2025 Star Festival Prompt
Poultrygeist (15) : As Destiny City is a bustling metropolis, it’s not unexpected that there should be some strange animals running the streets. Sometimes it’s a tiger, sometimes a monkey, sometimes a chicken. Sometimes it’s something worse. Strange egg clusters have appeared in Destiny City’s parks and officials aren’t really sure what they are; these eggs have nothing inside of them. Though it’s an anomaly, they are chalking it up to teenaged pranks. However, they have advised to just leave the eggs as they are. Nobody wants to say why, but if you’re out late at night, you’ll find out. In the darkness, whispered between the sounds of the city: a guttural, rasping cluck. The creature stands on stilt-like legs, rooted to the ground with razor-sharp talons. It wears a cloak of long, oily feathers that drag on the ground with a sinister scraping. If you stare into the darkness, piercing red eyes stare back at you. That’s all it takes for a confrontation: a mangled bird, maybe a chicken in another life, comes barreling out at you. It stands easily as tall as a person, but the proportions are all wrong. The smell of sulfur follows it as it lunges, pecking and screaming and scratching as it attempts to chase you away. Maybe, from the nests full of empty eggs. The battles are fierce, but fleeting; it will viciously try to chase you away but the effects are always the same: at some point, the eggs are crushed. As always, there’s nothing inside of them, but with one final wail, the bird will vanish into a plume of foul smoke.
Note: If you choose to encounter one of these bird-like creatures, your character will recognize they are not youma. It is impossible to tell if it is a single entity or if there are many. The bird does not seem to understand or care to listen to human words. It will always disappear in a malodorous plume of smoke and leave nothing but a foul odor and a clutch of empty, broken eggs behind. This RP can be used as a battle requirement as long as there are two powered characters involved; you must be interacting with another player’s powered character. This does not count as the one youma battle per stage for growth so characters can still use an NPC youma battle as well as this one for growth purposes. This can only be used as a battle requirement once per character, but there is no limitation for how many times a player can use this prompt.
Note: If you choose to encounter one of these bird-like creatures, your character will recognize they are not youma. It is impossible to tell if it is a single entity or if there are many. The bird does not seem to understand or care to listen to human words. It will always disappear in a malodorous plume of smoke and leave nothing but a foul odor and a clutch of empty, broken eggs behind. This RP can be used as a battle requirement as long as there are two powered characters involved; you must be interacting with another player’s powered character. This does not count as the one youma battle per stage for growth so characters can still use an NPC youma battle as well as this one for growth purposes. This can only be used as a battle requirement once per character, but there is no limitation for how many times a player can use this prompt.
Sinope was, by no means, a natural physical fighter. He’d had no talent for fighting, nor had he wanted it since he’d grown up a scrawny kid who was better at fleeing bullies and attempting to outsmart them than actually attempting to take them on in a physical altercation. Even as a young Dark Mirror Senshi, he’d been weak with his power seeming more detrimental to him than helpful. It turned him into the source of people’s ire by causing them to believe he knew the secret about them they least wanted him to know even though he didn’t really. Still, just that belief of theirs was enough to get him beat up on a regular basis.
So Sinope had decided to take up learning Krav Maga in order to defend himself or, at the very least, deter others from forcing him to have to do so. It was an efficient martial art that prioritized finishing the fight as quickly as possible, but also as aggressively as possible. It wasn’t his style and he didn’t enjoy doing it like he did with outsmarting his opponents and talking them into defeat. In this case, however, his enemy wasn’t really giving him much of a chance to talk at all. Not that he thought said enemy would have understood what he said even if they had.
It was a nasty-smelling, sharp-taloned, red-eyed bird of some sort that was about the size of a human. Sinope couldn’t tell what it was, exactly, but it didn’t have any kind of energy signature he’d ever felt before. It seemed to have been guarding a bunch of eggs that he had tried to look over out of curiosity until the enormous bird had appeared out of nowhere, reeking of sulfur and making monstrous clucking sounds. Was it from a different dimension or world, perhaps? Whatever the case, seemed really angry even before Sinope could open his mouth; perhaps due to his close proximity to the cluster of eggs. Did those eggs belong to it, then?
“So you’re the protective sort, huh?” he commented, talking more for his own sake rather than the benefit of the creature. He talked a lot usually, but he tended to talk even more when he was nervous. Were the weak points on a giant, six-foot-something bird the same as on a six-foot-something human? He wasn’t sure, but he wondered if he could at least scare it off by seeming intimidating so he wouldn’t have to try to find out. Taking out an Amber Star Charm he had obtained from the Star Festival earlier, he took up a stance as if he planned to throw it like a ninja star at the bird. “Just back away slowly and we can both go home unharmed,” Sinope told it, hoping against hope the creature would take the hint.
It didn’t.
Lunging at him with a cry so shrill that it caused him to wince, the bird tried to peck and then scratch at him with its insidiously sharp talons. Sinope darted out of the way with agility gained only after years of experience in his younger years dodging bullies. He put his star charm away again, as it had so clearly not worked, and tried to think of a way to get at the creature without touching it directly. Gloves or no gloves, he wanted to stay as far away from that thing as possible, but that possibility was getting smaller by the second.
Meighei
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