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[Empiricist]

Yuki

Spoiler: Rolls (click to show/hide)

Yuki: 5

Shou: 6, Hyper[3]

[Now Playing:

The World Revolving

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You take the spell head on, compensating for your poor agility with sheer unrelenting force, your chainsaw roaring above the howl of the arctic winds, leaving little but pulverized ice in your wake. The frost could not hurt you, the ice could not impede you. It could slow you though, enough for the vampire to read your movements and act accordingly. Drawing his umbrella, he steps right into your attack as you're winding up for another swing, a threatening thrust forcing you to hasten your swing. Your regalia slams against his own, shadows roiling out from the point of impact like blood dispersing through water as you force his weapon to the side. But he isn't staggered, no, he pivots with his weapon and sidesteps forwards, aiming to step past you, giving the clash no clear winner. No way you'll let that just happen. You follow through with your swing, slamming your chainsaw against the hard ice covering the roof, feeling a hard shock to your shoulders as the weapon ricochets back up, barely in control. Shadows sweep outwards jostling your aim as Shou reacts in turn. He manages to escape injury, redirecting your attack at the last moment as he skids backwards into a defensive stance.

An enormous magic circle crackles to life at his feet, and the skies above begin to darken and split open. Embers flicker to life, and as if in a video playing in reverse, they glow brighter and brighter, blowing up into the fissure and condensing together into the nascent form of a giant flaming sword.

"<After Fimbulwinter, comes Ragnarok!
Resound horn of judgement! The final twilight is at hand!
Let the stars extinguish! Let the heavens be split in twain!
Surtr, Sentinel of Muspelheim, Herald of the End!
By this contract I invoketh thee, grant me thy power, endow me with thy blade!
Let the nine realms fall to ruin! Let it all burn to cinders!
This world shall end not in ice, but in flame!
INCINERATE! LAEVATEIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!>"

Yeah uh, that giant flaming sword? It's about to crash down right onto this fucking roof. Now you're pretty confident this fancy little shield of yours can negate the hit, or at least mitigate it, that being said, you're not entirely sure the aftermath will be very conducive towards you trying to fight.

Spoiler: World Lines (click to show/hide)

Yuki
Status: Fine, Full Aegis
World Line: 6 4 2 3 3 2 1 4 3 5
Alterations: 8
Resolve: 3

Shou
Status: Hurt

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

Hope I didn't infringe on your player agency too much trying to fluff out this turn. I wanted to do something a little more spectacular than just some simple one line clash.

Noriko
"It's, a very long story. Don't worry about not knowing how" she smiles reassuringly "I was like that at first, actually one of my initial powers was just being able to eat more cake without gaining weight ehehehe~ We just need to figure out how it works and we can help you develop it further."

Faith
"Depends, on what you choose; Given the short timespan, we found two ways to improve your skills. The tradeoff is between flexibility and strength of effect. We can show you both, but we only have time to teach you one.  You won't like the reading materials either way."

Luna takes out a smart tablet, showing what's on the screen. It's a scanned copy of some kinda mang- w-wait! Is that? It's more porn!

"Miss Abspoel was kind enough to give us a scanned copy of the necessary tomes."

They've got to be fucking kidding.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Minato blinks. He then groans. And then smirks a little.
"Aaaaaand now you know what I meant, Faith, when I read that tome."

[Powder Miner]

Faith’s initial expression was that of noncomprehension as she looked at the tablet... and then recognition clicked in her eyes, and her face shifted to one of total disbelief... then one of embarrassment, and then one of what was undeniably anger. She plucked the tablet right from Luna’s hands, and raised it in the air, about ready to hurl it directly onto the ground. ”NO! She twitched her hand in the air, barely refraining from doing so. ”No!”

Faith then, though, lowered her hand, just holding the tablet at a normal level, with the screen facing away from her. She took in a shaky breath and then spoke rather than shouted. ”I’m— I’m not going to use these. I just... won’t. Last time I saw one of these, it was... it was... it was really horrible, okay? I don’t want to be reminded of it, I don’t want to be reminded of anything around it, and I’m definitely not going to work with it. Please just take it back and—“

Faith’s time and expression had just begun to calm when her attention was drawn by ominous crackling and fissures in the sky, as well as very loud shouting from the roof of her bungalow. And she saw... this absolute maniac about to drop a giant flaming sword on her fucking bungalow. ”<WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?! I’M STAYING THERE TOO!>”

And, already more than a little angered, Faith promptly dropped the tablet, aimed her hands at Shou and tried to nail him with a Freedom Beam, just small enough in aperture not to destroy her roof. It wasn’t intended to be powerful enough to kill or maim him, but it sure as hell WAS intended to be strong enough to punt him off of her roof.
Alteration to a 5.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Minato, as if wanting to say something, but not quite wanting to ruin Faith's moment, steps back a little bit; now wasn't quite the time to get her to calm down, when she was pretty irritated enough to start shooting laser beams at people.

He figured there was some sort of magical defense on the actual house. In any case, even if there wasn't, repair costs had to be cheaper than dirt here, so they'd probably be fixed within the day.

[Strider03]

Shef let out an audible groan as the presence of the tomes was revealed. "Christ, here we go again." It was at that moment that Faith decided to get involved in the fight. "Oh come on."

He stood up, grabbed his towel, and walked slowly away through a few portals until he felt he was at a more suitable distance before laying the towel out and sitting down once more. Into his earpiece, he drawled, "Hey, so, are these bungalows they gave us nice and sturdy? Not gonna be knocked down by a few rogue flaming swords?"

[Empiricist]

Shef
"Sturdy, but not giant flaming sword sturdy. Though I wouldn't worry either way - Shou can limit the damage of his spells, he'd be unable to fight in Sendo otherwise."

[Strider03]

"Oh, that's wonderful, really good to know. Now, if only Faith knew that. If only there was some way someone she'd trust who could talk directly in her ear and assure her that the training guy is not going to destroy our rooms. Imagine how useful it'd be, if there was something like that."

[Twinwolf]

Yuki didn't quite notice the whole "Faith preparing a laser" thing. She was too focused on the fight! Yuki came to a hard stop as the sword raised into the air (causing a little jiggle, that Noriko could see if she was looking~). Well, not going to just take that.

Resolve use! SURPRISE ATTACK OF JUSTICE and telestab! Trying to finish this before whatever aftermath it is occurs. Failing that, fuck off of the roof after the stab - don't need to deal with that

[Empiricist]

Faith
The twins blink in unison as if startled or surprise, taking a few moments of pause after your beam before speaking again.

"Miss Tatsumaki, you must understand that our time is limited, this is a crash course created in response to an assassination attempt. Embarrassment is understandable, but is it really worth the risk when lives are at stake? Besides, psychological attacks do exist in this world, and if you are affected so badly by that incident, then all the better that we rectify this before someone gets a chance to turn it against you."

Shef
"Yeah, a real shame the girl who should be making her own decisions lacks an actual babysitter."

Yuki

Spoiler: Rolls (click to show/hide)

Yuki: 6, Hyper[5], Resolve
Faith, 5, Hyper[4]

Shou: 6, Hyper[5]

[Now Playing:

The World Revolving

]

Circles trace into the air, tracing a trajectory for the sword. If that comes down, things won't be good. But you're not just gonna take it like a slut, you don't even know what a slut is! You're gonna end it, right ehre, right now. That was the plan anyway. You teleport behind Shou, but he's already turning, deploying his umbrella in... the wrong direction? You go for the thrust but before you can even connect, a wide-aperture beam just fucking nails him. Umbrella managed to mitigate some of it, not all of it though, your sister's beam just fucking ragdolls him off the roof.

...The sword's still coming down. Welp, time to GTFO.

With an apocalyptic crash, the sword just beams straight down through the circles and into the roof. The ice? It ignites. Instantly. It's like throwing a match into a gas leak. Only the match is larger than a person and burning with blinding fury. And the gas leak is big, like really big. Yeah. So there's this horrific metallic screech as the sword sinks down, and then everything just fucking explodes.

Your aegis shatters, taking the hit in your place as you're just launch into the air like an action hero. Shou meanwhile expands his umbrella and rides the blast into the air like bloody Mary Poppins. Everything in the arena is on fire now basically, embers rain down from the sky. It's hot, it's choking, and unlike how a certain subset of the population likes their sex, incendiary. Bungalow's still standing though, it's actually almost untouched by the blast, mostly just marred by scorch marks more than anything.

Shou, isn't really doing much right now, but he's still rising into the air on an updraft while the world below your is burning hellscape and fire is raining down, so he might now need to do much either.

Spoiler: World Lines (click to show/hide)

Fine
Status: Fine, physically at least
World Line: 4 2 4 6 6 5 6 3 5 5
Alterations: 3
Resolve: 3

Yuki
Status: Fine, being blown through the air
World Line: 4 2 3 3 2 1 4 3 4 2
Alterations: 9
Resolve: 2

Shou
Status: Badly hurt, recovering from the hit

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

[Powder Miner]

Faith looked down, a combination of adrenaline, frustration, and the anger still coursing through her etching a strange expression on her face.
"I-- of course I don't want to be involved with that, it's not like it's the firs--"

Faith winced as the sword came down on her bungalow, but a furious shout was arrested as she looked closer and saw that the bungalow was not, in fact, completely destroyed. Instead, she just sighed as she tried to toy with her abilities strangely. Maybe she could put out this fire. She spoke as she did, though.
"I'm... I'm not going to talk about it out here. It has to be in private. I... maybe Minato, too, since maybe it's something he should hear, but... I... I still need to decide that, I guess."

Faith uses Shield of Courage, and then uses a Resolve as she tries to manipulate it away from her and onto the roof to soak up the fire on the roof. Alteration to a 5.

[Strider03]

"Oh, yes, kind of a pity that the mildly unstable teenage walking nuclear weapon doesn't have some knowledgeable always-present being to provide a modicum of guidance in scenarios like these." It wasn't worth the effort to press the issue, Shef decided, letting out a huff.

"Seems to have worked out fine though, so I'll assume that regarding this at least, you knew what you were doing," he capitulated.

[Empiricist]

Shef
"Sometimes, you just have to let someone make a mistake and learn from it, especially when say, there are other more experienced combat units ready to step in. ...Not that much learning appears to be happening here."

[Strider03]

"Fine. You're probably right here, I was wrong. I do think your hands off approach leaves a bit to be desired, and I hope you'll pardon me for worrying it might cause some problems."

"It does all make a rather nice light show, I'll admit. Could understand if that's what you were aiming for."

[Empiricist]

Shef
"Do I get a little medal to go with tha- ow! ow! Okay, okay, I'll stop. *ahem* Not the plan either, but Shou does prefer to make a spectacle, helps sell the whole 'great and powerful wizard' image he's going for, don't you think?"

[Strider03]

"Thank you." Shef murmured softly. This wasn't the time for thst debate.

"Certainly is conducive to that image. If I was going for it though, I'd have had the sword seem to come from space, even if it took a bit longer and was simply an illusion. Just what comes to mind, I don't know his abilities. This long incantation stuff his main thing, or what?"