Party
Agatha: 1
Amelie: 1
Haruko: 1
Juliet: 2
Maki: 4, Skill [3]
Suzu: 2
Taro: 2, Skill [6]
Viverra: 5, Skill [4]
Yamato: 1
Yui: 3, Skill [3]
Enemy
Cetus Zoanthrope: 3, Skill [R]
Not very much happens after your initial charge.
Maki's fist is the first thing to land on the Zoanthrope, hitting it right in the sensitive spot she opened up. The Zoanthrope screeches really loudly and almost keens over, as you might expect when the equivalent of an armored car coursing with enough electricity to kill an elephant rams itself into the equivalent of a massive graze on your side, only the car is the size of a teenage girl and the elephant is big enough to crush an actual elephant by falling over on it.
The spot Maki manages to hit, for the most part, cracks open a little more, bits of the external hide flaking off like terrible plastic kibble from those old transforming toys, revealing greyish bits of flesh beneath. It tries to hit her right back with a body check, but between Yui's sudden save with her defensive song protecting everyone and Maki's barriers, Maki barely even feels being hit....
.....only to get barely escape being grazed by Haruko's misfires, as the crow girl continues spurting hot plasma around with reckless abandon. That tends to happen when you spit plasma around like a broken fire hydrant. She manages to hurt herself a little for her trouble, and does absolutely nothing to the Zoanthrope except piss it off a little more as the burning projectiles practically slide off whatever material the hide is made of, though it's a lot worse for wear and clearly heat-damaged, so go figure. Whatever it is, you're going to need concentrated bombardment to start opening it up.
Suzu, deciding that bombarding it from above is better left to Haruko, decides to pull off an impromptu pincer movement and stab the Zoanthrope from below, shadows impaling it from below. That does have an effect, as the shadows manage to crack the hide in one hit from below, unlike Maki's sustained attack to the side or the back. The Zoanthrope rears up- as you might do when stabbed in the stomach- and swings over to change positions, the ground shaking and the (burning) tree trembling with each step.
Of course, Suzu and Haruko making the thing panic makes Viv's job harder to do. The cartoon girl struggles to stay on and stab the thing in the weak area, redrawing her arm and landing the blow just in time to avoid being splattered by plasma. Just like Maki's blow, the spot that Viv hits starts cracking harder, bits of damaged hide flying off to reveal bits of grey flesh beneath.
This seems to be the final straw for the Zoanthrope.
With a mighty, ear-piercing screech, the Zoanthrope stomps down on the ground hard enough to crack the pavement beneath it, before a sphere of rapidly-expanding red energy throws Maki, Viv and anyone else within range of the thing back off of it, Viv landing next to Maki, who manages to evade her just in time. With a wounded keening roar, the Zoanthrope stands firm as the energy sphere stops in mid-air, lingering there like a translucent, tangible barrier, Haruko's projectiles seeming to just bounce off it like so many rubber toy balls.
Taro sits and concentrates for a moment, his mind's eye focusing on the weaknesses, but the chaos of the battle seems to be getting to him before-
Most of your teammates are exactly what you might expect; made of carbon, some a little taller, some a little shorter. Haruko is a lot hotter than you might expect a normal human to be without instantly dying from third-degree burns. Strengths and weaknesses are pretty self-evident; you don't even need this to help you.
As for the Zoanthrope, it'll hit you hard enough to hit not only you, but anyone close to you with the sheer force, and the belly, as you might expect, is the weak spot, being less armored than the rest of the body. The hide is made from some weird chemical composition that makes literally no sense to Taro or anyone with an actual chemistry degree.
For his troubles, Taro gets staggered with a crippling headache. Turns out, processing so much information at once tends to give you sensory overload, which apparently feels like the world's worst hangover.
Everyone else fumbles around like a bunch of idiots except Sato and Amelie, who manage to stand their ground. Amelie does her healing thing, as Sato recovers from being winded by the beast. Juliet gets into position and almost trips herself into a pair of bricks, and Agatha definitely clocks Haruko on the back of the head with a rock, not that it does much else except lightly irritate her.
Also, the Zoanthrope is now glaring at Maki and Viv. Judging by the way that it seems to be pawing the ground, it's probably going to charge at you. And it's going to hurt. A lot.
Party:
All: Pesante
Agatha
Status: Healthy
World Line: [6 5 5 6 2 4 1 5 3 3]
Alterations: 4
Will: 3
Amelie
Status: Slightly Wounded
World Line: [4 1 3 4 1 6 1 2 3 4]
Alterations: 4
Will: 3
Haruko
Status: Slightly Wounded, Low Criticality
World Line: [4 4 3 3 2 1 6 4 4 2]
Alterations: 4
Will: 3
Juliet
Status: Healthy
World Line: [5 4 1 4 1 4 4 4 3 6]
Alterations: 4
Will: 3
Maki
Status: Fairly Wounded
World Line: [6 2 6 4 2 5 5 4 6 2]
Alterations: 4
Will: 3
Suzu
Status: Healthy
World Line: [3 4 4 2 2 3 5 5 1 4]
Alterations: 4
Will: 3
Taro
Status: Slightly Wounded, stunned
World Line: [4 5 1 5 5 1 5 3 4 1]
Alterations: 4
Will: 3
Viverra
Status: Scratch damage, dazed
World Line: [1 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 6 3]
Alterations: 2
Will: 3
Yamato
Status: Slightly Wounded
World Line: [1 5 6 1 2 5 3 6 2 6]
Alterations: 4
Will: 3
Yui
Status: Fairly Wounded
World Line: [4 5 1 5 3 4 5 6 3 1]
Alterations: 4
Will: 3
Enemy:
Cetus Zoanthrope
Status: Fairly wounded, right side severely weakened, back weakened, right front leg bleeding, body lightly singed, underbody weakened, protected by barrier
Author
Topic: Rise of the Magic Girls: Rebirth [IC]: The Spider, Snake and Bat (Read 43992 times)