No can do, my friend. I don't do New Powers as the Plot Demands (except for the Demons, ohohoho). The object manipulation you're talking about - like with Sayaka's bat - seems to be a general Magical Girl power, but that's alteration of an existing object into a more powerful (and sillier-looking) form, not creation of lenses and suchlike.
The Fencer flew backwards from the force of Ciel's kick, striking several rails on the way. The scorched and dented armor rolled to a halt in the sand some distance away, and only slowly picked itself back up. Ciel could swear she felt something like annoyance coming from the hood as it drew another rapier from its chest. Then, suddenly, it vanished.
The Hammer Knight didn't deviate from its path; the hissing noise of the fusing glass slowly grew louder as it came closer. Abruptly, the noise stopped, some distance away from Vera. The Knight had paused in front of one of the civilians - a middle-aged man dressed in incongruously cheery colors. He blubbered, not seeing the Knight at all, as it raised its hammer high over its cowl...
The Azure Knight seemed content to direct its Demons' fire, taking potshots at Sachiko and Alicia as they attempted to return the favor. Any stray bolts or spears were blocked by the shield in its right hand; at one point, Sachiko saw it catch one of her thrown spears in the tines of its trident, spinning it around in a dizzying show of bright green light before planting it point-first in the sand. Turning back to its troops, the Knight jerked a gauntlet back toward the girls, and for a moment the barrage of lasers paused as they began to charge their mouth blasts.
It's been fun.
Bird mom
Vera already wore glasses. She was manipulating what she had on her with magic making it bigger
Vera spotted the demon and moved as quickly as she could (which wasn't very fast) as she tried to rush to the man to get him out of the way. She arrived at the scene and tried to push him away.
edited 22nd Nov '11 10:56:33 AM by RhymeBeat
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
I won't make you change your earlier post, but that's not a general power and it's got nothing to do with Vera's wish. Thus, I'll be disallowing it in the future.
Vera managed to roll the man to the side as the hammer swung down; it impacted inches from both of its targets, deafening them with the roar of crystallizing sand and spraying them both with molten glass beads. Opting to leave its hammer in place for the moment, the Knight took a step after Vera and swung its heavy gauntlet in a backhand at her face.
It's been fun.
Bird mom
Once again Mami did something similar with Sayaka's bat. Why is making the glasses bigger much different then completely changing the shape of a weapon.
Vera dashes back dragging the man with her. The only way to solve this was to kill this thing but the beast made her attacks bounce off like they were nothing. She activated her analysis ability trying to figure out how she could hurt this behemoth before her swallowed all the bystanders present.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
I am now a shiny stone~
Ciel tensed, prepared for another attack.
A THIRD time? talk about predictable.
Her enhanced perception in full bore, Ciel anticipated the Demon lasers and stepped aside smartly, spinning around and kicking another of those curved blades of blue fire at them. Her mental process had sharpened to the level she usually reserved for combat with rival Magical Girls, and she knew that the Emerald Fencer was going to try the same trick again.
I wonder how much punishment it's going to take to finish it off.
Ciel switching styles from Trickster to Royal Guard.
Shifting mentally, Ciel prepared for defensive fighting.
edited 22nd Nov '11 4:23:29 PM by AceOfScarabs
The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
As Ciel finished her scything kick and brought her leg back to chamber, the Fencer reappeared behind her, at the very end of her kick. She felt cold metal fingers close on her ankle and pull her knee up as the Fencer, abandoning its rapier for the time being, put subtlety aside and simply attempted to twist her leg off at the hip.
edited 22nd Nov '11 5:09:40 PM by RedSavant
It's been fun.
I am now a shiny stone~
Ah-HA! Admittedly a little different from what I anticipated, but close enough!
Using the new leverage, Ciel twisted, moving with the Fencer's grip. Her other leg came around, and a column of blue split into her familiar double-rails, which sliced into the Emerald Fencer's arms as her free leg came around and kicked it in the back.
The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
Bird mom
After ensuring the safety of the man Vera tried to sneak up behind the demon managing to outspeed the hulky beast. Vera decided to drill a circle in the demon's hide tracing the laser in rings at the demon's posterior.
edited 22nd Nov '11 5:54:03 PM by RhymeBeat
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
The Fencer's armor dented with the force of Ciel's kick; its chain bracers, already scorched, fell in half as they made contact with the blue rails. As soon as Ciel's kick connected, though, she found herself in a new predicament - the Fencer hadn't let go of her right leg, and it now wrapped its arm around her left, trapping her shin against its shoulder. Ciel had thrown herself upside-down to strike at the knight, and with no leverage to pull back, she was stuck that way. The only benefit to the situation was that the Fencer's arms were pinned just as surely as her legs were.
To recap events as I read them: Ciel performed a roundhouse kick with her right leg. When she chambered, the Fencer appeared behind her - basically parallel with her shin - and grabbed her right ankle with its left hand. Pushing up on her knee, it attempted to break her leg. Instead, Ciel used the momentum to swing her left leg across her body for a shot at the Fencer's back, over its right shoulder. The strike connected, but now the Fencer has both of her legs.
Drill a hole with what?
It's been fun.
I am now a shiny stone~
Red, you understand that Ciel has her other foot stuck right? So, since we agreed as discussed...
Ciel initially panicked as her free leg got stuck too, flailing a little as it brought back some bad memories from her childhood.
...The little girl screamed as her fancy shoes got caught in the escalator, which seemed to have become some kind of demonic ambush predator. She helplessly tried to struggle free as the pinned straps of her shoes pulled her feet towards the evil metal teeth-
No, snap out of it, girl! she chided herself mentally, You're an arse-kicking Magical Girl now! Even if your other foot is stuck 'blade... first... in it- oh YES.
Protip: never let Ciel leave her foot stuck against or inside you >:3
Her flailing changed subtly from panic to a calculated move. Handplanting despite her lower arm-strength compared to her legs, Ciel was still stronger overall than a normal human, and so she heaved. Unable to break free, the Emerald Fencer was pulled along, up into the air.
Ciel gasped as knives of pain in her back and grabbed leg reminded her that she was injured, but she persevered, with a scream that was part kiai and part cry of pain, and slammed the Demon into the ground.
Upon impact, the rollerblade stuck in the Demon's side wheels-first glowed hot blue.
A sizeable blue energy 'blade erupted inside the Emerald Fencer, tearing it apart and freeing Ciel from its grasp. Rolling aside, she grabbed the crystallizing Remains and purified her Gem, wary of any further attacks.
edited 22nd Nov '11 8:12:33 PM by AceOfScarabs
The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
Bird mom
The Hammer Knight has no armor on its back - just the legs from the shins down, the chest, shoulders and arms.
Vera's lasers needled into the Knight's uprotected 'flesh', eliciting a loud roar. Rather than turning around to attack her, though, the Knight simply hefted its hammer back over its head, attacking blindly with the massive claw.
edited 22nd Nov '11 8:51:36 PM by RedSavant
It's been fun.
Bird mom
Vera knew that she needed to stop the monster before it killed some bystander. She fired at the beasts head focusing the full blast of the gun. She prayed that the strike hit through.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
With the new advanced Demon basically rendering her attacks moot at the moment, Sachiko turned her attention towards the four remaining basics. Seeing them charge up another blast, she fired off two vertical lines of spears into the Demons nearest to her, hoping Alicia would deal with the two others.
Newbie Drifter
Rei waited, quietly observing the battle.
Alicia had attempted a few normal shots at the blue Demon, to no effect; the green girl's spears didn't fare much better, and the Azure Knight had yet to even bother budging an inch. All the while, the lesser Demons continued to rain beams of light upon the duo... until now.
There was a lull in the assault. An opportunity showed itself.
It was time to crush them in one swoop.
"Alicia, now!"
"Alright!"
Alicia had given up on attacking the Azure Knight earlier than Sachiko did, instead charging up her other revolver with energy as Rei asked. The moment she received the command, she burst into a forward dash, getting closer to the two Demons Sachiko didn't attack. There was no way she could miss at this range.
Lock-On
Just like before, two great spheres of violet light tore through the air, one for each Demon she targeted. Unlike before, this time Alicia didn't bother to absorb the recoil, instead using it to aid her leap backwards so as to distance herself from the Azure Knight.
edited 22nd Nov '11 9:10:44 PM by Midreus
That is all she needed. That is all... Her dreams of seeing the world have become her strength, and lifts her wings.
The shots passed harmlessly through the creature's empty cowl, and the hammer swung down with lethal force. It caught Vera's gun and arm a glancing blow - glancing, but enough to shatter bones. Vera's wrist snapped like a twig and the gun cratered into the sand, discharging harmlessly into the sand at her feet. Swinging the hammer ponderously back up to its shoulder, the Knight turned around slowly, bringing Vera back into its sight.
The green cloud of smoke left by the Fencer's destruction flew into Ciel's face as she moved, breaking her line of sight on the normal Demons. Lasers immediately crisscrossed the area, burning the smoke away. Small pops and cracks marked the rare occurrence of a laser hitting a Remnant and obliterating it, but Ciel had more important things to think about.
Alicia's shots smashed into the Demons, destroying one with an impressive explosion of white shreds of fabric and blowing the other off its feet. It slammed into the pair Sachiko had targeted and was impaled along with them, managing a strangled roar before it died. Sachiko's targets reeled, but stayed upright, and swiveled to return fire. The Azure Knight, for its part, seemed miffed, and it finally moved from its chosen spot. Spinning its trident idly, the Knight stalked toward Rei, blinking forward in small jumps like it had all the time in the world.
edited 22nd Nov '11 9:20:46 PM by RedSavant
It's been fun.
I am now a shiny stone~
Ciel was too busy recovering enough to not feel pain to really take notice of some of the Remains getting lasered. That, and she was making sure she could get hit easily by taking advantage of smokescreening cover and varying her speed to make it hard to track her.
Ever since that horrific incident she had with the escalator that eventually led to her making that Wish with Kyubey, she had a not-too-unreasonable dislike of feeling pain, a major hang-up on her part that made part of her training involve her learning "How to avoid getting hit". Evasion, mobility, and cover played a major role in her expertise, and she became known amongst her fellow Magical Girls in Singapore for her tendency to blitzkrieg, breaking up Demon Formations and damaging them enough for her teammates to mop up. The quicker a battle ended, the less damage she took.
It was this very dislike of pain that made it all the easier for her Mentor to train her, as one of the incentives involved was getting good enough to avoid getting battered black-and-blue by her whenever she failed to dodge or parry or counter correctly.
And of course she never learnt how to block out pain.
This battle was already longer than she liked, and it was also the first time in months she had ever felt pain. Wanting to wrap up the fight quickly, Ciel tapped into her power to heal faster, then used some mana to Boost under some lasers, right up to one of the Demons, before it could cool down enough to fire another burst, and kicked.
BOOM!
Ciel has switched back to Trickster style to end the fight quickly. I intend for her to rip through the remaining normal Demons so's she can rejoin Rei and Alicia.
edited 23rd Nov '11 7:36:37 AM by AceOfScarabs
The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
Bird mom
Vera was in the verge of tears bound and fearful of breaking the creatures grip.. She managed to shake off the pain and made her gun dissapear and reappear beside her. She saw that the creature's armor didn't cover its thighs. She spit her gun again and had them fly at its thighs slicing them in parrallel courses around the weak spot.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
The Knight hefted its hammer up, blocking Vera's stream of fire with the huge, clawed weapon. As it turned, a glint of light caught Vera's eye - one of the round plates of glass created by the hammer's impact had shifted in the sand, tilting it a little. It looked reflective...
The remaining normal Demons proved little trouble for Ciel even with her back injury, and soon enough, the Demonspace began to collapse around her. As the desert receded in its usual strange way, Ciel took a step back onto the linoleum of the shopping mall - not where she had started, but it had been a pretty intense battle, so the change in location didn't throw her off too badly. Unfortunately, her next step wasn't onto linoleum, but onto the body of an old man lying facedown on the floor. Blood oozed into a sizable puddle around his head; he had obviously been dead for some time, even longer than the battle had taken.
edited 23rd Nov '11 9:28:49 AM by RedSavant
It's been fun.
I am now a shiny stone~
Ciel stopped short in shock at the discovery, almost dropping the Remains she was using; her bile was barely forced down by her self-control.
Her horror was immediately dampened by the fact that the man was not even dressed like any of Alicia's or Rei's parents, and the fact that it was no longer the first time she'd seen a dead man. Nevertheless, she decided to try and see if she could prevent those adults from being driven to death by the Demons before catching up to the others.
Damn, I really really really hope they're all right. Demons were never this effective in Singapore.
edited 24th Nov '11 5:36:15 AM by AceOfScarabs
The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
Bird mom
Vera took advantage of the shattered glass merging her Weapons and charging up a shot angled to reach the demon's upper leg. "See the light you monster" she cried.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
The Knight, not speaking Japanese, was unfazed by the one-liner. The laser, however, reflected cleanly off the pane of glass, boring deep into the Knight's leg. With a roar of pain, it collapsed, leaning heavily on its hammer. After a long moment, it managed to stand again; smoke rose from the scorched hole in its cloak and it carried itself like it was in pain. Rearing back, the Knight swung its hammer in a low arc, taking the top off of a nearby dune. The sand fused into jagged, misshapen glass spears, which hurtled toward Vera and the civilians behind her.
It's been fun.
Bird mom
Vera tried to take the brunt of the blow knowing she'd be able to take the attack better than the civilians. She stood her ground hoping that she could protect the people.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
is All Elite
Michiko would have answered, but the voice of her mother interrupted her. "I'll be off now," she said, taking up her scratched black suitcase and heading for the door. "You take care of yourselves, alright?"
"Alright," said Michiko. "Take care."
Once her mother was out the door, Michiko turned back to the dishes and tried to send a message to Machi.
A trip to the mall? Sure, why not? On impulse, she looked at her father, who was now busy typing something at his laptop.
"Uh... Father?"
The typing stopped. "Yes?"
"Um, I'm going out in a bit. I might not be back until evening. That okay?"
"Alright," he said, and went back to his work. "Just call us if anything pops up, alright?" There was something in his face that made Michiko feel almost guilty about even asking. "And... and take care."
"Okay," Michiko said, already halfway up the stairs. "I'll take care, don't worry."
Maxy, can you just do the time-skip for me? I have to do something else.
"Stealing is a crime and drugs is a crime too BUT if you steal drugs the two crimes cancel out and it’s like basically doing a good."
I think I'll turn it into an object manipulation, a "generic" magical girl power?
Vera watched at the figure drew nearer. She scanned the creature's thick armor foray sign of a weakpoint, any joint, any vital area. She'd never seen a demon like this and it was time for her to work at understanding it. She knew expanding her glasses was a risk and the creature didn't seem to use lasers. She returned her eyeglasses to normal and started looking for something to hide behind as she observed the demon.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.