Wrigglesworth had failed to do all that much to protect the Reaper, because it was made of wiggly-wriggly bones. It might have felt shame. Might have. But maybe if the Reaper and the Greater Youma BOTH died, Wrigglesworth could say it was the last youma standing.
What a story it would have to tell when it got back to the Rift!
Just because it had failed to protect the Reaper didn't mean Wrigglesworth couldn't be somewhat useful, however. There were many Lights around that sure looked like good eatin'. In fact-- there was one that looksed slightly distracted.
Bones clacking, Wrigglesworth rose up near Hy-Brasil, and then struck at the (knight) Light hungrily. It would grab the Light. It would EAT the Order member, and make the Reaper one enemy safer..
HP: 46/75 Target: Hy-Brasil Damage: 11 Bone Snake: Thick Skin Despite having no visible skin, the snake possesses a stone-like hide that absorbs physical damage. (-3 damage from every physical attack.)
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 1:07 pm
Squire Hy-Brasil - Zone 1
Despite her intentions, it seemed one of the group was not pleased with her arrival. Worth curses and works thrown at her Hy bristled visibly. "You have no right to stand there and dictate what you think others should be doing. Iam using my abilities as I should be! Considering my magic is for healing and not fighting I think Iam doing a damn good job." She glared daggers at Chara. "So how about you keep your about nosed pinions to yourself and let me do my damn job! "
Talk down out of the way, Hy mover to attenation to Obet on though it was obvious she was stI'll ticked at Chara.. "If he can carry you out of here and b***h at others he's fine. Seems your friend could learn a thing or two from you about how to conduct oneself a bit better when help comes along." She commented as the fog began to filter away having done its job. It seemed it had helped some, as the senshi squirmed his way out of his friend's grasp. Perhaps it had helped him fee la little too bold as Oberon tossed the rock pitifully.
Hy raised a brow at him as she stumbled back towards his friend. "I think you should just relax. I didn't heal you enough to head back into battle, but at least you'll be able to walk yourself out of here now. I highly suggest you go see some medical professionals though."
Her eyes quickly assessed the Senshi, noting his wounds. Oh yes, he'd definitely need to see someone to help him patch up.
No sooner had that thought crossed her mind did she feel the sharp pain of something piercing her shoulder and the weight of something pushing down. An involuntary cry of pain escaped her as she was practically pushed down to her knees by the weight of the youma. Even though the creature was made of bones it still weighed a good bit and inertia was its friend.
HP: 109/120 Target: -- damage: --
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Greater Youma // Above Zones 1&2
The youma was circling, gauging the battlefield and who remained standing. There were so many of them and their strength was waning though...
More importantly the Reaper's strength was waning. Murderbird could feel the way his strength was fluctuating, a slight tendril of a bond linking them together from the way their chaos and strength had imbued him with power. A thread that was fading as a knight came into his space and lobbed a fist in his face. Reaper jerked back, the fist cuffing his jaw when he failed to dodge properly. The knight's aspect would leave a burning sensation along his jaw where the skin had reddened from her knuckles.
Balls of lights launched into the air, exploding violently around the Reaper that they were unable to swoop down in time to shield him from, because there were a flock of crows slamming into their body. Reaper received them too and the youma screeched in a way that everyone in the vicinity would feel it in their bones.
As they were pelted with things, they youma sunk lower and lower, returning from it's abrupt fight and closer to the fray.
Suddenly, the youma had made their decision and was dropping suddenly. They feel just in time for Scholomance's whip to come cracking against their bones as they made themselves a living shield around General Labyrinthite. Metis would find herself trapped between their talons, beak open above her as murderbird shrieks with one last shatterdome as they exploded, shards of crystal and bone shooting out towards many in the vicinity.
Their last words were to the reaper whom they had decided to protect. "Carve the path..." Murderbird wheezed, light fading from their eye socket and whatever part of their body remained collapsed to the ground.
Flesh melted from the bird's bones, feathers pooling on the ground beside it's skeleton and some of the bones began to crumble, slowly fading into dust but the youma was old, powerful, and once imbued with too much chaos that while it would not rise again, it would not become dust like the rest.
HP: 0/600 - DEFEATED Target: Oort, Scholomance, Arisnoe, Chara, Nephthys, Proteus, Corvus, Harmonia, Hy-Brasil, Hyperborea, Cassiopeia, Metis, Tomlin, Minkowski, Kiviuq (15) Damage: 31 per target Special Ability: Shatter Dome The greater youma emits a loud screeching noise as it drops into the ground, creating a shockwave ripple that effects up to 25 targets. (Does +22 damage, 1st stage targets are stunned for one turn, 2nd stage targets are disoriented for one turn [-5 attack], 3rd stage targets have no additional side effects, and 4th stage targets only take +20 damage) (As it is it's last attack, Shatter Dome works a little differently this round and is only partially effective! The youma quiet literally explodes shooting bones and shards of crystal. )
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 1:36 pm
General Labyrinthite // Zone ????
On his way towards Scholomance, Labyrinthite was interrupted by the Cosmos knight that had arrived late to the party. He caught sight of her fist in the edges of his whiskey-eyed gaze and had jerked back in an attempt to avoid it. Hyperborea's fist connected with the edges of his jaw, her aspect lighting his skin aflame. His first thought was of Hvergelmir and the future that did not exist - though he wondered if it would - and how her hands had burned upon his skin. Pain blossomed across his face, body recoiling, arm swinging towards the knight uselessly.
All he succeed in doing was putting space between them.
Teeth gritted together, the greater youma's caws loud and vibrating along his core, Labyrinthite had turned with a flash of irritation flickering across his face.
Scholomance and Hyperborea were lucky that the two senshi garnered his attention instead. Arisnoe's lantern flames spawning in his space with enough crack-boom-explosion to render him to his knee. Arms had lifted to protect his face, parts of his uniform singed and smoke curling off of his limbs when Corvus's murder attacked.
Talons bit into the exposed, singed skin from where Arisnoe's flames had licked but Labyrinthite managed to remain mostly upright. It was the feeling of dread that slotted into the spaces between his bones that was hard to shake, pain was temporary, but this -
The need for vengeance, or rather, the knowledge that vengeance had not been sated threatened to overwhelm. One knee was pressed into the cracked concrete of the plant floor beneath him and his foot bared most of his weight as he tried to pull himself back onto his feet. As he did so he could see Scholomance's whip arching, cracking towards him and his arms lifted to brace for the impact.
He mentally, he could handle the pain because he had survived worse, but physically, his body's capacity was waning. Despite the adrenaline coursing through his veins, Labyrinthite was not in the primest of fighting conditions but he refused to give up -
The greater youma crashed around him, barely shielding him from Scholomance's attack, even as it began to melt and crumble - projectiles flying this way and that at the surrounding white moon that still remained. It could not protect him from Metis, it lacked the strength.
To the youma's dying words, he said nothing and instead fished out something he had intended on refraining from. In his palm, just before Metis' verbal jaunts got to him, lay a single starseed. The shine was dull, it had been pulled from the body for too long and would not be as potent. He didn't think of that as he popped it into his mouth, tongue sliding the gem between his teeth and jaw clamping shut as it burst into shards in his mouth.
Labyrinthite tried not to think of how his mother's starseed had tasted on his tongue and instead, he focused on the small bit of renewed health it gave him so that when he turned around to Metis everything was in sharper focus.
"People can be around you and you can still be alone, Metis." He sneered, stepping towards her and grasping at the front of her fuku. Her orb shattered against his chest and he snarled. Around him the world warped, flashes of the dystopian future flickering around him overlaid with one he was unfamiliar with. It made him sway. "These people, they're not here for you." He taunted, wearing a grin though he knew she could not see it.
Her magic was a visual onslaught, making Labyrinthite's attention unfocused, head snapping this way and that as he tried to shake free.
"But perhaps they'll mourn you, after." He laughed, a loud maniacal laugh that echoed through the remaining rooms of the building. There wouldn't be a person who didn't hear him, but if they looked for him in what remained of the husk decaying youma they wouldn't find him.
They wouldn't find Metis either.
They would, however, feel his energy signature the dark and twisting coils of a negaverse general still very prominent in the area.
It was just a matter of finding him and his hostage, now.
HP: ???/250 Target: Metis Damage: 0
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 2:25 pm
[[OOC: WELCOME TO THE FINAL LEG OF REAPER RISING!!
THE GREATER YOUMA HAS BEEN DEFEATED! YAAAAAY! UNFORTUNATELY, GENERAL LABYRINTHITE IS STILL AT LARGE AND IT LOOKS LIKE HE'S TAKEN POOR METIS AS A HOSTAGE. UH-OH.
THERE ARE ALSO STILL TWO YOUMA AT LARGE (SIR WIGGLESWORTH AND MR. BUBBLES)
GENERAL LABYRINTHITE HAS TELEPORTED INTO A MYSTERIOUS ZONE (ZONE 19) AND IS BEING A MEANACING JERK TO DEAR OL' METIS. IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S UP TO YOU TO LOCATE AND STOP HIM!
HE LOOKS TO BE ON HIS LAST LEGS OF STRENGTH, ONE MORE GOOD HIT OR TWO WILL PROBABLY DEFEAT HIM, THE TROUBLE IS FINDING HIM!
AS HE'S CLEARLY NO LONGER IN ZONE'S ONE OR TWO PLEASE RANDOMIZE 3-22 TO SEE IF YOU CAN FIND HIM. YOU MUST GET A 19 IN ORDER TO LOCATE HIM.
BECAUSE NUX FORGOT TO SAY THIS EARLIER
YOU MUST RANDOMIZE TO LOCATE HIM, THEN YOU MUST CROSS THE APPROPRIATE ZONES TO GET TO HIM. IF YOU GET 19, YOU'VE LIKELY SPOTTED HIS SHADOWY a** IN ONE OF THE BROKEN WINDOWS (AS ZONE 19 IS ON THE SECOND FLOOR). FROM THERE YOU MAY CHOOSE TO ALTER THE PEOPLE IN YOUR AREA. IF YOU CHOOSE TO PURSUE IT MUST COME IN A SECONDARY POST AFTER LOCATING]]
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Transcended Eternal Arsinoe + With Eternal Corvus
In the confusion of the Greater Youma finally falling to dust and the battle around them his target, the General his cousin had been fighting, managed to get away. Any other day he'd have been straight after him but he'd seen what damage had already been done to Corvus and he couldn't just leave her. He ignored her attack, the birds going straight by him before he caught her arm.
"Corvus ... Sit down, Now." He could see the blood all over her fuku and it was still running red enough that whatever cut there was had to still be oozing. She wasn't going anywhere with that sort of injury.
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She wasn't sure just what her impact was, but she knew the results of everyone who tried to get in one last attack. The youma shattered, and as the shards fell around her, Scylla was already looking around. Themiscyra- where was Themi? And Ara?!
Bright purple eyes took in the missing General- the missing Metis- the snake youma, attacking Hy-Brasil, Scholomance nearby- he'd surely help. The senshi of the Kraken noted down who she saw here- she could check in on them later- Arsinoe, she recognized from long ago, and Corvus. Kallichore, a former court member, people she had missed in the heat of combat, and her companion who had loosed the bats at the youma. Tortuga, from the last mess of a fight she had been in.
Now was only a small pause in the scheme of things; they had to figure out where he had gone. Where he'd taken their compatriot. There was still fighting left to do, and she clenched her fist, wiping at her injuries. She was going to get youma-dust in them, and then who knew what would happen?
There were so many chaos auras now, beating at the senses, and she couldn't sort through them all. So she took a moment to regroup, looking first to see what allies were requesting aid, and next for any flash of a Smelly Candycane General.
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Tortuga, Page of Jupiter - Zone 1
Getting a bunch of people out of the area was basically like herding cats. It was so much easier when he was able to just scoop and run like he did with the senshi or strap people to a backboard and wheel their asses away. Neither were options right then so he was stuck trying to get everyone safely to the hall-room thingy he had been in before ((Zone 14)). The redheaded page was focused on his group but the screech drew his attention and he saw the last moments of the murder chicken before it exploded into itty bitty chicken youma pieces.
"s**t!" By shear luck... or stupidity... Tortuga didn't get hurt by the flying shrapnel, neither did anyone they were trying to get away. Turing back towards their destination, at least the one the page was heading for something caught his eye.
There.
In the second floor, at the front, of the building he had just been in.
Movement. There shouldn't be any movement?
Should there?
"Does anyone else see that?" He pointed out the windows that he saw the shadows in. Maybe he really was going crazy.
HP: 57/100 Target: n/a Damage: n/a
-Anyone who wants or needs some non-magical healing give me a shout out. Tortuga is a EMT and wants to help-
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 10:18 am
Scholomance Knight: Zone 1
The flurry of attacks left Labyrinthite wounded, yet not dead; the knight pondered the good of their 'magic' if multiple eternals and a knight could not bring down a general with relative ease. He had little time to consider it, however, as shattered shards from the greater youma rained down on them endlessly, needling flesh and pelting each of them with the remnants of its body. The radiating shockwave threw him and he struck a wall squarely with his shoulder. In righting himself, he felt the joint popping terribly. Not like that matters much, came the bitter thought. I've got nothing past the elbow on that one.
A whipcrack sounded as he righted the weapon in his hands and started toward the youma's shattered skeleton. Splintered bone formed crowns over the creature's torn frame while ash snaked through in large rivulets. The reaper finished his empty, jabbing speech and stole away one of the eternals that struggled against him. "This b***h," Scholomance hissed.
Youma still circulated the area, leading to a clouded sense of auric energy. So much of the Negaverse felt similar to itself; only by closing his eyes to shut out extraneous input could Scholomance focus enough to try to find the general. Elsewhere, he noted, but still in the vicinity. Still lurking. Still stupid enough to remain in the area when he so clearly lost the brunt of his backup. Maybe he wanted to die tonight. Doing so would pay the lot of them a favor, anyway.
Scholomance started toward one of the rear doors, Gaze scanning every window as hastily as he could, when he heard Hy-Brasil's struggle. A youma struck her, and while logic warned him against abandoning her, his rage nagged otherwise. Labyrinthite left them with a hostage in tow and possessed the gross negligence to stay in the area - they could kill him now, while he was weak and delirious. They could end the moronic chaos that he loosed on the city easily.
Or he could stay behind, be a good ball and chain, and save his girlfriend. Like he was supposed to.
He needed to compromise with himself. "Can you handle it?" He called to Hy-Brasil, though he could not keep every last scrap of anger from his voice.
HP: 104/150 Target: — Damage: —
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Victory was sweet and delicious. As delicious as the cry of pain that the Light gave as Wrigglesworth bore down on it happily. The bone snake was not light, but nor was it too large for Hy-Brasil to escape- but bones rattles loudly as it reared back up and struck at the Light again.
The Greater Youma was gone, and Wrigglesworth had been unable to eat the last of its essence; that was okay. Wrigglesworth was one of the last remaining of the fleeing Reaper's servants.
It would do what it could to avenge the situation.
Wrigglesworth could yet obtain glory.
Or a snack.
HP: 46/75 Target: Hy-Brasil Damage: 13 Bone Snake: Thick Skin Despite having no visible skin, the snake possesses a stone-like hide that absorbs physical damage. (-3 damage from every physical attack.)
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Sailor Minkowski - Zone 1
Minkowski's only healing spell had failed to work, as unable to focus as she had been. Thankfully, someone else had gone and gotten the chibi out of harm's way, hopefully to provide the healing she had failed to deliver herself. Unfortunately, it left her vulnerable, as she now had no means of healing herself if it came down to it, and no real skill in combat to defend herself, either. Minkowski didn't necessarily regret it- she would always prioritize someone else over herself, especially when they needed it more- but at the same time...
The petite senshi of butterflies did not see the greater youma finally be taken down, distracted as she was, but she felt it. Another shockwave knocked her off her feet, and shards of bone and crystal sliced at her fuku and her exposed skin, leaving nasty gashes that bled, as if to add insult to injury, as if to mock her for her cowardly nature. She shouldn't have gone off on her own... but what could she do now? Hopefully Lenka and Harmonia were faring better than her.
Once more she was incapacitated, unable to get back to her feet. Once more, she wondered if it would have been better to have stayed home. How would she explain this to her parents? How was she supposed to get better at healing if she couldn't even do anything useful? Dimly, she was aware that the Negaverse captain had taken another senshi as a hostage and presumably teleported away, but there wasn't even anything she could do about that.
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Super Sailor Varuna — Zone 14 (leaving Zone 1)
Varuna let out a yelp of pain when the youma snapped at her, but she managed to get away mostly unscathed. At least she wasn’t too close when the flying beast started melting and bones and feathers fell from it, fading into dust as it was destroyed.
Her eyes widened in outrage as she turned to watch as the General who seemed to be the cause behind all of this grabbed hold of a senshi and take her with him.
There was still a youma around, but there was not a single part of her that wanted to stay around and help finish it off. It was a youma, after all. The others would be able to handle it if they could handle the giant bird youma. And then there was a shadow of something, an aura tingling on the edge of her senses. She was not the only one who saw the shadow it seemed.
“I see it,” Varuna said as she quickly approached a Jupiter knight, her voice quiet but her eyes flashing with anger that the General would take one of their own, memories of when others were taken over two years ago flashing through her mind.
That being said, she gave a quick nod to the knight and darted towards the room he’d just come back from.
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 10:41 am
Eternal Corvus // Zone 1
Corvus didn't have the energy to command the shadows to do her bidding again, just as weary from suddenly expending so much energy as she was from the injuries she'd taken from General Labyrinthite's weapon. As the youma exploded Corvus fell to her knees, bringing her arms up to cover her head in order to shield her face. The bone shards and crystal shrapnel shredded her gloves and tore at her stockings. A few sharp fragments embedded themselves in her skin, at least one jabbing firmly into her side. She could breathe, which was a bonus, so there was a good chance the crystal had been stopped by the boning of her corset before it could do anything more than scratch the surface instead of puncturing as deeply as it could have gone otherwise.
When Arsinoe barked at her to sit down and stay put she laughed-- Or rather, she had tried to laugh but the sound came out sounding more like a groan as a wave of pain washed through her. "Don't worry about me. Go get that son of a b***h, or the youma, or..." Denebola. "We don't know if Dene is alright, Arsinoe. A page was carrying her away and..." Leave it to her to worry about anything other than herself.
Not far from them youma was still standing, still fighting. She didn't have the energy to fight it herself but Arsinoe could. "Clear the area and then worry about the wounded. None of us will be safe while there are still youma attacking." Or while the General was still out and about.
Oort finally spotted something ginger amongst some of the rubble.
Or what looked to be something ginger.
"Tomlin!" He called out as he moved closer as the soles of his sandals slapped against the ground. "Tom..."
There was an unearthly shriek, the sound the same as the one from earlier, although the sound seemed much louder
And it was followed by a shock wave strong enough to knock him off his feet as the ground shook and turned unstable–
It was impossible to catch his balance, Oort's breath whooshing out in a pained yelp as he crashed into the unforgiving ground...
And then the yelp turned into a pained cry, as shards of crystal and bone seemed to almost rain down from above.
And whilst it eventually ended, Oort couldn't bring himself to stand up - not immediately.
He felt.. Felt kind of woozy and his legs hurt.
And he knew that he still had to find Tomlin but it was easier to lie still - at least for now.
He'd only take a moment he told himself as he ignored the blood that seeped from scrapes in his arms and oozed from a larger scrape on his leg–
Because just a moment wasn't giving up and taking just a moment didn't mean that he was giving up...
Because he was going to find Tomlin just like he said he would and then he was going to take the ginger star cat back toOberonandChara- just like how he had promised.
