Topic: Tengoku no Owari SI IC: Yuki Is (Not) Fine (Read 226434 times)

Strider03 · « **Reply #3750 on:** November 18, 2019, 07:27:07 am »

Yuki could dodge a truck. Shef hoped. He knew what he wanted to do, pulling his left arm up to intercept the projectile. He could just portal it away, but he was a little curious about what it would do. It didn't seem terribly threatening, and so he wondered if there was some other effect. Better to take it, and push through for now, he could portal repeat attempts later. For now, his attention was on Sebastien at the back. Given that he'd not done anything, Shef's suspicion was that his abilities were more defensive in nature, or more niche, and niche abilities tended to be quite dangerous if the opportunity to use them was set up.

With that in mind, Shef fired one of his new knockback rounds towards the boy, and prepared to open a portal to catch wherever he flew, and deposit him under the platform, in the water.

Expulser [3] round towards the novelist, and a portal to catch wherever he flies, drop him under the platform.
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Twinwolf · « **Reply #3751 on:** November 18, 2019, 09:44:32 am »

Yuki grinned as the fight kicked off, and charged the second it did. She was already heading to meet the truck and probably not going to dodge - instead she sliced her chainsaw in front of her, trying to cut the truck apart. As she did so she would be jumping a bit towards the side off of one part of it, out of the spot that the archer is aiming at Also, she sent out a black arrow towards the novelist.

IamanElfCollaborator · « **Reply #3752 on:** November 18, 2019, 10:04:44 am »

Alter to 4. Sacrifice one forgery to rebalance Minato and sweep Gleipnir around the Evoker, deliberately aiming to miss to nudge her into Luin Celtchar's range, allowing the lance to target her and smash into her on its own. While she's distracted by Luin Celtchar, swing Gleipnir back around into her swordbreakers, using the ridges to catch the chains around her and smash her into the ground to interrupt her summon.
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Chevaleresse · « **Reply #3753 on:** November 18, 2019, 11:58:17 pm »

Kouta glances questioningly (and a bit sympathetically) at Ren before a poke from Patricija causes his confusion to change targets, with a small step backward to compliment it. "Er, no," Noriko said. "He just can't participate in the. . . festivities." She felt her heart rate spike at the very thought. ". . . You do know most people on Earth aren't Awakened, right?"

Empiricist · « **Reply #3754 on:** November 19, 2019, 12:26:57 am »

Noriko
"Oh! That's a relief! I was worried given the rate of..." She looks at Kouta and seems to realize whatever she was about to say, she shouldn't say in front of him. Tactful maybe, but it does leave her blinking nervously and gesturing broadly in a whole "y'know?" sort of way.

Faith, Shef, and Yuki
コンバット•スタート!

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Shef, your arm is off. No, no, not quite. That's not what's happening. It's more like, it's not what has happened. You remember placing your arm in its path. You remember you placing your arm out of its path. Two contradictory memories. One possible, one impossible, and yet what seems true now is that which was impossible - that you raised your arm but you raised it wrong like a fucking chump. Causality manipulation. It's pretty fancy. Disorienting too, but when it comes down to it, it's no better than an accuracy buff. These false chains of events will only strain so far, if you had used a portal instead... you doubt it could've made a difference.

That, is a thought for later. Now's now, and now that hilt is slamming into your throat, a horrid heavy impact, a crushing blow that leaves you dazed and gasping for air. An inordinate impact, but one without the damage. It will take more than that to stop you. Seeing the path of Yuki's black arrow the Exasperated Adventuress tosses her sword over at the Eccentric Novelist and vanishes, appearing right before you, her left hand closes over your barrel, her right closes into a fist. You take the shot, bullet portaling from inside the chamber and out towards the Novelist. The girl disappears and reappears at her other sword, shoving the Novelist away. Your bullet strikes her. Yuki's chainsaw soon follows.

Yuki, that truck bears down on you, engine roaring, a good few tons blazing forth with far greater speed than it has any right to have. You feel reinforcement magic coming off its front, a lattice-like mesh of enhancement magic crackling with an offensive magic payload. It's not a uniform reinforcement, no, it's focused in rod-like structures. You could stand there and most of the truck would crumple no problem, but those rods of matter would be hammered out into spikes and driven straight into your flesh. As far as they could go anyways. Based on prior observations, that's not gonna be very far.

He's no frontline brawler. His reinforcement, it's weaker than Gwen's, noticeably so. He's trying to compensate with greater efficiency sure, but it's offensive effeciency only - the amount of reinforcement is the same along any given cross-section. It's all bundled up sure, and sure that will be enough if a weapon can't cleave something that reinforced.

But your chainsaw can.

There's another roar, closer this time, louder, the roar of your Regalia, soon replaced by the shrill shriek of metal on metal. Sparks scatter and the truck splits, you rush to the side with another cleaving strike, splitting off a piece of the truck and basically just shoulder charging into it, shifting and forcing it forwards as you pump your own reinforcement into it, the debris becoming a shield as you charge down the Summoner and Archer. An arrow smashes against your shield, shattering on impact.

"<Broken Arrow>"

And from its remains, nuclear hellfire blooms. There's a flash of heat and then a crushing shockwave, the blast launching the pair away as it turns the inside of your shield to white hot shrapnel.

You've already gone. You saw the Novelist and you took your fucking chance, teleporting out and bringing your chainsaw down. A gunshot rings out. The boy is thrown aside. A bullet strikes the Adventuress, and she takes your strike in his place.

Black lightning spews forth.

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Black, black as ink, staining the air, symbols trace in its crackling arcs, the language of forgotten gods. It happens in an instant but it seemed to take much longer, the transformation of this world.

The air falls still. The clouds stop moving, and the sky becomes as if a painting. A rotting decaying painting, pigment haemorrhaging down in great streaks of color that seem to ignore all perspective, ichor from distant clouds painting over the foreground itself, caging the battlefield in a twisted cocoon of magic. One by one the details set in, like a mental image forming from a stream of words, focusing, solidifying, crystallizing. A shifting background of abstract patterns, great stands as tall as mountains and manned by figures of ink and paper. Everything becomes paper, pigment and paper, assemblages of paper moving in stopmotion, painted in unearthly pascal patterns that seem to shift independently of what they adorn. Multicolored rings ripple through the heavens as they split open to reveal an infinite expanse of stagelights and scaffolding, pen tips and curtains.

The curtains rise.

It is dark. It was not dark before, but it is dark now. Not because the light is gone but because the light was never described. One by one the stagelights turn on. One by one each combatant is revealed.

Yuki, you stand center stage, the Adventuress' heavier sword planted in the ground next to you.

The Adventuress stands further to the left. There is bullet hole in her outfit. There is a gash too, courtesy of your strike. It would appear that she was knocked back and yet, and yet beneath the gash there is not even the faintest scratch on her skin.

Shef you stand to Yuki's right. A ways apart. The Adventuress' lighter sword is planted in the ground next to you.

The Summoner is further right still, nonchalantly leaning against the nondescript background of the stage.

The Archer stands above, and to the left, above the Adventuress. Perched atop the lowest branches of the scaffolding at the very left of the stage, bow at the ready.

The Novelist stands furthest away, amidst the butterfly-faced theatregoers that fill the great stands of the amphitheater looking down upon his work.

"<But this tale will end not with gunfire but with a dagger to the heart. Your dagger. Her heart.>"
His voice echos through the theater as if coming from multiple directions, as if coming from every direction. And perhaps it is, this is his world after all, and he's looking at you Shef, looking at you and gesturing at his own arm, at the exact place you keep your exoarm's blade.

"<A single clean hit, that is all I ask of you. This is a tragedy after all, not a spectacle for the Grand Guignol, a single thrust will suffice.>"

A pause. He glances down at his phone.

"<Right. *ahem* Solo two es-pa-da la deten-dra! Solo ness-seet-arse un solo gulp-ay limp-ee-o...>"

Jesus Christ. Okay, so those were words, or sounds at least, but seriously? He can tell you've got a hidden blade, a blade you've barely ever used, but he can't tell that you can speak fucking English?

Okay anyways, Archer is firing another shot at Yuki, Adventuress is teleporting next to her to retrieve her sword though the way she's eyeing you you're guessing she'll be teleporting over to you afterwards for a strike. Your instincts are telling you that the attack will come from behind. Oh and the Summoner is just fucking sprinting at you both apparently having decided to get up close and personal.

Faith
Okay, so with that visual clusterfuck over you find yourself seated on the stands, though there's also plenty of clearly marked exits well within walking distance which a few other real people are heading towards. A lot more seem to be whipping out their phones and cameras instead though.

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Strider03 · « **Reply #3755 on:** November 19, 2019, 09:39:12 am »

Shef flinched further at the boy's broken Spanish. He'd have to use his knife though, to defeat the girl with the swords. It would be difficult, but he had two major inroads as far as he could see. One, his regalia wouldn't be damaging, and could probably still work, and two, the woman seemed to teleport only to her swords. While the causality manipulation would be troublesome, he at least had a target by which to predict her teleportation. Oh, and he wasn't sure whether she was straight up invincible, or if she could be hit, sliced up, but wouldn't suffer in any way from it.

With that in mind, Shef fired off on of his manipulator rounds at the adventurer, while turning himself to keep the sword a foot or two in front of him. Twin tests, to ferret out more about her abilities.

Manipulator [5] on the adventuress, if she teleports to avoid, send it past, on to the summoner. A single portal to redirect the arrow heading for Yuki towards the summoner as well. Regarding the adventuress, if she teleports directly to the sword, a few tentative jabs with the knife. If not, cached portal behind to hopefully block.
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Twinwolf · « **Reply #3756 on:** November 19, 2019, 11:17:40 pm »

"Oh, I haven't seen this kinda weird effect before, that's cool!" Yuki said cheerfully, not seeming to mind. She makes a note of the adventuress, but she can't hurt her so she switches targets: She's going to go after the summoner, charging them down while sending an arrow towards the archer.

Above, also alter to 3. Use 6 to activate Chain Lightning.

Powder Miner · « **Reply #3757 on:** November 22, 2019, 03:01:34 am »

As annoyed as Faith was right now... she had to admit that the fight right now was incredibly impressive. These four seemed to have some very strong powers, to a degree that was actually somewhat terrifying, to tell the truth. Sending trucks at high speed, with horrific impaling reinforcement spikes, terrifyingly powerful in-shield explosions... Faith's worry for her sister was ameliorated by the fact that she knew Yuki to be absurdly tough, but some of this stuff would just straight-up kill her, she was pretty sure.

Absurd at it was, the whole stage gimmick managed only to add to this, rather than detract from it. "You can do it, Yuki! <(And Shef!)>"

Empiricist · « **Reply #3758 on:** November 22, 2019, 03:37:49 am »

Minato

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Fifteen blades spiral forth. Twelve find their mark plunging into your armor. Hurts, but not as much as you're expecting. With the power she's sunk into them they must serve some other purpose, some kind of leverage for more magic, a delayed threat.

Well, unless that threat is coming in the next five seconds it'll be too damn late.

That blast wasn't a dodge, you'd have blown far more to dodge. No this, this is just an adjustment, Gleipnir lashes out but naturally she dodges, guiding the chain away while stepping to the side. Another forgery burns and the flames of wrath ignite once more. Luin Celtchar lunges, rushing for her heart that is, til it crashes into her barrier.

It's small shield, a magical circle circle conjured to stop the blow. Not the most coverage, but a fair amount of power. Enough to stop the charge at least. Enough for her guide the spear away, grab it by the shaft and jam it to the ground. Light courses through your chains as they wrap around her arms, those sword-catching ridges working against her as you go for the slam. She's, well she's not fast, but she thinks quickly - looping the chain around Celtchar she jams your slam and pivots, using the motion of the chain and a little bit of magic to spin her heel into a roundhouse kick aimed right for your throat. She's forcing an opening, getting ready to summon, and presumably to exploit those batarangs she jammed into you.

Good try, but this is already checkmate, she's strapped to a fucking powderkeg and you've got a lighter. Sure she could probably boost that shield of hers, absorb the blast, but it'll be taxing and you're still here with sword and shield in hand. At that point it won't matter what summon she's got up her sleeve. It simply won't matter.

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Shef and Yuki

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Righto so Yuki, you brandish your chainsaw and charge straight forward. The Adventuress appears by your side for a split second, retrieving her sword but you pay her no heed. You cannot harm her. The Summoner, he's a little more pliable.

"<Little girl, I will not let you.>"

A voice calls up from the rafters, and an arrow lances forth behind you. A portal opens, redirecting it and driving it forward at the Summoner instead, turning savior into killer. Or at least manslaughter. That was the plan anyways.

"<Ah, a portal. But it will not be so easy, for the freeshooter's arrows must obey their will.>"
The arrow suddenly nosedives, landing between the Summoner's legs and just fucking drilling into the stage, detonating a blast that launches the boy up and onto the scaffolding above a mere instant before your chainsaw cleaves through the dust left in his wake.

"<And so the chamber spins once more, four rounds now remain, three blessed, one cursed. What comes next, only the norns can tell. Lé cue-dan cu-at-tro fle-chas magi-cas. Trés lé o-be-de-ken. Uno o-be-de-ke el me-leeg-no!>"

Shef, that portal was more an afterthought. Yuki can handle herself for the most part. You, you're not entirely sure anymore, not with that condition. You ain't exactly the best knife fighter in the world and even if you could hold your own the Adventuress' superior reach could easily prove to be your undoing. You gotta even the odds, besides fighting fair is for fools and dead men. Enchantments weave through your bullet, the essence of compulsion, the essence of your Requiem, that peculiar power that marked the death of your mundane existence if not your mundane life.

The manipulator round explodes forth, steel becoming light, becoming energy becoming fury.

Wait, why is it- You've got to be fucking kidding, did you mix up the magaz-

"<KYAAAAAA->"

That never is a good sound is it? The round nails the Adventuress in the gut right as she teleports exploding in a flash of light and scatter of shredded fabric, leaving a perfectly circular hole in its wake. It's a good thing that she's not especially well-endowed because that's basically the only reason what remains of her shirt can still cover her chest.

Shock and indignation flash through her eyes as she teleports forth, her hand closes around the newspaper sword and it just erupts up parrying your exoarm. To your surprise you find the impact of your blow has knocked the sword out of her hand, but it's obviously just a setup and her next action proves those suspicions correct - she teleports to the sword, now further back and out of her reach but well within her, sending that massive cleaver crashing down. It's a bit of an awkward swing, the embarrassment is throwing her off her gave and she's instinctively trying to cover her midriff as she swings, but the sheer force of the swing does make up for it, as does its unusual properties. It made at the end of its reach, but the cleaving slash doesn't come from the sword, no, it's completely dissociated from it, a radiant arc that tears through the air from right behind you. A vicious arc so large you have to spring open three caches just to to get it the fuck away from you.

Right, that's going to be a problem. And you blew a golden opportunity too. Your gun's still loaded with clothing damage rounds so it probably won't be too effective at staggering. Meaning you're stuck relying on your portals, your requiem, and... well... maybe you could put those bullets to use after all. It'll be much harder to fight you if she's stuck covering herself...

Meanwhile, Yuki's stray arrow snakes up the scaffolding, twisting up onto the rafters above but...

"<I see what you're trying to do miss! But you don't wanna come up here, and I'll show you why! Guardian of the sacred valley, sentinel who stands before catastrophe! By my first decree, I commandeth thee, abandon ye post and rise to my side!>"

Another rune and another pulse of energy. This one's a new rune, similar design though - three segments traced on the back of his hand, one segment burning away as he makes his command. Light and fury explode within his grasp, radiant smoke and crackling energy as something answers his call, something cheap, white, and warm.

Yuki, you're feeling a bit of breeze below now.

"<Jerry, what the fuck?>"
"<Return her panties at once!>"
"<Yeah! Return her- Wait, why do you care?>"
"<That little girl is strong. I want to fight her, but how can I if she won't come up here?>"
"<Hey, I'm just doing what it takes to win, you all saw her she slice that truck in half! I'm not going up against that!>"
"<But I will. O' cursed arrow, retrieve the small girl's panties.>"

Hey uh, remember that arrow the archer shot up before the fight even began? Well, now its streaking back down to earth seeking to tear your panties out of the summoner's hands in a blaze of nuclear hellfire. You have the sinking feeling she'll be sending them your way soon enough, and while you appreciate the thought you're not sure you've got enough Reinforcement magic to save them from the arrow.

Oh also blushing furiously (with an emphasis on furiously), the Adventuress sweeps her cleaver at Shef in a wide slash, letting go of the handle and letting the it fly forwards a bit further, secured to her wrist by a ribbon, a range boost of sorts.

Shef, so she's doing that and uh you smell something sort of like garlic. Something you know isn't garlic. And a pretty good sign that bad news is coming, a sort of smell that comes back to your arms dealing days - the smell of white phosphorous.

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Faith
Firstly, WHAT THE FUCK SHEF? Why does he even have those? Oh God, why do they even sell those? Do they sell those? Is it better if they sold actual ecchi clothing damage bullets? Or would it be better if Shef fucking obtains them through some shady connections somehow?

Also, those are Yuki's panties! The summoner just fucking stole Yuki's panties! You don't know what kinda panties Yuki wears, or at least, you didn't until now, but you could sense the summoning magic coming from under Yuki's skirt as he did that summoning. Actually, now that you think about it, you feel some of that magic resonating in Yuki as he used that rune. That same magic you felt in the truck. He must have some sort of magical leverage over her.

Minato
Right so with that all wrapped up (and after blasting and swording the rest of that melee a trois into submission) you find yourself walking through Pavilion Square and its bustling markets. That is until you come across an otherworldly theater jammed in what appears to be the most questionable zoning decision ever. Eh fuck it, you're up for a show. You walk in through the steps up into the amphitheater, the stage rising up into view and wait, is that Shef-

Holy shit did he just blow half that girl's shirt off? Wait, Yuki's there too! Why's that boy swinging a pair of panties up in the rafters? What the fuck is even happening here?

Powder Miner · « **Reply #3759 on:** November 22, 2019, 05:26:41 am »

Well, though her immediately previous concerns about the nutty ero-writer lady had turned out to be unfounded, right now... well, she registered Shef apparently electing to blow a huge hole in some girl's shirt, Jesus Christ Shef, but that she only registered for a moment, because when that summoning asshole elected to actually validate some of Faith's worried, she was seeing red.

She leapt off of her seat to the bottom bleachers, and pointed directly at the summoner, shouting with a surprising amount of venom for someone often so shy and vulnerable: "<HEY ASSHOLE! IF YOU DON'T GIVE MY SISTER'S CLOTHES BACK, I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASS AFTER THIS!>"

Empiricist · « **Reply #3760 on:** November 22, 2019, 05:54:18 am »

Minato
And Faith just jumped up there and is now threatening the combatants. The girl who just jumped up next to her and who is now frantically sketching something down would be Fiona Ritter, Reincarnation of Lancelot du Lac and member of The Crown, the personal squad of Queen Izanami Nakahara, the true Queen of England. The other two members being Arthur, who is literally King Arthur, and Q, the first of the Godslayer Logistical Support AIs.

Strider03 · « **Reply #3761 on:** November 22, 2019, 10:17:58 am »

For a moment after the shot, Shef was as confused as his adversary. When had he loaded those, and why? As his opponent teleported forward with the strike, Shef quietly mumbled, <"I'm sorry, please believe me when I say that was an accident.">. The statement was sincere, in English, and, in complete contradiction to the fact that he was already pulling the trigger to let loose two more rounds.

Shef, by now, felt there was no other option. Taking the time to swap out the ammo would put him at a terrible disadvantage, and, his regular rounds wouldn't do much even if he loaded them.

He'd try to portal back away from the wide, white phosphorus enhanced swing, cached portals opening to catch the possibly disconnected strike, and to guide his knife arm to a position near the handle of the outstretched cleaver. Unlikely that it would catch her in a teleport, but it might make her hesitate. He needed to stall until he could come up with a way to actually get the knife strike in.

Shef fires off two more rounds at his adversary, while backing up through a portal to open a little more distance. Portal to get his knife hand near the cleaver's handle to catch the teleport, cached portals ready to get the next disconnected slash.
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Twinwolf · « **Reply #3762 on:** November 22, 2019, 06:01:01 pm »

Most teenage girls would have shrieked when their panties were magically stolen. Yuki was not a normal girl and was less embarrassed and more irritated. "Hey! Give those back, I paid for those!" she shouted, before deciding to go get her panties back. She diverted her arrow towards the lady who said she wanted to fight her, and instead decided she would jump up there herself - or teleport up there, rather, rapidly snatching her panties back before the arrow can destroy them and at the same time slashing down with her chainsaw on the summoner.

Do above (use last 5 for SURPRISE ATTACK OF JUSTICE), then put panties back on if given a moment to do so since armor-dresses don't really have pockets to stuff it into.

Powder Miner · « **Reply #3763 on:** November 22, 2019, 06:24:28 pm »

"<Oh, God!>" Seeing disaster coming, Faith finally decided to interfere, though not in a way she thought would actually tilt the fight, given how little Yuki really seemed to care, but just in a way she thought would work out better for Yuki in the long run -- she conjured a cloud of purple magic, and sent it under Yuki's skirt, but she stripped the hex away entirely from it. In other words, she just created a censor cloud on Yuki the moment after she teleported.

Empiricist · « **Reply #3764 on:** November 22, 2019, 07:19:16 pm »

Faith, Minato, Shef, and Yuki
Right, so Yuki teleports up and the Summoner just fucking yeets the panties forcing her to catch them as an arcane cloud of censorship explodes under her. Her hands close around her panties, a crimson pulse explodes out, a near-palpable wave of energy racing out with a screeching whine. Yuki's body goes stiff.

((Excel Hyper. Burning an additional point of Resolve for speed.))

"<Harbinger of Steel, of Violence, and of Fury, with my second decree I command you - divert you course change your target and strike down my foe.>"

The black arrow meant for the Archer blazes blue and streaks off the platform, closing the distance to Shef at an instant.

The gunman for his part has managed to score another hit on the girl, blowing away her skirt and leggings, leaving her in her panties. His knife arm aims for the handle of the cleaver, aiming to dissuade any teleportation attempts, but the Adventuress suddenly reels back slamming the blade into the cleaver. There's a cloud of white phosphorous explodes forth, moving to engulf both combatants and set the stage aflame.

((Shef, how do you handle the white phosphorous and Yuki? Yuki, you can struggle and try and disrupt your teleporting strike, but you're not going to be able to stop without burning Resolve.))

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