Scene #3879: A Tiny Nuclear Test

Owner	Pose
Alice Margatroid	A brilliant moon lights up the sky with its brilliant lunar radiance washing over the Forest of Magic. Here, a lone girl dressed in blue with a white muffler floats along the midnight sky, a trio of dolls float around the dollmaker, her two normal dolls dressed in red and blue along with a raven winged doll peeking over Alice's head. "He should be here soon. Now, it's going to be a test so let's make this count. Three spellcards should do it, what do you two think?" Hourai looks between Shanghai, Alice and the Utsuho doll, tilting her head, "Are you sure that doll is safe to use? The last many times you tried, it blew up. Worse than Artful Sacrifice." Shanghai shakes her head, "Alice knows what she's doing Hourai! Let's see what this doll can do!" Meanwhile, the Utsuho doll goes "Unyuu?" confused as to what is going on...
Count Kord	When Kord arrives, there's a wash of faintly stale air that precedes him. He had stopped somewhere below the girl where she was floating, and then spread a pair of strange, floofy wings with clawed tips that floated out behind him like the tails to a scarf, a similar tail also balancing him out, forming a loose 'Y' shape behind his silhouette. He floated there, hanging somewhat lazily in the air, his armor not even shining in the moonlight. It made him looked washed out and not quite real, like an apparition more than a person. It didn't help that his eyes were as sharp as bright blue gemstones inside the eyesockets of that hawk-like helmet of his. Not even his wild hair caught a shimmer of light. He reached behind him into a holster and pulled out a small staff, which he twirled and unfolded into the shape of an ornate red and black scythe. A spray of sparks fell below him. "Begin," he speaks, as if a command from a king. He certainly has the deep voice for it.
Alice Margatroid	Well, this is new. "If we wish to sound regal, I'm the daughter of the Demon Lord of Makai, Alice Margatroid." she gives a bow in mid air and grips her book tightly, something about this man seemed off to her, but.. she couldn't sense anything arwy with him, well... if he wishes to make the demands, Alice was going to treat him to a danmaku duel. "Well then... Shanghai, Hourai..." The Utsuho doll clings to the back of Alice's head as a sweep of her hand summons eight dolls in a half circle around her, bringing her total count to eleven dolls. "Welcome to Gensokyo." and with those simple words and Shanghai in front, LASERS start firing out rapidly from the dolls behind her, amazingly missing her and Shanghai and they all seem to converge at one point, namely, trying to converge right on top of Count Kord! Not to mention Shanghai's own sword thrusting forth with a thicker laser shooting ahead! "Two colors... such... a shame." she shakes her head, "The Seven-Colored Magician shall..." the lasers start changing colors, cycling through the entire rainbow of colors, "give you the test you're looking for!"
Count Kord	"I am the brood of Yveltal, Hawk of Death. Kord, the Count of Dragoni." He even bowed his head back to her! It is good to be polite. But he doesn't have a lot of time for the pleasantries. He is not easy to hit, taking full advantage of gaps in the middle of the lasers. She, however, has very precise aim and it's very difficult for him to avoid all of them. So he doesn't. Instead, he finds an area of least hellish beam spam and sticks to that, and when he finds an opening, he swings that scythe in several quick motions. This is followed by several crescent waves of black and red energy that fly at high speed toward Alice. "Good! This is good!" He sounds like he's having a /blast/.
Alice Margatroid	The bow of the head brings her a smile, this will be good, very good but the time for pleasantries is long over after she started her attack! Alice was familiar with melee and it wasn't something she wanted to do but when he tanks the laser barrage and CONTINUES COMING, she reaches back for one of the dolls and shoves it forward, it glows a bright red before it fires off a massive red laser, but some of those crescent waves smash right into the dollmaker, sending her back and destroying a couple more dolls from behind her. Five left... "Yes, this is all well and good." she responds back, looking behind her just slightly, well, she'll be okay with five, that's fine. She'll have plenty of time to use a spellcard here soon! With a click, the book opens and out from it floats a single card and a magic circle surrounds the dollmaker. "Spellcard." she starts "Red Sign 'Doll Mira Ceti'!" It's here that Shanghai, Hourai and even the Utsuho doll dissapear from view, with the five dolls behind Alice spread out even further. It's here that Alice starts moving and a in three directions, namely in front of and to the rear left and right of her, she starts sending out red danmaku from herself, spewing from the book itself while the five dolls start firing off very large red energy ball danmaku at high speed towards the count. After a moment, a pair of red danmaku shards fire out from Alice in a ring pattern and it continues from there... spin a bit, more red ball danmaku, then two rings of danmaku to go along with the normal danmaku!
Count Kord	Kord did not tank it... he let it graze past his armor, doing as minimal damage as he could manage to allow. It wasn't easy with an opponent that could fill the night sky with their assault, and it was like fighting an army of archers that were constantly firing at him. The next phase of this isn't much better, forcing him to try to slowly weave through it and wait for the pauses between the red danmaku. He grunts as some of it strikes his wings and one of his legs. Even if danmaku are not engineered to kill a target, they still don't feel nice. Once he's found an opening in it again, he darts forward and an aura of black expands from him like a floating bubble of shadow. It would look almost like a smoke bomb, but it would be impossible to see in it. And before she would get the obvious idea to retreat out of the danger zone, he would throw one good massive burst of dark energy at her, trying to make the moment easier on him by making it harder for her to hit him. There'd be a thunderclap of noise when he does this. Boom! You could call it a Dark Pulse.
Alice Margatroid	With Alice, that's technically true... Alice DOES have Archer Dolls available. "I'm impressed." she smiled, "Though, I would not get content with everything you see..." though when Alice's eyes meet the shadow, she thinks about moving out of the way, apparently he knows how to do things Rumia knows how, at least in her head... But when that thunderclap noise is given and that pulse of dark energy wash out, it hits its mark quite readily and knocks the dollmaker out of her spellcard, and whatever danmaku was in the air dissipates in a puff of red magic, it's almost... pretty. Hourai, Shanghai and the Utsuho doll comes back into plain view, but the five dolls that were readily assisting the dollmaker for it, do not come back from that, the pulse destroying them. "That's inconvinent." she mutters, "I'll have to create some more... No matter." she smiles brightly, hoping he could see her from that black shadow aura. This time, Alice goes on a different kind of offensive! She actually tries to get close to the black shadow aura and with a skidding stop in mid air, out comes a few dolls, spinning with razors, swords and other sharp melee weapons before she throws a few dolls up and down and to the side, sending out lasers in all directions to try and penetrate that aura and hopefully to hit the man inside. It's only after those laser dolls that she floats back and lets Hourai in front, who shoves her lance forward and pelts it with another stream of lasers! Meanwhile, those placed dolls don't seem to move, but a faint shimmer of magic trails from them to Alice's fingers...
Count Kord	While it's an aura of shadow, it is not an impenetrable barrier. The Count has a hard time, as with the other two volleys, with avoiding everything that she throws at him. It's a good thing, then, that he can see it come at him and knows to move out of the way as each attack breaches the edge of the shadows he had generated. A few of the danmaku are just deflected with matched slices and bashes from the shadows themselves, the aura acting practically like a meat grinder for most of the assault passing through it just to keep Kord from becoming too overwhelmed. He can't keep it up forever, and he tries to use the minimum force and the least amount of energy to move, until that stream of lasers goes through, dispelling the ability in a swirl of smoke-like darkness. What is revealed is Kord swerving away from the laser blast as it hits his shoulder, preparing for something powerful, his scythe held behind him as if he were about to pounce. His intense, frowning face is... young. Not boyish, but not old, either. He couldn't possibly be as old as he seems to act, as he must be in his early twenties, with only some stubble on his face. There's markings like tattoos along one side of his face, a branching design similar to his wings. And his eyes have no whites to them, only inky black surrounding that deathly blue. This is only seen for a moment before it's washed out by the crackle of purple and red energy that shadows his form. He darts forward, crossing the distance from his spot to her, and throws a pulse of energy at her. This is an obvious attack, but it washes by harmlessly, meant only to create an opening for his Feint Attack, the blunt end of his scythe lashing out at her.
Alice Margatroid	Alice likes lasers. She really likes lasers, however lasers aren't elegant. Nor is what is about to come but in this case, she'll make an exception. Something she needed to test and well, someone just happened to be there to test it on. Though when that smoke-like darkness dissipates with a laser hitting the shoulder, Alice is immediately on guard with a shield doll in front. Still, something was unsettling about Kord's face, and him in general, but she couldn't place it. At least, she didn't have time to place it as she's rushed at! The purple energy blasts right into the Shield Doll who also takes the hit from the blunt end of the scythe before dissapearing in a puff of smoke, the doll obviously served its purpose by taking the hit for Alice in her place, almost like a SUBSTITUTION, but this gives Alice time to prepare as the Utsuho Doll is placed up front, "Alright, let's do your thing!" She kicks back and the tell tale magic circle is surrounding her again. Something about the air doesn't feel right right now... Through the air, with no visible speakers, klaxons are raised, "Doll Mimicry! 'Mega Flare'" she shouts out, and with Hourai and Shanghai dissapearing, Alice holds still. For a brief second, everything seems calm, and with the Utsuho Doll looking focused, it points its tiny little third leg cannon towards Count Kord and it makes a very audible "Unyuu!" and suddenly, the entire sky is filled with rapid, massive explosions that fall towards Count Kord and, like traditional danmaku, this is intermixed with small blue ball danmaku to help limit the path!
Count Kord	Kord had stepped right into hell itself. The Utsuho doll unleashes that very force into the air, throwing him about as he attempts to dodge and weave through it, and gets hit dead-on by one of the blasts. It takes all of his strength not to crash into the forests below, and eventually he deems the entire attack far too dangerous to attempt to avoid, so he charges his weapon up with an enormous amount of power in preparation, and lunges forward into one off the blasts. One vicious swipe later, and he's through the other side, and making his way toward his target with startling speed once more, smoke billowing off of his whole body and his hair frazzled, making him look wild and dangerous. And he unleashes a combo of strikes that send black energy out in pulses, having folded the blade of his scythe to use it more like a quarterstaff. He relies on her expecting him to use the weapon more traditionally to try and get a proper hit in, either on the doll if it obstructs him, or the doll-maker herself. To Beat Up his opponent, so to speak, attacks engineered to smack at the openings in her attempts to avoid or defend, planned through watching her carefully throughout the battle.
Alice Margatroid	See, there was one BAD thing about this spellcard. Alice was immobile. Her and the Utsuho doll had to work in tandem to get this going and even then, it's only a familiar bit of the spell that she's recorded from getting HIT by it on purose with Utsuho herself. However, the spell continues and the large explosions dissipate after a certain range, definately not going to hit the Human Village at this point. However, there's a second problem that cropped up with this. Where is Gensokyo is Count Kord... Looking around through what she could of the spell, it was visually and auditorially noisy, she tried to get even a magical signature from him but the noise around made that fail too.. It's only when one of the massive explosions is torn through does she see the incoming, quarterstaff held, person flying towards her at high speed. Shield dolls start to pop up around her to protect her from what's coming but those planned strikes... the watching. Each strike hits home, ringing dark energy around in pulses through her body and after a multitude of strikes, the entire spellcard dissipates and Alice holds up a hand... panting. "I yield." she starts, hands on her knees with the Utsuho doll returning, tilting its head and going "unyuu" again. Hourai and Shanghai reappear shortly and drape on Alice, rubbing her shoulders. Alice looks up from where she is, towards Kord, ready to defend if he continues, but there are no more attacks coming from this Dollmaker at least for now.
Count Kord	When he finishes this maneuver, he gains a bit of distance as if the raised hand was preparing for another spell. But when Kord sees she is finished, he collapses the scythe and places it back in its holster, then turns his head to look down into the woods, squinting while he tries to pinpoint where his helmet fell in the chaos. He looks back to Alice and... smiles. Warmly, in fact. It's genuine gratitude from a strange face. "You have satisfied my thirst for combat," he tells her, "I have never faced anyone who could do what you did." And then he holds up a hand indicating 'just one second' and turns to fly down and find that helmet, murmuring 'damnation' to himself in frustration, because it will be hard to find it if it landed in any of the tree branches.
Alice Margatroid	The fact that he doesn't look as winded as she is surprises the dollmaker some, but maybe it's because she tried using someone elses Spellcard... she had a similar moment using Grand Play of Gensokyo back during the Incident. But that's another time and place. She takes a small breath and straightens herself up, giving a brief nod. That smile, however, gets Alice and she returns one as well, "I'm glad I could satisfy it, not many actually go looking for it and want to face someone skilled in the art of Danmkau." The comment about not facing someone like that gets her, "I take it you have not been in the multiverse long then? It's okay, I never met anyone who could use such attacks with your skill as well. You even got through my doll defense." she mutters, it was hard to get through it, she liked to KEEP AWAY as much as possible... though the 'one second' finger is lifted and she waits, tilting her head. "Huh?" Alice studies the flying figure for a moment. She had another doll to make, but she waits for him to return to finish the conversation.
Count Kord	Kord is winded. He's sore all over and he used his time down there searching to find a perch to rest himself and not pass out in the middle of flight. He picked up his helmet and soon took to the sky again, floating before her and puffing a big sigh. Flexing his hands a couple of times, he continues speaking to her, "I have faced only one instance of a similar assault, and it was from a battalion of enemy Pokemon. To see it come from a single person tells me it is formidible, and to the level you displayed..." Just slathering her with compliments. "I have gotten ahead of myself. Do you wish to find a meal with me? This battle has been draining and we deserve something to replenish us." He hesitates. "Do you eat?" he wonders, passingly familiar with the fact that the natives of Gensokyo are almost universally youkai, and he's not familiar with how that works.
Alice Margatroid	When Kord comes back, the Dollmaker gives a brief sigh and a smile, "I have heard of Pokemon, but I'm afraid I have not seen them personally." she replies, though when he starts slathering the compliments, Alice actually blushes. "I've had... many years of practice and refinement. Those were only two of my spellcards out of twenty or so in the air. Not to mention the many I use on the ground. And all my dolls." she gives a brief wave and a good twenty or so blink in... then out. Though the mentioning of a meal is given and she nods, "I do eat on occasions. Magician youkai usually don't have the need but... it's nice to have a meal." she ponders, looking down towards a small clearing and a western cottage in the middle of it. "I can have my dolls cook something if you prefer something ... home made, otherwise there's many places along the multiverse we could have a meal at."