Topic: Tengoku no Owari SI IC: Yuki Is (Not) Fine (Read 226646 times)

Empiricist · « **Reply #3075 on:** May 01, 2019, 09:18:58 am »

Shef
You casually slide into the back of the tour group as they descend down into the square, the tour guide regaling the few who care to listen about Harold Holt's arrival in the Aethertide and his rise as an Adventurer-General. Ground tethers are involved. That's not your concern right now, you can take a history lesson later, you got people to tail, and those people in question are heading up to the station.

Taking advantage of the crowd and commotion you slip away into the masses, tracking the lady in red's position as you move to tail her as she in turn tails your comrades. If she noticed you, she isn't making it obvious. Baghead remains where he is, watching from afar. Maybe he hasn't seen them, maybe he's after someone else, it's too early to tell. Red, she's more problematic, you're almost certain she's ID'd them, but she's making no effort to engage. Several possibilities come to mind, she might be waiting for an opening, she might just be a tracker, or she could be an assassin. You'll wanna ID her ASAP, if she's the adversary then you might've just gotten the drop on her. If she's someone else, you'll have to push to expose. The typical Awakened assassin will stalk their target, their abilities attuning more and more. By the time they strike, death will be all but assured. Not something you can permit here.

You glance around, making sure no one was paying you too much heed as you follow the illusion's guide. You take out your phone, a sleeker nicer model than the burner you own, casually glancing through it as if checking a text as beneath the illusion your hand brushes across the combat pass, sending out a ping. Red lines streak through its form. The adversary is near.

Noriko and Yuki
The station is abuzz with activity, the princess guiding you along with almost practiced grace as- OOF!

Someone crashes into Yuki sending both to the ground. Thankfully for Noriko's sodium intakes, it's the regular kinda crash and fall, the kind where both people end up on their backsides rather than on top of each other in a scandalous position. The someone as it turns out is a girl around her age dressed in a well, uh, it's looks like the closest you'd get to jeans and a hoodie if you tried to make that only out of JRPG costume assets. It's like an RPG white mage's robe cut short and worn over a tunic with a several pouches going over the front and a swashbuckler's pants and boots. The whole thing completed with a silvery bracelet over her left hand.

Three other teens jog up behind her, each sporting that same silvery bracelet, though rather different fashion tastes. One of them is clad in a full set of plate armor with what appears to be a tommy gun resting comfortably in her hands, another seemingly skates along the ground as if he were on an ice rink and is dressed in a black billowing longcoat and the lower half of a gasmask, the last is just wearing casual clothes, like pants and a t-shirt.

She begins helping Yuki back up as another Nitro Express whizzes past, that is until she sees herr face, shock and realization flashing across her face. Blue lines trace along the bracelets.

"<Ah! Sorry about th- IT'S THEM! GET THEM!>"

Wait wha-

Yuki, before the rest of that thought goes through your head, her fist goes into your gut, a pulse of concussive force cascading through into your body as your aegis shatters, launching you straight through the wall of the express train.

Noriko, you can feel it. The girl's magic. She's reinforcing the inner wall of the train. Y'know the one speeding right into Yuki and about to slam into her? Yeah. Weaponized reinforcement. Clever, but, weak? It's weaker than your own reinforcement spells at any rate, that you can tell.

The other three are a bit slower on the draw, though they do make their move nonetheless. The armored girl opens fire on you with her tommy gun, a wide spray of bullets tearing through the air at you, the emphasis being on sheer volume rather than accuracy. Meanwhile the casually dressed boy passes some kinda magic circle over to his compatriot who skates forwards apparently readying to engage either you or Yuki, depending on who's more amenable to getting smacked.

The crowd is dispersing around you. The princess looks more nonplussed than concerned at the whole situation.

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Strider03 · « **Reply #3076 on:** May 01, 2019, 04:50:53 pm »

Shef found it reassuring to know that the adversary was within range. He'd worried that, had the enemy turned out to be the person wearing the paper bag, he'd have had some issue keeping track of the adversary and his wards. This was better, though it seemed Noriko and Yuki had found trouble of their own.

Shef took the distraction offered by combat as an opportunity to withdraw a little ways from Noriko and Yuki's tail. When it seemed like she'd be out of range, he'd test for the presence of the adversary again, ensuring that he wasn't jumping to conclusions too quickly.

Powder Miner · « **Reply #3077 on:** May 02, 2019, 02:06:08 am »

"Ah!" Whatever more coherent and interesting response Faith might have had to offer was instead just replaced by a single harried squeak from the blonde as they doubled up, each tossing a ball, and at some distance. She had some idea of what to do -- but it would take some serious effort. Faith took a long step and then dove forwards away from either ball... because she was hoping to get away from her own blast radius, tossing A Hit for Hope at the spot directly between the two balls, hoping to knock them both away with it.

Empiricist · « **Reply #3078 on:** May 02, 2019, 02:52:05 am »

Faith
You launch the blast but the timing really isn't in your favor with the balls aimed at different places and the dunk coming out faster. So the frontal ball gets blasted up while the star itself just sinks into the ground without a mark, the rear ball meanwhile wasn't in the best angle and with its trajectory being what it was, it winds up riding the edge of the shockwave before bouncing off the rear wall. It's now ricocheting back, descending towards the mid-left side, which is less than ideal given that Sol has just slashed the first ball and launched it hard towards the far-right corner.

Powder Miner · « **Reply #3079 on:** May 02, 2019, 03:28:20 am »

Faith winced; she DID have the perfect spell for this kind of situation, but it was locked behind her negative purple stuff and, uh... yeah, Faith wasn't going to send herself into full shouting emotional and mental breakdown for the sake of training volleyball. Still, Faith would see if she could maybe mess with some of the tools she did have at her disposal right now; A Hit for Hope barely worked and she couldn't keep it up, so instead Faith conjured a Shield of Courage, projected it, angled it, and attempted to use it to bat the first ball directly into the second ball.

If that didn't work, Faith used a Freedom Beam, a wide-focus slash intended to sloppily hit both balls, because if she got her shield off it would at least probably get the two balls closer together.

(And the entire time, Faith herself moved, because something sinking without a trace into the ground probably meant it was going to pop back up and get her or something)

Empiricist · « **Reply #3080 on:** May 02, 2019, 03:53:07 am »

Faith
Shields up! You leap up and just fucking ram the first ball, it, really doesn't help. They're like on the opposite sides of the court and while you do try to give a token attempt at lancing the other ball with a beam and well uh, it works? Sorta? Instead of just hitting the corner and detonating it's now violently ricocheting backwards on your side of the court, at least as was until it hit the rear wall and deflected forwards at an angle. At this rate it's going to blitz forward and slam into the net.

"Wrong answer."
Try again."

The shield-deflected ball meanwhile bounces just over the "net". Luna sets up the ball with a rising slash with Sol following up with a descending thrust, aiming to send it crashing down fast in your rear court. You're tiring out and fast.

Powder Miner · « **Reply #3081 on:** May 02, 2019, 04:33:54 am »

Faith took a brief moment to wipe her forehead with her arm, already getting fairly sweaty -- yeah, wrong answer indeed. She was barely getting by by the skin of her teeth, and she was getting exhausted. She really couldn't keep this up, she was going to try to get creative. She stepped back from the net and tried to do a really strange beam, this time instead of trying to conjure it from her hand trying to make a wide beam from one end to the other of the "net" and swiping it up, trying to bounce both balls away as they went over the net.

Empiricist · « **Reply #3082 on:** May 02, 2019, 06:39:44 am »

Faith
You focus, at least you try to between cold sweat and labored breath. You get... we you get something it's not really a beam though more like a curtain of fog crackling with dim purple and yellow energy. Sweeping it up, does sort of work? Though instead of really launching the balls anywhere it just kinda pushes them up a bit. The outbound ball clears the net, barely. The inbound ball deflects, its angle leveling out a bit, it's going to bounce off the rear wall and then into your rear court at this rate.

Luna gives the outbound ball another slash as it enters her side, aiming to ricochet it off the ceiling and down into your front court.

IamanElfCollaborator · « **Reply #3083 on:** May 02, 2019, 03:10:17 pm »

Minato grits his teeth. This was going to suck.

But he could take it. That was what he was born to do, take it. Take every punch, every blow, power through it until the enemy was done. He was tough enough to do it.

This was a contest of attrition, a contest of wills. And Minato Kumon had plenty of will to go around. It was the age-old unstoppable force, immovable object, sort of deal, only these poor bastards weren't unstoppable forces.

So much the worse for them, because Minato definitely was immovable.
Send 03 off balance by pulling on Gleipnir and then summon the Luin Celtchair to charge into 03 directly. Direct the charge trajectory so 03 is smashed into 04 and then smash two of the weapons into 03 to finish the job.
[[6] 3 6 1 2 5 5 2 [4] 2]

Empiricist · « **Reply #3084 on:** May 03, 2019, 07:58:17 am »

Minato

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[Now Playing:

Sacrifice

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The spear becomes a beam and the beam crashes right against your side. Not gonna lie, that hurt.

You wrap the chain around 03's wrist and pull them close before running them the fuck through with your blazing spear, spinning on your feet as you redirect the spear and thrust it into 04. You were planning on putting both forgeries into 03, but well at this rate you only need one to finish off each, the two constructs falling limp.

Four more spears rush forth asd you just stand there and take it. You got willpower, plenty of it in fact. Good for you, that ain't enough though. You're sprawled back on the ground. You taste iron in your mouth. You aren't bleeding, not yet, but you soon will be. Take another hit and you'll be writing this up as a failure. Hell, you can't even risk a Dai Henshin at this point.

It was fun while it lasted, this little kung fu fantasy of yours. But seven foes still stand.

You got nine forgeries. A tenth incoming, and five more if you really push yourself. Each one a bomb, each one enough to dodge, each one enough to crush. It's about time you take this seriously don't you think?

[Now Playing:

Enemies

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02 rushes into view, leaping above you and descending down hard and fast as they conjure a new weapon in their grasp: a sledge hammer.
05 and 06 glide forward on their flanks, conjuring ladders to skim along the ground, while 09 and 10 sprint to leap up and ride along them, aiming to add their spears to the mix. 07 and 08 fan out at the sides beginning to summon folding chairs.

Spoiler: World Lines (click to show/hide)

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Twinwolf · « **Reply #3085 on:** May 04, 2019, 01:02:35 pm »

Yuki reacts fairly quickly after being knocked in the air - drawing on some power that she didn't know she had, she rights herself in the air and casts a spell-

Alter 6 down to 5, alter current 1 to 3, then use the new 5-hyper, sending about two thirds towards the pugilist, and one third towards the courier. Teleport to the magus using the non-hyper.

Chevaleresse · « **Reply #3086 on:** May 04, 2019, 03:21:36 pm »

Noriko had almost relaxed. Almost. They were going to take the normal train, retrace their steps, get her stuff back, and then she was going to get back to her bungalow and she could wash her hands of this whole mess. And then, because of course things weren't going to be that easy, Yuki was being attacked out in the street, and apparently not even as part of whatever the hell this festival thing was.

"Fuck OFF!" She held one hand ahead of her as her spears materialized around her, a gale of wind blasting forward at the bullets to (hopefully) make a space in them just large enough for her to dash through headfirst. One of the spears appeared in her hand only to promptly be hurled forward on a stronger gust of wind, headed right toward the one with the offending weapon with a shout of "Manavastra!"

Empiricist · « **Reply #3087 on:** May 04, 2019, 10:38:16 pm »

Yuki and Noriko
コンバット•スタート!

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The silvery gauntlet closes into a fist, driving deep into your gut. Light twists, space bends, the air seeming to ripple in its wake as it scintillates a bright wispy blue. It was a shield, a barrier, kin to your own. It was a hexagonal field, no larger than her first, space and force transmuted to light and glass, a crystalline bulwark, pellucid save for the six arrows marking its edges, curved but only barely, and durable but only for an instant. The impact was spectacular, beautiful even, the shards of your broken shield mingling with her own. A shockwave erupts, a ring of rippling space perpendicular to her punch shimmering with light as the shattered fragments of her barrier lance forth as a spiralling spear of force, last vestiges of your heavenly aegis burning with light and flame as it protects you from this strike even as it sends you crashing through the train wall.

The end of the carriage races forward to meet you, races forward to crush you, but your mind is elsewhere.

In your mind's eye you can see it; it's hazy, incomplete, constructed less of imagery and more of raw concept, but it's there! You can see it! You remember!

It was a dream you thought was truth, a vision that masqueraded as the present, a marsh of strange plants and crystal water, of marble platforms and crisscrossing walkways, a marsh stained black by something you do not remember, a place that is nowhere that you know of, yet which you feel as you've visited before, a world no different to a dream, yet one which you know is real.

You feel... you feel what you feel. The rush of air around you, the floor of the train rushing beneath your feet, the roar of gunfire reverberating against your chest. You feel everything, yet you feel nothing.

You feel sensations but not their meaning, the signifier but not the signified. Your mind is silent, silent once more, free of your troubles, free of your own self-deceptions, for a moment, if only for a moment. But that moment is all the time you need.

For that brief instant you are naught but will and instinct. A body running on autopilot, a mind tearing forwards, a white hot bullet caring naught for the journey nor the destination, only the direction which it was given.

[Now Playing:

完全感覚Dreamer

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The world seems to shudder as the wind bends to your will. A corridor of air rending itself into existence, its birth cry a howl of with wrath and fury. The hail of fire cowers and wavers as the the storm opens is great terrible eye, a tunnel of screeching rushing air. Into the breach to launch, a horizontal dive lead by your spearhead, the ghostly rounds streaking a phantasmal silver as they tear towards you, towards you but never closer.

Darkness erupts from the passing carriage, ink black arrowheads streaking across the ground in perfect silence. The pugilist is the first in their path, eyes wide in horror she leaps back, but the tenebrous tide proves to be faster. It was a single arrow, a single droplet in the great deluge, yet a single arrow was enough. There would be no special effects, no fanfare. The arrow that brushed against her foot simply discharged and vanished, a soundless fury, a bolt from the blue without thunder and without lightning. The only sound you heard, was the girl's scream.

It had only grazed her foot, but had you only seen the consequences you could not have imagined that was all that happened. A horrid ragged gash rips open across the pugilist's clothes as she's just absolutely hurled backwards, slamming straight through a pillar and reducing half of it to rubble in the process.

"<GWEN!>" the reticent magus screams, he screams, but perhaps he should've been running instead. The darkness was not content with simply one hit. It splits apart like the current in a river delta, two thirds streaking towards the fallen pugilist, one third rushing for the courier, and single lone arrow racing for the magus.

It was this single lone arrow that discharges next, but it this time, it was an attack, no, it was a teleport. The instant it touched him was the instant Yuki appeared in the air above him, bringing her roaring chainsaw down with a heavy cleave.

You hear an explosion and feel its blast ripple through the air but you haven't the time to see what happens next - you've closed in on your quarry now, and like hell you're gonna let her escape. Yuki's got new powers, great, that means they're not powers you have to worry about right now. You can just focus on doing what you do best - violent totally non-Freudian implement! Your spear explodes forwards slamming into the girl's chest, unfortunately it doesn't quite the effect you're hoping for - she staggers backwards but less from the impact and more from the explosion that just tore out of her chestplate, an explosion that is now sending white hot shrapnel at you! The girl herself wastes no time working on a counterattack, resuming her saturation fire of your general postcode with more ghostly bullets. Explosion is still blooming, the shrapnel still only just materializing. A single word echoes in your mind - Agneyastra.

Yuki, you have no idea what the hell just happened, but you're just gonna roll with it! You remember doing something and next thing you know you're bringing your chainsaw down on the mage. Shame it didn't land, well not on him anyway. At the last moment, he did something and a spellcircle appeared in front of him, blasting the two of you apart. He skids to a halt with a three-point landing, but he clearly doesn't want to be anywhere near you anymore. The fact that your chainsaw made a larger crater than his bomb and proceeded to tear apart the platform on your way backwards probably isn't doing wonders for his confidence either.

You meanwhile? You're doing good! You wound up getting smacked by the reinforced wall and nailed by the blast, but neither hurt too much and you're quickly regenerating too!

The audacious courier seems to have escaped harm by blasting your black arrows into nothingness using another one of those spell bombs and leaping up into the air, a holographic skate track appearing beneath him and keeping him up in the air. With a rush of speed he's now skating towards the the fallen pugilist while the magus does some kinda magical grenade jump with another fancier spell circle to just get the hell away.

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Shef
You withdraw as all hell breaks loose on the train platform, releasing a ping. There is no response.

Strider03 · « **Reply #3088 on:** May 05, 2019, 07:28:37 am »

So Yuki had learned something else new, noted. Some kind of presence extension possibly, Shef thought. For now though, the chaos was ramping up, and there'd be no better time for him to act. Keeping his distance, he searched for a good destination, before opening a portal into one of the seemingly less occupied buildings off to the side from his position. Through it, he sent one of his burner phones.

Then, approaching a little nearer to the adversary, he found an angle, attempting to open a portal under their feet, sending them into the chosen building. If this worked, he'd call the number of the phone.

Empiricist · « **Reply #3089 on:** May 05, 2019, 08:32:42 am »

Shef
You spy a few conspicuously empty rooms not too far from here? Coincidence? Or is that another one of the festival's amenities? Hard to say, but both work for your purposes.

A portal opens below the lady and drops her down into the room. Needless to say, she looks quite shocked about th whole affair, regarding the now ringing phone with suspicion and reticence, though I seems her curiosity wins out in the end a she answers "<Hello?>"

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