Enter The Arena As Your Avatar -- The Spinoff!

   "I would watch over them, and over you, O great Priest. Do as you feel is necessary."   

He chuckles some more.

”In thaht case... I suhppose tehn of our nuhmber would be goohd. Shall we returhn for nohw?”

   "As you say."   

He departs, instructing the mooks to start preparations for a colony.

”Leht us go, thehn.”

Edited by Rbade on Oct 14th 2018 at 6:47:06 AM

The Saibaking departs with Napari.

NLA

Nyr attempted a fancy slide to the left... and got ungracefully scronched by the claw.

   "Aaaaarrrggghhhh... by the Great FUCKING Wyvern that hurts..."   

That's gonna leave a mark.

Thranix folded his blade away, and noticed Reyna's very specific target. He decided to attempt to climb up to the crown-pins, or whatever was holding the damn thing in place, himself. Summoning the defiant and undying strength of both his Belt of Giant Strength, and his Nemean Lion Cloak, he then attempted just pry the damn pins off, assuming that he had been successful in the climb attempt — or perhaps no climb attempt was needed and the at least one of the pins were close enough to be in grabbing range.

"This seems to be a terribly inefficient way to afix a crown to one's head..."

Megan felt like her entire brain was filled with the purest concept of velocity and acceleration. The distant battle almost felt paused from her perspective. There was no way she would controlling her sword effectively at such velocities, so unarmed combat would have to do.

"Gods DAMN this feels amazing! I need to figure out how to get you on your feet again, just so you can feel this, Nats," Megan said, hugging her friend for a brief moment before dashing off like a bolt of lightning across the battlefield.

—

Upon hearing Agent 8's request, all three had differing reactions.

   "Huh... wha..? Ah, what the fuck, why not,"    Nyr said as he picked himself up. Shaping the entirety of the bow into a single great spear of lightning, he threw it at the dragon's crown-pins, and yelled out,    "BOOYAH!"   

"Is this some manner of mass verbal component? Most odd, but I've heard of stranger. Booyah!"

"BOOYAH, MOTHFUCKER!," Megan cried out as she dashed into the ink, gaining an even further speed buff. She then proceeded to pulse her Dragonsenses, and tried to locate any weakspots aside from the crown. Seeing none others at this exact moment however, she unleashed a flurry of ki-enhanced strikes upon the snout around the pins, attempting loosen the connection.

Somewhere in Primordia...

A mage is shambling around, barely holding on to a tome. His tattered clothing, purple skin, red eyes and inhuman groaning is rather deceiving, for when he casts a spell, he does so efficiently, moving with superhuman grace as he cast a gigantic fireball at his target.

Said target, a wizard himself, quickly moves his hand around to create a portal in mid-air, swallowing the fireball and then opening up another portal to toss it back at the undead wizard, blowing it up in an instant. The winning wizard take the time to take a stance, not even celebrating his victory, because several more undead walk forth. Some are wizards, others are swordsmen, some are axes-wielding barbarians.

Vague Primordia

Qualna◊ peers at the endless army of undead arrayed some distance away, maybe sixty meters?

"Feels like something Moric would come up with," he mutters to himself. His single eye narrows, focusing on the lone wizard facing him.

"Perhaps..." Must he always be fighting? Maybe a trip back to Anshar would be worth it, even if the others have become insufferable fools.

Spiralblock Peak

The strange mountain rests now on its island in the sea between Primordia and Sylvalum. The gray and white cubes surrounding it light up with lines of blue, from the bottom of the mountain to the top.

Simon Belmont notices from afar and immediately starts running then swimming over to the island. He sees something there that he thinks he recognizes...

Primordia

A man stands perched on top of a rise in the land nearby, noticing the commotion through a tunic ring of energy around the front of his bow, looking through it like a scope.

"Well, that looks like trouble. And only I get to cause trouble."

With a casual flick of his wrist, the bow becomes charged with magical power, a steady, droning hum and crackling sparks of energy coming from it. He crouches, steadily pulling back an ethereal arrow that forms from the palm of his hand as he takes aim at the zombies.

Edited by UndyingPhoenix on Oct 15th 2018 at 6:56:39 PM

Strange prepares another move but then notices the oncoming floating newcomer, and then the arrows save him from a sudden attack. He doesn't seems too surprised by this however, merely creating spinning shields with great arm movements and then going to block swords strike. However, the shields accumulate the damage, allowing Strange to counter attack a massive gang-up by summoning a magical sphere around him, repelling the nearby zombies and utterly flooring them.

He frown when some get up anyway, but then, a blur dash in and take care of said zombies, and begins to cut up more of them, causing Strange to drop in the priority list. As a result, he begins to levitate up in the air, and begins to use precise magic bolts to neutralize the spell-casting/bow-wielding Risen.

—

A big manly hand attempts to grab the famed vampire hunter, as Thor appears !

"BUFFED MORTAL ! LET US HEAD FOR THE CHALLENGE OF THE PEAK !"

Edited by Bolded1 on Oct 15th 2018 at 7:10:49 PM

Simon narrowly ducks under the water to avoid Thor. He raises his head just in time to hear the thunder god's words, and realizes that this might in fact be a good person.

"Oh. While I appreciate your attempt to lend aid and would like your help on the way up the mountain, I can get over there on my own!"

He swims over to the island shore and clambers onto terra firma, looking up at the first gray cube near the foot of the mountain.

Edited by KiriK on Oct 15th 2018 at 12:13:57 PM

Sorry for the absence; I was in North Carolina for a few days.

NLA Alleyway: OOF-

The Spooky Bois manage to down a few more T-Dolls, and both of the ones attacking Terlette are made into neat little piles of dust.

Two more remain, but they dive into a portal to Negative Space, apparently being pulled back by X for some unknown reason.

   "Well, that was surprisingly short."   

   "Seemed a lot longer though."   

   "Yeah..."   

Out of a corner of the alley, the camera that seemed to be mounted to the corner hops to the ground and attempts to scuttle away and report back to Defense...

The archer's eye twitches without looking up from the zombies, and his arm suddenly flies up, firing another arrow of energy that forms into a ring in the air.

"Time to rain on the parade."

He grins and dives forward, kicking up dirt and grass as he rolls and tumbles down the slope. Several arrows shoot up as he rolls, flying through the ring and splitting into dozens of magical bolts. The bolts dance through the air for a bit before seeking out the crowd of zombies and raining down on them. Landing in a perfect crouched shooting position, the archer pulls back an arrow all the way, letting it rip with a thunderous rumble.

"And clear the dance floor."

The arrow bolts forward with overwhelming speed and force, looking to cleave a path straight and clean through the horde of Risen with sheer concussive strength around the arrow.

Edited by UndyingPhoenix on Oct 15th 2018 at 7:42:39 PM

Thor lands on the nearest grey cube as well.

"HA YES ! I WILL LET YOU IMPRESS ME THEN !"

Qualna thinks for approximately a second, deciding that although he cannot negotiate with reanimated corpses, he can negotiate with a living being, who is currently under attack by said reanimated corpses.

With that, he moves Aquila (the golden thing next to him in the picture) from his rear to his front, the arcane weapon glowing as he charges it with arcane energy.

"Arcane Cataclysm!" he shouts, and an explosion of aether energy erupts from Aquila, crossing the sixty meters towards the zombies rapidly, disintegrating a vast swath of them and blowing more away in a massive eruption of teal.

Edited by yastubb on Oct 15th 2018 at 1:35:21 PM

Simon uses the additional acrobatic skill Smash gave him to leap up onto the first gray cube, and he promptly begins marching up to the first white cube...

—

Spiralblock Peak 1st White Cube

The sky turns to night overhead.

There on a throne sits the one and only Dracula, Simon's (im)mortal nemesis.

   "... Simon."    He seems utterly disinterested in the man who's killed him twice.

"Dracula. I knew it was you." Simon grits his teeth and readies his whip.

Dracula rises from his throne and dramatically flings his cloak over his back, still giving a half-dead stare.

Bloody Tears - VS. Dracula (Spiralblock Peak)

Terlette dusts off her hands, briefly looks over at the Spooky Bois, then turns and starts walking away.

"HAHAHA, GOOD FRIEND, I WILL LET YOU HAVE A MAN TO MAN DUEL THEN ! RIVALRIES SHOULD BE SETTLED-"

Fireballs attempt to strike Dracula, courtesy of Dres, who's flying in with the Deva Path, using her powers to bring Bokuko along to the ride.

"No, that's stupid."

"He has a point though !" says Bokuko.

—

Strange looks at the sheer destruction and then look down, seeing that the arrows and yet another shape is tearing through the army.

He sighs and calmly fly down, as the last Risen are picked off.

Edited by Bolded1 on Oct 15th 2018 at 7:43:17 PM

NLA Alleyway

Unregistered Hypercam 2 makes it out.

Bones turns around and faces the exiting Terlette.

   "Thanks for the help back there."   

NLA Rooftop

Defense and Phoenix are standing on the same rooftop they were before when Hypercam and Anderson arrive.

"Multiple copies of the Tails Doll spotted in an alleyway approx. 1.5 meters away."

"Aye, I'm up for some more asskicking!"

"More? What exactly have you been doing?"

"Well..."

Anderson explains how he met a semi-kindred spirit in Simon and how they defeated the vampires.

"Hmm..."

Corpse-ridden scorched wasteland: er-Primordia

Qualna floats across the former battlefield, Aquila returning to its floating position behind his back.

"Hello!" he says cheerfully as he approaches Strange.

Edited by yastubb on Oct 15th 2018 at 1:53:26 PM

Meanwhile, on Spiralblock Island itself, a peculiar girl with pale blue hair and ram horns on her head, wearing a mangy and tattered fut coat, awakens. She stands up in a rather wobbly fashion, reaches into her coat to pull out a bottle of clear liquid, downs what seems to be the whole bottle in one tremendous gulp, then looks around and scratches her head, having absolutely no memory of how she actually got here.

Then, all of a sudden, the sky turns to darkness.

"E-eeeh? Is it night already? But I just -hic!- woke up..." she says. Upon hearing voices in the distance, she starts running towards the first cube, slightly swaying from side to side but managing to avoid falling over.

Edited by Arachnos on Oct 15th 2018 at 1:57:54 PM

Terlette looks back and says, "You're welcome... skeletons." She then continues moving forward.

The fireballs pass through Dracula's body.

"Attack his head!" Simon yells as he does so with his whip.

The whip lash leaves a mark on Dracula's face, but he merely grunts as his brow furrows and his frown deepens. He throws out a spread shot of three fireballs at Thor, Simon, and Dres, then teleports right behind Bokuko and attempts to calmly Dope Slap her in the head.

Hey Def, the Spiralblock Peak event is permanently open regardless of direct invitation. You're welcome to join in.

Edited by KiriK on Oct 15th 2018 at 12:57:15 PM

Bokuko is dope-slapped but Dres and Thor react in time, and swing their respective weapons at his head in unison, with their weapons violently clashing as a result.

Thor pull back and notice the horned, drunk woman. He promptly decide to point it out for no reason.

"BEHOLD, ALL ! THE WOMAN HAS SUCCUMBED TO THE ALE !"

"Heeeeeey..! You all having a fight over here, and I was not invited? Or maybe I was and I just can't remember it, and that'sh why I ended up here... Eh, anywaysh! Hi weird creepy guy~"

She runs up to Dracula and attempts to deliver a crushing headbutt at his head, powerful enough to split a boulder in halves.

Simon dodges past the incoming fireball.

Dracula simply continues to frown and stands rigidly as his head gets hit repeatedly, but the ram-horned girl's headbutt creates a shockwave hard enough that Simon feels it in his bones.

"That strength! Who... what is this woman?"

Dracula sends out a swirling mass of three orbs of dark energy that spread out over the area in a spiral, initially targeting the newcomer. Then he sends out two more swirling orb clusters, one mainly targeting Thor and Dres (who are close enough together that they could both be hit by the arc) and one at Simon. Finally, he swishes his cape over his front again, and pillars of flame erupt all over the cube's floor.

Edited by KiriK on Oct 15th 2018 at 1:38:34 PM