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 Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:17 pm
And while she was doing that, Joe decided to slash at a weak point in her armor with a big old, flaming, explodey sort of attack.
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:48 pm
"a*****e!" Paul shouted at Joe, tumbling through the air before Darius told the air that tumbling was absolutely unacceptable. In a moment Paul was rising again, shooting at the face and legs and whatever he could. "Way to get me in a fight I'm not set to win!" On the other hand, the neck snapping back seemed like a good thing.
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:14 pm
Jessica deflected the slash with a twitch of her shoulder plating. A bit of the shell was sheared off the back. A simple arts-demonic blast of wind deflected the bullets around her as she used a claw to cover her face.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:17 am
Joe slammed the Saber into the face claw, baseball bat-style. And you can bet there was an explosion.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:36 pm
There comes a point where even a highly skilled or high-powered mage really just can't block something.
First, Joe was sapping about half of the latent magic in the air - what little was let in by the magic-halting walls.
Second, Joe was using all of that mana to make a very big explosion, which Jessica had not expected in light of that it would be on Joe as well. She wasn't counting on Joe just shoving the effects away with more mana.
Third, the beehive barrier doesn't do much about kinetic energy, which Joe had much of.
The blow sent her flying off the balcony. She groaned as she stood again.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:41 pm
Darius leapt at the opportunity, flying forwards with some sort of a battle cry that made it somewhat difficult to focus one's eyes. He liquified, encased Jessica as best as he could, then set off a series of detonations inside of himself in order to increase damage dealt.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:56 pm
Jessica shot out a tendril from beneath one of her shoulder plates and grabbing the rail, swinging out of Darius' path, though she winced in pain at the strain on the thin tendril.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:01 pm
Joe was already in the air, slashing at the tendril with a gleeful shout.
((Was that hit a kindly reflection of Jenner's entry?))
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:18 pm
((Actually, no. I check all the RPs in chronological order - I will never see a new post in BD before RotC, or in WoP before Syndicate, etc., unless I skip one, like Syndicate, which isn't moving right now, at all.))
Jessica released the tendril and tried to pull it back in; Joe still clipped the end off, causing Jessica to cry out in pain as she fell to the ground.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:25 pm
Joe landed on her, as best he could anyways. The mana-sapping continued as Joe alternated between stabbing, slamming, Earth-crushing, and Fire-punching at extreme levels of boominess.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:33 pm
Jessica tucked her legs under her and launched Joe upward; with nothing against which he could brace himself, he flew as she regained her footing.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:21 pm
Darius prevented her footing by leaping in from the side and bringing down an explodinating fist upon her.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:31 pm
Darius' large, telegraphed attack was easily prevented in Jessica's usual manner, which was I WILL THROW MANA AT YOU UNTIL YOU HAVE NO ABILITY TO MOVE ANYWHERE BUT AWAY.
It worked.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:45 pm
Hmm. You couldn't exactly blame Darius, though. It was how he'd won all those wars for Xerxes. Well, except for Thermopolae. That was a bit of a botched thing.
It had to be said, though, that Jessica would tire long before Darius, who was still increasing in strength instead of decreasing. Even if the walls were mana-proof, the earth was all around them, and Darius could draw power from it.
It wasn't fast, but his energy was going up and not down.
He skidded back, Paul still on him, currently on his shoulders. Neck-shoulder thing. Whatever.
Paul started shooting again while Darius started advancing.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:57 pm
Jessica began to swing around the room by tendrils, evading Darius while she waited for something.
The mana null-signatures were moving around.
A man in all white, with three triangularly arranged purple lenses on his tight helmet, entered. His head tilted as he looked around. Two more, dressed identically, even down to the two-part decorative cloth tasset on the sides, followed. They looked around and each one raised a hand; two raised their left hands, one his right. Each hand was coated by plates of metal and circuitry extending from within the sleeve.
Jessica, it seemed, had fled for the time being.
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