Hi
Angel snaps her fingers.
...
...
...
...
...
A single, firework-like light launches from the top of her head, sailing not awfully far into the skies of hub centralis before exploding into a shower of mundane sparks. It's just a regular firework, really.
But for what it's worth, unity like this is a once-in-a-billion occurrence. It makes her happy to see so many people united in helping eachother, even if for a variety of differing reasons, even if only for this brief, fleeting moment.
...A moment that will return, won't it? After all, this is the arena.
Is that not what the arena is for? To bring people together?
And it's something quite peculiar / Something shimmering and white.
Divine Burden
Thor doesn't allow himself to be teleported down like that, and while he emerges bleeding from it, his powered-up state allows him to survive Angel's attacks, grinning as he sees the dead Brethren Moons.
WHAT A GRAND SIGHT! Below, Margit simply cracks his neck and prepare himself for whatever else could ensue.
...
Eleven smiles at seeing the destruction, wondering how many of these powerful folks she could cut with her sword. She too refuses the teleportation and through warping space, Angel's attacks simply pass through her, though Eleven losing an opportunity to gain more power significantly annoys her.
She heads for Itorash, deactivating Limit Breaker as she attempts to barrel through the fortress with a mighty kick.
...
Luffy grimaces, though he gets on a Scarab with heavy reluctance. I'll beat you up if you don't!
Edited by Bolded1 on Mar 22nd 2022 at 1:17:57 PM
Fallout 2? More like Fallout 2 bad.
Mutant Child
Minira
Clarilú nods, and they retreat from the battlefield, following the scarabs. The ABC's and Roco ride another one.
Valley
The group is pushed back by the poisonous spikes... Altough Ecoloco is immune to poison, the veggies weren't so lucky, and they lie aside, hoping to be healed.
A voice can be heard from far:
Hey, Ecoloco! I need your best breath!
It's the Mutant Child, who recognized his hero from an old TV show!
Ecoloco nods, and expels at the child's direction a cloud of toxic fumes that can give a Weezing a run for its money. The mutant child breathe it and...
He became a hulking mass of muscles.
Hey, hey! I think we are in an even match, now.
With his newfound strenght, the Mutant Child tries to smash the Custodia on the ground!
Itorash
With the other enemies out, the Concrete Golem tries to smash the building. Enzo, who just teleported on, and the Vanilla Gang, use their Dream Brushes to materialize a cannon ans fire it at the building.
Super Love offers a Wisedom Fruit to the tired Pampín.
Can you give us another blade like that?
She takes the fruit.
"Yes. But first, I need to eat."
Edited by BombonBombin on Mar 22nd 2022 at 6:49:43 AM
Valley, Buildings
Perfect Cell crosses his arms and grins.
"Please, I know that I'm perfect, but give me a challenge." , he declares, cocky. He then looks around a bit more, eventually spotting Itorash above the Wilderness.
"Now, to take care of that, and then investigate those Saiyan auras." , he says, charging up a Special Beam Cannon.
"HAH!" , he yells as he fires the piercing, spiraling energy beam up at the ship.
Cities
With the people saved from that horrifying fate, Mew uses telekinesis to grab onto Manaphy, allowing them both to fly up and look around. When Mew spots Heatran nearby the volcano, the metal magma spider slowly making its way towards its allies, Mew decides to help out and telekinetically grabs it too. It's momentarily surprised when it starts to float, but when it sees that Mew is the reason why, it remains calm.
As Enamorus (at the Hive) is about to try to cleanse the land, unaware that the battle is not yet over, she sees the other three Pokemon floating nearby. As such, she flies up to them, the four now together in one place.
Border between Estraole and Reprium
Near the edge of the battlefield, Omagi's black fog starts to form. The Mirage seems to be able to sense that things aren't over quite yet, and as such remains on guard, keeping the fog far away enough that the other fighters likely won't notice it. Omagi doesn't intend to show themselves to these people, after all. They'll only be fighting if they deem it necessary, and they'll do so from a distance.
Pseudo's Base
The cannon peters out, having expended its energy. Pseudo's base can't immediately give it any more, and as such the raised floor the cannon is stationed on begins to descend once more.
"Helryx, update.", Pseudo says.
"There currently only seems to be a single ship left. It's large, but, at least at first glance, it doesn't look like something those present can't handle themselves."
"Excellent. I'm closing the hangar and we'll be joining you upstairs in a moment."
Assassins' Base
There's a brief silence in the room as they witness everything that gets thrown at the Brethren Moon, broken only when Hub speaks up.
"... Holy shit."
"They just have this kind of firepower around!? Can we even win at this rate?", Andropov asks, beginning to wonder if this really is all still worth it. He doesn't even know the full plan, since he's only here because the people Mara revived in his world are basically their hostages.
"We can. We are destined to prevail." , Mr. L says, confident in that matter.
"... but we'll have to be careful with every move we make."
—
I don't normally post this early, but Tv Tropes started not cooperating with me again yesterday evening. It's momentarily functioning now and I wrote parts of this post at different moments when I had some brief moment of time, so I'm gonna take advantage of that. I'm not available to be online yet though, so any edits I need to potentially make won't be made until I have the time to get online later.
Edited by DevilPsyco on Mar 22nd 2022 at 4:01:16 PM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
the Enemy
Gorrora roars through the vacuum of space somehow, satisfied.
The Daemon decides he's had enough fun for now, and slips back into the realm of 
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, where no outside force can bring him harm. After all, he has to watch his blood pressure.
Likewise, the massive serpent returns to the surface, going back inside his snug little valley on Tropique.
Gaia sees all the moons have been destroyed, and rests once more.
Meanwhile, the Steel Crusader, not quite done yet, shoots forwards through space, landing in the volcanic hive. He is entirely still, seemingly not even breathing. He is aware that his power is dwindling the longer he remains outside of the Void, but he can still fight.
'Nonetheless I will grant thy prayer,' said Sauron; 'and thou shalt be set free of my service.' Then he put him cruelly to death.
Makoto Yuku
City Evac party
Mar remains silent, trembling, his adrenaline rush from combat wearing off, as he begins to just mutter to himself. He begins to talk out loud to himself, saying "I should never have let my guard down... There should have been guards patroling the camp, machine guns at the ready. There should have been barbed wire. There should have been structured plans for evacuation in case of an enemy attack... If I prepared better... maybe I could have even evacuated more civilians. Maybe I could have seen the attack coming."
He sighs, before ending his melodrama, looking to some of the infantry which made it in with him. "You deserve a better commander than me."
Helicopters, Jets, Tanks, Apcs, Everything leaves the city which is about to be glassed to shit.
Homura,also in a scarab, simply waits and listens.
Valley
Coomer falls to the ground, landing on his feet. He blankly stares off into space, his play coin purchases being interrupted by having to process the moon's life debt.
The library forces stand at the ready for whatever's coming next, With Tippereth's team exiting from the library.
Wilderness
Madoka and zero put away their weapons for the given moment. However, R!Samus , Recognizing her own voice, Replies to the Other Samus's communications with "Who is this? Why am I hearing my own voice?"
Edited by ReynTheLord on Mar 22nd 2022 at 1:40:54 AM
A nightly dance of bleeding swords reminds me that I still live
The woman of the hour
She broke away from the hug, hoping that would be enough to calm Monika, though she did have one important question.
"is it a bad time to ask who sayori is?"
Natsuki had never heard that name before, they barely had enough members for a club as it is, right?
Your Jordans are fake, fake as hell. Dollar Store ass shoes
Hi
Intruige
There are worms everywhere
Huge, red, segmented, faceless beasts ranging in size from about as long as a schoolbus to about as long as a skyscraper is tall- with width appropriate for their sizes. The worms are, for lack of a better term, running all over the place, tearing up the land like it is their job. Anyone that gets close is attacked- either to be eaten or destroyed by one of the worms's long list of powers other than being big and having a lot of teeth.
Of course, someone is already here to, er, save the day! An unknown figure dressed like a plague doctor is, at the present moment, trailing a handful of worms as they run around, evidently out of options to do anything but run away! It appears the only real reason they can even manage that is because said worms aren't taking them very seriously.
It is clear we have a problem here, regar
RUN. DO NOT-
dless of the exact circumstances that led to all these worms running around.
And it's something quite peculiar / Something shimmering and white.
Spooky Scary Boneheaded Man
Valley
The Custodia hunkered beneath their armor, enduring the blows as their plating was dented and some spikes snapped off, but before they could retaliate, orders came from on high, demanding a retreat. And so they fell back as the Synapse and the Ultralisks had, preparing for a final stand...
Hive
Augus landed on his feet near the Volcanic Hive and looked all around at the devastation, laughing and clapping like Jetstream Sam
◊.
He was about to leave, until he noticed Hadraniel gazing warily at him. The dragon let out a tremendous sigh. "I must rest; I have spent too much energy too quickly. Demigod from another world, would you take over for me?"
"Hah! You didn't even need to ask — I was going to anyway!"
As Augus turned towards the Hive itself, Hadraniel spread his wings and flew up into the sky. He saw the Yamato and decided to try and land on its deck. "I'll dispense with any attempts at military protocol, given how out of practice I am with them — may I land on your vessel? I can take up a smaller form if needed." If allowed, he could continue to observe the fight from there while lending advice.
Ember — Trash Heap
"I think it's time to take a break after all that, aye," Omega said. "I uh... I didn't really get anything out of this, unfortunately, but I'm sure there's—"
Hieros pulled a gods-damned sepulcrum out of the trash, and just sort of... stared at it. "... Why in the void—? "
"... Fuck, that's good. Alright, I'm coming back here later, there's gotta be more here."
Edited by OmegaShadowcry on Mar 23rd 2022 at 9:57:45 AM
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalous
King of the Monsters
Monika blanches suddenly. "I-I... um... have some explaining to do. About that. I need to take you to meet a friend. Will you trust me one last time?"
Itorash breaks and falls from the sky. It goes crashing down into the Wilderness.
Fortunately, those who would have been killed by the blast are suddenly warped aboard the Yamato, where they will be safe.
Samus first addresses her alternate self who has been teleported right in front of her, explaining, "I am Samus Aran of the Defense Federation - you from another timeline. While we're here, do you need anything?"
She then changes focus to Hadraniel and speaks to him over the comms. "You have clearance to land."
—
Player 2
He jumps in his seat as Kroak addresses him, before responding over his headset, "Unless you're my parents, I don't care what your reputation is, I'm not done here 'till I'm damn ready to end it myself. And speaking of which..."
He presses another key. He then alt-tabs to his social app and messages Player 1, enjoying the show?
—
Minira, Valley, Wilderness, Hive
OBJECTIVE UPDATE
Slay the Gravemind
The remaining masses of necrotic flesh from the Brethren Moons and anything dead that hadn't yet been made into a Necromorph suddenly swirl together around the volcano, remaking it into a gigantic pillar of meat and hate.
With a face.
The Gravemind
has risen.
"YOU HAVE STRUGGLED ENDLESSLY, CRUSHED OUR ARMIES, OVERWHELMED OUR INTENT. YET WE REMAIN ETERNAL. YOUR BODIES WILL TIRE AND REACH THEIR LIMITS, WHILE OURS GROW STRONGER AND STRONGER."
The Scarabs start approaching the Hive, bringing their passengers with them. Thel 'Vadam announces, "As long as a single uncorrupted life remains, you have not won! That is our decree - our promise!"
"SO BE IT."
Halo (Gungnir Mix) - Halo 2 Anniversary
ZJ is forcibly ejected from the inside of the Gravemind through a hole that opens up in its surface. On the outside, it manifests two gigantic tentacles in preparation for battle.
Vague Reprium
A rift opens up in spacetime and the Pokémon Trainer Rhea emerges, once again wearing a new outfit
◊. Her Stantler, now a Wyrdeer, follows her.
「またここにいる⋯」 (I'm here again...)
Edited by KiriK on Mar 25th 2022 at 2:40:56 PM
"He's gearing up for war."
While Cell would be fine and Omagi is too far away from the explosion, the Pokemon risk getting hurt. That is, until they get warped up to the Yamato, to their understandable confusion.
"Mew?"
When Cell sees people being warped up, he heads up to the Yamato of his own violition.
Player 1
It's not much of a show, a good amount of them don't seem to be struggling too much so far.
That response is, of course, meant jokingly. Despite the Player's earlier reservations about all this, the fact that he stuck around to watch shows he's intrigued at least. And to genuinely claim the fight hasn't been challenging (except maybe to Cell) would obviously be a lie.
Then Phase 2 begins, and Player 2 will get another messsage.
Sometimes I'm afraid of what kind of stuff you choose to play around with though., he responds, having seen the Gravemind.
Volcano
Before Cell even gets up to the Yamato, the Gravemind begins to form and gets his attention. He laughs, spreading out his arms.
"Struggled? Maybe those others, but I'm not even sweating. So c'mon!"
He charges down towards the Gravemind.
"Give me the best you got!"
Roof of the Yamato
Heatran lets out a furious roar (startling Mew) upon seeing the abomination forming around the tornado. Manaphy tries to calm it down, attempting to convey that blindly attacking from here might damage the ship. They have to get down first.
Enamorus has no issues fighting from a distance though, and wastes no time launching another Moonblast down at the Gravemind.
On the ground somewhere
The black fog halts its advance upon the Gravemind forming. Omagi waits patiently, first wanting to see what this thing is capable of before they're comfortable actually joining the fight.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
the Enemy
"Shut up, loser!"
Came a shout from one of the scarabs, directly addressing the gravemind. Garuda gesticulated violently while Arad's voice spoke.
"Your shitty half-planets got fucking shatten upon, so why are you still here?" He followed up, Garuda staring directly at the massive wormthing.
Meanwhile, Skull Squadron could only look on in a mix of terror and disappointment. Despite being super soldiers of a far higher magnitude than many other superhumans, they were more equipped for multiple enemies. This bringer of death was far out of their league.
- - - -
Within the hive, the Steel Crusader simply shifted his head upwards.
His almost charred looking armor reached up to his back, grabbing the blade of a massive black claymore, a hole in the center of the hilt burning with an eternal, gray flame. He crouched down, the flaming black cape on his back expanding to surround his entire body below the neck like a cloak. As the Steel Crusader drew his weapon, he shot into the sky, leaving a crater behind. The hunter of Daemons reached a point higher even that the climax of the Gravemind, and remained there, suspended in midair. He swung his greatsword diagonally, and though the distance between him and the monster was too great for the blow itself to connect, it generated a scorching hot orange row of flames that flew directly towards the Gravemind.
'Nonetheless I will grant thy prayer,' said Sauron; 'and thou shalt be set free of my service.' Then he put him cruelly to death.
The woman of the hour
"I guess I can make an exception just This once"
She said smugly, even in serious situations a tsundere is still gonna tsundere
"Just make it quick...as you can. I guess."
Your Jordans are fake, fake as hell. Dollar Store ass shoes
Divine Burden
Thor and Eleven fly to the Gravemind, the latter dusting herself off in a gesture meant to mock it...
AH! AS IF I CAN WEAKEN IN SUCH A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME! DO NOT OVERESTIMATE YOURSELF, PARASITE! He blasts at it, pointing and launching a beam made out of lightnig, intending to bore through the mountain to get to it. Eleven meanwhile fire a spatial beam, ergo a sort of pink projectile that cleave the space in front of it.
Luffy sees this shit and get off his Scarab, running at the Gravemind. Margit witnesses, but does not act yet, since he's busy arriving.
Fallout 2? More like Fallout 2 bad.
Mutant Child
Gravemind
Yamato
The Nature's Guardians, the Vanilla Gang, the Concrete Golem and Pampín appear within the ship, looking at the newly formed Gravemind.
"Inti! Lend me your power... Again!"
The superheroine exits from the ship, and charges again her solar blade, to slash the flesh pillar with it.
Enzo appears along her, and fires a Magic Missile Storm at it.
Everybody else are still at the ship.
Hive
At it!
Clarilú orders to the butterflies to surround and circle around the Gravemind, trying to weak and blind it with their glittering scales.
Right now, Loli does nothing, just flying at a distance.
...
That's the attitude!
We are the Pica-Pica... Or rather, the Tic-Tac-Toe Alliance! We can fight any battle, not matter the difficult it is!
Guys, let's dance again!
The Pica-Pica trio start to dance the "Una Dola"... With all of the Alliance following suit! The resulting explosion, altough not inmediately, could hurt it a lot!
...
With the Giant Mutant Child in front, the Insect Ladies, the Bee Empress' armies, and Ecoloco charge towards the Gravemind!
Ember
Town
Noodle talks with the messengers.
Do you still need help? We could do it!
I posted it to do something in there.
Trash heap
SI!Lan sighs, and proceeds to search on the heap for something valuable. The others are just watching them.
it's hunting season
Intrigue
Cecil has now managed to find a bike and is strolling around to give good wandering samaritans free bread with his magic alongside a drawstring bag behind him. HOWEVER, the worms are driving away well-heartened bread eaters! Which puts him in a extremely fiery rage as a bread-comprised warhammer appears out of thin air.
"THESE FINE GENTLEMEN ATE AND ENJOYED BREAD AND YOU CHOOSE TO KILL THEM? DISGUSTING, I'LL MAKE SURE HELL WILL SOUND LIKE A SUMMER VACATION!!"
First thing he does is throw the bike with extreme ferocity towards one of the medium sized worms, a cone forming around the bike as it picks up speed.
Edited by BoniniBanana on Mar 23rd 2022 at 10:22:03 PM
real
Divine Burden
There's no context to be had in Intrigue as a huge golden knight, in a fitting suit of armor with a long cape and a tree on top of the helm, burst their way out of a rock near the fleeing "plague doctor". Wielding a sword of immense size, such as it can only be called a slab of steel, they grunt and bring down what could be... 3, 4 tons of steel on a worm's head, meaning to fucking murder it by crushing/slashing it in half.
If successful, they proceed to launch themselves forward, as if not that bothered by the armor, to kill more worms, not checking on the guy, not emoting, just killing. They swing that sword intending to kill, aiming for savage blows with it. They do have skill in wielding it, but with a sword that size, what else you gonna do but crush?
A young woman with a weird tattoo on one of her eyes is watching, crawling out from the rock carefully. Once there though, she sits down and proceeds not to contribute to the fight, instead watching it with a detached look on her face.
Edited by Bolded1 on Mar 23rd 2022 at 3:27:40 PM
Fallout 2? More like Fallout 2 bad.
the Enemy
Blackreach shakes as champions of the highest magnitude duke it out…
The Nergigante howls, his eye being pierced by Reiss' rapier. He goes for a grab, attempting to wrap his colossal and still blood-drenched hand around the speedster to slam him into a small ditch in the ground. Such a blow, if successful, would knock most, if not all of the powder off of him, acting as a blessing in disguise and, quite frankly, the better of two ways it could turn out.
Meanwhile, a piano fucking shatters against his side, and Annihilation Nergigante huffs, looking for the attacker, wooden shards embedded in his skin. His search comes up empty, as he is soon preoccupied by the serpent wrapping itself around he. He struggles, but soon calls upon one of his very own specie's attacks, the spikes all across his body firing out of their socket and hopefully into the serpent at point blank. If the attack works, he grapples the serpent and throws it off of him…
…just in time to be impaled by the tusks of a bulldrome, shattering upon impact but ripping his underbelly up. Luin is distraught on the ground, completely still with her mouth gaping open as she witnesses her ally’s disfigured and mutilated corpse become a battering ram. At this same time, infuriated by the death of Rush, Lutemis finally gets to her feet.
Annihilation Nergigante rears up, booms a pained roar to the sky, and clamps his jaws shut. This is the spark, that sets off every last bit of powder in the area, the battleground becoming one large fireball. The Crazy Musician may be launched upwards, due to being above the explosion, but is otherwise unharmed by the flames. Nakai, though his proximity to Rush's corpse (which had attracted powder rather than him) might deliver him into the ground, was protected for the reason stated above. And finally, Reiss, if the Nergigante's earlier attack went through, would be fine other than finding his clothing singed somewhat.
Luin, however, was nowhere to be found after the explosion, and Lutemis…
…Well, Lutemis had attempted a daring attack: drawing a massive amount of powder to her, she flew directly towards the Nergigante, in much the same fashion as Luin’s very first monster, Tailwind, had done.
This time was different.
Annihilation Nergigante was toppled by the Rathian's suicidal attack, leaving him open for free hits. And though Rathian fell from the sky, her carapace charred and burnt horribly, her chest still lifted up and down and up and down.
'Nonetheless I will grant thy prayer,' said Sauron; 'and thou shalt be set free of my service.' Then he put him cruelly to death.
[PASIO]
I mean, the X Trio weren't in danger from the blast for the most part, but the assist is appreciated
-
ZJ is splammed into the ground at high speed; his body digs a crater through the dirt.
Ow.
-
Oxa decides to take Xeru and ZJ somewhere with less action - maybe deeper into the Yamato, if they're allowed? Xoeur, for her part, starts yeeting electrical bombs at the Gravemind from her vantage point.
B-Zoner and SHADE await orders. Gustave just sort of exists on the Yamato.
Karstodes tries to chase the Custodia down, and has to be physically persuaded by Kyoko not to. This is not a euphemism, it was very much as voluntary and passive as the term persuasion implies. She could not actually like, stop him. It might be time for them to fall back - they aren't quite as high tier as some fighters (e.g. Thor) and don't have quite the range of some others... at least, until Karstodes wrenches Ophelia's gatler free. BRRRRRRRRRRR!
Kazuma, newly healeds, hops a bit off the Scarab and fires "SNIPE II!" magic projectiles in the direction of the Gravemind. Haruhi does something similar, though with slashes of her sword.
Vague Reprium
Soon after her arrival, an oddly nondescript boy shows up, and points at Rhea.
"Hah! You can't get away, [something indistinct]"
His speech sounds slurred, and his eyes seem a little glassed over.
/＼｡｡/＼
Riften, The Bee and Barb
Nicole and Pietro
◊ are currently seated at a table in Riften's local tavern, discussing amongst themselves over a meal and tankards of mead.
"You ever get the feeling you might be missing something huge? Like, there could be a huge-ass friggin' battle against some terrifying force that could legit destroy this place going down, and we're just sitting here, blissfully unaware of all the Lord of the Rings-level action," Nicole says, putting her feet up on the table.
"Eh, whatever it is, it's probably nowhere near as bad as Galeem blasting damn near everyone or a universe-wrecking Ultron showing up with all six Infinity Stones," Pietro replies, grabbing a nearby bottle and refilling his tankard.
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Mar 23rd 2022 at 8:20:33 AM
Makoto Yuku
Aboard the Yamato
Samus raises her arm canon, not charging up a shot, but still aiming it. She, being quite cautious, simply says "Hold it, you could be like gandreyna, for all I know. I've seen X around here, but I crashed my ship here. Meaning it's likely within a sector of the planet of my most recent mission."
If The other Samus would decide to perform a scan of this samus, they'd notice that several of their systems are offline, due to having the same access to viewing subsystems of the other suit. Charge beam, grapple beam, missiles, almost everything's offline. Even the scan visor's off. Additionally, there is an Unknown system in the suit's data, nothing harmful, but its not active, and is in a yet untranslated language.
"I'm not letting my guard down. If you're me, answer this. What's the current dominant inteligent species on the planet known as Aether. And what was the threat which nearly caused their extinction?"
Zero and madoka just look onwards.
Versus, Gravemind
Mar Listens into the Arbiter's annnouncement, before radioing in to his remaining troops "Whatever our mysterious saviour just said is right. That thing's likely with the bastards which attacked our base. We're not letting this thing get away with what it did."
As troops begin to roll in, the sound of a Jet echoes out, with a smile forming on Mar's face. "Rookie, I know that's you up there. Your craft still fitted with the Socket Fork?"
A Reply would come out on anyone listening into various communications channels. Its a feminine voice, one of someone in their early to mid twenties, maybe thirties. "This is Rookie, I'm hearing you loud and Clear, Fives. Socket Fork is ready for use. I assume our target is the large corpse pile?"
"You're right. Clear to engage. Give that thing a taste of our finest weaponry."
The jet flies towards the gravemind, a strange device on it crackling with energy, as something begins to charge up...
The rest of Mar's forces begin to get off the scarab, preparing a defensive line, readying themselves for a fight of their lives.
Meanwhile, at the library, A red streak dashes out of the doors, dragging a sword behind them. Gebura has arrived, and is running forwards, out for blood, with the rest of her team.
And coomer? Coomer finally starts moving. He looks to the gravemind, and, at speaker blowing out volumes, yells "LOOK, THATS A FLOOD GRAVEMIND! I KNOW ABOUT IT FROM WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA THAT NOBODY WILL EVER EDIT AGAIN!"
Wait did he just say wikipedia- OH GOD NO NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN-
Makoto Yuku
"Gravemind, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that nobody will never edit again."
"The Gravemind is a fictional, parasitic, hive mind intelligence in the Halo universe. While only one Gravemind is ever seen in the games, the title is given to the final stage of Flood evolution, in which the Flood becomes a superorganism. The Flood is a highly-infectious parasite which is released several times during Halo's story. The Chief and the Arbiter (Thel 'Vadam, during the course of Halo 2 and Halo 3) are captured during their separate missions on Delta Halo, or Installation 05, by a Gravemind, which resides in the bowels of the ancient Forerunner ringworld, where the Flood creature forges an alliance between the two foes in order to stop the activation of the ringworld — an event which would destroy all sentient life in the galaxy, and, therefore, starve the Flood to death. The character is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.
Making its first appearance in Halo 2, the Gravemind was introduced to dispel the idea that the Flood is a mindless virus. The character was designed by a Bungie team, including artists Robert McLees and Juan Ramirez, and slowly developed into a massive creature with tentacles and a frightening level of intelligence. Driven by a desire to spread, the Gravemind is cunning and manipulative; he forges alliances as often as he tries to consume his allies, tricking the Master Chief into aiding him while infecting the Chief's compatriots at the same time. The character has had a mixed reception by many critics upon his appearance in Halo 2, and reviewers including 1UP.com found his role in Halo 3 confusing and without clear motive. More positively, critic Aaron Sagers used Gravemind as an example of a "frenemy" — the creature's appearance made the Master Chief's fight against the Flood more personal and more dramatic."
is it ove-
"Design and attributes" ohgoditsnotover
Coomer continues to describe the wikipedia arti-
"Early Concepts for the Gravemind were done by Bungie artist Robert McLees. McLees is known at Bungie as the "architect of the Flood", and had done the early concepts for the Flood forms in Halo: Combat Evolved. McLees' original drawings were then added to by Juan Ramirez. The Gravemind's form and design constantly changed during development. Early versions of the creature had a basic shape of a mass of tentacles, with a jagged tear in one large appendage forming a rudimentary mouth. Later on, the mouth was studded with the skulls of human and Covenant corpses for teeth. This design was later revised due to practical considerations about lip syncing the character for speech. Despite these design changes, the Gravemind's size was always meant to be huge; early concepts showed the Master Chief dwarfed by the Flood intelligence."
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"Unlike the mindless "zombie" nature of most Flood, the Gravemind is depicted as intelligent and cunning, and acts as a collective mind driving the Flood. It speaks in verse rather than prose, using trochaic or iambic heptameter. While capable of subterfuge, Gravemind is seen to use the brute strength and sheer numbers of the Flood to further its aims. When attacking planets, the Gravemind of the Forerunner's time used smaller craft as ablative armor, sacrificing countless Flood so that larger ships can land and infest major population centers. In a more strategic move, Gravemind uses logic to sway the Forerunner's own artificial intelligence, Mendicant Bias, to his side. While Mendicant Bias had been specifically created to defeat the Gravemind, the Flood leader convinces the AI that the Flood is a utopian ideal, and that its conquest of the galaxy is inevitable. While the Gravemind's motivations and goals are not made expressly clear in Halo 2, Halo 3 reveals Gravemind's ultimate goal is to consume all thinking beings in the galaxy."
Gebura rushes onwar- "The Gravemind's physical form is depicted as composed of rotting corpses and biomatter, towering nearly eighty meters high as seen in Halo 2. Gravemind resembles a large Venus Flytrap with many tentacles, but is capable of movement and linguistic communication via its large mouth formed from overlapping fleshy "leaves". Though an animal, the Gravemind's somewhat plantlike appearance has drawn comparisons to Audrey II from the 1986 film Little Shop of Horrors due to the tentacles about a central mouth."
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"Appearances"
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"The Gravemind makes his first appearance halfway through Halo 2's campaign. Using his tentacles to save the Master Chief and Arbiter from perishing, Gravemind brings them face to face in a chasm on Delta Halo. Gravemind reveals to the Arbiter that the ring's architects, the Forerunners, died when they activated the installation in order to stop the threat of the Flood; the Master Chief verifies what the creature says, having stopped the firing of another ring in Halo: Combat Evolved. Though the Arbiter does not accept the truth immediately, Gravemind sends the Master Chief to the Covenant city High Charity and the Arbiter to the Halo's control room in order to stop the deluded Covenant from killing all sentient life a second time. Though he promises an alliance, Gravemind has ulterior motives. His Flood infest the human ship In Amber Clad and makes a slipspace jump into High Charity itself, in an effort to use the station to escape the confines of Halo. Having taken over the city, Gravemind questions the A.I. Cortana, who was left behind to destroy High Charity if Halo was activated. Gravemind says that he has questions that he will ask, and Cortana agrees to answer them. A short story in the 2009 Halo: Evolutions anthology details the conversations that follow."
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"Gravemind is one of the primary antagonists of Halo 3. While the Master Chief and Arbiter have returned to Earth in order to stop the Prophet of Truth, the religious leader of the Covenant, from activating a Forerunner artifact buried in Africa, Gravemind turns High Charity into a Flood hive and sends an infected cruiser to Earth in an attempt to infest the planet; this plan fails, and a message from Cortana informs the Master Chief and allies of the existence of the Ark, a special installation built by the Forerunners outside of the Milky Way galaxy where all the Halos can be fired remotely. Seeking to stop the rings from firing by Truth, Gravemind manipulates Arbiter and Chief as allies, so the Flood once again ally with the Chief and Arbiter. As soon as Truth is killed, however, the Gravemind then turns on both Chief and Arbiter, where the pair escapes the Flood's clutches and Chief rescues Cortana from High Charity. Despite being tortured by Gravemind, Cortana has managed to keep a secret safe from the Flood; she has the activation index of Installation 04, which she captured from 343 Guilty Spark during Halo: Combat Evolved. Using the index, Cortana can activate the local ringworld, destroying Gravemind and the Flood, but sparing the galaxy's sentient life. Gravemind finally gains this knowledge, but too late; the Master Chief escapes with Cortana, destroying High Charity in the process. Gravemind survives the blast and attempts to rebuild himself on the new ring. Despite his best efforts, the Master Chief and company activate Halo, destroying it and finally defeating the Flood. Resigned to his defeat, Gravemind nonetheless insists that it will only slow, not stop, the Flood."
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"Other appearances of the Gravemind is in Halo Wars and the Halo Wars 2 expansion "Awakening the Nightmare". The Gravemind's conversations with Cortana after Halo 2 and during Halo 3 are detailed in the Halo Evolutions short story anthology."
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"Reception."
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"Critical reception of the leader of the Flood were mixed. In a review of Halo 2, Mike Leonard of the All Xbox community said that the introduction of the Gravemind character had him "rolling my eyes hard enough to get motion sickness from seeing the back of the inside of my skull"; Leonard went on to say that the "Little Shop of Horrors reject" ruined the "cool" of the Halo franchise. Staff from Games Radar singled out the appearance of the Gravemind as a sign the Halo series had jumped the shark. "Until Gravemind showed up, we were pretty sure we understood the Halo series' story," they wrote, but that the appearance of a Venus Flytrap-like creature with an ego and "a tendency to spout philosophical drivel" was unexpected. Jeremy Parish of 1UP.com bemoaned the fact that Gravemind was never explicitly stated to be the Flood leader in either Halo 2 or Halo 3 and was hardly seen in the third installment. Publications also took issue with the fact that the character's motivations were never fully explored; the South Florida Sun-Sentinel said that the "unique and compelling characters" of Halo 3, such as Cortana and the Master Chief, were overwhelmed by Gravemind."
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"More favorably, Aaron Sagers of the newspaper The Morning Call saw Gravemind as a perfect example of a trend in pop culture called a "frenemy". A frenemy, according to Sagers, is a friend or rival "with whom [the protagonist] feuds; an individual who reinvigorates the sense of self-worth and drives up one's visibility in the public's eye." Gravemind, operating as a frenemy, served to personify the Master Chief's otherwise nebulous fight against the Flood.[21] Will Prusik of Planet Xbox 360 listed the Flood as one of the great video game aliens, and that the revelation of a central Flood intelligence was a good idea despite the Gravemind's resemblance to Audrey II."
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Coomer finally, FINALLY stops talking, having completed the article, and remains silent for the rest of the event so he doesn't unleash another nukepost on this holy forum thread.
Behind the scenes:
Edited by ReynTheLord on Mar 23rd 2022 at 9:24:58 AM
A nightly dance of bleeding swords reminds me that I still live
Mutant Child
Blackreach
The Crazy Musician, indeed, got sent flying upwards by the explosion.
While he's falling back, he picks a giant mallet from his hat, and try to dive-smash Anihilation Nergigante when it's still toppled down!
The sharpest of Blades
"Of course it's not over. When are we ever so lucky." Wriggle braces herself for battle with the towering heap of rotten flesh when-
-Dr. Coomer happens. As the battlefield freezes for the several minutes it takes the doctor to recite all that, she just hovers there with an indescribable expression that seems stuck between confusion, exasperation and the literal inability to even.
"All of this, and you somehow failed to tell us the single one important thing: how we kill this damn pile of flesh."
A stream similar to a flamethrower sprays out of her hands, aiming to engulf the Gravemind. Instead of flames, it seems to consist of flies, and instead of setting the abomination on fire, it will leave behind an infestation of maggots to gnaw at its flesh if it connects.
DORYOKU, MIRAI, A BEAUTIFUL STAR
Karstodes is ouchied. How DARE.
"Lady Sakura!" he shouts, sticking a hand out behind himself. "A weapon, if you please!"
"Eh...?" You're seriously focused on these guys when several Exterminatus-worth of death is going on above us? Okay.
She shuffles over to where she left the wreck of Ophelia, and starts trying to wrench off the Chainsword. Karstodes sweatdrops for a moment before dashing over to take it himself.
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Haruhi is kneeling over Kazuma, chanting a minor healing spell. Perhaps out of 'oops, maybe that wasn't necessary' for KOing him last round.
The X-Clone trio is just taking 5 right now.
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Around the fringes of the various battlefields, scavengers begin to arrive, not to intervene but simply to pick off some of the various flesh fallen in battle so far. ZJ ends up in a scuffle with a red spider-thing over the body of a Nekghoul.
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