spear. Unfortunately, her Semblance is the Riastrad, a twisted, berserker form of herself, with her own personality. Ria, as she's called, is a violent, wicked killer, who has no thought for the future, and does nothing but act on her own impulses- Nothing but an unrestrained id. Ruadh keeps to herself to try to keep Ria in check... to little success.

You may find Ruadh in a couple situations!]

A] School Lab

[You might see Ruadh at Lantern Academy's Dust Laboratory, where she has a file and is carefully, carefully paring down a red crystal, her eyebrows furrowed. She seems to be working very, very carefully... Enough that if you make any noise whatsoever, her fingers slip, and now there's a giant fireball that she's tossing away from her on reflex at high speed.

On the other hand, if you watch silently, you might see her look pleased with herself as she hooks the crystal into some wiring, which is connected to... what looks like a large bundle of cloth?]

B] Grimm Hunt

[Or you might find her out in the wild. In a forest made of glass? In an icy cave? In a mountainous region, pools of lava on all sides? No matter which place you choose, a girl in a green Celtic outfit is found battling a bizarre.... It looks like a rhinoceros, except that it's all black, with a white bone mask, red markings, and- oh yeah it also breathes fire. You know. Standard rhino stuff.

Ruadh is fighting it solo, but with her long-range magic attacks, most of it is just pinging off of the Grimm's armor. She can't seem to get close enough to finish the job...]

C] Elsewhere

[Maybe Ruadh has ended up somewhere else! In her school uniform, in your world, or maybe in your jamjar setting. Who knows? Wildcard it up in here.]

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b

[crimsonhorizon]

[I don't know where I am, I don't know how I got here, I don't know what's going on, all I know is there's a weird black rhinocerous fighting a teenaged girl, and I have a Doom Horse.

So yeah uh, grimm rhino's getting bodyslammed and some tiny white-haired chick's trying to grab you??]

Hey! Get on!

[What is happening.]

[redskytakewarning]

[WELL

THAT HAPPENED

Ruadh is surprisingly easy to pull up off the ground, even if she doesn't seem to quite... go, right. You know how when you try to pick up a cat, it's suddenly a liquid? It's kind of like that.]

-- Hold on- The Rampage's armor is too thick! You need to get between the joints!

[She's hurling more magic from her staff as she just sort of

dangles]

[crimsonhorizon]

[Tsubaki does not have time to worry about anatomical mysteries, she's just dragging this girl to flop over the back of the saddle like she's been hunted or something.

So she can pull out a bow and pull an arrow of pure sunlight out of her chest to go for an eyeball! Uh.

Welcome to exalted.]

Mmm, Rai, we're too close, disengage...keep it's attention on you.

[...The horse also appears to obey spoken commands?!?!]

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[Oh. Okay. So we're busting out Semblances already? Okay. This is weird, but if that's the case...

She tosses her spear up into the air, and kicks her leg up. It bends backwards- Far more than it should, and stretches, coiling her foot around the spear like a snake. And then, with that, the staff clicks- The prongs shut, forming a spearhead, which she swings downward, her leg acting like a whip to increase the spear's speed, releasing to throw it with her leg as a hurled spear.

It pierces the gap, and the Grimm roars, and falls.]

[crimsonhorizon]

[The horse screeches to a dead stop at that. To be honest, the grimm was mostly dead already, so this spear nonsense was probably overkill, but right now Tsubaki isn't paying attention to that, and Rai crowhops a bit to just. Dump this weird bone snake person in the dust?

Yeah maybe being snakelike around a horse was a dumb idea, friend. Tsubaki is...not dismounting. Actually doesn't seem to be even close to falling off even with these shenanigans.]

...What the hell was that?

[redskytakewarning]

[she lands with all the grace you would expect

which is to say

none at all, as she sort of just... splats, and recollects herself.]

... Um. Which part? The throw was my Semblance, the Grimm is a Rampage, I told you to go for the gaps in the armor...

[crimsonhorizon]

Bones don't work that way.

[...Ah, so the semblance.]

[redskytakewarning]

... It's my Semblance... In the same vein as your, um, strange arrow... I think...?

[She's sort of shrinking back.]

[crimsonhorizon]

'Semblance'?

[She's squinting at her.] It was just an arrow formed of essence.

A

[trusttomorrow]

[unfortunate.]

Whatcha working on?

[Ruby Rose doesn't know much about this type of thing, but she knows enough to practically jump backwards when the fireball shoots out—she. made a mistake. uh. at least she was coming at this new person from the side? so she won't get blasted with the fire. that's better. right?]

Oh my gosh I'm so sorry, I hope I didn't ruin anything...

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[YEAH, THAT'S

THAT'S A BIG BOOM

at least Ruadh's only somewhat singed, as she yelped and threw the crystal away, but... The fabric and wiring are goners.]

I- I- It's okay, I... Um, are you okay? Are you....

[...

squint]

Are you... old enough to be here...?

[trusttomorrow]

[Ruby huffs. it's not a question she's had to field in a while, but it's still... distressingly legitimate. maybe she'll stop looking like a baby one of these days.]

I'm eighteen? I'm definitely old enough to be in here. And I've worked with dust before, too. Um, kind of a lot.

[no reason to be that modest about it, but she'll wait to see if this person has any follow-up questions on that before talking about her beautiful handmade baby.]

My name's Ruby, by the way.

[redskytakewarning]

O- Older than me?!

[OH. OKAY. DON'T MIND HER WHILE SHE JUST. DIES. RIGHT HERE.]

I, um, I'm sorry! I'm Ruadh... I haven't seen you in the Dust lab before here, so...

[trusttomorrow]

[please don't die!! everything's fine. everything's okay. it's. look. see. she's smiling, everything's fine, time to be nonthreatening and just. just. normal knees. come on, girl, you've got this.]

Right, well... I'm kind of looking to learn a little bit more about Dust than I already do. It's been a while since I made modifications to the shells I use and even though they worked really well in my last fight [almost too well, she remembers grimmly] I still think there's more I can do because Dust technology is advancing so fast these days and—

[she stops herself.]

Heh. Sorry. Again. I get excited.

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I understand what you mean, though... It's so cool. I've been trying to make...

[She was starting to come out of her shell a bit. The mutual topic of Dust, and her enjoyment thereof... Well, she's a nerd.

But then she's looking at her project, and.]

--Ah! My wiring...!

[trusttomorrow]

Your wiring!

[it only just then seems to hit Ruby that she did kind of ruin this girl's project. inadvertently.]

What were you putting together? Is it under the cloth?

[redskytakewarning]

No, it. It, um, is the cloth. My team's next assignment is in the Ice Caverns, and...

[She picks up the (charred) cloth. It's... Well, it was a jacket, with pouches on it and wires feeding into the pouches...]

B

[perfectpersonified]

What are you doing? [ Said statement is backed up when a precise rifle shot pierces through a gap in the Rampage's armor-slash-bone plating, forcing the Grimm to back up a step.

And said shot seems to have come from Aural, who touches down next to Ruadh. ]

You shouldn't be having this much trouble with this.

[redskytakewarning]

[oh. hi aural. Ruadh takes that chance to rip the ground out from under the Rampage, pushing it back further.]

I haven't had a chance to get between the armor plates...!

[perfectpersonified]

You haven't? You've been fighting it, haven't you? [ Spoken like "Oh, what, like it's hard?"

She flicks her rifle, the mechanisms activating to turn it back into a sword. ] Just aim.

[redskytakewarning]

It's much harder to do that while alone!

[SOME OF US DON'T HAVE DEX BUILDS ANYMORE, AURAL]

I'll hold its attention, you finish it!

[perfectpersonified]

.....

[ Aural gives her an "Oh, really?" look. But she relents. ]

Three seconds. Hold its attention completely for three seconds.

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Got it!

[She jumps up, and spears of rock form all around her, as she hurls them all at the Rampage's face. It's a barrage of weak blows, but it will still have to take care to not get speared in the eyes, so it should hold its attention... She hopes.]

[perfectpersonified]

[ Aural takes those three seconds to move closer, dancing around Ruadh's rocks as she moves forward, flowing like the wind or rivers. And she doesn't slow down when she passes the Rampage, either, simply moves her sword across its form as she moves by.

The Rampage falls down after that, and doesn't move again, until its body begins to crumble. ]

Were you keeping count?

[redskytakewarning]

[Ruadh is... more than a little jealous of Aural. Of her skills, abilities. Of her appearance. Or everything.

So she's a bit distracted when Aural asks her, watching the spectacle like that...]

... Of the time? Of course.