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 Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 3:00 pm
Quote: By all accounts, you should have seen the last of them. The Star Festival had its fair share of oddities, but it seems like some of them did escape into Destiny City. Maybe you see them perched on the roof, or hiding in the shadows, but not all of these grotesque creatures are satisfied with just escaping their interdimensional prison–some of them still have a bone to pick. They seem stony; some of them will watch with a penetrative gaze and never strike to attack, but some of them will dive down to target anyone who gets too close. The monsters come in an array of sizes and shapes, but they are no more than half the size of their target. Their goal is uncertain, but they will crumble into a pile of rocks and dust if struck hard enough. Powered characters can use one roleplay with an attacking stone beast to count as a battle requirement if they are roleplaying with another powered character
She had been feeling it for a while now, and honestly, the aura of the White Moon Senshi was almost comforting, for at least that was something tangible that she knew would be watching her but…
The bad part was the fact that the senshi aura had come up just a few moment ago and she had felt the eyes on the back of her neck for nearly ten minutes now.
Drawing in a breath, she moved towards the senshi aura, hesitating. “Hey! I’m Sailor Tristan, and…I am half hoping that you’ve been staring at me, but if it hasn’t been you that means there’s something really creepy out in the night and I’m not any kind of fan of it so…I know we’re on opposite sides but, maybe we should stick together for right now until whatever it is is gone?”
Her words were very nearly a plea, and she gave a smile that was only half real, her head twisting over her shoulder once again, trying to figure out just what was out there.
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 3:24 pm
Steins has only just powered up to get away from the creep that had been tailing her since she left the bar. She has been there to listen to one of the bands, and though she often got attention, she wasn't as keen on entertaining it has she might have been a year or so ago. At least, not now that she was out of her 'rocker, edgy, badboy' phase and growing more content with a certain tall, dark sharp-dressed mortician who happened to be her kinda-boss. Either way, she had powered up just as she turned a corner out of the would-be stalker's sight, and scaled a few roof tops. This was typically how she used and abused her magical girl powers for the past couple of years. A more educated senshi might have actually done more, but Steins wasn't the most 'clued in.' The cat that had given her her magic had been a bit of a tongue-tied bumbling singular-brain celled critter, after all. So, this is what she was. Two years in to senshihood and using her powers to flee wierdos from the bar who couldn't take a hint. She felt the tinge of a Chaos signature - something she typically avoided, and was about ready to start heading the other way, but then - there they were. A senshi, although sporting darker colors than herself, and what looked liked cracked holes on her chest and forehead. It felt all sort of wrong, and part of her knew she shouldn't be getting mixed up with this person, but they looked and sounded sincerely scared. She couldn't feel another energy signature. Whatever was following this other senshi.... Was neither Order nor Chaos, or....perhaps was simply non-existent and she was about to be lured in to a trap. But this senshi, Tristan, sounded truly scared. "I'm Sailor Steins. Do you have any idea what could be following you? i don't feel or see anything..... This isn't some trap, is it?" Not that she expected the senshi to admit it if it was, but Steins didn't want to seem completely gullible.
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 4:12 pm
“I was…I was really hoping that you were going to just say that it was you…” Tristan gave a laugh that was rather pathetic and swallowed hard, trying to catch her breath.
“Because if it was you, then we could both just have a good laugh now and go our separate ways but if it wasn’t…and it seems like it wasn’t…I…” She drew in a breath, holding on to a stitch in her chest and froze as there was a strange sound, like stone sliding against stone, and then the tree that was above them made a sound as though something were in it, branches beginning to rain down on the two senshi, and Tristan swore that when she looked up, shielding her eyes from the falling branches she saw what looked like…some kind of…stone…imp?
“...I…Steins…do…I mean. None of…I mean…”
Her mouth felt dry and it was difficult to get out what she wanted to say. “...Do you see…that? There aren’t…I mean. Is that a gargoyle?”
They were nowhere near any of the old architecture of the city…there was no reason…at all for there to be any gargoyles near here…and there should really be no reason for one to be flying...or falling like they were in some twisted Disney cartoon.
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 6:08 pm
Any doubt that this was some trap was dispelled when branches fell around them and that thing arrived. "This is Destiny City, home of weird things happening, and that sure looks like one, yeah," Steins replied, staring wide-eyed up at the stony creature. It didn't have an energy signature like some monsters she'd seen. Usually when those monsters appeared, she felt the same dark, twisted, aura like that of the other senshi she was currently standing with. "But....aren't creatures kind of your side's thing!?" Okay, so she was making some assumptions there, based off of auras, rather than anything she'd been told, which again, was practically nothing. But, judging from the way Tristan was acting, this certainly wasn't any of her side's minions. Steins wasn't sure what they should do - try running from this thing? She didn't think magic, at least her magic was going to be of any use here. She didn't exactly have brute force on her side either.....
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 6:13 pm
“I mean, yeah they are but…that’s not a youma, that’s…a rock!”
Tristan’s voice was almost a squeak and she ducked as the creature…gargoyle? Was it seriously some kind of a living gargoyle? This wasn’t…
No thank you, she was done with whatever dream this was.
As it came at her again, she reached for one of the broken sticks that had separated from the tree, and thankfully there was a somewhat large one, and Tristan let out a roar of fear and panic and confusion and swung the branch at the thing with all the strength she could muster, giving a little shout of joy when one of the stubby arms broke of…
Okay…so that was a little less scary.
“...How good are you at throwing, Steins? Think you can throw the arm back at it and try to break some more off?”
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 6:23 pm
"I was never the sporty type," Steins admitted with a grimace. She looked at the broken off arm and the clawed hand that still seemed to be trying to grab, without any success. "Uh, yeah no, I'm not touching that thing." Working in the greenhouse, growing flowers, harvesting them, arranging them, they weren't exactly things that required a good arm, just a good eye and- Just off of the sidewalk, near the storm drain she spotted it - a piece of debris, maybe from a fender-bender or some other automobile accident. It was a long metal pipe - She wasn't well versed in vehicle anatomy, but her small form quickly dove to grab it. "This will do! Now let's treat this ting like a pinata!" Maybe there'd be candy. It was spoopy season after all.
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 6:59 pm
For one rather heartstopping moment, Tristan thought that her new friend? Somewhat ally? Whatever Steins was…she thought that she was being abandoned to fight this thing with nothing more than a discarded tree branch and the thought made all of the breath leave her lungs but…
But then Steins grabbed what looked to be a pipe and spoke of treating the gargoyle like a pinata. “Oh! Oh Hell yeah! After you, Steins!”
Tristan gave a small, mock bow and grinned as the creature looked between the two of them and swooped once more, this time heading right for the White Moon Senshi.
“Let’s get candy! Hit it with everything you’ve got!”
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:33 am
"Yeah!" Steins lunged at the stone creature with the pipe in her hand like a baseball bat, and swung~ Ping!The sound of metal on stone, then a stone foot clacking across the sidewalk followed. Okay, so her aim wasn't that great - again, not a sporty girl - but if they had to ship away at this creature bit by bit, the so be it!
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 5:32 pm
Tristan laughed and made her way up to smack at the thing with her branch once more, and then after hesitating, she reached out and plucked the pipe from Steins. “Just going to borrow this for a moment!” And with all of the strength she had, she struck at the gargoyle right in the middle and the thing seemed to let out a wheeze before cracking into a dozen pieces.
“Well, no candy…but we’re not dead so, that’s what really matters, don’t you think?” Grinning, she held the pipe back out to Steins and shrugged. “Glad we’re not being stalked by a creepy actual monster. Thank you so much for your help, I think I would have honestly freaked out if you hadn’t been here, so I appreciate it a lot!”
She was talking too much…and perhaps…she really shouldn’t be this friendly with a White Moon Senshi but…
They had fought together. It had to mean something. “I think I should get going now though, are you going to be all right?”
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 5:45 pm
Steins stood a bit dumfounded her her new found weapon was pucket from her hand, and the other senshi went ham of the Gargoyle. Honestly, she almost felt bad for the thing. Buuuuut stalkers gonna get what's coming to them! Creepy stone monster or not!
On autopilot, she accepted the pipe back, then shook off the semi-shock.
"O-oh! no problem! Just another weird Destiny City thing! Yeah, I'll be fine!"
If all this didn't already confuse the lines for the already clueless senshi, she wasn't sure what would. Surely someone or something would set her straight on this whole senshi, order vs chaos thing sooner or later. Right?
(can be fin?))
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