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ISZATSO The Web-Slinger from Queens Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
The Web-Slinger
#368376: Jun 20th 2022 at 6:07:49 PM

West Onyxis

The man watches the Ashen One proceed onto the bridge, prepared for combat.

"Ah, what the hell." He shrugs as the Burning Answer materialized in his right hand, and he drew a sword in his left. The man followed suit, as a terrible, monstrous creature leapt onto the bridge just in front of the two from above. It was akin to a wolf in nature, albeit a sick, twisted one, and was the size of a pickup truck. It roared, prepared to enter combat…

…Before a much bigger hand reached up from the side of the bridge, grabbed it, and pulled it over. There was silence, and it took moments until a giant, seventy or so foot tall humanoid leapt onto the bridge, holding the monster in it's hand. With a squeeze, it broke the creature's skull, before the jaw on it's stomach opened and it placed the creature within, as it was burned to ashes in blue, freezing flames.

"THE PONTIFF'S TREASURE IS MINE, AND ONLY MINE!" it roared, the second mouth spewing flames produced by the wolf's carcass.

With great power…you know the rest.
KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#368377: Jun 21st 2022 at 12:23:15 PM

Ahtal-Ka stares at Veyolkos. "... What?"

"He means, why are you a human in fashionable clothing?"

She shakes her head. "Why. D...d...don't... know. Sheikah fire. Maybe."


Last Time on Enter the Arena As Your Avatar...

OmegaShadowcry

Professor Staccato spat out her hetap in alarm as the sensors on her ship suddenly blared to life.

"Fucking WHAT?!"

Taking note of the source of the readings, she high-tailed it towards the center of the disturbance, with the fury that only a sufficiently annoyed professor was truly capable of.

Elsewhere, in Estraole, Hadraniel lifted his head and saw the light stretching into the sky.

Not too keen on letting another potential Galeem situation happen, he spread his wings wide as he felt the weft and warp of the wind, and then took flight as fast as his wing-muscles could take him.

Finally, Rafisol somewhere relatively nearby in Reprium couldn't help but notice the giant sky-rending beam of death. On the premise of it seeming to be the most interesting thing around at the moment, she walked towards it.

...

Slowly. She wasn't particularly accustomed to have any reason to rush, after all.

OP Event Void

   "Fancy meeting you here,"    Rafisol remarked to Hadraniel as they arrived.    "Especially under such strange circumstances."   

   "Indeed, but I choose not to think about it."   

"Less talking, more attacking the big scary guy!"

Rafisol cast [Hide], shooting a spray of blue fire bolts at Taro. Hadraniel joined in the projectile spam with blasts from his psicaster staff, and the newcomer by morphing one arm into a cannon and launching pew pew lasers!

KiriK

Arale gets blown away by Taro's energy eruption, whooping and hollering as she disappears into A Twinkle in the Sky. Her last gag for this battle.

"Son... of a..." Callis' aura flares up in further anger, but before she can finish that, SUPER SAIYAN 4 GOGETA arrives, taking full advantage of the OP Event's nature to extend his fusion timer far beyond normal limits!

"The Time Patrol sent us in to take it from here! Go back and rest up!"

To ensure Callis gets that chance to escape, he unleashes a Big Bang Kamehameha right in Taro's face!

Edited by KiriK on Jun 22nd 2022 at 12:24:20 PM

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#368378: Jun 21st 2022 at 12:29:57 PM

The Ashen One notices their usual enemy has been effortlessly crushed and killed, so their next course of action is to roll his way, intending to find a way to slice his shins until he falls over. but they do know that could be hard, so past a certain distance they run a more conventional way, waiting for him to attack.

Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter
Rbade [PASIO] from Woodstocks Since: May, 2015 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
[PASIO]
#368379: Jun 21st 2022 at 2:06:05 PM

   "YOU CAN'T RUN."   

Others may go as they please, absolute hell with them, but Callis DIES TODAY. Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta is... a terrifying enemy, even as far as Taro has evolved as of now, and the beam buffets against his own flagrant energy display - but Taro counters with the very beacon of light he forms the center of, redirecting the wave from vertical to clash against Gogeta's. As he does this, his swirling eyes shine.

Wheel Grave (Limbo) ~ Border Jail

Four shadows undetectable by mundane means split off from Taro and immediately use quantum bullshit to disseminate across the battlefield.

Shadow 1 vanish-appears right behind Callis and lunges to put her in a full nelson - or failing that, at least tag her with a glancing blow and implant a Time Release Technique seal on her.

Shadow 2 appears to try and take care of the R!patrollers. Enforcer barrels forwards with a way cry - I suppose he is able to detect esoteric entities such as limbo shadows - and has his upper body almost instantly reduced to a splatter of daemonic goop by a flick of TS2's fingers. Scout hisses in disapproval and blitzes forwards, his speed unmitigated for the first time in the Arena - glancing blows don't hurt at all, but leave TS2 unable to react, much to Taro's frustration. Fu and Oca then launch a combination attack, Fu's energy blade and Oca's well-controlled melee kienzans singing with sharpness as they lash out. Its results are negligible for now.

Rafisol's blue bolts and Hadraniel's shots simply vanish into the all-consuming energy wall that is the beacon-beam - though they do not go unnoticed. Professor Stacatto's lasers, on the other hand, punches straight through the wall of energy and scorches the enemy's form, even leaving a few pockmarks. Nukeverse clarketech, yo.

Shadow 3 appears before them, Spider-Ham, and the other K!patrollers (as well as an invisible entity can "appear") and fires a few haphazard homing energy blasts, one per character. They travel relatively languidly, but when they hit something will go off with the force of a 'nova. I suppose to anyone who can't detect energy or see the esoteric, it will look like they came out of nowhere.

Finally, Shadow 4 appears in position to support Shadow 2, but is immediately blown away by waiting Nukeverse armament planted by Oca, in this case a Long Gun-system Casaba - it's not damaged, per se, but it's certainly knocked around and blown out of the battlefield - straight at Thor.

As of yet, no actions are taken against Seresthene, William, Ynn, or Othergard.

Edited by Rbade on Jun 22nd 2022 at 12:35:30 PM

/\。。/\
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#368380: Jun 21st 2022 at 2:44:42 PM

As Thor speeds through the arena, he laughs as his body sparks, then becomes lightning, his eyes glowing red and leaving a red trail as a daring smile appears on his features. Then he becomes a bolt of lightning the size of a mountainrange, streaking across the world towards the fight. It breaks through into the OP void, blasting through layers and layers of dimensional barriers to barge into the battlefield, attempting to slam into Taro to blast him with the power of a GODSTORM, attempting to paralyze his every cell in time to allow Thor to suddenly manifests from within the lightning.

YYARRGHHH! Thor attempts to smash Taro in the skull with his mighty hammer, hitting at him with power to topple worlds and stars as he attempts to brutalize the mighty abominasaiyan. The sheer power exuded hurls colossal shockwaves and shake the realm, and any ground that Taro will find will explode into debris, bound together by wisps of lightning and such. The resulting crater could house a good-sized country!

I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU DEATH SO THOUROUGH YOUR NEXT RESURRECTION SHALL BEAR THE MARKS, EATER OF WORLDS!

Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter
BombonBombin Nightmare lord from Across time and space Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: In love with love
Nightmare lord
#368381: Jun 21st 2022 at 7:55:14 PM

!

Thanks to his spider-senses, Spider-ham leaped aside to avoid the homing projectile coming at him, just before it exploded.

So you are who made me waste a perfectly good hot-dog! Now you'll pay!

He fires some web balls at random directions, hoping to hit his invisible foe.

Three freaking ghosts!
ISZATSO The Web-Slinger from Queens Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
The Web-Slinger
#368382: Jun 21st 2022 at 9:44:51 PM

Onyxis Bridge

The man jumps back a few feet as the bigger fish arrives and consumes the smaller one, firing his light bowgun at it using normal ammo. However, it doesn't seem to produce many results, breaking the skin of the Goliath but that being just about it. He decides to hang back and switch to a different type of ammo.

Meanwhile, the monster growls as the Ashen One approaches him. He lifts his feet and smashes them down on the bridge, hoping to crush them underfoot. "ANTS!" He howls as he does so.

With great power…you know the rest.
ArbiterOfTheBog Parasmagate from The Mortal Realms Since: Feb, 2022 Relationship Status: Cast away
Parasmagate
#368383: Jun 22nd 2022 at 5:23:42 AM

Van Rudania

Yeah, fashionable- wait no, Daruk had a point. Maybe. Was too garish for his taste, but he also knew the value of having himself be aerodynamic. Maybe he can aid this mantid woman with ironing out her style.

"So you like Icarus got too close to the sun, in this case a magitech component, and now you're all... This."

Awawa
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#368384: Jun 22nd 2022 at 11:14:20 AM

The Ashen One pulls the vaulted tactic of rolling to the side, at which point they throw a big meaty swing of their sword at his calve. The strike itself has some decent windup, but the roll is done quickly, which could take Goliath by surprise.

They keep placing strikes afterwards, if he doesn't lift his foot again.

Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter
BoniniBanana Fortunate Sun I from real Since: Aug, 2021 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
Fortunate Sun I
#368385: Jun 22nd 2022 at 11:57:27 AM

William drops down and observes the battlefield to get a read on the situation. He seems to be more concerned about Thor and Seresthene more than anyone else at the moment, hoping that their magic won't make him collapse from its sheer presence alone.

"Huh... Nice seeing a few people around here I guess"

Thankfully he's currently empowered and it's easy to tell what side's what, the sudden boom of energy outside of the head honcho making him turn to Shadow 3. Dashing towards them, meters in, he cleaves down and stabs the floor. Pulling himself upwards as the blade erects thanks to the Hand of Malenia's length. The entire length glowing violently as he arcs and crashes down. A destructive ground-splitting wave of energy quickly dragging its way to Shadow 3...

Completely in the dark if they're even physically present, only going by energy sensing and Spider-Ham's reactions.

real
Whoma The Great Herrscher of Sentience from Earth Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
The Great Herrscher of Sentience
#368386: Jun 22nd 2022 at 12:44:04 PM

Beatrice looks a bit closer at Ahtal-Ka.

"Sometimes things happen without us knowing the real reason for it. This isn't one of those situations though, I'm pretty sure you're all right about the magic technology causing this. What else would it be, some kind of giant magic lady that watches over an entire multiverse and forces you to go on frankly necessary but still annoying mandatory vacations to locations you barely know anything about?"

Beatrice pauses.

"Yeah it probably isn't anything like that, though."


Now in the OP event void, Other!Edelgard hesitates. Her power is increased- dramatically so, echoes of godly power now flowing through her veins- but she notices almost immediately that not only is she not able to keep track of just about anything that is going on, but also that what she can keep track of is on an entirely different scale than what she is used to.

That being said, she quickly snaps out of this mindset upon spotting a talking pig in a weird colorful spider costume.

Sometimes she wonders if entering the arena was worth the cost.

Quickly, she rushes in to help the hot dog-less ham, her aura just a little paler than usual. She surprises herself with just how fast she is with the OP event void increasing her strength.

"You have a plan, right?", she says to Spider-Ham, floating right next to them, "And, maybe a little context?"


Ynn arrives, and upon her arrival, observes from a distance, innumerable "eyes" staring at the fight without taking action. Her observation is barely noticeable, but it isn't impossible to notice either. She is within the OP event void now, she is simply very far away and not fully phased into this reality, like a really, really big ghost, but not.

Things don't tend to be that simple with her.

Yatta!
ISZATSO The Web-Slinger from Queens Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
The Web-Slinger
#368387: Jun 22nd 2022 at 2:01:58 PM

RBADE EVENT THING

Seresthene very quickly realized that this wiuld not be a normal fight. Seeing as she could not see (well, detect) the assailants attacking the others, she hoped they remained at least physical, as she extracted a flute and played a quick, sustained tune, as three flaming pots with short, stubby stone legs and long stone arms appeared in a circle around her, spinning violently. The moment a big enough object came into contact with one, they would self destruct to deal massive damage to it.

Onyxis Bridge

Goliath grunted as the massive sword cut into his squat leg twice. He decided he didn't have to take this abuse anymore, though, and leapt up into the air, coming down with a massive crash. Meanwhile, the armored man aimed his gun, now fitted with a different ammo type, and fired thrice, as visible projectiles stuck themselves into the monster's skin and shot off firecrackers, but did not do anything yet.

Edited by ISZATSO on Jun 22nd 2022 at 2:04:25 AM

With great power…you know the rest.
KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#368388: Jun 22nd 2022 at 4:04:50 PM

"I mean, to be fair, she wasn't just rubbing up against Sheikah technology. She was also getting blasted with our Divine Beasts' primary energy cannons, which have the biggest output of that energy there is!"

Ahtal-Ka bares her teeth and looks away, suggesting she remembers and that it's a sore spot for her.

They both stare at Beatrice when she starts ranting about what I, OOC, assume is Angel.

"... Uh."

"What."


Gogeta uses the Burst Kamehameha technique to amplify his blast, increasing its power! If he can't overwhelm Taro, he can keep him occupied!

Callis has had experience with Limbo fuckery before, but she didn't quite catch on that Taro had Madara's powers until right now, when she gets caught by Shadow 1.

With a mutter of "oh shit," she powers up to God and tries to break free of its hold.

"What the-?!" Topaz, the cyborg Time Patroller, spots the energy blasts coming and prepares to shoot one, but the Frieza Race member Deeq holds her back.

"We don't want that blowing up in our faces." He and the other K!Patrollers simply speed-vanish away from the blasts and attempt to send them back at Taro with kiai shockwaves!

OmegaShadowcry

Unfortunately, Rafisol was caught by her targeted attack, which went off quite powerfully against her, blasting her into the rock face. She emerged seemingly unhurt on an emotional level, but physically. Missing an arm. Ouch.

   "I have never suffered such a wound... nor such pain. It will not stop me."    She started to generate a new arm with her power, creating an ethereal limb of blue light that slowly solidified.

Hadraniel avoided the attack by slipping into the void, leaving himself rather drained. But unhurt.

Meatgan's first reaction was to. Shoot the attack. Pew pew!

Edited by KiriK on Jun 22nd 2022 at 9:27:11 AM

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Rbade [PASIO] from Woodstocks Since: May, 2015 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
[PASIO]
#368389: Jun 22nd 2022 at 8:28:56 PM

Shadow 4 is just fuckin. Knocked out of the way by Thor's rabid rush. And blown to a different part of the battlefield.

Taro's own blast is overwhelmed, shorn off him by the renewed onslaught of the Big Bang Kamehameha. Unfortunately, being vastly overpowered doesn't stop him - he struggles in place, pushing back despite the energy washing over him.

Damage is Fuel

Gradually, the return push starts to encroach back to the force of Gogeta's attack. Even Thor suddenly absolutely blasting him with GODSTORM doesn't stop this - he didn't need to move to keep it up, after all.

?!

Though, the mighty blow to the head sure does. Thor's hit strikes true, and Taro is blown away, the strike itself initiating a brilliant explosion in the moment before Taro's body is sent rocketing downwards. I don't know if it was smart to go in for that melee attack while Gogeta was keeping him on blast though.

Unfortunately, the crater never comes to be, for the wretched creature catches himself against the ground and launches himself back up, eyes whirling with gleeful bloodlust.

   "YOU AGAIN?!"   

He tries to slam his fist into Thor's gut, and uses a sympathetic quantum link to try and transfer the force to Gogeta's face too.

Shadow 1, unfortunately, is well past what Callis's God form can handle - she was using that relatively early on in her involvement in the fight after all, and Taro's power has only been feeding off her efforts. He only struggles a bit to hold on.

"¡¢€‹%$YVUˆø˙"

Given that Gogeta is here, now. He does have little more use for her.

He tries to end it quickly. A snap to the neck. Oca notices and reflexively abandons his own fight to try and save her with a *ba-woop!*

... The cyber-saiyan ends up dashed against the ground a moment later, his teleport sabotaged.

Shadow 2, being free from one of its harassers, almost immediately manages to decapitate Fu - only a well-timed slash from Scout eliminates the attack before it can get off. Another speedblitz leaves the shadow staggering, which Fu attempts to capitalize on, jumping into the air and trying to drive his sword downwards with a yell.

... The blade shatters with a flick, and Fu is sent sprawling.

The kiai'd blasts are knocked away, but don't make it very far before going off anyways. The blast shot by Megan goes off with the force of a small but powerful bomb, leaving a crater that should it have been closer would definitely have hurt. As it is, the force of the blastwave buffets everyone present.

One of the web balls beans Shadow 3. Well, I guess he's technically visible now. The shadow blinks away from William's beam, and just tries to. Fuckin'. Knock him away with a blast of air. He aims similar kiai for the K!patrollers, Meatgan, and Othergard.

To deal with Spider-Ham, he reaches through a portal to try and grab him by the neck directly.

Rafisol and Hadraniel are free for the round.

Shadow 4 ends up slamming into Seresthene's pots, getting exploded on and blasted further away, and ∞§fl‡§∞¶§‰£∫ through the fabric of reality and right at Ynn.

÷¡⁄¿

He pulls himself to a slow stop and just. Stares her down.

/\。。/\
Whoma The Great Herrscher of Sentience from Earth Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
The Great Herrscher of Sentience
#368390: Jun 22nd 2022 at 9:03:00 PM

Edelgard is not prepared for a fight like this, not even close. She immediately regrets choosing this engagement as she is literally blown away by the third shadow. A fortunate Ki shield (literal in this case) stops her from being hurt, but it also acts as a wide surface to send her flying even further away.

So far away, in fact, that she literally can't get back to the fight- it'd take her like, an actual hour. Not for a lack of trying, mind you, but she's simply so much stronger than she's used to that even with her heightened speed, she's absolutely isolated.

It isn't long before Ynn takes pity and politely drops her somewhere else... somehow.

Speaking of which.


Ynn stares back at the shadow. To her, it is as clearly visible as anything else, as if it were made of something concrete- which it may very well be, but that is besides the point.

She has seen enough, though. She determines that, as long as Taro continues to evolve, he may eventually become nearly unstoppable. She predicts that this being will die, but not now. No, it will die at the hands of...

Do it yourself, lazybones!

...Well, nobody that she knows!

Fortunately, Ynn does have a plan. Destroying immortal beings is a specialty of hers in a very loose sense, so whatever, maybe she'll be the one to end Taro's rampage?

(She won't)

Ynn gingerly reaches towards the shadow, her higher-dimensional form seeming to disappear and reappear in arbitrary pulses. The single tendril she reaches in is parsecs long- a sign that she is well-fed and getting all the required "vitamins" and "minerals" for a healthy whatever Ynn is. Why, once, a tendril like this could only envelop a star or two!

Ynn reflects back on her time as the star eater with nostalgia and hunger, recalling endless searches for sustenance that avoided her continuously. Not particularly pleasant but- wait, no, she's getting distracted.

Well, no time like the present! Organ-adjacent structures on Ynn's tendril open up and lock onto the shadow. If allowed to do so for more than a second or so, they will activate and convert all of its mass into energy, which Ynn will consume. If it is already made of energy, well, she'll skip step one and just slurp that bad boy up like a cup of jello, almost certainly instantly annihilating them.

If either isn't possible because of some characteristic of the shadow or because of something it does, then said organ-adjacent structures shut tight after measuring it to be impossible- though this will leave them and Ynn's tendril open to being attacked.

Regardless, Ynn will receive a fairly thorough understanding of the shadow and how it works, unless, again, it somehow prevents this.

Yatta!
ArbiterOfTheBog Parasmagate from The Mortal Realms Since: Feb, 2022 Relationship Status: Cast away
Parasmagate
#368391: Jun 22nd 2022 at 9:03:10 PM

Vah Rudania

"...Impressive Beatrice. Absolutely phenomenal. I could never believe such a thing, its always good to be educated on such manners."

Schizo. The giant crab was a schizo. Veyolkos huffed and looked to Ahtal-Ka. Ah yeah, he knew how that stung. A good trap, a proper ambush, get humiliated by small apes with dexterous hands. Veyolkos chimed in, his scales rattling down his body a little.

"Hey I get you. We can get you back to your old form if you want, but no point sticking around being upset about the previous fight. I'm sure you'll nab one of those punk's heads eventually."


SOMEWHERE IN SKYRIM: GET OUT OF MY HEAD MAN

Da Immortul heard the chopped apart call of a Big 'Un who tried to rush in on the fight, and felt the nob's bloodied corpse strike his shield. He huffed, this woman was good, and he could still hear Grimgor getting the tusk out of his head in a annoyed tone.

   "She is a strong one... I recommend ya stay out of it boy...   

   "Sorry bozz... But I cant let dis umie get ya-   

He roared out in pain as he felt the blade slice down across his side, cutting through the cast metal armor and gouging a deep cut through his side, Da Immortul using his chain-maul to stop it slicing his back. He had the mad warrior woman in the grasp of his chain and slammed her down in front of him, hoping to lob her head off with his shield. Grimgor was roaring in annoyance before straight up just grabbing the tusk and pulling it out of his skull with a disgusting, wet sound, as small flecks of bone fell down to the floor below. He took a moment to breathe, his eyes practically bulging out in wrath.


Taking cover behind their instruments and Roco's shell, a huge portion of the arrow strikes bounce off, and at the roaring flames of the colossal gastropod, sent many a gobbo and troll walking away. But dark purple clouds loomed over them, coming from the colossal moving fortress. And inside...


"Now yer gettin' it! But unfortunately your folks don't, so perhaps some... convincin will get my message across."

Skarsnik grinned seeing B just be truthful about the land beyond, and cackled as he hopped out of his throne, the troll beginning to play the piano in a far more mellow tone. And Skarsnik began to follow along with the tune, leaning back against the piano as he spoke.

   "When a goblin acquires a certain age,   

   And the gods who adored you no longer swoon...   

   It pays to avoid the sunlit days,   

   And live by the light of the kindly moon.   

   But the moon grows old just like us all,   

   And her beautiful years are done,   

   So now oi prayz through endless days-   

   To take! My revenge! On this sun!~   

The sound of guitars playing, tambourines, maracas and drums started to play, and could be heard across the battlefield, the shadows starting to creep over. As Toldor came to he found the corpse of the shaman littered in sparking mushrooms, and found the creeping shadows starting to make the electrified corpse twitch and spawn more fungi. He heard whispers, and the sound of clicking nails against the stone of the earth. Skarnsik could be heard singing from the colossal moving fortress, as Toldor just had enough time to duck beneath the swinging blow of the Big 'Un

   "When I was a runt at da bosses side   

   Grobskab, my arch-opposition   

   Da Godz revealed to me in secret signs   

   I had da mark of the tactician   

   And Mork was no dummy!   

   He knew just how to be scummy!   

   And often the gits that I'd drive   

   Would do better dead than they did alive!   

   I studied well I learnt the trade   

   I thought my smartz would never fade!   

   If I could hold my dynasty-   

   It would give my name immortality!   

   It was always my ambition   

   To use Mork's tuition   

   And gain some small remission   

   From the vagaries of time!   

Malenia, Toldor, and many others could see the clouds begin to churn like great violet Cumulonimbus masses, black lightning crackling as they started to slowly encircle the sun's light, the shadows growing taller and crueler.

   "Every little ray of sunshine brings me a new enemy-       Who to blame? Who the one? Who to curse?   

   You know the only on to blame-   

   Would be my enemy the sun!"   

And soon, the noon sky once soaked red with war was now a violet, slowly darkening hue of twilight, as the earth began to shake violently, as fissures started to appear in the crust. And with Skarsnik was now a chorus, both lively and utterly haunting as the land started to shift to this communions whims.

   "Snuff out the light! Claim your right!   

   To a world of darkness!~   

   Snuff out the light! Neophytes!-   ]

   Of a world of darkness!~"   

Edited by ArbiterOfTheBog on Jun 22nd 2022 at 9:56:29 AM

Awawa
KrampusTheTherapist Filia, Final Lucifer. from A Galaxy Far, Far Away (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Filia, Final Lucifer.
#368392: Jun 23rd 2022 at 12:37:25 AM

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The Grip - Bridge

Laxin's attention centers on the bridge holo-map before the ship-wide comms activate.

   "What..?"   

The sith lord asked as he and his entire flagship just got rick-rolled. Nobody aboard understood the reference, but it disrupted the ship regardless.


The Grip - Engineering

" NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP, NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN. NEVER GONNA RUN AROUND AND DESERT YOU."

The comms continue to play the song in its entirety,

An Imperial Engineer is bent over, a durasteel wrench in his hand. The Grip, despite its stalwart outward appearance, required an immense around-the-clock engineering crew to keep active. Tightening a bolt to a power generator, the engineer, without realizing it, begins to shift his tightening to a tempo matching the song.

Another engineer close by begins to whistle along to the beat. Compelled to follow along, the first engineer stops their current task and steps away from the generator. They were rattling their wrench against the wall to mimic the drum beat.

"What is this?"

"Does it matter?"

The other replies, and both chuckle. The song finishes a few minutes later, and the pair return to work.


The Grip - Bridge

With the rick-roll over, Laxin takes a deep breath.

   "After this is over, whoever is running communications will have to be swept off the floor."   

He returns his focus to the battle ahead, focusing on the holo map. Laxin's direction keeps the fleet from being an uncoordinated mess; a fleet of this size with hijacked communications would not last long.


Astil - Border of Estraole

The border between the regions is full of high stretching mountains, some going far beyond the clouds. At one mountain's peak, a disgruntled Spartan and a Sith Lord arrive.

"You know, I wouldn't normally complain about climbing a mountain like this if I hadn't just gone through a wormhole."

The spartan paused, taking a breath.

"Why am I here?"

Wrustoiz, taking a seat at the mountain's peak, casts a glance at Joshua.

   "The assassins have your scent, so whether you like it or not, you're with me. I've seen you fight; you can barely manage six sith that you can fully see."   

"That's-"

   "Sh."   

The Sith Lord said, outstretching his hand toward the battle.

   "Traviss has slipped the fine line and walked into the dark, and jeopardized the mission. I felt the echo. The others need but a moment to recover, and I can provide that."   

Wrustoiz said.

Focusing his thoughts on Laxin, Wrustoiz reaches out with the force.

"From here?!"

Joshua asked in disbelief.

"You can't even see anything."


The Grip - Bridge

A needle found in a haystack. An untraceable thread grasped—a light at the end of a twilight tunnel, a two-way mirror. A bond, once cut, is forced back together. A fragile alliance of master and apprentice, endless thoughts bounce off each other in an excruciating echo. It surprises Laxin, who stumbles away from the holo-map.

An unexpected intrusion into his mind, the sith lord's surroundings suddenly shift. He's on Ziost, a lonely, drained world. Devoid of surface life, the planet is desolate. Trees petrified into blackened pillars of wood, the ground reduced to lifeless stone.

   "Force Bonds, very easy to manipulate with the right touch. Fortunately for me, I'm well acquainted with one well versed in such manipulation."   

Wrustoiz's voice rang out, Laxin looking around for his former apprentice.

   "Ziost?"   

He said curiously, digging around his master's mind for a few moments. It was a struggle, Wrustoiz only able to glean the tiniest fragments of information. Laxin could feel it, his former apprentice causing him a massive headache.

Letting out a brief grunt of pain, Laxin concentrates on blocking Wrustoiz out.

   "Of all your great interests, you kept Ziost secret from me. If you were going to betray me, perhaps you should have focused more attention on keeping your techniques away."   

Wrustoiz laughed, much to the chagrin of Laxin. His former master doesn't respond, caught off guard by the appearance of a crimson lightsaber from behind. The lightsaber runs right through Laxin's chest, the dark lord laughing.

   "Clearly you did not pay attention to my lessons."   

Pulling himself off the blade with no effort, Laxin quickly turns to face his apprentice, who is in his old attire and freezes Wrustoiz.

   "That was your final mistake."   

Laxin unleashes a torrent of force lightning onto his apprentice. Wrustoiz yelps in pain, the force lightning having a much more significant effect than the lightsaber. Searing the sith lord, Laxin increases the power of his lightning with each moment.


Skies of Estraole

With Laxin distracted, the fleet is heavily uncoordinated. Tatiana is successfully, without consequence or returning fire, able to take down one dreadnought. Azula is left remarkably well alone while she recovers, the wall of blue flame encompassing a bottom chunk of the Grip.

The shield endures the brunt of the attack but collapses under the pressure a few moments later. The flame scathes the bottom of the command ship, turning the red-hot metal to an orange hue.

The combined attack on the turret about to destroy the bus blew it to pieces and blew a hole into the Grip itself. Though going inside wasn't precisely advisory, perhaps somebody could fire projectiles into it. No one is retaliated against or attacked this turn; it's time to go wild.


Communications Tower

Tenzen, more focused on the appearance of Terra and Nergigante, doesn't notice the keycard freed from her belt. It doesn't take her long, but she can't retaliate. Tenzen raises her single blade to block Terra's blow. Terra's strike doesn't stop her from sending a burst of force lightning Ben's way as she pushes back against the keyblade wielder.

With a fierce HYA, Tenzen attempts to dispatch Terra with a series of strikes in rapid succession quickly. If she could successfully push him back enough to put her in line with Ben, she'd attempt to leap at him with her lightsaber poised to slice him in twain.

Edited by KrampusTheTherapist on Jun 28th 2022 at 10:27:50 AM

Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#368393: Jun 23rd 2022 at 6:32:36 AM

Thor speeds after Taro, going through Gogeta's beam and enduring some damage to do so. He's made of tough stuff.

HAHAHA YES! I AM BACK TO MAKE YOUR FACE LOOK LIKE YOUR ASS YET AGAIN! He's punched in the stomach and spits blood, but he tosses Mjolnir elsewhere as he attempts to grab Taro by the shoulders, to try to shock him, before trying to headbutt him down to the ground, shaking the realm again. He grunts, enjoying the pain and Taro's sheer power.

If he succeeds, Thor raises his hand overhead, and clouds spontaneously appear over the sky of the void, creating a thunderstorm. They proceed to rain lightning spears all over at Taro. Like a literal lightning rain, completely unrelenting in its awesome destruction, electricity zig-zagging across the air before trying to slam unto him in greater and greater numbers.

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BombonBombin Nightmare lord from Across time and space Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: In love with love
Nightmare lord
#368394: Jun 23rd 2022 at 11:26:21 AM

Holy **** I have to post for 3 big events!

OP Event

Spider-Ham answers Other!Edelgard:

Nope, and nope. Well, just to survive and hit those baddies on their...

*Edelgard disconnected from the chat.*

Oh, well.

Spider-Ham got grabbed by his neck. He rises a letter with the word "Yikes!" written on it... And then whacks his foe with it on the head.


Greentide

The snail approaches the fortress slowly, while the ominous purple cloud covers the sky...

Inside, meanwhile, B hears attently Skarsnik's song. He sings pretty well, indeed. When he finished, B says:

Wow, nice song! If I had my hands free, I could have applauded you.

Beat

But I don't like your idea. I don't know about you, but many creatures on this world need the sun to live! Even us, simple letters!

From outside, a rumble sound could be heard: are Roco's cannon shots, trying to reach the fortress!

Heh. I think my friends are coming for me.


Star Wars

The Rickroll song was heard through the bus radio. I like this song. It remembers me about my youth.

The bus and Loli did a hole on the Grip!

We did it! Let's enter!

No, Clarilú. It could be dangerous. Let's better attack from outside! Topa, combined attack!

The bus began to charge a giant glowing bubble, filled with both shooting stars and wisps. He shots it at the hole. When it explodes, it will release a burst of lights, like a firework show or a psychedelic supernova!

Three freaking ghosts!
Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#368395: Jun 23rd 2022 at 11:40:26 AM

Malenia's hand is grabbed by the chain but she holds her ground against it, preventing herself from falling yet not quite having enough mass to throw him off either. After a tense stalemate, she attempts to cut the chain in half with her sword and does some twirls to leap backwards, taking her distance while she recovers. This allows Grimgor to go ahead with removing the tusk part though, and the song distracts her for a hot second.

But then she decides not to get bothered by that and flourishes her sword in silence, observing the two fighters for five seconds before she begins to run at them again, sword at the ready.

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IchigoMontoya (Don’t ask) Relationship Status: Not caught up in your love affair
#368396: Jun 23rd 2022 at 11:43:19 AM

With Tenzen's keycard now in his grasp, Ben only has enough time to swiftly roll to the right, narrowly avoiding her Force Lightning. Despite still internally wrestling with his emotions following his use of the dark side, he nonetheless shuts off his lightsaber and hurries towards the console, where he immediately activates the machine via the stolen keycard.

"The others... did they manage to sense what I'd done? No, you can worry about that once you're in the clear. There's still a mission that needs completing."

KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#368397: Jun 23rd 2022 at 11:44:10 AM

Battle of Estraole

Communications Tower

Terra gets driven back by Tenzen's strikes, but...

He holds out Ends of the Earth and catches her Force Lightning aimed at Ben, ensuring the wavering Jedi has an opening to do his thing.

However, the Stop spell wears off and Terra promptly gets bulldozed from behind by the Dark Lord Nergigante.

Falling Dreadnought

Jobak's eyes widen in surprise. He's certainly never seen a maneuver like this before.

He holds out a hand and Metal Face slows down an inch away from tearing Jobak to pieces, the Force pushing back the Mechon.

   "Why don't you go bully someone less competent?"    he jeers, jumping up and performing a series of aerial slashes on Metal Face!


Greentide

Toldor rises up, satisfied with the results of his attack.

He then looks to the sky as things go to hell and Skarsnik starts singing, and the orc grimaces.    "Damn it all. Now what?"   

Edited by KiriK on Jun 23rd 2022 at 2:02:49 PM

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
DevilPsyco from The Underworld (pretty deep down in the ground) Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
#368398: Jun 23rd 2022 at 12:09:54 PM

Arena, about ten minutes ago

A pair of portals burst open in random, separate spots of the Arena, each accompanied by the muffled, distant sounds of Dialga's and Palkia's roars.

A person flies out of one of the portals, simply speeding off to try to find some answers. The second portal ejects two people, but those two are dazed and fall right into the forest down below.


Shadow 1

The shadow may suddenly find himself interrupted by stretching arms that seemed to have come out of nowhere. They won't hold him for long, but it may be enough for Callis to regain her bearings.

The source of those stretchy arms ends up being the person who had flown out of a space-time portal, having followed the powerful bursts of Ki to this very location. Piccolo glares up at Shadow 1, and tries to buy some extra time for Callis by firing eye lasers at his target.

In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.
Whoma The Great Herrscher of Sentience from Earth Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
The Great Herrscher of Sentience
#368399: Jun 23rd 2022 at 12:46:03 PM

Beatrice looks at everyone.

"What, is it so hard to believe a little crab like me could be friends with the immortal, all-seeing protector of an infinitely complex array of worlds big and small?"

She pauses.

"Well yeah now that I think about it, it totally is."

She would clear her throat if she were a person but instead she makes a weird crab noise.

"I mean, uh, what that one said, yeah", she says, timidly pointing a claw at Veyolkos.


Metal Face seems almost to smile at Jobak, engines slowing to a dull rumble as the force acting upon him decreases.

   "Competent! A pathetic loser like you!?"   

He swipes one of his clawed hands at Jobak, meeting a strike with one of his own. The metal of the claw seems completely resistant to the lightsaber's blade, unfortunately enough.

   "Don't make me laugh!"   

Following up, Metal Face fires his engines backwards to escape the lock, scraping across the surface of the falling ship, leaving a trail of shattered metal. However, in his haste, the force of his own maneuver is enough to allow the durable armor of the ship to tear into his legs, leaving behind scratches and gouges. He doesn't seem to feel it.

   "You know what, I was going to take this slow, but after all you've shown me, I think I'll give you a parting gift-"   

He raises one of his clawed hands, and clicks his clawed fingers together tauntingly.

   "That is to say, parting your head from your shoulders! Hahahaha!"   

His engines igniting with a blast, Metal Face flies in yet again with surprising speed, this time launching a low-charge ball of blue ether from his back-mounted cannon to disrupt Jobak's focus. It isn't strong compared to what the weapon could do, but it is an explosively powerful shot nonetheless, vastly more powerful than any blaster round.

Using this opportunity to hopefully close his distance unperturbed, Metal Face will follow up by savagely clawing at Jobak over and over with a mixture of reckless abandon and surprising precision. Instead of worrying about how open he's leaving himself, he completely focuses on tearing his enemy apart- simply betting that whatever hits he might take, Jobak's small, fleshy body will take one just the same- and fare far worse for it.

...He'd make a good sith, if he wasn't such a fool.

Yatta!
KiriK The Grey Pilgrim from across time and space Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
The Grey Pilgrim
#368400: Jun 23rd 2022 at 1:32:39 PM

Ahtal-Ka grumbles. She sits there in silence for several seconds, internally trying to figure out how to say it. One can almost see her braincells rubbing together, trying to make sparks.

Eventually, she finally manages to say it. "You make no sense... and I do not want your help."

Daruk claps like she just did a flip. "He-heyyy, you did it!"

"Shut up."


Vs. Taro

OmegaShadowcry

Hadraniel returned to help up Rafisol, who was... oddly unperturbed by the whole ordeal. She just kind of leaned on him for now, coldly examining the spot where her arm used to be. The ethereal arm's fingers stretched, then clenched, and it became solid matter in a flash.

Professor Staccato managed to block the airblast, but the raw force still shot her away, and as such she smashed into a big rokk.

KiriK

Callis grabs the shadow's wrists, gripping and pulling its hands away from her head. The moment Piccolo arrives to delay Shadow 1, she quickly powers up, activating Sparkler to enhance her strength with The Power of Friendship, then promptly activates her Time-Skip as soon as she's free!

She starts flying away, but as she looks at this moment in time, frozen with all these other fighters struggling against Taro, she feels a pang of regret in her heart. Her face falls. She doesn't know Forced Spirit Fission, and Hakai won't work against an immortal. Is there nothing she can do to help them...?

She sighs. With no options she can think of, all she can be is a distraction.

Well, a distraction is a distraction. As time resumes, she powers up and rockets away, making herself very visible.

Gogeta reels back from Taro's quantum fuckery, clutching his face and interrupting his beam. He doesn't seem very hurt, just surprised.

After a moment to recover, he rushes in alongside Thor with a flurry of blows so fast he doesn't seem to be moving!


Castle Volkihar

A crackling, stormy vortex appears in the back of the castle's dining hall, above the vampire lord's throne. A flock of shrieking bat-like monstrosities spill out into the room, along with a dirty and disheveled Iraqi soldier with only a broken piece of metal pipe for a weapon. The man lands on all fours, and a monster bears down on him from behind, but...

X

He whirls around and impales it through the heart with his pipe like a stake, quickly pulling it out as the creature falls dead. Still, there are too many here. They're swarming around him, ready to overwhelm and tear him apart...

Edited by KiriK on Jun 25th 2022 at 1:10:07 PM

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."

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