When he got the distress signal, Encke wasn't entirely sure he really wanted to respond to it, for a few moments. He was comfortable where he was, and he was sure plenty of other people would get to it--
That didn't last very long, and that was why Encke was soon where the distress signal was pinging from, one of the power plants, looking very ... alarmed.
There were certainly a lot of youma crawling around here. s**t.
Encke wasn't sure how helpful he'd actually be as a relatively useless "first stage" senshi, as it were, but he could see why the distress signal had been sent out. It seemed he was right, too -- there were definitely plenty of other people starting to get here, though he supposed "plenty" was relative all things considered.
Especially considering how many things were crawling around here.
Dammit. Why couldn't the Negaverse just ... go away or something.
HP: 100/100 Target: n/a Damage: n/a
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:02 pm
[ Text to Denebola: On my way, what's going on? ]
When Arsinoe had received the text from Denebola he'd immediately headed in that direction. He knew she wasn't likely to send out a message unless she really needed help and from the way it just stopped it wasn't her usual message either. It worried him.
As he headed toward the location, still not getting any response from Denebola, he started noticed the chaos signatures. Lots of them.
"s**t.." He still hadn't quite gotten used to his new powers, or the damn wings in his way, and now there was a mass of youma gathered in the city.
Part of her wasn't sure why she was on patrol that night. She was aching from earlier in the week, and her heart was still fragmented after all that had transpired. But still. The Eternal Senshi was out and about, scanning the energy waves she came across for signs that, maybe, just maybe, she could locate Victoria.
She had to speak to him. She had... she had to figure out something.
When her phone began to alert her from subspace that a call was coming in, she summoned it, listening to the digital voice reading out the emergency broadcast put out over Order communications. A distress call?
Frowning, as she could feel no disturbance--and the loss of power through the city was, blatantly, lost on her--she followed the call hesitantly, unsure of what to expect or... really, what she'd even run into. The coins on her loose belt of sorts, tied among the ribbons at her hips, jingled and chimed as she came to a halt, a hand pressed to her brooch as she took in the scene. So many energies, Chaos and Order, though dominantly youma she realized with a raised brow. "This is... unusual," she murmured. No Corrupt Senshi that she could sense, and her shoulders fell a little.
Moving closer into the scene, she spotted a copper and silver tendril aura figure standing on the sidelines, and paused near them, a small smile on her face. "Do you need any help? Are you alright?" She didn't recognize them, from what she could see of them--not that a blob in a shape of a humanoid figure was very defining unless she got closer--but her voice was friendly. And the first stage energy was obvious.
"...have you fought a youma before?" She realized it was a... bold question, but she turned her head towards where more of the youma were prowling, and others were already attacking the creatures.
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Squire Themiscyra of Mars
It'd been in a huff and grumble that she'd gone out for patrol that night. She was still in a hell of a sore mood after... well. After being unable to help her girlfriend when she was attacked, never mind watching her said girlfriend and her best friend offering themselves up to be taken by the Negaverse...
It was a foul mood to be in from the start, and getting a distress call on her ring only could be taken as a hell of a chance to blow off steam and try and just... make up for what she'd failed to do, and ******** up with, last time.
But then, when you're running head-long into a scene, feeling no energies one moment, and getting smacked in the gut with them in the next? It sends the head for a few loops. Blinking her eyes a few times at the energies and scene she was beginning to register before her, she managed to spot a familiar looking figure. Familiar, as in, someone she'd seen kicking a** back at the night that had nearly lost her Eleu and Andro.
"Hell of a mess tonight," she grunted in greeting to the Eternal (Scylla) as she took out a youma. "Themiscyra, not sure we've had the chance to properly meet." She at least managed a warm, if half-hearted smile to the other woman, before turning her attention--and slowly swinging weighted chain--towards another youma that had decided to try and avenge it's brethren. The crystal cracked it's skull, and as she pulled the chain tight around it's neck, it burst into dust. "Why the hell are there so many?"
And the power plant was damaged. Great.
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Sailor Morgan of Gateways
She'd not called for backup when she got the SOS on her phone. Sore from the freaking fights with the corrupts she'd been tangling with lately, grumpy from the annoying hours at work, she'd considered not going.
But then. Had someone gone to help that other senshi the night Kailey had run into her and the Negaverse Captain...
It was that residual guilt that made her get off the rooftop she was perched upon, letting out a low whistle as part of the city was darkened. Well then. That just made s**t a bit more interesting.
Bee-lining the best she could over rooftops, the lack of auras blaring on her mental radar was disconcerting, more so when it managed to ram into her at one point. A Page (Nether Wallop) not far from her put her thoughts into vocalization, or well, at least part of them.
She'd been about to just shake off her unease and run off to dust the first youma she could find... but she paused, squinting hard at him beneath her hood. Was he... breathing ok? "Yo, you alright?" She drew back her hood a bit, at least to actually show the guy her face, brow furrowed a bit as she looked him up and down, taking in the sight of the worn and beaten wooden shepherd's crook he carried. "How useful is that against youma?"
Morgan might have given it a wistful look before flicking her gaze back to him, the short senshi looking up at him expectantly.
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Sailor Cassiopeia of Wonder
The distress call confused her, even if she'd noticed how the power had um. Kinda gone out. She didn't... feel anything out there? She followed the signal on her phone, brow furrowed and nothing making sense. But now and then she could feel other Order auras, ones that, she realized, were going in the same direction, give or take?
So onward she went, confused and concerned. But soon as she crossed whatever line was hanging there, it hit. Cassiopeia winced at the sensation of so many youma, and she winced and backed towards where she saw a collection of knights (Venice, Erebus, Siwa). "H-hey," she tentatively greeted them, a small smile as she flicked her gaze about, keeping an eye out for if youma got too close.
"Any idea what's going on?" Just fight the youma, take them out, and let the civilian crews fix things?
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 1:05 pm
Sailor Ara
Ara was out on patrol as had become a routine for her at that point. Though she noticed something strange about this night, she hadn't sensed any auras yet. By now she had always found a youma or officer or order aura but tonight she felt nothing. It was a little alarming, was something happening. She quickly got her answer as she felt her phone going off from where ever the phone went when she didn't have it summoned. She summoned it to her hand and saw the SOS.
That was enough to send her running in the direction the SOS pointed her. She was going to become a hero and being hero meant answering calls for help so she would not miss this. As she approached she felt more auras congregating, they must have also seen the SOS. She also noticed that the place was crawling with youma, both their physical selves and their gross auras.
She made her way onto the battlefield wondering just what was happening when she saw a familiar face, the eternal she had meet previously, Scylla. She noticed a youma nearby, it was a skeleton dog like creature. It felt weak, she had gotten better about sensing youma power. She gripped her bat tighter and ran at it swinging her bat with her full force aiming at its head. Her strike hit home as the unsuspecting youma's head snapped in the opposite direction from the force of the hit and Ara heard a crack as the monster turned to dust.
She noticed a knight in red (Themiscyra) standing near Scylla that she didn't know. "Excuse me miss Scylla do you know what's going on?" Hoping the older senshi had some answers.
With all the energy signatures muted as he'd gotten closer to the action, even Morgan's arrival made the anxious Earth Knight jump a bit, swinging around with the crook clutched in both hands like a warding crusifix before he relaxed a little. He hadn't seen an agent wearing that many colors, let alone the strange metal framework on one hip. (He made a note to avoid letting her hip check him because that was a bruise he didn't need.) And was therefore probably not going to rip his damn plumbob out.
Right. Youma. Right. He'd have gone with nightmare fuel but youma was definitely shorter. "Well..." he considered, adjusting his grip. "None of them seem to need yanked off stage yet but I'll keep you posted. Otherwise I think I'm shy a dog to make this look really work. So I mean as an overly long oddly balanced panic club... it works ok. But I'd really recommend a Louisville Slugger over the animal husbandry tool that has grandiose dreams of giving me splinters." He pointed vaguely at the dangling metalwork on her hip. "What about that? Does that thing come off or is that like, magically cheating and you get sent to the penalty box?"
He sounded shaky and he knew it, but damnit, he could make banter for days, this was not exactly what he'd spent his life doing. Although man, now that he thought of it, didn't they use crooks to separate a sheep from the herd? Great trick if he had reason to do that he guessed. And the monster in question didn't just eat his crook for his trouble.
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 1:51 pm
Sailor Morgan of Gateways
Morgan had backpedaled immediately a good few steps when the guy spun around quick, her eyes keen on the weapon that she'd rather not thwack her over the head. She was planning on fighting youma, not any of the other Order lot. But when he seemed to at least.... slightly chill--sorta? Maybe? Well, at least enough to not smack her--she got out a snort at his crack on yanking them off a stage.
"All youma, exit stage left," she smirked softly, though she wasn't sure if he was in a mood to bounce jokes. He uh. Seemed to be rambling a bit on the weaponry side, but she still cracked a grin--even if it deadpanned a bit at his mention of the metal at her hip. "I wish this s**t counted for anything close to cheating," Morgan grunted, reaching down to show him by grabbing hold of one the points. It bent easily, a highly flexible metal that, while it held the shape of the skirt cage, it did little as an actual... assist in a fight. "It's just strong enough to be a b***h to hit if I get tossed around in a fight... but tried using it as a weapon before. No dice."
She was still bitter about that.
"I'd be better off stripping off the fabric of the skirt or my hoodie here to strangle someone," she added with a sigh.
Again she glanced towards the battle starting up, noting how a few people were beginning to dust some of the youma. "...why don't you stick with me? My magic's a shield, so if s**t goes sideways I can at least help keep 'em off your back." She eyed him again, not uh... entirely sure he'd be alright on his own.
Encke rubbed awkwardly at his neck as he watched what was going on ahead of him. Should he go forward and fight them now? Maybe stay back and try and deal with what came towards the edges -- or not?
Or--
Oh. Encke quickly became distracted by the voice that he heard, disrupting his spiraling thoughts. Another senshi? Her outfit was rather elaborate and pretty. She must have been a higher leveled one. That admittedly brought him some relief. He only had two uses of what was ultimately just a nuisance of an attack. A higher level senshi probably had far more offensive magic to work with.
"I'm alright," offered Encke, sheepishly. He offered a wave as a form of greeting on instinct, even if the veil hinted that she might not actually be able to see it. "I have fought a youma before, yes. Not exactly new."
That was a somewhat embarrassing admission.
"Don't like this, though."
Probably for obvious reasons.
Kaefaux
HP: 100/100 Target: n/a Damage: n/a
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 2:57 pm
"Yeah you know that works fine for me." Wallop noted. "I mean hey at least you get magic right? I get the stick. And shoes that are probably going to net me a tetanus shot one of these nights." To be fair there was some degree of insulation between himself and the ground, but he still didn't know how they'd hold up against anything with more determination than a sharp rock to get through them.
"Nether Wallop. I have met a... "Gadolinite" and an "Sabine" so unless you want an annoying nickname I'll skip trying to guess anything from the shield and structural hardware."
It bent so easily he was kinda tempted to call it 'chicken wire' but that seemed like it could wait for less life threatening circumstances.
"So I have no idea what's going on other than that the whole spooky radar thing is on the fritz and I apparently missed some invitation to Freddy Kreuger's birthday shindig. You got any idea what's going on?"
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Super Sailor Deneola & General Labyrinthite in in the front of ZONE ONE (Away from Zones 11-13)
General Labyrinthite could not feel them, the nature of crystals doing their job excellently but he could see the phone in her hand and could hear someone calling her name. "Ah, you called some friends for me," Labyrinthite's head cocked and he took a step forward, taking note of the way the senshi's shoulders tensed. "Too bad they won't be able to save you." Or themselves, really, but that was the point of it all.
To make a statement, to impress his legacy on the impressions of the city and the people who inhabited it. If he had his way, no one would ever forget his name.
"I don't know what you're doing but - " Denebola said tersely, gloved hands balled in fists, feeling her phone vibrate in her hand, a text from one of her friends she was sure but there would be no time to look and there would be no response. "We'll stop you. " We was subjective. She didn't think that she could stop him alone, their tales interwoven together in a power struggle that she had never truly come out on top of.
That had never stopped her before. If she could stare down General-Queen Laurelite and do whatever it took to protect her friends, she could stare Labyrinthite down without giving an inch.
"You were always so stubborn Dragonfly," Labyrinthite laughed, with his bone scythe dragging on the ground behind him before he was lifting it, hefting it up and into the air.
Denebola didn't get much of a chance to move before the blade swung her way.
Her scream echoed throughout the plant, giving a more solid place to pinpoint, if they were arriving on scene.
no response from dene but he'd be able to recognize her scream
pixie nyxie
bestie's screaming, send help
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51!
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 3:18 pm
GREATER YOUMA - ZONE 1&2
The creature was old, something created during the last war with bones and limbs and pieces that had been scattered across the rift until the Reaper had fallen down the rabbit hole. They had not been resting, mind awake and vibrant in the skull who's flesh had long since melted and had not returned even as magic had knitted their bones together and created new muscles to use.
They rank of death and destruction.
Rising to their feet, talons drawing claws into the one tiled floor of the entrance to the plant, the youma stood, neck cracking as they stretched it up with glowing eyes that surveyed the incoming force of white moon soldiers who responded to the girl's call. If they could smile, their beak would have twisted in a grin that matched the Reaper's grin.
Denebola's scream vibrated along their spine and in response, their beak opened wide; a loud, glass shattering screech emitted from their open mouth. It had been so long since they had used any of power or participated in any sort of battle that the potency of the screech's soundwave was only half of what they thought themselves capable.
Some however, would feel the piercing sound to their core.
It could hurt or disorient or even paralyze. It didn't matter, all that mattered was that they had made a call.
Venice has been effected by the youma's screech, it's up to you how and to what extent, but he takes 10 dmg!
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Altais has been effected by the youma's screech, it's up to you how and to what extent, but he takes 10 dmg!
kolina
Harmonia has been effected by the youma's screech, it's up to you how and to what extent, but she takes 10 dmg!
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Tortuga has been effected by the youma's screech, it's up to you how and to what extent, but he takes 10 dmg!
kaefaux
Themiscyra has been effected by the youma's screech, it's up to you how and to what extent, but she takes 10 dmg!
There is now a map on the front page and a minor change in the post form! Please include your "zone" location! The Greater Youma has an AoE attack that varies and I picked targets at random for the time being. You are now free to engage either General Labyrinthite OR the Greater Youma who are in the same zone. Because of it's sheer size, the Greater Youma encompasses both zones 1 & 2! Once people are more firmly placed in a zone we'll have proper targets!
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Mantick - Youma - Zone (will update with proper zone once targets make a decision since the map came up after)
He was neither mantis or tick but some hybrid inbetween with a body that was too long for his liking. Pink eyes blinked as they carried a crystal in their mantaids. His body slunk behind him as he moved, itching and mouth buzzing with the desire to feast on any of the senshi, or knights, that had flooded the area.
Once the crystal was placed, Mantick slunk around head twisting this way and that until they found something - someone rather, that looked particularly delicious.
Insect eyes narrowed in on a knight and senshi pair. There was a quick moment of decision before he was flinging himself over at the knight, second mouth on his belly snapping at anything it could.
HP: 75/75 Target: Scholomance Damage: 15
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the rng gods decided, lmk what new "zone" you're in since I finally got a map so i can update accordingly <3
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 4:03 pm
Sailor Themisto & Sailor Kallichore
Sleet Tempest Snape
Hi, sorry about the wait! I've been working all day, but DON'T WORRY NEPHTHYS, LET'S KICK SOME BUTT HOPEFULLY
Kallichore was relieved, in a way, to see Nephthys. However, this made things more difficult - if the youma became overwhelming, she would send both Nephthys and Themisto away for their own safety.
And things did go terribly wrong - the scream echoed through their heads and bodies, Themisto reeling from not only the sound, but the sight of the biggest youma he'd ever seen. The smaller, more minor youma were the kind of creature Themisto was used to. Not this. No, not this at all. The swarm was bad enough, but Godzilla itself seemed to pull its body from the depths of the earth, shattering the lighting around the place. Themisto braced himself for impact from what he thought would be some kind of sonic ability, but...
Upon hearing Denebola's scream, Themisto took off like a rocket before his sibling could put a stop to it. "Nephthys, please keep yourself safe but... THEMISTO! WAIT! Damn... Nephthys, stay close by if you can. We can't let Themisto go on his own."
ZONE 11 (I'm just plunking them down somewhere hurr hurr) (moving to Zone 1!)
Kalli HP: 150/150 Target: N/A Damage: N/A
Themisto HP: 100/100 Target: N/A Damage: N/A
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Altais, Super of Shockwaves // Room#14 moving to Zone 1 (away from 12,13)
The sound of fighting and arrivals of others made the shockwaves senshi pleased. Denebola was good about making calls, and getting people here and even if he couldn't feel the auras, hearing others look for her was what he needed right now.
He squashed another smaller youma, his fist burning with the chaos it swept through. The first scream, he knew well and moved his body. "Denebola!!" He yelled back, and knew it not to be far off from where he had landed. If anything happened to his best friend, he didn't know what he'd do. The blood pumped in his ears, in his heart, drowning out thoughts until another scream (Not Dene, thank god) echoed through the power plant.
It was so loud and powerful that he clapped his hands over his ears, trying to deafen it. Like the bass in a car though, it vibrated through his chest, gripped at his insides and gave him a sickly chilling feeling through his body. He had never heard such a screech before. He placed his back against the wall next to the outer door to the next room and he knew...He could see a flash of red and the glint of scythe in the air.
He wouldn't have much time, and he wouldn't risk himself and Denebola to his stupidity. Once the nausea and pain disappeared, Altais threw himself in the room, slapping two fist in the ground to the right of where he could see a general (was it a general, the chaos off him was too much, it was so powerful, how had Dene found this creature, they were to close, he didn't know if he would make it), "SHOCKWAVE CRUMBLE*"
He hoped the ripple would hit, if not just to get him and Denebola away from the reaper's reach. "DENEBOLA MOVE."
HP: 110/120 Target: General Labyrinthe Damage: 19
Nuxaz
Altais calls his name and forms fist with both of his hand, bringing it down on the ground. From his hand, There is a more visible effect as the ripples form on the ground, sending out a large wave. The ripples spread out in a 9 foot circled radius around him, for 30 seconds. Everyone caught in the radius, feels as if their legs have turned to jelly, making it hard to move at all. Uses: 2
Wrigglesworth was too far from the Great Youma and the Reaper. It wanted to be closer to the tasty, tasty lights. It wanted to taste, to feed on their pain and their suffering. And maybe to partake in some of the glories that the Reaper would give with his victory and his ascension.
Click. Clack. The bone snake shoved his way through the tiny youma, the little ants, begging for scraps at the tables of their masters, and propelled forward.
It would become a great youma, too. It would devour the lights, and become... strong. And it would start with this one here. A bright light (Enche) with the traits of human food.
Seiana_ZI
Have a youma try and eat you; feel free to move away to the zone of your choice in your post! ;;;;
HP: 75/75 Target: Encke Damage: 0; Miss 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.)
At first, Sailor Gelria thought that there was something wrong with the senshi phone he had been given. It kept buzzing and flashing at him, and when he finally looked at it, it said something about a distress call. What…did that even mean? There was someone…in distress, obviously.
He made his way towards the source of the distress call…a power plant that…had no power.
Well. How was that for irony?
It felt…it felt bad though. It felt thick and heavy with…with something that he couldn’t describe and honestly the feeling made his stomach churn. It was…darkness…? Was this the feeling of chaos? It was only his first or second night on patrol, and so far it had all been absolutely uneventful…but this…
This could potentially be far too much for him to handle.
Of course, when he felt the overwhelming…
Maybe not overwhelming…but…
There were other senshi here…he could feel that plain as day.
And there was one now, one with red hair…b-being attacked by a giant…giant snake?
For a moment, Gelria was torn between turning and just running like hell…or doing something. Now, if he had a rake with him or a shovel…maybe he could have done something a little better, but as it was, all he could do was run up to the snake and…and try to do something it stop it from hurting anyone again. “Yo! Are you okay?” He wouldn’t have been okay. He would have s**t himself.
Maybe he should have just…stayed home and watched movies tonight. This was just…too much excitement for one new senshi. He looked at the other senshi that was with the one who the snake had gone for…she had wings.
What the heck did that even mean? Was she dead? An angel senshi? “Uh…hi. I’m uh…Sailor Gelria…what is going on…?”
Perhaps it wasn’t wise to keep talking when there was a giant snake right there…but hey. He was book smart. Not street smart.
