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Re: Eventide University IC: Nocte Invidia
« Reply #915 on: April 02, 2019, 03:38:24 pm »

It was not Idunnas day. She barely had time to regain her footing after being showered in glass shards - ears ringing and balance wobbling like a top losing speed - to activate her rune word before she was thrown into the wall as if Darth Sideous had decided to demonstrate unlimited power on her. When she climbed back to her feet again she wasn't looking too hot. For one there was smoke and the smell of ozone in the air around her. For another she stood unsteadily, eyes unfocused, hunched over in what must be excruciating pain. And not just from the lightning strikes.

Idunna was glowing. And not in the mystical 'alive with magic' kind of way. More like when someone holds a powerful light against their palm and watches their flesh light up from the inside from above. Except her entire body, as if a blinding light was contained inside her flesh. Her hair absolutely burning like the sun. It even seemed hot to the touch, since her skin was turning a irritated red wherever the two made contact.

Unsurprisingly, Idunna wasn't doing anything. Content to deal with all the pain and violence coming her way for now. Trying to cope.

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Re: Eventide University IC: Nocte Invidia
« Reply #916 on: April 03, 2019, 12:25:01 pm »

==Combat Continues! Round two!==
Now Playing: ??? Combat Theme, Twister

ΩGroup A: ClassroomΩ

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Idunna barely has any time to regain her footing before the final creature - the one yet to be engaged - surges through the room with a flash. A sudden bolt of lighting striking first a lamp and sending sparks and shattered glass flying across the room before launching down from there and through Idunnas body much like the others had.

Idunna takes 7 damage!


IT IS A NEW ROUND!

Spoiler: Initiative Order (click to show/hide)

With a yell of pain and effort, Idunna straightens herself up and grabs the vacuum tube of liquid nitrogen, swinging it like a bat at the creatures surrounding her. Though they easily weave out the of way. Seemingly stuttering backwards. Blink and they’re a foot behind where you thought they were.

Two of them are not done there, though. They dart off towards new targets in a flash. One burning it’s way through Scarletts body, leaving behind a searing pain and uncomfortable spasms and the other doing the same to Albert

Albert and Scarlett take 7 damage each!

ΩGroup B: SchoolyardΩ
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The creature barely has time to reconstitute itself beside Dom after missing it’s lunge -- briefly little more than a red line of lightning -- before Lily disperses it into sparks and noise with a sudden lunge and it’s barely held together ‘body’

Lilly deals 11 damage. ??? is destroyed!

Just then, mixed in with the feeling of triumph that comes with the kill, Lilly gets a rush of confidence. Fortune favors the bold they say! Right now she can do nothing wrong!

Stroke of Luck is in effect on Lilly.

Whether they’re upset about the death of their fellow or not, the things spring into action a split second after. Lightning surging all over the street as they go on the offensive. The air full of the deafening sound of thunder, gunfire, and yells of pain or triumph.

Two of them fly at Dom but miss - whether because he moved out of the way in time or they simply misjudged their aim is anybody's guess. But they re-form into humanoids close by their would-be target.

A third flies at Bernie and, entering through the shoulder, passes through her body with a intense searing pain like being burned from the inside out before it exits through a her left foot and retakes humanoid shape behind her.

Bernie takes 7 damage!

IT IS A NEW ROUND!
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Re: Eventide University IC: Nocte Invidia
« Reply #917 on: April 03, 2019, 12:33:07 pm »

Idunna was taking a lot of hits, that was bad. Plus, whatever was going on with her looked. . . unpleasant. Very unpleasant. She wasn't entirely familiar with how the vanir's magic worked, but generally people who glowed from within and scorched themselves with their own hair weren't usually having a good time. Not to mention the creatures accelerating whatever process was going on. There wasn't much for her to do at this point, though, other than try to end them as soon as they could. She lunged forward at the creature she'd hit before in an arc (to grab a chair from the side of the room,) with speed she was surprised she had. A speed that was certainly not human.

Blur and hit the thing at the top of init again, but this time with a chair.
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Re: Eventide University IC: Nocte Invidia
« Reply #918 on: April 03, 2019, 07:15:41 pm »

"Idunna!" Shit! The girl was taking an absolute beating from the electric beings, and even as Albert gets shocked himself, he realizes he absolutely cannot let her get injured anymore. Not after he felt all that pain and disorientation from her.

He had to overcome his fear. That creeping sense of dread. The desire to end it all. His death drive.

Albert grabs his temples in sudden psychic exertion, letting that violent, angry feeling from before loose within his body, letting it seep into every part of his brain, every nook and fold - no matter how much it hurt to do so. He wouldn't be surprised if he was bleeding from the nose right now, and if he had his eyes open he'd be sure he'd be seeing the walls bleeding eyes.

And yet, he pushed. He funneled more mental energy into the feeling, letting it feast on his own fractured mind. Feeding it until it became strong, strong, strong. Just behind the point of losing control entirely.

And then, he opened his eyes.

Summon Dog Eat Dog, reserving 60 extra PPE to empower it.
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Re: Eventide University IC: Nocte Invidia
« Reply #919 on: April 06, 2019, 11:30:03 am »

Bernie squeals in pain as the .....monster, whatever it was, stings and passes through her, biting her lips to suppress a louder cry.

This wasn't what she wanted. This wasn't what she wanted at all. She wasn't a trained fighter, she was a violinist for God's sake. All she could do was play instruments and offer some good luck and bad luck and when she was hurt, all she could do was lash out.

Of course, unlike most other people in such a condition, Bernie could use magic. Not much of it, but she could use it, alright. And so for her, lashing out was a little more effective than slapping something.
Essence Bolt the one that attacked Bernie
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Re: Eventide University IC: Nocte Invidia
« Reply #920 on: April 06, 2019, 11:30:41 am »

Stab the one that went after Bernie!
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Re: Eventide University IC: Nocte Invidia
« Reply #921 on: April 06, 2019, 03:17:55 pm »

Two hostiles, same area, not good but not great. A shot rings out as Dom fires upon the faster looking elemental.
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Re: Eventide University IC: Nocte Invidia
« Reply #922 on: April 07, 2019, 10:28:04 am »

==Combat Continues! Round two!==
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ΩGroup A: ClassroomΩ

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Scarlet moves. The rest of the world becomes muted, blurred, like a half-remembered dream as she sprints across the room, the lightning-like creature frozen in mid-recovery as she takes hold of a wooden chair and comes up behind it. Flashes of dreamlike images threaten to overwhelm her, the feeling of pouncing on prey, warm flesh under her claws... wait, claws?

as the lightning-creature detonates from the violent attack, so does the chair she'd used as a weapon, but that was fine. She was here now. Blood thunders in her ears, a wordless assurance. She was the Hunter. These were nothing but prey. There was no doubt as to how this would end.

CRITICAL HIT! 24 Damage! Prey Slaughtered!


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Meanwhile, Albert was undergoing his own revelation. He gathered up his emotions, his willpower, every ounce of mental might he could, and he fed them to the other, until it felt like it would burst out of his skin like a hatchling from an egg, and then, with a distorted howl, it did. An enormous, emaciated hound, eyeless, with a mouth that stretched well beyond that of a mundane dog, the entire forward portion of its body seeming to unhinge and split open as it growls. It fairly glows with a raging, overbearing power, before diving into the floor itself, vanishing, faint ripples travelling over the surface of the wood as if it were water.

130 PPE Reserved.

While Albert could dully recognize the strain he was putting on his mind, feeling the beginning of a migraine headache begin to set in, he could not deny the sense of power that washes over him as he shares in the senses of this beast, ready to strike at a moment's notice.

But before he could, two more of the lightning-creatures move, turning upon the one that had killed their fellow and leaping into the Vampire's body, scorching her veins from the inside before emerging once more, their crackling energy more violent, angrier, almost. Can't imagine why.

14 Damage to Scarlet

TURN 3 BEGINS

ΩGroup B: SchoolyardΩ
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Dom reacts on a level below conscious thought. 'Don't think', he can almost hear at the back of his mind. 'Some of 'em can toy with your mind, make you second-guess yourself. Don't let them. Jus' square your shoulders, stay calm, and aim for their center of mass. Don' matter what it is, I ain't met nothin' yet that won't go down to a few shots in the guts.' Good advice, if from a less good source. Loud, sharp rapports ring out as rounds slam into the body of the lightning-creature, driving it back as sparks and blasts of lightning spray off of its form.

CRITICAL HIT! 24 Damage!


Lilly tries to spin her way around to reach the one attacking her fellow student, to help her fight it off, but doesn't quite plan for the slickness of the ground under her feet or for an errant blast of wind, which combine to spin her off her feet and onto her backside, spoiling her attack.

Bernie herself, however, has no such problems, feeling the magic rise up in her blood, filling her with its power, before erupting from her outstretched hand, crashing into the middle of the figure that'd struck her. It didn't deal much damage to the creature, but the feeling of power was palpable, if unpracticed, and the creature stumbles backward.

7 Damage! -10 Fortune.

The lightning creatures aren't dissuaded, however, striking back with renewed ferocity. The one Dom had shot was still too stunned to strike back, but its partner had somehow gotten around to his side while he was firing at its fellow, and he can't entirely avoid its surging force.

7 Damage to Dom

Meanwhile, while Bernie's bolt doesn't seem to have done much damage, it's certainly rattled her foe, and its own counterattack goes wide, though only by bare inches.

TURN 3 BEGINS
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Re: Eventide University IC: Nocte Invidia
« Reply #923 on: April 07, 2019, 11:22:51 am »

Scarlet felt a snarl forming on her face, fangs exposed as she searched for her next target. She couldn't drain her prey now, but that was fine; she would have more chances later.

Scarlet blinked. What was she doing? What was she thinking? She wasn't the Hunter, she was a college student trying to save her idiot friend from his own poor decision making. She glanced down and saw her fingers formed into wicked claws. Useful, she supposed, but how they had come about was. . . worrying. She'd have to worry later, though. For now she could at least use the shades that were apparently creeping out of her dreams and into real life. She ran at the next creature and immediately began to tear at it with her newfound "natural" weaponry.

Claw the one that's now on top of the initiative.
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Re: Eventide University IC: Nocte Invidia
« Reply #924 on: April 07, 2019, 11:38:37 am »

Albert Szondi Ego wasn't usually a violent person.

He wouldn't showcase any aggressive or physically inclined tendencies in public or private, wether he was by himself or around other people. Perhaps a little too forward at times, perhaps his words weren't always the best articulated, and perhaps - perhaps, he was just a bit creepy. But he was friendly, he was kind. He knew how probing his profession - his powers, could be. He was fine with that, of course, but he had done his best to at least make sure nobody else got uncomfortable with it, after day one, at least.

But schizophrenia didn't exactly allow one the comfort of being their best self at all times. He's had one breakdown in pretty much as many months - a respectable achievement, considering - and even then he dug into his self-control as tightly as possible, and it passed with hardly any incident. It wasn't the worst thing that happened to him, nor was it the worst he could be.

So when it came time to develop his own... projection, his own psychic manifestation, he held it under as much care as he could. He clutched it with mental chains, binds, iron balls. Albert wasn't usually a violent person, and he didn't want to be.

All this means that he wasn't very prepared for Dog Eat Dog's first howling breach into reality, it's first growling dive into the floor, where he could still feel it's primal urge to destroy, demanding he let it eat everything in sight, to the electric beings to the furniture to the walls to his friends to him to Alex -

He wasn't prepared. Too little, he had too little control over the thing, the decision to let it bite off so much of his mind was an impulse one - and now the best he could do was point it. Point it at one of the electrical beings, shape it's grotesquerie towards the figures, as he collapses to the floor and focuses and focuses and focuses.

An iota of an iota of a thought in his straining mind wonders if he couldn't ask Scarlet to bake another pizza after this. He'd need the comfort food.

Send DED after the one Scarlet attacks.
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Re: Eventide University IC: Nocte Invidia
« Reply #925 on: April 07, 2019, 02:53:36 pm »

The surge of electricity nearly caused Dom to discharge another shot as his muscles tensed up, but he managed to keep it together. A shot you didn't aim was a shot that the enemy made. The texan quickly turned toward the electric being, murmuring magical incantations before firing, the bullet from his gun picking up stray rocks as it went from the earthen energies in it.
Elementalify with earth. Attack the elemental that just attacked him.
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Re: Eventide University IC: Nocte Invidia
« Reply #926 on: April 07, 2019, 03:16:14 pm »

Idunna took the chance to have a breather now that she wasn't having her suffering multiplied moment-to-moment and actually had a chance to figure out what the hell was going on besides oh god the burning!

Bent forwards, half because she was near falling over and half to make herself a smaller target, she hefted the improvised preassue-tube bat and shook her head as if trying to shake off a haze. The light inside her body gradually moving towards her hands and infusing the improvised weapon as well. The glow pulsating in tune with her heartbeat and breathing.

Charge Attack
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Re: Eventide University IC: Nocte Invidia
« Reply #927 on: April 08, 2019, 06:22:10 pm »

Stab whichever lightning thing looks the most hurt.
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Re: Eventide University IC: Nocte Invidia
« Reply #928 on: April 11, 2019, 03:38:59 am »

More Essence Bolts, since that seemed to have worked well the last time, at Lilly's target.

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« Reply #929 on: April 12, 2019, 06:02:10 pm »

==Combat Continues! Round Three!==
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ΩGroup A: ClassroomΩ

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Idunna charges her liquid nitrogen container with heat. Some people might say that superheating a container filled with dangerous chemicals and then beating a lightning elemental with it is a bad idea, but those people are cowards and should not be talked about in polite company.

meanwhile, the enraged lightning creature hurls itself at Scarlet, attempting to avenge its allies, energy surging through her body as it passes through her.

Scarlet: -7 Blood

While Scarlet tries to counter, she finds moving her body difficult, still recovering from the enemy's attack, and thus is unable to connect.

Albert, however, has no such problem. Dog Eat Dog explodes out of the ground, its enormous jaws latching down on the lightning creature's body and bearing it to the ground, savaging it wildly.

The two still-free lightning creatures attempt to free their friend, Dog Eat Dog shrugging off one of the creatures, while the other manages to land a solid hit on it, but the Projection doesn't seem to care.

Dog Eat Dog -7 HP

??? -19 HP

Scarlet: ??? 11/30 ??? 30/30 ??? 30/30

ΩGroup B: SchoolyardΩ
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Dom - ??? 30/30
Bernie - ??? 16/30

Dom attempts to make use of his newly remembered techniques to lay low an enemy, but he fails to account for earth shots having enormous kick, the bullet going wide.

Lilly, however, has his back, and executes the lightning-being he was attempting to kill, driving her spear through the center of its body, and Bernie continues to repeatedly slam her enemy with bolts of energy.

???: -11 HP, ded
???: -7 HP.

The creature still menacing Dom wheels around on the killer of his friend, leaping into Lilly's body with a blast of energy and a discharge of smoke.

Lilly: -7 HP.

Meanwhile, apparently its friend has been charging up power from these Manabolts, and it decides to put it to good use, blasting Bernie with an arc of lightning that leaves her hair and clothing smoldering after it passes.

Bernie: -14 HP.

IT IS A NEW TU-.

WHAT'S THIS? YGGDRA IS EVOLVING!

Just then, Alex finishes the final preparations, and finally calls down the power of the storm and the power of the land, pouring them together into his favorite potted plant. Crimson lightning splits the sky and slams through the barrier Idunna had created, shattering it like so much spun sugar, thus returning the energy store in it to her pool, and pouring into the ritual circle. Alex's cane, his leg, even the wood flooring under his feet, as well as the plant within the planter, begin to grow, exploding to life and quickly forming a cocoon around both Alex and his circle, before opening up once more, revealing that... well, things had changed. The area was empty, now, other than Alex, and instead of his cane he now held something that looked somewhere between the cane and a ludicrously oversized handgun. AS OF NEXT ROUND, ALEX MAY ALSO ACT.

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