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The lightning bolt hurts Vincent far less then one would expect. Given his current state of mind, though, pain just doesn't seem to register correctly. Vincent charges forth, his first target being that sword and its strange powers. He wipes at the Gravity Sword, giving it a direct hit that bends it in half, rendering it temporarily useless. Using the pent up power of the demonic blade Vincent takes a mighty swing at 4 Co, sending a blade of concentrated air at him. Being made of metal though, the blast does little to actually effect him...

Attack: Gravity Sword (16 damage)
Action: Smash (Gravity Sword)
Use: Whiplash (4 Co)
Hp: 25/55
Ap: 0
Mp: 1

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Vincent recieves 30 damage (GB SA 20/4 Co SA 10)
Vincent regenerates 5 hp (6 Demonic Regeneration/1 Regenration/-1 Demonic Pact)
4 Co recieves 7 damage (Vincent Whiplash 7)
Gravity Blade recieves 25 damage (Vincent Attack 16/Vincent Smash 9)

Vincent: 31/55
4 Co: 28/35
--Gravity Blade: burning_eyes

*Edited...my bad*

GAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...okay.

((Finally! It is done! It took me hours to write it... I even requisitioned Talos' assistance for making this. I wonder if you can find his influence...? Well anyway, sorry for delay, enjoy!))

4 Co. looks down at the small dent made on his chest, “Hmm…” The sound of pebbles being rolled along the ground could be heard as a strange wind started to pickup. At first small stones began to lift into the air, unbound apparently by the laws of gravity. The trees around the battlefield begin to shift and crack, warped by an unknown force. A mysterious thunder rolls across the land, a strange occurrence since the sky was clear. The ground begins to shake, and fissures open up from which an otherworldly purple light filters forth. The wind has now matured to a gale, but does not seem to affect any of the landscape around the two combatants. Two boulders burst forth from the ground and charge at each other with strange twig like legs exploding as they collide. Mountains in the distance begin to slowly evaporate like sand in the wind, whilst the sky above them cracks with a sickening shattering sound. “Minimal abnormalities detected engaging correction device.” Small lights begin to flicker around 4 Co.’s right hand before being drawn into its glow. The light on 4 Co.’s hand begins to intensify to a blinding glare, as 4 Co. Slowly approaches Vincent. The sky shatters its pieces falling away to nothingness as the sun remains amid pure darkness. A silhouette arises in front of the sun as 4 Co. Gets within striking distance. The silhouette takes on the shape of a small goblin raising a sword to the sun atop an odd looking beast, and right as 4 Co. punches you the sun itself blinks.

As 4 Co.’s fist contacts with your chest you fall backward through a whirlwind of senses, enough to overwhelm you temporarily. As your eyes slowly adjust to the chaos around you, fleeting images of strange worlds seem to pass you. With a loud splorching noise you land in mud flat on your face. After pulling yourself out of the mud to the closest piece of land you can find, you take several deep breaths hardly able to accept the wretched air around you. Sitting upright you begin to survey your surrounding carefully. The sky itself is crowded with thick green clouds of gas, blocking out most of the view above him. Surrounding you are swamplands stretching as far as the eye can see, covered in unknown vegetation, what you hope is water, and yellowish bubbling mud. The only action other than his odd entrance seems to be on the far side of his island. An alligator like creature with a small snout, large claws/teeth, and spiny armored scales protruded from the water/mud and was eagerly attacking miniscule village no larger than those made for dolls. Inhabiting the village were small fuzzy mouse people, with tweezer sized spears goading the alligator further into the village. When the beast reached the center of the village the small mice creatures poured forth from their houses spears raised yelling a battle cry of “Abba Deeba Dooba Dabba!” old ones, young ones, male, female, or whatever, met in epic combat with the beast. Many were lost but after a time the beast became restrained by many ropes the mice had tied around it. The snapping jaws of the beast seemed the biggest obstacle ‘til one foolish mouse with sword raised dove straight in fighting off the beasts tongue as he was swallowed hole. Then the mice creatures grew silent as though waiting. Suddenly a sword point burst forth from the writhing creature’s eye as it slowly and painfully died. Distracted by this scene of warfare, you do not realize that a form has slowly risen from the mud behind you, wrapping a mud covered limb around you and glaring with a single red eye it says quite mechanically “Coherent logic sensors fried, meaning not found.” The hand on your shoulder begins to glow and the mouse people finally notice your presence. Screaming out their four word battle cry they charge at you weapons at the ready. 4 Co. pushes you forward into the oncoming mice mob, but before you fall onto their tiny spears the world shifts about you, and you land on a soft pillowy cushion.

Once again thrown out of your element you begin observing as though you’ve never observed before. Things at once both seem familiar and also unfamiliar a strange box sits in front of you playing images at a rapid pace. To your left is a man, whom looks similar to you and to your right is a girl who must be his sister. The man’s face takes on a look of recognition and then horror. “Vincent, but your just a character on Gaia!” Still in shock the door to the other room opens and 4 Co. walks out holding a sandwich. “Priority one completed, this sandwich is terrible.” 4 Co. turns and spots you in the room, “Target found.” The girl smiles, seemingly familiar with 4 Co. and greets him politely, “Hey 4 Co.” Your confusion at a peak, 4 Co.’s still glowing hand flicks you in the chest and you fly back, the scene of oddity fading to a dot of light in the distance before as you slam backward into a new location.

You fall back first into what seems to be an examination table in the center of a large strange room with work equipment and hi tech machines all being put to use by people and other strange creatures in white lab coats. Everyone in the room seemed fixated on creating strange robots of different shapes and sizes. One of the people close to you, a man with tentacles and a large green afro, notices your odd entrance. “Hmm… odd, that wasn’t supposed to happen. Hey did someone mess with the settings on this hyper-dimensional dehumidifier? Cause I just got some weird feedback.” One of the other people looks over at you. “Ah, send it back to processing. I’ve seen weirder glitches and they usually handle them fine.” The man with tentacles reaches out and grabs one of the devices off the table and aims what seems to be its end at you. “Good idea, here we go litt—?!“ The wall to your left suddenly explodes outward sending some of the strange people flying. As the dust clears you can see 4 Co. through the newly created hole, standing in a very odd looking bathroom. The technicians begin to scatter, all shouting different orders. “It’s the anomaly from 4 years ago quickly sound the alarm!” “Were doomed, you remember what he did to lab 10 right? They refused to rebuild lab 10!” “Special ops is on their way everyone begin evacuation, the beta unit must remain undamaged.” The tentacle technician then turns upon 4 Co. aiming the device instead at him. “You damn anomaly, we spent years analyzing your malfunction, and after I reduce your particles to zero Calvin we will spend years doing it again!” With that he activates the device sending out a white snowy beam that collides with 4 Co. making a mist that temporarily blocks him from view. “No molecule could have energy after that collisio.. oh… oh my ink bladder it’s still coming!” Stepping forward slowly 4 Co. doesn’t even seem frosty as he spots his attacker before him. “Detecting minty fresh threat, activating MuDiQuSiGe” If the Technicians hadn’t been scrambling for the doors before they were mowing each other over now just to get out. One stood beside a panel frantically flicking on generators. “We need to disable him professor, I’m activating the prototype gravitational manipulation devices we were developing.” The tentacled Technician merely nods before engaging a teleportation device on his wrist. One of the items on a table near you begins to float into the air revealing itself to be a gravity axe. “Target spotted, neutralizing threat.” With breakneck speed it heads like an executioner for 4 Co.’s neck, preparing to sever it quite easily. 4 Co.’s eyes flash a dark indigo when the axe gets within striking distance. Flying off and embedding itself in a door the gravity axe yells out in a perfect imitation of Jack Nicholson ”Here’s Johnny!” Continuing to laugh maniacally and chop away at the door. Another object shaped like a Japanese sword floats off a table further down and doesn’t even make it to 4 Co. before the androids eyes flash red and the katanna takes on a highly romanticized Spanish accent. Distracted by its own reflection on the polished metal walls it begins admiring itself. Well hello there my sexy friend, I hope I haven’t kept your beauty too long, oh look at me looking at you looking at me. Your gaze makes me feel all hot and tingly.” A third object far larger rises off the last table. Its appearance is familiar to most as a scythe. It begins to spin in a death stroke before 4 co.’s eyes flash gray and it falls to the floor. “What’s the point anymore? It’s all useless you know, I can’t see going on living when I’m outclassed by a self obsessed blade and a moronic sword. You can just leave me here on the ground, ting.” This seemed to delay 4 Co. long enough for the special ops to arrive. A man in an enhanced mechanical suit with a gun arm and a stabilizer, and a small girl accompanying him, whom on closer inspection was also a 4 Co. android but newer and with flesh rather than metal. “Hello big brother, I know we’ve never met but we will have plenty of time to get to talk once they’ve removed your brain! Sumo Chan can you hurt 4 kun for me, I kind of need his logic matrix.” A gravity orb flies out from behind 4 co. alpha 2.7 and heads toward 4 Co. beta 0.2.1 “That is not my designation, my designation is gravity orb Mk 2. Target spotted!” Speeding up its collision course, 4 co. Flashes his eyes once more to no avail but instead hits a different target in a miraculous accident. Rising from the table next to him the gravity bat swings into the orb and smashes it through the ceiling. “In all my days as a sports announcer I have never seen a rookie nail a homerun like this one, truly a sight to behold folks.” “Sumo chan, come back you didn’t disable him yet! Oh your just a bully big brother I was going to share my lollipop with you too!” With that the lollipop in her hands sprouts blades and begins spinning wildly. 4 Co. turns at her slightly and a cloud of white mist suddenly engulfs “Alice” ((Now you know)) as the mist clears it reveals Alice as a frozen statue of herself. “Stay cool baby.” 4 Co. says as he begins walking toward you once more. The second agent ((Agent 42, now you know again)) yells at 4 Co. while rising up his gun arm and charging a large reddish orb of energy. “You’re not going to ignore me you useless piece of garbage. This little device will divide you atom by atom, but leave a nice signature so that we can reassemble you later. At least that’s what Dr. Tentacos told me outside when he gave me this. Well whatever it is its going to blow the s**t out of you, and possibly your friend there.” Tilting to look at you the man smiles sadly, “Sorry pal, it’s for the greater good.” With that the blast is released and it feels to you that time slows and all the actions that followed were easily seen. 4 Co. raised his palm into the air, not even looking in the direction of the incoming hellfire, and for a moment 4 Co.’s uninfluenced expression broke and he smirked before saying in a barely audible and not by any means monotone voice, “It’s sad really…” Crimson waves of light wavered stopped by an unseen force turning the room red and slowly disintegrating articles of unseen importance. The blast makes 4 Co. appear like a shadow upon a sun, briefly bringing back the image of a figure challenging a blinking sun. A pulse of energy pushes against you but at this point it doesn’t even register, the events happening before you are far more important. The crimson light slowly darkens till it was casting dark light on everything except a single white light in 4 Co.’s hand. Then just as quickly the darkness descends to a single point but no light fills the gap where the darkness left. Two voices echo in your mind as this dimension fades before you. One was agent 42 saying “Oh, you b*****d!” the other was 4 Co. saying in his more common monotone voice, ”Target acquired.” before punching his fist into your chest flinging you from this world.

As you fall backward you can see specs of light flying toward you. The specs become larger and more frequent until you can make out the image of stars, galaxies and nebula’s flying past. This stunning image causes you to miss the fact that a humanoid form was drifting closer. When you notice it out of the corner of your eye, two things become apparent. One that 4 Co. had been drifting lazily beside you this entire time and two that the humanoid figure was a skeleton of a long dead man, inside a strange suit with a glass dome around his head. 4 Co. turns his attention to the suit and then says in his normal monotone voice “My god it’s full of bones.” Grabbing an article of your armor, 4 Co. spins in the weightless environment a total of six times before launching you at incredible speed toward the next dimension.

As you enter this next universe you see a blank white void, before feeling gravity kick in and grind you and your armor along an unseen floor. Every part of this experience bringing to mind, “How could this be possible?” Getting up stiffly you had a brief moment to check how worn down this whole experience has been on you, before realizing you could hear humming of an unknown melody. Turning you’re met by an unusual sight, where there had been nothing now there was a giant toe. That toe then seemed to be connected to a giant foot, which in turn was connected to a giant leg. This led to the fact that you were at the feet of a giant man whom seemed unaware of your very existence. He seemed to be twiddling his thumbs and humming while also chewing on something. You suddenly realize there is an entire solar system floating around his head, leading you to believe this fellow is a god. Spitting out what he was chewing, you notice that it had been a large wad of stone; this picked up orbit into the solar system above his head and collided with a blue and green planet. In a large booming voice the god proposes to himself a question. “Could I make a rock so large that I couldn’t move it, and then move it?” At this point you hear the creaking of a metal hatch behind you and 4 Co. crawls out, smelling of feces. “ugh, target found.” He then drags you back down the doorway into another dimension. The god says in a reverberating tone behind you. “That one was too hard, now if a tree falls in a forest…”

Falling you land with a thud, as you bounce off a statue and crash into a bed of flowers. Looking up at the statue you realize it’s a depiction of yourself, clothed in nothing but a fig leaf appropriately placed. At this point even this much normalcy seems to bring you hope. Everything was beautiful down to the crispness of the autumn air. The grass was green and lush, kids laughed and played nearby, the water was crystalline blue and gorgeous to behold. The only source of imperfection you could see was where you had collided with the statue and the flowers. Otherwise this truly was a paradise, something you had thought to never see again. In the distance you could see a man staring at you horror and disbelief easily readable on his face. Slowly others stop and look at you their faces also awash with confusion and fear. Suddenly a man pulls out a dagger and stabs the woman next to him who screams then dies. With this one dagger chaos consumes the land. A boy kicks over a pail of water, only to be kicked over himself by a larger man whom laughs hysterically. As the town around you bursts into flames, loud cracking noises fill your ears. Turning around you find that the statue had reached down and with a glowing fist seized your armor. Its body was cracking and pieces falling away from the face revealed a single red eye. You hear in a muffled voice “mmmharget fround.” before the glowing fist lifts you into the next dimension.

You fall right onto your head as you blink into an upside down house of mirrors. After correcting yourself you notice it was you that was upside down. Each mirror seemed to be supported by dark mahogany or light oak in a seeming pattern that reminded you of a child’s maze. Taking note of your reflection you break a small smile at how preposterous this whole thing had been so far. And notice the other you wasn’t smiling back. Its face had the wrinkles of constant frowning and could even be said to look unamused. Moving unnervingly to the next mirror you’re greeted by yourself once more except with a familiar woman both of you gazing happily into each other eyes. This mirror shatters before you into pieces on the floor, the eye of the girl looking up at you. The previous mirror appeared to be frowning more so then before. The next mirror seems to be laughing hysterically at you and had on a similar outfit to that of a thief. Its eyes were cold and soulless yet it filled itself with mirth. Something that made you sick, yet intrigued at what the next mirror held. Moving forward you see a charming young girl with dark raven hair firing a bow into the side of the mirror. The thief in the next mirror nimbly dodges the arrows as they fly on to impale the poor frowning Vincent whose frown deepens threatening to overwhelm his face. Seeing all these “you’s” propels your interest and you spin around to face a mirror behind you seeing it was a mahogany framed one. The Vincent inside was far more ominous then the previous ones. Its body engulfed in black flames and dragon scale armor. The demonic sword fully engulfed your arm forming a wing behind you and masking half your face demonically. He smiles with sharp bloody teeth and winks at you saying one short line, “See you soon.” Reeling back from this you turn and start to get away from this reflection as fast as you can but collide with another mirror coming to an abrupt stop. This was by far the most unbelievable reflection of all. In it was a full sized bear wearing a green ranger outfit and a tan hat. Breathing on the glass it writes with a bloody paw, only you can prevent forest fires. As if things couldn’t get more confusing you turn and find a reflection depicting 4 Co. “Do not worry I’m not you, I am simply everything else. As for you, I like that one the best.” He raised his hand and pointed at the bear across from him as the entire room shattered around him like glass. “Dimensional calibration in progress, please hold… to something.” The floor beneath you shatters and you fall into the next dimension.

Landing on a conveyor belt you don’t have time to look around as machines begin prodding at you with odd attachments. Dodging the bladed one you roll onto the floor beside the belt and get a good gaze at your surroundings. Torsos were being brought through with mechanical spines dangling down. Each Torso embedded with a mecha heavy industries logo and set up differently than the last. At the next station heads were being attached and this disturbed you to no end as you watched Perrian’s characteristic blond head gets attached to what appeared to be Nuku Nuku’s body. With an amalgamation of both Perrians and Nuku’s voices the oddity turns and says. “Oh hey Vincent, when did you get here?” As it passed by a camera loud sirens went off and the conveyor immediately dropped the monstrosity into a pit erupting with searing heat. The screams of the creature echoed back through the tunnel as the skeleton of 4 Co. climbs out of the pit and claws at Vincent with a glowing hand. “TTTTarget found…” And suddenly the background of this dimension burns away behind you.

Opening your eyes you find yourself in a rather familiar environment, though a bit behind the times. A large group of wagons lay tipped over some caught on fire. Strewn about are the corpses of friends and acquaintances alike, the tiny form of Morty crumpled sadly alone. Beside one wagon you see a dark winged figure you instantly realize was the reflection of yourself from earlier. It turns its head to gaze at you slurping up the remainder of a bunny it was eating. “I told you we would meet again, ignorant meal. I hope you’re prepared to die, this blade demands more blood!” It said sneering through bloody teeth. One of the wagons behind the evil Vincent explodes revealing 4 Co. Who was only thing standing where the wagon had been. “You again!” Your evil reflection yells, as it charges toward 4 Co. The android says quite calmly “Recalibrating dimensional properties.” And the world pulls away from you as you walk steadily toward a new dimension.

The tavern floor felt cold on your face as you opened your eyes to see the legs of two people conversing. “My dear your voice is as enchanting as a thousand gold coins tingling into a pauper’s pocket.” The girl began to giggle obviously fascinated with the familiar voice. “Speaking of gold, would you like me to show you a little secret?” He said in a voice obviously denoting his intent to progress anyway. “I’m a master alchemist and this here will cause a chemical reaction within anything, making it become gold. I use it sparingly because it would make gold’s value very low if I did this for everyone. I feel you’re special though so I need to do this for you.” With a creaking noise you suddenly hear metal footfalls on the floor and Talos’ angry growl. “You fool! Everyone out of the kitchen, sorry miss this is for your own good.” The sound of the girls scream and glass shattering made you sit up suddenly. Watching Talos bolt from the room you see the cook pot of the lady shaking as though it was going to explode. 4 Co. noticing you kicks you toward the window saying “Recalibrating dimensional timeline.” The last thing you hear is Talos saying “Whatever you hear…” ((You now know it, and you can’t unknow it! Mwahahaha!))

The battlefield seemed the same to you as you wondered whether what you saw and heard had really happened. Small wounds from 4 Co.’s fantastic trips remained giving you the first proof it had really happened. The second was that as you looked across the battlefield at your foe, his right arm appeared blackened and smoking. Suddenly with a “clunk” the whole arm fell to the ground, fingers twitching. “Logic detection system failure, lesson not found.” Turning to you he tilts his head and says “Did you learn anything?”

4 Co. Beta 0.2.1
Special Attack: Vincent
Action: Stunning Blow - Vincent (Dice for success.)
HP: 28/35
AP: 0
MP: 2

Vincent stands, shakily at first, but with ragged breaths he manages to keep his feet. "You..." Vincent says, his voice trembling with rage as his mind flashes through everything that happened to stop on one, lingering image: the reflection of Iris and himself shattering like so many of his dreams... "You dare...how do you know about that?! HOW DARE YOU PLAY WITH MY MIND LIKE THAT!!!" Vincent screams in awe inspiring rage. "I'll kill you!" Vincent charges forth, brandishing the demonic sword in all its evil glory. He takes a mighty swing, not enough to penetrate the armor of 4 Co, but more than enough to shut the android down simply from the massive internal damage. Panting, Vincent takes another step, steadying himself and holding his head in his hand. "What?...What's going on?" Vincent says, confused. Vincent looks up, seeing Perrian in the distance. Vincent can feel it, the power of the sword had dropped so dramatically that it was barely able to keep ahold of him anymore...could this be his chance? "Perrian!" Vincent shouts, "Perrian, use your power! You can end the curse! Please...save me from this!" Tears fill his eyes, blood-filled and full of unimaginable pain. "Hurry! Before it regains control!"

Vincent
Sword Ability: Blood Sacrifice (14 hp to bring attack to 30)
Attack: 4 Co (30 damage)
Action: Smash (4 Co)
Hp: 17/55
Ap: 0
Mp: 2



Vincent: 0/55 burning_eyes
4 Co: 0/35 burning_eyes
--Gravity Blade: 0/25 burning_eyes

((Good fight 4 Co...and holy sh** that was a helluva post. I'm bookmarking that one......Oh, and Perrian. The power Vincent is refering to is just your healing ability. He needs the holy energy to release the hold of the demonic sword. Have fun!))

Vincent: +1 Tie
4 Co: +1 Tie

Vincent's body burns in protest as the holy energies first hit their mark. Growling in defiance he begins to feel the desired effects: in all their excrusiating glory. The many tendrils binding the sword to Vincent's arm begin to retract, grinding their way out of his flesh and bone. Vincent falls to a knee, the pain quickly becoming more than even he can take. Till Vincent feels the once familiar energies that once flowed through him. Now, combining Perrian, Luljeta and his own holy energies the Demonic Sword lets out a deep, thunderous roar of protest before the last of its many tendrils is forced from Vincent. Quickly Vincent takes the sword and places it hurridly into the magically formed sheath on his back.

Vincent, his mission done and his body and soul at last freed from the curse of the sword, finally succumbs to unconciousness. He pitches face first into the ground below him, where he whispers one last thing to Perrian: "Thank You...my friend..."

((All participants in this battle will get a complementary 100 chips reward. It will be added to your character sheets. Have a nice day. mrgreen ......Begin the roleplay of the aftermath! I always love that...))

Suddenly, Lazarus comes into sight, doing some sort of slow, strange side step. As he nears the area more, it becomes clear that his side step is actually a dance, that deals with shuffling of the feet, and extravagant hand gestures. The last thing noticeable is that he is not wearing a stitch of clothing.

From somewhere through the air, a strange combination of voices chant, "Ha....ha....ha....ha.... Stayin' Alive... Stayin' Alive..."

Foir you see, Vincent... The nightmare is never truely over!

(( rofl mrgreen ))

(( eek burning_eyes ...my god...I hope that's a joke post. I don't even know how to respond to that...ugh.))

Perrian sighed and shook his head. He slightly laughed. "I am sorry, but this is not anything like a disco place...and this is no time to be dancing. Maybe try dancing in the town square or what used to be the tavern? That might be a good place." Perrian said.