The woman of the hour
Rachel took the warning seriously and backed up
Not too far away, she was still watching, and recording now
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21 looked happy, a little too happy to be fighting again
She teleported a bit up in the sky and pointed her finger, a small orb appearing at the end, followed by a lazer aimed right where he was being sent flying to.
"Oh this is *great*!"
Edited by vgm23 on Jul 20th 2021 at 9:59:19 AM
Your Jordans are fake, fake as hell. Dollar Store ass shoes
Spooky Scary Boneheaded Man
Roth used a burst of thunder to effectively rocket-jump up into the air, meeting Zeke at the top of the arc. As he did so, he imbued a fair bit of that extra mana and his captured lightning into his mace, turning into something more resembling a massive maul, with a head the size of a grown man's entire torso.
"[Magus Art: SCARLET METEOR]!"
Unlike his more magically inclined-counterpary, it seemed that Roth was versed not only in the storm-magics of the Order that he and Nyr had once been a part of, but the more directly martial skills as well. Roth brought his extended hammer down on Zeke, and used another burst of thunder to propel them both to a higher velocity than would have otherwise been achieved.
Assuming this all hit — which it still might not, even with Zeke in the air — the entirety of the extended hammer's energy would be expelled in one massive strike of red lightning as Zeke and Roth slammed into the ground. Ideally that would also be the ground that Roth had trapped earlier, but this was not an ideal scenario, and Roth still wanted to keep that in reserve for now.
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalous
[PASIO]
He do be a thinker.
*bawoop!*
Newkverse - Terra - Muscle Plains
Oca and Zenobia pop up in the irradiated snowy wastes that Oca calls home. It's doing a bit better! Still shitty, but not 'would 100% kill a baseline human with cancer' shitty.
Let's see... Muscle City to the Northeast, mountain range to the Northwest, and off the Capsule house right in front of them, featuring Trigo in a lawn chair.
"Welcome back. Who is this?"
Megumin X steadies herself, locks onto Pandoria, and whips out her trusty bazooka.
"Bombs away!" ;3
"fWoom!"
Edited by Rbade on Jul 20th 2021 at 7:18:16 AM
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Laxin, Sith Emperor
The shuttle door opens, Zeloai and Joshua being the first two to exit, sharing a look of bewilderment beneath their helmets as they both looked up at the sprawling interior of the hangar. Above them was countless fighter racks
◊ filled with the Empire's usual assortment
◊. The interior of the ship, much like the exterior had a particular golden sheen to it, and as they all would exit the shuttle, the bustling activity was deafening.
As each member of the team would exit, they could each look around to see a seemingly endless stretch of metal. It was the very definition of organized chaos, the hangar being so massive in fact that a pair of Corvettes
◊ were being repaired toward the back end.
A smaller cluster of Imperials had started a fight club, encircling a pair of infantry that had removed their gear. Their cheering, in particular, was loud, only adding to the volume of the hangar bay.
There were more than enough Imperials here to wipe out anyone who by themselves wasn't capable of taking down several armies, but lucky for the rescuers, they had several. As the rest of the group would exit the shuttle, a single clone would remain behind inside.
It was silver, who had turned to face Reyna,
"I'll be sticking with the shuttle, I hope you have a way to get back here since you'll be separated. We won't hesitate to leave if things get hairier than a wookie's rear."
Where the group had docked was a space meant specifically for shuttles, having an elevated position right next to the door leading in and out of the hangar. The ship was so massive its hangars had landing pads, most of which were filled. This gave them an easy outlook of the hangar bay.
Although this wouldn't make navigating this behemoth any easier, the size of just one hangar bay is enough to disorient Sovereign. The commando looks outward, nothing, in particular, striking him as noteworthy.
"At least our disguises are interesting since we have absolutely zero clue where we're going."
It seemed their group wasn't the only newly arrived shuttles, many more having landed around them. Most of these shuttles carried cargo, but one in particular has a special interest. Five HK-71
◊ units exiting from the shuttle. Terra should immediately recognize them, just as the clones do.
"Ut-oh."
Sovereign and the other clones exit, waiting for the rest of the group to form together, then forming a partially complete star formation around them. Sovereign looked at Raeii, then to Terra, motioning them to complete it. Zeloai looked up to Joshua for a brief moment, whispering to him,
"I hope for our sake we have not been mislead."
Joshua lowers his head to the Jedi Master briefly,
"I think we would've been blown out of the sky if that were the case."
"Those assassin droids were not part of the plan."
Zeloai's neutral expression turns to one of worry beneath his helmet, the dark side of the force emanating strongly from this ship. Laxin must be here, even if the elder dragons are not. The Jedi Master took a deep breath.
Once the group had completely assembled, Zeloai and the front two clones would begin to move forward, a nearby turbolift should be able to lower them to the ground floor.
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Edited by KrampusTheTherapist on Jul 21st 2021 at 3:15:16 AM
Men have regrets
As he leads her out of the shuttle and through the gargantuan warship's hanger with the others, Ben couldn't help but be impressed by how well Angel was playing her part. Did she actually know how terrible of a fate being thrown into a sarlacc's maw was? Even if she didn't, well, at least it made the group's disguises seem more legitimate.
Upon spotting the HK-71 units, he manages to remain calm. Yes, droids were immune to Jedi mind tricks, but as long as the team kept up their facade, they wouldn't need to worry about these units recognizing them.
That's when he, too, senses a powerful dark side presence in the Force. Laxin was aboard the Grip, wasn't he? If he was, he'd no doubt sense them and turn their covert rescue mission into a trap, with Wrustoiz serving as the bait. Or worse, the nightmare Ben had would become a reality, except Laxin would actually be able to make him watch his friends die in the cruelest manner the Sith Lord could possibly imagine.
"Don't get jittery, Ben. You haven't endangered the mission by coming, and the dark side is probably clouding your senses. You can't afford to let terror get the better of you, lest you be the one to compromise this operation."
Taking a deep breath to calm his nerves, Ben walks up to Zeloai and Joshua, noticing the pair whispering amongst themselves.
"If you're worried about the HKs, they're only droids. So long as nobody does anything rash, we should be able to reach the turbolift unimpeded," he chimes in, keeping his voice low.
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jul 21st 2021 at 9:45:45 AM
Hi
Angel, always a good actor, follows along without a word, looking at her feet with a thousand-yard stare. Occasionally, she glances up, her eyes filled with a resolute emotion like hatred in its purest, gentlest form.
It is almost uncanny. Yet, at the very same time, it is practically an infallible act.
She's a bit too good at playing the part. Not just to the people around her, but to herself. It is, after all, much easier to play a part you pretend you're in the shoes of, and she's certainly deep in it now. She's quite the emotional person, so... even though the act is fake, a part of her does feel like she's acting. It makes the act convincing, but she is not fond of the sensation.
And it's something quite peculiar / Something shimmering and white.
King of the Monsters
hey psyco, last round did you forget about The Zekenator intercepting Courne's kick or did you just assume they clashed instead of The Zekenator countering
Def
Kim rushes at The Zekenator with a leaping knee strike. If it connects, he will rapidly Flash Step back and forth between The Zekenator's front, back and sides, barraging him with lightning-fast kicks of all kinds from all directions, and end it with a powerful leaping axe kick alongside Roth's slam to spike him!
KiriK
Hub Centralis - Vs. Galaxy Man
Galaxy Man's arms and legs tuck into his body, releasing thruster jets from their sockets. "Yyyyes."
He then rockets into the sky, raining down little multicolored energy pellets on Konngara from above!
Galaxy Fantasy - Famitracker Remix
Muscle Plains
"And who are you?" Zenobia shoots back at Trigo without hesitation. She doesn't really take in the sights, or the sounds, or the irradiated air.
The Grip
Terra's eyes narrow seeing the assassin droids. He silently joins the group formation with Raeii.
Aqua is nowhere near as 'good' as Angel at pretending to be a defeated captive, but she does a good job of acting defiant, occasionally pulling against the cuffs or focusing as if trying to cast magic.
Reyna walks out of the ship. She considers her options. Approach the actual Imperials and risk being attacked but clear things up early... or just leave and risk setting off an alarm when someone notices. Or - she could just stay put and do nothing until the Imperials approach her.
She opts to wait, but make no mistake - her patience will not last.
Tournament of Power Arena - Vs. The Zekenator
The Zekenator is paralyzed by Courne's Electro Bolts while Pandoria gets dragonyote, but she lands on her feet and rushes to assist him, though Megumin's bazooka waylays her some more.
Caught in the full brunt of the enemies' combos, The Zekenator is intercepted by Roth, pummeled by Page One, slammed into the ground by Kim, and sent hurtling away by 21's Photon Wave.
He lands on his feet once again, skidding to a stop at the very edge of the arena... only to stumble off, plummeting towards the terrible abyssal whirlpool that lies below, even as Pandoria and a small turtle run to the edge to try and save him.
There's a brief stillness in the air...
Pandoria then looks back at the enemies... and grins.
"Eye of Shining Justice, lend me your power!"
There's a world-shaking eruption of lightning from below, powerful enough to surpass the likes of the Masters of the Storm and even gods of thunder, as clouds instantly gather in the air above and bring down a dramatic thunderstorm.
SHINING JUSTICE (Bringer of Chaos! Ultimate - Xenoblade Chronicles 2)
Roth won't even see the giant pillar of electricity being swung as a sword before it's already hit him, as The Zekenator comes flying back in, swinging the Purple Lightning Dreamsmasher with the same motions, but at such ridiculous speed compared to how he was wielding it before, that it borders on downright comical.
His eyepatch is gone, and the eye it covered is actually emitting a terrifying blue energy that, yes, is probably going to destroy them if his opening strike was any indication.
Continuing the Speed Blitz, The Zekenator does an upwards slash with the sword, then dives down towards Courne, attempting to do a diving stab/slash that will leave crackling sparks all over the Saiyan's body which then violently explode into an eruption of destructive electricity. Despite what I just described, he's moving so fast that it looks more like he's teleporting into the air and back down to the ground.
He turns to Page One and draws a hand along his blade's edge again, channeling lightning into it like with Dynamic Spark Sword... and then instantly there's a ring of lightning around The Zekenator and he is in a pose that suggests he just finished a Spin Attack. Which he did, because that was a spin slash.
He zips towards Kim Kaphwan, dashing in a straight line with a sliding stab. If he gets the stab, he will hold the blade against Kim and discharge an explosive amount of lightning! If he misses, he will go hurtling past his target, too far for an immediate retaliation.
For his next trick, The Zekenator pulls a 'nothing personnel' on Megumin, appearing behind her and attempting to knock her onto her knees with a damn-near-instantaneous kick, and if successful he will just plain whack her down with the flat of his sword.
"ULTIMATELIGHTNINGFURYSLASHMAX!" With a leaping uppercut and subsequent slam he creates an explosion of lightning upon Viche's position.
Finally, he raises up his sword as lightning strikes it and swings down, unleashing a devastating beam of electricity upon Android 21, rivaling the iconic Kamehameha in power and downright eclipsing it in speed.
Note: So far, The Zekenator's power scaling has been really funky - his power output is based on video game statistics rather than lore power levels, so it's not a matter of "can you survive a hit from a country-buster" so much as "can you survive 5 digits' worth of damage." This applies just as much to his speed - it's impossible to "outspeed" The Zekenator's attacks because he's not that fast, his moves just come out in like 3 frames of animation.
Edited by KiriK on Jul 21st 2021 at 1:50:59 PM
"He's gearing up for war."
Divine Burden
’’’What a loser! I could’ve done him in myself...
Then THE ZEKENATOR RETUGGWWAATRRGGFHHHHGHHHH!
’’’OH FUCK!’’’ Page One collapse and lay there... for a surprisingly long while, even in the span of like ten seconds. He’s genuinely rocked by what he was struck by.
However, he recover and take off immediately, attempting to slam down on the Zekenator to bite at him. He’ll then try to hold him in his maw, perhaps giving others the chance to strike!
Edited by Bolded1 on Jul 21st 2021 at 9:26:05 PM
Fallout 2? More like Fallout 2 bad.
Ah, I'd assumed that their attacks clashed and cancelled each other out.
Courne is briefly surprised when the Zekenator falls over the edge, while Viche grins victoriously as he lands back next to him.
"Who's the peon now, huh?", he asks, mere moments before Pandoria grins back and lightning erupts all around them. Both Viche and Courne stare in shock, the latter quickly taking off his Scouter because the full force of the ensuing lightning storm is making his Scouter malfunction. As such, he does not immediately see the now eyepatch-less Zekenator attack while Viche does.
"COU-", he tries to call out, but Courne is not fast enough to react, and as such gets stabbed in the chest from above right after having pocketed his Scouter, unable to do anything but gasp in pain and shock before the following explosive eruption sends him flying through the air and crashing outside of the tournament ring, not immediately getting back up.
Viche is also blown to the side by being unable to escape the explosion's radius, though he himself is not wounded. Though that doesn't mean he's not intimidated as all hell, and when the Zekenator comes for him, he instinctively blasts himself up into the air with downward-aimed Ki to prevent being caught in his lightning explosion attack. He only barely makes it in time, and if he hadn't already been in motion from getting blown to the side by the attack on Courne, he would not have made it in time at all.
"W... what the hell...", he mutters to himself, then glances down at Courne, who is alive, but obviously very wounded.
In a move even Viche himself doesn't expect, he finds himself flying down towards Courne to see if he's alright. Once he's landed near him and realizes this himself, he quickly chalks it up to him still needing Courne to protect him from freaks like the 'monkey man', 'gremlin Saiyan child' and their current opponent, so he can't just let him die. Yes, that's it. He's just looking out for himself, is all.
Viche quickly places his own Scouter on Courne's face, activating it.
"I guess I should be grateful they forced one of those fancy new power-storing Scouters onto me now. Hopefully I have enough saved up to get him back on his feet again.", he thinks to himself.
Edited by DevilPsyco on Jul 21st 2021 at 9:22:07 PM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
[PASIO]
"I asked first."
"Er, this is Zenobia. She's from the Arena. Gonna be helping me out."
"Zenobia, this is Trigo. He's more or less my adoptive father."
"Hmph. More or less is right. Rat bastard doesn't listen to a word I say."
In the time it takes for Megumin X to reholster her bazooka, she's downed.
"aaaaaaaaaaaa..."
She stays down for this round.
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Spooky Scary Boneheaded Man
Roth did not remember being flat on his face at the opposite edge of the arena, curls of smoke rising from within his armor, electrocuted within an inch of his life and thoroughly overflowing with temporary power — but here he was, in that very position.
He very slowly peeled himself off the floor, and struggled to his feet...
This is a fine mess you've gotten yourself into, you damn genius... Well now what? Reveal your ace? Or admit defeat and keep your secrets for another day?
Roth... would need some time. His trap from earlier, though... that was perfectly ready to go — and Zeke seemed to have stepped right over it. A massive pillar of crimson lightning materialized, reaching from the platform and into the heavens — ideally with Zeke caught inside the full blast of the column. It was nothing like the burst that had just been unleashed but Roth didnt exactly have time to re-cast the trap to compensate.
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalous
King of the Monsters
"Well, don't expect any sympathy here," Zenobia replies with a scoff. "You might equate me to his sister-by-magic for now, but a fighter is all I am."
"He's gearing up for war."
[PASIO]
Trigo rolls all three of his eyes.
"You'll fit right in, I'm sure."
"Sister, huh? Neat."
Oca laughs at their confrontation before kicking open the door to the house.
"Okay, the blue and pink blob drunk on the couch is our freeloader Aajaye. The darker blue blob in front of the TV is the youngest, Xeru. They aren't related. The baby eating crayons on the ceiling is my son ZJ."
"?"
"A ABWBAB BAGAGAHAHBABW BABA!"
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King of the Monsters
"Uh. Hi," Zenobia says with a wave. Somewhat hesitantly in the case of ZJ. He's weird. The others are cool though, and she feels like she may have seen something like Xeru somewhere before.
"He's gearing up for war."
Strongest In History
ZEKENATOR
Kim gets stabbed and blown away, grimacing as he kneels on the ground and takes this turn to recover.
"DIO is the ultimate being! The being of the future! Dare you not to rival me!"
[PASIO]
ZJ drops from the ceiling like a spider and scuttles over to Oca, before climbing onto his head. Ok.
He leads Zenobia upstairs and points to one open room.
"The two brats fighting over an Xbone controller are Oxa and Xoeur-"
Oca is then glomped into the wall by an overly excited Ceres.
"*oof* ... And this is Ceres, the single person in this house with an active libido."
"Whatcha get for me~?"
"... A sister-in-law?"
"...?????"
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King of the Monsters
Zenobia can't help but laugh at Ceres, especially with the way Oca chooses to introduce her.
"We're not related by genetics. The name's Zenobia. Basically, I'm a bioweapon that was awoken by Oca and imprinted on him... sorta. Not his daughter 'cuz I've been around for longer than him and I'm just as mature, not his mother because I don't make stuff, I just destroy. So, 'sister' works for me."
Edited by KiriK on Jul 21st 2021 at 6:46:26 AM
"He's gearing up for war."
[PASIO]
"You calling yourself my mother would be weird as fuck. Wait, how old are you?"
Ceres laughs and tries to give Zenobia a friendly and hearty back-smack.
"Ya don't say? Welcome to the fam'ly! I'll hafta introduce ya to the gals..."
The Xbone controller flies out of the room and narrowly misses ZJ, prompting him to scurry after Oxa for revenge.
Edited by Rbade on Jul 21st 2021 at 4:53:41 AM
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Laxin, Sith Emperor
"Not just the HK droids, it is Laxin. I feel him."
Zeloai takes a deep breath, the force surrounding both himself and Ben, an invisible field of sorts surrounding the two. It slowly mutes the presence of the two, even to anyone within the group who could feel such things.
"I hope for our sake he hadn't noticed yet."
The group proceeds forward, making their way to the nearest turbolift without being stopped. So far so good, Sovereign stepping out of the formation for a brief moment to activate the console at the front edge.
The lift lowered at a snail's pace, the Imperials within the hangar who weren't too drawn into their work looking to the disguised soldiers and their fake prisoners. Their lift continued down, a cluster of Imperials gathering right below them.
Far enough above them, another lift begins to lower, holding the HK units. It doesn't take long for them to notice the rescuers either, turning to each other to speak among themselves. The group's lift reaches the ground floor, the clump of Imperials was stood facing forward with their blasters raised.
"Everything is under control, we're on our way to the detention area."
The Imperials stand there for a moment, before slowly moving out of the way. Zeloai, playing his part, yanks Joshua forward by his stun cuffs and out of the elevator, Sovereign and the clones soon following, staying in their formation.
They were playing their roles perfectly for now, but they may want to move quickly, the HK units were nearly on the ground floor. Sovereign kept moving forward, leading the group with Zeloai at a fast walk.
Being on the ground floor gave the group a much larger sense of scale, large doors opening on the side walls of the massive hangar massive loader droids
◊ exiting from them. Obviously released to assist with the shuttles bringing in cargo, but they could easily crush anyone into a bloody pulp if they were ordered to.
Discharge, at the back of the formation surrounding the group turns back to face the group of Imperials, most of them having cleared away and returned to their business, although a few still stuck their gazes to the rescuers. As for the HK units, they reach the ground floor and exit their lift.
Sovereign, looking for an exit finds an especially large door at the opposing end of the room, and chooses that as the group's destination. The HK units seem to be heading the same direction, either that, or the rescuers are being followed.
Reyna
Reyna's presence hasn't gone unnoticed, but no one has arrived to greet her just yet.
Edited by KrampusTheTherapist on Jul 21st 2021 at 5:59:19 AM
Men have regrets
Hi
Hmm... a group of droids that seem to be following them? What an interesting conundrum. If they keep it up, the whole mission could be jeopardized...
But there was not going to be any intervention on this day, not by her. This mission would play out how it played out. Now was not the time.
And that meant playing her part. Her general disposition does not change. This part of the plan needed to go well, and that meant being the prisoner, for good or for bad.
And it's something quite peculiar / Something shimmering and white.
"If he has noticed us, then this is going to be among the shortest rescue missions in galactic history," Ben replies, keeping pace with the others as he led Angel by the stun cuffs. "Not exactly a feat worthy of recognition in the Jedi archives."
As the group enters the turbolift and begins heading down to what he assumed would be the brig, one thought entered his mind: where the kriff was Warrick? Did he not receive the forwarded transmission or was the Empire jamming his comms? Granted, Mandalorians usually preferred a straight fight to sneaking around, but Ben was confident that Warrick would've played the part of "defiant prisoner" convincingly enough.
Before that particular train of thought can progress any further, the turbolift reaches their floor and the doors swing open. Once the guards allow their entourage to pass, Ben begins marching towards the exit Sovereign had noticed, briefly glancing at the squad of HK units.
"Either those droids just so happen to be heading in the same direction as us... or they've caught on to our plan."
Whatever the reason was, he couldn't risk them foiling their infiltration. Unclipping the Sith lightsaber from his belt, he points the emitter shaft at Aqua.
"Keep moving, girl! Otherwise, I'm going to personally haul you before Lord Laxin, and he is not as forgiving as I am," he hisses, using the same raspy voice he'd adopted during the shuttle ride.
He smiles at her from beneath his hood, as if nonverbally asking her to play along with the ruse.
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jul 21st 2021 at 10:38:41 AM
The woman of the hour
21 didn't react fast enough, and took the full brunt of the lightning, leaving her slouched and holding one of her arms
"Ugh!"
A black and red aura went around her and she flew upward, launching a thin lazerbeam this time, in a line towards the zekenator, explosions happening wherever the line happened to touch
Your Jordans are fake, fake as hell. Dollar Store ass shoes
King of the Monsters
"Hell if I know." Zenobia shrugs. "My memory will be reset when you die, but all I know is that I've been around long enough to take a more distinct form from most of my kin, which takes a lot of lifetimes."
She stands firm against the backeth smacketh, and watches ZJ go full nightmare gremlin baby. "As long as the 'gals' aren't like the kids."
Terra and Raeii remain utterly silent, not wanting to do anything to arouse suspicion.
Aqua starts forward at Ben's prompting, fake-snarling at him in defiance.
Reyna... gets bored really fast and starts chugging a Dash Juice. It's speed time.
The Zekenator gets caught in Roth's lightning trap, giving Page One the time he needs to thrash him good. However, he grabs Page One by the upper jaw and places his feet against the lower one, trying to force his dino-form's mouth open wide enough to dislocate it!
Android 21 saves Page One from a particularly messy takedown, her Photon Beam's explosions knocking The Zekenator away and sending him tumbling to the ground. He sweeps his sword around wildly, launching electric crescent Sword Beams every which way.
Edited by KiriK on Jul 21st 2021 at 12:35:26 PM
"He's gearing up for war."
[PASIO]
Everyone disliked that.
"Yeesh... you want me to like... look into fixing that? Or is it some cultural thing you'll insist on?"
Oxa is yelling and trying to kick ZJ away as the gremblin scrabbles around his feet. Xoeur is laughing, successfully acquiring the coveted position of Player 1.
"Er, yeah, they're normal. Er. Whatcher normal, anyways? People come from all sortsa types of places."
Megumin X gets up from her faceplant/tantrum.
"..."
No chuuni quip this time, huh? All right. She opens fire with a Gatling gun at The Zekenator - firing explosive-tipped bullets, of course.
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KONNGARA vs. GALAXY MAN
This is my first attempt at a fight scene since my Zeta session a few years ago. Apologies in advance in case my Konngara seems a bit clunky...
"Rachel, you should back up a bit. It's going to get very warm, very quickly here in just a moment, and I don't care for seeing bystanders getting hurt real bad. Plus, I don't know what Galaxy Man can do, it wouldn't be good if you got hit by stray projectiles." Konngara follows by taking several steps away from Rachel as to not sear her from what was to follow. Konngara then unsheathed her sword and touched the top of said sword to the blade lodged in her head.
The sword then WENT AFLAME, and it became extremely warm around Konngara herself.
"So, uh, take this as a yes to your question, Galaxy. Ready to take on the defender of the Chinmoku no Jinja?"
Kirik: I'll be away from my phone/the thread for the rest of tonight, as I am traveling, so I'll post a response tomorrow.
VGM, perhaps Rbade too: If you would want to do something with Suika and/or Yuugi (and perhaps the Resident Spider too, if Rbade is willing) at the shrine I can do that.