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[Powder Miner]

Somewhere else on the floor, behind them and past the hallway, sounds echo and bounce out towards them, crashes, crunches, and what sound like... strangled squawks?

[Empiricist]

Aoi lets out a quiet gasp and release her hold on Kanade.
"T-that answers that... s-should w-we a-ambush it like before?"

[Sl4cker]

Mijimeki nods.

[Powder Miner]

The sounds are getting closer, and it sounds like they're doing so at in fact a particularly rapid speed -- it won't be long until the corner is rounded.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Kanade nods, readying herself as Lenore floats in the air behind her.

[Empiricist]

"H-hit it as s-soon as you can see it!"
As soon as even a glimpse of it becomes visible, Bufu.

[Sl4cker]

Mijimeki stands right behind her, readying a Zio.

[Powder Miner]

That's the moment when whatever was making the noises finally rounds the corner. They get a single instant to look at it and take it in in all of its horrific glory before the combat begins: Imagine an impossibly large raven, with large wings as wide as a man in span, gleaming black feathers that look sharp as blades, and a pair of beady red eyes set in its head. Now imagine that the bird has been smashed and stomped. One wing flattened against its body at terrible angles, with bone of pure black jutting out, many of its feathers gone to reveal nothing but yet more inky blackness underneath, a crooked beak, and loud pained squawks with a slight, barely detectable undercurrent of a human voice beneath the surface.

Then the attacks start getting fired around, Bufu, Agi, and Zio from the three, and an answering barrage of fire from the smashed raven-thing.
The first attacks to connect are the twin fireballs flung by the birdthing, which both fly straight into one of the group each; one fireball connects with Aoi, bursting into flame and scorching her, and the other powers into Kanade, dealing her quite a bit of damage, and evidencing that this thing is strong. 34 damage to Aoi, 41 damage to Kanade!

Then the attacks of the group start to connect with the creature, starting with the Bufu thrown out by Aoi. The icy projectile crystallizes briefly on the maimed-looking thing, before shattering and staggering the enemy bird, its broken wing unfurling somewhat with shock. Weakness hit! The Smashed Raven is staggered!

Next is Kanade, bright flame pooling inti a ball before being sent out against the bird, splashing over it... and doing nothing whatsoever. Attack nulled!

Mijimeki's lightning bolt is the last to hit, his reflexes being worse than theirs, but it does connect with the inky enemy, dealing it damage (but less damage than Aoi dealt)!

Spoiler: Initiative: (click to show/hide)

Smashed Raven: 23
Aoi Tachibana: 21
Kanade Akiyama: 20
Mijimeki Genmutsu: 4

Players:

Spoiler: Aoi Tachibana/Faust (click to show/hide)

HP: 76/110
SP: 29/65
Resistances: None
Weaknesses: Ice
Weapon: Thin-Knuckled Gloves (x.66 basic attack damage modifier)
Armor: None
Moves: Bufu (6 SP): Deal light Ice damage to one enemy. Magical.
Tarukaja (12 SP): Boost an ally's attack's by 1.5x the damage! Lasts three turns. Does not stack.

Spoiler: Mijimeki Genmutsu/Frankenstein's Monster (click to show/hide)

HP: 140/140
SP: 9/45
Resistances: None
Weaknesses: Fire
Weapon: Low-Caliber Pistol (x.66 basic attack damage modifier)
Armor: None
Moves: Moves: Bash (5% HP/7 HP): Deal light Physical damage.
Zio (6 SP): Deal light Electric damage.

Spoiler: Kanade Akiyama/Lenore (click to show/hide)

HP: 49/90
SP: 42/60
Resistances: None
Weaknesses: Thunder
Weapon: Half-Naginata (x.66 base attack damage modifier)
Armor: None
Moves: Dia (5 SP): Heals from 55-65 HP.
Agi (6 SP): Deals light Fire damage. Magical.

Enemies:

Spoiler: Smashed Raven (click to show/hide)

HP: Lightly Damaged
Weaknesses: Ice
Resistances: Null Fire
Moves: Agi,

[Empiricist]

Sweet.
It, it smelled sweet. Nauseatingly so.
Like a sweet, acrid charcoal. Thick. Overpowering.
Laced with some haunting trace of humanity. Of human flesh. Of her own flesh.
Her head spins. Her pulse pounds. Her body, stumbles backwards, into Faust's embrace.
It was, as if time had slowed, as if she were moving through treacle.
Or perhaps, it had sped up, gone so terrifyingly fast her mind could only replay what had transpired.

A familiar texture grazes her fingers, and soon enough, it returns; music, too loud to be heard, drowning out the noise, giving words, however meaningless they were, to her fears, or her fury, the distinction between the two lost somewhere in the sound.
A quiet scream, heard only by her; a horrible choking scream, one she herself could barely recognize.
Aoi reels from the impact and presses her headphones to her ears with both hands as Faust stands supporting her (Tarukaja on Aoi).

[Sl4cker]

Mijimeki shouts. "Aoi! Kanade!" He reaches with one hand towards them, recoiling back in shock as Aoi screams.

Quickly, hastily, angrily, he turns his eyes back to the monster, the being that hurt his friends so, eyes burning.

Sinister terror
Burning, blasphemous, broken
choking and toxic

A demonic face
Volcanic in destruction
A corvid reaper

Yet the brighter fire
Is the righteous, indignant
Inferno of rage

Moth comes to the flame
Not to gawk, but to burn high
Fight fire with just fire

Bash the fucker

[IamanElfCollaborator]

"Ow, ow, ow! That smarts!"
Kanade recoils away as the burns wash over her. She could hardly touch the thing, after all, and she'd already taken a big hit from it.

No, the best thing to do was to run as far as possible. Seeing as that was currently impossible, the next best thing was to hang back and figure out what to do.
"I can't touch it! I'll stay back, you guys handle it!"
Okay, now that's done.

The next thing to do was to recover from this somehow. Kanade could feel, somehow, instinctively, that her Persona possessed the ability to heal. Handy when you've just been scorched half to death by what looks to be a giant piece of resurrected roadkill.
Dia on herself

[Powder Miner]

Before they can do anything else, the raven-like being lets out another squawk and another pair of fiery spheres rush out to meet its enemies -- aimed at poor Aoi again and at Mijimeki this time too. They both hit dead on, and the one that hits Aoi is every bit as effective as last time, dealing the already-burned girl 32 more damage! In terms of the raw burn, Mijimeki isn't actually all that much more hurt by the attack, but he certainly feels it anyway -- the pure searing pain is enough to quite occupy his attention, putting him off balance. He is dealt 35 damage and is Staggered!

The Persona-user not to feel the heat in this wave of attacks puts her brief respite to good use, the jet-haired rich girl bending to a knee and casting a Dia spell on herself. There's a pink glow around her, and immediately her burns begin to fade away, before she is just as unmarred as she was before she even was taken to this bizarre place. Kanade regains 51 health!

Aoi, burned terribly, reels and with an agonized shriek, she desperately presses her headphones against her ears. It doesn't block out the pain where she was burned in her chest and side, but a soft blue glow suffuses her for a moment, and she feels vigor infuse her -- she feels like she could crush mountains. Aoi boosts her own attack with Tarukaja!

Mijimeki, the slowest of them moves last -- but he moves with fury and determination, his manifested Persona looming over the Raven, lurching, and then with a growl that actually comes from Mijimeki himself, the large fist swings down upon the Raven, landing with a solid thwack -- it doesn't quite reel back, but the hit was pretty solid.

Spoiler: Initiative: (click to show/hide)

Smashed Raven: 21
Kanade Akiyama: 12
Aoi Tachibana: 10
Mijimeki Genmutsu: 5

Players:

Spoiler: Aoi Tachibana/Faust (click to show/hide)

HP: 44/110
SP: 17/65
(Tarukaja, 3/3 turns)
Resistances: None
Weaknesses: Ice
Weapon: Thin-Knuckled Gloves (x.66 basic attack damage modifier)
Armor: None
Moves: Bufu (6 SP): Deal light Ice damage to one enemy. Magical.
Tarukaja (12 SP): Boost an ally's attack's by 1.5x the damage! Lasts three turns. Does not stack.

Spoiler: Mijimeki Genmutsu/Frankenstein's Monster (click to show/hide)

HP: 98/140
Staggered!
SP: 9/45
Resistances: None
Weaknesses: Fire
Weapon: Low-Caliber Pistol (x.66 basic attack damage modifier)
Armor: None
Moves: Moves: Bash (5% HP/7 HP): Deal light Physical damage.
Zio (6 SP): Deal light Electric damage.

Spoiler: Kanade Akiyama/Lenore (click to show/hide)

HP: 90/90
SP: 37/60
Resistances: None
Weaknesses: Thunder
Weapon: Half-Naginata (x.66 base attack damage modifier)
Armor: None
Moves: Dia (5 SP): Heals from 55-65 HP.
Agi (6 SP): Deals light Fire damage. Magical.

Enemies:

Spoiler: Smashed Raven (click to show/hide)

HP: Moderately-Lightly Damaged
Staggered!
Weaknesses: Ice
Resistances: Null Fire
Moves: Agi,

[Empiricist]

Panicked breaths. Choking whimpers.

She gazes down, and stares, for the briefest of moments.

_{"I-I'm okay..."}

Her voice is, shaky, uncertain, as if needing to herself of that. Indeed, for all that horrid scent, she appeared unharmed, physically unharmed, at any rate.

She repeats it. Again, and again, and again, delirious laughter beginning to creep in along with a smile that looked so awfully empty.

"_P-please! Heal me!"

And with that, she lurches forwards, and sprints, charging at the abomination before her. As she closes the distance, she draws her fist back, and with a final burst of speed... runs straight past it. As she does so, a hand closes around the creature's throat, a hand now beginning to burn an icy blue (Bufu on Smashed Raven).

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Dia on Aoi

[Sl4cker]

Guard