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3716/Expedition to the Digital Ruins! Moonmon evolves

2016-01-23T16:38:33Z

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|Poses=:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     It's a bright, sunny day in the Digital World! Apparently, 'winter' isn't really a thing here. Hina has gathered people together to go on an expedition into the plains around the Primary Village, away from the lake. Mostly out of sheer curiosity.     Hina Satou is dressed in a t-shirt, cargo pants and sensible hiking boots, along with a visor to keep the sun out of her eyes. She's taking this seriously! As people arrive, she's looking at her phone, making sure that mapping software is actually running... 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' Xiaomu is attired much as she normally is, in a black qipao with silver filigree (and a couple of very noticeable zippers) and a red vest, plus red high-heeled sandals. No cosplay for this trip ... at least, not yet. She might come up with something. She's also carrying her usual monk staff, and has a carrypack slung across her back and loaded with potential necessities for the trip. Extra ammo, grenades, fried tofu, first-aid kit ... y'know, the usual contingencies. "Hina, right?" the sage fox of Shinra calls out as she spots the distinctly human girl, and waves to her. "I'm Xiaomu! Thanks for inviting me to come along." 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     ADVENTURE always gets Kirito's interest stoked. What will he see? What will he find? The trend began in Aincrad, and it definitely continues in the Multiverse.     Which is why the lean, nimble Spriggan with the youthful drops in from the skies near Hina. A single sword's sheathed across his back and there it will probably stay - he's no reason to draw it now.     Kirito's wearing his usual black outfit - a closed longcoat with an open lower front that billows dramatically in the least wind, black shoes, black pants... with some greyish-white trim here and there, and a wyvern-styled belt buckle holding the scabbard on, slung diagonally from one shoulder to his opposing side just above his hip.     In short, he's ready for ADVENTURE.     "I heard you were looking for explorers?" 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     The small gold-plated digimon is near Hina, examining local plants idly while waiting for everybody to turn up. The MetalMamemon seems curious about this alternate take on the Digital World, though he was asked to keep an eye on Hina by Tatsuto, so here he is. Bits and pieces of Golden futz out or pixelate often enough to be noticed, though the problem seems transitory.     Golden hrms? as Xiaomu approaches, and makes his own presence known by waving politely at yellow fox-girl. "Hey there. I'm Golden."     He just eyes Kirito dropping in from the sky suddenly, wary of anyone who would just pop in like that. 

:'''{{#var:457|Neuroi Girl (457)}} has posed:'''      Not far behind Kirito is a strange-looking little girl. She looks no more than 12, and flies along quietly without wings or any apparent method of propulsion. Even when she approaches the group she makes little noise. No engine noise, little more than a light metallic fairy-like whisper. Kirito may not even realize he has a shadow following him until they stop at the group and the girl softly says, "...adventure sounds fun..."      She looks between the members of the group, but doesn't recognize any of them, so she bows politely at the waist as she floats there, then says, "...it is nice to meet all of you...I am Evangeline..." before she straightens back up, the sleeve-like tips of her arms pressed together politely. 

:'''{{#var:930|Alden (930)}} has posed:'''      Not too far from Golden, there was another creature! a large, wolf-like creature, striped fur that had shades of blue, and might look rather intimidating and imposing, if he was not sitting on his haunches, itching it's left ear and panting with the tongue hanging from that long muzzle even as it kept an eye on Hina.      When others begin to arrive, he destroys the 'fierce' image further, by wagging his tail and jumping on his paws, his attention moving between the arrivals, tilting his head at the fox girl... and Kirito gets a rather happy bark, "Hi Kirito!" he says, apparently recognizing him, before greeting the others in turn. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe was always big on adventure, herself which had got Tomoe's intrest along side her long time friend. She's never really escaped the ghost of Aincrad and likely, never will. Still the Salamander arrives a bit after Kirito who towers over the other faye at being over six feet in height and she's got a grin on her face. "I heard something about you looking for Explorers?" 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     Hina frowns slightly in confusion at her smart phone, before looking up as people arrive. She grins a bit at Xiaomu, and gives her a Dramatic Thumbs Up. "And thank YOU for chaperoning me! Seriously, Tatsuto would never've allowed this if... uh..." She glances at Golden and Alden. "Well okay he sent his OWN chaperones too... sheesh..."     She jumps almost an inch off the ground as Kirito drops in from the sky. She puts her hand over her heart and takes a deeeep breath. "...Okay! Well... thank you all for coming! I bet you want to know exactly what we're gonna be exploring, huh?"     She turns south, away from the Primary Village, and points. "See that? Juuust peeking out from behind that hill?" Indeed, there's... something made of stone out there in the distance. Only about a mile to a mile and a half away, so it's unlikely to take more than half an hour to get there. "I bet it's a ruin or something! There seem to be a bunch of them..." Indeed, Kirito, Tomoe and Evangeline's viewpoint from the air will have confirmed that, yep, there's a ruined village over there.     "So... for anyone who doesn't know, hi, I'm Hina! And -you- are... Kirito and... um..." Pause. "Hey, Evangeline, are you that girl my brother's been going on about..?" 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' Xiaomu grins, waving to the others as they arrive, Digimon and humans alike. At least she recognizes Kirito and Tomoe right away, so there are some familiar faces with the group; that's always a good thing. Golden's occasional 'static' prompts the sgea fox to raise an eyebrow, but she smiles and returns his greeting - although she doesn't return the introduction until everyone's gathered. "I'm Xiaomu, it's good to meet you all!" ... yeah. Short, sweet, to the point; besides, there'll be plenty of time to get to know each other better while we're exploring the 'ruins' that Hina's spotted. "So, a bunch of ruins, huh?" Xiaomu looks off in that direction. "You know others have *probably* taken a look around there before, so there may not be a whole lot for us to find, right, Hina?" 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     "oooh." RUINS. Count Kirito in. His eyes all but light up with interest. Ruins might mean treasure or monsters to fight! Who knows what else?     "Yo, Alden! Found your way back to the Digital World, I see." Kirito exclaims, relived and glad for such. Finding him in Alfheim Online nearly gave him a heart attack!     Then... he peers a bit at Xiaomu. "You're out and about too, huh?"     So he finally introduces himself. "The name's Kirito. Spriggan Swordsman from Alfheim, Reserve Lieutenant in the Union Elite Forces. My friend here's Tomoe." 

:'''{{#var:457|Neuroi Girl (457)}} has posed:'''      Evangeline tilts her head lightly when Hina asks about her. "...I do not know...I was not there when he was going on..." she says in that soft voice of hers. It is difficult to tell if she was being sarcastic or something, but if body language is any indication, she was just being factual. "...if your brother is Tatsuto...then is is possible..." she adds after a moment.      She looks toward Alden and offers a friendly wave with one of her sleeves, then looks toward the ruin. "...I have never explored before..." she says, then looks toward Hina again. "...but...I will do my best..." 

:'''{{#var:930|Alden (930)}} has posed:'''      Alden spends some time approaching everyone, smiling as much as he can, sniffing the air, and greeing, "I'm Alden, nice to meet you!" he repeats to everyone, even if the metallic looking girl, and the girl with the fox ears catch his attention for a few moments, but, used to unusual sights!. He bounces towards Kirito, tail wagging, "Yep!, not mine, but nice to visit one again." he explains happily. 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     Golden introduces himself to each person after it seems like the stream of people has stopped.     He glances the way that Hina has indicated. "There's at least four Digital Worlds." he says as he turns back to face the group. He grins in agreement with Alden's statement. Certainly is nice to visit one again. The odd little digimon takes in the sight, the whole scene looking familiar only with subtle differences.     "Where are we anyway, Hina?" he asks. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe was happy to be here she looked thHina with a grin on her face She also looks to Xiaomu and gives the fox woman a look over for a moment and a grin. "Tomoe, the Iron Lily, good to meet all of you." She looks over to Kirito and then to Alden and eve. "This should be an interesting day." 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     Hina rubs the best of her head at Xiaomu's statement. "W-well... I dunno if any humans have been there before... And, even if everything's been taken, ruins are still neat! Right? You're not meant to take stuff anyway." She nods her head. "Umm. We're in Sector Seven! I think that's what Tatsuto said. That's all I really know..." Shrug.     "Okay, so, everyone ready?" She points dramatically. "No point standing around. Let's g-" She stops, as a light purple, raindrop-shaped Digimon butts against her leg. She looks down. "...Oh, hi Moonie. You wanna come too?" The little Digimon nods its... entire body. "Uh-huh!"     Hina bends down to smoothly pull Moonmon into her arms, then points again. "Okay, let's gooo~!" 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     Golden peers as the strange little digimon is pulled into Hina's arms. "Never seen one of those before. What kind of Digimon is it?" He asks as he waits for people to start moving towards the destination. 

:'''{{#var:457|Neuroi Girl (457)}} has posed:'''      Evangeline nods lightly when Hina asks if they are ready. Then...waits as Moonie is picked up and carried before they set off. She floats along near Hina, then floats over to Alden as they move. "...have you been well since you stumbled onto our base...?" she asks him while floating above his head. She looks over at Golden as he speaks up. "...I have met only...four digimon...how many different kinds are there..?" 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' Xiaomu grins, ruffling Hina's hair briefly. "That's the spirit! If you leave only footprints and take only memories, then you're ahead of the game and don't have to worry about curses or ghosts or anything like that coming after you." She pauses briefly. "Well. At least not unless you swipe the MacGuffin that the evil overlord had his troops scouring the countryside for and he sends them looking for you when they realize you must be the one who took it ... but that's what the rest of us are for, right?" She grins, which might shed some doubt on just how serious she was. Moonie gets a grin and a wave from Xiaomu as well; she's not quite daring enough to try petting the Digimon. And with the group heading towards the ruins, Xiaomu sets off as well, the rings attached to her staff's headpiece jingling each time the staff's butt strikes the ground. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     WIth Alden being such a happy dogmon, Kirito has to resist the instinctive urge to pet. His arm does indeed twitch in just that way! But he has no idea what kind of cultural mess THAT might end up being so instead he just smiles Alden's way.     "I can imagine!" Another bit of attention's given to Evangeline. He's met her before. "Keeping out of trouble?" The boy asks, his tone just a bit mischevious.     Snorting amusedly at Moonmon's interruption, he manifests his wings and just starts to fly about for an aerial view of the remote ruins... keeping pace with the others! 

:'''{{#var:930|Alden (930)}} has posed:''' Alden enjoys being petted!, if Kirito asked, he'd likely roll on his back and wriggle cutely, wagging all the way. He IS a happy dogmon. He moves back towards Hina when the little one appears, still wagging his tail happily, and offering the little digimon there a soft bark and a playful nuzzle. "Cutey." he tells the little digimon, before smiling to Hina, "Lead the way." he says happily, "And if you get tired, I can offer you a ride, that offer goes to the rest, but only a couple at a time." he says with a chuckle. He moves to offer Golden a nuzzle as well, since he forgot about it. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe says "What do you mean we're not suposed to take stuff?" Tomoe looks like this is the most alien thing she's heard in a while. She looks to Kirito with a that's not how it works face. She's very confused, prehaps she's really spent too much time in the death game and its successort. "If that's part of the job, I'll respect it." 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     Hina pouts playfully at Xiaomu. "Aww, I thought it was 'leave only footprints, take only pictures'. I got a new memory card and everything!" She then looks down at her phone to make sure it's still mapping properly. "...Huh. Is it kinda weird I'm getting Internet reception here?"     Then, she answers Golden's question. "Moonie here is a Moonmon! She evolved frooom... Yukimi Botamon? Like Plotmon."     Moonmon speaks up. "Moonmon and Plotmon hatched from the same egg!" she chirps.     As they walk along, Hina places one hand on the side of Alden's flank. He's soft and pettable, she really can't help it. They pass trees, oddly artificial-looking rock formations... a random stone well in the middle of a field... At one point they even have to cross what appears to be a naturally-grown style in a hedgerow. That's a bit weird.     From the air, Kirito can tell that the ruined village is fairly overgrown. There's only a few roofs left, although most of the walls seem to be intact. 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' Xiaomu grins at Hina, "I guess the old saying didn't account for cameras, yeah. Photos are good too! And considering this is the *Digital* world, no, not really weird. I mean, we're basically *in* the Internet, right? Or we could probably catch a ship or something across it ..." One of the sage fox's ears perks up a bit at Moonie/Moonmon's lineage. So, Moonmon's sister is Tatsuto's partner? Interesting ... but Xiaomu doesn't comment aloud on it, instead continuing to stay alert and trying to pay attention to as much of the surroundings as possible. This may be a relatively safe part of the Digital World, but that doesn't necessarily mean there's NOTHING dangerous. She glances skywards once in a while, as if checking on Kirito (and any other flyers). 

:'''{{#var:457|Neuroi Girl (457)}} has posed:'''      Evangeline turns her head toward Kirito when he speaks to her, then does a little spiral over to float beside him. "...I usually try to stay out of trouble..." she says before looking over as she hears about Moonie and Plotmon. "...I wonder what it is like to have a sister..." she says as she floats along, her gaze turning out toward the horizon as she tries to imagine it.      Although she is flying, there is no need to worry on Xiaomu's part. The little Neuroi Girl is keeping pace just fine and causing no trouble. "...do you have a sister...Kirito..?" she asks, just to keep up conversation. She gently sways back and forth as she continues flying along, that soft metallic whisper the only sound her movements make. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe guesses she can get the leave only foot prints menality but still the fact she is so wired the other way dawns on her. It's more than a little troubling when Tomoe thinks about it, however she move ahead towad the ruined villiage as she takes to teh air and is pretty quick to catch up with Kirito leaving the party behind as she moves ot catch up with Kirito. Ev eryone else would see clear red, angel like wings form from her back as she takes off after her friend. "Kirito? Why am I thinking like a 19th century British looter, err archologist?" 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     Golden ahs. Twins are pretty rare in the Digital World he was from. "So are Tatsuto and Hina also twins?" He asks Moonie.     Despite his short legs and short stature, he does keep up with the group by bounding along casually. He'd also prefer it if people didn't loot the ruins; there's dangerous stuff in the ruins from his Digital World. There was also a good chance that if something wasn't taken, there's a reason it's still there. Something would be protecting it. But he supposes that's why Alden and him were here at Tatsuto's request. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     "So let me get this straight. The Digital World is where Digimon come from... but humans live here too? But it's digital? ... How does that work..." Kirito's not sure if anyone down on the ground can hear him, though he is speaking pretty loudly. Tomoe and Neuroi Girl certainly can!     And his response to Evangeline is to fly SIDEWAYS while he answers. "How did you guess?"     But to Tomoe... "Guess it's just the MMORPG player spirit. Nab everything not nailed down! But we're not here for that." 

:'''{{#var:930|Alden (930)}} has posed:'''      Alden is a large, fierce, petable and soft monster wolf, yes. He makes sure to keep the pace just enough to remain within petting range, long tail wagging around, smiling to Hina and the little Moonie, "Oh, you are Plotmon's sister then!, how is she doing?" he asks casually, even as he looked around now and then, admiring the unusual formations, and the village.      He seems fairly relaxed, simply checking on the others, especially Kirito, watching him fly. The sight of Tomoe flying makes him yip, "So many people seem to be able to fly." he muses, before turning back to Golden, "How have you been?" he asks, "I have been taking care of those plants you gave me.". Now and then he perks both ears and narrows his gaze, scanning the area for digimon. 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     There aren't actually that many Digimon around. The few the group DO spot seem to be specifically avoiding them... mostly plant-based Digimon, like Floramon and Palmon. Seems as though they aren't quite sure what to make of these strange beings coming from the direction of the Primary Village...     "Nope!" Hina responds to Golden. "Tatsuto is my dorky older brother. I'm his cool, fashionable younger sister." She nods her head. Moonmon peers at Alden in mild confusion, as if she doesn't understand the question. "Plotmon's fine," Hina answers for her. "She's helping out at the Village right now. A bunch of eggs hatched this week and it's kinda a huge... thing. Which is why I'm totally avoiding it~"     From their high vantage point, Kirito, Tomoe and Evangeline can see movement within the ruined village. Do Digimon live there? 

:'''{{#var:457|Neuroi Girl (457)}} has posed:'''      Evangeline rolls to join Kirito in flying sideways, not seeming to realize that flying sideways is usually difficult when you have wings. "...I...did not guess...I asked..." she says, seeming slightly confused. Then, she starts to fly around Kirito, orbiting him as they move toward the village. "...so..you can tell me about having a sister..." she says as the continue flying.      Then, she spots movement in the ruined village and steadies her flying. "...movement detected...do people live in that village..?" she asks, extending a sleeve-like arm and letting her slender fingers poke through the end so she can point. 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' "Avoiding the village so you don't get press-ganged into babysitting duty, huh?" Xiaomu asks Hina, grinning. "I like your style ... although babysitting is good practice for a lot of more exciting activities, like stake-outs and tracking people and stuff like that. Useful life skills." 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     Golden shrugs towards Alden. "Mostly just been keeping my own plants going, Alden. Sometimes I have a big harvest and take it to Digimon I know are still hiding. It's a lot quietier since Yggdrasil's hunters haven't been sniffing around for digimon refugees." He explains. He looks at the briefly glimpsed Floramon and Palmon, and figures he is probably spooking them. Even as broken as he is, MetalMamemon aren't something that young digimon would want to provoke. Despite being a 'Ask Questions First' type of guy. He should come back here with a bag of food and see if the natives are more friendly then.     "Yeah? You're younger? I couldn't tell. Humans are still kind of weird to me, even after all these years." he says to Hina. He happens to glance up and see Evangeline pointing or gesturing in a direction, and turns his gaze that way. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe looks over to Kirito. "You make a very good point Kirito. Still I think we do play too much. Wait I see something down there. We have movement."      She'll swoop in not waiting for Kirito as she attempts to get a better look at what's moving about there. It could just be some of the local digimon, right? They should say hello in that case. "Eve you coming?" she calls out to the other flyer. She's also just gone and run in there.... 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     Kirito's attention is split between the others he's with and the distant village. Still, he tries to answer. Particularly after hearing how Hina described herself!     "Hmmmmm... it means there's always someone who knows you almost as well as you know yourself, who's always around you. Each looking out for the other... and teasing... and competing..." He fondly remembers some of the more recent kendo sparring matches with Suguha.     Recently, he's even managed to land single hits on her every so often. NOT easy.     But then Tomoe goes FWOOSH and swoops off! So he balks. "There's movement up ahead but don't go rushing! ... Sheesh... didn't she learn anything about not running in alone..."     Kirito grouches, but SLAMS FULL POWER INTO his wings. Evangeline's in danger of getting GUSTED in the face by a small shockwave as he basically just switched gears to FULL ACCEL. The little Spriggan ROCKETS through the air to catch up with Tomoe! 

:'''{{#var:930|Alden (930)}} has posed:'''      Alden nods a few times, "That sounds nice." he says, "That's rather generous of you." he replies, also noticing the plant digimon, trying his best to be relaxed, while listening about the deal about ages, "I see, maybe I should try to visit him soon." he says, "sounds like he might need a hand or two.".      He keeps near the girl he was tasked to 'keep safe'. He manages to see Tomoe rushing towards the poor local digimons, wondering if he should join them and make sure nothing happens. 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     Hina looks up as Tomoe and Kirito suddenly rush off. "Did they say something about movement? What are they doi-"     There's a sudden cry from the direction of the village. "DEADLY STINGER!" shrieks a voice filled with the buzzing of wasps... and a large winged insect rises from the village, shooting a barb from its stinger like a missile, right at Tomoe and Kirito! Even as it attacks, it shrieks at them. "MORE creatures from other worlds?! Leave this place!" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe would find tht the natives are not friendly and they are insect like as they start firing /Stinger/ Missile at her and Kirito. She bajks out of the way and checks to see if it's homing in on them. "Woah woah! We're just exploring we were not looking for a fight!" Sh makes no hostile action but does get the mourning wall out to intercept further attacks however. 

:'''{{#var:457|Neuroi Girl (457)}} has posed:'''      Evangeline listens to Kirito explain about having a sister, but that comes to an end when they spot something in the village and Tomoe goes rushing off. Kirito takes off a moment later, so Evangeline follows after. And while she may not rush in, as soon as something has declared itself an enemy by attacking, Evangeline goes on the offensive.      Kirito and Tomoe might outpace her, but Evangeline is a ranged fighter. So, when she barrels in toward the Flymon, sinister-looking red energy is already building at the tips of her sleeve-like arms. A moment later, twin beams of that red energy lance outward at the Flymon. They are pretty well targeted, but whether they hit the wasp thing or not, they explode on impact. Since they are here to try and explore this village, Evangeline tries to aim so that any stray beams will fly up in the air or off into the distance. 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' That sounded distinctly like an attack cry, to Xiaomu's trained ears ... but what ascends behind the 'Stinger missile' does NOT look like something that should be capable of calling its attacks. Xiaomu breaks into a run, heading towards the village ruins and looking sharp for any possible allies to the Flymon that's attacking her friends. She may not have clearly heard the rest of what it shrieked, though - or maybe she's just trying to find a better negotiating position. .... Take that as literally as you like. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     CALLING YOUR ATTACKS works in Kirito's favor. He has a split-second to react... and react he does. On pure reflex one of his delicate-looking hands grips the sheathed sword and -- CLANG!!     A blur of hurried motion, action without thought, places that weapon's flat in the projectile's path.     But while the impact's diverted, the FORCE throws his flight pattern WAY off. He's sent careening groundwards... and slams down near one of the ruined houses. Only just barely managed to right himself and land on his feet.     "Uweh... that's why I said not to charge in."     A quick glance at his health meter shows that he did take some damage from absorbing that impact, but the meter's still green... and rapidly refilling.     Which leaves him now staring upwards at the wasp-themed Digimon.     "This is your idea of a greeting?! We're not here for trouble!" 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     Golden sighs as he hears an attack cry. At least warn people to go away before you start attacking them. Wait. What does the Flymon mean by /more/ creatures from another world?     Golden glances at Alden before shouting towards the people who rushed ahead. "Ask it who else came here!" 

:'''{{#var:930|Alden (930)}} has posed:'''      Alden tenses inmediatly as the attack happens, growling loudly, fur standing up, suddenly loosing most of that 'cute dog' appeal, and looking more like the dangerous predator the species is. He is thorn between moving to the fight, and remaining right besides Hina, "Stay close." he tells the human girl, tail hanging limp.      The attack exchange seems to calm him down slightly, but he leans closer Hina, nodding at Golden's words, "Whoever came must have caused quite a bit of problem, for them to attack us." 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     The problem with trying to defuse a combat situation by taking a non-aggressive stance is that it only works if everyone in your group is on board...     Hina brings one hand up over her head as the fight breaks out overhead, huddling close to Alden while keeping Moonmon close to her chest with her other arm. "What's going on?!"     The insectile Digimon sees the attacks from Evangeline coming. It tries to maneuver away, not knowing anything about those beams and not really wanting to find out what they do first-hand... Unfortunately for it, though, it's too bulky to really weave between the beams, taking a shot to one of its wings.     Which is promptly RIPPED OFF from the force of the explosion, causing the Flymon to careen down out of the sky and crash into the hill. The wing bursts into an explosion of white characters that swiftly dissolve into pixels and then vanish. 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     Golden winces. "We should go check up on it." He bounds off towards where he saw the Flymon fall, hoping the sight of a fellow digimon will help defuse the situation.      He approaches the downed Flymon cautiously. "Hey, just here to check how hurt you are. Someone got a little trigger happy, but they don't mean you any harm. Just trust me." 

:'''{{#var:457|Neuroi Girl (457)}} has posed:'''      Evangeline comes to a stop as the Flymon goes down, then she flies upward rapidly before turning a loop and heading back down, charging again. It might be a good thing that Tatsuto isn't here to see what a ruthless opponent Evangeline is when she gets going. She is charging another beam already, and unless someone stops her it is likely that this Digimon will be destroyed before they can find out anything useful.      Unfortunately, on Evangeline's world, if you hesitate you get destroyed. So...the Flymon is lucky that Golden gets in there quickly, because he would get a very good view of the sinister red energy building toward eruption as Evangeline dives down. But, with Golden there and Kirito's talk on the radio, Evangeline comes to a stop a short distance above the bug and Golden. Her arms are still glowing with energy, but she does not fire. Even without features on her face, it is easy to tell that she takes this sort of thing very seriously, and with her red energy lighting up her face she may present quite the intimidating visage. 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' Well. That's one way to end a fight,, at least temporarily; Xiaomu's hoping that it can be more than a 'temporary' break in hostilities. She's still some ways from where Flymon went down when she unslings her carrypack and pulls out the first-aid kit she was carrying in it. "Sorry about the bumpy introduction; will you let us try to mend your injury, and if so, will you also listen to us explaining who we are and why we're here? Admittedly, I don't know if you need some kind of special healing ..." She holds up the first-aid kit (although the red cross is on the side AWAY from Flymon, for some reason). "This is the best I've got at the moment - bandages, some supplies to clean the injury, stuff like that." She pauses briefly. "Oh, and my name is Xiaomu. I'm not a digital life-form like you are, but I don't mean you any harm; we really did just come to explore the area a bit." That's probably more information than she 'should' have shared right off the bat, maybe, but she *is* trying to earn Flymon's trust. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe watches as Evangeline opens up with heavy fire power and she's got a look of horror on her face. After all Tomoe knows how disposable she is and is fine witgh that. She does hold off and moves to go in for a landing now. She's not oging to fight she doesn't say anything else on tht but she does put the mournign wall away as a sign she's not looking to keep fighting. %R "I am Tomoe the Iron Lily and I kinda sit in the middel of being digital and not being digital as does my friend Kirito here. Look we're not looking for a fight and is there anything we can do to umm help you?" She asks she seems to mean it too. 

:'''{{#var:930|Alden (930)}} has posed:'''      Alden trusts Golden with the questions, and instead moves to offer poor Hina, "I am not sure, seems someone was here before us and... made the digimons mad. Or scared them." he mumbles, "I hope we can find out what happened.". He winces lightly as he sees the Flymon land take massive damage like that. "Be careful Golden!." he barks, before looking at Hina.     . "Do me a favor." he says, raising his chin adn expossing a collar hidden under the fur, with his digivice attached to it, "Pick my D-arc, and press the top left button." he rumbles. If Hina does that, the screen shows a rather simple radar, with at least dot marking the position of the Flymon which is near the edge. "Do you see more than one dot?" he asks. "It shows digimon nearby that are aggressive." 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     Kirito would love to be a part of the diplomatic contact with Flymon, but after Evangeline blew off a wing and was barely stopped from going further... he decides...     The most responsible thing to do is keep an eye on her. ALthough that means going out of his comfort zone.     Nevertheless, sheathing his weapon, he flies up at her and waves an arm vehemently. "It's okay. Stand down!" He's sure she might be feeling bad about the situation... and if not? He's not sure what other thing miht set her off.     So he swoops up and hovers nearby her and strikes up a conversation.     "Those are some crazy reflexes you've got." 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     Xioamu may be relieved to discover the Digimon isn't bleeding, despite having a wing ripped off. Do Digimon even bleed? Given it was a clean break it doesn't look like there's much she can DO...     Flymon, however, ignores her. Instead, he looks at Golden. "Elder..." he gasps out. "Why do you... do you travel with these creatures? They aren't of this world. They... those Things are too dangerous. My brother..."     Hina takes that Digivice and presses the button! "...Huh. There's... one more Digimon? Looks like it's in the ruins..." 

:'''{{#var:457|Neuroi Girl (457)}} has posed:'''      The glow at the ends of Evangeline's arms starts to dim as everyone rushes in to tend to the digimon rather than finishing it off. She headtilts, not seeming to understand. Then, Kirito flies in and orders her to stand down. As part of a military organization, she complies immediately. "...yes sir..." she says as that sinister red glow disappears completely.      "...thank you..." she says when Kirito compliments her reflexes. She hovers there after that, watching the others for a few moments before looking over at Kirito. "...why did we not finish it...if an enemy is injured...it is likely to strike you when your guard comes down..." she says, turning her head just enough to glance side-long at Kirito. 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     "There's good people, and bad people. Like there's good digimon, and bad digimon. If these were bad people, you'd see me fighting them myself."     The oddball MetalMamemon taps the sunburst crest engraved into his faceplace. "Got a reputation as a Crestbearer of Courage to keep up." The tap briefly disrupts the area around the crest, giving a glimpse of something steely grey.     "So the people that came before did something to your brother then?" Golden spares a glance towards the ruined village. "What did they look like?" 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     "Hmmmm..." Kirito puzzles out a good answer to this, folding his arms after he sheathes his weapon. He can see that... the others... SEEM to have things under control down there. So he eventually says...     "There's enemies... then there's people just defending their home who mistake you for one. That Digimon attacked in a panic because the last people who approached did some nasty things. He wanted to scare us off. He felt he was protecting the others. He's not really our enemy. Responding to an attack the way you did is fine. But finishing people off... especially when you don't know what they're fighting about... it means trouble. Not only for a person who didn't need to die... but for everyone they care about. We're here to investigate, not search and destroy."     This deep of an answer is not in his nature. The young man's just been an Elite long enough to have adapted, that's all. He frowns at the goings-on below. 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' Not having much to say to that right now, Xiaomu just puts the first-aid kit away. And it doesn't look like it's 'necessary' for much, either, unless one of the more knowledgeable individuals cares to divulge to Xiaomu how to help a wounded Digimon recover. She's still listening, though. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe has stood down a this point and is looking over to the digitmon with a sympathic look onb her face, for a moment. "We only came to explore we were not seleing battle, that's all I can say at this point. You were defening yourselves, I won't hold any grudges about it." E She'll leave to rest of the talking to Kirito and wonder if she cna be of any help in this mess. 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     "The Thing took him," Flymon says through ragged gasps. Losing a wing is pretty painful! "It... corrupted him. He evolved unnaturally, became cruel..." Then Golden asks him what the creature looked like. "That's the thing... The Thing didn't look like anything at all!"     What?     There's a sudden sound, almost like a landslide mixed with an explosion, as one of the buildings just BURSTS. Out of the village comes rushing... a small, dark green plantlike Digimon. Levitating in mid-air, as if riding some invisible... thing.     An invisible thing that is breaking down walls as it races towards the group.     A street sign flips through the air and lands at Hina's feet. 'Dunwich'. 

:'''{{#var:457|Neuroi Girl (457)}} has posed:'''      Evangeline listens to Kirito, then lowers her head. "...I...could have destroyed someone who was not an enemy..." she says, obviously getting the point now. She floats down slowly toward the Flymon, stopping when she is hovering just off the ground and to the side of the downed 'mon. "...I am sorry for hurting you..." she says, her head still lowered apologetically.      "...a thing that looks like nothing...?" she asks after hearing Flymon's story. Then, something is crashing through buildings toward them! Evangeline turns around to face where the crashing is coming from, and her red energy appears at the ends of her arms again. "...we will protect you..." she says to Flymon. He might be skeptical after what happened only moments ago, but then again, the thing that struck him down is now standing between him and the charging thing. 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     Golden looks at the Flymon curiously. "A thing that doesn't look like anything? It's... not visible?" He says, pondering.     And then on-cue, there's the THING crashing through buildings with a Vegimon on top. "... Is that the thing?" Golden asks the Flymon, looking back. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     Well that's a pleasant surprise! Evangeline got it and he didn't have to explain further. Load off of Kirito's chest. He hates trying to explain social things like that. Always feels like he's doing a bad job.     And doing a bad job with lives on the line is the last thing he needs.     "Yeah." He agrees, floating down himself. He's caught the gist of the conversation... enough to FREAK when a house just bursts to splinters. "You've gotta be kidding!"     The sword's drawn again in a hurry and Kirito lands down protectively in front of the Flymon!     "What the heck is THAT...? ... The Thing?!" 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe listens as they talk about situation and nods a little bit. "Hummm doesn't look like any...": She sees somehing coming it's plant like and it's on somehing that can not be seen. She pauses and stare at the thing. It's time to get to work, she summons the mourning wall but does not draw her blade, just yet she is however moving to get infront of FLymon as well. 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' Well, an 'invisible' thing DOESN'T look like anything, which makes perfect sense in a kind of backhanded way. But more importantly, given that the invisbile thing (with the Vegimon on its back) is barreling towards the group, Xiaomu wastes no further time in planting her staff next to her, gripped firmly in her left hand, and raises her right hand to aim at the Vegimon and its apparently-invisible mount. "XIAOMU WAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE!!!" And she tries to immobilze both invisible 'mount' and apparent rider in a sphere of magical force - not necessarily for her allies to attack it (although they certainly CAN) but mostly to give Hina time to enable whatever that update was she just mentioned on the radio. (The sage fox also doesn't seem to have noticed the street sign, or at least to have attached any particular significance to it.) 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     As the Thing and its apparent rider get closer to the group, the Vegimon attempts to leap off of its 'mount' and head for Hina while the invisible thing... well. It's kinda hard to tell where it's heading, really!     But this plan is promptly foiled as Xiaomu erects a force barrier around the duo, causing Vegimon to faceplant right into it. Ouch.     Flymon tries to stand. "My brother..."     Hina is peering down at her phone. Then she taps the screen.     Her phone is promptly enveloped by a blinding white light. Moonmon stares at the Vegimon for a few moments, then narrows her eyes and leaps from Hina's arms! EVOLUTION_     White glyphs rise from the ground as Moonmon sails through the air. The DigiLetters swirl around her body, becoming denser and denser over the span of a few moments. Quick eyes will see Moonmon's body disintegrate into more of those white sigils, leaving behind a red-and-green sphere that seems to pulse like a heart... before it's surrounded by an egg of solid letters.     "Moonmon shinka!"     The egg shatters, revealing a bipedal... rabbit? With two sets of ears... actually does it even have feet? "LUNAMON!"     Lunamon lands on the ground, then immediately dashes at the trapped Vegimon. She's quick! 

:'''{{#var:457|Neuroi Girl (457)}} has posed:'''      Evangeline is just about to fire when the Flymon speaks. She pauses, fearing she might hurt someone who is not an enemy again, then just holds her place as Lunamon charges in. "...is that plant creature your brother..?" she asks Flymon, looking over her shoulder at him. She looks at Vegimon after that, then flies in after Lunamon. She tries to focus on the seemingly empty area of the force bubble as she fires a multitude of tiny beam shots, probing for the invisible creature.      If she locates it with beam shots, she focuses in on it with her machine guy attack. "...whatever you are...stop hurting these creatures..." 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     Well. Seems Kirito could have afforded to go on the offense instead of hanging back with defense. Which is why he alters his stance, blade raising up to be held back and horizontal. It HOWLS with energy, greenish light coursing down the length along with whirling winds kicking up centered around it!     "There's the target... thanks, Xiaomu!" In the wake of Evangeline's blasts, he LUNGES in. It's all but instantaneous. one moment Kirito's standing... and the next?     The next, he's about three meters BEYOND the invisible... THING. A rippling flash between his start and end points, intersecting with 'The Thing' is the only sign he traveled at all. WIND gusts from the apparent point of.. impact? Assuming he landed that skill properly on what seems to be an INVISIBLE target... 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     The MetalMamemon nods, getting that the vegimon is probably the flymon's brother, and turns to face the enemy.     Golden squints as the light from Hina's phone erupts, and the Moonmon. Well. That's not something he's seen before. Golden wonders if this was the kind of thing Alden was talking about when he said 'tamer'. In his world, Digimon digivolved for... fairly mysterious reasons as far as he knew. Age and stress seemed to play into it.     But for now, the little metal digimon's sunburst crest glows a dull orange as he bounds off to protect the vegimon from the invisible thing. The energy cannon spools up, glowing, as he land between the plant digimon and the thing. "Hey, you got a brother who's worried about you." He says to the weird plant 'mon. "You should uh, go to him. I'll cover you." This could be a bad idea depending on how corrupted the vegimon was. 

:'''{{#var:707|Xiaomu (707)}} has posed:''' It does seem like this was the best thing Xiaomu could do, short of pouring the damage on herself - and to be honest, the sage fox ALMOST drew one of her handguns to open up on one or both of the hostile Digimon. The fact that the Flymon with whom the party was trying to talk is referring to the Vegimon as 'brother' suggests that unmitigated offense really wasn't the way to go, so Xiaomu may be congratulating herself on that. While she maintains the barrier, Xiaomu does have enough spare attention to see Hina triggering Moonmon's evolution into Lunamon - and Xiaomu just *grins* at that sight, continuing to hold the binding barrier in place around Vegimon and its invisible 'mount' ... whatever it is. If she had a way to force the second monster to become visible, she probably would be attempting it ... 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' This is where things get interesting She gets her weapons ready and she looks to Flymon. "Easy, we got this. It's the least we can do with what hapepned, right?" With the battle starting to get cray. She lts the otehrs try to talk them down and she moves in she's going to ty to keep the thing's attention as she goes in but she's not attacking just yet, she gets the others have a plan. "If things get bad I can intercept it's my job to take hits for others." 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     As Kirito dashes past (through?) the... invisible creature, his blade strikes true. For a brief instant, a clear outline can be seen, of some sort of... hairy ape-like creature? But a moment later, the outline is gone. ... Until Evangeline starts to machinegun it, at which point the outline becomes visible again each time it's hit!     That's not the best form of invisibility in the world.     Lunamon is ignoring everything else around her and just heading straight for the Vegimon that... well, TRIED to attack Hina. A swarm of razor-sharp leaves shoot from its 'head dress' and just... stick to the inside of the force bubble. It looks a little put out by this.     "Luna Claw!" comes Lunamon's attack cry. Darkness coalesces around her claws - it's almost painful to look at it, really. Like your blind spot got big enough to see. The moon rabbit brings her claws down and slashes at the Vegimon... and it can't really do anything to avoid it.     Man Lunamon is kinda vicious... 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     Since the Lunamon seems to have that handled and the vegimon seems unreasonably aggressive, he turns his attention to the invisible thing and unleashes a barrage of energy bombs from his arm cannon. Aimed at the ground he thinks the THING is near, to shower it with dirt and dust to try and make it easier for allies to see. If the thing wants to try and manipulate Golden's digital code, it could certainly try, though the corrupted and damage data would make it difficult. On the other hand, those glitches also impact Golden just as often; some of the energy bombs glitch out in a shower of white pixels instead of doing anything.     "I really don't need this kind of aggravation right now." Golden mutters as he sees some of the errors manifest. 

:'''{{#var:457|Neuroi Girl (457)}} has posed:'''      Evangeline's machine gun attack finally runs out of power, and she has to take a moment to recharge. "...are we even hurting it...?" she asks, her voice coming through any radio device nearby. Her arms start building that red glow again as she prepares another attack. "...what is that thing, anyway..?" she says as she raises her arms to fire again, though she keeps herself between the Flymon and the enemy Digimon. Golden's attack highlights the creature again, and that's all Evangeline needs.      "...get clear..." is all she says before she fires a full power Neuroi Beam. The beam is nearly as thick as she is tall, and aimed to engulf the area where Lunamon and Vegimon are not battling it out. Like her other beams, this one explodes violently on impact and threatens to disintegrate whatever it hits. It is also sustained for a several seconds, making it even harder to avoid for the trapped creature. 

:'''{{#var:6|Tomoe (6)}} has posed:''' Tomoe is now making ready to attack from the looks of it there's going to be a need for it, she's however going to be tyring to not out right kill. She is going to try to get it's attention but she does not get clear, of the blast until she gets a hint of hiw big it is and she is forced to disengage. 

:'''{{#var:1|Kirito (1)}} has posed:'''     Kirito's stuck in place for about a second and a half by that Sword Skill's vulnerability time, but he spins about the instant he's able to move again and.. and he gets an eyeful of the thing's invisibility 'flashing.' Curious.     But that means it's some kind of creature. MAybe another Digimon.     A Digimon that, would then be MASSIVELY outnumbered. "Whoever's tromping around invisible there, you'd better surrender while you're still ahead!" He declares threateningly.     The blade's raised again to make good on this threat. It's simply held in a broad, horizontal position, ready to strike. ICy blue power flows across it, filling the area with a high-pitched shimmering noise! ... But for the moment it's just a threat. 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     It's about this point where someone, probably Golden or Lunamon, would shout that this Thing isn't a Digimon. Then there would be a drawn out battle where it gets beaten down and breaks apart in a thoroughly un-Digimon-like manner, before turning into black smoke and dispersing into the air.     This does not happen. Mostly because Evangeline just hit it with what is approximately Imperialdramon Fighter Mode's 'Positron Laser'.     Now there's just a crater with dark smoke emenating from it, a thoroughly-confused-looking Kunemon, and a Lunamon who looks like she just saw the true face of God.     "...Can I have Eva as my Digimon partner instead?" Hina says. 

:'''{{#var:457|Neuroi Girl (457)}} has posed:'''      Evangeline hovers there silently a few moments after her beam stops, then looks at the smoking crater. "...is it destroyed..?" she asks, then lowers her arms before looking over at Hina. When she hears Hina's question, she does a happy little twirl in the air, then comes to a stop. "..but...my name does not end in 'mon'..." she says before floating over to Hina. She holds out her sleeve-arms slowly and her fingers extend. "...but...you can have me as a friend..." 

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2804/Mysterious Attack! Something From The Dark Ocean

2015-08-15T08:55:33Z

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|Poses=:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     Tatsuto is stood out on that small pier jutting out onto the lake, the Primary Village just behind him. The lake water has gone a deep grey, completely obscuring the bottom even a few feet out. The middle of the lake is so dark it looks more like ink than water.     Plotmon is stood by the edge, barking at shadows. Meanwhile, the baby digimon are all huddled near the center of the Village, along with... a young girl? That must be Tatsuto's sister. She's doing her best to herd the babies into the houses, but, well, she's not the Guardian! 

:'''{{#var:132|Beelzebumon (132)}} has posed:'''      For once, Beelzebumon doesn't come riding in atop his hellish bike Behemoth. But that's because he was in fact here THE ENTIRE TIME! *DUN DUUUUUUN*      Having stealthfully perched himself in one of the trees to a quick nap while Duke and Doran were having a meet'n'greet with Tatsuto earlier, the Demon Lord is already on hand to witness the strange event.      (He was also on hand earlier to witness Duke getting all goofy over food. DON'T THINK THAT I WASN'T WATCHING YOU LIZARDBUTT!)      When the lake goes black, the Demon Lord quirks an eye and flips himself over so that he's hanging from the tree branch by his legs, then points at the growing black spot in the lake, "I take it that's not normal for your digital World, is it?" 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     The small strange MetalMamemon has been setting up a meat farm for the Primary Village, planting some ham trees and bacon bushes. It's going to take awhile for them to get large enough to bear 'fruit', but it's a more sustainable crop than rows of root ribs and steak stalks. It felt good to be doing something so familiar to him.     But the lake goes dark and funny, and Golden is standing on the shoreline watching it. "I don't think it's normal on most worlds." he comments to Beelzebumon. He leans down (it's not a very big change for the little digimon) to peer into the lake, looking for some sign of what's causing the disturbance. 

:'''{{#var:718|Duke (718)}} has posed:''' Duke had heard the barking and the red Guilmon X was quickly on the move to head over to the water's edge. It was instinctive for him really, down in that DigiCore of his. Where there was trouble, he would respond, at least-- that is what they were suppose to do... until, well, things. The red dragon-raptor makes his way to the edge of the pier and looks at the location. His gold eyes taking a stern look as he tries to solve what it is that is out there, he even takes a sniff at the air, but the water masks the smell. His tail twitches a few times, "This can't be good." Then Beelzebumon speaks up and the Guilmon X looks over at him. "When did /you/ get here?!" He says with a huff of his cheeks. 

:'''{{#var:695|Doran (695)}} has posed:''' That was a good meal. Too bad /something/ just had to interrupt a pretty relaxing day! Doran is back in the town center, helping Tatsuto's sister in trying to convince the Baby Digimon to go and stay in their houses. The others will no doubt be paying close attention to the waters, so he'll play defense and make sure the Village's occupants stay safe. 

:'''{{#var:718|Duke (718)}} has posed:''' Duke then realizes that Golden is also here and his body just shudders before he flails in the air, "What are any of you doing here!" Before he huffs out some smoke. "...whatever, at least we have some firepower..." 

:'''{{#var:132|Beelzebumon (132)}} has posed:'''      "Long enough to see you acting like a lovestruck puppy over food," Beelzebumon retorts with a wide, mischevous :3 look on his face. 

:'''{{#var:718|Duke (718)}} has posed:''' "... If there was not children here." Duke snipes back to the Demon Lord. 

:'''{{#var:765|Gaonoir (765)}} has posed:'''     Houses left broken and burning, if not derezzed entirely from the plain of reality. Most of the occupants reduced back to digitama to be infused with darkness code and turned into Virus types.. If they were the ones lucky enough to not being simple killed to absorb their code directly. He didn't even remember the faces of the Demon Army soldiers that were there, just seeing their dark forms with glowing eyes as the few survivors were being led off in digital chains.     That wasn't here. Yet, thankfully. But that was the images still burning into the back of his mind, all too vivid as the small form darted from shadow to shadow between the houses.     For all the dispicable things the Beast of Shadow had done in the name of his digital god, potentially destroying the lives of those too young to even know what war they had been brought into was not one of them. Not after what had happened, not after the all too vivid sight he had returned to from training that one day...     Maybe that had been why he had claimed the core of the samurai bird but spared his young unevolved brother...     But no one would know save the Beast himself, hunching down in the shadows at the edge of the Villiage, focused on the lake... 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     Golden just gives Duke an exasperated look and gestures towards the farm. "I've been here awhile, planting." 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     Waff waff! goes Plotmon, as the shadow suddenly darts back towards that ink-lot-looking spot in the middle of the lake.     "No, this is ABSOLUTELY not... normal..." Tatsuto starts to answer, before peering at Beelzebumon. "When did -you- get here?" Blink blink.     Tatsuto is so distracted by Beelzebumon's appearance that he doesn't even notice the blue, fish-like Digimon rising up from the water to just... stand on the surface. Staring towards the shore. Plotmon barks louder though!     http://tinyurl.com/pog2yjq 

:'''{{#var:132|Beelzebumon (132)}} has posed:'''      "... Really? Did no one notice the 8 foot, leather-clad biker demon snoozing in one of your trees? Geez, no wonder you guys ask me to come along to safeguard your tails in case Yggdrasil's cronies showed up. you jokers wouldn't notice them until they ran up and bit you," comes Beelzebumon's reply, before he flips out of the tree and lands on his feet, then points at the middle of the lake.      "By the way, we got company." 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     Golden peers at the Hangyomon. "Hey... fishlips. You gonna just stand there and stare or are you gonna say hello?" He shouts to the strangely silent digimon. 

:'''{{#var:718|Duke (718)}} has posed:''' "A Hangyomon?" Duke says as he watches the Digimon revel himself and with his eyes narrowing sharply those gold eyes go from a child-like innocence to a much more battle hardened warrior. "Hey! Hangyomon!" The Guilmon X calls out, "You're scaring the children! So why don't you just go back to diving someplace else!" The outsider of this world has no idea what he is looking at, oh he knows the digimon species-- but not how things work here or how unnatural this is. However, those who can sense power may sense Duke's own DigiCore preparing itself to Warp Digivolve in the Perfect even decides to make an aggressive move. 

:'''{{#var:765|Gaonoir (765)}} has posed:'''     First darkened water, now a Hangyomon? This does not bode well at all. Yes, different Digital World, but that is no reason to disregard the possible connections until they are proven to not be true.     A gloved paw clenches... but Gaonoir is restraining himself to watching. For now.     He's not entirely sure which side he's going to be punching yet, after all. 

:'''{{#var:695|Doran (695)}} has posed:''' Doran winces abruptly as his Digital Interface flickers. That buzzing between his ears, the piercing migrane between his eyes... Gaonoir is nearby. He's got no idea what's going on at the lake, exactly, but the presence of the shadowy Yggdrasil puppy is bad enough. "We're out of time," he mutters to himself, his eyes constricting to cat-like slits. He redoubles his efforts to get the village Digimon into safety, casting worried looks towards the lake... and around at the surrounding area, as well. 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     The Hangyomon just stares at the Digimon (and human) gathered at the lake's edge. Tatsuto raises one hand. "Oh, hello! Sorry, you kinda... startled us. Are you here to visit, or...?"     The Hangyomon approaches. Without moving its feet. It just seems to glide along the surface, as if suspended on a wire. Plotmon growls and backs away - and the other Digimon collected in the area may be getting a rather uneasy feeling. Something about this Digimon is... -wrong-.     The Hangyomon stops just a few yards from the pier, still staring. Then, one hand raises its harpoon... 

:'''{{#var:765|Gaonoir (765)}} has posed:''' And that is when the shadows at the edge of the villiage seem to explode as the dark form erupts out of them in a blitzing launch towards the lake. ... And likely to the surprise of everyone gathered there hurtles -past- Duke and Beelzemumon to aim a flying punch square into Hangyomon! He may of just gotten punched by a Child stage digimon... but thanks to his modified code Gaonoir hits like a strong level Adult, if not more. Rebounding off his attack maneuver the dark canine backflips onto the shore of the lake, skidding to a stop in a three-point crouch. "Back the fuck off, fish face. Even *I* don't go around terrorizing kids." 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     Golden runs over to the pier and puts himself between the Hangyomon and others, arm cannon raised and warmed up with a glowing barrel, aiming at the Hangyomon.     "You oughta reconsider what you're doing, pal. If you're looking for food we got plenty to spare. We got lots to spare if you're looking for trouble too." Golden says, challenging the weird hangyomon. Golden looks startled as Gaonoir appears like lightning from a clear sky to strike the fishy digimon in front of him. 

:'''{{#var:718|Duke (718)}} has posed:''' Duke's eyes narrow sharply as he watches the Digimon move in, but how it was moving in. "This isn't natural at all... this is /all/ wrong." Duke looks over to Tatsuto, "Take Plotmon and get to safety!" Oh right, another 'Child' Digimon telling a human what to do. However, this becomes obvious why as Duke steps away and around, as his whole body starting to glow and possibly affecting the digital area around him. With a flare of digital light, the Guilmon X's digital body rips apart within the light before reassembling with great force to become a fifteen foot cyborg beast that takes into the air: A War Growlmon X! The Cyborg Digimon hovers up in the sky before his gold, cybernetic eyes zoom in on the target and then takes aim with its arms as the blasters charge up. Soon blue plasma streaks fired out from the ports on the claw hands, attempting to bombard the strange digimon below in the water. Then he spots Gaonoir, "Gaonoir!" The robotic voice calls over to, "What are /YOU/ doing here?" 

:'''{{#var:132|Beelzebumon (132)}} has posed:'''      There is something just inheritedly /wrong/ about that Digimon, and whatever it is, it sets Beelzebumon's teeth on edge, and his hand drifts slowly towards the Berenjena Shotgun strapped to his leg.      To his credit, the Demon lord doesn't so much as flinch as Gaonoir rushes right past him to slug the Hangyomon, nor does he look surprised in the slightest. Instead he just grins in that cocky manner that is so characteristic of him.      "Well, seems the Shadowmutt has a heart after all. How touching." 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     Just as it's raising its harpoon, the Hangyomon finds itself punched in the face-body by a Gaomon with far too much strength behind its punches. Golden's attack comes so quickly after that that its hard to tell that the Hangyomon barely reacted to the punch at ALL.     Duke's attack, however, leaves it... Full of holes. Just clean through its body, as if it were a picture someone took an eraser tool to. Within the holes, by the edges, a weird black smokey substance can be seen...     Being full of holes doesn't really seem to slow it down any, though, as it promptly hurls its harpoon towards, not one of the Digimon that attacked it, but directly at Tatsuto! The teen doesn't really have time to react, while Plotmon yelps and runs, but she's not fast enough...! 

:'''{{#var:132|Beelzebumon (132)}} has posed:'''      The harpoon hurtles forth, its arc aimed true as it spears straight towards tatsuto's heart!      And then with a thunderous /BANG/, a single shot rings out, and the deadly projectile goes careening off to one side as a solid slug from one of Beelzebumon's shotguns blasts it out of the air.      Then like a gunslinger at high noon, the Demon Biker strolls forth, twirling his shotgun around on one finger before drawing its twin from the holster on his back, then steps in front of Tatsuto as he glances back with a grin.      "there. Now will you get off my back about the puppy kicking?" 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     "Can't we all just get along?!" Golden exclaims as the blue and white fish-like 'mon is attacked and attacks somebody who hasn't been involved thus far. How annoying.     The MetalMamemon opens fire, spheres of energy hurtling towards the weirdo, exploding where they come into contact with something that has more resistance than air. He leaps and bounces through the air as he fires, keeping a steady stream of energy bombs bombarding the hangyomon and the surrounding area to keep the digimon off-guard. 

:'''{{#var:765|Gaonoir (765)}} has posed:'''     A faint smirk tugs at one corner of Gaonoir's muzzle. "Don't get all touchy-feely on me, demon lord. But even I have.. reasons for thinking a spawn village should be off limits." Which sort of backwardly answers Duke as well.     The Hangyomon doesn't appear slowed down by the punch or the holes in its body. That gets a brow raised, especially at the smoky effect. He.. kind of does that himself when damaged, just all black and oozy instead of smoke. "Huh. Guess I'm not the only one that does that sort of thing." The injury doesn't stop the thing from throwing his harpoon, either... Eh, don't really care about the human, it's the home of the young digimon he's concerned about.     You know that spike of energy that happens when Digimon evolve? That happens... except the charge is all dark and shadowy, and not that he can pay much attention to it at the moment Satou's Digivice is probably going spaz out at the wrongness of the code that's nearly as bizarre as the Hangyomon's.     It doesn't help that there's also a spike of electrical disruption in itself when as the form shift dies off Gaonoir's now Perfect form bellows "HOOOWLBAAACK CANNON!" and fires an electrically charged sonic blast from his mouth at the fishmonger in doing so. 

:'''{{#var:718|Duke (718)}} has posed:''' Duke was too far away to protect the human and the only he can think about at that moment is why do these damn humans never listen! He told the kid to run! Thankfully, Beelzebumon comes to the rescue and actually does something /good/ for once. It actually causes Duke to 'huh' softly in some mild, but good surprise. Maybe the former Royal Knight was rubbing off on him.... .... Its probably something not to be thought onto hard right now, given the circumstance and a situation Duke brings his attention back to the battle at hand and the realization that this /thing/ just tried to /kill/ a human. A living being. That was not something he was simply going to let happen... Enough blood was already on his own hands and he would not let this village become another victim of not proper action. With his thrusters going into full overdrive, he goes to rush right down for the much smaller 'Digimon', only mentally noting the odd darkness smoking out from the holes. As he gets in closer, his body takes another glow again without missing a beat. The water might even become displaced as the power is gathered from another Digievolution. And the light flashes away just as Duke goes to ram right into whatever the hell this Digimon /was/. Perhaps timing this very strike just in time with Goanoir's electrical attack. Though Duke may need to remind himself later that this could be a /very/ bad idea. 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     Tatsuto stares at the harpoon is blasted off course by -Beelzebumon- of all Digimon. Plotmon runs to his side and -growls- at the weird not-Digimon!     Gaonoir and Duke's final attacks seem to do the trick, though. No matter how durable this thing is - getting hit by those attacks just obliterates its body. It bursts into a spray of black particles, which scatter through the air before sinking down into the lake.     The lake... remains dark. But there's no more shapes moving about in it... 

:'''{{#var:765|Gaonoir (765)}} has posed:''' Gaonoir waves a metal-clad hand at the still darkened water, though he's more indication the -thing- that just sunk back into it in bits instead of data-motes like most digimon would. "And you guys think *I* am sick and wrong? At least I'm actually a digimon still!" 

:'''{{#var:782|Golden (782)}} has posed:'''     Golden hrms and peers at the lake. "Hey kid, is there something you can do to turn the lake back to normal? I gotta bad feeling about this." He gestures towards the dark waters within it. 

:'''{{#var:855|Tatsuto Satou (855)}} has posed:'''     Tatsuto is kinda staring in shock. "I... that..." He shakes his head. "That... That was the same Digimon that killed the last Guardian. I... think. I don't recognise that species... But Plotmon beat it last time! So why did it take so much punishment this time?"     He kinda stares out over the water. "I... I don't know. Maybe? I'll... try to ask around and stuff..." 

:'''{{#var:132|Beelzebumon (132)}} has posed:'''      "I can see that you're stunned into silence because I'm just that amazing," Beelzebumon jests as he twirls his shotguns around and holsters them once more, before looking around at the various gathered Digimon (and humans), "Please, hold your applause. 

:'''{{#var:718|Duke (718)}} has posed:''' The enemy vanishes under the heavy handed attack by the Yggdrasil Loyal and the former Royal Knight. This leaving the question of.... ...Where did Duke go? As the knight doesn't surface right away, but soon a black hand reaches out on the pier, the claws digging into the woodwork and then another arm comes up to prop himself up with the white part of the armor tarnished by the dark water. Slow, A Medieval Dukemon pulls himself out of the water and then just lays there for a bit on the deck work. "... Remind me to never do that again..." He then slowly pushes himself up, resting then a hand on his knee, and goes to stand up fully. "Damn water is seriously off..." Which was easy for everyone to also tell given his armor looked tarnished, lack of some color, and didn't look all to healthy as data goes. 

:'''{{#var:765|Gaonoir (765)}} has posed:'''     "Hangyomon," Gaonoir replies. "Member of the Deep Sea Divers family... Or, more accurately, that was the form it was taking. That was clearly not a digimon."     He just tilts his head a bit as Duke climbs out of the water, looking like someone added a fade filter to his render. "I think that's a good indicator you don't want to be swimming out there. Or drinking it."     His jet-pods extend and ignite, though at first just lifting him far enough off the ground to hover. "And as much as I would love to kick you while you're down, Dukey, that would go against what I said earlier about picking fights around kids too young to know what's going on." 

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1023/There's a storm in Tomoeda! It's a big one! Can Sakura and her friends deal with it

2014-11-25T03:40:02Z

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|Poses=:'''{{#var:172|Sakura Kinomoto (172)}} has posed:'''     It's a beautiful, sunny day in Tomoeda - although as it's the middle of winter, it's still rather cold. Sakura is, currently, sat in her office at the city hall, working. ... Yes, seriously. She's got a government job. It's a thing.     She's asked Zephyr to help her scope out the city for magical disturbances, because she's still feeling the effects of some mild Mana Burn from defending the Caves of Prophecy a few days ago. At least she's not so lethargic she's confined to bed, like the last time. 

:'''{{#var:162|Zephyr Windstar (162)}} has posed:'''     It's a cold day, but Zephyr doesn't feel it in her Barrier Jacket. She's stood for the moment, on top of a building, waiting for her Area Search to finish mapping the local sector. The six little purple wisps lazily float up and absorb back into the diamond-shaped gemstone capping her staff, before a spell seal forms beneath her feet. A similar one appears in Sakura's office before a flash has the mage transferring from one point to the other.     A holographic screen appears beside Sakura, in her eyeline but not obstructing her view. "Here's sector 23... just a few more to go and that'll be the entire city. I can do some of the surrounding countryside too if y'like, Petals." she remarks, smirking as she leans on the desk. 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya so here Maya is in a lot more caual dress she looks for all the world a 20 something and she doesn't seem bothered by the cold a simple warding spell had bene enough for her she does seem to be out in one of the ectors as well. "Sectot 7's all quiet on this end..." 

:'''{{#var:560|Emiya Shirou (560)}} has posed:'''     Shirou's not really sure how he got on this assignment. But he sure did.     It's a chilly day in Tomoeda, and Shirou's wearing a pretty decent jacket of his own. Not magical. Just a pretty normal jacket! And he's on a bike. An utterly normal bike.     Compared to Zephyr he's almost completely mundane. So why is a novice spellcaster like him on this assignment?     Probably because he's been shown to have an uncanny talent at sensing Distortions in nature, like those caused by magical fields. ... who knows if he's going to be that lucky this time though!     But whatever. Without the ability to fly, or scan wide areas, he's doing this the hard way and with full effort: legwork. Or pedal work, in this case. Biking down the streets, stopping periodically and just trying to FEEL for anything weird. 

:'''{{#var:172|Sakura Kinomoto (172)}} has posed:'''     Sakura doesn't even flinch when Zephyr teleports into her office! Which is an improvement. The first time she fell out of her chair in surprise... She smiles to the older mage. "Thank you -so- much for helping with this. Eheh. I really should have done this earlier, but..." She rubs the back of her head. "Okay with Maya and Shirou we should be getting close to finishing..."     Meanwhile, as Shirou bikes down the road, he may feel a faint... well. Distortion. The air feels -wrong-, somehow, similar to a large buildup of static electricity. Suddenly, a massive force side-swipes him, possibly sending him careening off his bike. Nothing is visible - was that wind? And did it just get darker? It's suddenly incredibly overcast...     And then the rain starts. Sheets of hammering rain, almost like someone turned on a million faucets above the city. The rain doesn't pour straight down, though, the sudden ripping winds sending it flying every which way, raindrops hitting at such speed it could be mistaken for hail.     A loud BANG startled Sakura - so much that she falls out of her chair. She rushes to the window, to see a tree has been uprooted right outside her office. "Wh-what the hell...? Where'd this storm come from?!" 

:'''{{#var:162|Zephyr Windstar (162)}} has posed:'''     Zephyr comes up beside Sakura, resting her right hand on the younger mage's shoulder. "I dunno, but we should get out there. Want a lift?" she asks, stepping back into the more open section and forming her teleport spell. "That's Shirou's sector, he might be in trouble!" 

:'''{{#var:560|Emiya Shirou (560)}} has posed:'''     "Wh-whauugh!!" The redheaded Hero of Justice is thrown from his bike and barely avoids getting scraped up by rolling with it. The bike rattle-clanks to the ground and is left with a wheel spinning. Meanwhile, Shirou's getting soaked as he pushes to his feet. The boy grunts and pushes up to his feet, only to start glancing around bewilderedly. The look of astonishment darkens slowly though as he feels the Wrongness behind it.     "This storm's not natural...!" Muttering 'trace on' as always, he activates his Magical Circuits at full power. Just in case. 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako just happens to be walking around Tomoeda. She's dressed very warmly in fluffy light blue and is humming softly to herself. Why no, she doesn't know what Sakura and company are searching for nor is she even aware that they are searching for something. She's just walking around, seeming to enjoy the peacefullness of the suburb. Well, that is until the sudden gust of wind catches her attention. Ayako happens to be pretty sensitve to the weather, being a water spirit and all, and a sudden change like this definitely gets her attention!     She quickly changes her route, and heads in the direction of the wind-and blinks her eyes quickly when it suddenly starts to rain. Ayako happens to like rain, but... this wind is far too strong! She shields herself with her arms and winces slightly as she continues in the direction of the storm. "Ah."     Ayako spots Shirou! In time to see him get thrown from his bike even. "Shirou! Are you okay?" She makes her way over to him-slowly, though! This wind is way too strong! 

:'''{{#var:623|Seto Kaiba (623)}} has posed:'''      Kaiba is currently flying into the area, sitting in the seat of a helicopter. While he does have a better vehicle than a simple helicopter available, he only fields it as needed. This is, in theory, just going to be a simple fly-by. He's looking over the town, trying to decide if this place would be a good location to build a Kaiba Land.      So far, it's looking good. Most versions of Japan have decent public transportation, and this place is no exception. Lots of people, and it's relatively close to Tokyo, as well.      ...Most likely he'd have to force people out of their homes, or forcibly acquire some land in the business district, though.      And then the storm suddenly happens. Hrm. He pauses a bit, looking out. That... Was incredibly sudden. Far quicker than a normal storm would take effect. And unnatural. He sighs. There is something more at work here. This is just a hassle.      ...But. A good publicity stunt, like him helping with this situation... It might make getting a Kaiba Land here easier.      "...Land the helicopter."      The helicopter lands, specifically near some of the sections that are being hit the worse. His long coat floats in the wind, nad his Duel Disk is on his arm. He's ready to get into action.      ...And then he spots Shirou. Hm. Him, again? While he presented some form of interest to him, the girl who was with him was /far/ more interesting. Still... Kaiba just chuckles slightly.      "You, again?"      Kaiba then just starts looking around a bit. He has no magical talent, so going with Shirou is likely his best bet. What is more, others are joining him here as well. 

:'''{{#var:43|Rainbow Dash (43)}} has posed:''' While Rainbow Dash had been technically off the clock for Ponyville's weather, it doesn't mean she's off the clock to helping a friend in need. Loyalty is never off that clock. ... Even if that meant having to sort of pull overtime when it came to weather work. When the word got out about the weird storm appearing out of no-where, the pegasus gulped down the last of her cider (Sort of a crime to waste good cider), grabbed her heaviest duty goggles, and hit the sky. Who knew that the sky would hit back? Dash is a streak of colors as she bursts out of the gate to Tomoeda, her scarf whipping around in the wind behind her. But as soon as she breaks out into the airspace over the city, winds assail her from every angle. Her wings beat at air furiously, struggling to deal with crosswinds from every which way. "Whoa!" One wind sends her twirling about in mid-air before she gets herself stable again. "What the hay!? This is worse than when we let Ditzy handle wind duty!" 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya Says "All right then, I'll get movinging on the..." the the weather goes to hell and is over powering Maya's barrier she's drenched in short order so we have a very wet and cold maya her cltohing dlings to her and she looks a lot like a drowned kitten at the moment. She doesneed to however get to cover as she takes amoment to reach for a hair clip and there's a flash of light her old clothing turns bright white and morphs into something far more suited than the rain. Maya hopes no one saw her. With tha tout of the wya she's now moving to catch up with /eveyrone else/. 

:'''{{#var:172|Sakura Kinomoto (172)}} has posed:'''     Sakura looks to Zephyr, then nods her head. "R-right. Let's... get out there and try to figure this out. Or at least, make sure no one's in danger..." She takes a deep breath. "Oh man I hope I can do this without passing out..."     She takes out her Key. Incantation is performed! "RELEASE!" she calls... as her wand materialises in front of her. Phew. It worked.     Meanwhile, everyone seems to be gathering around Shirou! The storm is very strong in this section of the city - a business area, so there are actually quite a few people about. Most of them hurried inside the moment the storm hit, so now the shops are practically bursting with people.     Suddenly, a power line audibly -snaps-. All the lights go out, which makes it even -harder- to see what the hell is going on. 

:'''{{#var:560|Emiya Shirou (560)}} has posed:'''     "Rrrrrngh..." Shirou's only still upright because he takes cover against a wall, and then... starts seeing everyone else arriving nearby. In this weather. "Are you all nuts?! Take cover--" SNAP!     The power line goes, and his blood runs cold. "...and stay away from the downed line! ... Geeze, this isn't normal. What's behind it?!"     He's glancing about at the others with increasing concern. Well, not Seto Kaiba. Kaiba just gets a sort of sour look after the initial confusion. 

:'''{{#var:43|Rainbow Dash (43)}} has posed:''' Somehow, Rainbow Dash stays aloft in the storm despite the winds best attempts to bring her down. She clenches her teeth, wings beating furiously with all of their strength to fly forward. "Grrh, come ON!" Lights go down around her, making it even harder to see where she's going in the storm. Not that it phases her much, but even she's having a difficult time seeing where she's going. Which results in her flying right overhead the gathering, visible only because of the bright colors of her fur and mane. And audible by the KLONG of her flying into a nearby flag pole. "I'M OKAY!" She shouts. Then slides down it to the ground. 

:'''{{#var:623|Seto Kaiba (623)}} has posed:'''      Kaiba /knows/ he has some cards in his deck that could help with pushing back the storm, at least somewhat. But, even though he can use the powers of the Duel Disk to manifest the cards in solid hologram form, he still has todraw the right card. And, sadly, he doesn't draw the card he needs. Still, his Poker Face remains on, and he doesn't let the others know he is a bit dissapointed. At the least, though? He has a good hand. His deck has to be made in such a way that it's /really/ hard for him to ever have a /bad/ hand.      Still, though, as he plays his card, and as the hologram manifests it, it... Doesn't look overly useful. It's a woman in a brown dress, with long white hair. Her eyes are blue, almost piercingly so. The woman herself, though? She has no weapons. She has no 'Magic' attacks, either. She just appears to be, more or less, a normal woman as a Duel Monster Card.      He speaks, announcing what the monster is, as per standard Duel Monsters protocol. "I play Maiden with Eyes of Blue, in Attack Mode."      He looks to Shirou, and then the others. She hasn't met the others yet, though really, he doesn't care about /any/ of them. He has one question, though.      "Does anyone know what is going on?"      And now the lights are out. Great.      That, at least, he /does/ have a card for, immediately. He plays it face up.      "I play the Spell Card, Photon Sanctuary!"      Two wisp looking things appear. They generate faint light. Not /adequate/ lighting, but still, /better/ than it was.      And maybe it'd be a good light source to draw Rainbow Dash's attention. 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako slowly walks over to Shirou and takes cover next to him, behind the wall. "Eh heh heh... I guess I am kind of nuts to walk towards a storm. But still."     She winces at the sudden -snap- and ducks quickly. Luckily, it really isn't necessary. But still. "You're right, it's not normal at all!" Ayako shouts out to get over the noise of the wind. "I wonder if there's anything we can do to stop it?" And then notes the lights going out. Pale blue flames wink into exitance around her-and then quickly get blown away and out by the wind! "Uhm... Hmm... that won't do..." She giggles awkwardly and then forms a ball of water in her hands that glows a pale blue. "Nngh... too much wind..." 

:'''{{#var:162|Zephyr Windstar (162)}} has posed:'''     Zephyr waits for Sakura to summon her Staff, then gestures her closer. "Gotta be inside the magic circle. Don't wanna leave any important bits behind." she teases. It's totally not true that only part would teleport, if any bit isn't covered, the teleport will simply fail to carry that entire person. Still gotta haze the younger ones a little bit!     Into a roaring gale the Teleport takes the pair, and Zephyr is hard pressed to remain standing. "Damn it... okay, Dee, Mistral Form, Area mode!" she shouts over the howling wind, her magic flaring and illuminating the area around her in that deep purple glow. A small area around her becomes a little bit less turbulent, 150x150m in a hemisphere. Her Device shifts forms too, going from a large Great Ax to a shorter single-hander Halberd-like weapon. (Reference Image! http://i.imgur.com/5empGTd.jpg?1 Top one is original, bottom one is how it is now.) "Make sure the civvies are alright. Petals, is this one of your Cards?" 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya is now far better suitef for the raina nd is able to catch up with the otehrs however things are getting serious as the power goes out and now she pauyses to look about. She gets the warning to take cover. She has a card out and is casting a lightning barrier on everyone near by whom will let her given the hazards they might be facing. She takes a note for a moment pausing as she watches Maiden with the blue eyes appears she pauses she knows whhere that is going. She suspects she'll see a dragon she's not seen in a very long time. She takes note of Shirou and says "Humm so the question is just what /is/ causing this and if anyone needs support I can handle that." With that Maya's going to help with the civilians for the moment. 

:'''{{#var:172|Sakura Kinomoto (172)}} has posed:'''     Sakura and Zephyr appear near the group! And almost immediately they get a lightning barrier cast on them courtesy of Maya. Sakura looks around to get a sense of where she is. "...Right, I can sense it here. Definitely a magic storm," she says, to no one in particular. "Okay let's try to calm this down. Calm the raging winds! WINDY!" she calls, as she produces a card from her pocket - much larger than Seto's trading cards, more like a tarot card than the more modern playing card ratio Duel Monsters cards use. She goes to toss the card in the air, then reconsiders and throws it directly in front of her. A gust of wind - perfect timing! - blows the card back at her, and she meets it with the tip of her wand.     A yellow-green feminine spirit (with wings for arms) rises above Sakura. It spreads out suddenly into wispy tendrils of air... which promptly get battered and blasted away, the spirit reforming halfway through seemingly getting knocked back, before reverting to card form. Sakura stares in silence for a moment. "That... that should have worked..."     Meanwhile, Maya is moving to aid the civilians! Questioning will reveal that in the case of an earthquake or monsoon, civilians who can't get home are expected to go to the city hall, the city library, the university, or the schools. There don't seem to be any emergency personnel on-scene currently, however...     "One of my cards...? M-maybe, but, they shouldn't be able to beat Windy. I have all my element cards now, and nothing's stronger than them..." She takes note of everyone gathered around... then peers at Seto. She has no idea who he is. 

:'''{{#var:162|Zephyr Windstar (162)}} has posed:'''     Zephyr winces a little bit. "Whatever it is, it's battering at my Mistral Squall shield... I doubt I'll be able to maintain it for much longer." she offers. The spinning 'turbine blade' bits that help form and maintain the bubble are starting to emit sparks and trail wisps of smoke that quickly get torn apart by the wind. This is her element, but whatever force is driving the storm is far more immersed than the Wind Mage is. "If it's one of your Cards, that means its avatar is around here somewhere... we gotta find it, right?" 

:'''{{#var:623|Seto Kaiba (623)}} has posed:'''      Kaiba simply gives Sakura a glance. Well. At least, she is making a hint at /something/. This storm is magic. This is possibly caused by magical cards. And this girl absolutely has /no/ control of her cards.      Kaiba just... smirks, and closes his eyes slightly.      "...If this is the fault of your cards, you /really/ must not be that good with them, then. I'll clean up your mess, though."      He holds up a card, lifting it to the sky. Who /knows/ what these cards are made of, for them to hold up in this sort of weather without taking damage.      "I tribute the two Photon Tokens to summon the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. And, Blue Eyes! Shoot your Burst Stream at the storm, dissipate it with your powerful breath attack!"      The two monsters vanish in a burst of light. And, suddenly, a large dragon appears in the middle of the streets, roaring up to the heavens. It lets loose a large beam of destruction. Likely not enough to destroy the storm, or at least, not /yet/. But yes, he's simply trying to burn away the magical storm.      And then, he points at the card he summoned earlier. The Maiden with Eyes of Blue. He speaks, but not to her.      "Someone. Destroy that monster. Now."      ...Yeah, he doesn't bother giving his logic on that one. 

:'''{{#var:560|Emiya Shirou (560)}} has posed:'''     Shirou's just struggling with the wind at the moment. Without anything to fight he can only glance around with Reinforced eyes at the sky, trying to spot anything unusual up there. And that's probably not going well with all the rain. "Whatever it is, it's got more power than any magus I know! Weather control like this would take forever, I'm sure of it!" With magecraft it would, anyways.     But when he sees that even Sakura's card is failing, his heart sinks. Now it is most definitely bad news....     It's Seto's random order that gets him balking though. He's aware that he's using some kind of weird summoning trick but... "What?!"     Seriously, he has a DRAGON here, what good is that plan even supposed to do?! 

:'''{{#var:43|Rainbow Dash (43)}} has posed:''' "Uh, you sure about that Sakura?" Rainbow Dash is sporting a bruise on her head when she struggles her way to the grouping. Only elites would be brave (or dumb) enough to be out in a storm like this, so it was pretty obvious where helpers were gathering. The pegasus flicks her wings back, folding them in against her sides to give them brief break. ""Because it looks like Windy got sheared!" At least thanks to Zephyr it's a bit less gusty in the area. Dash pulls off her saddlebags and steps on one strap to keep it from flying away. From the bags she pulls out a bright yellow parka made for an equine and pulls it on, making it even easier to spot the pegasus. It also keeps her fur from collecting more rain and weighing her down. "I'll go check out the clouds!" Rainbow Dash says over the wind. She's used to speaking over heavy storms to her team, but even her best 'storm voice' is having trouble with this one. "I can cut it down a bit from up there!" She hopes, anyway. 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako blinks her eyes quickly when Sakura and Zephyr suddenly appear. "Ah. More people!" She then quietly watches Sakura summon Windy to try to neutralize the winds to no avail. Her head inclines to the side as she thinks... and hears what Zephyr has to say. "An avatar, huh? Maybe something... really stormlike then?" She peeks out from behind the wall and looks around carefully. "Hmm... if only we knew what exactly to look for..." The rain around her will actually help her see! Although that still doesn't mean she knows what to look for...     She then notices Kaiba and his cards summoning monsters. "Oohh... uhhmm..." Then louder, "Sorry, I'm not the attacky type!" Ayako then places her glowing water ball on the ground and cups her hands in front of herself. "Hmm... a barrier that can help with the wind and rain... I... Hmm... I think I have one for that, but..." 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya humms is going to get to work on helping to make sure the people are able to get to the nearest point and she does pull out a smart phone, placing a call hopegully to someher that /can/ alert the police nd the like. Right? They should have means to keep in contacty even with power failures. For now Maya's busy directing things and she dods take a look over at Kaiba with an amused look on her face as the Blue-Eyes shows up. She forgot how impressive the Blue Eyes White Dragon /was/ it's been nearly nine years since she's seen one like that. She's got civilians to worry about for the moment. "Ayako! LEnd me a hand if your not going to fight! Unless you got something else in mind?" 

:'''{{#var:172|Sakura Kinomoto (172)}} has posed:'''     If looks could kill, the one Sakura is suddenly giving Kaiba would... like, probably make him incredibly ill or something. She doesn't even show any surprise or awe as the Blue-Eyes White Dragon is summoned (although it is pretty impressive). Its powerful breath attack manages to punch a hole clear through the storm, and through the cloud layer, giving Rainbow Dash a good opportunity to get above the clouds. There's actually a calm spot a few hundred yards away... The eye of the storm, most likely.     "If this -is- one of my cards, it's got to be the Storm card. The Storm's body hangs out in the center of the storm, so we need to find that..." she announces, pulling out another card. "...SHIELD!" she calls, conjuring a transluscent yellow shield around the group to aid Zephyr's failing shield. She calls after Rainbow Dash: "Good luck!"     The people of Tomoeda are starting to get used to emergencies. They immediately comply with Maya's attempts to get them to move - after all, she's well-known as a member of the Union Elite Forces at this point.     The hole the Blue-Eyes punched through the storm is starting to close... 

:'''{{#var:162|Zephyr Windstar (162)}} has posed:'''     Zephyr hears someone asking to attack an monster. She looks at the relatively normal looking woman, and after an initial pass from Divine Wind noting it's a hologram, a very good hologram but one none-the-less, the Mage shifts her stance. "Alright then. Divine Wind, lets go!" once Sakura erects her SHIELD spell card, Zephyr draws in her Bits, the pair attaching to the counterweight side of her axe, before beginning to spin rapidly. <BLITZ DRIVE. SET. MISTRAL SQUALL. STRIKER MODE.> Zephyr kicks up off the ground, and with a quick backflip to get some momentum up, she surges towards the Maiden of Blue Eyes, purple mana trailing from her Device's head. <MISTRAL CUTTER!> announces the Device before impact, the mage doing a little twirl to add momentum again. Unfortunately for her, the sheer speed of her strike sends her clear of Sakura's shield, and a rogue gust of wind catches her mid-air and sends her careening off into the distance, cursing the entire way as she pinwheels out of control. *PING* 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako blinks her eyes as Sakura's shield flashes into existance around everyone. "Ah... well... I don't need to worry about a barrier so..." She suddenly thrusts her arms forwards. "Reverse Current!" The rain being blown around by the storm's wind in Ayako's thirty meter radius suddenly stops in mid-air as if frozen in time for a moment... and then suddenly starts to move against the wind! In doing this, Ayako is trying to use the water to directly calm the winds the storm is generating in her radius! At least in this way she can help everyone advance in some way and not simply be at the mercy of the storm. Sadly, it comes a bit too late to save Zephyr from flying off! 

:'''{{#var:43|Rainbow Dash (43)}} has posed:''' "Whoooaa! Cool dragon!" Rainbow Dash says, grinning as Seto's Blue Eyes lights the sky. Despite being a small, pastel equine, she seems more awed than frightened. She then flares her wings out from underneath the parka, and gives them a brief stretch. "Now watch how a weather master does it!" Dash pauses, glancing at Sakura. "Right, middle of the storm! Catch you on the other side!" Wings come down in several powerful strokes, and Dash launches herself out of the protective shields brought on by Sakura and Zephyr. Winds lash at her almost immediately, making her parka whip up behind her. The heavy rain pelting her pushes the parka down against her body in the next instant, but roll off instead of clinging to her like if she weren't wearing it. It weighs her down a little, but not too much to keep her from soaring straight up towards the hole in the clouds. The sky is where Dash knows what she's doing. Winds shift around her, and she cups her wings into it, slicing into the gusts instead of letting her wings get beat around by them. Both forehooves are outstretched in front of her, tip against tip to break the wind in her wake. It's almost like she were swimming through the sky using her wings, propelling her faster and faster straight up for the break in the clouds. 

:'''{{#var:560|Emiya Shirou (560)}} has posed:'''     Man, what is Shirou supposed to do here? Not a heck of a lot. He's ot very little ranged ability, and in this storm? Just keeping balance is tough! Ayako's barrier does help quite a bit though, and he manages to catch his breath. "Why would one of your Cards be causing trouble though?!" He blurts out...     Then,... Kusanagi appears in his right hand, and his favored compound bow in his left. Both form from a soft flare of golden power! Shirou quickly mounts the sword on the bow, and it actually warps and stretches into a more streamlined shape as he does so.     Though he doesn't draw the string quite yet... instead he puts his eyes on the sky! 

:'''{{#var:623|Seto Kaiba (623)}} has posed:'''      The Maiden with Eyes of Blue is attacked. But, it is not destroyed. Yeah, Kaiba was just testing who would hold back on a direct command from him. But still, the monster remains on the field. She has a wound from the attack, it seems, but still.      And suddenly a surge of power around her. The power bursts forth, and a Blue-Eyes White Dragon appears. There are now two on the battlefield.      Kaiba speaks, rather casually, "Hm. Without being attacked, I can't activate its ability... Which summons forth another Blue Eyes from my deck."      Kaiba does sigh a little bit, though, as the only one who had potential to just kill something they hadn't seen before gets blown away.      Still, though. He draws his card. And a small but noticable smirk appears on his face. Poker face? Gone.      Ayako and Rainbow Dash are already workign to rebuke the storm. But, Kaiba is going to try to push it even further, through two methods. He puts forth his first card: a strange scroll appears midair.      "I play Ancient Rules, allowing me to summon forth my third Blue-Eyes White Dragon, without a tribute! And then... I follow up with this card... HEAVY STORM!"      He places yet another card into his Duel Disk. Though playing a storm card might seem counter productive, the storm that forms is working in the exact opposite direction of the current one, trying to counter it blow for blow. It /might/ mess with some magical effects in the area too, maybe. But he doesn't care /that/ much.      "AND NOW. My faithful dragons! DESTROY ANYTHING ELSE LEFT IN THE SKY!"      And the three Blue-Eyes each let loose a massive burst of intense heat breath, flying into the sky, aiming for the clouds, or anything that is /not/ an ally that might be left in them. 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya is working at this point hopefully able to get everyone out o here while hte others are doing thier work she pause to think about if it might be one of Sakura's or not she's got to think on htat but right now she's making sure to get the last of the people away from here. 

:'''{{#var:172|Sakura Kinomoto (172)}} has posed:'''     Sakura kinda splutters as Kaiba summons -another storm-. "Wh... th... that's not even magic! -How are you doing that-?!" She's completely flabbergasted by all this.     High above the storm, Rainbow Dash can quickly find the center - a children's park, with a large penguine-shaped slide at the middle. The air is completely still and calm within the eye.     As Ayako's barrier keeps the water off them, it's becoming much easier for the heroes and Kaiba) to stand out more in the open. Sakura peers quizically at Shirou. "...You're going to use the Grass-Cutting Sword? ... As an arrow?" Okaaaay then. "O-okay, um. I have no idea why the Storm would be doing this. She's... well, I mean, she likes to make storms, I -guess-, but I didn't know she was this powerful!" 

:'''{{#var:172|Sakura Kinomoto (172)}} has posed:'''     Also those dragons are TOTALLY owning those clouds. They don't appear to find anything hiding in them, though. Kaiba's storm is doing a good job of slowing down the other storm, but the wind speeds and rain are still ridiculous. 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako scoops up the dropped glowing water ball in her hands as she continues to fight the heavy winds with the storm's own water. "This is no simple storm! From the way the water and wind is moving, it seems to have an eye, or a calm spot in the center! But I can't figure out exactly where the eye is! We need to move up or someone has to figure out where the eye is!" She glances around quickly, "Anyone have any ideas?" Most of her focus remains on manipulating the water! 

:'''{{#var:560|Emiya Shirou (560)}} has posed:'''     "It's the Grass-Cutting Sword, but Kusanagi's original name is Ame no Murakumo." ('Gathering heavenly clouds.') And his projection quality suffers momentarily from the wave of whatever weird thing Kaiba's up to. Kusanagi's form wavers and almost shatters, but as Shirou focuses harder it regains it!     Though still he hasn't fired. Probably because he has no idea what he'd even be aiming at, or whether that is called for. "I'm kind of groundbound here! What are we supposed to do from here?" 

:'''{{#var:43|Rainbow Dash (43)}} has posed:''' Chaos is all around Rainbow Dash, but she doesn't let it stop her. Lightning crackles and arcs from the clouds, and she dips just barely a half second before it falls nearly where she was. Only for her to rise up again with a wild grin on her face. The danger of the storms were always the best part. But then, chaos falls away. Rainbow Dash bursts straight out of the hole in the clouds and up into the peaceful skies above. She hovers just overhead, wings beating a steady pace as she looks down at the menacing storm down below. If she were a poet, she'd probably have a few clever words. "Aweeessooommee!" Good enough. Dash peers through her goggles, looking for something that suggest a 'center' of the storm. Hurricanes have eyes, that's got to count as a center, right? The pegasus takes off through the calmer skies above, soaring above the storm until she comes to a break in it, going straight down. <Hey guys!> She calls over the radio, her transmission staticy from coming close to lightning. 

:'''{{#var:623|Seto Kaiba (623)}} has posed:'''      Kaiba, unfortunately, does /not/ have a method of hearing Rainbow Dash telling where the card is.      Otherwise he'd be more than happy to obliterate Penguin Park.      Still, Kaiba isn't going to stand by idly. So, he places another Monster Card, in the face up attack position.      "I play Dark Zebra! Dark Zebra, scout for the eye of the storm!"      This Dark Zebra, which is /exactly/ what it sounds like, runs off, to scout the local area. Kaiba, in the meantime, climbs aboard one of his Blue-Eyes. The Blue-Eyes flap their wings, to start taking him off into the air.      Yeah, if he even gets a hint of the park he's going to obliterate it. At the least, he'll offer to build a replacement or a theme park on top of it! 

:'''{{#var:172|Sakura Kinomoto (172)}} has posed:'''     Sakura puts one hand up to her ear - she has a very small earpiece in. Huh. "...Okay, got it," she responds to Rainbow Dash. "Okay! When we get to the eye the Storm will probably appear. She'll... most likely be inside a small tornado. Shirou can probably cut her out of it with that sword... Ayako, be on guard if anything weird happens!" She produces a card. "...Let's go. FLOAT!" she calls, activating the card. A purple... miniature hot-air balloon with wings (?) materialises! And then envelops the trio in a bubble of purple energy. Which promptly lifts them up and floats them over the buildings and into the eye of the storm.     As they're deposited in the park... a twister suddenly erupts within! On the ground, the party can see a bunch of lines forming what appears to be a magic circle of some kind...     Meanwhile, civilians continue to be evacuated and such! 

:'''{{#var:623|Seto Kaiba (623)}} has posed:'''      At this point, the Dark Zebra finds the eye of the storm. It leaps into the sky, in order to signal the location to Kaiba. And, Kaiba does, in fact, see the eye of the storm now. And the little twister, right near the park.      Kaiba, of course, does something very Kaiba-ish.      "BLUE EYES! DESTROY THE TORNADO AND EVERYHTING AROUND IT!"      Yeah, he just has to make certain.      But the mouths of the Blue-Eyes White Dragons open, as the dragons fly closer to the park. A massive burst of energy forms inside of their mouths. The gigantic destructive beams fly out, to try and destroy the tornado and everything around it.      Honestly this is probably overkill, but also more likely to destroy everything /else/ around rather than the tornado, if the tornado-storm thing can deflect attacks or stuff like that. 

:'''{{#var:560|Emiya Shirou (560)}} has posed:'''     "Wh--" Shirou's stunned. Suddenly, everyone's flying! Okay that's actually pretty terrifying, having the ground flung away from him - oh no wait now he's being dropped into the park.     Just in time for Kaiba to start assaulting everything.     "What are you doing?! You can't punch out a storm!!"     The redhead screams out furiously, and even waves an arm at Kaiba. If he doesn't heed him, Shirou'll probably do something.     For this brief moment though, he's taking a moment to examine his surroundings... 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako inclines her head to the side gently. "Hmm... it's by a park thing, huh?" She smiles softly to Sakura and then nods her head once. "I'll be ready!" And then blinks her eyes quickly when Sakura activates her Float Card. She gazes curiously at the miniature purple hot-air balloon with wings... and then again at the bubble of purple energy the forms around them. When they're lifted upwards, she carefully moves the water to move against the wind so that they aren't blown about while they're floating-that could be bad!     Once they land in the park Ayako glances around quickly... and blinks her eyes quickly when a twister suddenly forms! However, Ayako's gaze is taken more by the magic circle that is forming on the ground. At least until Kaiba suddenly orders his Blue Eyes to start attacking everything! She quickly flings the glowing water ball in her hands upwards and it quickly changes shape! "Mystic Ice Faceted Barrier!"     The water ball swiftly freezes and forms a multi-layerd barrier of ice around everyone so that Kaiba's sudden assualt doesn't end up blasting them along with everything in the park! 

:'''{{#var:43|Rainbow Dash (43)}} has posed:''' In Rainbow Dash defense, she does wait a few seconds for the others to arrive. Only a few seconds. She doesn't have much more patience than that. "Okay, that's it!" She flips her wings back and dives, speeding rapidly for the eye of the storm. Luckily, it didn't take the others long to catch up. She barely gets near the ground when they show up. "About time!" She calls out, speeding past them, "Come on, let's get rid of this-Whoa!" Dash screetches to a halt, just short of blazing energy blasting towards the tornado. "What gives!? Hey! Quit it, featherbrains! I thought you were on our side!" 

:'''{{#var:172|Sakura Kinomoto (172)}} has posed:'''     Sakura pauses for a moment, looking down at the spell circle filling the park. "...Huh. Wait, is that--"     And then everything is exploding.     Luckily, the trio - quartet? - is saved thanks to Ayako's quick intervention! As the smoke clears... there's a crater where Penguin Park used to be. And a feminine, faintly glowing person laying in the center of said crater, smoking. The storm is rapidly dissipating.     Sakura just kinda... stares for a while. 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako drops her ice barrier, which dissolves into water vapor. Perhaps that's for the best. Because Ayako joins Sakura in just sort of staring. After all, it's not everyday that a park just gets cratered right where you are. She doesn't have anything to say. Part of her wants to golf clap at how powerful Kaiba's dragons are. Another part of her is sad that a play park got reduced to a smoking crater. Conflicting urges. Which just result in silence from her. 

:'''{{#var:623|Seto Kaiba (623)}} has posed:'''      And, with the park obliterated, and the storm dissipating, Kaiba lands his three Blue-Eyes /right/ near the park. Smiling /incredibly/ smugly. He's really considering having the cause of the Storm taken into his possession for analysis, but with the number of Elites here at the moment, it is likely /not/ wise.      Also, his helicopter is approaching , and making quite a bit noise as it does so. He speaks though, over it, looking at Sakura, specifically.      "I take it that is the cause of the storm? See to it that this doesn't happen again. If this is your power, it is /your/ fault that this storm took place." 

:'''{{#var:43|Rainbow Dash (43)}} has posed:''' Rainbow Dash stares at the destruction laid out in front of her as a result of Seto's dragons. She might be all for a bit of awesomeness, but that's kind of overdoing it! "/Seriously/?!" Dash twists around in mid air to glare at Seto underneath her goggles. "Ugh, I don't. Just. Are you. AUGH!" She gives up, thrusting her forelimbs down in frustration. She twists back towards Sakura. "Can I kick him? I really want to kick him!" 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya is done with getting everyone clear and comes back to see Kiba just ... do what Kiba will. That is over kill to ensure there is no problem later. Well that was the ... other man she knew this one? Who knows the multiverse is a strange place for all. She is glad everyone's clear however and she bneaces her self casting a barrier just to be sure. 

:'''{{#var:560|Emiya Shirou (560)}} has posed:'''     Shirou hunkers, expecting pain! ... but thanks to Ayako, it doesn't come. He rises, only to SCOWL at Kaiba... scowl harshly. He's criticizing a KID! ... okay a kid mage... okay he's right.     He's right, and that's why Shirou's not refuting him. He's also wrong, and that's why he's scowling!     "And if Ayako wasn't so good with her barriers it would be your fault for anyone getting hurt! Watch where you're blasting, idiot!" BAAAAKAAAAAA. 

:'''{{#var:172|Sakura Kinomoto (172)}} has posed:'''     Sakura watches Kaiba for a few moments, then turns around to face the crater. She hops down into it, sliding a little on the uneven rubble, to kneel down at the unconscious form at the center. She does... something (magic, probably), and soon comes away holding a card in her hand.     She clambers out of the crater, and approaches Seto Kaiba again. She fixes him with a stern look.     "You're under arrest." 

:'''{{#var:623|Seto Kaiba (623)}} has posed:'''      Kaiba just... smiles at Sakura. Hrm. He weighs his options. He /knows/ this is the Multiverse, and that a girl as young as her might have power to arrest someone. It'd be unusual, sure, but not /impossible/. He doesn't want to outright resist arrest either, if possible. But, he doesn't want to deal with the actual process of being taken in, dealing with all of that.      And so, instead, he sighs a little. He casually places a card down. If they /do/ chase him, he'll use the card, but. He's hoping that's not going to be needed.      Instead, Kaiba reaches into a pocket, and throws a card to Sakura. He is /really/ good at throwing cards, it seems. But it is not a Duel Monster Card, no. It is a business card for Kaiba's legal division.      "Call legal, and they'll sort this out. For now, I have other business to attend to. This was simple self defense and trying to protect the peace, after all."      He moves to climb into the Helicopter. 

:'''{{#var:172|Sakura Kinomoto (172)}} has posed:'''     If there's one thing that Sakura is good at - beyond athletics, beyond magic, even...     It's manipulating cardstock.     Her hand snaps up and catches the card between her index and middle fingers. 

:'''{{#var:575|Ayako Hasekawa (575)}} has posed:'''     Ayako walks slowly over to the crater's edge and looks into it. "I... huh. I... Hmm..." She lifts up her hands and it looks like she's... measuring the size of the crater with her hands? 

:'''{{#var:560|Emiya Shirou (560)}} has posed:'''     "O-oi!" Shirou rushes forward, to right behind Kaiba. "Hey, you. I don't care how rich or important you think you are, but aren't you forgetting something that has nothing to do with laws?!"     Oh yes. Shirou's looking pretty heated up over this! The scowl's turned downright angry! 

:'''{{#var:623|Seto Kaiba (623)}} has posed:'''      Kaiba now has Shirou /really/ close to him. The two of them are probably very close in age, but it's unlikely you could find two people who are /more/ opposite. Kaiba, of course, really does /not/ like the fact that Shirou is getting so pissed.      He flips the card.      "SWORDS OF REVEALING LIGHT!"      Several blades that seem to be made of Light itself appear around Shirou, surrounding him on all sides. They aren't damaging, but more meant to keep Shirou from following Kaiba anymore. Kaiba is frowning at the moment.      "I have no clue what you're talking about, but. You better not dare to keep this aggression towards me, or it will end, badly."      Kaiba is now fully in the helicopter, and it is beginning to take off. 

:'''{{#var:560|Emiya Shirou (560)}} has posed:'''     Shirou finds himself suddenly trapped by a strange spell. He can't help but glance left and right at the predicament, though he focuses harder on Kaiba the next moment. "No clue what I'm talking about?! You started blasting every which way with others around! You could've hurt Ayako, Maya, or Sakura!" Strangely he's not putting himself in that list... "Or..." He glances Rainbow Dash's way.     He's not sure who they are. ... At all. Blink.     The young man still clenches a fist and stomps a foot angrily for emphasis! "Don't you owe an apology?!" 

:'''{{#var:623|Seto Kaiba (623)}} has posed:'''      "I apologize for any damage that any of you may of incurred during that attack."      And, the helicopter bursts to the sky, basically gone now, Kaiba of course basically demanding the last word from this situation.      Of course seeing that no one /got/ hurt from his attack it's basically a non-apology. 

:'''{{#var:19|Maya (19)}} has posed:''' Maya look to see Shirou and sighs "Calm down the area was clear of non combatant I ... may not agre but I can get the concept. Putting down an unknown force better to over kill then not use enough force." She's trying to diffuse any thing else she bows lightly toKaiba as he heads off yes best to leave it there she's pretty sure his legal department will be running pardon the pun damage control. 

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|Poses=:'''{{#var:469|Tatsuto Satou (469)}} has posed:'''     DIGIPORT OPEN_     The sensation of being transported to the Digital World, to those of a fleshy biological disposition, is slightly... tingly. There's definitely a sensation of SOME sort of change, but the portal otherwise just feels like a normal warpgate. To an already-digital being, however, they would definitely feel a change - they're going from a Real environment to a Digital one.     The group of explorers appear within Primary Village Seven! Located beside a lake, the village seems to be built out of toy blocks. The ground is oddly squishy, as though padded, despite looking like normal grass and cobblestones...     The sun is up, there are a few clouds, and all in all it's a wonderful day. The air is so CLEAN here... 

:'''{{#var:478|Kudamon (478)}} has posed:'''     Hanging out here is Kudamon. He is a doberman-sized digimon that looks vaguely like a weasel. He does not, however, have a weasel-like look on his face. He has a cheery face as he spots people showing up to Primary Village Seven, and is probably the first one to approach them. "Hello! Welcome to the Digital World," says the Digimon with the serene voice, as he approaches the prospective adventurers. "My name is Kudamon. I am a holy beast Digimon, and I will be assisting Tatsuto in this exploration task." He waves with a red-clawed paw in Tatsuto's direction, though when he turns his head he finds the boy is not there just that second. His smile widens a second, realizing that he might be sidetracked by the baby digimon that populate the village.     "He will be with us shortly. He is a very busy person with plenty of responsibilities." He then floats toward the group a little closer. "If you would," he says, as he reaches into a satchel hanging off of him, pulling out a notepad and a pen. Click! "Could you introduce yourselves?" He's got a very official, calm and friendly air about him. Like a patient tour guide, in fact. 

:'''{{#var:307|Allyn (307)}} has posed:''' A large sabertooth cat stalks through the digital world and the village. He hadn't been there in a while, well, not to the village anyway since the last time. He wanders towards the etrance of the village though and eyes Kudamon and then glances around looking for the baby digimon. He's got a soft spot for them, even if they are little blob looking things, he thinks they are cute, so he's purring quietly to himself. "I'm Allyn and thought that I would come and play with the cubs, are they doing alright?" he tilts his head at Kudamon. 

:'''{{#var:495|Riva Banari (495)}} has posed:''' Yeah, this is weird. Riva is present to assist Tatsuto with their desire to explore this strange world. Since she needs to explore too, there's no reason to not help out while she's at it! But this? This is a little... different than she expected. Upon arrival, Riva looks around at the village, thinking for a moment. "A block village?" She says aloud. "Huh." She holds up her phone and takes some pictures of the area, before turning... And she looks down at the ground. "This is different. Very nice, but different." Kudamon approaches, and he gets a picture immediately. "Oh, hello, Mr. Kudamon!" Riva bows. "I am Riva Banari. It's an honor to meet you! Thank you for your assistance." She looks over in Tatsuto's direction and thinks for a moment. "He's a very important person here?" She asks. "What kinds of responsibilities does he have? Does he care for the children?" While Kudamon is using a notepad, Riva's using her phone to record things. Reports is reports, after all, and even if the Union report ends up filed by someone else, she's going to want to report... home. 

:'''{{#var:8|Deelel (8)}} has posed:''' Whatever Deelel feels it's not the same thing as a organic would, for Deelel's never been made of flesh and blood. She seem to not feel too off as she looks to Riva as she arrives. "Greetings human and hummm so your first time in a digital world?" Deelel pauses as she looks over at Allyn and Kudamon's arrivals as well. "Greetings again. I am Deelel I am a program, the cloest place I have to a home is Afterus." She does take a moment to look over the otehr arrivals and she looks to Riva for a second before looking back to Kudamon. "It's good to meet you Kudamon." 

:'''{{#var:515|Wuyin Tsai (515)}} has posed:''' You know what leaping boldly through warp gates gets you? Lost. You know what getting lost gets you? /Adventure/. Someone else pops through the hole, though not with the Bold Explorers that come largely in one group. He's seperate, at least in the sense that not a single person will have any idea who he is. He shivers, a slightly exaggerated motion that goes from his head to his toes. "Ugh, /that/ was weird. I don't think I've felt something like that since --" He stops, pauses, and looks around. Wuyin spots people he doesn't recognize, entities he can't categorize, and a world that appears to be digitized. He thusly adjusts his glasses -- the 3D kind, natch -- and pulls out his cell phone. There's a little 'click' now and then as he starts taking pictures. He also begins wandering mostly forward while he does it. He glances at Kudamon, double-taking and swinging his phone's camera thataway. *Click.* "Digital World? That's new. Unless everything's already... hmmm. My name's Wuyin; call me Wu. /I'm/," he says, exaggerating the syllable slightly, leaning forward as if conspiratorial, "from /an Earth/." He goes back to getting snapshots. Ooooh, aaaah. 

:'''{{#var:469|Tatsuto Satou (469)}} has posed:'''     Tatsuto vanished pretty much as soon as the group arrived. Soon enough, however, he ends up falling out of one of the buildings - which no one saw him actually ENTER, oddly - covered with half a dozen... blobs. Blobs with eyes, and of various colours.     Tatsuto crashes against the padded ground, laughing. "Sheesh, I've only been gone for an hour!" he 'complains', scratching one of the more complicated blobs - this one has feet! And a... leaf! - behind the... well. Behind the leaf.     He raises a hand to the crowd - in a 'be with you in a second' sort of gesture - before setting the blobs down in front of him. More blobs are peering out from behind various objects and buildings... seems like they're shy.     "Okay, guys. I'm gonna be going away for a few hours. So you guys be good, and-"     A tiny dragon's head-like blob lip-wobbles. "B-but Tatsuto...! All these people are here...!"     "Oh, don't worry, Hoppy. They're coming with me," Tatsuto says to the shy lil' dragon, smiling. One of the less-developed blobs tries to hold onto Tatsuto... by nomming on his finger. This doesn't appear to hurt. "Look, don't worry, Hina will be here soon! Buuut... before she arrives... Poromon's in charge."     "What!" comes the voice of the green leafy blob. "How come Poromon egts to be in charge? I'm the oldest!"     "Nu-uh! You heard him! I'm in charge~" says a pink... bird's head.     Okay this place is weird. 

:'''{{#var:478|Kudamon (478)}} has posed:'''     Kudamon smiles and gives varying reactions at each of the explorers as they introduce themselves.     Riva gets a nod and a smile. Nothing odd about her, and her behavior strikes him as someone here for the learning experience. He mysteriously avoids answering the questions, just giving her a knowing smile and knowing that the question will be answered soon if she's paying attention. "Hello, Miss Banari. Thank you for coming."     Deelel's introduction is short and informative. He replies to it by nodding once at her. "A pleasure," he tells her.     Wuyin's introduction gets his brows to raise and his smile fade for something of a mild disbelieving face. The tone he takes to telling him where he comes from makes him smirk, because he's fairly sure that the guy is not used to the Multiverse just yet. "Hello, Wu." He gestures over his shoulder at the exchange between Tatsuto and the baby digimon with the pen. "He's also from an Earth," he tells Wuyin, his serene smile, "The Earth associated with this Digital World."     Allyn gets a look of confusion for a second. "Ahh? You should come with us, then. We should be back here by the end of the journey, so you'll get to play with the digimon when we get back." He nods at Allyn.     He scribbles down the names of the adventurers, and stuffs the notepad and pen back in his trusty satchel. "Alright then. Before making any snap decisions, you should ask Tatsuto or myself about anything you are not comfortable with. There are many Digimon with very intimidating appearances, who bear no ill will to humans or other Digimon, or other beings. They can be reasoned with, or if they can't be, there is usually a good reason for that as well." With that disclaimer in mind, he shines a bright smile at them, the air around him seeming to glow a bit.     "Once Tatsuto is ready to go, we will be heading to the nearest forested region, to see what's there. Forests are usually home to insect and beast Digimon, which carry simplistic lifestyles and personalities. Splitting up to explore is encouraged," he says, as he digs into his pack, producing a set of smoke flare guns, and providing them to the various individuals. "Use one of these to signal the others if you feel as if you are in danger or if you encounter a hostile Digimon. If you must defend yourself, be careful not to get excessive about it." 

:'''{{#var:8|Deelel (8)}} has posed:''' Deelel pauses as Wuyin takes photos, she starts playing to the camera and posing for him for the moment. Once he's done she just smirks at him before giving him another good go over. "Your strange even for a human, Wu." He's already proving to be interesting. She has tio wonder about Wuyin and Riva. Both are new and have caught her attention along with Tatsuto and Kudamon as well. It was really good for her to get out and off of the Afterus net for a little while, wasn't it? She watched as Tatsuto said good bye to some of the locals and she smiles at Hoppy. "When we return I might have some stories to share. I know a very good one." She turns her attention back to Kudamon now. "Curious I'll keep that in mind. This should be interesting, and I will restrian myself if I am attacked. Don't worry, I have no plans to cube anyone!" 

:'''{{#var:307|Allyn (307)}} has posed:''' Allyn purrs somemore and nods to Kudamon, "This soudns like it might be kind of fun." he ponders to see if there are any questions, "Well, there really isn't too much trouble expected, right? Maybe we wont run into anything that we need to defend ourselves against. As long as no one acts hostile towards them." at least that's the way it seems to have been ebfore anyway. 

:'''{{#var:495|Riva Banari (495)}} has posed:''' The appearance of the small Digimon causes Riva to make a surprised expresson as she whirls to face Tatsuto. "Oh my goodness! They're so cute!" She says, chuckling for a moment. "I never imagined to ever see this when I woke up..." She does not, however, intervene to help Tatsu. They're clearly shy already and she doesn't want to send the skittish children running for hide. This is /their/ place after all. Riva gives Deelel a wave. It's only polite. She then looks over to Wuyin as he arrives. "Huh. I'm from Earth too." She comments. But then... which one... "Good to meet you." Introductions being over for the moment, she pays close attention to Kudamon, recording everything she can on her phone as he speaks. She quickly learned that it pays to be meticulous about her record-keeping. "So rule one: Don't panic. Got it!" She smiles, and nods. "Makes sense, there's bound to be a lot here we won't understand at first." She takes a flare gun and puts it in her pocket. "This is going to be amazing, I haven't been on a field trip like this in years." She nods, reassuring Kudamon. "I'll be careful!" She waves to Allyn too. She remembers the strange cat from Ivalice. She looks pumped and ready to go! 

:'''{{#var:515|Wuyin Tsai (515)}} has posed:''' "Do most humans seem strange to you? Maybe it's a matter of perspective." He takes another shot of Deelel, and swings the phone towards Tatsuto and the baby digimon. Click. Click. He waves with his free hand, still looking down at the phone rather than forward at people. Wuyin points it at Kudamon, his way of peering thataway. "Good! Less things to clear up. It would be really awkward if I had to explain what a phone was." Click. He wanders slightly, circling the group in a sort of vague, lazily orbital kind of way. He takes a shot of Riva, tapping something on his screen. He smiles. "I know. Hey, what do you think of this one?" He turns the display towards Riva for a span of a few seconds. It's on a notepad screen, with '2 KINGS 19:27' displayed. She's the only one who can see it, and only for a couple instants. He turns it back, mutters, "Huh," and goes back to taking a record. "So," he asks the group at large, "where're we going?" He's part of the 'we' now, clearly. 

:'''{{#var:469|Tatsuto Satou (469)}} has posed:'''     Tatsuto has, by this time, managed to extricate himself from the baby Digimon. He grins. "Yo, Allyn! Good to see you! And... everyone else, thanks for showing up!"     The points to Wuyin. "I have no idea who you are! But eh." He turns around on one heel, pointing towards the forest. "ONWARDS!" And then he starts to walk - and an adorable little puppy leaps off a neabry building and lands on his shoulder. "...I'm Tatsuto, by the way, those who don't know. And this bundle of adorbs is Plotmon."     Introductions done (as far as he's concerned), Tatsuto heads out of the village and towards the forest! The ground outside the white picket fence feels... like normal grass. The padding is unique to the inside of the village, apparently.     The forest isn't too far! There's not really anything between it and the village, though. Just wide, open meadows and rolling hills. Then again, the view into the distance is rather obscured by said hills, various forests, and a single mountain in the distance... 

:'''{{#var:478|Kudamon (478)}} has posed:'''     Kudamon is particularly curious about Wuyin's odd mannerisms, but doesn't pay it too much mind. Like a researcher, perhaps, someone here to better understand. A lot like Riva, but in a different tone. He notes the similarity much more when Wu speaks to Riva, doing something that implies they should know each other in some manner.     The journey to the forest, and through the outer reaches, is uneventful. They find a convenient path through it and spot a variety of small Child-level Digimon of various species that seem to avoid them for the most part, like any Earth wildlife might. They live in a tenuous social order, after all, so they avoid any unknowns.     Until they reach a structure off of a fork in the rough path.     Kudamon stares at the ruins. "A temple?" he wonders. Indeed, it looks like it has some sort of significance, maybe a temple. It bears a vague similarity to, say, old South American designs, to give it a stereotypically ancient feel. It looks much older than the surrounding forests really indicate. There's no other sign of civilization nearby, or at least in visible range.     The temple is decorated with symbols, surprisingly, that look identical to the script etched into the rings that decorate Kudamon's body. Despite this, he seems to ignore the letters, more concerned with the safety of the stairs should anyone want to climb it, and he even pauses to inspect a precarious column and test its ability to support its own weight with a push here and there so that no one is accidentally crushed. The ruins look centuries or even millenia old, even if that doesn't make much sense. It just feels that ancient and mysterious. Kudamon just doesn't want that to also mean dangerous.     He's very safety-minded, not wanting anyone in the party to get hurt. But he's also not terribly mindful of them, believing they can handle themselves for the most part unless something arises to the contrary.     Kudamon has no idea what to think of this place, though, that much is obvious. 

:'''{{#var:307|Allyn (307)}} has posed:''' Allyn bows his head to Riva in recognition, "Hello again." he tells her and then when Tatsuto goes off, he follows after him and the others. He has stuff he needs to fill the boy in on again, but not right now. He does remember that Angemon's warning to him though, but quite throughly ignores it, though he does look around just to make sure that same Angemon isn't watching him right now. "Yes, it is good to see you again Tatsuto, I've been busy with some other things, sorry I haven't had time to come and visit." he also greets Plotmon as well. He blinks at the ruins and the stairs, well, not something you see everyday anywhere, right? Well, that's what they are here for, exploring, so the large cat makes his way towards the stairs and starts to pad up the slowly. 

:'''{{#var:495|Riva Banari (495)}} has posed:''' Riva looks at the message, and she blinks, looking to her phone and tapping. She looks back at Wu and frowns for a moment, squinting, "It's interesting, all right." She says, but she seems to shrug it off for a moment, instead turning away. She's not going to ruin a perfectly good field trip with shenanigans. Tatsuto comes up and directs them with the assistance of Plotmon. The appearance of the tiny puppy causes Riva pause. It looks like she's susceptible to cute. "You seem to always attract the cute ones, Tatsuto..." She jokes, before following him out of the village. She blinks at the change of the ground, nodding to herself. Why not? She surveys the area, looking around. "Wow, everything is so open and fresh." She comments. "This would do wonders for a workout area." They reach the forest, and Riva looks around, watching the foliage carefully, moving along until they reach a temple. "Wow!" She approaches the temple, taking careful notes and lots of pictures. "This looks a little like some of the ruined temples on our world, but the inscriptions are nothing alike." She taps at the lines a little bit with a finger, humming to herself. She smiles her appreciation at Kudamon ensuring that the area is relatively safe to move through, and begins climbing up. Riva is athletic enough and begins poking around at nooks and crannies to see if anything catches her eye, or if a way inside presents itself. As she does so, however, she keeps an /eye/ on Wu. 

:'''{{#var:515|Wuyin Tsai (515)}} has posed:''' Wu gives Tatsuto a glance, and a quick thumbs-up. "That's okay! I don't know who /you/ are, either!" He feels it puts them on even footing. He makes a gesture like tipping an invisible hat at Plotmon while he's at it. "Does he, she or it tell you the plot?" he asks. Wuyin feels someone must. If he notes Kudamon and Riva watching him, he doesn't show it. Instead, he falls into step with the group of explorers, taking pictures of the tiny Digimon as they come across them and of interesting looking flora while he's at it. He seems to be pleased to be exploring, and doesn't seem terribly bothered by not knowing anyone. Even if he /is/ acting kind of familiar with Riva. He might just be doing it to mess with her. "Oh, wow. Very nice! Very Mayan. Old, too." Wuyin moves on forward, taking careful pictures of the script. "Though, if this is a digital world, do you suppose it has always been here, pre-rendered to /appear/ old? Hmmm... I don't suppose you can read this," he asks, turning his head slightly to cast a glance at Kudamon. Riva goes up, so Wuyin goes around. He starts to inspect the base of it and the area around the temple, watching carefully for anything unusual, or any particular places that seem arranged /just right/. If he were a knowledge-collecting hive-mind of extradimensional bees, he would hide tidbits in the designs of the architecture to trigger a sort of transmission. They're wily like that. 

:'''{{#var:8|Deelel (8)}} has posed:''' Deelel says, "::Says "No your strange even for humans, then again I who knows. Either way your intersting to me Wu." She looks over to Riva and has to wonder just how many Earths there are after all. "Well this trip should be fun right? Also hello Tatsuto, and Plotmon." She bows a little bit before she heads off with the group chosing to not break off. She takes notice of the ruins with a good deal of intrest as she pauses to look over the script and the like. "This is curious..." She pauses for a moment at the mentionf Mayans. "As the earth culture? No I find messing with a digital world's source code can be very risky, I have done it before but it's not to be done lightly."" 

:'''{{#var:469|Tatsuto Satou (469)}} has posed:'''     Tatsuto points at Wu. "Plott Hound! Look it up!" And then continues walking. As they pass various Digimon, he smiles at them, giving little finger waves and everything. His presence seems to put them slightly at ease...     As they reach it, Tatsuto stares up at the ruins. "...Holy... I didn't know -anything- like this was here!" He's all giddy with excitement. "This changes everything! I think. I actually don't know anything much about the Digital World at -all-, so..."     The clambers up the stairs leading to what -appears- to be the main worship area... or perhaps it's a gathering area of some sort. Is this even a temple? There are crude pictures on the walls - what appear to be a chameleon, a toucan and a... kangaroo... wearing boxing gloves.     Huh.     There are torches burning in the lower areas, without windows to let light in. Although on closer inspection, the 'flames' are actually -light bulbs- set into complexly-shaped sockets that merely give the illusion of flickering flames. The upper areas have no such artificial lighting, instead letting the sunlight simply shine in through expansive windows and skylights.     Kudamon may notice something interesting while checking the safety of the temple. A certain symbol is repeated throughout the decorations - it's not a DigiLetter, either. It looks like a stylised rose...     http://tinyurl.com/prtvk7v     The others, in their explorations, find... lots of corridors. Oddly, there's no dust, or any signs of any Digimon actually living in the building. Riva and Wuyin, alas, find no snippets of lore beaming into their heads. Perhaps the Bees don't know anything about this world? 

:'''{{#var:515|Wuyin Tsai (515)}} has posed:''' Wuyin looks it up. Scenthound and boar hunter, huh? That explains it. (Less cool than his assertation, though...) Wu seems pretty interested in the flame lightbulbs. When he finds one, he holds his hand near it to see if it's actually warm; then, if it isn't /hot/, he tries to see if he can unscrew it from a socket and take a look at its construction. Then he'll take one, because why not, you never know when a lightbulb is gonna come in handy. No Bee noises. It's kind of a relief! Kind of sad, too. Maybe he isn't in the right spot...? 

:'''{{#var:495|Riva Banari (495)}} has posed:''' Riva is less concerned about bees providing some background information as enjoying the moment, and perhaps teasing some answers to the questions on everyone's mind out of the construction. This is definately more interesting to her. "So you guys never noticed this thing before? Is the Digital World really that unexplored?" As she moves, she does take out a pad of paper and a pen of her own, doing sketches of the entities depicted there. "I feel like a real archaeologist!" She doesn't poke at the lights, focusing on the drawings. She seems to be interested in doing a hand-drawn reproduction of some kind instead of just using her phone to take pictures. "Do any of you know who these are suppoed to be?" She asks. 

:'''{{#var:307|Allyn (307)}} has posed:''' Allyn glances around still, he blinks at the wall, not sure really what to make of things. He pads alongside Tatsuto, "This is an interesting place it looks like. What are those things on that one creature's front legs? strange." he sits down and swishes his tail curiously. 

:'''{{#var:8|Deelel (8)}} has posed:''' Deelel keeps an eye out ofor anything of notes, she pauses for a moment as she's not sure about what Tatsuto has found but it's clear he's quite excited about things She takes a good look at the symbol they find and wonders about it she's got to wonder a lot. Also there seems to be no here? Is that true? It's hard to tell for her. She does look over to Wu, Riva and Allyn. "My own world can be such, old sectors that long have gone bad can be full of all sorts of things." 

:'''{{#var:478|Kudamon (478)}} has posed:'''     Kudamon blinks several times as he takes note of the flower shape. He runs his claws over it, fixated on it in particular. The writing itself is largely overlooked, but he does remember to mention to the others, "The DigiLetters are largely nonsense combinations," he tells them, "They are a direct one-to-one of Japanese word pronunciations, but you'd need to know the context to really read these, which we sorely lack." He lets out a sigh.     As they advance and spot various Digimon drawings, he tells the others their names, "Chamelemon, Tucanmon, Kangarumon. They're Digimon linked to the concept of Kindness, a sort of elemental force for Digimon and a source of power, representing the strength a partner can give to their Digimon and the benefit they provide to the Digital World. Tatsuto is linked to it, so it makes sense for the Village to be so close to this place, or the other way around." He reaches to the Digivice on his collar, and pulls it off the chain. He holds it up, and shows some of the others the symbol on the back. "The symbol for Friendship, for instance." He smiles at the group as a whole. "Of course, this is all mythology and amounts to religious edicts. In our cases, it provides a direct power boost. I receive power from bonds of various individuals, and Plotmon receives strength of heart from Tatsuto."     He then blinks once or twice. "Ahh... I apologize, I got ahead of myself." Sniff. "At any rate, there are nine of these elements and each represent an emotion or personality trait like this." Then he lists them off, after putting the digivice back on his collar. "Courage, Friendship, Love, Knowledge, Faithfulness, Purity, Hope, Light, and Kindness. All of them positive traits, meant to improve and protect the Digital World. Certain Digimon species are directly connected to them, or directly oppose them." 

:'''{{#var:469|Tatsuto Satou (469)}} has posed:'''     Tatsuto tilts his head slightly. "...I've never heard of any of those Digimon," he comments idly, while looking at one of the figures Kudamon referred to. "...Weird. I thought I'd memorised all of them."     "How is 'light' a personality trait anyway," he mutters, mostly to himself. It seems like something he's asked before, because he doesn't seriously seem to be looking for an answer.     "...Well. Has... anyone found anything? This place is pretty neat, but... I wonder if there's anything -here-, or if it's just all foreshadowy."     He crosses his arms. "Maybe we should bring in some experts... if there's such a thing..." 

:'''{{#var:307|Allyn (307)}} has posed:''' Allyn shakes his head, "I don't really see anything, though I wouldn't know what I was looking at even if I did see something." his tailtip twitches a little bit." he growls softly, "Though if you want to bring people that know, don't bring that woman. She's not good news." though its not really the woman he's worried about, it's that Angemon that follows her around that concerns him. "Maybe we should look around a bit more and see if there's anything else interesting to find?" he gets up and pads around looking. 

:'''{{#var:8|Deelel (8)}} has posed:''' Deelel looks to Kudamon as she's well not literate in the local lanuage. She looks at him giving more information. She gets the idea it's like trying to go over source code you know what the commands do but not what they are applied to if it's not commented. "I see that atually pretty interesting actually, I not seen and curious. I admit my own relgious issues have been interesting here in the multiverse." She looks over at the two human memebers of the party ith a bemused look at her face and keeps silent as she mills over the rest of the information. "Thank you for the lesson, it's quite useful." 

:'''{{#var:515|Wuyin Tsai (515)}} has posed:''' Wuyin rounds the temple, still walking and examining. "You know, I think the idea that these nine elements are meant to improve your world says a great deal about it. Does this mean there are opposing forces to the nine you've mentioned," he asks, starting to climb up the temple, "or do they exist in a vacuum? You said certain species oppose them, so I assume someone has categorized them by now." This is an assumption he does not actually make, though he's glad to let someone think he's made it. All Wuyin assumes is that people did things at some point, and that occasionally they make some sort of sense. It wouldn't surprise him if nobody bothered to figure out what, if anything, opposed these 'elements.' Maybe something needs to. Hm. 

:'''{{#var:495|Riva Banari (495)}} has posed:''' Riva takes copious notes to Kudamon's lecture on what amounts to Digimon religion and how they have a very real effect on said Digimon. "Huh!" Riva says, turning around to look at Tasuto carefully. "Well, I guess you do have a lot of responsibilities! Riva sighs slightly, tilting her head. "This place is really interesting. If you need help with any problems, I'll be happy to give you a hand with them. " She shakes her head though. "I didn't find anything that it looked like I could do anything unusual with. Maybe whatever this place is meant to do... The conditions just aren't right?" She glances over at Wuyin and blinks at the look on his face. "You look like you're thinking of something. What's up?" 

:'''{{#var:478|Kudamon (478)}} has posed:'''     "The opposites are fairly self-explanatory. In my world, the direct opposing force is not direct anti-forms, but representations of the seven deadly sins of judeo-christian origin," Kudamon explains to Wuyin, waving his finger about in that nerdy sort of way. Is he sure he's not Knowledge? He sure does talk a lot. "In this world, the direct opposition is simply a force called the Dark Ocean, which corrupts and destroys." He gestures to Tatsuto, who might know more about it than he does.     "It could be that there is something here we're missing. It's quite likely, actually. Those Digimon on the wall, though, represent /Armor/ digivolutions, so this is clearly related to the Digimon armors in some way. Perhaps some artifact of Kindness rests here."     He turns to look for it by lifting pieces of rubble and pushing at walls, looking for secrets. He doesn't managed to find anything, though. 

:'''{{#var:469|Tatsuto Satou (469)}} has posed:'''     Tatsuto raises his hand. "I know absolutely nothing about the Dark Ocean. Like, at all." 

:'''{{#var:495|Riva Banari (495)}} has posed:''' "If there were some important artifact here, would it be lying here to take? There's probably some ritual or stellar conjunction or whatever that would be needed to expose it. This temple is pretty big, it could be anywhere." She frowns. "I guess we'll just need to look into it later when the times are right." She nods to Tatsuto and Kudamon, however. "Thank you both for having me here, though. I appreciate it. It was very educational." 

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Radio Frequencies

2014-07-17T01:04:29Z

YukiAkuma:

This page aims to list all radio frequencies which are either public or semi-private, based on voluntary listing. You can add them yourself, or send Homura an @mail with the listing information if you don't feel comfortable editing this page yourself or hate Mediawiki code.

Please note that whether or not a frequency is marked as encrypted or public doesn't make it any less impolite to just jump onto a frequency your character has no immediate tie-in to. If you have the slightest doubt about it, make sure to ask the owner whether or not your character can get on it or if it's alright to observe.

'''Freq''': The frequency.

'''Owner''': The current moderator of the frequency.

'''Enc''': Whether or not the frequency is encrypted, and how to get its encryption key, i.e. "ask owner".

'''Purpose''': What the frequency is for.

==All-Purpose/TP Frequencies:==
{| class="wikitable sortable" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Freq
! style="text-align:left" width="10%"| Owner
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Enc
! style="text-align:left" width="75%"| Purpose
|-
|| 06.08 || [[Milla Maxwell]] || No || Tales of Xillia-1 stuff, doubles as local cross-factional during scenes.
|-
|| 16.03 || [[Homura Akemi]] || No || Anyone involved, wishing to be involved, or planning to get involved in Madoka-1 scenes, whether random ones or TP ones, is free to have this frequency on. It will not always be used, but expect it to replace Union-IC when Unaffiliated or Confederate parties are involved, or when we have to discuss things and X-U isn't an option. You should only actually ICly know about/use the frequency once you've been told about it, though. (Attend a scene/be told/etc.)
|-
|| 95.5 || [[Courier Six]] || No || Mojave Wasteland general frequencies, also Radio New Vegas
|-
|| 413.612 || [[Summer Powers]] || No || Pesterchum Chat. Open to public. Codenames are used. Two words together, first one lowercased, second capitalized. profoundBadness and crowravenWolfmoon are examples.
|-
|| 66.6 || [[Psyber]] || Ask || Heaven or Hell backup radio. Will be utilized for smaller scenes featuring group members as well as splitting conversations off the main band.
|-
|| 11.5 || [[Elise Leroy]] || Ask || XCOM-1 'public' radio frequency, for allies not directly involved in XCOM day-to-day activities. Used for field ops also.
|-
|| 13.37 || [[Chris Rothschild]] || No || Hacknet, a public frequency for techies, hackers, etc.
|-
|| 00.04 || [[Alternis Dim]] || No || Frequency for all Bravely Default-1 scenes/TPs/etc.
|-
|| 305.19 || [[Elliana Fairchild]] || No || Frequency for all cross-factional communications related to Elliana's various scenes, plots and TPs when J-IC isn't an option.
|-
|| 900.1 || [[Mister Satan]]/[[Serori]] || No || Yearly frequency for the WMAT's (tournament) IC chatter.
|-
|| 42.0 || [[Theo Morrison]] || No || Radio Free Nerdery. Public channel for casual talk from nerds of all stripes.
|-
|| 3.853 || [[Kirito]] || No || Radio frequency for Kirito's Node scenes (Abstractum TP).
|-
|| 192.9 || [[Eliot Ness]] || No || Radio frequency for Assassin's Creed: The Untouchables scenes.
|-
|| 7746.54 || [[Fuki]] || No || Radio frequency for Confederate Shinki.
|-
|| 44.44 || [[Ciaran]] || Ask || Radio frequency reserved for Dark Souls cast members. Please inquire before joining us. May be used for Dark Souls theme scenes.
|-
|| 4.97 || [[Mizuki]] || No || A frequency to share dreams, both the ones you have when you sleep and the ones you have when you're awake. Casual philosophy talk is also permitted. All of this is IC, cross-factional, and anonymous unless a person intentionally reveals themselves. The owner of the channel is common knowledge, however. Completely public.
|-
|| 53.13 || [[Sakura Kinomoto]] || No || Frequency for discussion related to the Deck of Light node.
|}

==Personal Frequencies:==
{| class="wikitable sortable" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Freq
! style="text-align:left" width="10%"| Owner
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Enc
! style="text-align:left" width="75%"| Purpose
|-
|| 141.80 || [[Solid Snake]] || Ask || Snake's personal CODEC frequency.
|-
|| 9979.5 || [[Iria]] || Ask || Iria's communicator frequency.
|-
|}

==WMAT Frequencies:==
{| class="wikitable sortable" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Freq
! style="text-align:left" width="15%"| Arena
! style="text-align:left" width="75%"| Purpose
|-
|| 900.1 || All || All-purpose WMAT IC chatter frequency.
|-
|| 900.2 || Devil's Hand || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.3 || Diablo Desert || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.4 || Gizard Wasteland || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.5 || Northern Mountains || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.6 || Spinach Wasteland || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.7 || Yunzabit Heights || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.8 || Tournament Stadium || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|}
[[Category:Index]]

Radio Frequencies

2014-07-17T01:04:08Z

YukiAkuma:

This page aims to list all radio frequencies which are either public or semi-private, based on voluntary listing. You can add them yourself, or send Homura an @mail with the listing information if you don't feel comfortable editing this page yourself or hate Mediawiki code.

Please note that whether or not a frequency is marked as encrypted or public doesn't make it any less impolite to just jump onto a frequency your character has no immediate tie-in to. If you have the slightest doubt about it, make sure to ask the owner whether or not your character can get on it or if it's alright to observe.

'''Freq''': The frequency.

'''Owner''': The current moderator of the frequency.

'''Enc''': Whether or not the frequency is encrypted, and how to get its encryption key, i.e. "ask owner".

'''Purpose''': What the frequency is for.

==All-Purpose/TP Frequencies:==
{| class="wikitable sortable" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Freq
! style="text-align:left" width="10%"| Owner
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Enc
! style="text-align:left" width="75%"| Purpose
|-
|| 06.08 || [[Milla Maxwell]] || No || Tales of Xillia-1 stuff, doubles as local cross-factional during scenes.
|-
|| 16.03 || [[Homura Akemi]] || No || Anyone involved, wishing to be involved, or planning to get involved in Madoka-1 scenes, whether random ones or TP ones, is free to have this frequency on. It will not always be used, but expect it to replace Union-IC when Unaffiliated or Confederate parties are involved, or when we have to discuss things and X-U isn't an option. You should only actually ICly know about/use the frequency once you've been told about it, though. (Attend a scene/be told/etc.)
|-
|| 95.5 || [[Courier Six]] || No || Mojave Wasteland general frequencies, also Radio New Vegas
|-
|| 413.612 || [[Summer Powers]] || No || Pesterchum Chat. Open to public. Codenames are used. Two words together, first one lowercased, second capitalized. profoundBadness and crowravenWolfmoon are examples.
|-
|| 66.6 || [[Psyber]] || Ask || Heaven or Hell backup radio. Will be utilized for smaller scenes featuring group members as well as splitting conversations off the main band.
|-
|| 11.5 || [[Elise Leroy]] || Ask || XCOM-1 'public' radio frequency, for allies not directly involved in XCOM day-to-day activities. Used for field ops also.
|-
|| 13.37 || [[Chris Rothschild]] || No || Hacknet, a public frequency for techies, hackers, etc.
|-
|| 00.04 || [[Alternis Dim]] || No || Frequency for all Bravely Default-1 scenes/TPs/etc.
|-
|| 305.19 || [[Elliana Fairchild]] || No || Frequency for all cross-factional communications related to Elliana's various scenes, plots and TPs when J-IC isn't an option.
|-
|| 900.1 || [[Mister Satan]]/[[Serori]] || No || Yearly frequency for the WMAT's (tournament) IC chatter.
|-
|| 42.0 || [[Theo Morrison]] || No || Radio Free Nerdery. Public channel for casual talk from nerds of all stripes.
|-
|| 3.853 || [[Kirito]] || No || Radio frequency for Kirito's Node scenes (Abstractum TP).
|-
|| 192.9 || [[Eliot Ness]] || No || Radio frequency for Assassin's Creed: The Untouchables scenes.
|-
|| 7746.54 || [[Fuki]] || No || Radio frequency for Confederate Shinki.
|-
|| 44.44 || [[Ciaran]] || Ask || Radio frequency reserved for Dark Souls cast members. Please inquire before joining us. May be used for Dark Souls theme scenes.
|-
|| 4.97 || [[Mizuki]] || No || A frequency to share dreams, both the ones you have when you sleep and the ones you have when you're awake. Casual philosophy talk is also permitted. All of this is IC, cross-factional, and anonymous unless a person intentionally reveals themselves. The owner of the channel is common knowledge, however. Completely public.
|-
|| 53.13 || [[Sakura_Kinomoto]] || No || Frequency for discussion related to the Deck of Light node.
|}

==Personal Frequencies:==
{| class="wikitable sortable" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Freq
! style="text-align:left" width="10%"| Owner
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Enc
! style="text-align:left" width="75%"| Purpose
|-
|| 141.80 || [[Solid Snake]] || Ask || Snake's personal CODEC frequency.
|-
|| 9979.5 || [[Iria]] || Ask || Iria's communicator frequency.
|-
|}

==WMAT Frequencies:==
{| class="wikitable sortable" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Freq
! style="text-align:left" width="15%"| Arena
! style="text-align:left" width="75%"| Purpose
|-
|| 900.1 || All || All-purpose WMAT IC chatter frequency.
|-
|| 900.2 || Devil's Hand || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.3 || Diablo Desert || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.4 || Gizard Wasteland || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.5 || Northern Mountains || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.6 || Spinach Wasteland || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.7 || Yunzabit Heights || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.8 || Tournament Stadium || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|}
[[Category:Index]]

Radio Frequencies

2014-07-17T01:03:47Z

YukiAkuma:

This page aims to list all radio frequencies which are either public or semi-private, based on voluntary listing. You can add them yourself, or send Homura an @mail with the listing information if you don't feel comfortable editing this page yourself or hate Mediawiki code.

Please note that whether or not a frequency is marked as encrypted or public doesn't make it any less impolite to just jump onto a frequency your character has no immediate tie-in to. If you have the slightest doubt about it, make sure to ask the owner whether or not your character can get on it or if it's alright to observe.

'''Freq''': The frequency.

'''Owner''': The current moderator of the frequency.

'''Enc''': Whether or not the frequency is encrypted, and how to get its encryption key, i.e. "ask owner".

'''Purpose''': What the frequency is for.

==All-Purpose/TP Frequencies:==
{| class="wikitable sortable" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Freq
! style="text-align:left" width="10%"| Owner
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Enc
! style="text-align:left" width="75%"| Purpose
|-
|| 06.08 || [[Milla Maxwell]] || No || Tales of Xillia-1 stuff, doubles as local cross-factional during scenes.
|-
|| 16.03 || [[Homura Akemi]] || No || Anyone involved, wishing to be involved, or planning to get involved in Madoka-1 scenes, whether random ones or TP ones, is free to have this frequency on. It will not always be used, but expect it to replace Union-IC when Unaffiliated or Confederate parties are involved, or when we have to discuss things and X-U isn't an option. You should only actually ICly know about/use the frequency once you've been told about it, though. (Attend a scene/be told/etc.)
|-
|| 95.5 || [[Courier Six]] || No || Mojave Wasteland general frequencies, also Radio New Vegas
|-
|| 413.612 || [[Summer Powers]] || No || Pesterchum Chat. Open to public. Codenames are used. Two words together, first one lowercased, second capitalized. profoundBadness and crowravenWolfmoon are examples.
|-
|| 66.6 || [[Psyber]] || Ask || Heaven or Hell backup radio. Will be utilized for smaller scenes featuring group members as well as splitting conversations off the main band.
|-
|| 11.5 || [[Elise Leroy]] || Ask || XCOM-1 'public' radio frequency, for allies not directly involved in XCOM day-to-day activities. Used for field ops also.
|-
|| 13.37 || [[Chris Rothschild]] || No || Hacknet, a public frequency for techies, hackers, etc.
|-
|| 00.04 || [[Alternis Dim]] || No || Frequency for all Bravely Default-1 scenes/TPs/etc.
|-
|| 305.19 || [[Elliana Fairchild]] || No || Frequency for all cross-factional communications related to Elliana's various scenes, plots and TPs when J-IC isn't an option.
|-
|| 900.1 || [[Mister Satan]]/[[Serori]] || No || Yearly frequency for the WMAT's (tournament) IC chatter.
|-
|| 42.0 || [[Theo Morrison]] || No || Radio Free Nerdery. Public channel for casual talk from nerds of all stripes.
|-
|| 3.853 || [[Kirito]] || No || Radio frequency for Kirito's Node scenes (Abstractum TP).
|-
|| 192.9 || [[Eliot Ness]] || No || Radio frequency for Assassin's Creed: The Untouchables scenes.
|-
|| 7746.54 || [[Fuki]] || No || Radio frequency for Confederate Shinki.
|-
|| 44.44 || [[Ciaran]] || Ask || Radio frequency reserved for Dark Souls cast members. Please inquire before joining us. May be used for Dark Souls theme scenes.
|-
|| 4.97 || [[Mizuki]] || No || A frequency to share dreams, both the ones you have when you sleep and the ones you have when you're awake. Casual philosophy talk is also permitted. All of this is IC, cross-factional, and anonymous unless a person intentionally reveals themselves. The owner of the channel is common knowledge, however. Completely public.
|-
|| 53.13 || {{Sakura_Kinomoto}} || No || Frequency for discussion related to the Deck of Light node.
|}

==Personal Frequencies:==
{| class="wikitable sortable" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Freq
! style="text-align:left" width="10%"| Owner
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Enc
! style="text-align:left" width="75%"| Purpose
|-
|| 141.80 || [[Solid Snake]] || Ask || Snake's personal CODEC frequency.
|-
|| 9979.5 || [[Iria]] || Ask || Iria's communicator frequency.
|-
|}

==WMAT Frequencies:==
{| class="wikitable sortable" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
! style="text-align:left" width="5%"| Freq
! style="text-align:left" width="15%"| Arena
! style="text-align:left" width="75%"| Purpose
|-
|| 900.1 || All || All-purpose WMAT IC chatter frequency.
|-
|| 900.2 || Devil's Hand || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.3 || Diablo Desert || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.4 || Gizard Wasteland || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.5 || Northern Mountains || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.6 || Spinach Wasteland || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.7 || Yunzabit Heights || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|| 900.8 || Tournament Stadium || Frequency for listening to specific match commentary.
|-
|}
[[Category:Index]]

WMAT B1 Richard Stadler vs. Ms. Fortune

2014-06-28T22:09:47Z

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|Poses=:'''{{#var:29|Mel (29)}} has posed:''' "LAAAAAAAAAAAAAADIIIIIIES AND GENTLEEEEEEEEEEMENNNNNN!!! Welcome to another very special World Martial Arts Tournament event!" The crowd roars enthusiastically! "We're live, at Yunzabit Heights, where towering spires of solid rock are outdone only by the ambition and drive of our competitors!" More cheering, whistles, clapping. "Today we have for you two very special competitors indeed... our first competitor, is a girl... excuse, woman, who has built up quite a reputation as a helpful reliever of others material burdens, and she's not the first we've seen in this tournament. Here to steal your hearts, and other things too possibly - watch those wallets - the notorious Nadia Fortune of the Syndicate!" Applause comes, and Mel lets it go for a bit, before speaking again, "Last, but certainly not least, A public health officer specializing in... vector management..." Mel seems to be puzzling over that one, possibly also wondering if a medic slipped in. "No doubt an excellent competitor in his own right, by any means! Elsewise, he'd not be here! Please welcome, Richard Stadler of the Union!" 

:'''{{#var:300|Richard Stadler (300)}} has posed:''' Richard leaned aganist a wall, just outside the Arena itself, under the cover of stone from cameras and 'enemy' observation. There was a reason he'd done what he could to get this sort of Arena. No audience stands, which meant no Confederates getting cute with a camera and facial recognition. That came at the expense of being just a ghastly place to fight, but he saw those buildings in the distance. It should allow some cover for him... if he could reach there without getting pummeled. The gear he was wearing had been better than the last attempts he'd made at the WMAT, with personal weapons, and surplus gear. It was always some bit of missing paperwork, it seemed, that didn't allow you to do what you need, and going through the reserve stocks at Fort Benning had allowed him some good gear that might have been mistaken for something ordered from a civilian catalog, depending on how good the eye was. For now, though, he simply pulled back the charging handle on the HK 416 in his hands, checking the chamber to ensure a round was in place, before releasing it. Letting it hang on the sling for a moment, he pulls down the balaclava over his head, concealing more of his features. A bit of squinting follows. It seemed like every day he could see just a bit less without his glasses. But he wasn't risking contacts, and it should be good enough for his purposes. Only then does he emerge from the tunnel, casual and low key, hand moving to the grip on the rifle in front of him. Waiting for his opponent. 

:'''{{#var:422|Ms. Fortune (422)}} has posed:''' Nadia Fortune is much less worried about being recognised. Hell, she -likes- being recognised. She even gives the first camera she manages to spot a wave and a thumbs up. Even though the cameras are meant to be hard to spot... She has good eyesight, after all. She's been waiting in the arena for several minutes by the time her opponent decides to show up. Sure, she arrived early... but by the time Rick has made his way into the arena, she's begun playing with a ball of yarn out of boredom. Just batting it from one hand to the other. As she spots her opponent, though, she quickly stands up, streeeetching. "Mmh... took you long enough!" 

:'''{{#var:29|Mel (29)}} has posed:''' "Thankfully, most of us -" More crowd cheering. "- do not actually have to weather the frigid atmosphere there unlike our competitors!" Whistles, clapping, briefly and then it dies to quiet again. "And am I ever grateful for that! It cost the better part of my monthly pay to purchase this new body after last night." Laughter arises, some inn the audience are apparently aware she got -destroyed- recently... "...Anyway, here comes our competitors! It looks like Richard is first on the field, and he looks serious!" Looks like this guy is more of a fighter than his card lets on. Interesting. "He's certainly prepared for this battle. ... aaaand here comes Ms. Fortune! She certainly looks enthusiastic too, what charisma this one has!" 

:'''{{#var:300|Richard Stadler (300)}} has posed:''' Richard Stadler walks forward to the strching cat creature in front of him, uncovered eyes flickering to the ball of yarn she's tossing about, back and fourth, and her... well. Lazy looking streching. It was times like this Rick knew he probably wasn't a cat person. A brief shake of his head, as his hand moves away from the grip on the rifle, dropping to his side. "Sorry about that. My gear had more set up to do than that ball of yarn you're amusing yourself with. Let me make it up to you..." He notes. Before his hand drops down to the Browning at his thigh, drawing the pistol, and bringing it up in a single smooth motion. "By not wasting any more of your time." He's still calmly walking forward as he pulls the trigger five times, in quick succession. It was a one handed grip, and snapshots at that, so damage wouldn't be high. But at least it would get his point across. 

:'''{{#var:422|Ms. Fortune (422)}} has posed:''' Ms. Fortune throws the yarn over her shoulder - where it promptly falls off the cliff she has her back to - and grins at Stadler. It's a wide, predatory grin, showing off some inhumanly-sharp teeth. "Oooh. Are you a soldier or something~?" she asks in a playful voice, before running right at Rick, actually getting down on all fours. Bullets fly by her, scraping along her flesh. One actually goes THROUGH HER SHOULDER, but this doesn't seem to slow her down at all. "Sorry, I'm not letting you keep your distance!" she shouts as she leaps up into the air. "Feel my heel!" Slam! She brings her foot down in a crescent axe kick, her leg seeming to stretch slightly longer than it should... but that's probably just an optical illusion. Luckily, she's not using those vicious-looking toe claws just yet! 

:'''{{#var:29|Mel (29)}} has posed:''' "Richard is starting things off with a bang, a few of them in fact! He opens fire at Ms. Fortune with that sidearm, a pistol of a make I don't quite recognize, and it certainly seems to be effective!" More yelling, the sound of a soda bottle ricocheting off the announcer's stand comes, Mel turns to say something almost indistinct to the person behind her, and then she continues, "...and Ms. Fortune responds with a powerful-looking heel drop! ... It's just too bad Stadler seems to be pretty agile!" 

:'''{{#var:300|Richard Stadler (300)}} has posed:''' Rick has deal with sharp teeth before. Lots of them. That didn't make it any easier to view, of course, esspecially if those were going to go right into your throat, at some point. Or try to. Definitly try to. And probably sooner, rather than later, given the fact that she was heading forward with the speed of a frieght train, and roughly the same resistance to his weapon's stopping power. "I should have guessed!" Is all he has time to say before she leaps and moves to come down hard with that foot. RIchard will be the first to say it was sheer luck he was moving in the direction he was moving, that the kick only slightly bruised his arm, instead of coming down hard on his ribs. "I really hope you don't have more of those." He says, his Browning skidding lightly across the ground as his hands go to the rifle in front of him, pulling it down and firing three quick bursts of three rounds each toward the cat creature. "I am not a young man." And he's already moving. A static defense would be useless aganist someone that fast. 

:'''{{#var:422|Ms. Fortune (422)}} has posed:''' More bullets! Two of them slam into Nadia's center of mass, but still don't manage to slow her down! And... is the bullethole in her shoulder actually CLOSING now? She rapidly switches direction, trying to circle around to get him from behind! Or... Suddenly, her left arm flings out, visibly stretching - skin parting along those very obvious ring scars along her limb, muscle fibers visible underneath... ewww. Her claws try to rake along Richard's front even as she runs around to his side! 

:'''{{#var:29|Mel (29)}} has posed:''' "Looks like that sidearm has been dropped in favor of something a little more capable! That, or, that arm took a bit more damage than I thought! Stadler pulls a rifle, and opens fire upon his opponent... and she responds by going for the backside! ... Or is it?! Wow, that's certainly one of the strangest sneak attacks I've seen! A disorient, limb stretching, claw rake across the front from behind!" 

:'''{{#var:300|Richard Stadler (300)}} has posed:''' Oh, hell. Whatever Rick was fighting was something he hadn't been expecting. Something prenaturally quick, certainly, with claws that could rend, he would understannd that. But she wasn't slowing down from ginfire that should have knocked someone down before, and that first shot was already healing. And that arm of hers /was/ streching. It left him slightly confused as to where the attack was coming from. He would be if he had just gotten that rake across the front, digging into ceramic plates and ballistic faric, cutting down to the skin. BUt she was /still/ moving, and Rick knew it was only a few moments before he'd be down to disoriented panic fire. He needed to get some distance, and he only had a few methods of doing that. One of which required reaching to his belt to pull a cylinder out. It was a quick, practiced activity, the pin being pulled, the arming handle flying off, and being dropped at his feet. His eyes are quickly squeezed shut, arms moving over them for good measure, before the bright flare goes off. The candle power on it would have been enough to cause problems with the cameras up top. At close range, that bright of a flash would have had /physical/ effects. Esspecially to a cat. 

:'''{{#var:422|Ms. Fortune (422)}} has posed:''' Nadia is grinning broadly as her arm snaps back into her place - complete with a wet 'squish' sound. But then she notices Rick pulling out a cylindrical object. What's that? Her feline curiosity gets the better of her, the thief watching the cylindrical flash grenade... And then... Nadia yowls at the bright flash, covering her eyes with her hands. After a second, she grins her hands down, eyes shut tight. "Oooh. Smart. Taking away my eyesight. But..." She promptly sprints right at him, jumping into the air to deliver a savage knee to his face, chest, or whatever else she hits... and then she extends her knee away from the rest of her leg, the joint connected to ehr upper and lower legs by muscle fibers, as she tries to launch Rick into a wall! "I can still hear and -smell- you, human!" 

:'''{{#var:29|Mel (29)}} has posed:''' "Looks like Ms. Fortune has Stadler disoriented! Her agility, and remarkable resistance, has her at a unique advantage right now! He might be contemplating a tactical wi-" Suddenly, there's a flash that momentarily causes the camera to fail to display anything. The crowd's cheering quietens. Mel asks, off-mic, 'Did we lose the feed?!', before cheering and screaming replaces the disappointed silence of the crowd and draws her back. "...as I was saying, a tactical withdrawal! But his opponent is having none of that! She seems to defy expectations, attacking Stadler with another of her strange-looking attack maneuvers!" She'd say 'gross' but being a machine, she doesn't really have those normal biological instincts. 

:'''{{#var:300|Richard Stadler (300)}} has posed:''' Richard was expecting a little bit more time in the recovery phase, of course. Enough time to get some distance away from the target itself, and, maybe, to contemplate what that wet sound was (The biologist in him wouldn't let that part go). And in, the end, he /does/ get the distance he needs. It's just that, instead of doing it by running, he does it by having his chest forcefully impacted by a shapeshifting knee, and flying back until he slams into the wall of one of the abandoned structures on the field. He does spend a few needed, luxurious moments, sucking in air, coughing, and maybe aspirating just a little bit of blood, before trying to stand. It's lucky for him that he still had a plan. "Hear and smell, that's something. But I think you'd really wish to be able to see right now." He notes, a bit quieter, as he goes for another item on his load bearing gear. Another pull of a pin, the arming handle flying off... but it's not thrown, right away. Three's three long seconds Stadler holds the active fragmentation grenade, before tossing it in an arc toward the cat. With luck, she'd never hear it hit the ground; it would detonate nearby, in midair, and do more than blind. "Play with this." 

:'''{{#var:422|Ms. Fortune (422)}} has posed:''' Nadia does, of course, wish she could see. Being able to see would be useful! But hey, she has far better hearing and smell than any human could hope to have, so she can function pretty well on that. But then there's a grenade, which explodes right in front of her. Her body promptly goes all to pieces, body parts flying every which way. Oh no! Splat. Arms and legs are strewn about. Her torso bounces once or twice then skids to a halt. Her head isn't even visible! 

:'''{{#var:29|Mel (29)}} has posed:''' "That kick means Stadler is getting his tactical retreat in all the wrong ways! He gets quite some airtime! THAT looks painful!" There's quiet for the space of a few moments, as the crowd cheering subsides and Mel default to watching. Then, "...What's Stadler doing? ... That looks like a grenade! Wow, he's going all out from the start here!" Another pause. "OH! Ms. Fortune didn't like that one very much! I - wait, is - is she dead?! Uh -" Mel sounds anxious suddenly. "...The, med team is probably investigating. Maybe." The sound of head hitting standing comes. Isn't Stadler a medical professional? She really isn't sure how to handle this one. 

:'''{{#var:127|Kirikou (127)}} has posed:''' That... that CAN'T be happening, right? Intellectually Kirikou knows people can't die in these fights. There's safeguards, and New-U stations, and all kinds of stuff. Besides he knows Nadia's a tough b... kitty. He still cries out in surprise and possibly horror to see her blown into bits, dropping his hands down over the eyes of the two Twins in a perhaps pointless exercise of censorship. They've seen death before. Many times in fact, just not of friends. She CAN regenerate, of course. He's seen those scars. Having her limbs blown off, even her head, he's seen that happen. "Pull yourself together!" he finally yells out, having decided this CAN'T be as bad as it appears. 

:'''{{#var:300|Richard Stadler (300)}} has posed:''' With the explosion of the grenade, Stadler manages, finally, to get to his feet, rifle back up, looking for the target that he expected was blooded and cut up, or else moving so fast that the shrapnal had only a bit of time to do damage. Best case, worst case... not... well... this case. He watches body parts fly everywhere, torso and limbs flying about, eyes scanning the area, and looking just the slightest bit concerned. "Well. Wasn't expecting that to happen." He says. A hand goes to his side, activating the radio receiver at his belt, listening to the ralk from the annoucers. "Not at all." A quick look over to the New-U station that wasn't activating. A quick flick of the radio to a different band, and some low volume communication. "This is X-Ray 6 Actual. We... may have a problem here." There's a pause, as he continues to scan the area. "Scineario 6. Yes, I'm as suprised as you are. I don't know how the local authorities are going to handle this, but I don't think I want to find out. Tell me you've got something nearby." 

:'''{{#var:422|Ms. Fortune (422)}} has posed:''' "HEY! Grenade guy! UP HERE!" Ms. Fortune's head is on top of the wall Rick has his back to. How did it get up there...? More importantly, how is it balancing on its neck-stump? And HOW IS IT TALKING?! Nadia slowly opens her eyes, blinking them once, twice... and then grins broadly. "So~ I guess no one decided to tell you about the Life Gem, huh? Oh, well. They didn't tell me anything about you, so I guess it's fair!" Suddenly, blood spurts from the ehad's neck stump, and it hovers in the air a bit... before flipping around and diving down to rick, aiming to bonk him on the head. Meanwhile, Nadia's body is pulling itself together! ... Literally! 

:'''{{#var:29|Mel (29)}} has posed:''' "...For the duration of the few moments where the absolute worse case scenario seems to have happened, WMAT broadcasting changes to a stall screen with Mr. Satan on it. He's standing amidst a grassy field, two kids on his shoulders, laughing as a cartoon sun smiles down and a cheerful ambience plays. "...We're, uh, experiencing some... mtechnical difficulties folks." Gotta keep those angry parents and PR incidents at bay, after all. She even pulls a Mr. Satan here, laughing suddenly as she sees the camera come back on, "...It's alright, folk! It's... uh..." There's a dismembered head floating there. "It's a trick! Yeah, hahaha, just a bit mid-fight special effects for your enjoyment!" She sweatdrops, privately. "...aaand it's all coming together again! Nadia pulls herself together again and after that awesome looking headbutt there!" 

:'''{{#var:300|Richard Stadler (300)}} has posed:''' Stadler stops in his search, turning around and seeing a ...talking head on top of the wall. "Oh, for fuck's sake." He mutters, before attempting to raise his rifle at the floating head, before it smacks him hard agaist the skull, causing him to fall back again, with a splitting headache and the beggining of a concussion. "God... /damn it./ Fair enough, you autofrankenstien." He says, before turning around again. He doesn't have a few clear head at the moment, but he's hoping a body stiching itself together wouldn't be a target that would be capable of dodging. Too much. That head was moving fast enough that it was just a waste of ammo to attempt to attack it. But it would have to go back to the body eventually. Stadler repositions to get a good sightline on that reforming body, before switching his weapon to full auto, and emptying the remaining 21 rounds in the magazine toward the body. Scientific reasoning stated that there had to be an energy limit. No form could keep repairing itself indefinitly without an energy draw. He just had to hope that the undead cat would run out of energy before he ran out of blood, bullets, or both. 

:'''{{#var:422|Ms. Fortune (422)}} has posed:''' "CAT SCRATCH FEVER!" Nadia's body rushes forward, bullets whizzing by - a few hit and actually make metallic 'ting!' noises as they hit. She does have a few fancy new bulletholes, though! As the body closes in, her head goes flying over it... and then suddenly, claw slashes. Dozens of them! Lightning fast, driving Stadler into the wall. Then, she reaches her arm back, twisting it around... and around... and around some more, lightning fast, before driving a spinning punch into Rick's gut that might as well be a DRILL. 

:'''{{#var:29|Mel (29)}} has posed:''' "Isn't this... uh... mid-fight spectacle lovely folks! This is a rare, uh... thing here." She goesa quiet again as she attempts to get her groove back. "...Stadler takes shots at the body of his opponent, but she keeps right on trucking! Ms. Fortune proves her agility and resilience once again and closes in fast! She unleashes a combination of lightning fast strikes, how will Stadler deal with this one?!" 

:'''{{#var:300|Richard Stadler (300)}} has posed:''' Why did they have to call out their attack names before coming at him! Stadler would have been more okay with that if the people who did it were morons, instead of ones that made you dread what exactly people had in store for you. And he's not able to move nearly as quickly as he needs to to dodge any of those claw slashes, only able to back up quickly to the wall as his clothing is slashed up, armor hanging by a thread, and of no match to the punch drilling into his stomach. That was the most interesting thing about these sorts of battles. You really felt like you were going to die in such /interesting ways/. Rick wasn't interesting in dying just yet, however, despite the best efforts to the contrary. One hand was up futily trying to stop the strikes, while the other reached behind him, and drew another weapon. The M26 was a small shotgun, meant for underbarrel use, but, in a case like this, it was perfect for jamming aganist the body's chest and firing two quick rounds of 12 gauge slugs that would hopefully provide less penetration, and more of a /kick/. 

:'''{{#var:422|Ms. Fortune (422)}} has posed:''' BOOM! Nadia's body goes flying backwards... just as her ehad zoomes in between her legs (HOW?!) and lunges for Rick, jaws wide. "OMNOMNOMNOM!" Chew, chew, gnaw, gnaw oh god it's zombies all over again Meanwhile, Nadia's body thuds to the ground, rolls over a few times, then shakily gets to its (her?) feet. She has several brand new holes, now, but Rick probably knows by now they're going to go away soon. She doesn't seem to be slowing down! 

:'''{{#var:29|Mel (29)}} has posed:''' "Stadler's on the defensive at this point! It looks like he's having a bit of difficulty overcoming the unorthodox nature of his opponent!" Mel sighing can be barely heard, only to those with sensitive ears, buried beneath layers of crowd enthusiasm. "That 12 guage might just give him some breathing room, hopefully! If not, it'll certainly give his opponent a sizeable new hole the way this is shaping up!" Pause. "....aaand it is effective! Ms. Fortune goes flying, but... uh... the rest of her isn't giving up! She's going for a dirty maneuver here, biting! That does not look at all pleasant!" 

:'''{{#var:300|Richard Stadler (300)}} has posed:''' Multiple threats, it seems. Well, at least he dealt with one. BUt on the downside, he was moving from getting clawed to getting bitten, and /that/ was not something he really enjoyed. Clawed by a zombie? That feeling was understood. Getting /bitten/? Now that was something that he'd have to get check out afterward. And it it put him in a position where he didn't have any weapons on him that could deal with a head moving that fast. So.... it meant improvising. He quickly moves to grab the head that was biting him, possibly leaving it's fangs rending his arm to ribbions down to the bone, before, flipping over, and jamming the head aganist the ground, pressing it into the short grass as his other hand gropes blindly, finding a rock, and attempting to /slam/ it aganist the disembodied head. Once. Twice. Three times. "NO. FUCKING. BITING!" 

:'''{{#var:422|Ms. Fortune (422)}} has posed:''' Nadia's head is grabbed! She's hit with a rock! The rock breaks before her skull does! How does that even work?! Regardless, she looks rather dizzy, ehr body even stumbling back a little bit before charging back in. She seems to recover just in tiem for her head to dash away again - seems it's propelling itself by SPURTING BLOOD - as her body leaps into the air and tries to rake her foot-claws down the front of Rick's body. She's really not giving him much opportunity to get away fromt hat wall! "Wreck-a your FACE!" 

:'''{{#var:29|Mel (29)}} has posed:''' "What a match! This is brutal! Stadlers tears the fre-floating head of Ms. Fortune free, doubtlessly with great pains, and proceeds to deal several very violent bludgeoning attacks with a rock! That can't feel too nice!" More whistling, cheerin, another soda bottle clunks against the desk.... bumping the mic this time. "Hey! One more time and I - uh - Ms. Fortune's free! And she replies with yet another painful-looking raking of claws! Ouch!" It's at this junction that Mel takes a little time out for recognizing WMAT donors, as is standard for these things. "We'd just like to take a moment as well, to remnd you all that the Beifong family, who's successes in trade are quite noteworthy, have been most generous sposors for this and other events! From here to Earth Kingdom, let's give them a big hand!" The crowd's enthusiasm reaches a cresendo at this point! 

:'''{{#var:300|Richard Stadler (300)}} has posed:''' Stadler isn't a very subtle man. Nothing makes this clearer than continually smashing a head with a rock until it dies. And the rock /breaks/. "You have to be kidding me-" He manages to say, before the head escapes his grasp, flying off and drenching him in more blood. Just as those leg claws start /cutting/ his own legs up, actually getting a yell in pain. "What about /stay the fuck back/ didn't you understand? Do I need to speak another language!" He yells, hand moving behind him, before the six-chambered Webley is drawn, the modified magnum rounds in the revolver packing a large punch. Just like the shotgun, he thought. Guns did the same things, sadly, otherwise he'd have a bit more variety than attempting to fire large caliber shells into the think that was slowly cutting him into a shreaded mass of blood, skin, and kevlar. 

:'''{{#var:422|Ms. Fortune (422)}} has posed:''' BOOM! And Nadia is sent hurtling back yet again. her body actually crashing into her head and ending up a tangled mess of limbs for a few seconds, before she pulls herself back together again. She's panting... but also grinning broadly. "Meowch!" she comments, laughing. "Those things pack a punch..." There's a brief pause, then she leaps in close again. "Do you see me carrying a gun, genius? Why would I stay away?!" She reaches back, -pulling off her tail-, then dives down towards Rick, tail held out like a sword. She drills into him, then flips, slashing downwards... and then, as she lands, slashing up again. "FERAL EDGE!" She called the attack AFTER doing it that time. 

:'''{{#var:29|Mel (29)}} has posed:''' "Stadler's having a difficult time suppressing his unorthodox opponent! This fight is getting messy, ..." Another *THUNK* of empty soda bottle comes, and Mel's pretty sure there's a college kid behind her somewhere. "...messier than the floor up here! Right here in this arena! Guess who's doing it?!" The mic goes quiet a bit, as someone shuffles over to remind her to stay on cue. For a few moments, nothing but crowd noise is transmitted. "...but Stadler continues to rely on the tried-and-true 'if it's still moving, shoot it again' approach! A man after my own heart!" Yeah, Mel certainly knows what it's like to have an attack arsenal of 'guns, guns, and yes more guns.' "This one packs a punch though! That Magnum throws Ms. Fortune off balance once more, and..." Awkward pause. "...These special effects are great, aren't they folks?" Honestly, she should just stop pretending now, nobody believes that! "Ms. Fortune attacks Stadler with her tail! She literally yanks it right off, and proceeds to assault him with it!" 

:'''{{#var:300|Richard Stadler (300)}} has posed:''' "That's the point of them." Richard says, as he moves to click the hammer back once more, before his aim is thrown off, the next bullet bouncing off a rock nearby as she manages to pull her tail off and start slashing him with it. "What the hell are you?" Is a question he just has to ask at this point, as she flips around, cutting him with the sword, and leaving him ragged, bloody, almost broken from the constant attacks. He'd lost of lot of blood. "And that's fine. I told you to stay away. I just want you to know-" He says, this, before, in as quick a motion he can muster, grabbing ahold of anything on her, yanking himself close, and moving to jam the trench spike from his belt into Ms. Fortune's skull. "That I warned you." 

:'''{{#var:422|Ms. Fortune (422)}} has posed:''' Nadia is stabbed in the skull. It actually penetrates! Then he head falls off her body. There's a slight pause. "...My name's Nadia Fortune. But you can call me Ms. Fortune. As for what I am?" She chuckles. "...Remember, remember..." "THE FIFTH OF DISMEMBER!" Nadia's body EXPLODES. Literally, it comes apart with the force of a small bomb. One hand grabs hold of Rick, aiming to pull him in the air as it flies off. A moment later, her bodyparts reconverge on her now-floating head, slam together... and there's another explosion, a fountain of blood forming the face of a grinning cat head. 

:'''{{#var:29|Mel (29)}} has posed:''' Mel mumbles 'What is she, indeed.' beneath the roaring of the enthusiastic gathered throngs. "Conventional warfare versus sheer Versatility here folks, both combatants are thoroughly hurt by this point - and Stadler's certain at a loss - but both fighters keep on going! What stamina, what fighting ability! This truly is... a spectacle!" Clapping, whistling, even some stomping of feet comes. "Stadler attempts to run his opponent through with..." It's kind of hard to see admittedly, the camera crew in the helicopter are far away. "...some manner of bladed weapon! It hits, and what a gruesom hit is.. but Ms. Fortune..." Mel transmits the sound of a synthetic hand strikng her synthetic face, probably impossible to hear though. What IS she doing? "...Ms. Fortune, uh, ..." Pause. "...that looks like it hurts!" But who?? 

:'''{{#var:300|Richard Stadler (300)}} has posed:''' Oh, no. /No/. She did not just... shrug off something that kills literally 99 percent of lifeforms on the planet. The rest being inhuman monstrotisites that defied the laws of... Oh. "This is not going to be good." He says just for a moment, before everything happens, very, very quickly. The explosion throws him back toward the wall he's so intimately familar with (he might be considering dating that lower undamaged part of cement after this). He's violently turned away from said wall as he's grabbed and lifted up to the air. Part of him was still thinking 'the Fifth of Disember' was shoehorned in there. Really, she could have done better- Then the second explodion of everything coming together, and he's sent rocketing on the fountain of blood toward the ground again, slamming back down, and laying still for just a moment. For a long momet. Before his hand slowly raises up, pointing up, toward Ms. Fortune. With a finger that has a grenade pin on it. From the white phosphourous incendiary grenade stuffed into her belt. 

:'''{{#var:422|Ms. Fortune (422)}} has posed:''' Nadia is grinning... and then she looks at the pin in Rick's hand. Then she looks down at her belt. "...Damnit." And then she's promptly incinerated! Although... well, actually, she just sorta crumples into a heap. She's burnt bad, sure! And... apparently unconscious! But even THAT wasn't enough to actually kill her. What is this thing MADE of? 

:'''{{#var:29|Mel (29)}} has posed:''' "...the attack by Ms. Fortune batters Stadler around, this could be the end of it all..." Silence, save for background arena noise. "What is going on down there now, I -" Suddenly, the explosion from another grenade goes off... and Ms. Fortune crumples to the ground in a heap. "...Stadler has succeeded! This match is OVER! Winner: Richard Stadler!" 

:'''{{#var:300|Richard Stadler (300)}} has posed:''' And slowly, RIck manages to get back to his feet. "That... was painful." He says, slowly wobbling up, dripping blood from a dozen different wounds, a few broken bones, and a general exhaustion that came with something that simply /wouldn't/ die. He manages to limp slowly over to the burned target on the ground, looking down on her... it? Before turning around. "God, I hope you're done. My sanity was slipping there for a little bit. Where the hell are the rest of my guns." He mutters to himself. He was getting too old for fights like these. 

:'''{{#var:127|Kirikou (127)}} has posed:''' "Someone better put the kitty out for the night." Kilik calls, rather dismayed by the outcome of the fight and trying to pass it off. He's a badass Confederate soldier, he's not supposed to be concerned over some weird woman not involved in the great war... or so he figures. Best, perhaps, to sound like a callous jerk making a stupid joke than to show he might actually care. Or at least he makes the joke, not knowing or not caring that it might make him sound like an ass. He'll set the record straight with Nadia later, if necessary. 

:'''{{#var:422|Ms. Fortune (422)}} has posed:''' Minette, from behind Kilik, whacks him in the back of the head and huffs. 

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The Long and Winding Road: Finale

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|Poses=:'''{{#var:113|Rose Petal (113)}} has posed:''' Belle Isle Park, Detroit-411811 Beautiful Rose Petal is here. It's the middle of the night. The moon is full - and also an impressively orange shade. The littlest Promethean seems to have constructed a bonfire by herself, although it isn't lit. She's dressed in possibly the prettiest clothes anyone has ever seen her in. A white dress, similar to her usual one, but it looks brand new. Her hair is tied up into two pigtails rather than just being allowed to hang down freely. And, most surprising, she's actually wearing -shoes-. Black ones, with little buckles, and white ankle socks to go with them. She's waiting for... something. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:''' Friday the 13th. A weird moon. Staren, rational man of SCIENCE, knows that both of those things... ...Can be really important. Seriously, he comes from a huge magitech city and everyone knows the power plant running the whole thing puts out like twice as much on solstices and don't even get started on how much power you get from eclipses and planetary alignments! So, something big is going down for Rose. Given that she recently discovered a ritual needed to achieve her lifelong dream for herself and her daughter, Staren figures that the extra power available tonight is going to be used for it. He doesn't know if he'll be able or even needed to help, but he's kind of honored that at the very least, Rose wants him there for this. Staren shows up in his usual clothes -- teleporting into an alley somewhere nearby then creeping through the night. "Rose." He smiles slightly. "Good to see you again. Tonight's the night, huh? Everything you wanted?" He hopes so. It's nice to see people's dreams come true in the multiverse, in between all the terrible schemes and evil monsters and whatnot killing countless innocents a day. It's one of the things that makes leaving your home universe now and then worthwhile (the other big one is punching those schemers and monsters and saving the people that are left). 

:'''{{#var:83|Dracula Vlad Tepes (83)}} has posed:''' The middle of the night, a full orange moon, and a life-changing transformation. This is such a perfect night. Dracula arrives without much flair, save for the usual imposing air he carries with him. Tall and upright, robes and cloak gently flowing behind him, arms folded behind his back; he treats the situation with calm respect, for once not letting his pomp get in the way of someone else's situation. He only pauses mid-stride once to look up and appreciate the beautiful, ominous moon, a small smile curving his lips. Yes, a perfect night indeed. The Lord of Darkness gives a slight bow of his head to Rose when he reaches her, his eyes fixed on her for the moment as he addresses the Promethean. His tone is polite, at least devoid of the harsh roughness he addresses so many other people with. "Rose. You have my congratulations on your progress. I hope that the results of this are to your satisfaction." 

:'''{{#var:37|Serori (37)}} has posed:''' Serori arrives alongside Dracula, no doubt taking advantage of whatever swift transport method he's utilized. Unlike Rose Petal -- who's dressed up for the occasion -- she arrives looking unusually dressed /down/, her t-shirt, jeans, and scuffed sneakers not exactly an outfit meant to impose and amaze. At least her outfit proves she's not here to fight; if that was the case, she'd probably have put on some armor. No, the only armament she's got on tonight is a pair of dark sunglasses settled firmly over her eyes. That's a full moon, and she /is/ a were-monkey, you know. Dracula might stop to appreciate that moon, but it's /Staren/ who Serori regards for awhile before she proceeds toward Rose. Staren -- the only one here to represent Union interests -- is someone she's never gotten to know very well despite his name coming up quite frequently in various reports. He's the type to take interest in any significant event, so she supposes it's not too weird to find him here on a night like this, but...what does he care about Rose, anyway? Is he here for the information, or because he's actually Rose Petal's friend? Serori smiles gently at Rose. "Aah...you look so pretty tonight, Rosie. I'm so proud of you for making it this far!" 

:'''{{#var:127|Kirikou (127)}} has posed:''' This is ... a bit of a mixed thing for Kirikou. He can certainly appreciate his young friend's goal of becoming human. He'd like to say there's nothing wrong with her the way she is currently of course, but that's not entirely the truth. Intellectually he accepts her as she is. His gut unease though, that's outside his control. He likes her despite that creepy magic vibe of course. It does show though, that her state of humanity does actually matter somehow. It's just that Rose seemed so... so accepting of this. Like it was something that would kill her. That she'd at least be unfit for duty following the procedure. Maybe it'll kill her to become mortal. Maybe it'll just strip her of her abilities somehow. That's cause to be saddened... but it's still Rose's goal. For that, Kilik's going to be here to support her. He strides into the park, one of the Twins on each arm. Not as weapons, just as kids. They're heavy of course, too heavy for any normal person to lift for long, but that doesn't seem to slow the youth any. He only sets the sleepy-eyed children down when they come into sight of Rose and the others. They rub their eyes then wave cheerfully to the Promethean, though they don't immediately rush in. Subdued, perhaps, by the sight of who else is here. Kilik is somewhat surprised to see the Marshal himself taking the field for this, but of course this is momentous. After a moment of surprise, he nods his head respectfully. Not a bow, but Kilik would only do that if protocol demanded... and if so, he suspects protocol would demand more than just a bow. He's at least being respectful. Serori gets a similar nod, and no less respect from the young Meister. Kilik's reaction towards Rose is more friendly, less formal. He grins cheerfully, and as he glances to Staren that grin doesn't fade. "Good to see you." he says, returning his gaze to Rose. The greeting was for her, but he doesn't seem to be actively excluding Staren. Science Cat has earned his respect, somewhat, for the aid given a month ago. He has friends among Union people after all, and sees no reason to show contempt merely because of the side a person chooses. He'd rather judge by actions than by sides. 

:'''{{#var:269|No. 9 (269)}} has posed:''' Nine is here, wandering in with a quiet, hushed air about him. He's not in his hideous tuxedo, or his blood-spattered workgear, or even his casual. He's here in a set of... monk's robes? It's what it looks like. Monks robes. They're rather big on him, leaving him enough room to hide, the sleeves volumous enough to swallow his overlong arms and the hood deep enough to swallow his ugly face. But it's back for now, the eyes a-gleam and the leathery features hesitent and uncertain. Nine is here to support his friend in every way he can, but he's a bit torn on what's happening. On the one hand, it's the ultimate dream of a good close friend of his. On the other hand... it might be a friend he might well be losing because of it. But he can't be selfish here. This is her moment, and for that he's clean and clipped, his hair cut carefully and his skin scrubbed, metal polished till it's gleaming and wearing that faint cologne that mitigates his natural odor down to a mostly neutral haze. He's here, clean and presentable, here to watch his friend realize her dream, and he'll stand by her, no matter what. It's Friday the 13th, and Nine might be about to lose yet another friend. His eyes are heavy with it, but his ugly face is caught in a small, almost hopeful little smile, an odd expression to see on a guy like him. When it's his turn to approach her, he does just that, approaches her... and falls to one knee with a clang. Careful to avoid mussing her pretty dress, those long arms wrap around her, crushing her softly to him and, in a thick, weak little voice, he almost growls the words, "No matter what..." but can't seem to say the rest. Maybe he doesn't have to. There's hope there, in amongst all the rest of it. Rising he'd make his way towards the others; a deep respectful nod for his boss, a soft hug for Serori and a somewhat more brusque one for Kilik, a hand on either shoulder for the sleepy-eyed twins, and a nod, slow and silent for Staren, before turning back to Rose with a deep, old look in his eyes. 

:'''{{#var:113|Rose Petal (113)}} has posed:''' There's a faint taste of salt. Beautiful Rose Petal remains stoic as more and more people arrive - although she's visibly surprised by Dracula's arrival - but Nine's hug causes her to completely lose her composure, clinging her arms to him and holding on as though he were a life preserver and she a woman swept off a ship in a storm. "I won't. I won't forget," she insists, breathing in the golem's scent. "I... I wish you'd been my dad. Or... or maybe my brother. You know? I've always... always enjoyed being around you, Mist-" Pause. "...Nine. Always." Finally, the two part, and Beautiful Rose Petal takes a deep breath. She stoops down, picking up a stick. She places her left hand over the tip - there's a brief flash of power, and the stick is alight with flame. Rose Petal turns to the bonfire, and carefully places the burning stick amidst the tinder. She then approaches Dracula, first. "Lord Dracula. I... apologise for no longer being able to offer my services to the Confederacy." She chews on her lip, then produces a small USB stick. "This contains all of my alchemical research. It may come in useful in the future." Then, to Serori. Rose Petal hesitates for a moment, almost looking like she wants to go in for a hug, but she restrains herself. "I'm sorry I haven't been able to support you as much as I would have liked, Miss Serori." She reaches under her skirt, removing the tanto strapped to her thigh and holding it up to the Saiyan. "Please look after this. It was a gift from Miss Miaka, but I dont think it would be appropriate for a little girl to keep it." She also produces a letter in a sealed envelope! "And... this is for my daughter. Please make sure it reaches her." Kilik and the Twins next! "...I don't... have anything to give you. Um." She looks a little uneasy. "...I promise we'll always be friends?" she attempts, wincing slightly. Moving swiftly on! Staren! "Staren. Thank you for believing in me. Even after that... incident... with the Pandorans..." She trails off after a moment. Then... another USB stick! "This contains... um. -Some- of my alchemical research. I, uh. I can't exactly give the Union free access to alcehmical weapons, but... it should be useful if you ever need to help another Promethean." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:''' Staren is expecting some... shady? No, that's not the word... /dark/ people to show up. Rose is in the Confederacy, after all, and it's a sad truth about the Union that few of its members view such things as Prometheans must deal with in a positive light. Staren will never forget his allies insensitively ruining Rose's first attempt to create a daughter, resulting in the creation of monsters, and THEN they had the gall to shoot at her dad too, which he had to put a stop to and got quite an earful for later. The shooter later apologized to him, though. But when Dracula shows up, Staren offers a brief polite nod... then double-takes and STARES for a second when he realizes the Confederate Field Marshal is here. And so is former Field Marshal or at least General, Staren wasn't really paying attention back then, Serori. He recovers, though he's a bit shaken briefly, before he reassures himself that they are all here out of friendship to Rose. It would be disrespectful to their friend to try anything, just as it would be for /him/ to try anything. Still, not every day you attend a social gathering with folks like that. Although, how many social gatherings do you go to by the night of the full moon around a bonfire on Friday the 13th? Kirikou, Staren doesn't know except that he was here last time. Another polite nod. And then hey, it's Nine! Everyone's favorite mental case and bloody massacre waiting to happen! But also way more familiar to Staren than most of the people here, so he gets a smile. "Hey, Nine." Why is Staren so cheerful? See, the thing is, Staren did /not/ see the message on the Fed boards about Rose having to step down. He has no reason to expect anything bad to happen. Sure, Rose will become a 'normal' human, so what? She can still fight in powered armor, or with magic and created constructs, or become a science officer. The reason she joined the Feds was so sad. Because the Union would see her as a monster. Early on, he might have hoped that becoming human would give her a chance to join the 'heroes'. But now, seeing her Confederate friends here to support her... No. He would never expect her to turn on them. Now that he thinks about it, he supposes that's why Nine has just been driven crazier, instead of turning, thanks to the effort of Unionites to be nice. Well, that's a sad thought. Staren wonders if any of the feds are actually /friends/ to Jinx(el)... But, that's getting rather far from the topic at hand. And /then/ Rose announces she's retiring. Wait, /what/!? This is completely our of left field. "What?!" He sort of stammers a bit, but doesn't want to interrupt Rose's goodbyes... but /why is she saying goodbye?!/ Staren accepts the USB stick, nodding. "I'd be glad to use it for that..." "But what is /going on/?" Staren finally asks, confused. "You're acting like you're /dying/ or something! Becoming human is your greatest wish, your lifelong dream! Why... why are you talking like you're getting ready for your funeral rather than your graduation?" 

:'''{{#var:37|Serori (37)}} has posed:''' The gravity is beginning to weigh on Serori. At first, she'd come in like nothing was the matter at all, exuding her usual energy and sass. The Twins were greeted by an enthusiastic wave and her toothy smirk, and Kilik was given a sarcastic sketch of a salute in response to his respectful nod. Nine's hug was taken, smiled at, the big golem patted roughly on the arm. Everything was the same it had always been! As the others gather around Rose Petal and the girl begins to distribute her gifts, however...Serori starts to understand how very /permanent/ Rose Petal's change will be. Some of her energy flags, and she clutches the gifted tanto in a grip that's tighter than it should be. Above the rims of her sunglasses, Serori's eyebrows peak toward one another, etching shallow, troubled furrows into her brow. Although this is quickly smoothed out by her emotional control, the fur along her tail stays a little too flat, and the waving appendage coils tightly around her waist. "You were always supportive even if you weren't always on the field. But -- you really won't remember anything?" Serori asks. Despite the other signs she is having some difficulty, her voice remains mostly strong and level. "S-saa...I will keep this safe..." The letter, too; she presses it to her chest. She frowns, and drops her gaze. The end of her tail flicks in discomfort. 

:'''{{#var:83|Dracula Vlad Tepes (83)}} has posed:''' The nods of greeting are returned to Kilik and Nine when they arrive, but soon Dracula's attention is taken back to Rose Petal. Dracula extends his hand once Rose approaches him with the stick, smiling in a remarkably friendly manner as he accepts it in his grasp. "First of all, Rose Petal, you served well while you were in the Confederacy, and for that I am grateful. I hope, then, that whatever you make of your new life will be worthwhile. Do not waste it." He then lifts the stick to his eyes for a moment before tucking it in a pocket in his robes. "I will keep this safe. Perhaps it will be a fitting supplement to my own alchemical research. I am sure it will be useful, regardless; you have my thanks. Should you have need of it, Castlevania's followers will be willing to assist you in your new life." His arms fold behind his back, then, as he stands aside and lets Rose meet with the others. A glance out of the corner of his eye is given to Staren, but he remains quiet for the moment. It shouldn't go by too roughly, he thinks. 

:'''{{#var:127|Kirikou (127)}} has posed:''' Kilik isn't interested in gifts. Indeed, those few gifts Rose gives out aren't the slightest bit interesting to him. Research is cool and all, but not anything he covets. He offers a wry smile though at the gift she does offer him. Friendship. Why would he want anything more than that? Of course the girl's wince makes the offer rather bittersweet... the unspoken implication rather clear to Kirikou. This isn't a transformation... this is goodbye. He's not sure if he should offer a hug to Rose or not. She's a kid, sure, but she's not as physically-demonstrative as the Twins are. Kilik certainly wouldn't mind giving the poor kid a hug, but he has no idea what's involved. If it's the sort of thing she'd appreciate or if it'd only make things more awkward. He's bad at social relationships that aren't warrior-to-warrior, not because he lacks empathy but because he's simply not very perceptive. And likewise, he'd probably like to cry. Well, maybe he wouldn't LIKE to cry, but he feels like it anyways. But he's stoic... partly because he figures a guy like him should be, and because he thinks showing tears might only make Rose rethink her intentions. "Friends, always." he answers her, sounding choked up nonetheless. He catches some of Serori's words and ... well, he's not sure. It sounds like that's the sort of thing that explains things. Memory loss rather than actual death. Surely that's better, but he can't quite decide what it'll mean. Not yet. Turns out though, Kilik doesn't need to decide whether or not he should hug Rose. The Twins, in tune with their Meister and far more demonstrative than he is, take matters into their own chubby hands. Should Nine back off, they'll wade in and give unabashed hugs. Should Nine keep clinging to Rose, they'll make it a group-hug, grabbing onto the Golem's legs and the Promethean at the same time, clinging with affection and dismay both. 

:'''{{#var:269|No. 9 (269)}} has posed:''' Nine would've clung to her, (and might or might not be caught up in collateral hugs), and his voice would've been choked as he whispered, "I wish I could've too, but I'll always be your friend, no matter what happens. No matter the storm, no matter how the wind howls or the rain lashes, there will be a dawn, and we will stand together and watch the sun rise on a new day. No matter what, Rosey, no matter /what/." His hand, so big and clunky around her own, closing, and he'd move back, letting others take their moments. Those dim-glowing eyes turn to Staren at his questions, and his lips part, but hesitate; it's not his story to give, and his words would be unkind and unwarrantedly so, without his leave or wish for them to be, his tension bleeding tension into words where no tension should lair. So he keeps his damn fool mouth shut, letting Rose explain the rest. For now. His resolve would probably crumble like wet corn flakes all too soon anyway, as it normally does. 

:'''{{#var:113|Rose Petal (113)}} has posed:''' There's a sensation not unlike being watched by many pairs of eyes... Rose Petal isn't saying no to hugs. Sure, she was going to face this with stoicism, but apparently her friends aren't going to let her do that. She actually laughs. "Oh, man... I would feel -so- embarassed if I-" Suddenly, beyond the bonfire, a shaft of light shines down from the sky. The light looks simultaneously like sunlight and like firelight. The taste of salt intensifies, for a moment, before vanishing again. There's a multitude of eyes, circling, forming two interlocking rings... And then... that -woman- is standing there, shoulders alight with wings of flame for a moment before she goes back to looking normal again. Rose Petal wheels around, eyes wide. "LILITHIM! How DARE you-" The woman raises a hand. "Quiet, little torch. The Principle only requires that I observe." She smiiiles a slightly worrying smile, then looks over towards Staren! "... Tell me, kitten. If you were to forget everything - lose all the memories that define you as -you-... would you still exist? Or would you be dead?" 

:'''{{#var:83|Dracula Vlad Tepes (83)}} has posed:''' Dracula is treating this very calmly and pleasantly for the most part until a BRIGHT PILLAR OF ANGEL appears out of nowhere. He doesn't hiss and snarl and slink away behind a tree or anything, but...the Quashmallim's appearance certainly doesn't spark anything resembling /friendliness/ in the Lord of Darkness. Still. This is Rose Petal's event, and the angel seems uninterested in causing problems. In fact, she seems almost interested in helping. So all she gets is a distasteful curl of his lip as he turns his head to the side, looking at something other than the /hideous angel/ standing right over there. Ugh. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:''' Of course, even as he asks, Staren's brain runs a mile a minute, and pretty quickly comes to the most obvious conclusion. Serori's words confirm his fears. He glances at her, then back to Rose. This isn't a transformation -- this /is/ death! Death, with the birth of a new being in her place! Memories are who you are! But what can he say? Apparently, to die like this was her lifelong wish. What she's worked so hard for. He can't take that away from her. His eyes start to water. But what can he say? Fortunately, his having to sat something is cut off by a PILLAR OF LIGHT and a freaking angel or something showing up. Staren turns, and with Rose's hostile reaction his pistol is drawn but not aimed, not just yet. "Who is this?!" he asks, only for the fire... salt... angel... thing to address him. The question requires no further thought. He considered life and death in much detail long ago. So the answer is immediate. "I'd die." He answers, directly. "Maybe my soul would still be around, but that's not what makes me /me/. People who reincarnate don't live the same life over and over again. Why?" As in, why does she ask. 

:'''{{#var:37|Serori (37)}} has posed:''' Lilithim! The Qashmallim's appearance gets Serori bristling. Wishing she'd thought to wear her armor after all, she takes a bold step forward, putting herself in a position slightly between Rose Petal and the sanctimonious lightbulb. All the unsettling /feelings/ conjured by Rosie's farewell are expressed in angry, whipcracky words directed at the angel. "I expect you to keep your word. You will /not/ interfere." 

:'''{{#var:269|No. 9 (269)}} has posed:''' A grumble from the Golem. "Great, it's that salty wench again." He actually sticks his /tongue/ out at her, a sneering jeering snarl on his face. Nyer. But from her own accounts he's not going to get his face burnt off by holy fire trying to beat up an angel, so he sort of slinks down, sulking and tapping his feet under his robes, eyeing the woman-not-woman like she was gonna bust out and cover them all in silly string. Ooooor his mind is slipping a little. Might be that latter bit. There's sort of a sidelong glance at Staren, and the Golem coughs. "Actually happened t' a friend a mine. Had his personality totally re-mapped because he was afraid of like, hurting the people he cared about? Still counts though. I like the guy who he is now, but he's not th' same person annamore, not one little bit." The angel-thing-lady-person is eyed in distaste and the Golem chuffs, "Lady you here with honest intentions I applaud you, but you cause a ruckus n' we'll have t' have a giant-ass spatula custom-made t' scrape yer feathery butt up off th' floor, y'hear me?" Don't mess with the Confederacy and all that. "This is a very special moment." Serious time is back. "...For all of us." His jaw works, tensing. He swallows. "...I just..." the eyes close, and he's rubbing his face, "...I'm glad for you Rosey, I really am. This is a shining moment. The final steps. It's time." 

:'''{{#var:127|Kirikou (127)}} has posed:''' Kilik recovers the twins, but only after the three youngsters have made it clear they would stop on their own. And if his hands should lie extra-heavy on their shoulders now, they don't seem to mind one bit. It's the job of Meisters and Weapons both to help each other, to do what the other can't. And of course to support one another at all times. He would probably have reacted rather precipitously to the Qashmallim's presence if he weren't actually resting some of his weight on the Twins. Kilik doesn't fear the Angel exactly, nor does he hate her. He just dislikes her, that's all. The sudden appearance would make him jump back, but he's not about to hide behind Fire and Thunder so long as they're not in Weapon form. Instead he steps forward between them, gritting his teeth so that the muscles of his neck clench with his frown. He doesn't raise his hands though, or summon the Weapons. He might be belligerent, but he's not being completely aggressive. "I'm surprised you got the guts to show up here!" Kilik says in greeting to the Qashmal. mocking greeting perhaps. "After saying she'd never be pure. If you're gonna stick around, I think you'd better apologize to her!" he declares. It beats answering the Angel's question at least. He'd hate to be put on the spot like that. But no, he can't deny it. Like Staren says, to give up memory is to give up life... but so what? Kilik would give his life for what he believes in, and it seems Rose Petal is likewise willing to face death in her quest. Nothing wrong with that! 

:'''{{#var:113|Rose Petal (113)}} has posed:''' Rose Petal glares at the Qashmal, then turns to Staren. "...Look, it's not... I've done the research. Nobody ever forgets -everything-! But... nobody ever -remembers- everything either. I just don't know how much I'll lose, so I'm... I'm just trying to prepare for the worst, okay?" She looks like she's pleading with him, for whatever reason. The Qashmal ignores everyone but Rose Petal, now. "...Tick-tock, little torch." Rose Petal glares at her again... but then sits down in front of the fire. She closes her eyes, seemingly trying to clear her thoughts... while she picks up a jagged rock, and splits her left hand open, throwing the resultant blood into the fire. The fire suddenly takes on an otherworldly, bright orange-white glow. It seems to be somehow more... fire-y than normal fire. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:''' The angel... doesn't do anything threatening, so Staren looks to Rose. Still sadly, but feeling /slightly/ better in the wake of her clarification. "I see... then... Good luck, and see you on the other side." He can only hope for the best. "I'm sorry we couldn't make the process more reliable..." actually, /could/ they have? She never contacted him... But the ritual is starting, now. Staren lifts his mage-punk goggles over his eyes, and his labcoat pulls itself closed, in case of flying embers or something. The more-fire-than-fire reflects in the lenses. 

:'''{{#var:269|No. 9 (269)}} has posed:''' And oh he tenses at that. It's always hard to watch someone hurt themselves, especially someone you care about, even for a good reason. Even for the best reason in the world, it's hard. But then all of this is hard. He's behind her, a hundred percent, but that doesn't make it any easier. It just makes it possible at all, and the Golem, though he's a coiled, tight thing, cracking out a low animal charrl of stress, doesn't do anything or say anything to muss the ritual or interrupt his friend on her most important moment. 

:'''{{#var:37|Serori (37)}} has posed:''' "Tch." The single spat syllable is like a slap in the angel's perfect face -- or it would be, if Lilithim had any care for Serori's derision. Serori never has liked to be ignored, least of all by someone she's threatened; neither her temper nor her pride can bear to be dismissed, so it's no wonder she gets testy in reaction to the angel's beatific serenity. Yet, the irritation lacks a certain /something/. Serori can't seem to muster the same spark she might have if circumstances were more...typical. Hardly more than a flash in the pan, the temperamental display fades as quickly as it'd come on, and Serori's attention returns to Rose Petal. Tightness returns to her chest and throat. Serori stands a little straighter, body and head held up like she means to take flight at any moment. In addition to the letter, she brings the tonfa to her chest, both items squeezed until the wood creaks and the paper starts to crumple. Serori looks deep into the altered bonfire, then looks at Rose again, then to the bonfire, then to Kilik and the twins -- she looks all around all the time, stealing only the quickest glimpses of Rose Petal, like she's afraid to really /look/ at what's happening. Taking a deep breath, she picks up her chin, plants her feet, steels her nerves, and...watches. Though it's very hard to breathe, isn't it? She doesn't like this. 

:'''{{#var:127|Kirikou (127)}} has posed:''' If anything that relieves Kilik somewhat. Rose isn't outright killing herself to become human. She might forget some things... maybe even a LOT of things, if he can assume by her expression. But she'll still be herself, right? Even without her memories, she'd still be the same sort of person... right? Kilik decides, for now, he might as well ignore the angel. She's not going to answer his challenge, not going to apologize for her rudeness to Rose. Well, to hell with her then. Maybe not literally, but still. Instead of the angel, Kilik watches Rose intently. He should've brought shades, it seems. Not only to protect his eyes, but because he looks badass in shades. Oh well. He squints instead, and shuffles around slightly. Partly to get away from the angel and keep half an eye on her, partly to be closer to Serori. And to Dracula too, by extension. It's not clear why he'd do that. Not likely to be looking for protection, or offering it either. He probably wouldn't say, even if asked. 

:'''{{#var:113|Rose Petal (113)}} has posed:''' There's not a huge light show. No angelic chorus, no mandalas of divine fire spelling out the true name of God or anything like that. There's just a girl, sitting in front of a fire, watched over by her loved ones and an angel... Then, the girl speaks four, small words in a soft voice... The bonfire is suddenly out, snuffed out like a candle. The 'angel' is gone, as well. The girl has fallen to her side, a weird, semi-visible 'smoke' trailing off her body for a split second... Her hair is black. And her skin isn't quite so pale. 

:'''{{#var:37|Serori (37)}} has posed:''' "Rosie...?" Serori takes one slow, careful step, before fear sends her bounding across the remaining distance in an urgent rush. It isn't more than an instant before she's kneeling beside the fallen girl and seeking out signs of life. "Rose...!" 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:''' Staren holsters his laser pistol since it's clear the angel isn't goint to attack, and watches. He's not sure what else to do, and he /is/ interested academically as well as emotionally in what's happening. Of course, the sights and sounds are recorded for posterity. Staren doesn't intend to forget about this, however long he lives. And then his ears twitch at the words, and the fire goes out, and Rose falls over... clearly alive now. "Rose!" he rushes over to kneel by her side. "Are you alright? How much do you remember?" 

:'''{{#var:83|Dracula Vlad Tepes (83)}} has posed:''' Dracula will at least get over his distaste with the angel once he notices Rose beginning the change. His expression becomes more serious, then; he knows very well how grave and uncertain this entire thing is, and he intends to treat it with the respect it deserves. No time for petty flaunting now. He, unlike possibly everyone else here, will not rush over to Rose. Dracula merely stands where he is, watching thoughtfully and silently from a distance as the others check to see if she's okay. 

:'''{{#var:127|Kirikou (127)}} has posed:''' Yes, Kilik does rush over. Unlike others perhaps, he hesitates at the last moment, getting passed up by Serori. He might have just deferred thoughtfully to her, or maybe he was hit by doubt at the last moment. Either way he ends up lagging behind, and just sort of hovering worriedly as Serori seeks out life signs. He also gives a weak glare Staren's way. Asking about her memories at a time like this. Well, okay, he's not really upset. At least Staren asked if she was okay, first. His priorities are straight even if he's a bit tactless. But then, Kilik's not about to make an issue over tact. That'd just be hypocritical. 

:'''{{#var:269|No. 9 (269)}} has posed:''' Nine's down, literally down, dashing forward on all fours, his eyes wide and his noises all animal at the moment, worry and stress having momentarily snuffed the more thinky bits out in his sudden apprehension and fear. He'd slink near Serori and Staren, making little low mucky worried noises. And then Kilik is sort of getting leaned against, the Golem worried enough he's forgetting a bit of social etiquette and personal space in his <:( moment. 

:'''{{#var:113|Rose Petal (113)}} has posed:''' The girl opens her green eyes. Her features are... different. Not strikingly so - she could still pass as a relative of Beautiful Rose Petal's, if not exactly her twin. But... it's noticeable. She looks up at Serori confusedly, then glances back to Staren. "...Wuh...?" She yawns. "...Wh't time is it...? Sleepy..." Murmur... She then just sort of slumps, and curls up. One hand is placed over her heart, clenching and bunching up the front of her dress. She's... asleep. 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:''' Staren's ears perk up. She's awake! And then... she's asleep. His ears and tail kind of droop. After staring at her for a moment, he stands up. "...Take good care of her." He then looks around at the assembled Confederates. "Can I see her, when she wakes up?" He figures they're going to take her to Confederate Medical for rest and a medical evaluation, or something along those lines. 

:'''{{#var:37|Serori (37)}} has posed:''' Distress briefly afflicts Serori's expression, but one glance at Staren sets a hard mask over her features once more. Looking up brings her eyes briefly to Dracula's; she shakes her head, the small gesture meant for his understanding alone. "Nine, will you carry her? I think she would have liked that." For someone who can be so harsh and savage, she can sound remarkably gentle sometimes. Apparently, keeping her face blank is easy enough, but to hide all the signs of her true feelings is a much more difficult act. "Yes, we'll take her to the Citadel for now. We will see she's well before making more neutral arrangements. Don't worry; we don't have much to gain by influencing the upbringing of a little girl who sacrificed so much to experience a true, free life." She can't help reaching down to smooth back the dark hair from Rose's peaceful face. Then, Serori stands and turns her attention to Kilik and the Twins. "I'm sure we'll all want to take turns watching over her..." Finally, to Staren: "Even you. If you two were friends before, I won't get in the way of you two being friends again." 

:'''{{#var:83|Dracula Vlad Tepes (83)}} has posed:''' The Confederate Fachead merely offers a slight nod back to Serori in response. Nothing more is said there; there are other things to address for now, besides. Dracula takes a fwe steps closer to the group, then, turning his attention toward Staren. "As Serori says, you may visit her if you desire. She will not be a direct member of the Confederacy any longer, after all. You will be informed of what happens with her." He takes a breath, then lets it out steadily. His own demeanor is rather neutral, all things considered, if a little more serious than usual. "Yes, Nine, if you would. Let us get her to safety, please, just in case there are any side effects to take care of." 

:'''{{#var:127|Kirikou (127)}} has posed:''' The different-yet-similar features throw Kilik off slightly. It's clear something's changed. Did it work? He supposes it must have worked... but he's not sure what it means. Obviously the girl's achieved something. What she'd wanted...? He can only hope. He can also, probably surprising no one present, prop Nine up. At least somewhat. Kilik's not big, but he's strong for his size. And it's not like Nine's TRYING to crush him or anything. Besides, he knows how the big guy feels. Or at least he thinks he does. Probably he's a little better at guessing Nine's feelings than someone like Rose's. After a moment he reaches around to guide Nine forward. He nods to Serori. "We'll share watches. She deserves to wake up to see a friend. Maybe more than one." Then he turns to Staren. "Gimme your comm code." he insists. "I'll pass it on to her the next time I see her awake. Can't say when she might be able to come see you, but at least you can talk soon that way." 

:'''{{#var:42|Staren (42)}} has posed:''' Staren frowns slightly at Serori's comment about how the Confederates won't corrupt her. "I don't think /that/ lowly of you. Well, at least not those of you who are here." He looks at Rose. "She was just a girl with a dream, and the will to reach for it without the desire to hurt others. Helping her was just the right thing to do. I'm sorry my allies couldn't see that. At least she found friends to help her." His voice becomes increasingly choked. "I... friends... we'll see. If... this new Rose... wants to. I don't think I can help raise a child... but perhaps I can teach her something..." He nods to Kirikou, though it's a bit hard to speak. Well, if he's unclear giving the code, Nine already has it anyway. Staren turns and starts to walk away, then stops and looks back. It's not like he's in a hurry to get anywhere. 

:'''{{#var:269|No. 9 (269)}} has posed:''' The Golem nods as Kilik guides him forward, slinks up, head down, eyes worried before Serori speaks to him. He looks up. He nods. And then he bends down even further, till he's near the ground, his arms sliiiding under her carefully, before drawing her with a hushed, fragile sort of reverence to his chest. Holding her with the care one would a newborn bird, he rises up, gathering her in the robes. "...Let's go. She's had a... long day. She needs her rest." 

:'''{{#var:37|Serori (37)}} has posed:''' "Thank you, Staren. I will make sure your contributions don't go overlooked." Serori's murmur is probably not the kind of comfort Staren requires at this time, but it's all she can offer to someone like him. "Please contact me if you do not hear from Kilik or Nine in the next day or two. I will send along our medical reports for your review...if you will find it helpful." Once Nine lifts Rose from the ground, she backs off slightly to survey the group and make certain all is well. The remains of the fire are considered, and she wonders briefly where the Qashmal has gone, and then wonders if it really matters. It's over, isn't it? Serori swallows and blinks a few rapid times, but it's hard to see, the angle of her head and body both working to keep her face hidden. It's over. "Let's go." 

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