Team ClusterfuckFaith: 5, Hyper[3]
Minato: 4
Noriko: 1
Shef: 5, Hyper[R]
Yuki: 6
Judgement Dopant Squad D: 6
Unknown Threat: 4, Hyper[3]
Minato slams a shield against the wall, detonating it. Through the debris he leaps landing between the van and the Judgement Dopants, their initial spray of glass glancing off his forgeries as Noriko's spears crash down in their midst, aiming to bludgeon and harass like a trio of angry telegraph poles in the middle of the mating season, a tactic that proves to be rather effective in denying the Dopants the chance to maintain their bead on the van.
It's at this point that Yuki teleports into their midst. Seizing one Dopant with her gauntlet while putting a burst of arrows into the other. Armor cracks and crumbles as the Dopant staggers backwards, right into Minato.
Shields, not the worst weapons. Certainly not the best but a heavy hit with the edge could be pretty damaging, especially with Minato's strength. That being said, that armor looked reasonably sturdy and he didn't have all day. Or a proper anti-armor weapon for that matter. He did have a chain though. A chain which he quickly wraps around the Dopant's neck, wrestling them to the ground as he draws the cake knife, spirit energy pumping into the blade as he drives it deep into the their throat, wrenching it out in a spray of paint.
Yuki meanwhile simply grabs her Dopant by the head and kicking one of Noriko's spears into the right orientation, bashes it against the spearhead until the helmet buckles and gives way.
Meanwhile inside the van, Shef just stuffs Hanzo into the back, opening a series of portals right into the loading zone.
Okay so aside from all the giant fucking tomato vines it looks like an otherwise perfectly normal loading zone and not an Escher-esque hellscape or something. That's a good start.
He also finds the source of the vines, a humanoid wireframe figure with tomato vines wrapped all around them. His Surgeon's Eyes kick back in, confirming his suspicions - it's a projection, no different to Victoria's nurse or the Man of Steel's summons. Hitting it would cause disruption, but the more permanent solution would be killing what stands next to them.
It's, okay yeah, it's another Hunter. Fancier one too clad in custom fit armor build around one of those distortion harnesses the AIs mentioned. A big shot he'd have to presume. Got a motorbike, handgun, and combat knife. Primary weapon resembles an Accuracy International AS50 anti-material rifle. Resembles. Probably isn't. He's dealt with some pretty wild clients before, but not even the most deranged would do
this to a rifle. It's uh, well imagine if someone saw a sawn-off shotgun and thought "hey, why not extend that treatment to a rifle instead?" because that's what he sees. The barrel has been completely sawn off, the stock, bipod, and scope have all been removed. Oh and there's a magic circle floating at its front. Well, uh, that's certainly one way to make a weapons. As he watches he sees the weapon shift in the Hunter's hand, the grip shifting to be a little more ergonomic, the magic circle growing larger, more complex.
He opens another portal this one in front of his gun its terminus feeding into his peephole. The last thing he sees before he fires is the Hunter glancing to see the portal and uttering a name:
"「Mr. Brightside」".
The Tracer rips through the portals, cannibalizing the last few to cut off any chance of retaliation or backblast.
Tge effect is instant, the vines near the truck shrink back, as of sucked violently back into their source. Faith slams the door and Shef floors the accelerator.
A second set of end portals opens inside the loading zone. Target is unharmed, managed to use that projection to protect themselves at the last minute.
Still, it's brought them some time and cleared out all the nearby vines. He switches the autopilot on and checks the glovebox. Five healing potions, three energy potions, and an arcane nitro unit with three charges.
Faith, you pop your shield and get to work popping up another one around the truck. A star shield like the one you made on the beach. That one time. In controlled circumstances. Where you still cried. And not around a whole van either. Oh God.
Okay no pressure.
Haha a lot of of pressure actually. Because you see the shield is kept from the collapsing because of the "radiation pressure" counteracting the grav-okay fuck it three two one you're doing this shit.
There's a flash of gold, a golden shield springing to the life around the truck. Then comes the purple, crushing down against it. Crushing inwards. You let it. You let it breach the surface let it mix together, the good and the bad as you pump more and more energy into the system, the shield igniting with magic. Prominence rise from its roiling surface, the purple inwards, the out outwards. A nascant star born of your resolve, born of your emotions, burning into the ground,
melting the asphalt OH GOD OH FUCK.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck you didn't think this would happen. The purple glow is deepening oh fuck. Um uh. Okay so, it turns out if enough of the sphere overlaps the ground it starts uh, melting said ground. And it's kinda hard making anything other than a sphere like this. It kinda naturally tends towards one so no some balloon for now.
Okay okay firstly, you dismiss the field before it melts out the ground under the van (you wince as you notice Shef spreading Reinforcement to protect the road) and start over from square one.
Okay, okay, let's start off simple shall we? You
can manipulate energy, but you shouldn't any more than neccesary. Make it easier cast, easier to maintain long term. Hmm, how about an arcing shot?
You use them whenever you do a Hit For Hope. Highly condensed, but there's not strictly any reason for you to do so. If you fire it up and...
A tiny mote of energy sparks out of the topic of the van, arcing into the ground. Okay not too hard and that gave you an idea of how long it needs to last. Too long and it burns the ground. Easy enough, just got to repeat it. En masse.
Motes of purple and gold begin flying out above the van, arcing toward the ground. They start off small and grow smaller and smaller, smaller yet greater. Greater in volume, in number.
There are no more motes, no singular shots. It is a deluge. A rain. A mist.
A dome of mist, decaying inches above the ground. Anything that touches it will burn. Not too hard to maintain either.
It does have the limitation that it's going to be weaker further down as the energy dissipates, but it's the price you have to pay to avoid mel-
"There's an easier way to do that you know!"Huh, what?
"Keep the condensation, but remove the velocity and gravity, increase lifespan a bit." Hmm okay so actually a bit easier even and now the truck is just shrouded in an energy haze and faint love hearts. Will that really work?
"Yup! It's compressible and will burn things proportional to relative velocity!"Huh, that fixes the ground issue, and since it's a haze rather than a dome it should provide some protection against those explosion-at-point blasts those Hyperspace fuckers seem to like using. Well as long as it doesn't happen right inside the truck anyways.
"Fairy Floss Reactive Armor - perfectly safe for human use outside of enclosed spaces!"Why would it not be safe inside of an enclosed- oh. Right okay yeah that makes sense.
No threats in sight (Though Alumunus A is probably hauling ass over).
((Those of you not in the van may wanna get in or make your own transport arrangements.))
Faith
Status: Very hurt, Shield of Apathy
World Line: 6 4 2 4 2 3 6 5 4 1
Alterations: 2.5
Resolve: 1
Minato
Status: Fine, Gleipnir (default length, but attached to a meteor hammer forgery and wrapped around his body, ready for use), 7 stockpiled units
World Line: 2 4 4 3 2 6 3 6 2 5
Alterations: 3.0
Resolve: 3
Noriko
Status: Fine, Sauparna (1 turn remaining)
World Line: 1 1 4 5 5 5 4 6 4 6
Alterations: 1.5
Resolve: 1
Shef
Status: Fine, very tired
World Line: 5 5 2 1 1 5 6 6 1 3
Alterations: 5.0
Resolve: 2
Yuki
Status: Fine, some shielding, Shef Install (Regalia and Black Arrow functionality altered, access to Shef's Requiem)
World Line: 6 4 4 5 1 1 3 4 1 4
Alterations: 3.0
Resolve: 1
Armored Van
Status: Undamaged, Hanzo stuffed into the back, protected by Fairy Floss Reactive Armor
Details: On the move.
Judgement Dopant Squad D
Status: Murderized
Hunter Alumnus A & Mr. Brightside
Status: Fine, armed with a sawn-off antimaterial rifle, handgun, combat knife, and harness, on a motorcycle.
Location: Exiting the loading zone.
Details: Presumably hauling ass over
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Topic: Tengoku no Owari SI IC: Yuki Is (Not) Fine (Read 222650 times)