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[ragnarok97071]

Slow. Heavy. Were she normal, this weight would probably be unbearable. Crushing. Probably why it was referred to as Execution. A normal enemy would be bound in place by the very air, able to be finished at will.

But Sakurako was anything but normal.

Excel Clock Up.

an explosive, world-melting wave of euphoria, and everything was very clear. She wanted to finish it? Well then, let's finish it!

Sakurako charges, unleashing a flurry of blows from all 12 striking points on her body from both conventional martial arts and keijo training. She didn't want to find out what that form could do, and would rather keep her enemy on the defensive... with a field like that, she wouldn't be surprised if it was heavily focused on offense, since its aura would render most enemies unable to fight to begin with.

[Empiricist]

Shef
Aight first stop is an adventurer's supply store not too far by rail most of what you need you can get there, which is to say everything conventional. Place is located in the middle of a pop up market place, one with an awful lotta people and a matching amount of proportion mostly focusing on some little red riding hood knockoff trying to gun down what appears to be a keijo practitioner with wings of blood. Also, Faith's there.

[Strider03]

Another festival duel. No time for that right now, Shef was in a hurry. He passed by, sparing only a few precious seconds to observe the duel.

In the store, Shef began collecting items of use. He'd search for all of the following, even if it seemed unlikely that such a place would stock a number of the items. Smoke grenades, flashbangs, steel cable, trackers of his own, napalm,, strong glue, and some more drones of the type he'd picked up on the mansion assault.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Alright. So he was in a dress now. Minato shrugged. He wasn't new to this. Granted, he was used to it happening to other people, but it was the price of living in the world of the supernatural.

Well, at least it was better than dealing with the rest of the family.

Minato cracks his knuckles. He could freak out later. Enemies now.

Tsukasa would have a field day seeing him in this.
Three Alterations to turn the 1 into a 4. Burn one Resolve. Use two stockpiled weapons to propel Minato out of range of the lunge, sacrifice another weapon to block the spear and finally take out 07 if possible with Gandiva while they recover from the lunge.
[1 4] 2 5 5 2 2 1 5 6 1]

[Twinwolf]

If Yuki had a problem with the statement, she didn't show it. <"No offense taken! Thanks for the compliment~!"> Yuki said cheerfully. "<Oh, and feel better person that I hit really hard!>" she waved them off, then refocused on her target. She started to rush forth, at a different angle than Noriko was coming from - she'd have to either pick a target or split her fire between the pair. She also sent another arrow rushing forward towards Rube - give them something else to throw explosives at.

[Empiricist]

Shef
Smoke, flash, incendiary, check, check, and check. Question is what kinds? You can get them seperate or any combination of them together be it as rumbling thundercloud that obscure and disorient or white phosphorus' big brother.

Cables, trackers, drones, and industrial grade adhesive you also find. Cables and trackers are easy enough, adhesive, depends on how easy you want it to dry, you got your standard superglue all the way up to some kinda ritual dried cement. Trackers you gotta choose whether they're physical or curse-like, covert or ballistic, and whether you want anything like a targeting uplinks, remote detonation, and whathaveyous. Man, you're glad the girl had physical, a curse-based tracker you mightn't have even noticed.

Minato

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Minato: 4, Resolve

Alabaster Pugilist 05: 1
Alabaster Pugilist 06: 6
Alabaster Pugilist 07: 4
Alabaster Pugilist 08: 6
Alabaster Pugilist 10: 3

[Now Playing:

Enemies

]

You're drawing your bow as 07 and 08 come crashing down. Twin explosions blast you backwards sparks flying as you skid backwards taking aim. A spear crashes past, blown off course by another sacrifice. You take the shot.

An arrow of silver flame lashes out, aimed and aiming right for the gaps in 07's joints. Still recovering from their explosives slam, they haven't the time to dodge and a severed arm falls to the floor.

Unit 07 is defeated.

Unit 08 conjures another spear and hurls it at you, as does Unit 10. 06 now standing once more dives for its spear, conjuring a second one in mid air and hurling it at you, intending to do the same with the other spear when they reach it. Four spears, stagger fired, each followed by its wielder aiming for a hard punch, that is unless you have something to say about it. 05 waits in the wings, aiming to slam the ladder into you at the first sign of weakness.

Spoiler: World Lines (click to show/hide)

Minato
Status: Critical, Gandiva, 3 stockpiled units
World Line: 2 5 5 2 2 1 5 6 1 4
Alterations: 2.5
Resolve: 2

Alabaster Pugilist 05
Status: Fine, armed with a ladder

Alabaster Pugilist 06
Status: Casing badly cracked

Alabaster Pugilist 07
Status: Defeated

Alabaster Pugilist 08
Status: Fine

Alabaster Pugilist 10
Status: Fine

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

[Strider03]

Standard separate combinations for the grenades. He'd use multiple if he needed the effects combined, and the ability to use only what he needed seemed more valuable than the alternative. Shef just wanted the ability to light things on fire if need be, or make people blind, no point in getting fancy.

Adhesive, he needed something that'd suffice to hold objects firmly to a wall or ceiling if he so desired. As he passed by, Shef wondered about the possibility of gluing someone to the floor. It seemed cartoonish, but would it be possible? Most likely they could just remove their footwear and move on. On a whim, Shef checked whether the ritual cement had anything that might bypass that downside. Perhaps an adhesive that permeated the rubber of shoes and secured from there

Regarding the trackers, he poked around a bit with the labels, trying to determine the ease of use of the curse based tracking. If it couldn't be applied quickly, he'd have some issues utilizing it.

[Empiricist]

Shef
Adhesives, no. Binding units, maybe. Adhesives hold things together, binding units hold enemies in place. Big difference. Quick dry superglue should handle your general adhesive needs, you'll need a binding unit to keep a foe in place.

Trackers, well curses depend on the magic resistance of your foe and how likely they are to notice and dispel it. Easier to apply ones also tend to wear off quicker.

Sakurako

Spoiler: Rolls (click to show/hide)

Sakurako: 2, Hyper[R]

Marta: 1, Hyper[5], Hyper[5], Resolve
Alfbern: 1

[Now Playing:

King Nothing

]

Marta's done something. You don't know the full extent of it. Don't wanna find out either. Time to finish this. Coloru and euphoria brigthen your world, the treacle-like air thinning as you charge forwards, closing in on your foe.

BANG!

That, that was your leg.

Your charge turns to a tumble, a real fast tumble, a tumble that turns into a leg sweep, a leg sweep that sets up a rising butt strike. The geometry of the attack is awkward, limited, with your missing leg you haven't the chance to snake around Alfbern's guard, having little choice but to plow straight through and slamming him into her. Enough to send her tumbling backwards. Not enough to draw blood. You're real close though.

...Your leg isn't back. Normally it'd be half back by now. You're regenerating sure but... it's slower, much slower than usual. It's the field, this Execution Wavelength of hers. It slows everything, not just movement, regeneration too. How troublesome. Fine, you'll have to crawl, good thing you're regaining the speed advantage then.

Marta staggers upright, leaning heavily on Alfbern for support. She's panting and winded, probably not much of a threat at this rate. Alfbern seems to recognize this, his body reverting to his human form, that of a young victorian gentleman dressed in burnt clothes that sport a few more spikey belts than regular. He's not the most accurate guy, you're not too worried about him. The things rising up through the ground, through the pair, through the nearby civilians? The things that resembles a metallic centipedes with almost human eyes dotting the engine-like segments of their body and fingerbone-like blades for legs? The things that resemble flaming beartraps leaping through Marta? The things that descend before you, resembling webs of flesh sculpted into vague approximations of spiders with spark spears for tongues? Those, those might be a problem.

Marta and Alfbern aren't doing much, but the centipedes are currently crawling through them as if they aren't even there. The beartraps are leap through them and towards you. The spiders are sorta just getting in your way.

Blasting through them and giving the pair a good few punches? Not too hard. Blasting through them without losing another limb in the process and throwing the fight? That's a bit harder.

Spoiler: World Lines (click to show/hide)

Sakurako
Status: Critical, leg has been blown off and is beginning to heal, 59 stacks of the Clock Up, movement and healing slowed by the Execution Wavelength
World Line: 3 5 6 1 3 2 1 4 5 5
Alterations: 2.5
Resolve: 2

Marta
Status: Critical, staggered, winded, unsteady

Alfbern
Status: Slightly hurt

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

Faith
You, you don't see any of the weird metal album extras. Only thing you notice is that you feel something hanging around Sakurako, something that exploded forth from the bullet that struck her, a curse of some sort reverberating away inside her body.

[Strider03]

Normal adhesive would be sufficient for the most part. But a binding unit might be useful, so Shef searched the shop for something that might require a fair bit of setup, while restricting an enemy to a specific area, not a point. He didn't need them immobilized, just temporarily prevented from leaving a region, without much need for his presence and maintenance.

Curse based ballistic trackers, and perhaps two standard physical ones. With that, he'd have all he needed from this store, and would head out.

[ragnarok97071]

This was a bad position. Then again, that was what the injectors were for. Reaching down to one of the straps on her leg, she produces a green syringe and jams it into her stomach, depressing the plunger. After a moment, both her bleeding leg and the blood wings on her back seem to alter themselves, the blood coming out of the leg suddenly forming a cone, or perhaps some kind of cyclone, and the individual tips of the wings widening, becoming tunnels from which enormous currents of wind flow, launching her into the air and away from the field, trying to get distance and freedom of movement back. And her leg. Especially her leg.

[Empiricist]

Sakurako

Spoiler: Rolls (click to show/hide)

Sakurako: 3

Marta: 4
Alfbern: 3, Resolve

[Now Playing:

King Nothing

]

Seeing the freakshow bearing down upon you, you decide to go take this one the skies and GTFO, launching into the air upon a cyclonic gale. You're fast approaching the edge of the boundary of Marta's field when it runs out, the wind and your head start.

Marta staggers uprights aiming the re-weaponized Alfbern at you. She's tracking you, biding her time until she sees an opening, an opening from what you ask? Why the opening from the giant worm that's appeared behind you, it's larger than a snake with a drill-like head split open into a gaping maw, its body feathered black and reverberating as it screeches at you with a killer guitar solo from its jaws.

Also a shower of bone asteroids shaped vaguely like human skulls swoops down at an arc, aiming to cut off any attempts to dive down.

Make no mistake, if you don't blow another infusion, you're screwed. But if you can escape, if you can just escape, your foes are gonna be shit outta luck.

Spoiler: World Lines (click to show/hide)

Sakurako
Status: Critical, leg has been blown off and is beginning to heal, 59 stacks of the Clock Up, movement and healing slowed by the Execution Wavelength, currently airborne
World Line: 5 6 1 3 2 1 4 5 5 2
Alterations: 3
Resolve: 2

Marta
Status: Critical, winded, unsteady

Alfbern
Status: Slightly hurt

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

[ragnarok97071]

Well, that was a problem. her last two vials weren't exactly ideal for aerial maneuvering. The one associated with Earth was basically useless, but the other one... well, it could work, but it wasn't exactly going to be fun. This one was bright red, and when she jams it into her stomach as well, she's catapulted forward like a comet with a trail of fire, hopefully this last explosive launch enough to get her past the edge of the field so she can start her counterattack.

Clock Up 5

World Line: 5 6 1 3 2 1 4 5 5 2

[Chevaleresse]

They were trying to keep her at a distance, but unfortunately for them, that wasn't something that was going to be effective. This time, she vaulted straight upward, a gust of wind carrying her above the crowd as another one sent both her spears hurtling away. One darted toward the girl spraying bullets at her, aiming to stuff itself down her gun's barrel if she failed to respond; if she moved, she still had the weapon to deal with, Noriko prepared to duel her with the thing as if she were up close. The other one flew past, aiming to intercept the bomb - and if it missed, to intercept Ruben. Fleeing or not, he was still attacking, and they'd jumped the pair out of the blue. She was sure that this girl in front of her had something dramatic to say, but quite frankly she didn't know or care what it was; she was speaking in a language Noriko only knew how to curse in, and had the audacity to attack her out of nowhere.

That wasn't the end of it, of course. Noriko was, technically speaking, unarmed, but far from harmless, and now she had a new trick to practice. The girl wanted to fill herself up with magical energy? That was just fine. Noriko swept a hand at her, and another burst of reddened flames rushed at her, unnatural fire carried on magical wind to strike her, set her alight with the energy she was already burning herself to use.

Agneyastra.

[Empiricist]

Sakurako

Spoiler: Rolls (click to show/hide)

Sakurako: 6, Hyper[5]

Marta: 5, Hyper[5], Resolve
Alfbern: 3, Resolve

[Now Playing:

King Nothing

]

You jab yourself in the stomach and press the plunger down rocketing forwards across the barrier, your missing limbs rapidly regenerating as you do so. Wait limbs?

...Fuck, she blew off your arm.

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

Sakurako's first mistake was aiming high. Fine if she had the resources to support aerial maneuvering, less so if she didn't. Renders evasion harder. Her second mistake was that was she was in the air, she simply didn't wager enough. Her escape would have effectively cost Marta and Alfbern the match, and with how aggressively they were spending Resolve and Alterations they really were going all in. Sakurako did not, and it cost her.

Yuki and Noriko

Spoiler: Rolls (click to show/hide)

Noriko: 5, Hyper[3], Fiat
Yuki: 2

Gwen: 5
Munificient Paladin: 4, Hyper[R]
Audacious Courier: 5, Hyper[3]
Reticent Magus: 3, Hyper[6]

[Now Playing:

完全感覚Dreamer

]

Noriko's spear pierces the circle in midair, shattering it. That's one bomb out of the equation. The other one meanwhile rains a shower of bomblets down around the girl, an explosive screen aiming to stall it seems. Noriko readies her a spear and another spell-eating flame, waiting for the explosions to subside, no need to waste it on something so transient. Yuki too stands at the ready waiting for her chance as Noriko strafes around her quarry dodging ghostly munitions, and as they wait a spear and a black arrow begin closing down on those trying to flee.

The arrow is stuck on the floor, unable to reach the courier above. The spear has no such problems slashing, leaping thrusting at Ruben whilst his compatriot tries his damnedest to dodge. Guy's fast, but Noriko's accurate and as the spear rushes towards Ruben's chest, the courier has little choice but to dive in front, reactive armor blasting away the spear, and blasting the trio off their track, th black arrow leaping off the ground to meet them.

Back around Nadiye, something is clearly wrong - the explosions, they're not subsiding they just don't fucking stop, which is a bit of an issue if most your offensive options are liable to getting blasted away. But shit gets worse because well, the air just fills with bullets now. Not like a figure of speech or anything, ghostly bullets just fucking appear in the air. It is as if every bullet Nadiye has just fired has returned as a wild fanning fussilade. No, that is what it is, or close enough to it - along the path of every bullet she had just fired, several more have appeared, each placed exactly along the trajectory. The result, is well, it's gonna be a bitch to dodge.

Oh as for the three chucklefucks, it's Gwen that takes the lead this time, conjuring a much larger hexagonal shield and ramming it against the arrow, four black angular tails beginning to sprout from her as she kinda just screams in exertion like every other anime protagonist ever.

Spoiler: World Lines (click to show/hide)

Noriko
Status: Fine, agneyastra readied
World Line: 6 5 1 1 5 6 1 6 5 4
Alterations: 5
Resolve: 3

Yuki
Status: A bit hurt, decent shielding
World Line: 2 4 1 2 3 3 2 3 4 2
Alterations: 3.5
Resolve: 3

Gwen
Details: Shield bashing the black arrow and being very anime
Status: Critical, falling

Nadiye
Details: Being surrounded by an explosion barrier and saturating the air in Noriko's direction with bullets
Status: Very Hurt, equipped with another bomb

Audacious Courier
Details: Falling
Status: Fine, Falling

Ruben
Details: Falling
Status: Fine, Falling

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

Man, the RNG hates Yuki

[ragnarok97071]

Welp, there goes the match. Not that Sakurako is in the state of mind to realize it once she clears the barrier and gets catapulted across the market, her vision going red for a moment as her blood is suddenly freed to move through her body, which results in an enormous increase in bloodflow, both out of her missing (for the moment) limbs, and just through her body in general, resulting in an immediate cessation of most higher functions.

Oh hey, it's a pretty waif. cute.

"You're cute~"

She'd apparently completely forgotten about the duel in the sudden rush of insanity and was now completely focused on the figure with their face currently sandwiched between her modest chest with only the thin swimsuit between them. oh hey. Arm's gone. Better fix that. Goosh. There, temporary arm! and probably normal arm in a second. That's nice.

"What brings you here, cutie~?"