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 Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:03 am
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Deadhead, the Youma Train
While Chaos and Order alike fought themselves bloody on the office and platform, the prevalence of starseed ripping had attracted a profusion of youma to the trains. They slithered and crawled and coalesced over the top of the transit cars until a thickened, knotted mass wormed into the very plating of the train. The originally black mass soon solidified into a series of organically infused mechanisms, from creating horns that doubled as whistles, to forming deep-seated eyes that bore nothing in their sockets, to emulating teeth from a sweeping grill at the front of the train. Each piece now exhibited a meaty exterior uncannily similar to mottled muscles. Beneath what looked like the ribs of the creature sat a series of holes from which bile, chyme, and acidic fluid were often ejected.
The body of the train still held windows for scanty views of the occupants as it sped by the platform repeatedly. The top portion of the train sprouted spines that arched high enough to nearly touch the ceiling of its tunnel area, and sometimes did to rain down a shower of sparks. Occasionally, membrane sacs that formed the connective portions between the trains would split to reveal an umbilical cord connecting the cars and a surfeit of blinking eyes that watched for attempted activity.
As the train roared past, it loosed a whistle accompanied by a series of inhuman groans to discourage any attempted attacks on its symbiotic energy siphoning. The train also exudes an unbelievable amount of heat, rendering it difficult to approach - however, there seem to be breakpoints that greatly cool the train, and allow for significant damage executed by those of the weaponized persuasion.
Additionally, as the train is a fused mass of youma, it bears weakness to magical attack. Senshi and knight magic executed against the train will find curious repercussions... |
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:04 am
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Rules, Explanations, and tl;dr
_______Rules
Please be courteous to other participants! This event is meant to be fun, and godmodding and bad attitudes are akin to shitting on the birthday cake.
Try not to jump onto the train or otherwise on the tracks. It's instant death. You don't want this.
The train itself has melded with the mass presence of youma to become an organic/inorganic conglomerate.
Your characters are not rejuvenated, but there will be mechanics to release energy back to them (at a cost to your friends :'D)
_______Phase 2
This 'boss' does not have an HP pool. Its defeat is assured and dependent on activity levels!
Everyone around it does have an HP pool. Your job is a little bit easier than the inside part, so you shouldn't have to worry about this too much! Just remember not to stand in the fire.
Remember that the office and pillars exist to hide behind!
Deadhead will respond to your attacks, so be aware of what you throw at it!
Creativity will be rewarded here, along with working together!
If you have a plan, PM me and I will help you work something out!
When HP reaches zero, you pass out! Try not to fall onto the tracks. There will be instances that can recover HP for player characters, so keep an eye out for these in case you exhaust your health pool!
HP Pools
Civilian: 80
First Stage: 120
Second Stage: 140
Third Stage: 180
Fourth Stage: 225
_______tl;dr
Egads! While everyone was fighting, the youma got in on that and turned the train into a... Youma train! Who didn't see that coming! Now people have to work together to free their friends if they're not already halfway dead from fighting each other! Man this day really blows dogs for quarters. The subway should be ashamed. |
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:05 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:06 am
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Roster
Sailor Ceraskia
Lt. Aquamarine
Lt. Caramelita
Lt. Jet
Lt. Seraphinite
Lt. Witherite
Captain Aurostibite
Captain Leucite
Captain Umber
General Cinnabar
General Jarosite
General Xenotime
Page Aaru
Page Havasu Falls
Page Scholomance
Squire Mistral
Squire Pompeii
Squire Delphi
Knight Valhalla
Sailor Cor Caroli
Sailor Osiris
Sailor Pavo
Sailor Sadachbia
Sailor Subamara
Sailor Vasala
Super Juno
Eternal Athene
Eternal Maia
Eternal Megrez
Eternal/Princess Ganymede
Eternal/Princess Polaris
[quote="Beejoux"]Ceraskia, Xenotime, Pavo[/quote][quote="Sunshine Alouette"]Aquamarine, Ganymede[/quote][quote="litian"]Caramelita, Athene[/quote][quote="Guine"]Jet, Valhalla[/quote][quote="Kaefaux"]Seraphinite[/quote][quote="Kaori_luv"]Witherite, Maia[/quote][quote="kuropeco"]Aurostibite[/quote][quote="Whimsical Blue"]Cinnabar[/quote][quote="a-disgruntled-dragon"]Jarosite[/quote][quote="Viva Viola"]Aaru[/quote][quote="Torvil"]Leucite[/quote][quote="Strickenized"]Umber, Scholomance[/quote][quote="Silverah"]Mistral[/quote][quote="fiction1119"]Havasu Falls, Pompeii[/quote][quote="Sleet Tempest Snape"]Delphi[/quote][quote="Sami-Fire"]Cor Caroli, Sadachbia, Megrez[/quote][quote="chi honda"]Osiris[/quote][quote="LokisRose"]Subamara[/quote][quote="Tasinei"]Vasala[/quote][quote="Iris_Virus"]Juno, Polaris[/quote][quote="PoddlyPoods"]Chara[/quote]
The code above can also be used in case your actions affect everyone on the platform! |
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:07 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 7:24 am
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The call from Amphitrite confirmed precisely what he wanted to avoid - his fellow agents were still on the train, likely trapped given the velocity. Brimstone said this plan was flawless. Evidently he was wrong. The tired captain closed his eyes a moment to collect himself before responding in the few even tones he could manage.
"Copy that Amphitrite. It doesn't look possible to order the train to disassemble, but you can try it. If that doesn't work, see if you can teleport yourself off the train. I expect you're at greater risk inside the youma than outside - we might be able to disassemble it from here.
"Forces are scattered, but remaining. I'll see what I can do. Umber out." When he cut his transmission, Umber realized he still held onto Elsa's arm, though more for stability than transport purposes. He allowed his hand to drop without calling attention to it. A train comprised of youma, with officers inside... Could Brimstone have ordered this? No - why would he? Was this, then, the result of a youma's natural attraction to energy and starseeds? Surely it was no different than any other cluster of people, unless the prevalence of Negaverse officers and therefore easy access to the seeds themselves attracted the conglomeration.
Even that felt like a shaky explanation at best.
"Elsa, can your magic hit something like that?" He asked, pointing to the roaring train. "Forget that it's youma - there are officers trapped on board. Mintaka is on board."
And, naturally, the White moon still remained to deal with. How many of them still had fight to their bones was beyond him, but he expected they had little reason to attack the train. Leaving seemed a more reasonable outcome for them - or continuing to attack the still-standing officers.
And I don't know what to do in a situation like this. I can't order anyone to search for projectiles. I don't have any of my own. Neither does Xenotime. And there's no way to tell how many of these senshi will remain to attack us. Do we retreat? No - We can't afford to lose those officers, or those starseeds. But how do we salvage this?
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 8:05 am
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Typhon, as bad a** as his magic was, in no way compared to the awesomeness that was 'giant ******** youma train of doom'. So when the 'whistle' sounded with a noise that unearthly her eyes snapped that way and the stupidest grin touched her face.
"Verona!" She afforded the knight a bit of a push (hopefully to get her away from Typhon, though it might have been a little harder then she'd meant) before pointing towards what she probably didn't need to point.
Youma, youma, youma, big and bad as anything she'd seen in a good while. And the crazy Amazon bolted towards the edge of the platform, at one point using a person stumbling towards the exit as a spring board. But how was she going to hit it? Her lack of magic and perchance for fist and foot combat would not come in handy against an enemy like this. But that had never stopped Juno and when she spotted a briefcase abandoned and dropped near the platform edge, she picked it up by the handle, before shot putting it with all her might at the train.
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 8:30 am
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Polaris shouldn't have forgotten about Xenotime, it was stupid and reckless not to keep her full attention on her enemy, but as her eyes turned towards the train they couldn't turn back, the image of people through the 'windows' almost undoing Maia's attack as her heart tried to beat faster while the magic tried to keep her calm. There simply wasn't remaining calm at a time like this.
Destroy the youma was her first thought. Simple and easy, her hand even instinctually reached upward towards her tiara, even though she doubted something that big would dust with just one hit.
Dust...
With all the people inside..?
Her eyes widened with horror when she recalled the time Taranis' keys were sucked into a youma by her attack and never reappeared when the monster puffed into dust. If.. if they dusted the youma... would all those people... would all of them be lost too? Either taken to the Rift or just.. dead?
"You have to stop the train!!" Her voice was shrill and frantic, pleading, her eyes turning to Mistral at the controls. "We have to get them all out of there right now."
"If you can get a door open I'll try to go inside but.. we have to get them out."
It was at that moment that her phone buzzed again, reminding her insistently of the text, and she summoned it simply to dismiss it, only stopping when she saw the preview of the message from her Guardian.
Quote: "Polaris, I'm stuck on a . . . train with people and the negaverse. We need help, back up . . . something. . . anything, please?"
It was bad enough that anyone was on the train and in danger. But Snowball was on there? Why!? Her hands began to shake slightly.
And then all of the sudden the phone rang, the image of the cat popping up. She almost wished it had just been another text, because through the phone Snowball would be able to hear the fear clearly present in her voice.
"Snowball...? I'm on the platform. I'm trying to help I just.. I just don't know what to do."
"Maybe... maybe if there are other senshi or knights they can take you to their homeworlds?" Get him away and to safety, not in the belly of the beast. But there were so many people on the train... Unless there was a royal on that train there was no way everyone was going to be able to be shuttled off. If it was even possible to do so. Who knew what kind of a magic the youma had trapping it's prisoners inside.
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Silverah generated a random number between
1 and 5 ...
2!
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 8:45 am
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Mistral clenched and unclenched her fists, surveying the board. Her arm was really starting to hurt - she didn't think the captain had hit an artery, but oozing blood was only slightly preferable over gushing it. Still, she was getting blood on the keyboard, and she didn't like that. She liked all of her innards to stay interior, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, she wasn't going to let one frantic princess get her all riled up. "I'm trying," she barked back at Polaris. White-haired pretty girl had a point, but it wasn't as though Mistral was a train engineer by trade. This system was totally alien to her, half the buttons on the console weren't labeled and looked like something out of a space shuttle interior, and she was doing the best she could to learn how to land the Discovery on the fly.
Or something like that.
Raising her ring to her mouth, Mistral spoke into it. "This is an all-call. This is Mistral. I have the train controls. If you are on the train, I need you to give me feedback about what's happening. Like now. What's this do?"
She flipped a switch on the board and hoped to high heaven that it was the breaks.
Iris_Virus Squishy mage baby says "I'm giving her all she's got!"
All-Call recipients beneath the cut!
If you have the knight ring upgrade, you have received this as a hologram! If you have a basic knight ring, you have received this as a transcription on paper! It is very white and creamy paper, and it smells faintly of metal. If you have a senshi phone, you received this as a text message!
If you have neither a knight ring or a senshi phone, you feel an itching in your subspace pocket! Scratching that itch will produce this message on paper, but you'd better find someone with a ring or a phone to reply!
If you were accidentally quoted and you have a chaos character, please ignore this.
kuropeco Fahrenheit I mean Celsius Sami-Fire Cor Caroli, Sadachbia, Megrez
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:26 am
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Maia looked to Polaris wanting to appologize, but knowing having used her first attack the would wear off in just a few moments. "Don't fight it, its almost done," she said quickly before looking to Mistral who seemed to be working at the controls trying to stop the train.
Maia moved over to her and looked at the controls for a moment before pointing to two she used before. "I've tried that one and that one already. I don't know what they did, if anything, but if they are communicating, maybe you can try them again."
Polaris' words made her turn around and shuffled quickly back over to her friends, "That a good idea. Is there a transcended on the train, one that glows like me. I got energy from a few just last week and was able to take several people to my planet, more than usual. I dont know it that was a one time thing because I feel my planet helped me, but its worth a shot!"
She looked out beyond the door, then back to Mistral and Polaris. "I should go out there, maybe I can help slow parts of the train. I really don't, but that's what my magic does and I've still got a lot in me."
Iris_virus She should be good now <3
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:41 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 10:31 am
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As important as it might have been to rid themselves of one of the infernal royal senshi, freeing the trapped agents still aboard the runaway train was probably just a little bit more so. That did not mean Xenotime was happy about walking away from this grand opportunity, nor gracious. The general was fuming in irritation and a heavy sense of dissatisfaction as she ported away from the office and reappeared on the platform outside the door. Her weapons were back, shining silver in overhead florescents as she moved quickly to Umber and Elsa's side, one hand in the pouch at her hip to fish her crystal from one of the inner pockets.
"I assume this was not part of the plan?" This directed to her captain, tone clipped, though her irritation was not with him. Brimstone was the one leading this mission.
When she spoke into the crystal it came with the snarled edge of someone that had reached their limits of patience.
Small fingers closed over it as she looked up again as pale eyes rose to Umber, wondering if he'd had any communication with his brother. Wondering if the threat to his life inspired worry, or relief. her lips twitched, the question on the tip of her tongue, but she wasn't sure she wanted to know the answer just yet. She at least, still held some manner of connection to the foolish senshi, even if she had not seen him in some time.
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 10:47 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:23 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:29 am
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