Faith: 6, Hyper[3]
Minato: 1
Noriko: 4, Hyper[4], Hyper[4]
Shef: 5, Hyper[3]
Yuki: 5, Hyper[R]
Yoake: 1
Jason Humungus: 4, Hyper[4]
Yuki's weapon glows blue and pillars of light rise from the party, soothing their wounds and filling them with renewed vigor. Lord knew Noriko would it, and as she muttered her request, a voice answers her
"Oh please you haven't paid your rent yet, so you better come back alive!"As she dashes forth, propelled by supernatural winds, she could see Faith and Minato erecting their bulwarks, she could see Yoake and Shef getting back on their feet, and she could see the whirlwind she was charging into.
It may not be particularly but there was no clear path through, no gap which would allow her to path through unscathed. She charges forth regardless, her spear streaking through the arcing discharges, followed by the girl herself. The impact was weak, anaemic even before the shield blunted it further, but it becomes apparent that Jason had not used it for power. Rather, as Noriko finds herself momentarily paralyzed as the current courses through her body, dealing little damage but rendering it impossible to charge her course in time as the false god sidesteps her assault and as she passes, she finds the barrel of his revolver mere inches from her head.
There is a blur of motion and then a crash.
Buried into the arena was one of the great executioner's swords, now fading to naught. It had come from a portal above aimed as to skewer her quarry before he could pull the trigger, forcing him to dodge. Calling her spear back into her grasp, she launches herself again, slamming into Jason spear-first, the tip just barely missing his mask - parried by machete. He sweeps the weapon low for a counterattack only to meet the shaft of spear, the weapons clashing swiftly in a brief but violent exchange.
It is quickly apparent that Jason is making no attempt to bypass Noriko's defences, rather he is attacking her head-on, striking with such force that each clash forces the girl further and further on the defensive. If this continues, he will soon crush her guard.
The three remaining swords shatter like glass as if having struck an invisible barrier, their shards sent flying back towards the arena, towards Jason, towards Noriko as a relatively slow swarm of electrified metal. It'd be fairly dense covering fire normally, but here it's a lot sparser than it ought to be courtesy of Shef.
Should Noriko fails to disengage: Jason will attempt to overpower her and strike her with a series of slashes, terminating with a wide and dense spread of weak, slow moving arcs and more intense, but similarly slow homing ball of lightning regardless of whether or not he lands the slashes.
If Noriko does back away however, he will fire another set of executioner's swords upwards, and the ball lightning forwards. His body will briefly flare with St Elmo's fire and he will make a series of rapid unpredictable dashes that propels him towards Yoake, for a powerful spinning slash that rends itself into the air causing it to persist for a moment and striking everything around him. A powerful attack with quite a bit of reach, but one that will leave him vulnerable to attack for a while after its execution. To cover this, he will also be timing it such that the shard barrage arrives just before him, such that attempts to exploit his moment of vulnerability will be disrupted by the electrified metal.
Faith
Status: Fine, HEAVENLY AEGIS
World Line: 3 3 5 4 3 2 4 3 2 5
Alterations: 5
Resolve: 2
Minato
Status: Fine, HEAVENLY AEGIS
World Line: 3 6 6 3 2 6 5 6 6 6
Alterations: 1
Resolve: 0
Noriko
Status: Basically Fine
World Line: 3 1 4 4 3 1 2 4 2 5
Alterations: 1
Resolve: 1
Shef
Status: Quite hurt, HEAVENLY AEGIS
World Line: 5 6 6 2 2 5 3 1 2 2
Alterations: 5
Resolve: 2
Yoake
Status: Quite hurt, HEAVENLY AEGIS
World Line: 5 4 3 1 2 4 2 3 6 1
Alterations: 2
Resolve: 1
Yuki
Status: Fine, HEAVENLY AEGIS
World Line: 1 6 6 4 2 6 3 6 6 6
Alterations: 3
Resolve: 0
Jason Humungus
Status: Sorta Hurt
Strictly speaking, the Aramitama's action wouldn't have allowed it to shoot Noriko anyway because it only specified locking weapons with attackers. But since no matter what it'd have done, Shef's action would've forced it to cancel and dodge, I decided to add that as a bit of added flair.
Noriko's attack was processed first as it was very fast, whereas Shef's would have a slight delay to account for the far slower movement of the sword.
Yuki's shield actually helped reduce the hitstun by a fair amount, and whirlwind of electricity was mostly really just hitstun.
This is probably one of the most complex turns in terms of enemy conditionals. Please tell me if it's understandable, if not, poke me on Discord with your current course of action and I'll give you an assessment.
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Topic: Tengoku no Owari SI IC: Yuki Is (Not) Fine (Read 226883 times)