Week 3 Mini-Event

[killerwaves]

MINI-EVENT

Congratulations, you've won the lottery this fine execution day!

Though, perhaps it really isn't an execution day, given the kittybots don't seem to be rousing people to go to the sandbar yet again -- but you're given no peace, because four of you will be beset by an absolutely infernal beeping noise. It would be familiar, if anyone but Zelkov and Haruka had heard it before, but no one has.

And now you're the proud successors of auditory cue hell: the insistent noise will lead you all the way to Kingfisher's Retreat, pointing you towards the waterfall side of the island. As you get closer to the crystal pool, you may start noticing disturbed sand and dirt, foliage... Almost like something large and not particularly delicate crashed its way through the growth and the footpaths, shoving everything out of its way...

Hmm. Surely there's nothing amiss here! But you may want to make sure you have your weapons on hand and your eyes and ears peeled.

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[dancing_flames]

It's an old injury-- don't worry about me!

[He's grateful for the assistance getting back on his feet, though. And as he does so, he spots all of those broken bits of crystal lying around... they may not be a sword, but they'll do in a pinch. Lunging for one, he grabs it with his metal hand-- this way, even if it shatters, it won't hurt his hand.]

We need to focus our energy on taking this thing down first.

[Now that he can actually see its eyes, he's going to try to target them with some small explosions. If nothing else, hopefully it will temporarily impair the creature's vision enough to let him or Wang Lu in for a few strikes.]

1/2

[divector]

How cool!

[ Now that the shock of the grapes of wrath has passed, Ibuki grins and— ]

2/2

[divector]

But don't get too ahead of yourself?

[ —shifts to Moravia with a shower of sparkles. After another moment of thought, she decided that the extra energy expenditure was worth lessening the chances of touching any stray goop. Executing Plan Self-yeet (with a lighter form)! Unlike Plan Shudamenotoss, she has much better control over the trajectory and landing. Moravia weaves between obstacles before letting herself touch down on a shallow part of the water. ]

I see what you mean. Let's get them here so we can all have a heart-to-heart.

[ And by heart-to-heart, she means kicking their new buddy in the nuts guts. ]

[chosenwang]

Are you enjoying that I'm talking to you or are you perhaps mocking me? [ He'll raise his left hand to block that grab. Go ahead and try to grab his arm as a tweat.

He hears his name, and takes it as a cue to power up his sword again. He's going to send a much stronger energy wave at the arm of the creature while Temenos and Shuda work to strike it as well with their own abilities.

What a shame he missed the magical girl transformation. ]

[killerwaves]

[The Nomu snarls as its aim is thrown off by Temenos' strike -- as before, the hit doesn't actually affect it that much, but it does throw off its aim and divert its focus... right over to the two who just emerged from the waterfall. That is, however, when Shuda's attack strikes once again: the Shudamenos combo really is taking this Nomu for a ride. With Wang Lu's energy sword added to it, the creature does get staggered just a bit... sliding down a little on the shallow incline, debris falling into the deeper water. But it stops itself in time.

There's an angry squeal as it then does its best to dodge the bombs, which doesn't take out an eye but at least gouges its face and neck to some extent. More importantly, it does give them a little time to regroup from their scattered formation, and it allows Ibuki-now-Moravia free rein. The Nomu swipes at its own face to get out of all the smoke and stinging; even so, they can already see the hits healing.

It's probably a good idea to keep stringing combos and think of an all-out attack of some kind, or they could be here all day.]

[dupiety]

[Phew, okay, they bought themselves some time to regroup. Temenos calls everyone over.]

We cannot allow this thing to roam free, so we best take it down now.

With regeneration this powerful, we ought to concentrate our strongest attacks in a central location- ideally the head.

[dancing_flames]

Looks like a pretty good spot to aim to me. Assuming that really is its brain that's exposed, hitting it there might affect its ability to fight more than damaging it somewhere else.

If I can get up there, I can stab it directly, but that will mean trying to keep it in one place long enough for that to happen.

[divector]

Hmm, I want to save that boulder for now, so I'm going to play catch with them. Good luck!

[ With a wave, she jumps over closer to their rather ugly friend. ]

I hope you passed your hand-eye coordination exam.

[ Thanks for the free crystals and rocks, whoever broke it off earlier! She'll levitate a few simultaneously and send some flying towards the head of whatever fresh hell it is. Her plan is mostly just to keep its attention on her by harassing it with debris to keep it from moving away too much. She can keep them moving pretty quickly, so hopefully that's confusing enough for now. ]

[chosenwang]

[ Wao i'm the 69th comment. nice

Time to get closer to the others. ]

Feels a bit early for a finishing blow, but if that's what is needed here... [ He can skip to the climax. He's going to start charging up his sword while Ibuki- ]

Oh it's the other one now. [ More to himself. Anyways, he's going to focus on his sword and send all of his energy into it ] Ready when you are.

[killerwaves]

[Nice timing, Moravia! The Nomu is just about recovered from all the previous strikes, and has actually started lumber-galloping towards them like the worst football player in existence; it at least hones in on Moravia when she makes herself the target, and instantly becomes a baseball player, I guess.

By which I mean, things are about to get hairy.

Instead of trying to grab at the debris single-mindedly like it has been doing until now, the Nomu... plucks off some of the globules on its head and sends them flying at the debris she's leveraging at it. The grape-looking things are able to stick together and then stick to the debris, so while that makes the debris harder to move around, it's the other thing that may be a problem.

Namely, that one of the globules is flying at Moravia.]

[dupiety]

[This is so gross to watch, ew. But hey, maybe the debris-filled globs will come in handy later?

Anyway, he was planning to concentrate on its head, but it seems like there are multiple targets to worry about now. Time for some AOE.]

Oh no you don't!

[After chanting a prayer, what was once one concentrated ray of light becomes many smaller rays centered around the Nomu and the globs it's hurling. Hopefully that can make dodging a little easier for Moravia.]

[dancing_flames]

[Yeah, Shuda's with you on the "change of plans" part here, Temenos.

He may not be able to immobilize anything with his spheres here, but you know what he can do? Target some of them in between the glob and Moravia in the hopes that the backdraft from the explosions will slow it down at least a little bit and give her some more time to get out of its way.]

[divector]

[ Thanks for the assists! The larger debris still aren't a problem for her to keep moving—it's the globule that's an issue with her weakened powers. With the interference, she manages to dodge the bigger pieces of goop without dropping the debris she was levitating.

One ball, however, does clip her right elbow. Which is unfortunately enough to stick, but on the bright side, it wasn't her feet. Or bare skin. Because, seriously, ew. ]

—Not very fond of that move.

[ She's grossed out, but has enough presence of mind to start trying to add to her ball of debris, making sure to keep a few pieces out to throw at their eyes. While she can't move it as fast as she can before, it can't hurt to start building it up. ]

[chosenwang]

[ He can't really stop to shift gears, but he will pull out the two sets of kunai he has and hold them up. ]

Want another kind of projectile?

[ He'll plop them down just in case she does uses them.

Anyways, it's LEROY JENKINS TIME. Before it can start charging again and to kick off the final blow, he's going to use his super speed once again to run at the creature. Aiming for his head with all of his strength. ]

[killerwaves]

[Thanks to Temenos and Shuda's timely interference, only one or two of the globules make it through, to stick to the debris and Moravia respectively, but it's not too bad...? Hopefully. A couple of them drop wetly down into the shallows around them and fasten there impressively despite the water. Please watch your feet, once again.

As for the Nomu, it has stopped shaving itself, at the very least, but any debris hurled at it is either swept aside or crushed in its hands; unfortunately, when it comes to most things that aren't energy attacks or explosions, it's fast enough and strong enough to intercept.

That said, it's enough of a distraction for Wang Lu to get in close -- but the Nomu is still agile enough to brace itself and go back a step, because it's going to try once again to grab him before he can get to it.]

[dupiety]

[Temenos is quickly running out of skill points energy to keep up his light magic, but he's going to try to get in one last Holy Light at the Nomu's face to give Wang Lu an opening for his Super Special Awesome attack.]

Everyone, trap it and focus it down now!

[dancing_flames]

[Hey Maxeta, how do you like explosions centered right around your legs, because that's what you're getting right now

In the meantime, Shuda is also going to race in, hoping to just parkour right up the thing's body so that he can get better access to that (ew) brain.

WHY IS THIS HIS LIFE, HE HATES THIS]

We'll strike at the same time!

[divector]

Thanks, it'll come in handy.

[ She'll swiftly collect the kunai just in case. Could come in handy if yet another ball attack happens.

After the explosions, Moravia throws the two sets of vaguely sphere-shaped katamari debris and sticky ball combo she put together at Maxeta's feet. She's deliberately aiming in a way that tries to maximize the amount of exposed sticky ball area towards the feet and ground. And avoiding friendly fire, of course. Wild guess, but maybe their feet are not immune to its own powers? ]

[chosenwang]

[ With the Nomu bracing against the attack and taking a step back, he's going to take a step forward and keep that closeness. He is used to having plot protection or some bullshit that means he'll come out on top, so he isn't going to disengage or try to block from the creature reaching for him. Just going to try to keep pushing against it with his sword while everyone else joins in. ]

[killerwaves]

[Perhaps the Nomu is getting more used to the attacks to its face -- this time all it does is try to duck, even if it doesn't manage to avoid the attack properly; still, the attack doesn't make it roar the way it did before. Either that or Temenos really needs an SP potion at this point. Face smoking, it does run right into Shuda's carpet bombing for yet another one-two combo!

The bombs don't stagger it, but they do slow it down and make it crash right onto Ibuki's... should we call them sticky traps? Sticky traps! Alas, it was a good idea, but all that happens is that the Nomu... somehow bounces a bit off its own hairballs, so Shuda is going to have to like, use his full height here.

Since both Wang Lu and Shuda are trying to tank the Nomu tanking them... that's a lot of closeup targets. The Nomu closes its hand on whoever is closest, with a grip that can crack both armor and bone. Yikes. You may need a bit more firepower in here.]

[dancing_flames]

[This is absolutely NOT Shuda's day. It really has not been his week at all, honestly, but this is probably the most pressing (ha ha) concern of all. Good thing he is wearing actual armor at the moment, because otherwise this would be a lot worse than it is! It takes at least a little of that pressure off his poor ribs, but he definitely feels a couple of them crack there anyway. Good thing he's so used to pain by this point that even that isn't enough to ruin his focus for more than the briefest moment.

Immediately he targets its eyes again with a pair of explosions, trying to get it to let go of him.]

[dupiety]

[Temenos is so fucking tired of this thing by this point. He needs to conserve whatever SP he has left to heal with, so he starts looking around to...]

Very well. If brute force isn't the answer...

[...the deeper depths of the pool.]

Moravia, ready the boulder. I have an idea.

[He looks over toward the others.]

Try to lure it into the deep water if you can!

[chosenwang]

[ Oh yikes.

Time to move to swing his blade at the arm to help break Shuda free ]

Let him go!

[divector]

—Got it.

[ It doesn't take her long to realize what Temenos is getting at. Good thing she didn't splinter it earlier!

She steps closer to the boulder's general area, ready to move it at any signal. As much as she wants to move it now, there's only one huge boulder, and she'd rather make it count. What she's looking for are two main conditions: a free Shuda and a Maxeta close enough to the deeper end of their not-so-kiddie pool. ]

[killerwaves]

[The eyesplosions still make the Nomu roar, like clockwork -- but it's got a free hand, so instead of letting go, it tightens its grip as it staggers a little between all the struggling and attacks levied at it. It is pretty close to the edge of that crystal pool still, the soothing light blue depths darkening to deep turquoise and then to black water just over there.

And it doesn't seem as though it has the power of levitation beyond the tiny bounce it just did. Small mercies.

Wang Lu's attack shakes its arm a bit, but just like before, most attacks are only able to either shallowly cut its body or deflect off and mess up its aim. It might be a good idea to concentrate some firepower if you don't want Shuda swimming with the fishes.]