[IC] Tengoku no Owari CT, Chapter 1.2

[IntSys]

"You've messed with the wrong girl, and now you shall pay!" Marina took flight, arriving at the middle of the array of wormholes. She began to wish for even more firepower, as a huge cluster of energy formed before her hands. Light twisted and turned in the skies, and had someone passed by, they would very well be convinced that the world was on the brink of collapse. It was quite a horrifying, yet exquisite sight to behold.
 

With a shout, she sent the not-planet-destroying charge flying downward, through the countless meteors falling out of the wormholes, and finally crashing upon the crater in which the Aetherbell was pinned.

 

[Worldline: 4 1 2 4 5 5 6 5 6 2]

 

Using 1 Alteration to take the nearest 5 instead.

[Empiricist]

Marina

Spoiler

Marina: 5

 

Aetherbell: 4

With an attack like that it's, pretty hard to really assess how much damage it's dealt, mainly since your opponent is in a hole being continuously bombarded with meteors, but judging by the flickering swords just visible beneath all the chaos, it's still alive. Incredibly fucked up no doubt, but still alive. Barely.

 

Ringing fills you ears, and the world around you seems to ripple. This isn't quite the same kind of attack it opened with, no, it's similar, but far far larger. A spherical prison enclosing an extensive area centered around itself, a starry globe with its own night sky filled with stars, stars that are rapidly shifting into blades, innumerable blades all crashing down at once. A final desperate bid to strike you down at the cost of their own life.

 

Spoiler

Marina

Status: Somewhat hurt, substantially increased firepower, increased accuracy, fairly increased agility, Meteor Shower active for 1 more turn

Worldline: 4 1 2 4 5 6 5 6 2 4

Alterations: 4

Resolve: 2

 

Aetherbell

Status: Barely alive, exact details unknown right now due to being pinned down in a hole.

Spoiler

This, does not have enough power to kill you. It does however have potential to hurt quite a bit and just, ruin your evening. Let's try and avoid that shall we?

[Zetaark]

"Watch out Aiko!" Sasha yells as she warps her bike from under her, with its momentum intact, towards the car heading towards Aiko. Luckily it was a bike built to take a heck of a beating and still remain in good shape, so it should be able to handle the car just fine. Probably. As for the Luchador in front of her, Sasha curbs her own momentum with her Requiem, stopping her from running right into the Luchador which, while potentially amusing, would not end well. In her current state, she fits her guns into its rifle form, aimed straight at the Lucador's mask. 

 

Plasma Shot to the face of Luchador D (also a bike delivery service to help out Aiko) (Also let's trash the 1 if I can?) 

 

World Line: (4) 5 6 4 1 3 4 4 5 6 3

[IntSys]

"Hah... " Marina sweated quite a bit from the attack, but she couldn't take a break just yet, with another prison forming around her. "Astra Shield!" A prism shield quickly formed around her, shielding her from the blades threatening to make her a shiny porcupine. She then fired another fireball at the wall of stars, hoping to smash a hole in the sphere. If it worked, she would fly through the hole as quickly as possible. If not, she would just continue flying around the sphere in an attempt to minimize damage on top of her Astra Shield.

 

[Worldline: (4) 1 2 4 5 6 5 6 2 4]

 

Using one Alteration to take the nearest 6 instead.

[Yours Truly]

"Because it has grown on me over the years all right?" which was of course just begging for the old man to reply with a slightly defeated sounding, "Oh, you're already making puns about it, it isn't going away anytime soon isn't it?," this caused Immanuel to shrug slightly with a slight smile to his face when he said, "Not unless it gets burnt off," which the old man swiftly replied to with, "Don't tempt me."

The old man adjusted his monocle a bit as he leaned back on his seat and picked a book up from the table, "So how is Marina doing?," to which Immanuel replied with a slightly confused, "What'd you mean?," the old man flipped his book open and started to leaf through a couple of pages as he said, "Well...she's been with you for the whole day right?." Immanuel's confusion slowly started to show on his face when he said, "Uhh...no? I just dropped her off this morning," the old man raised his right eyebrow in response as he said, "Oh really now? Well that's interesting." 

Immanuel gave his grandfather a bit of an odd look before he said, "How so?," to which the old man calmly replied with "Because I haven't seen her at all after you picked her up this morning, I thought she was with you the whole time... where did you say that you dropped her off again?." Immanuel decided to tell a little bit of the truth when he said, "On a rooftop of some building a couple of blocks from here, didn't catch the name," of course Adolf had a slight look to his face that suggested something about him not being able to believe what he was hearing when he said, "So when you said that you dropped her of-," he would have said more, but Immanuel decided to quickly interject by flatly saying, "I meant that I literally dropped her off somewhere."

 

The old man stared long and hard at Immanuel for a few seconds before he said, "You know how dangerous that was right?," to which Immanuel replied with, "Well I wasn't the one who jumped down a fire escape." The old man stared longer and harder at Immanuel for a few more awkward moments before the younger man said, "What? Don't give me that look, I think she gets her recklessness from you," the old man shook his head slightly as he replied with, "I was never that reckless, couldn't afford to be; I think she's just used to being able to wish her way out of anything."

"I seem to recall hearing you brag that you could talk your way out of any situation you can't punch your way through once," the old man chuckled a little bit in response before he replied with, "And look where that got me," to which Immanuel quickly replied with, "Straight to the CEO's table of a successful multinational chain of bookstores?." A slight smile appeared and just as quickly disappeared from the old man's face as he shook his head and said, "But only after five decades of hardship, and nowhere near where I imagined I would be by now," Immanuel had a slight frown on his face when he replied with, "Yes I know that you wanted to be a writer, I mean how could I not? You wouldn't stop talking about it when I was younger."

"Because I thought that it was the most important thing I had in my life back then; even more than your grandmother..." Adolf trailed off in the end of that sentence as a slightly wistful look started to form on his face; causing Immanuel to try and bring the man back down to earth by saying, "I didn't think she minded that much, she was always very supportive of your dream, always spoken highly of it," the old man nodded slightly before he let out a sigh and replied with, "I think she saw something no one else did, always said that it was something magnificent and beautiful that needed to be shared with the rest of the world... even if it was actually shit."

An awkward moment of silence passed before the old man leaned back on his seat and said, "I wish I could have lived up to her expectations sometimes, I think it broke her heart when I stopped...trying." Immanuel nodded slightly in response before he rather awkwardly tried to shift the conversation to a less depressing subject when he said, "Well...do you still... you know?," to which Adolf quickly replied with, "Write you mean," which was followed up by an equally quick, "Yes, that," the reply caused Adolf to sigh as he leaned back and said, "A couple of my employees are trying to convince me to write something about my 'success story' but I don't really know where to start."

Immanuel's curiosity got the better of him as he asked, "And why is that?," and Adolf shifted slightly in his seat before he replied with, "Because I haven't done any serious work in ages, and I can't even think of a good name for it." A moment of silence passed before Immanuel decided to tentatively offer, "What about....my Blue Heaven?," Adolf quickly reacted to this by saying, "I said I couldn't think of a good name."

[Empiricist]

Sasha

Spoiler

Sasha: 4

 

Luchador Menreiki A: 6

Luchador Menreiki B: 6

Luchador Menreiki C: 6, Hyper[5]

Luchador Menreiki D: 6, Hyper[5]

Luchador Menreiki E: 4

 

Lucia's street sign cleaves through the air, just missing the diving Rooster-masked C who has now summoned a jacket, yellow with white sleeves. Without missing a beat, follows up with a thrust on her recovering foe, who, demonstrating substantially increased speed, quickly leans out of the way, snatching a passing batarang out of the air as it staggers backwards.

 

You meanwhile show off your next trick, warping your bike straight into incoming car. The missile rushes forth, halting just before Aiko's face, chained by numerous glowing talismans, without so much as a pause, she picks it out of the air while you discharge bolt of plasma right into D's head as they ineffectually smash the floor, their mask beginning to crack as they're sent staggering backwards. E moves to cover them, tossing batarangs your way, while B starts strafing you with a repulsor beam. A meanwhile launches themselves towards Aiko who is now brandishing the captured missile in talisman cocoon.

 

Spoiler

Sasha

Status: Fine

World Line: 5 6 4 3 4 4 5 6 3 3 4

Alterations: 3+

Resolve: 3

 

Lucia

Status: Somewhat hurt

 

Aiko

Status: Not particularly hurt

 

Luchador Menreiki A

Status: Slightly hurt, some sort of musical effect has been placed on them

Masks: Gasmask, Nixon, Phantom of the Opera, Batman, Darth Vader (equipped)

 

Luchador Menreiki B

Status: Slightly hurt, some sort of musical effect has been placed on them, Hidden Talisman (2 Turns), Explosive Shot (2 Turns)

Masks: Oni, Iron Man (equipped), Zorro

 

Luchador Menreiki C

Status: Slightly hurt, some sort of musical effect has been placed on them, off-balance

Masks: Rooster (equipped), Pilot, Luchador

 

Luchador Menreiki D

Status: Chest has cracked open slightly with some chipping to the central cubes, Jason Voorhees mask is cracked and burnt, staggered

Masks: Batman, Zorro, Jason Voorhees (equipped)

 

Luchador Menreiki E

Status: Slightly hurt, some sort of musical effect has been placed on them

Masks: Pilot, Batman (equipped), Oni

Spoiler

Lucia

An exceedingly durable close quarters specialist who devastates foes with both sheer force and technical skill provided she can get close. Though her thrusters have abysmal acceleration, she can move incredibly quickly given enough time.

• <Donation>: Lucia donates a point of Resolve for an ally's immediate use. She has 1 point of Resolve remaining.

 

Aiko

A support unit who twists unseeable factors to harass enemies and doom their attacks from all ranges. Though severely lacking in both mobility and passive defenses, she is more than capable of protecting herself.

• Enhancement - Unmake [3]: A technique that tweaks the use of talismans, enhancing their compatibility with Aiko's attack-disrupting Requiem
• <Donation>: Aiko donates a point of Resolve for an ally's immediate use. She has 2 points of Resolve remaining.

Spoiler

Under most circumstances, your course of action would not have gone too well, trying to avoid two fairly fast strikes with a roll difference just by counter-ramming. But, well, fucking 12 Mobility and a Regalia bike are enough to tip the scales.

[Empiricist]

Marina

Spoiler

Marina: 6, Hyper[4]

 

Aetherbell: 6, Hyper[6], Hyper[5]

You blast your prison but to no avail, your shots just pass through, it's immaterial. Could try disabling it with a wish but, looking at the scope and firepower leveled against you right now, you've the feeling you won't make it in time. Gonna have to do this hard way it seems. Raising your shield, you fly up, pushing right against that indistinct boundary, there's no physical force, no force field halting your movement, no sudden pull yanking you back, no this, this was something else - some kinda asymptotic wall. No matter how much you move, the edge of the barrier, the world outside, it always seems just out of grasp. The blades are rushing in now, the stars in this false sky seeming to bloom brighter and brighter until you see them for what they are, and what they are is sharp and stabby. Very stabby. Skimming around the edge of your prison you do what you can to avoid the blades, focusing your shield to face outwards. It protects you from the first hit. It protects you from the second. But then comes the third. And the fourth. And the fifth. Blades slamming down against it again and again until it shatters, until one goes through your chest, until another goes through your armor, until you're launched back towards the mound of blades at the very center.

 

Okay, that, really hurt. But that being said, at the end of all of this, you remain uninjured. Hurt yes, but again it's just cuts and scrapes and bruises, nothing time and wishes won't heal. Your opponent meanwhile. Well, put it this way, the sphere was centered on them, every single blade was heading towards the center, and they had nowhere to run. Yeah. If it were an actual person it'd have been fucking brutal, but instead as the blades fade and you inspect the hole, you find little more than broken membranes, spilt slime, and those nebulaic tendrils all curled up back into that cloud-like form. How convenient.

 

You're about to pull out your phone, use the Cleaner app to mark the damage for cleanup, but something catches your eye. There's, something else down there, in the broken form of your foe, it's a card? It looks like one of the ones that Tor guy and those assassins were using.

 

Spoiler

It seems I have underestimated both your willingness to nuke a bitch, and your post rate

[IntSys]

Marina slowly descended upon the remains of the Aetherbell, as she literally wished her cuts away. "Now I'm hungry. Way hungry. It's probably a quicker flight back to Himawari, too. Surely Remi will make me dinner if I bring her these tendrils to make cloths out of, right?" She thought to herself, as she collected the tendrils and shoved them into her randoseru. As she rummaged through the remains, she found a strange card. "Hey... This is one of those trading cards. 6013? Whatever it's called, but it's probably somehow important if this thing's carrying it. Uncle did ask me about that Tor guy, so I guess I'll just give it to uncle later."

 

She took the card and put it away as well. Finally, she used the Cleaner app and marked the damage for cleanup, and then took flight back to Himawari Town. On her way there, she texted her uncle once again. "Change of plans! I'm not going to be home for dinner. Eating at Remi's as well!" Being the irresponsible teenager she was, she couldn't give a damn about the possible objections.

 

The sun had finally set. Marina landed and knocked the door of the Fukuhara household. "Remi! I found something that you'd like!"

 

Remi peered out of the door, and upon noticing Marina's return, she said "Huh? What is it?"

 

Marina then opened her bag, revealing nebulaic tendrils, curled into a bunch of cloud-like clusters. "I fought this flimsy flying monster on my way back home, and I figured that it'd make for good cloths and so you'd like it. I am actually a bit tired out from the fighting, so can I have dinner here with you?"

 

"Wow! Thanks, Marina! And of course! Eating alone sucks. Come on in!" Remi knocked the door wide open, and invited Marina in. They then proceeded to have a hearty dinner over Marina's exploits in the battle against the Aetherbell.

 

Time flew by quickly. It was 10 o'Clock PM. Marina couldn't be bothered to fly back so late at night, so she decided to sleep with Remi, who of course agreed. Frisky things happened as they shared the same bed, but the night was ultimately uneventful, with Marina falling sound asleep way too easily.

[UrbanSamurai]

Faznie

 

".....Well, I should get going, not a lotta' daylight left. I need to catch up on what's going on, you can't get caught flat-footed in today's media environment. Shoot me a text and we can talk more about your company and all of its implications for ethic, okay Gucci Mane?" Faznie shoves a business card containing her name and contact information into Tor's palm. It lists her as "DIRECTOR/EDITOR/SCREENWRITER/AUTEUR".

 

Faznie makes a beeline for the center of the city, where all the action is going down. She's admittedly lost, although the Goddard has the tendency to nudge her in the right direction whenever she completely runs out of options. It's a useful feature, even if the helpful directions that it give are interwoven between the camera yelling about mirrors and reflections being the true reality and what we exist in is the illusion, or something to that effect. 

[Empiricist]

Marina

In dreams you see it.

 

Six kings derelict in duty.

Seven crowns forged by the dead man's hammer.

 

The ritual is broken.

 

Rain and gunsmoke.

The girl who will wish her life away. 

The boy who will reign eternal.

A broken throne waits for the new heir.

 

It is pre-ordained.

The route changes, the ending remains the same.

The soldier waiting for an accursed man he can barely recognize.

The grandmaster waiting to see his successor.

 

Across the shore the cherry blossoms are in bloom.

In deepest midnight a lotus rises from still ocean.

 

From deepest depths the Kingmaker has returned.

 

Rejoice for you are chosen.

Rejoice for you are- aimai san-SENCHI

sorya puni tte koto kai? cho! 

RAPPINGU ga seifuku... daaa furi tte kotanai puu. 

ganbaccha yacchacha 

sonto KYAACCHI & Release gyo 

ase (Fuu) ase (Fuu) no tanima ni Darlin' Darlin' FREEZE!!

 

You awaken to Remi's alarm.

 

Okay, now here, here's one of the downsides of being Awakened - the world's crazy and prophetic dreams exist. What this means is, what you just had could be a crucial piece of information... but it just as well could be random bullshit dredged up from the depths of your subconscious, and unfortunately, the Awakened World being what it is, it's pretty fucking hard telling the two apart. Like, when you live knowing that Hitler had a moonbase filled with magical racist forklifts, your dreams of cake and posh victorian velociraptors from Rigel B wind up sounding terrifyingly reasonable. Sure, statistically speaking it could be nothing, but it still could and hell the hell are you supposed to figure out which one's the one? Yeah, it's not easy.

 

Faznie

It takes a while, but eventually you find your way. You arrive at Sasha's garage a couple minutes past noon, quickly finding that Sasha herself is currently busy fighting shirtless luchador batman and his ensemble of other assorted masked wrestlers with the help of two teenagers.

 

Spoiler

Faznie

Status: Fine

World Line: 4 5 4 1 1 2 5 2 2 5

Alterations: 3

Resolve: 3

 

 

[IntSys]

Marina woke up to the ever-cheerful opening of Lucky Star, and to the faint smell of whatever shampoo Remi was using. Remi got up first, meekly saying "Good morning" to Marina, and telling her that she'll be preparing breakfast, and then she left for the kitchen. She shut the alarm on her way out.

 

Marina, on the other hand, was left alone in bed. "A dream... And a horrible one, too. Do I have to wish myself a good dream as well?" She complained to no one in particular. "The girl who will wish her life away? That's just depressing. Why would I even dream that? Mmm... Must have been the monster from yesterday. I'd rather this be just a dream anyway," she concluded. She took a look at the alarm clock. It read 5:30 AM.

 

"Wait... I have work today. My shift's at like, 8 o'clock, though. I can make it back with time to spare. I'll just wait for breakfast... " Marina inched around the bed lazily. She could finally begin to appreciate how nice Remi smelled, as she indulged herself momentarily. "Aaahhh... Smells like bliss... "

 

(To be continued)

[Zetaark]

Having temporarily dealt with one Luchador, Sasha turns her attention to avoiding the one firing a beam at her, rematerializing her bike to help avoid it, while attempting to shoot the incoming batarangs. In the meanwhile, Sasha starts driving towards Luchador A, potentially trying to ram him, but also to see if she can promote a bit of friendly fire between him and the Luchador currently firing a beam at her.

 

World Line: 5 6 4 3 4 4 5 6 3 3 4

[UrbanSamurai]

It's not hard to find Sasha, not a lot of people go around these days fighting Luchadors, besides other Luchadors. Team rules are in effect, right? It doesn't look like there's a ref around to take charge over things like that anyways.

 

Open a rift next to Luchador E. The rift spouts an active swarming killer beehive at him.

 

Faznie

Status: Fine

World Line: 4 5 4 1 1 2 5 2 2 5

Alterations: 3

Resolve: 3

[Empiricist]

Sasha

Spoiler

Faznie: 4

Sasha: 5

 

Luchador Menreiki A: 4

Luchador Menreiki B: 3

Luchador Menreiki C: 4

Luchador Menreiki D: 3

Luchador Menreiki E: 5

 

Well, first thing's first, a rift in reality tears open right next to E, their attempts to attack quickly turning into panicked flailing as they find themselves assailed by murderous bees. It's, not the deadliest attack, not against a being of living stone, but it does still harm it, shallow wounds stinging into its form. Now With only one asshole firing on her, Sasha finds herself free to just rev her engine and rush out of the way of the incoming beam, the pavement exploding away behind her and straight into A. Or well, close to A. Hitting them proves to be a little trickier, their retro space magic telekinesis proving powerful enough to hold her and Aiko's recently reclaimed missile at bay, at least, for now. Redirecting either right now seems to be a bit beyond them however. Aiko simply summons more talismans, the rapidly growing cloud slowly but surely overwhelming the luchador's defenses.

 

Light fills the air. The Nixon mask. The gas mask. They are glowing. A grabs both out of the air, bringing both against its face as it crouches down low, its form impossibly flat against the ground. The Vader mask is detaching, the telekinesis is fading. It's trying to turn their attacks against them, the missile against Sasha, the bike against Aiko. Cracks tear across the ground below, and a yellow haze rises, scents sweet and spicy, soon to be choking.

 

E begins running towards A, B readies its weapons trying to identify the source of the rift, and D steadies itself biding its time. C has managed to dodge Lucia's onslaught for now, and seeing an opening, rushes forwards, batarang at hand, the android however seems to have other ideas in mind, dropping low and pressing a hand against the ground.

 

Spoiler

Faznie

Status: Fine

World Line: 5 4 1 1 2 5 2 2 5 3

Alterations: 3+

Resolve: 3

 

Sasha

Status: Fine

World Line: 6 4 3 4 4 5 6 3 3 4

Alterations: 4+

Resolve: 3

 

Lucia

Status: Somewhat hurt

 

Aiko

Status: Not particularly hurt

 

Luchador Menreiki A

Status: Slightly hurt, some sort of musical effect has been placed on them

Masks: Gasmask (equipped), Nixon (equipped), Phantom of the Opera, Batman, Darth Vader

 

Luchador Menreiki B

Status: Slightly hurt, some sort of musical effect has been placed on them, Hidden Talisman (3 Turns), Explosive Shot (3 Turns)

Masks: Oni, Iron Man (equipped), Zorro

 

Luchador Menreiki C

Status: Slightly hurt, some sort of musical effect has been placed on them, off-balance

Masks: Rooster (equipped), Pilot, Luchador

 

Luchador Menreiki D

Status: Chest has cracked open slightly with some chipping to the central cubes, Jason Voorhees mask is cracked and burnt

Masks: Batman, Zorro, Jason Voorhees (equipped)

 

Luchador Menreiki E

Status: Body is covered in shallow puncture wounds

Masks: Pilot, Batman (equipped), Oni

Spoiler

Lucia

An exceedingly durable close quarters specialist who devastates foes with both sheer force and technical skill provided she can get close. Though her thrusters have abysmal acceleration, she can move incredibly quickly given enough time.

• <Donation>: Lucia donates a point of Resolve for an ally's immediate use. She has 1 point of Resolve remaining.

 

Aiko

A support unit who twists unseeable factors to harass enemies and doom their attacks from all ranges. Though severely lacking in both mobility and passive defenses, she is more than capable of protecting herself.

• Enhancement - Unmake [3]: A technique that tweaks the use of talismans, enhancing their compatibility with Aiko's attack-disrupting Requiem.
• Trap - Hidden Talisman [5]: Aiko activates the talisman she secretly planted on Luchador Menreiki B unleashing a swarm of talismans that may be used to target other enemies. 3 Turns have passed since it was first placed.
• <Donation>: Aiko donates a point of Resolve for an ally's immediate use. She has 2 points of Resolve remaining.

Spoiler

Just as a note, when these Luchadores use their masks, it doesn't happen instantly, they start placing them on at the beginning of the following turn so you are able to interfere with them if you're quick and consider it necessary.

 

As with Chapter 0, Faznie's Regalia is relatively innocuous and her use of it makes it hard for enemies to identify who is attacking them especially if they're in a crowd such as in this case.

[Yours Truly]

Immanuel awkwardly laughed at his grandfather's final comment before he smiled and said, "Well if you thought that was bad, wait until you hear this next one," Adolf chuckled a little bit as well as he said, "I honestly don't think that you can do..." Immanuel quickly interjected with, "Von Holzstoff in dem Himmel," to which the old man just as quickly replied with, "a lot worse, congratulations you somehow managed to come up with a worse name than.." which caused the younger man to smile a little bit wider in response as he interjected once more with, "the Blaur Himmel you mean?." The old man shook his head a little bit before he replied, "Well at least my name doesn't mention anything about wood pulp."

[Zetaark]

With the telekinesis wearing off, Sasha attempts to turn the tables slightly, warping the missile past Sasha and aimed towards the Luchador A, while also warping past Aiko to avoid hitting her. The gases that are beginning to form seem problematic, so she sets her sights on the gas mask, forming her rifle and firing off a Plasma shot at the gas mask.

 

World Line: 6 4 3 4 4 5 6 3 3 (4)

[Empiricist]

Sasha

Spoiler

Sasha: 6, Hyper[4]

Luchador Menreiki A : 3, Hyper[R], Hyper[R]
Luchador Menreiki B : 5
Luchador Menreiki C : 6
Luchador Menreiki D : 3
Luchador Menreiki E : 5

 

Your bolt crashes down, soon followed by a storm of talismans. E, the poor bastard trying to escape into the cloud is basically hurled out as soon as they came in, their upper body now missing a fairly large chunk of its funky cube flesh. A, seems mostly unscathed though. Barrier's gone, mask's slightly chipped, cloud's parted for now. But their body is in remarkable shape given what they just experienced. And as the avalanche of paper crashes down you start getting an idea of why. Whenever its struck, the point of impact changes, blackens, and the talisman shatters against it. Reactive armor, likely from the Nixon mask, it hardens in response to physical trauma.

 

C meanwhile takes this time to try and shank Lucia. Good plan, slight problem though,

"BREAK!"

It's hard to run when your legs have just shattered. Its sprint turns into a stumble, the stumble into a fall, and the fall?

"ACCELERATE!"

Brings it right in contact with it Lucia's fist. So the batarang just breaks into against its target, sorta like how C's body breaks everywhere when the android puts her hand through said body and grabbed hold of its spine.

 

B meanwhile kinda just, looks around. Kinda hard to find your target when your target just up and left all of a sudden. Good job B. You get a gold star for effort.

 

Anyway as it stands, of your foes, one of them is dead, like really really dead, another is basically dead seeing as they're just a walking timebomb at this point, and two more are kinda fucked up. Oh? What's this? The ground's shaking? The air's starting to smell sweet again?

 

That's just the other guy. The guy you didn't fuck up.  You know, the guy lifting a bus into the air in preparation to crush you like a Spanish announcer's table? Yeah. That guy.

 

[Now Playing: It Has To Be This Way]

 

So here's how things are going down. A is leaping into the air and hurling a bus at you like a spear, a bus that you notice that, while once empty, is now filled with an awful lot of that magical mustard gas they've been releasing. It is going to follow that up with a flying elbow drop. B is strafing at Aiko, trying to suppress her, trying to stop her from interfering. E is trying to picking itself back up off the floor, and D is marching around the side readying to intercept any would-be escape attempts.

 

Lucia's thrusters burn brighter as she moves to join your fight. Aiko meanwhile just stands her ground and focuses.

 

Spoiler

Sasha
Status: Fine
World Line: 4 3 4 4 5 6 3 3 2 2
Alterations: 5
Resolve: 3

Lucia
Status: Somewhat hurt

Aiko
Status: Not particularly hurt

Luchador Menreiki A
Status: Slightly hurt, combined mask is slightly chipped
Masks: Gasmask (equipped), Nixon (equipped), Phantom of the Opera, Batman, Darth Vader

Luchador Menreiki B
Status: Slightly hurt, some sort of musical effect has been placed on them, Hidden Talisman (4 Turns), Explosive Shot (4 Turns)
Masks: Oni, Iron Man (equipped), Zorro

Luchador Menreiki C
Status: Destroyed
Masks: Rooster (equipped), Pilot, Luchador

Luchador Menreiki D
Status: Chest has cracked open slightly with some chipping to the central cubes, Jason Voorhees mask is cracked and burnt
Masks: Batman, Zorro, Jason Voorhees (equipped)

Luchador Menreiki E
Status: Upper torso is missing a fair amount of flesh exposing some of its glowing skeletal structure
Masks: Pilot, Batman (equipped), Oni

Spoiler

Lucia
An exceedingly durable close quarters specialist who devastates foes with both sheer force and technical skill provided she can get close. Though her thrusters have abysmal acceleration, she can move incredibly quickly given enough time.

• <Donation>: Lucia donates a point of Resolve for an ally's immediate use. She has 1 point of Resolve remaining.

Aiko
A support unit who twists unseeable factors to harass enemies and doom their attacks from all ranges. Though severely lacking in both mobility and passive defenses, she is more than capable of protecting herself.

• Enhancement - Unmake [3]: A technique that tweaks the use of talismans, enhancing their compatibility with Aiko's attack-disrupting Requiem.
• Trap - Hidden Talisman [5]: Aiko activates the talisman she secretly planted on Luchador Menreiki B unleashing a swarm of talismans that may be used to target other enemies. 4 Turns have passed since it was first placed.
• <Donation>: Aiko donates a point of Resolve for an ally's immediate use. She has 2 points of Resolve remaining.

Spoiler

C's Rooster mask gave it Hotline Miami properties, so greatly increased agility and power for greatly lowered defenses, hence why it died so quickly.

 

Y'know, I was considering having this fight go a bit faster and not just turning A into a Luchador Senator Armstrong with added mustard gas, but you basically got 3 free Resolve points this battle courtesy of the NPCs, so fuck it.

 

 

[Zetaark]

Seeing that Luchador A has decided to pull out the stops, she decided that she would as well. "Aiko, when I get up to that luchador up there, activate those trap talismans alright. We're going to make a scene," she says as she revs her bike right towards Luchador B while firing off a large shot into the air. Once she hit the luchador, using some space manipulation, she hit full acceleration and flew right towards and through the bus, heading straight for Luchador A. "Let's see how you like this! Aiko!" she yells as she gets close, triggering the explosive shot as well once she hits the luchador, with the plasma shot fired earlier coming behind A.

 

Alteration to 5, Accel Crash onto Lucha B through the bus and into Lucha A, pop explosive shot and hidden talimsan, and gonna borrow one of Aiko and Lucia's resolve to buff myself up.

 

World Line: 4 3 4 4 [5] (6) 3 3 2 2

[Empiricist]

Sasha

Spoiler

Sasha: 5, Hyper[6], Resolve, Resolve

Luchador Menreiki A : 4
Luchador Menreiki B : 4
Luchador Menreiki D : 4
Luchador Menreiki E : 4

[Now Playing: It Has To Be This Way]

 

Space begins to shift, twist, distort. Distances change, trajectories alter. For a split second, the path to B, the path through the bus, the path to A, it all becomes a straight line. A split second, that, is all you need.

 

Re-engaging your thrusters, throttling the throttle, you launch forwards crashing straight into B, and crashing B straight into the bus. Talismans explode from its back, at first like an avalanche, and then as a raging stream, great tendrils of paper tearing outwards and shifting, binding, shielding. A frontal shield, half a cocoon, a shield between you and the mustard gas. You explode out the bus, explode towards A. A rises to meet your challenge, its entire body darkening as it draws its fist back and brings forwards. It tears through storm of talismans, it tears towards you, and it tears right the fuck away. Space manipulation, bitch.

 

Bike goes into their chest. Bolt goes into their spine. You blow the bullet and all of a sudden, there's whole load more plasma to worry about.

 

When it's all over, all that remains is dust and debris, well, that and you, now careening through the damn air.

 

A's dead. B's dead. E's firing a grappling hook at Aiko reeling her into D's lariat, and Lucia's accelerating forwards aiming to drive her heel right through E's chest. The way things are looking, you guys got this in the bag.

 

Talismans gather before Aiko as an almost palpable aura explodes around her. Her eyes look as if they were aflame, and as she gestures, everything burns gold.

 

Spoiler

Sasha
Status: Fine, careening through the air at high speed
World Line: 4 3 4 4 3 3 2 2 4 4
Alterations: 4
Resolve: 3

Lucia
Status: Somewhat hurt

Aiko
Status: Not particularly hurt

Luchador Menreiki A
Status: Destroyed
Masks: Gasmask (equipped), Nixon (equipped), Phantom of the Opera, Batman, Darth Vader

Luchador Menreiki B
Status: Destroyed
Masks: Oni, Iron Man (equipped), Zorro

Luchador Menreiki D
Status: Chest has cracked open slightly with some chipping to the central cubes, Jason Voorhees mask is cracked and burnt
Masks: Batman, Zorro, Jason Voorhees (equipped)

Luchador Menreiki E
Status: Upper torso is missing a fair amount of flesh exposing some of its glowing skeletal structure
Masks: Pilot, Batman (equipped), Oni

Spoiler

Lucia
An exceedingly durable close quarters specialist who devastates foes with both sheer force and technical skill provided she can get close. Though her thrusters have abysmal acceleration, she can move incredibly quickly given enough time.

 

Aiko
A support unit who twists unseeable factors to harass enemies and doom their attacks from all ranges. Though severely lacking in both mobility and passive defenses, she is more than capable of protecting herself.

Spoiler

Yeah, you guys have basically won. With the damage you've done to D and E, they're not gonna survive this next turn.

 

[Zetaark]

"Yahooooooooooooo!" Sasha yells as she's careening through the air. Getting her bearings once again, she sees the last two stragglers and decides to use her momentum to crash onto them, albeit in less spectacular fashion. She can just keep on the gas a bit and let gravity and her Requiem do the work of course correction to keep Aiko or Lucia from getting caught in the crossfire as much.

 

Pretty much just fall on the two with Sasha's momentum. Good fight.

 

World Line: 4 3 4 4 3 3 2 2 4 4

[Empiricist]

Sasha

Spoiler

Sasha : 4

Luchador Menreiki D : 5
Luchador Menreiki E : 3

[Now Playing: Nothing]

 

Around Aiko cherry blossoms scatter. Golden petals of flame, golden petals aflame, rising into the air. From their midst, he emerges. He looks, like a greek god. If greek gods did steroids, and were egyptian. His hulking shirtless form towers, above even the luchadores, his golden flesh radiant with energy, a smile, viscious, confident, beneath the nemes.

 

"OZYMANDIAS! OBLITERATE!"

 

Yeah uh, needless to say, between your bike, Lucia's bloodlust, and Aiko summoning offbrand Exodia, the remaining luchadores are dead. Like, really fucking dead.

 

Spoiler

 

[Zetaark]

"Well that was a nice change of pace I guess," Sasha remarks as she exits her bike, surprisingly free of injury given her most recent stunt. "You think any of their masks are lying around still?" she asks Aiko, wondering about the particular masks and whether or not they could be retrieved for...research.

[Empiricist]

Sasha

"Roosterhead's masks are still lying around over there. Why?"

 

 

[Zetaark]

"Simple curiosity really. That and it may not be a great idea to leave them around, though I'll leave that to you two," Sasha says, not particularly amused by the remaining mask. "Oh right, I still had to make a call about some materials I need, though I guess I can do that later. What are you two going to be up to now that this mess is dealt with?"

[Empiricist]

Sasha

"I think I shall grab lunch and return to the church."

"Meeting with X."