”Tomlin!” Oberon called out when finally caught sight of the alley cat. It was difficult to figure heads or tails of everything with so many auras around, and -
“Oort? s**t, are you two okay? Skadi’s here somewhere too. She texted me a while ago, but I haven’t heard from her again. You said there was a youma?” he quickly asked, not wanting to hold anyone up from trying to get the starseed back.
There was no denying that Oberon had a fascination with youma, and as much as he wanted to observe it from a distance, he knew that there were more important things; like getting a starseed back before it ate or destroyed it.
First thing was first, they needed to figure out something to either distract it or call its attention. And if he and the other two remained out of sight, that would be even better. Oberon didn’t have offensive magic, so the most he could do was try to make use of what he had in front of him.
“Give me a minute, I’m gonna check in here to see if there’s anything we can use,” he told the two as he pulled himself up onto the window ledge of what looked like a dentist’s office. Surely there would be something useful in there.
“Close your eyes,” he told the two, not wanting them to get glass in their eyes as he dug a utility pen he carried with him from his pocket, using the tip to press against the glass, shattering it as it was intended to work. He reached his hand up to unlock the window and pushed it open and slipped inside to see what he could find.
HP: 150 / 150 PER: 15 + 11 = 26 Effects: --- Chemicals from funeral home: Causes up to 2 targets to lose 1 turn. Can be used two times. Has been used once.
Coming from Green Zone to respond to Tomlin’s call. Searching the dentist’s office.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 8:20 pm
(Wow, maybe if I can actually roll dice correctly.)
Keberos ran, as fast and as hard as he could, for the Verizon store, and for what had to be the starseed-carrying youma. Along he way, he spotted a heavy-looking chunk of broken brick -- and he scooped it up. For an Eternal, it wasn't all that heavy, and he figured it would make a better youma-dusting weapon than his fists.
As he got closer, he spotted a familiar head of iridescent hair, and he smiled, faintly.
He should have known -- of course Hvergelmir would be here, where the danger was greatest and there was a soul to save.
He made a last, quick leap, to land in the alley with her and an unfamiliar Eternal, and turned his eyes upward --
And for a moment, he was seized by panic.
His memories of his time in Negaspace, when Schörl had left him to fester in darkness while he detoxed, were fragmented, from purification and from...well. Trauma, he supposed.
But he remembered Barbary, coiled around his legs, keeping him too drained to move.
And when the panic passed, he was seized by fury.
He hefted the brick, as hard as he could, directly at the beast, careful to aim away from the terribly fragile starseed.
He would see that thing dusted. and he hoped Schörl felt it. He hoped it <******** hurt.
HP: 130/200 ATK: 15 DEF: 5 DMG: 33
Infinities
FRIEND
Shazari
YOUR LOYAL PUPPY HAS RETURNED
Ivynian
s-sorry, barbary
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 8:36 pm
Guine
Oberon
Dentist's office
10 PER (pass) The counters looked clean, sterile. The area sported a much cleaner look than the surrounding area, giving most the impression that it never belonged in that neighborhood. Polished utensiles remained sealed up in their plastic covers, chairs looked wiped down and clean, and the reception area sported a plethora of posters advertising dentistry. But the utensils themselves often promised pain and agony for anyone, so they might prove a useful weapon here. (Packs of utensils do 10 flat damage, cannot be modified by ATK and must be used with an accuracy roll. One use per package, and one package available.)
20 PER (pass) While the utensils themselves proved sharp and daunting, there was more to find in the depths of the dentist's office. Beyond tongue-shaped chairs and x-ray machines, at the far end of the rooms sat a storage container full of gas containers. Most sat in the USED section, while one remained fully useable. Grabbing this canister might be unwieldy, but it promised some viable results. (Causes 1 target to lose 2 turns. Can be used two times. Must roll accuracy on target for use.)
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 8:45 pm
Barbary
So many energies. Why were there suddenly so many energies?
And the building grew arms. Not really alarming, usually, given things that went on in the Rift. Toothy, hurtful arms, and Barbary hunkered and fluffed. Then something else piffed into itself. Then a brick mashed. It was hailing? Why was it hailing bricks?
This was no way to prorect the starseed for mistress. With huge hurtful hard things flying out of eeeeverywhere. Ashes clotted off paws. Barbary dug in, pushed for the summit ledge of the building. Crawled over the top and shook off. Hopefully less hard things here. But there were enemies. Better to make a break for it- run for cover and the other side of the roof!
STATS
100 HP - (40+14+33) = 13 hp 8 DMG to targets per round until vanquished. Carrying a starseed.
Hver and another senshi were with her, and Scylla's relief was overwhelming. But then the .... the damn FLAT youma clambered up, and over, and Scylla backed up, and jumped after him. <******** senshi strength let her jump up on buildings, let her run faster than she could as Jada. It was going to get her up. And up. She scrambled, not caring much for any attempt at being decent, probably flashing more to the world than she ever had before, in some strange parkour youma chase.
THERE.
Rage-fueled, she stamped her way towards the youma, practically steaming, and attacked, again. Desperate rage and anger and more fear- too much fear. She took out every bit of desperation she was feeling, every emotion she'd been building, and smashed her feelings right into that damn youma's face. "That starseed is not for you. BAD youma."
"Kerberos!" Hvergelmir called out in pure, dizzying relief as he appeared at her side, a huge brick chucked high in the air at the youma. "Thank God you're okay."
The youma began climbing, and the sailor soldier with the tentacles gave chase. Hvergelmir was right behind her once again, wheezing a bit, but powering through the ricochet jumps needed to gain the roof. Kerberos, she assumed, was right there with her, too, now that they were reunited. With the three of them handling this, she felt hope and profound relief. They could do this. It was only one youma.
And then another of the sailor soldier's tentacles smashed into the youma, seeming to finish it off. The starseed was loose. Hvergelmir ran in for the starseed, snatching it up -- and peeled back into a run, tucking the starseed down the front of her dress for lack of any pockets and for the sake of ample protective padding. It still felt warm -- hopefully that meant still alive, and not just warm from youma proximity.
She ran. Her breathing came hard.
"Let's go!" she called back to Kerberos and the other sailor soldier, another leap taking her off the rooftop and out of view, back toward where they'd left Scholomance's body.
HP: 200 / 200 DMG: N/A PER: N/A Effects: THE BEST WAY TO TRAVEL, SCHOL. EXIT YELLOW ZONE TO RED ZONE.
QUOTES:
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HVER'S REALLY GOTTA CATCH YOUR NAME
Ivynian
I'M SORRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Noir Songbird
LET'S GO PUPPY <3
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 9:30 pm
Eternal Sailor Kerberos of Asphodel - outie
Kerberos watched as the Eternal scrambled after the youma, itching to get in another hit on it himself -- but if it was here, its mistress undoubtedly was, and...and he owed her so much, really, so he would save his energy and his anger for her.
Hvergelmir had the starseed, now, an all that was left was to get it back to whoever it belonged to.
"With you," he said, and he took off, matching her pace - if anyone tried to stop them, he had plenty of magic left. They'd regret it. Rather literally.
The Cosmos knight was on Scylla's heels, and it was an incredible relief, both her presence and the other senshi. Scylla paused, seething out fury briefly, her limbs shaking with exertion. The knot in her gut wasn't coming unfurled, the concern and the overwhelming fear.
The starseed was grabbed up, tucked away, and Scylla blew out through her nose, pursing her lips, and stared down at the stain on the ground. It had been sheer luck that someone had noticed the youma. Hopefully her friend was still where he should be,
Twisting, she followed after the knight and senshi, racing back to where they had come from.
HP: 110/200 Atk: 15 + -- = N/A going back to red zone. Def: 5 Effects:
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we're coming with your starseed, gorgeous
ivynian
sorry
shazari
Noir Songbird
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 7:10 am
Captain Quartz
Quartz gritted his teeth. This was, he told himself, for wisely selfish reasons: because he didn't want to fight Thraen and his cat partner. The ability to spare some children from becoming Schörl's newest monstrous experiments was merely a bonus, certainly not something he'd be foolish enough to allow as his chief motivator.
No, self-preservation was important. The most important.
Either way.
Idrialite landed beside him, wary but sensible enough not to take a combat initiative.
"Captain Quartz," he introduced himself. "Press-ganged." He glanced to the side. "Lieutenant Idrialite. Conscripted."
He might have continued -- but where the eternal soldier was moderate, and offered Quartz back a feint just as easily dodged, his Mauvian alter ego was . . . well, an alter ego in more ways than one, evidently not in lockstep with Thraen himself. The cat vaulted through the air directly at Quartz, sinking teeth and claws into bare flesh. Quartz stumbled back several steps. There was a metallic clink of something snapping, a rattle of ornamentation. "********!" Quartz yelped, spear going to one hand as he reached to grab the creature by the scruff of its neck and and tear it free before it could divest him of a n****e or two. It came free in his hand, a wriggling mass of fluff with claws sticking out at shifting angles (did cats really have skeletons, or just figurative representations of them?), and rent a bit more flesh as he pried it loose.
The Mauvian had a section of Quartz's jewelry dangling around its neck like a little necklace, tinkling merrily like tiny chimes as Quartz held the cat's body outward from himself. "For ******** sake," he muttered, shaking the hair back out of his face.
"More than children can die on swords," he said gloomily. "And worse than death, in the Negaverse. We can't let you pass here unchallenged. Please."
Despite not particularly wanting to (the thing had tried to perform feline-assisted plastic surgery on him!), Quartz tossed the Mauvian back to the sailor soldier -- but slowly, in an underhand lob designed for catching.
Her landing wasn't as graceful as she would have liked, even if her hair fluttered impressively behind her, pooling around her on the ground when she landed in an uncomfortable crouch. The bottoms of her feet hurt, shock of hitting the ground with more force than she expected vibrating through her legs. Behind her, up on the roof, she could hear the boy yelling at her.
Criticizing. Questioning.
Her voice was firmer, louder, than she expected when she tipped her head back to look at him while she waited for Tyrus to join her. "We fight for the cause, for Metallia." For Obsidian, she thought more privately. "Besides, you don't know if you'll win if you don't try. You're automatically the loser of everything you walk away from because you think you might not win." Or couldn't, which was likely the case here, but damn if the corrupt wasn't going to try.
She could see the ball of fluff that had leaped off to join her, shifting on her heels she opened her arms to hopefully catch the cat to save him from an uncomfortable landing like her own. Behind her, on the battlefield she could hear the chaos and her heart fluttered in her chest with anxiousness. They needed to hurry, something went wrong.
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HP: 110 DMG: 0 Effects: --
ATK: 6/ DEF: 3
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 7:50 am
Tomlin, Guardian Cat
His message sent, Tomlin stared up at the youma on the wall, unsure on the best way to proceed. It wasn’t eating the starseed, so what did it have it for? It wasn’t attacking at anyone as he watched it, either, just climbing… sneaking. But the aura was powerful. The urge to fight weighed up against the need to not unleash that thing on Oort and the other chibis nearby. Well, if it could climb the wall, he probably could, too.
Friendly auras were converging on his position, at speed. Apparently the cat communication device was super-effective. Eternals and a knight descended on the narrow alley, and Tomlin pressed himself against the base of the alley wall, thoughts of climbing up himself dying under the hail of found objects and tentacle.
A more familiar super senshi joined them as well.
“Oberon!” he greeted with a slow blink of copper eyes, and a tilt of his head towards the youma in question, flattened like a skinned thing above. It was still moving despite the barrage. “I’ll keep an eye on it,” he responded, ignoring the order to close his eyes. The glass fell around him, and he moved even further back under the window ledge, out of the way. The ginger cat didn’t want to get hit with any of the shards raining down, glass or brick or electronics. Definitely not calamari.
Just when he thought he might have to follow Oberon into the building for safety, the youma made it over the crest of the roof, and the senshi and knight followed, leaving settling dust and quiet. The chaotic aura went out.
The cat frowned, checking on his remaining companions.
“A knight they’re trying to corrupt,” he repeated what the be-tentacled eternal had called out earlier. Explained the frenzied offensive. Had they recovered the starseed?
Oort had followed after Tomlin because it was clear, at least to him, that the Lieutenant wasn't about to start anything and there was more important things to worry - like the bright light.
He followed Tomlin across the road and down an alleyway which, whilst narrow, wasn't so narrow as to inconvenience him...
And then Tomlin suddenly stopped, copper eyes looking up something against the wall of a building, Oort's reddish eyes looking up in an attempt to follow - because his friend was warning of a youma.
The star cat was already calling for help when Oort managed to spot movement, his reddish eyes serious - because Tomlin said that the thing had a starseed - one of the soul crystal things-
Like back at the whole Negaspace thing...
He wasn't expecting help would come so soon, the sudden rush of auras whilst welcome kind of a little overwhelming.
There was a familiar face amongst those that descended, Oort managing a nod at the brown-haired senshi "Yes I'm okay" he said "There was a Lieutenant, but she was kind of wheezy and didn't do anything and then Tomlin spotted the youma" although he hadn't had to do anything.
"I haven't seen Skadi though" he admitted as he dutifully closed his eyes "Maybe we should try and find her."
Although there was the starseed as well which was making him hesitate - because the starseed was important too.
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Oort ATK: 7 Oort DEF: 10 Oort magic effects: Basic - ATK +5 to 1 target for 1 post Super - ATK +5 to 1 target for 2 posts
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 11:31 pm
Chibi Lepus of Rabbits
In the blink of an eye, Onnie went missing, and Lepus was on her own. Normally, this wouldn't be an issue, but with Etoile also currently missing in action, it was prudent that she found her missing partner(s) before a youma ate them or something of the sorts. With all the commotion going on around them, though, Lepus wasn't certain where to start. Surely, Onnie couldn't have gone very far, right? Therefore, it wasn't necessary to send her a text, right?
"Onnieeeeee," Lepus called out, as she started her search "Where did you go??"
HP: 150/150 DMG: n/a Effects: n/a
Daekie
COME BACK TO LEPUS ONNIE how is she supposed to defend you and look cool while doing so if you wander off
The voice of the General came through his crystal as he was gearing up to attack Cassiopeia again, making the Lieutenant hesitate. On one hand the General called the withdraw so either they had won the prize or lost and it was now time to leave either way, but on the other hand he hadn't done much beyond punch one Senshi once. That wasn't really doing any work nor causing much damage to the Order but the General did just call for them to back off. Decisions, decisions. He cast his gaze around the area at the different players in position, though he did keep his attention to those closet to him in case any of the Order members attacked. Not too far from them there had just been a swarm of Order attacking a youma and once it was dusted most of them left but there were still enough in the area that it would be a problem to stay and fight with only Carnotite as immediate backup and he didn't know what the half youma's fighting abilities were like in the first place.
"General Schörl called in the retreat, I suggest you drop the fight against the kid and get out of here." He told the other Lieutenant after making his decision, something that didn't take very long at all. From here the quickest way out of the battle wasn't very far but the quickest way back to his apartment would be to head through the area that had been figured to be the hot zone. To avoid more fighting he should head out away from his apartment and swing around back but instead out of curiosity he fully planned on just heading straight through the hot zone. Sure it could mean that he would get pulled into more fighting in the long run but he wasn't necessarily apposed to that thought seeing how his own fight was lacking.
"Maybe we will meet again and I'll kick you a** then." He said as parting words to the starry Senshi then disengaged from the fight and quickly made his way to the red zone. While he was moving, he was sure to give any of the lingering Order members, Senshi, Knight's, and Cat's alike, a wide berth so they didn't think to engage him in battle.
