Outside Four Macraul Manor, Wrong Lumiose

-Ian the Witch looks at the humanoid monsters that shamble through the town and shudders-

Me: And for my next trick, I will now regret having asked...

Macraulloween

-Isbrand turns and heal and fires a clip forward before swtiching to duel-wielding the sword and sheath.-

-Shaun draws his Stormflowers while Jessica grips Magnhild im hammer form.-

Shaun: "Ready?"

Jessica: "Boy, am I ever!"

-Elizabeth stays close to Julius and Ishtar.-

-Kaiiseii is nowhere to be seen.-

Halis: "...Defend? Who said I was defending? We just need to put down all of these things before they pose a problem, right? I see no reason to delay getting started, then."

Halis raises their other, empty hand, pointing it at the enemies outside and sending red electricity akin to a high-power Thunderbolt hurdling towards their targets. Clearly any sort of non-offensive tactic isn't on their mind.

Macraulloween

A jet of flame surrounds Ammy, before rapidly becoming a bunch of ice.

The feathers in Sunny's hand orbit around her wrist.

Gambol Shroud, in Sylveon's hand, is flung around in practice, being a kusarigama.

The wing on Colton's forearm extends again.

"Let's ride," they chorused.

Macraul Party

Archer: ...So much for getting out of here.

Cavendish: <Wherever this creature has sent us... it is not a Pokemon-inhabited world...>

Jackie: -to Gaspard- ...Okay then. Do you know how to fight?

-Genesis is cowering-

Edited by Umbramatic on Oct 22nd 2019 at 10:59:55 AM

Macraulloween

Gaspard: Nope. I had henchmen and the Umbreon fam do much of the battling for me usually. Meh, I'll wing it.

Lamarck: I am still not quite accustomed to that tone, sir.

Gaspard: It grows on you. I'd say something about choosing a costume of a person or character with fighting prowess but that's a 20-20 hindsight thingy. Plus, we watch a lot of Learner Lab. Tommy Petersen look like he could put up a good fight just by jerry rigging stuff and he's unexpectedly jacked for a nerdy Science Show host. We could make this work.

Lamarck: Or you can talk about science and bore those things to death.

Gaspard, grabbing random objects with the web shooters: Meh. Now how far can we escalate those April Fools projects?

Wrong Lumiose, Macrauloween

Milagros: Wh-

He took a step back, tilting his head, before creating a water shuriken.

Edited by Routeferret on Oct 22nd 2019 at 7:52:44 PM

Chateau d'Avarice

-The scent of spray paint fumes fills the air as the room is completely, utterly desecrated. And as it is, even the non-spraypainted parts of the room start to shift and change. What was once a rich-looking mansion bedroom starts to look a bit more thrift-shoppy.-

-And Paula looks the happiest she's ever been. She's laughing as she joins in with her own can of spray paint, a genuinely joyful laugh as opposed to the unstable power-hungry laugh a select few people in the entire J-Team might be familiar with.-

-But then she pauses.-

Paula: ...Hate to cut the fun short, but we might not wanna get too carried away. This is recon day, ain't it?

Rose: ...Right. We don't want to attract too much attention yet. We know what we need to do now, at least, when we come back.

-Perceptive eyes might notice that the lights in the hallway outside have turned off while everyone was defacing the room.-

Edited by BittersweetNSour on Oct 22nd 2019 at 12:44:03 PM

Zora!Megan: -wtfface- ...beans??

Why would—

-ambush! lasers!-

-she startles, swinging her gun to bear on the really dangerous Bean Machine-

Zora!Megan: -hearing Mahina- But how do we stop—

-and she yelps as her gun erupts in a blaze of light-

-a blinding flash, the cacophonous, high-pitched roar of the air itself burning, and a guaranteed-crit laser blast streaks toward the Beans-

Fate!Logan: -head-quirk- ...I live for coffee. Danger and I are just old drinking buddies.

Poison Ivy!Abilene: -sprouting from the floor in a giant rose blossom- Quatre, you've done it again.

-snort- "First Macraul branch to have contacts among the J-Team" my ass.

Korra!Megan: Abilene! The word they used wasn't "contacts?"

Poison Ivy!Abilene: That's my name. Where's the staticky one?

Korra:Megan: -sweatdrop- (You know Logan's name...) I thought they went to talk to you?

Poison Ivy!Abilene: -using a vine to snuff out the fire- Left them at the bar. They said they were going to find you.

-and...someone breaks the door down-

Korra!Megan: -staring at the tide of shadow creatures- Um.

-afraid- What was that about a friend imperiled?

Watmel!Natu: -mrow-

Poison Ivy!Abilene: Whoever this bastard is, they think they can screw the Macrauls and walk away after.

Korra!Megan: But why did they give us all these powers? And what about—

-and the air of vague dishabille Abilene's been wearing all evening hardens into the oppressive mantle of mastery she wore when they first met-

Korra!Megan: -can't even squeak in terror-

Poison Ivy!Abilene: -quietly- We're Trainers, damn it. Send out your mon.

Korra!Megan: -complies-

Zatanna!Pippy: <What's—*scream*>

Castanea the Chesnaught: -dressed as a walnut- <Hm?>

Zatanna!Pippy: -standing way back- <Castor.>

Walnut!Castanea: -nod- <Pippy.>

Zatanna!Pippy: <How's the weather?>

Walnut!Castanea: <Dark. Perhaps due for a bit of rain?>

Zatanna!Pippy: -wide-eyed- <That'd be nice.>

-well, everyone's soaked(?)-

-Logan has some idea of what to do in a crashing wave, thanks to Megan-

-even as the Line shatters, they tuck their head in through the impact and just try to tread water until it passes-

-Luxor, meanwhile, has weathered far worse, and simply stands her ground-

She's dreaming?

Nightmare. Sleepwalking.

But the surroundings look like a dream. Hey, look at the mist.

Does that mean she's okay?

...maybe we got hit with something weird and we need to wake—

-the wave fazed them, as physical assault generally does, but they're rather blindsided by the fact that all this could really be as ephemeral as the morning-

-Dew-

-Logan's reflexes are, not to put too fine a point on it, stellar-

Fate!Logan: -jerking backwards- !

-this is good, because it prevents Dew from putting too fine a point in them-

-as it is, the solid seamitar goes right through their shield (crackling all the while) and slices a shallow line across their stomach-

Fate!Logan: -pained grunt-

-strained- That feels very real.

-curiously sharp in thought, in that way some pain brings about- Wouldn't it, though?

Fate!Logan: -wince- Ow.

-they and Addie skip back in a well-practiced unison, trying to draw Dew away-

We can't be sure—wake us all up.

Luxor, got an Electric Terrain in you?

-intensely- ~Yeah.~

-at an accelerated pace there's a rushed conference about the necessity of sleeping something off, and the merits of not being encouraged to move by staticked earth versus those of perhaps not being stabbed again, and a consensus is reached-

Do it.

~Need a minute.~

Have one.

-with a quick skip of Disc against dock(?), there's a spark behind Dew-

-then two, then three-

-and they erupt in quick flashes of Aurically-charged lightning from the sky, carrying within them the paralytic relief of the sun after far, far too long in the dark-

-introducing the empathic rush of two sets of lungs starting a deep, calming breath cycle-

-in—-

(-and Luxor attempts to kick-start a process-)

Denali whistled a bit as they marked it down, "That's... that's something. And this made you decide to become a cryptid?"

Denali gave Locke a look, "What was your thought process behind that?"

Silas smirked a bit, "Being part of the J-Team is a invitation for danger honestly."

"We are the danger," Roxy commented with a grin.

Silas stared at the Shadowy Army, and pulled a rifle replica off his back, "Well then, if this works..."

Roxy had already extended a omni-blade from her Omni-tool, "Oh I am so ready."

Macraulloween

-The Electric Terrain crackles throughout the area, and with a jolt, everything goes back to normal. The dock becomes an utterly destroyed kitchen again, Alyssa is snapped out of her pained stupor—

Alyssa: (barely audible squeak) Ow...

—and Dew stands completely rigid, the haze of the dream still clouding her as she processes being awake.-

-And the environment.-

-And the others in the room.-

-And the massive gash in Alyssa's back.-

Dew: <...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa???>

-That's a lot to process when you just wake up-

-Naturally, Dew freaks out. Perfectly still except for glancing around the room in a panic.-

Edited by BittersweetNSour on Oct 22nd 2019 at 2:25:11 PM

Macraulloween

"Oh boy, fighting time. So can I actually do stuff in this form now or-" As if to answer her question, wisps of Obscura curl off her fingers.

".. Welp!"

Chateau d'Avarice

Daydre looks up from her artistically rendered, uncomfortably realistic rendition of a-

"Oh, right. Stealth." She stands and starts moving to leave. "Does it feel darker in here to you guys?"

Mobile Base

Mr. Bitey and Sylvie switch their attention to attack the Mean Bean Machine, what with the hard time limit and all. Rowan continues Plotting. Will he plot forever? Who knows.

macrauloween main event

-Eva holds a flask in one hand, a holographic interface appearing in the other. Turns out it was a miitopia scientist costume. Lila floats up in the air with Kat, while Cady holds her leek as defensively as one can hold a leek. Siri waves the knife wielding tentacle in random directions.-

Kat: What are those things?

Therapy

Locke:

Mobile Base

-More beans. The counter ticks down further-

Aphrodite: -backhands a Bokoblin straight into her Pherosoma's High Jump Kick- How do we stop that thing?

Dr. Multiman: Fools! It converts kinetic energy into more Pokebeans! You can't stop it!

Edited by Umbramatic on Oct 22nd 2019 at 2:35:26 PM

mobile base

Cady: Everyone stop moving, we'll just contribute to it more!

-Cady, Lila, Kat and their teams stop and stand in place.-

Chateau d' Avarice

Rage and Love, ever-paranoid, simply stayed back and watched as the systematic chaos ensued, refusing to say anything over the pit in his chest.

That crushing feeling was getting stronger, and when the lights went out, he made a cutting-off motion with his hand, pointing to the darkness with the other.

Wrong Lumiose, VS the Shadowy Army

Piku-chan: <Something tells me that those are what we'll have to fight, nya...>

Me: Looks that way... and, now that I think about it... they look like something from Empire Souls...

Piku-chan: <Have a plan?>

Me: -raises wand- You tell me.

Piku-chan: <AWRIGHT! Let's DO THIS!>

Me: Piku-chan, get ready to use Mega Punch!

-Piku-chan jumps into the air-

-Ian draws a circle in the air with his wand, and the circle glows with magical power-

-Piku-chan positions himself in the Magic Circle-

Piku-chan: <Hey, buddy... Are you sure this will work?>

Me: I HAVE NO IDEA!!!

Piku-chan: <This is gonna be fun!>

-With a wave of his wand, Ian makes the Magic Circle launch Piku-chan at great speeds into the shadowy hordes-

Piku-chan: <YEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWW!!!!! Lookatmego!>

-Piku-chan lets loose at the shadowy monsters with a powerful punch-

Mobile Base, VS The Mean Bean Machine

-Ian, continuing to stick with his idea of draining the Mean Bean Machine of its Poké Beans, looks over at Dr. Multiman to ask an important question-

Me: Just wondering... Dr. Multiman... Are the Poké Beans made by the Mean Bean Machine... tasty?

Deku!Halis: "Kinetic energy? Hm... Hey, Asterios, you might wanna ignore the machine, just saying!"

Asterios: <RROOOARR!>

Deku!Halis: "...Oh, right, I forgot when he gets angry like this in the middle of a fight he doesn't talk. Hm."

His rampage with Rage continues, tossing the local enemies out of the way left and right. Halis continues to support him by knocking enemies into a daze with their own Deku Nut spitting attacks, though they are coughing a bit every now and then. It's likely not been easy to adjust for having to do this.

Mobile Base, VS Multiman

-Attempts to hack into the Machine with Trojan-

Mobile Base, Wanderer's Group

-Suddenly the hull section they're in explodes, and some assorted Zelda enemies come in, with some flying Guardians milling about outside-

Wanderer: -Elemental Sword summoned- Ooh, fun.

Pikachu: -Sparking up- <We'll get them in no time!>

Calvin: ...Only you could find all of this fun.

Judith: -Pulling out a Morph Gun- Let's get this over with.

-The monsters attack-

Chateau

-Noticing the changes-

Yeah, I think we should get out of here now.

Mobile Base

-Firewall-

Oran OS: No you don't!

Wanderer's Group

Trina: -extends her gem blades- rrRRRRARGH! -goes to town-

Giselle: -summons a swiss-army tentacle that shoots at the baddies-

Macraulloween and Wrong Lumiose

Jon busts through the front doors of the Macraul Manor on his Inspector Gadget drone hat and finds himself on a brewing fight scene with weird dark creatures with yellow glowing eyes. Walter, still shaped like a giant diamond-shaped polyhedron, floats in. Any attacks directed at them are deflected by translucent orange hexagons.

Jon looks back to the door he came in and saw something wrong. That wasn't the city he entered from.

Jonathan: Hey, what in blazes happened to Lumiose? It looks wrong.

Mobile Base, Wanderer's Group

Brie: Whew. I was worried this would be boring.

PEFE!Every: ...

Brie: I mean, stay safe, Every.

-sending out Calamity, she runs straight at the nearest enemy-

Brie: Rock Slide!

Calamity: <Shouldn't we Z-target?>

Brie: That's gamer talk.

-leaving PEFE!Every to her own devices-

-by which we mean she pulls out her mister and sprays anything that gets close-

PEFE!Every: Scuttle. See if you can collect anything.

Scuttle: <On it!>

-he shoots a String Shot at something small and capturable-

Edited by memyselfandI2 on Oct 22nd 2019 at 4:10:20 AM

-Megan hears Multiman, in the middle of waving her hand out—that was a lot of heat that wasn't contained by a full hyperceramic shell-

Zora!Megan: -blink- Kinetic energy.

-calling out- Pollen!

-Pollen, where she's been ineffectually batting her light against a Moblin, sort of turns-

-and the Moblin finally manages to swat her-

Zora!Megan: AAAAH!

Fairy!Pollen: -twitch-

Moblin: -annoyed grunt-

-Megan recalls her, dashes forward and slams her trident through the Moblin's heart, and...-

Moblin: -gurgle, dissolve-

-...considers her dwindling options-

...Pippy!

Pippy: -pop, startle- <Hel L Oly frick you're shanking someone—>

Zora!Megan: -pushing it in deeper- Quick, Freezing Point, uh—minimum impact, try to jam parts or remove energy from that—that bean thing!

Pippy: <Uh, okay...Megan? I really hope you're Megan...>

<Gosh, is it hot in here...?>

-he extends a flipper, and despite the volcanic air, water(???) may condense around the Beanchine as the temperature drops drastically within it-

Megan: -to Cady- No, wait! If it kills you, it won't matter! Just—keep dodging, ad stop hitting it with positive-energy stuff, I guess?

Logan: -struggling to their feet- If we can't get in through the code...

-leaning against a wall-

Eric: -raising shields, appraising first aid- <Lugia, Lo, you gotta take better care of yourself...>

Addie: -finishing their sentence- <—we can try to go around it.>

Logan: -extending their Styler, rasps- Wisp!

-and a Rotom, giggling, flies out of it, trying to get through the Bean Machine's circuitry-

Wisp: <wheeeeeeeeeee~>

-and into the tank, starting to try and eat the beans-

Eric: -distracted- <I>

<I mean I guess...??>

Fate!Logan: -sigh, wry- Believe me, I'm aware.

Yuuno!Addie: -playfully- You know, it almost sounds like you're bragging.

-a cute, nonthreatening squirrel in a Furret costume, with a voice like a tiny mom answers Dew's panic-

Yuuno!Addie: -getting in her face, with a "focus on me" air- <Hey! Hey, easy—she'll be okay—we're gonna do our best to make sure she's okay.>

-she smiles reassuringly—no slightly invasive emotion sharing needed-

-...not much direct emotional manipulation needed-

-it's a crisis (but panic won't help)-

-meanwhile, unpanicking, Logan rushes moves quick, calmly and steadily over to where Alyssa lays-

Logan: -kneeling down- (Shit.) Hey. Weird night, huh?

Can you dismiss the Terrain in this spot? Just here, in case whatever caused this isn't gone.

~What? I don't know how to do that— I kinda just get it going, and let it go.~

Damn. Still, thanks.

~Means a lot.~

-and they draw a Latias Sign, trying to see if summoning Eric, their nonlocal paramedic, will work in this (apparently vanished) weirdness-

Macraulloween

-Nothing stops the Latias Sign from working!-

-The nightmare-inducing Dream Mist has, for the most part, faded. There's still a bit of it lingering, but not enough to induce any mass hallucinations like before.-

-Meanwhile, Addie's attempts to calm Dew down are... at least somewhat successful. The helpless panic subsides, and Dew appears to process the last several moments.-

Dew: <...What... was that? It was that scurvy-ridden cur Lorien, wasn't it? Where'd he go?>

-Alyssa is... in too much pain to really respond, at the moment, but hopefully that'll be solved soon.-

Macraulloween, Lumiosen't

Lita's face lit up! A reaction you wouldn't expect from somebody in a dire situation.

She slowly stepped forward to a crowd of the shadow creatures and performed an iaijutsu. Multiple cuts suddenly appeared in the creatures.

Then again, she was Virgil.

Lita: "-smirking back at Isbrand- Now this is power."

Des meanwhile pulls out a pair of pistols, one white and one black, and starts taking potshots at the group. He quickly holsters his guns and slashes up with a massive, demonic sword, knocking one of the creatures up in the air. He leaps up and starts slashing it it multiple times, before letting it drop back to the ground. He pulled out his guns to keep the combo going.

Des: "Oh yeah, smoking sexy style."

C meanwhile is flipping through his book of poetry.

C: "I have no name

I am but two days old."

Griffon: "Shut up and get in there!"