Liryn looked surprised as a sixth person joined their group, purplish eyes looking fascinated by the mid air twirling - well at least they did until the twirling turned into sudden flailing at which point they just looked concerned.
"Are you okay?" he asked her even as he wondered what a 'yo mama' was, because the crash-style entrance looked painful.
Trying to shield four people on his own was difficult, but it hadn't stopped him from doing his best to do so, from in his small way trying to buy the group some time.
He hadn't counted on the addition of a fifth person to shield, but it didn't stop Liryn from trying to do so anyway even as the strain of doing so was enough that he'd stopped moving in the attempt to keep all his attention on his self-imposed task.
He had turned his head and turned it slightly as a female voice told him that there was no Ida there and recognised her as the red-haired super senshi (Megrez) that had taken set against the Cosmos squire in that horrible warehouse that a white-haired senshi prince and his super senshi brother had filled with Lieutenant bodies - the one that Chaldene had slapped and he had wanted to n**, but with his focus caught up with trying to block the auras of the four senshi and the squire he wasn't able to do more than narrow his purplish eyes slightly, although it didn't seem like she was about to rant at anyone - at least not right now it didn't.
His attention was drawn next to the red-haired eternal senshi and especially to the glowy markings that appeared to cover her from head to pretty much foot "Your aura - your aura's like Ida" he said. The markings reminded him of Ida too, although the red-haired eternal seemed to have so many more of them.
And then there was a blond-haired eternal crouched in front of him, the one who had been speaking and drawing up a plan "I can help with youma" after all he'd played youma bait before and had teeth and claws - claws being generally pretty good for dealing with youma. "But I'm also trying to hide your auras and buy you some time from whatever's out there." He looked up at the tall blond senshi his voice serious as he admitted "But there are five of you, I don't think I can keep it up" before adding "And I can't help with youma and aura block" not when the latter took up all of his focus.
If the blond eternal made moves to scoop him up then he would find Liryn not unwilling given that the little tabby bobtail rather liked being picked up and was used to shoulder-riding, he didn't make moves of his own accord though, too caught up in trying to continue to block the five auras.
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[Liryn is continuing to try to aura suppress everyone to the best of his ability, but 5 auras = cat strain xD]
Four youma and a captain emerge from the forest's edge!
A Captain steps out onto the scattered rocks that had once been the tower's forest-facing wall. Her brown hair is pulled up into a tight bun, and the fabric of her uniform is festooned with glittering gold--but the woman herself seems fairly bored. Fairly uninteresting.
For the moment, she is unarmed.
"Would you kindly send someone down here to speak with me as an equal," she calls up, splaying empty hands: look, I am harmless and unarmed. "I don't want this to come to blows. You outnumber me."
The youma at the edge of the forest lifts its porcine head, trots balefully to the side of the Captain. Its mottled brown hide is pricked with long dark spines, like hair. It snorts and noses between the cobbles for something.
"I am sure we can reach an equitable agreement," says the Captain, as another youma creeps from between the trees. It is almost indistinguishable from a fox, save for the metallic golden shade of its fur, and the emerald-green of its enormous eyes. Its massive ears call to mind nothing so much as a golden retriever.
A skittering of stone across the ancient floor precedes the arrival of a moon-faced barn owl in the window. "You see, this is the sacred homeland of one of our own," says the Captain. "We are only fulfilling her last wish." The barn owl shifts, sidles along the crumbling windowsill. Its wings are sharpened steel.
"There is no place for you here," says the Captain, crouching to the ground to gather up a spider the size of her hand and place it on her shoulder. It is an undistinguished white blob, hairless and featureless. "Please go."
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 1:52 am
Eternal Sailor Vespa
It took everything with Liam Dauber not to panic when the scenery around him changed, and it took a few moments for him to finally breath again. One second, he was in his room, fiddling with his notes from the winter intersession, circling dates and preparing to settle in for the night, and the next, the world around him changed! It wasn't his small but cozy apartment- Arian was in the kitchen getting hot chocolate and he had been debating on sneaking in to make his own, but that option was no longer available to him! His room became an unfamiliar ruins, and he had become Eternal Vespa...
But that wasn't why he panicked! He had been whisked away before at the drop of a hat, without warning, but those days were over, he told himself! There were no Negaverse officers that could summon him and he should not have had to go through such abrupt displacements like this, and yet... here he was! "No, no, no..."
He looked down at himself and was relieved not only to see the white in his attire, but there being no multicolored visor to obscure his vision as well. No holes in his chest of forehead, no long blonde locks for him to trip on, no bat wings. He was still pure, he was still Vespa of the White Moon.
It was easy to tell himself this, but harder for his brain to comprehend. He took in staggering breaths, looking at those around him and wondering if he was really the only one panicking at the moment, and the moment he spotted a familiar face, Liryn, he rushed towards the cat. He needed him to verify that he was safe- he needed to anchor himself to something that could not be corrupted or could not trick him!
Before he could even reach the cat, though, the Negaverse captain revealed herself, followed by four youma, and Vespa found it hard to breathe again. She seemed pleasant and willing to talk, but Vespa wasn't buying it. He didn't know who would be around him, or if anyone would even listen to him, but to those that did hear him, there was no masking the terror that underlined his voice. "No, whatever you're going to do here... will hurt others, innocent people!"
He may have been stating the obvious, but it was the only thing keeping him from panicking. Where they coming after him? Where they going to drag him back? He'd fight to his own death before he allowed that to happen!
<******** OFF," Gillitie Squire yelled at the top of her lungs, "this is a Knight's Wonder and the Negaverse has no ******** place here, this isn't evil's playground!" With a huff and a turn on her heel, she moved to turn down the stairs, and -- and hesitated, because there were so many of them here now, and she was confident in her own abilities but that was a lot of Youma. Also, poor Sailor Nassovia would have to be protected, that was another differential and then and then and then --
She contemplated throwing her watering globe very briefly, and then remembered that it was both a stupid idea and that her aim sucked. Turning back to the group, Gillitie Squire began to whisper. "If we go out the bottom of the tower, she's gonna eat us up like we're McDonald's and it's two AM. Bottleneck, y'know?"
But the boy -- the blonde -- he was freaking out, and it triggered something in Gillitie's brain, and she put her hand on his shoulder and kind of awkwardly palmed his fuku. "Hey, dude, it's alright, okay? We outnumber them, it's fine, if you have an issue you can stay with Nassovia or somethin'."
Gillitie Squire of Earth was not great at comfort.
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:39 am
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"... da hell?!" Dallol was so ready to flip a couple of tables any moment now for she was in the middle of working on a paper that was due the following day when she suddenly found herself magically powered up and transported to... well wherever this was supposed to be.
Scanning her immediate surroundings and finding not a single familiar face among those who were already present, she dusted herself off then simply crossed her arms before her chest and waited. Someone, probably one of the Eternal Senshis, was bound to take charge eventually. If it sounded reasonable enough, she would of course go along with what she was told to do. Otherwise... well she had her priorities and the most pressing one was to get herself back to Destiny City as soon as possible and finish up that paper pronto!
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A Captain had made her entrance, along with a panicking Eternal senshi that Megrez recognized from the debacle in the park with Mica. Megrez kind of wanted to ask him how his lady friend (Pasiphae, right?) was doing; she had seemed quite shaken after giving Mica a taste of her own medicine, though Megrez thought that any shakes would be worth eliminating one of the Negaverse's most dangerous members. Of course, there was no time for such a conversation; the enemy was here and asking for negotiations.
Megrez was now quite sure she liked this Gillite. It took balls to tell an enemy to just straight-up ******** off. While part of her wanted to hear the Captain out (it was part of her new, if rather inconsistent, policy to not act out of blind Chaos hate), Gillite had a very good point. If this area was a Knight's Wonder like the Squire was saying, the Negaverse had absolutely no business here. Putting her hands on her hips, she said to the captain, "As nice as talking this out would be, I think at least two or three, probably more, of us are of the opinion that there is no place for you here. And since I doubt you'll be convinced that you should leave like you should, I think we are going to come to blows."
Gillite's concern about the bottleneck was legitimate, though Megrez had some concerns of her own. In her best audible whisper, she said, "Even if there is an issue with a bottleneck, I don't know if staying cooped up in the tower is the best idea. I think we ought to just move out, and fast. That way we have room to move once we hit the field."
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 12:19 pm
"It will hurt no one, on the contrary," says Jamestonite, her sneakers squishing audibly through the rainy muck. "Avalon promised us her Wonder long ago. It is ours by right."
She twiddles her fingers, and draws her hands back beneath her capelet. "Very well," she says. "I will permit you one last opportunity to remove yourselves from this situation. If you refuse, I shall have no choice but to summon more monsters and destroy you."
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 1:26 pm
Nassovia squealed when she heard Lyrin speak.
"You can talk too! Do you know *********?" Because obviously all talking cats know each other.
She squinted as Captain Jamestonite made her offer, but the youma were far more interesting than some lady's ramblings.
"Ooooooooh, that one's pretty! It's all shiny and stuff! Is that what we're supposed to fight? Oh! Oh! That one looks like an owl! I've never seen an owl in person before!"
She heard her name and whirled around to pat Vespa on the back.
"That's right! You can stick with me!"
And then to no one in particular.
"What's a Knight's Wonder?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 1:57 pm
Penthesilea's fist clenched, and she grit her teeth, at the very suggestion that a Wonder belonged to the Negaverse. "Tuat t'en grosse bueche!" She snapped, forgetting for a moment that heavily-accented Cajun French was probably well outside the realm of this woman's linguistic experience.
"There ain't a planet or Wonder in the 'verse that b'longs t'you Nega pieces of s**t!" She wanted, right then, to pull away from the group and jump down and show this Negaverse b***h what-for, but the knowledge that it could compromise their entire plan and be dangerous for the others with them was the only thing holding her back.
It didn't stop her from snarling like an angry, caged animal, however.
"Tuat t'en grosse bueche" = :you have a big mouth," colloquially "shut your mouth"
"That's a shame," says the Captain. "I had hoped clearer heads would prevail." She steps back and gestures to the youma at her side. "Circe, Sunchild, Pwylla. Bring them down."
The piglike youma is faster than anyone could have given it credit for. Also, it apparently can jump very high, as evidenced when it threw itself forty feet into the air with a deafening squeal. Lucky for it, it wasn't the only monster targeting Penthesilea.
Sunchild isn't as fast as Circe, but its yowl is ear-splitting. Even as it screeches, its tiny legs are closing the distance between itself and the group. Inside its mouth are hundreds of tiny crystalline teeth.
The blade-winged owl takes flight, flapping all of the sharp-edged steel of its wings at the party in an attempt to lure them out of their safe zone. Perhaps for the volume of her voice, it's Penthesilea who draws its ire--and its claws.
Spider Personal Youma Jesse [50HP] is out of range! Captain Jamestonite [150HP] is out of range!
The captain returns to the treeline, eyes on the group in the tower.
Health: 150, attacking Owl Youma Pwylla with magic for 17 damage
Megrez took a sort of perverse delight in Penthesilea's anger; seeing her so filled with righteous indignation made her remember what she was fighting for (the world she loved). She was about to step forward and lay a comforting hand on her shoulder when the bizarre acrobatic pig youma and the owl youma made their strikes on her loverfriend. "PENTHE!" she screamed out despite herself, calling up a basic egg. While the super-level eggs would be better in the damage department, she needed something quick to throw at least one youma off of Penthesilea. She then pitched the egg at the owl as hard as she could (since it had sharp claws and seemed to be the biggest threat, though if the pig did any more crazy jumping acts her priorities would definitely change).
The toss seemed to be a success, landing square on its target and doing what appeared to be a fair bit of damage. Megrez did allow herself to feel proud about the accurate hit, though she wished that accuracy would be on her side when she faced human Negaverse opponents. Hey, she had egged a General in the face once...
If there was any valuable lesson he had learned having once been a Lieutenant, it was that being spontaneously teleported anywhere tended, overall, to be an indicator of bad things, and his time as a knight had only enforced this lesson with the vigor of a very angry person rubbing a combination of salt and lemon juice into the cuts of someone whom they have cause to deeply dislike.
This particular instance didn't do much to make him feel even slightly better about it.
It was, well honestly it would have been a really charming place except for the skin crawling auras of charging Youma and the officer who apparently had lead them to battle here.
"More like fulfilling your own ambitions...this isn't a place of chaos." Kairatos growled, glancing to Vespa and Thraen, and last to Megrez familiar faces. One of them he wasn't so sure about... but under the circumstances... maybe there were worse people to have here.
And the fox? The fox was damn impressive for a youma, handsome and toothy, and the pig... s**t. She had certainly brought an good arsenal of youma with her, but maybe he could put this net to better use than just thrashing people with it, even if it wasn't technically meant for such purposes.
It wasn't like he'd be totally without a weapon. More often than not he just used his fists.
"Someone help me get this bird grounded! Pig next!" The fox had teeth, but at least it wasn't shooting forty ******** feet in the air. That was going to be a pain to hit if they couldn't ground these shits.
Praying to... he wasn't even sure who. Cosmos perhaps? Mars? He flung the weighted net at the Owl, hoping to catch and ground it before it changed it's attention from Penthesilea. The egg that she struck it with certainly wouldn't hurt his chances of tangling up the ********. Props for that, Bad Egg.
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Health 150, attacking Vulpine Youma Sunchild for 7 damage
"I SAID <******** OFF," Gillitie Squire howled at the top of her lungs as soon as Sunchild screeched, moving to protect Nassovia -- she was the baby, you had to protect the confused one, that was generally how things worked or else she'd turn evil and kill you all.
Wait, what?
Sunchild already had a bit of a grip, but Gillitie wasn't going to stand for that, so she full-on bodychecked the youma across the floor. It wanted to play? Fine, she'd play. Actual strategy could come later, but Nassovia looked for all the world like a very confused puppy, and attacking that was unacceptable! Could at least attack an actual adult, maybe, or someone who wasn't just basic-level. Regardless, in the middle of those thoughts, she was already on the floor with the youma, and it was only then that Gillitie considered maybe bodychecking a youma was a bad idea.
A Captain steps out onto the scattered rocks that had once been the tower's forest-facing wall. Her brown hair is pulled up into a tight bun, and the fabric of her uniform is festooned with glittering gold--but the woman herself seems fairly bored. Fairly uninteresting.
