ENDGAME

[killerwaves]

FINAL TRIAL

"ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR STAY!!! :-)"

That's a message from Chirpy, as that group leaves the records room. Though really, there's not much time left; a fact impressed upon you regardless of whether you had a overly helpful bumbling robot or not.

Take some time to discuss what you've found and equip your new found loot in the open research lab. It's not a bad place for an impromptu meeting considering it's size.

Though sooner, rather than later, you'll need to head deeper still, to meet your two administrators, who surely know you're coming by now.

(( OOC: Welcome to Endgame! This is for all the bananas, so good luck! We'll give you 1 hour OOC to discuss your invest findings, and then it's onto the final confrontation. ))

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[idologue]

[ Her prayers are answered as, just as with Zelkov before, a white haired woman briefly appears next to her and then, from one moment until another she's glowing.

It's an odd feeling, but she doesn't have time to think about odd feelings right now. What matters is that she has a Dreadful Aura now, which should slow down the bots in her immediate vicinity and allow her to rush through and towards the spike forest in the direction of Overhaul's dome.

She'll shout at the people nearby: ]

If we don't take Overhaul out, this is never going to end!!

[microtransactions]

[ don't have to tell him twice; while the rest of the gang is distracting the bots, he's going to maneuver his way through the forest because he has too many portal privileges. but anyway

a magic circle carves its way open. magolor's summoning that sword of his, but unlike previous occasions where he grabbed it by the hilt to demonstrate 'see? perfectly normal sword!'

this time the blade that rises from the circle is markedly larger, and suspended in the air only by his magic. sure, it might not be building leveling big, but we don't need to do that (and probably shouldn't since we're underwater)— it just needs to try to carve a pathway clear of as much of overhaul's walls and obstacles as possible. ]

[allworknoplague]

[We'll say Magolor's sword attack and Waltaquin's sword attack happen either in unison or in quick succession, since why not stack the sword attacks, really.

There's movement from within the dome, for anyone watching very closely, just as things are charging up, magical circles are happening, and something about the dome changes just before the hit -- there's a blinding blast of light, then another as both attacks go in.

Once the smoke clears, Lacus is free to dash through the cleared space -- it looks like the dome itself has been bisected by all the commotion -- the couch is definitely not intact, everything is smoking at least a little. But behind the dome is a wall of half-melted metal, followed by what look like a few more walls fading into shadow behind, each successively smaller but less damaged.

There's what sounds like a clapping noise, echoing from the back of the cargo bay.]

And here I thought you'd forgotten what you were trying to fight, exactly.

Torrential Roar use here, we are now fresh out of it

[idologue]

[ Oh, good, they are making damage. Lacus won't waste time entering the former dome area - as long as she remains in SEED Mode, her reflexes are far above an average human being.

And then there's walls, but there is also intuitive knowledge within her - a whisper from that mysterious Corrin, she'd like to think.

There is something she can do to clear the path.

She just needs to let it happen.

Instinct. Following instinct only. ]

Torrential Roar!!

[ A wording she's known from Zelkov's profile, which never meant anything to her - now sending a water blast cutting through the walls. If all goes right, anyway.

The moment after she sends that one off, she'll summon the Wakizashi. ]

caliburn use

[diabolizes]

[ Being protected by Waltaquin's special boy means that he has enough of a chance to use Caliburn's shockwave again. He can hear Lacus calling out a spell, so he waits for that water blast to being to recede before sending out another shockwave from Caliburn. Might as well follow an attack like that up with something—keeping the hits coming, as they say. ]

1/2

[allworknoplague]

[Lacus is speedy, and the water is fast -- there's only a few meager metal walls to really buffet the blast -- though as it comes flooding in, several of the metal walls fuse together for sturdiness and then start to curve. It looks like Overhaul is working to mitigate the impact of the attack -- it allows some of the resulting water to pour back, like a wave rolling over, but it also blasts the wall down and floods the area properly.

There's definitely a tsk in there somewhere, lost in the roar of water and metal slamming into each other.

The next attack from Caliburn opens a bigger hole in the already half-melted walls; Magolor's sword is no joke, and everything is already brittle in a tide of cold water and hot sword beams. There's a muffled series of explosive sounds -- sounds like that one may have hit the back of the cargo bay, or possibly some things along the way.

All's quiet on the bird front...]

2/2

[allworknoplague]

[A few moments later, the half-melted walls reshape themselves into spikes -- reminiscent of lances, they grow outward, fast, towards the dome and anyone that might be coming that way.]

Flowery Necklace: FUCKING BREAKS NEXT TAG

[idologue]

[ Having just cast the attack, Lacus is the person physically closest to those metal walls - closest to those spikes. And even with her SEED mode instincts, she can only avoid some of them.

But instincts are one thing, actual training and routine in movement is another. Lacus doesn't have that. She tumbles.

And winds up skewered through the collar area.

This isn't good. ]

[butcherspice]

[In the chaos, Billy witnesses Lacus get skewered in the collar area, and nearly forgets where he is as he goes to help her, getting the spike out of her and trying to plug the blood.]

Hey, c'mon, lass. Not gonna fuckin' lose you, don't you even think about goin' out like this.

[It's all too familiar, isn't it?]

[idologue]

[ Lacus barely even screamed, genuinely too shocked by the sudden pain to do anything at all. Now that she's off the spike and laying down on the floor, held up by Billy, there is some recognition of what is even going on.

Is she... dying? This can't be it, she promised--

Below Billy's caring hand, the tissue within her moves. What was a stab wound clean through her body heals itself from the inside out -- and the necklace shatters over her chest. ]

I...

[ She feels like she can breathe properly again, but that just means the pain is properly kicking in now. Lacus winces. The former stab wound is still bleeding, both a the back and of the front of her body, but it's flesh wounds now.

Nasty, painful flesh wounds. ]

Hnngh-- Th-thank you. Magic sure is... convenient, huh?

[handsheld]

[ she can probably feel his eyes on her like that one time but

like then, he stays where he is.

timings important. ]

[idologue]

[ It's the only thing she'd ever ask of him, anyway. Maybe that was a mistake on her part?

But it is how it is, and she's still breathing. The game isn't over yet. ]

[butcherspice]

[Oh thank god. Maybe powers aren't the worst thing ever if it's managed to keep Lacus alive. He can feel the panic start to recede leaving relief combined with his general anger that she's been hurt.]

Whew--guess it is. Can't have you bitin' it here, alright?

[They gotta end this sooner rather than later.]

[idologue]

[ He looks better when he's not panicked. Lacus knows how much pain the people who died here have caused her. She'd had to inflict that on somebody else. ]

I've promised I'd survive through this... I hate to break a promise.

[ Which... doesn't make it better that she just almost got stabbed. ]

[finalmix]

[ stares at my dice rolls but anyway

there's an opening and he takes it when the dome cleaves itself into two from the sword attacks, firing off a decently powered beam from above, one that's probably not enough to one-hit KO overhaul but enough to do a decent amount of damage.

it takes a moment to charge up his attack though, and since joshua is levitating, it's... not great. the spikes hone in on him, and it takes one to knock him off balance, and he doesn't see the second one coming--

it goes straight through his shoulder, and this is what happens when you're a squishy mage, because that? is enough to send him crashing to the ground instead, with a bleeding shoulder that's completely out of commission. ]

[allworknoplague]

[On the bright side, everything seems completely quiet after Joshua executes his attack -- the spikes don't move again after the initial attack, so there's no follow-up, which means anyone who wants to get to Joshua will be able to get to him.

On the other hand, everything is completely quiet behind all those metal spikes.

With Athos out of commission and Moravia taking care of the last of the fishbowl bots, it really does seem like the battle may be over.]

[chosenwang]

[ ... ]

The calm before the storm. This is usually the moment before the villain comes out to reveal their next or final form.

[microtransactions]

[ from wherever the hell he is with joshua: ]

Stooop. It's true but you don't have to say it.

[chosenwang]

[ He doesn't make the rules. ]

Maybe if I knock on wood it won't happen?

[ Where's a nail bat ]

[diabolizes]

It's too quiet... that's likely exactly what is happening.

[ Ugh. ]

[chosenwang]

Maybe he has to slip into his full ostrich outfit? Have to get out the butt feathers.

[necrotiem]

Or he's fleeing. We shouldn't give him the time to regroup.

[For someone so bloodstained she is also behaving quite bloodlustfully.]

[microtransactions]

[ magolor is recovering but on guard, since he needed to take a moment to dispel his sword after its attack struck true. just because he needed a breather doesn't mean he wasn't paying attention,

so he manages to dodge back out of the way of the spikes that come his way, but the sound of someone crashing to the ground nearby in all the chaos can't mean anything good, so in another hasty warp he's appearing at joshua's side to pull him through yet another portal, away from any potential follow up attacks (that never come, apparently).

how's it hanging, need a heal? ]

[finalmix]

[ it happens way too fast that he barely registers hitting the ground before magolor swoops in to pull him through a portal, so the next thing that joshua knows, he's out of the danger zone and sitting up, leaning against magolor for support. ]

Ow.

[ That's about the only thing he can say because everything hurts, and he's got his arm hanging uselessly at his side from being impaled and this is what happens when you've been invincible for so long and then have been nerfed back down to human vulnerability. ]

Be gentle with me, hm? I'm fragile right now.

[ he's still at least conscious/well enough to make these kind of jokes, so... he's not dying, but everything fucking hurts so that healing assist is very much appreciated. ]

[microtransactions]

Please, like you're actually that delicate.

[ baizhu's occupied, walt is getting healed, crea is getting lacus, psyche is somewhere; in the interest of time he is apparently the one on the scene, so.

he'll shift joshua's weight a little just so this is a bit more comfortable, and then quickly scarf down some of that pocket candy he'd stocked up on before this. before the rush of energy from that fades, he'll seal his mouth to joshua's, just to help jumpstart the healing on that shoulder. ]