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#382551: Oct 28th 2023 at 11:58:32 PM

The Cauldron

Yakedo feints to the side to avoid the blow aimed for her shoulder and forms a barrier of force to block the warhammer from bashing her unarmored skull in (because her head ended up in the path of it). She quickly backpedals before a field of force (but not a forcefield) manifests around one of the more heavily armored Orks.

Then she simply rams said Ork into his allies. And then the ground. Repeatedly. Then she focuses on the Ork's armor- making it crush inwards to 'pop' the greenskin inside it.

"An insult to someone such as me. You shall pay for your insolence!"

Despite her words sounding angry, she's still in a combat trance- calm as calm can be. She's also noticing... It seems to be much easier to call forth bindings in this realm. Maybe it has much more atmospheric magic?

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#382552: Oct 29th 2023 at 3:59:22 AM

Asteroid rig

"Collapse fluid... that's the really volatile stuff that can corrupt organic tissue a la Grey Goo, right? I think Exotic Ventures might have one or two tanks of the stuff in storage... wonder if they've figured out more about it by now."

Icarus didn't know you could make reactors using the stuff as fuel. But in retrospect, it makes sense - if it can produce volatile explosions, you could just as well dilute the fluid and buffer the energy release somehow, and produce a controlled, but steady reaction - just like with nuclear fission fuel.

"Though I don't think I've heard about Spiral Energy, what's that?"


Gerudo Town

"Are you kidding? I'm not just gonna abandon you! Plus, I'm still curious who the other Anna here is-"

The sky suddenly darkens.

"...looks like they have more her than glorified toothpicks after all."

Protos!Anna points behind herself, at the town's walls. "I'm going up on the walls, I wanna make sure the dragon mech guy doesn't get corrupted. Let me know if you need help."

With that, she hastily climbs up the wall and takes cover, aiming her assault rifle at Julius. "Nuh uh...", she mutters. While one hand holds the weapon's grip, the other is on her toolbelt, seeking a smoke grenade.

When she finally pulls the trigger, a volley of ten bullets comes out of the gun's barrel.

Edited by StepexNo2 on Oct 29th 2023 at 11:59:30 AM

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#382553: Oct 29th 2023 at 7:19:56 AM

Asteroid Rig

At the question, Croque speaks up again.

"It's... kinda hard to explain. I guess the easiest way to explain it would be saying it's a limitlessly-expanding source of power generated from willpower and fighting spirit... I've only ever seen it in an anime though. So that seems... kinda far-fetched."

She's quiet for a moment before speaking again.

"-also, yeah. If you need any help figuring out Collapse Fluid, I can probably assist somewhat. I'm no research expert on it, but again, I've made reactors using the stuff... And a few other things that were just prototypes or design ideas. Like the Aegis Mk. II."

Sacred Pinnacle

Hunter!Artemis notes that fire seems to be doing more damage. So she swaps out her ammo and keeps firing- this time the shots burst into fire.

Curse hmms to herself for a second before firing a few beams of Cursed Energy at the gathered thunderbugs.

Edited by RainbyPlays on Oct 29th 2023 at 11:15:29 AM

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#382554: Oct 29th 2023 at 8:27:34 AM

Asteroid rig

"Sure, that would be great! I don't exactly have a team of researchers here, but I still have more than enough time to do whatever research I like. Or at least, until some apocalyptic threat sprouts down in the Arena, which reaches up into space... Ya never know. Maybe we can even make you another core."

Icarus points a thumb towards the assembly bay. "Anyways, wanna see what I'm making for the next fight against Sarah?"

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#382555: Oct 29th 2023 at 8:43:03 AM

Sacred Pineapple

The Stained Zinogre seems almost smug at being able to get a bite out of Kratos, though it's forced to let him go and back off to avoid his retaliation. The gun lance (not to be confused with a gunlance) hits its mark and it roars in pain, though the Hunter will notice the black ooze flowing over the nasty injury and begin healing it; albeit in a visibly painful manner. Zystak and Hunter Artemis will also find their shots landing easily in its stunned state.

A few Thunderbugs die but some then... fly past the Artemii, seemingly ignoring them. This leaves the two of them unscathed but might arouse their suspicion. And indeed if they're still flying over the Zinogre, they'll hear a rumble of thunder directly above them.

Right before a massive bolt of lightning descends from the sky and strikes directly on the Zinogre. Anyone in its path or too close to it will find themselves in a less than ideal situation.

MHRise - Apex Zinogre Remix

When the dust clears, the Stained Zinogre is twitching; electricity adapted muscles now finding themselves overcharged as it tries to deal with the excessive voltage. It growls before howling at the sky, sending excess bolts of black lightning around itself. It then glares down at the group, parts of its body glowing with electricity.

It then charges, much faster than it did previously. It runs and leaps around evasively before jumping at the Hunter, it looks ready to do another one of its crushing paw slams only to reveal itself as a feint; instead the Zinogre pulls back one of its forelegs before going for a lightning charged claw uppercut. Whether that hits or lands, it then whirls around to whip its tail at the two Artemises, sending several orbs of black lightning at them.

If there's any comfort for the group, they'll notice the lightning strike seems to have fried all of its current Thunderbugs.


Poochers

Mona snarled at the poacher, ignoring Marth regardless of whether she accidentally hit them or not. Instead she draws a breath in which will be the poacher's only warning before she half-forms her ice armor. By half that is she's only forming the back spikes to either force the poacher to back off or to potentially gore her on them as they shoot up.

Sebastien meanwhile is forced to remain on the evasive, though on seeing the wooden platform he gets an idea. He swiftly reloads one of his crossbows then fires a single explosive bolt at the platform under the gunner. If that doesn't work then he goes back to dodging like an Odogaron on Frenzy.


Sleepy Abyss

Nitori fires a few more potshots at Maijin Gaismagorm but she doesn't have any flashy attacks she can use right now. So knowing a nuke attack is coming she decides to join the others behind the junk shield, moving into a defensive posture while she's at it.

Edited by shroobot3000 on Oct 31st 2023 at 10:02:54 AM

"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."
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#382556: Oct 29th 2023 at 9:24:20 AM

Asteroid Rig

Croque nods before floating over to the assembly bay.

"...i'm gonna assume it's another crab."

As she floats over, she seems to be deep in thought on something- namely, how she's going to find Collapse Technology sites... if there are any in the Arena. She knows what signals those sites emit... but she doesn't have the high-power sort of scanning stuff she has back home.

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#382557: Oct 29th 2023 at 10:35:21 AM

Sir Gallivan nods. He did enjoy combat against chaos but he was surprised to see this particular Fiend answer his honor in kind. Still, in the end, he knew that it would cause great harm to innocents everywhere if it was allowed to carry out its plans. Still, although he was about to work on eradicating its very existence, Gallivan intended to acknowledge its unusual sapience.

Although, sympathetic as he was, that white-haired woman was right. The being still meant to draw them into chaos without siding with them. Had it been more reasonable, then its odd of convincing them, while perhaps not great, would've worked out.

I will stand up to corrupt Order but I can't let Chaos take the world!

Seeing the others eagerly leap into battle, with strength and power scarcely seen by Gallivan, the knight decide that perhaps they don't need his shield yet. At least not a physical shield. Raising his straightsword and running his finger along the blade, he raises the weapon upwards as the blade becomes a golden, honey-like fluid, stretching outwards like a whip.

DO NOT WORRY MY FRIENDS THIS IS NOT AN EVIIL WHIP! He shouts to be heard, as he attempts to swing the whip sideways to hit everyone. If it hits the flesh (or wooden body) of his allies, they'll be bathed in a light golden glow, serving as a shield against attacks as well as providing a minor Healing Factor. It won't repair lost limbs but it can close up nasty wounds and stop them from being immediately lethal, even if it'll be strained by further attacks.

...

Sarah's watchful senses and power can detect the build-up of energy within Cittufeni's back. Unwilling to stop her attack, she uses her famed speed and reflexes to bend the beams of light as soon as they come out. She unfortunately (for her) can't deflect them all, but they bend around her instead, with her fists going through whatever managed to get to her still. It wasn't an useless attack though: every bit of damage helps. And Sarah still winces in pain after being hit by the beams, leaving out marks on her tough skin.

Icarus's last trick also works wonder, the explosion blowing her back as she once again sent reeling. Sarah would be fast enough to dodge the explosion, even at that range, but her injuries are catching up to her despite her healing some of them prior to Fallen Artemis's rampage. And she finds herself going back to her feet less faster than usual, wiping her lower lips with her sleeve...

And then getting blown off her feet again by Ikaros's rifle. Her head withstands the bullet, but she's stunned and hit right in the chest by Cittefuni's own projectile, blowing her backwards until she carves her hands into the ground to stop herself. Having barely stopped, she makes a smug smile to herself, then immediately look shocked as some of Artemis's stars smack into her, with Sarah coming out burned and battered from the subsequent smoke of the explosion, dodging the subsequent boolits.

For her to be dodging bullets... Yeesh. Any more of those stars and she could probably wind up knocked out!

Sarah's sight can see Cittufeni and Ikaros. Albaz wasn't close to her. The battle wasn't entirely lost on her: Artemis had gone down, then Icarus. As the stars headed her way, Sarah gave a toothy, defiant grin, eyes darting around. Yes, this was a dire situation, but goddamn was she enjoying herself. And, as she takes off, Sarah start zipping around the stars and bullets with great precision and effort. As paradoxical as it was for her to deal with those projectiles of differing speed equally, she was facing a Danmaku.

Which she wasn't making easy on herself as well, mind you.

Because Sarah would make similar colored projectiles around the battlefield, using her own control over light, sometimes blowing up other projectiles in her way to distract the snipers. They would zip around and chase after her like Artemis's projectiles but lacked magic still. And the act of basically micromanaging them to keep up the illusions of being born of Artemis's final attack -like not getting them to smack into a "real" light bullet- on top of dodging the real deal on top of dodging the bullets on top of keeping track of Albaz was very daunting. And a flawed process that had Sarah still get hit a few times, bringing her closer to her limits.

But it's exactly what she wanted out of this. To have to pull off these crazy feats of dexterity while forcing her body to keep going no matter what! By the end of this battle, she knew she'd be a stronger person than she was this morning. And that was the goal of this!

She'd have to-ammo from Ikaros's sniper rifle crash into the right side of Sarah's face and she's knocked off the air and sent flying into the ground face-first. For a moment, Sarah's eyes flutter in and out of unconsciousness before they finally snap open. The stars converge altogether towards her, leaving out a golden trail of light behind the falling Sister.

Lightning build up above her, as Sarah's taps into her powers. Artemis's final attack was genuinely too troublesome for her to simply not want to deal with. And so she called upon the Necrosword to help her.

One meter until impact.

One centimeter until impact.

Sarah teleports above Ikaros's position at the last second, meaning to smack into her back. Since Ikaros wasn't as durable as the others seemed to be though, Sarah attempts to slow down before landing, meaning to simply knock her out: she didn't trust the Cathedral people to keep that magic up. And she felt it prudent to always hold back her strength, even if she knew that there was a crutch in place to stop her from overdoing it. And even if it was insulting to hold back on those worthy foes.

Meanwhile, in Sarah's old spot, black lightning strikes from the ground, where Sarah's shadow was right before the teleportation. It climbs into the blue sky above, looking like a big obsidian spear for a moment as it impales Artemis's leftover light attacks. The Necromatter would hopefully spread to them, immobilizing the orbs before the black lightning bolt recedes into the ground like a titanic snake.

Sarah's body was alien in many ways, but her burnt, battered and damaged skin was still glistening with sweat and blood as she took a look at where Ikaros was, since she seemed to be good at evading stuff with her portals. She hardly breathed in effort though: as close as she was to her limits, Sarah's exhaustion wasn't outwardly apparent.

Should she have KO'd Ikaros, Sarah smiles and lightly pat the top of her head, rubbing the spot where Ikaros's bullet struck her in the head. Good girl.

...

You first. Megumi laconically replies, raising his blades again.

But then his eyes widen in terror as his elephant is grabbed by the trunk and used as a flail, a feat Megumi thought impossible. Thinking quickly, he steps in front of his ally to take the blow, unsummoning the Max Elephant, but not before it impacts a few Orks and himself, throwing Megumi's body backwards and causing him to scream in pain. He needs to focus all his Cursed Energy into his arms and upper body to survive 5 tons being swung at him, and even then, the pain almost cause him to black out.

Almost.

The Black Flash he struck on Gor-Rok and the pain and anger he just felt seeing his animal getting manhandled by an unkillable lizard means that Megumi, even after deliberately using himself as an Human Shield, just get up to his feet in a flash, even as his weapons lie broken. The shards of his broken knifes flew into his face, slashing it in many spots, as blood ooze from his arms and forehead.

But his arms can still move. And that's all that matters. Deciding not to do any introspection, Megumi decides to simply go all-out on this.

I'll make a Binding Vow. And suppress my shadows's absorbing abilities. But in exchange..' Megumi joins his hands together, glaring at Gor-Rok and the orks. Yet, even as he was ready to go APEMODE on them all, he could still keep his calm enough to communicate to his allies!

I'll open up my Domain. It'll cost me a lot of energy, so I was hesitant, but at this point, it's do or die! I'll need to focus though! He did hate other people sacrificing himself for him, but he had Joe and Reiko as backup. I'm sorry, he's even stronger than I thought! He sees fit to apologize to Reiko.

However, for now...

DOMAIN EXPANSION. His energy build-up, with the shadows at his feet spreading out already. Even the Orks and Gor-Rok will perhaps notice the build-up of energy around Megumi.

His Domain was barrierless, which meant it had no way to secure sure-hit attacks. But it still made Megumi much stronger than at his regular peak, and he'd briefly traded his shadows's abilities to suck in people (so long as they didn't use Cursed Energy) to increase the power boost he'd receive using it. Combined with Black Flash increasing his output, and Megumi could be 200% stronger.

But that was if he could pull it off. And while it was easier with the Black Flash and the Domain being, nicely speaking, crude by Domain Expansions standards, Megumi still really needed the help.

SHADOW CHIMERA GARDEN: 1/2 +BLACK FLASH!

Edited by Bolded1 on Oct 29th 2023 at 6:50:14 PM

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#382558: Oct 29th 2023 at 11:01:47 AM

Asteroid rig

The assembly bay houses the frame of a large jet plane with three pairs of wings, already partially filled with machinery. The head houses an array of sensors and a pair of machine guns. Going downwards along the fuselage, there's an energy battery, a whole bunch of cannons positioned just above and behind each wing, three grappling hooks on the underside and thrusters on the top pointing straight upwards, and a large thruster in the back, just small enough so that pipes and wires can pass by it.

The wings themselves also have a lot of technology embedded in them. They seem to have forced breaking points at regular intervals, with cable pulleys, latches and hinges connecting the pieces together. Each wing piece has one 1m long blade connected to a robot arm embedded in it, and the underside of one of the six wings is partially covered with missiles.

"This is SA-02 'Windjammer'! I've tried to focus on mobility and maneuvrability with it, although it's not feature complete yet - when it's done, it's gonna have a burst warp drive, several warp bubble cannons, thorny and electrified plating... and maybe some more features that I don't have ideas for yet. I'm thinking I could put an animal motif on it, like a dragon, a bird, or... a whale. Hmm..."

Icarus falls silent, contemplating the project, and positioning his body underneath the wing with the missiles for a closer inspection.

"Also not sure about these, they might be too volatile."

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#382559: Oct 29th 2023 at 11:30:41 AM

Asteroid Rig

Oh, no, it's not a crab.

Croque just sits in silence for a moment. She looks over the entire thing, noting that it seems like it could take on an army if it had to.

"So... it's a gunship, huh? If it's gonna have cannons and missiles..."

She goes silent for a bit, seemingly in thought before hmming to herself.

"-also, some of those things sound like they'd take a lot of power to work... That begs the question, what do you use for power around here?"

She floats around the jet, looking at it from all the angles she can. Grappling hooks on a jet seems strange, but she isn't questioning it.

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#382560: Oct 29th 2023 at 11:55:19 AM

Asteroid rig

"Ah yes, power... Right now I'm running the base off of a stockpile of deuterium-tritium fuel that I gathered from the Arena and launched into space. I can't sustain myself on that alone forever, so I also have a gas funnel in a nearby gas giant, which harvests hydrogen, processes it into more D-T fuel, uses some to power itself and sends the rest to the fusion reactors here. They're behind the asteroid processing setup, wanna go there now?"

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#382561: Oct 29th 2023 at 12:06:13 PM

Asteroid Rig

"Sure! Fusion power isn't really something we ended up... focusing on back in our world, given the existence of Collapse Fluid reactors."

She floats away from the tank. The onboard diagnostics plugin of her suit pops up-

NOTICE: Main power source has been partially calibrated. However, an estimate of time remaining will not be available until multiple discharge tests have been done.

Croque nods silently. There's also something else.

NOTICE: High-energy Collapse Fluid signature detected. Saving to logs for later investigation.

She moves to follow Icarus again, but that last notice is stuck in her head. Collapse Fluid doesn't have a high emission unless it... explodes. Thankfully, that readout is somewhere in Onyxis. She'll deal with it later.

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#382562: Oct 29th 2023 at 12:06:27 PM

Ikaros

It all happened so fast, she had barely a second to react.

A portal opened, but as Sarah hit her, the wind left her lungs as she let out a yelp. Her rifle falling out of her hands.

She is a victim of her own undoing, seeing as if she hadn't have gone prone she would've been able to react in time.

As she lay there, not entirely knocked out but also not entirely conscious, she would look at Sarah as she patted her head and smile, a lil bit of blood leaking out of her mouth as she laughed, a pained expression on her face.

"Alright, that's it for me! Although I-Ill be up here."

She would say this as the familiar magic carpet came out of a portal behind her, as she stands up, seeming really unsteady on her feet, pretty much falling onto the carpet as it took her high into the sky, away from the battle, in a place where she could watch all the action still.

"Better be the best food ever after that one!" She would shout down at Sarah, giving a joking middle finger.


The Hunter

If only they could react faster.

As the paw descends the Hunter brings up their bomb lance to hopefully block the blow and dodge out of the way. However, seeing as the creature had feinted its strike, they got sent into the air.

Although they were now really hurt, this presented an opportunity.

They would aim their landing to be on top of the Zinogre's back, should they land on it, they would immideietly stab their Bomb Lance into the creature's back, pulling out a hellfire bomb out of their back pouch, knowing that they wouldn't survive another attack, they would shake up the hellfire bomb, igniting its insides as they depress the trigger on the Bomb Lance.

If all of this worked out, this would not only create a massive explosion, but an intense fire would stick to the Zinogre's skin hopefully slowing it down even further.

Although, this would of course destroy the Hunter's current body. The same black smoke and ash from earlier floating in the air around it.


Nightbringer

As Avi and Ranni approached, the heat would grow more intense, as Nightbringer would shout, addressing each fighter's comments individually

   "I do not wish to destroy, I only wish to LIBERATE"   

In a flash of red, he drew his sword, in one fluid motion he would bring his sword up, catching Ranni's blade with his, deflecting it to the side, while at the same time, dodging the stab, attempting to simply hit Avi in the side of the head with his fist.


He would then turn to face Other!Edelgard, his voice the most dominant noise on the now turned battlefield

   "All I wish for is to have the tendrils of Order irradicated. There will be no compromise. You are a servant of Chaos, or an enemy of it."   

He would take his blade and slash the ground with it, a massive wall of fire appearing in front of him. As the dark magic makes contact with it, it would stop, not all of it, but the part that hit this wall of fire would stop moving as it fizzled out.

Now that there was a hole in the net, Nightbringer would dash through his wall, effectively dodging the rest of the net as he looked up, making direct eye contact with Other!Edelgard as she preformed her dive kick.

He would bring his sword up to block it, a very loud metallic sound echoing through the area as he kept eye contact.

   "I could've used allies like you."   

He would then push his sword forward, parrying the kick as he would then attempt to grab Edelgard's ankle, swinging her around and attempting to throw her into the side of the mountain with tremendous strength.


   "She is a being that wishes to subject existence to an eternity of stagnation. That is not an existence I wish to be a part of."   

He would jump high as the beams of light came for him, whisps of fire twirling around him as he did so, as the energy closed, he would take this as his chance to dive bomb at Rumia, attempting to cleave her in half with his sword.

If he failed in this endeavor, he would attempt to kick her away from himself, sheathing his blade as he put his hands together, pointing them at Rumia as a pillar of fire erupted from his grip, heading straight towards her.


   "I do not wish to rule over you, I only want you to assist me as I set all of us free!"   

He would shout this at Ms. Thingies as he drew his blade again, attempting to parry all of the shurikens, his blade sparking as each one was redirected, all of them careening off into the distance.

Then he was gone, out of sight as a deep laugh could be heard, suddenly appearing behind Ms. Thingies, his sword raised over his head.

   "Perhaps your Corps would be willing to assist me. After I destroy you I will have to find them"   

He would then bring his sword down, attempting to make quick work of her as he would almost instantly explode into a plume of black smoke...


   "Order will forever sentence you to unmoving, unfeeling, stagnation. I offer a different path, and yet you refuse!"   

He would shout in response to Sir Gallivan, although he could not really do very much to stop him, the Nightbringer would simply return to a different spot, panting slightly, although not out of tiredness, out of frustration. His hair was a blazing glow as he stared at the fighters.

Black goop erupted from his skin, surrounding him and forming some sort of armor as he drew his sword. The circle of flame behind him spinning rapidly as he stood there, looking at Sir Gallivan and scoffing, pointing a finger at him.

More black goop would erupt from Nightbringer, the tendrils flying towards Gallivan, attempting to stab through him. If they failed in this task, they would then attempt to rip up the ground beneath him and throw him away.

"Just a humble peasant looking for work~"
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#382563: Oct 29th 2023 at 12:28:28 PM

Chaos

Ranni's sword simply disappears somewhere as Avi goes flying from the hit to the head.

"-gah!"

"Avi!!"

Ranni quickly does a Flash Step to catch Avi. He downs part of his Flask of Crimson Tears and heals from the head wound.

"...ow, dammit."

Avi stands up and dusts himself off. He glares at the Nightbringer.

"Ranni, I think it's time we used some magic of our own."

Ranni and Avi move in sync, with Ranni first casting her Dark Moon Spell before Avi focuses himself for a moment before casting the Founding Rain of Stars.

The Dark Moon, if it hits, will lower the Nightbringer's magic negation (aka, magic defense) to lead into the follow-up of Avi's spell.

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#382564: Oct 29th 2023 at 12:36:58 PM

Asteroid rig

The boxed-up dust from a freshly caught and crushed meteor is currently making its way through the processing array. This array first filters the dust into its metallic and non-metallic components, then processes those further into metal sheets, copper cables, circuit boards, silicon plates, motors, mechanical components, and generally all sorts of stuff that could come in handy for industrial work. Behind the processing machines are several fusion reactors, all of which are being fed with fuel rods belted in from the central buffer. And next to the array is a big construction mech, armed with a mining laser on its right arm and a jetpack on its back.

"Right, this is my construction mech!", Icarus introduces the robot. "There are some more modern versions of it, with inter-universal technology built in for optimizations, but I suppose I just got really unlucky with it. For some reason, when I got here in that robot, self destructing wouldn't do anything, even though I blew up I'd be back alive several minutes later, in the same spot. I've heard similar things from other people, something about arena respawn, have you heard about that?"

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#382565: Oct 29th 2023 at 12:47:54 PM

Asteroid Rig

"...huh. I've heard it mentioned, but not much else. I suppose I should be worried if it doesn't end up working- I don't have a neural cloud backup here. This is my only body."

She sighs for a moment before looking at the construction mech. Then she turns back towards Icarus.

"Though I guess I'd be more worried about instability... most Dolls only last 20 years before their neural cloud is too overloaded to operate any more."

She visibly slumps in her suit. She still has... maybe 15 years to go? But it's not a happy thought.

"And I don't think any sort of 'respawn' would fix that."

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#382566: Oct 29th 2023 at 1:12:06 PM

Asteroid Rig

"That... kinda sucks."

Icarus is quiet for a moment. In his homeworld, sustainability is a top priority - an AI set to live for only twenty years and then be digital junk is unimaginable. How would he handle being given a finite lifespan? Especially one that short?

"In my homeworld, we back up our brain simulations a lot, even to a paranoid degree - if you want to preserve data, after all, you have every reason to be paranoid. One of the first things you learn as a database admin."

He stares across the rig towards the Arena's sun lies, and where the Arena's inhabitants beat each other's heads in for one reason or another, somewhere on a tiny blue planetoid around it. Truth be told, escaping from it and seeing other tiny blue planetoids like it doesn't make you feel much more significant, either.

"So, once we're done here, do you wanna return to the Cathedral or do you want to stay here? If you want to go back to your Doll friends, that's fine, but I don't have access to any portals."

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
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#382567: Oct 29th 2023 at 1:20:47 PM

Asteroid Rig

"I think I'll stay here until I can get my own place together... I don't trust Artemis and her Cathedral enough."

She smiles beneath her helmet a bit before landing back on the platform.

"And I may-or-may-not need some scanning equipment to monitor something my suit picked up. Though... that means figuring out system compatibility, huh?"

She lets out another sigh and mentally prepares herself for what will probably be a lot of coding work.

aeiou: the second
StepexNo2 Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS from The Complex Plane Since: Aug, 2021 Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
Leave your ants ants ants ants ants ANTS ANTS
#382568: Oct 29th 2023 at 1:27:54 PM

Asteroid Rig

"Sounds good! I could use some company up here, anyways. Let's go over to the workbenches, and I can show you my standards."

[End scene]

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.
josh6243 Betty "Blast Hornet" Blanctorche Doppler from Digital Realm Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
Betty "Blast Hornet" Blanctorche Doppler
#382569: Oct 29th 2023 at 1:35:45 PM

Albaz and Ecclesia - Sarah Fight

While Sarah is pulling off these amazing feats on the other fighters, Albaz begins charging up a powerful breath attack. However, he's busy trying to keep up with Sarah, so it is not as potent as its full strength.

Of course, Ecclesia is cheering Albaz on. "Go, Albion! Show her who's boss!"

RainbyPlays fae being from yes Since: Nov, 2019 Relationship Status: Hiding
fae being
#382570: Oct 29th 2023 at 2:46:55 PM

Croque Solopost - Asteroid Rig

After having gotten her own bay on Icarus's rig, Croque had pressurized and sealed it all in so she didn't need to keep her Aegis on.

Then she went through her sleep/cache clearing cycle before waking up a few hours later. She figures it's finally time to see what that signal wa-

"Oh, that's not good, is it."

That Collapse Radiation signal from earlier had spread- or rather, there were more recorded hotspots. It was more in-tune with... bombs. Luckily, Croque could actually check this time. She figured it'd be better to check the most recent signal- not but a few minutes ago.

She climbs out of her hammock and grabs her Aegis, storing it in the stowage compartment of a vehicle she assembled using some of the excess resources from the rig- A simple space-to-atmosphere shuttle with a modest amount of storage and passenger space, with some small point-defense cannons to deter missiles. It also had a pop-out external workbench.

She enters her shuttle and preps it for takeoff, the hangar moving it forward into the airlock. After a moment, she lets the autopilot take her away from the rig before swapping to manual control and undergoing orbital re-entry...

Onyxis

...landing at the site of the recent Collapse Radiation emission. She hops out and grabs her Aegis- suiting up to keep her internals from freezing over from the cold air and snow. She trudges towards the center, where she spots a sight she... really didn't want to see. There's a large blast imprint where she figures a Collapse Fluid bomb was detonated. Around it are both dead bodies and a few ELID Infected. She raises her arm to attack the infected, but-

The crack of a rifle rings through the air, multiple times. One of the infected slumps over in a pool of its own blood, the next being dazed by an object to the head- that then explodes. A grenade, it seems. The last one is still focused on Croque and tries to lunge at her- to which she retaliates by slamming her suit's fist into its skull.

"...who's doing this..."

Suddenly, a voice speaks out from beside her.

"That's what I'm trying to figure out. But the question I have right now is, who are you, and what are you doing here?"

Croque looks to the side and sees M16A1 (The Sangvis Ferri one, not the G&K one) who has her namesake rifle pointed right at Croque's armored head. Croque flinches in shock.

"-woah! N-no need to point a rifle at my head, sheesh..."

As if to reassure this woman, Croque's helmet retracts to expose her head and face. M16 lowers her rifle with a small sigh, but still seems on edge.

"Fine. But one wrong move and I'll put a bullet through your skull."

Croque grimaces before sighing.

"-look, all I'm trying to do is figure out who's using Collapse Fluid bombs on people. If we both have the same goal, can't we work together?"

M16 scowls at Croque.

"How about you answer my question first. Who are you?"

Croque sighs and slumps a bit before speaking.

"Croque, otherwise known as a ME78 engineering Doll. That good enough for you?"

M16 looks at Croque for a moment before sighing and fully lowering her rifle.

"...yeah. I suppose. Name's M16A1, but people just call me M16. Given your designation, you're not a T-Doll. But you seem to have that armor and know how to fight... so you have a FCC."

Croque nods before looking back at the blast imprint again... then her eyes drift to something else.

"You didn't drive here, right?"

M16 tilts her head.

"No, I took a snowmobile. Why?"

Croque points at the large tread tracks (bigger than a snowmobile tread) leading into the distance- which Croque notes is towards the first energy signal she recorded. They both look at each other for a moment before M16 heads to her snowmobile.

"-I have a ship..."

"Which is very obvious and can be taken out easily by AA guns. C'mon, I'll grab you some winter gear, I can't carry that damn bulky suit on my ride."

Croque follows M16- who digs around in the bag attached to her snowmobile for a spare coat before tossing it to Croque. She retracts her Aegis and puts that on- as well as some pants. And boots. Her Aegis flies back to the ship to await further orders, and both M16 and Croque hop on the snowmobile. M16 starts it and guns the engine to stop it from instantly stalling before speeding off, following the tracks. She hands Croque a pistol- specifically, a Glock 17. She also holds a few spare mags with it.

"I don't intend for you to get into as heavy as combat as I will, but keep your guard up. You know how to shoot?"

"-yeah, yeah... I learned after a while."

Croque grabs the pistol and spare mags and puts it into a place on her toolbelt. Both of them are still speeding off.

Edited by RainbyPlays on Oct 29th 2023 at 5:51:40 AM

aeiou: the second
shroobot3000 Witch of Scarlet Dreams from Behind you Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Witch of Scarlet Dreams
#382571: Oct 29th 2023 at 4:34:55 PM

Nightbringer

Rumia yelps and vanishes in a cloud of bats, which attempt to bite down on the Nighbringer and otherwise injure him. Being not real, they don't have any pesky self-preservation to stop them. While they do that, Rumia reappears not too far away. Presumably Nightbringer then does his fire attack.

   Moon Sign "Moonless Gown"   

Rumia surrounds herself with black wings made of darkness as the fire heads for her. They deflect the flames and after a moment she rapidly unfurls them, flinging feather shaped but razor sharp projectiles in Nightbringer's direction. She follows it up with Vegeta's Technique a barrage of white orbs of energy fired from her hands.

"That was a pointless encounter with a pointless person."
BombonBombin Nightmare lord from Across time and space Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: In love with love
Nightmare lord
#382572: Oct 29th 2023 at 6:22:59 PM

   Chaos   

Just after feeling the presence of the chaotic being behind her, Ms. Thingies generated a barrier around herself to block the sword slash.

If you want me to be your ally, why do you want to kill me?

She briefly makes her barrier wider to push her opponent away, and if successful, she will materialize a huge pinwheel, that she uses as a pizza cleaver to attempt to slice the being with it.

Three freaking ghosts!
Whoma The Great Herrscher of Sentience from Earth Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
The Great Herrscher of Sentience
#382573: Oct 29th 2023 at 6:27:11 PM

Chaos

"I will not serve-"

Other!Edelgard cuts herself off, focusing on the fight the moment Nightbringer's fingers wrap around her foot. She had hoped to avoid being grabbed at all, given her knowledge of powers that kill to the touch- but it's a little too far past that now.

Nightbringer flings her into the mountainside, where she tumbles far into the rock, dazed but not harmed to an extensive degree. She's be surprised if she weren't thrown through a mountain or two.

But, alright, this is fine. Far as Nightbringer knows, she's just taken significant damage. Other!Edelgard bets he won't see this next bit coming.

First, she flies through the rock, keeping track of her surroundings by sensing the energy of both Nightbringer and her allies. Nightbringer's particularly oppressive, chaotic aura, is of particular notice. It almost makes navigating like this easy.

Deep underground, Other!Edelgard assumes position below the fight, forming a ball of ki in each hand and splashing them together, the droplets forming into countless energy decoys that perfectly mimic Other!Edelgard's own energy signature.

Next, she rises. Energy collecting in each fingertip, she and her decoys move, smashing through the rock below the battlefield. Other!Edelgard's intent is to jump up at Nightbringer from the ground below and, with a shout of "Double Flickering Flower!" blast him with one of her signature techniques at point blank range, striking at his back.

Flickering Flower is a powerful one-handed attack that emerges from each of Other!Edelgard's five fingers, spreading out before converging onto one spot. When she uses two at once like this, it gains the title "Double Flickering Flower". Of course, using it at point-blank, the blasts have no distance to travel, and so act more like one enormous burst of energy than a scattered set of shots- sort of like a shotgun turned up to 11.

The blast will carry Other!Edelgard away from Nightbringer should her attack connect.


Poachers

Amalthus silently regrets his miscalculation. Shifting his Chroma Katana's element again, he shifts the water barrier to reach above him, but is thrown back when a bomb sinks right into it, giving Amalthus just a split-second to react. He switches his Katana for Haze's Crosier, lifting the staff. It glows with its power of wind, creating an updraft that, humorously, foils the Ork by sending the rest of his bombs right back at him.

Kaboom. That's taken care of. Amalthus quickly slams the weapon back down, creating a huge wind shockwave that keeps other Orks off his back. Not particularly lethal, but it gives him distance again the seemingly tireless Ork forces. Not that they are the only thing he needs to worry about.

Amalthus finds them despicable, of course. Inhuman ravagers, they disgust him just as much as the poachers themselves. He does not recognize it, but their inhumanity is only half of that picture. Truthfully, he hates them for their humanity, for the characteristics that are like human. Otherwise, he'd see them almost as innocent of their crime. Like a child and a broken vase.

Amalthus switches Haze's Crosier to a pair of Knuckle Claws, hoping to conserve his ether energy. He quickly jabs an Ork straight through the throat, and when that Ork continues to fight in the spirit of Grimgor, just about whiffing a retaliatory kick with at least one knife attached to the involved shoe, Amalthus realizes that he needs to be a bit more vicious than that.

He switches his element to Ice, and begins to kill. He punches for his foe's heads and throats, injecting ice ether through the edge of his knuckle claws that, more often that not, separates its recipient's head from their shoulders as it expands. He spends a moment trying to carve his way to Gor-Rok. Amalthus isn't a small guy, but he moves with surprising agility, darting through the chaos to get a good angle.

There's barely any opportunity. Gor-Rok is just too damn strong, too angry, and striking too big of an area. It's like trying to fight a Deimos Saurus if the Saurus were intelligent!

He has to play dirty.

Amalthus switches his weapon to a Megalance.

...

Considering all he's seen, Amalthus knows that brute force isn't going to cut it. He needs a killshot, simple as, and he has the right tool for it.

Having relocated his own front line, Amalthus hopes to have lost Gor-Rok in the sheer chaos and the blindness of rage. He decides he has one shot, and takes it.

Amalthus switches his weapon's element to darkness, waits for the right moment, for Gor-Rok to be as distracted as possible- and in that moment, he chucks his Megalance at the lizardman's head. Like a poisoned arrowhead, it will fly, aimed for the back of the great warrior's neck.

Whereupon it will sever, not the neck from its shoulders, but between the segments of the spine. And the weapon, charged with dark ether, will inject its shadow into the warrior's body, creeping darkness through his veins until it reaches the brain.

If Amalthus's attack should miss and hit Gor-Rok anywhere else, it will probably hurt, but this poison is not strong enough to be of significant danger to a being of his size unless applied straight to the head. The lance's edge might cut deep, but unless Gor-Rok is closer to death than he looks, it is unlikely to kill.

If it even can at all.

Yatta!
ISZATSO The Web-Slinger from Queens Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
The Web-Slinger
#382574: Oct 29th 2023 at 6:44:23 PM

Onyxis

To the scene arrived Lucia, looking over the almost impossibly huge machine. In each of her hands was a curved cutlass, held behind her back in a backwards grip as she tilted her head. Strange things were most certainly afoot here.

——

Zinogre

Zystak watches in horror as a powerful bolt of lightning smashes against the Zinogre, atomizing the undetonated incendiary grenade he’d left on the monster’s back for the perfect opportunity. The Kroot found his pistol clicking empty and reached for a new magazine.

All out.

The Xeno gritted his teeth and let the handgun fall to the ground, before scanning his eyes over the others present at the scene. They fell upon the marked warrior—the one who had proven himself most capable during this fight thus far. "You!" He shouted out, staring directly at him and praying that he’d hear. He outstretched his weakened arm and pointed his trembling finger at the rifle he’d dropped earlier in the fight. "I need my gun!"

Krampus’ Part

The Ghost of Sparta's gaze snaps to Zystak, feeling the desperation in his voice. He followed the man's outstretched arm before he could get out a word, straight to the fallen rifle on the ground. Kratos looks back at the man and nods. Flourishing the Blades of Chaos, he sends them flying straight at the gun. Kratos manipulates the chains to turn the blades sideways just as they approach, scooping the gun into the air. Just as the rifle was about to fall, Kratos jerked the chains again, wrapping the weapon. With a fierce roar, Kratos slings the trapped gun toward Zystak, the chains unfurling and returning the Blades to Kratos.

Back To Irish (thank u Krampos)

Zystak’s dull green arm shot towards his rifle, fingers wrapping about the grip as he pulled back on the slide, a ping! echoing from the tree. He lay flat on his stomach upon the branch and glared down the sides, placing his gaze squarely between the Zinogre’s eyes and pulling the trigger.

——

Scrap Knight Factory

Jules blinked in confusion at Flandre’s question, before responding with an utterly stumped "…Nnnnno..? They’re machines, so…I mean, they have oil. Just…no blood. Sorry."

She turned to Atsuya and watched as the Scrapknight reflexively moved to block his wandering touch, trying to grab him by the wrist but instead nearly falling from its harness as a result of its still-faulty coordination. "Careful! That one’s still a work in progress. And to answer your question…Yes, I suppose they could make bread…if I installed the proper hardware for it."

——

Sarah

As Ikaros falls, Cittufeni realizes that only he and two others remain. This woman was a potent fighter, that was for sure. Still, Cittufeni measured the odds and came to the conclusion that those few who remained were the most powerful among them. The dead weight had been quelled and their chances of victory hardly faltered with each fighter who fell. The Android’s wall of guns retracted back into his body and he now slung off more orbs of energy, aiming to weaken her while Albaz’s attack charged up.

Edited by ISZATSO on Nov 3rd 2023 at 6:51:33 AM

With great power…you know the rest.
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.
#382575: Oct 29th 2023 at 7:10:03 PM

Kratos

Kratos was far enough away to prevent the lightning bolt from having any adverse effect on him. Placing a careful eye on Zystak, Kratos sheathes the Blades of Chaos, resolving himself to take the Zinogre's attention by any means necessary. The beast's lightning-infused rampage reminded him all too well of a particular Thunder God, an unpleasant memory instilling uncertainty for the safety of his allies. A memory enough that the God of War can channel it into something he rarely chose to tap into. Suddenly, his skin begins to steam, sealing the still-bleeding wounds from Zinogre's teeth, and Kratos shakes. A translucent orange flame builds around his fists, his pupils dilated, and Kratos grits his teeth.

His veins bulge to his skin, pressing tightly against it, about to burst from his body. Kratos releases a godly roar that the air trembles away from, and the ground around him quakes in fear. He takes off at the Stained Zinogre, charging through bolts of black lightning that scald his flesh like boiling water, prompting more screams of rage as the God of War channels his pain to further his Spartan's Rage.

He leaps toward the Zinogre's head for a wild, godly haymaker. If it landed, the Zinogre would feel this blow much more than what preceded it, but damaging the beast is not the point. Hoping to stun the beast, Kratos would attempt to wrap his arms around the beast's snout and toss it away from his more ranged-suited allies.


Anna

KV!Anna swings into the explosive eruption, sending her flying back the way she came a few feet. She's been ragdolled a lot this fight, and thankfully, without permanent brain damage. She tumbles across the sand, her teal robes darkening. As powerful as the blast was, her robes seemed to absorb some of the blow. She could feel it, the dark power swathing within, desperately trying to crawl its way out of her control. Rising to her feet with a stumble, she looks up to see a blood moon. Her heartbeat freezes, tightening across her chest at the sight. KV!Anna's shallow breath releases, unable to breathe. Panic, her whole body freezing. She prays in desperation, hoping what comes of this is something good.

Thankfully, it does, as Douglas comes crashing down onto Fallen Edelgard, snapping KV!Anna free of her frozen state. Still, the panic remained, her heart burning in her chest, each beat a quiver. Pulling her chain sickle back to her, KV!Anna tries to shake off the feeling in vain. Certainly not crippling, but should likely not do what she's about to.

KV!Anna rushes forward, her quivering heart pounding faster and faster, her fingers growing numb. While Edelgard is ideally distracted by Douglas, KV!Anna controls her unsteady breath, rushing up to the side of the Fallen Hero. She slides across the dirt, thrusting forward with Bertram's sword, simultaneously channeling the absorbed explosive force into the blow!

Edited by KrampusTheTherapist on Oct 30th 2023 at 2:22:21 AM


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