Evening, Merch 3 Pyrday. //
The large monitor has been charting the rebels' progress at corraling the loyalists.
Watching and directing this has been the Bunnygirl's main activity, although a few scouting parties have been mapping the shaft leading to Grav.
In another world, sidequest threads would be wrapping up so fast that eye protection would be advisable.
[OOC] Pak: wat
In this one, though, the party has mostly just had ample time to rest up, and to interview the spirits.
[OOC] WC GM: :P
[OOC] Hector: At least this isn't Star Ocean 4, where you can't craft 90% of the over-1000 stat gear until you're halfway down the second bonus dungeon.
[OOC] ORN: which ones were left?
[OOC] WC GM: Spirits? Just Mer.
[OOC] WC GM: So, what's the party doing?
[OOC] Eric Lionheart: We should interview Mer but we need Terra actually paying attention.
[OOC] ORN: indeed
Cassandra Lionheart looks at the monitor, and gets antsy.
ORN searches/searches-for their libraries
Bunnygirl: "Oh, hey. You might want to check this so you can plan your assault. We're almost done."
Cassandra Lionheart nods and carefully studies the screen.
The Bunnygirl hands a…portable monitor? It almost looks like stiff crystalline paper…to Cassandra.
Hector rises his eyebrows and pushes his hat up just a bit. "Hm. So this is it. Gettin' close to the final curtain call."
On said display are listed various stats and animated pictures of the nine loyalists.
Cassandra Lionheart smiles as she takes it, and makes sure it is in sync with the monitor she was looking at.
Pak looks over the paper curiously.
Eric Lionheart looks over Cassandra's shoulder.
Cassandra Lionheart turns around, so everybody can look at it.
[OOC] WC GM: Check the bestiary - I'm not going to copy and paste their stats here. >_>
[OOC] ORN: there be links then?
[OOC] WC GM: On the wiki
[OOC] Felicia: Oh WC
[OOC] Felicia: You son of a bastard bitch something
[OOC] WC GM: :P
[OOC] Felicia: TF2 kids >_>
[OOC] WC GM: …you didn't already get that from their previous depictions?
Bunnygirl: "They've adapted to anything we've thrown at them."
Bunnygirl: "So, we've tried throwing lots of elemental damage just now, since that's what we had."
Bunnygirl: "It would take us a while to rearm - but you have other weapons at your disposal, right?"
Hector: "All sorts."
Cassandra Lionheart: "Of course we do."
[OOC] Sakha: Immune to everything we can throw damn eric should have gone holy
Hector illustrates his point by charging up a small blue energy charge in his hand.
[OOC] Eric Lionheart: Funny you should say that.
[OOC] WC GM: Ah - but check the next one.
[OOC] Felicia: You've got Flare you hippie
[OOC] WC GM: Only the Scout is vulnerable to Holy.
Pak: "Lotsa weapons~"
[OOC] Felicia: Yeah, each one has got one non-immunity :p
Eric Lionheart: "And spells."
[OOC] ORN: elemental attacks are mostly pointless all things considered, though the death immunes don't need to worry about the sniper.
[OOC] ORN: stick to non elemental and physical basically
Felicia points to her sword.
Bunnygirl: "Good. I leave the precise tactics to you; they're almost in position, but it'll be a few more."
[OOC] Pak: make a priority list~
Cassandra Lionheart pulls out the Lionheart, and smiles.
ORN: "… Avoiding elemental attacks and focusing on wide area annihilation of their physical forms should suffice"
ORN: "Speed is of the essence here."
[OOC] Sakha: I'll need to splurge on some MP pots…
[OOC] Felicia: Eh, Scout Holy, Soldier Lightning, Pyro… Fire surprisingly, Demo Water, Heavy Ice, Engy Earth, Medi Bio, Sniper Wind, Spy Shadow
[OOC] Felicia: For non-immunities. If you just HAVE to hit something with an element.
Bunnygirl: "Quite. As you can see, we've reduced but not completely eliminated their respawn capability."
Cassandra Lionheart nods.
Eric Lionheart hmms, wonders what sort of stats are being displayed.
Bunnygirl: "If you can take them all out at once, we can seal the rest of it."
[OOC] WC GM: Eric: see their sheets on the wiki. That's the sort of stats.
Cassandra Lionheart: "I got all sorts of tools for that..But I need to be hurt for it to work."
ORN: "That is more than sufficient. It may be preferable to corner them at the point of their reappearance, to expedite the entire process"
Eric Lionheart hmms. "I believe my spells will be most effective on those two." He points out the Scout and the Sniper.
The Bunnygirl nods to ORN. "That is exactly what we're doing, yes."
[OOC] Pak: Pyro is weak to fire…?
[OOC] Pak: …that makes no sense c_c
ORN: "This Unit will function as normal. This one (points at sniper) may prove dangerous to any not capable of resisting a system shock"
[OOC] Pak: Pyro wears a fireproof suit :x
[OOC] ORN: pak: yeah. but he's got a fuel tank.
[OOC] WC GM: So ask. :P
[OOC] Felicia: That's not how pyro works @ ORN :p
[OOC] ORN: HE's fireproof. not explosion-proof.
[OOC] ORN: I know in TF2 that ain't how it works, but if he's fire-weak here…
[OOC] Felicia: Not weak
[OOC] Felicia: Just Not-Immune
[OOC] ORN: non-immune.
Eric Lionheart: "We should focus on that one then."
ORN: "Those not capable of such resistance should use This Unit for cover."
The other Viera from before speaks up. "Oh, and if you notice anything off about their elemental weaknesses…" She giggles.
UrbanCamoed: "We've been messing with them and their adaptations."
The Bunnygirl rolls her eyes.
Cassandra Lionheart sighs
Eric Lionheart: "How so?"
UrbanCamoed: "Well, like that one." She taps the Pyro's notes. "Vulnerable to fire. Her own weapon~."
[OOC] Pak: brb, foods
ORN: "A common weakness would have been more effective; allowing for mass destruction. Electrical or Frost, for example."
UrbanCamoed: "Yeah, well. They're too smart for that - and believe me, we tried."
UrbanCamoed: "It's like the supreme commander-"
Eric Lionheart: "The fact they are weak to anything at all is good."
Bunnygirl: "Ahem."
ORN shrugs
[OOC] Hector: OH GOD I CAN'T TAKE THE REFERENCES.
ORN: "Physical damage always works eventually."
UrbanCamoed: "…sorry~. Anyway."
[OOC] ORN: heheh
Cassandra Lionheart sighs again.
UrbanCamoed: "Like she said, we've been hitting them with elemental damage, so their defenses are now all against that."
Felicia frowns, looking at the one labeled 'Demo'.
Eric Lionheart: "It would seem they each have a weak spot to take advantage of, however."
UrbanCamoed: "They couldn't get completely immune, so they're covering each other. It just worked out that each one can be hit with her own element. Like - that Demo, her bombs are water-based."
Pak: "I see…"
[OOC] Felicia: Hay guys we can use status effects
ORN: "In limited fashion. This Unit will nevertheless focus on wide-area annihilation. Defense against debilitations may be more important than exploitation of individual weaknesses."
[OOC] Felicia: wink wink nudge nudge
[OOC] Hector: I wish I had Stock Break.
[OOC] Hector: Then give me Haste + Aura and I can get that thing off fairly quickly.
UrbanCamoed: "And the Heavy ripped her tactics off of the Yeti, straight."
[OOC] ORN: haste+aura and we can probably 2-round them, maybe less.
[OOC] Hector: Let's hope my 30% free round goes off.
ORN stares at the Heavy one
ORN: "This Unit can stand such light damage"
[OOC] ORN: if it does, who wants cover? you guys have haste/aura covered and I don't think regen'll come in handy here
[OOC] Pak: Hm.
[OOC] Pak: Riia, maybe? Isn't she the lowest HP?
[OOC] Eric Lionheart: I could just use one of my Limit breaks and suddenly Haste+Quick for all. >.>
Sakha: "I'm hoing to have to blow all of my non-elemental damage… That's so exhausting…"
Hector: "Don't worry 'bout it, Sakha. I've got those Ethers to keep ya goin'."
ORN: "Draining them of their own is possible, Sakha."
Cassandra Lionheart nods
[OOC] ORN: I don't think quick would be good for the preemptive round, but certainly would make short work of round 1
[OOC] Felicia: That still shouldn't be there because Quick isnt a status effect >_>
Cassandra Lionheart: "Plus I can blast them."
Felicia: "They have no magic to speak of, ORN."
[OOC] Eric Lionheart: Well I didn't make it, so I assume it's valid.
[OOC] Felicia: I told you back when you did/terra did it wasn't, but whatever :p
Eric Lionheart: "Indeed. It looks like they rely purely on their weapons."
ORN: "Their abilities could be of concern for other groups, but This Group should make short work of them."
Hector: "Long as we take out the Sniper first. Seems to be the priority target."
ORN: "Stand behind This Unit and focus on wide-range annihilation, and This Group should do fine, as usual."
Felicia: "Hrm."
Pak: "Do any of you guys have resistance to headshots?"
Pak: "I do, but."
Eric Lionheart: "Such a foe is weak to my magic."
Felicia: "I'm honestly more worried about the others."
Felicia: "…I-If you could call it worried, that is."
Ahiru plays with her hair ribbon
UrbanCamoed: "Call it worried." She pats Felicia on the shoulder and smiles. "Don't be afraid to admit it when you are. That way, people can help you."
Cassandra Lionheart: "Well, I can go to town on them without much trouble."
Felicia points at the Spy, Demo, and Engineer. "Their tactics will probably impede our progress far more than the Sniper."
[OOC] Felicia: Yeah feel free to fight the sniper, I'm probably going to kill the MACC of the Eng or Spy or Stop the Demo >_>
Hector: "Hm. Maybe we should spread our focus out just a bit."
Hector: "I can lay down area-effect suppressing fire while the rest a'you move in."
Pak: "It's not like I can actually focus my attacks."
Pak: ">_>;"
[OOC] ORN: I'll AoE with CB and the like, I can cover one person from the attacking since deathproof
Pak: "So I'll keep these elemental weaknesses in mind."
[OOC] ORN: or, ya know, you can all just walk in there at SOS and we mow the bastards down helpless
[OOC] Eric Lionheart: Then at round one I use my totally legal Limit Break.
[OOC] ORN: because every single attack would hit orn instead then
Bunnygirl: "So, how'd your interrogation of the spirits go? Learn anything we should know about?"
[OOC] ORN: so all we'd need is a status-shield; death ain't a problem, and a bit of healing
ORN: "The possibility that they are indeed individuals is greater than before, however, communication methods need to be developped for each individual one, save Aer, overall."
ORN: "Translation could make an effective focus if any of your researchers have spare time; which, given the impending elimination of your enemies, should be soon enough."
ORN: "You may also wish to consider readying for evacuation from this Planetoid: its fate is relatively uncertain at this moment."
Cassandra Lionheart nods.
ORN: "This Unit will gladly take its mass from Grav through direct confrontation, but environmental damage is nearly certain; at the very least grav may be expected to turn the terrain against This Group directly in such situations."
ORN: "At the very least, that is how This Unit would proceed given such resources."
Bunnygirl: "…we are prepared to die if needed to stop Grav."
ORN: "There is little point in expending your lives if all that is required to avoid so is proper preparation."
Bunnygirl: "That said, we're hoping this structure will just be ejected if the moon explodes."
Pak: "Okay, that'd be helpful."
Pak: "…"
Pak: "Wait."
Pak suddenly goes D:.
Pak: "W-wait, wait a second!"
ORN: "This Unit could aid in ensuring this, but the Trombe Unit's catapult interior may be a viable alternative if it remains unharmed"
Pak: "How are we gonna survive if the planet explodes?! D:"
Bunnygirl: "That is up to you."
ORN: "All are prepared to be snuffed in exchange for Grav's non-existance, but there seems to be only minimal value in being permanently annihilated when one could instead enjoy the fruits of such endeavors by having thought things out beforehand."
Bunnygirl: "We'll try to get Trombe through to help you."
ORN: "Well, That is sort of This Unit's point, Pak."
ORN: "And also one of the many reasons This Unit intends to assimilate as much of it as possible."
Cassandra Lionheart gulps.
ORN: "Staging grounds for aiding larger sectors than just this one planet, as well as a direct reduction in Grav's power being the other main reasons."
ORN: "… … Also its delicious"
Eric Lionheart blinks.
ORN: "Grav's own greater experience in assimilation has proved annoying, but distractions should aid in the endeavor."
The Bunnygirl blinks. "Larger…wait. You're not planning on going on a trip out there yourself, are you?"
ORN: "… Is it not only natural?"
Bunnygirl: "No."
ORN: "After This World is saved from peril and hostiles, This Group needs something to do does it not?"
Pak: "It honestly isn't that good an idea to go saving other planets…"
ORN stares at Pak
Bunnygirl: "Rebuild your world. Besides, where would you go?"
Pak: "…Though… eventually, we could try to rebuild what the Aeons lost…"
Pak: "…Eventually, that is."
ORN: "One step at a time, This Unit understands. However, if other worlds need help, and This Group is capable of providing it…"
ORN turns back to Bunnygirl
ORN: "Admitedly This Group has proven infinitely more capable of destruction than reconstruction, when discussing the larger scales of things."
ORN: "Most of This World already is prepared for proper reconstruction, and in fact has most likely more effective methods."
ORN: "Several of This Series remain on the world and can aid in large mass and mineral control, eventually just as well as This Unit"
Cassandra Lionheart: "Well…I got to stay here with Eric. We have to rebuild the Lionheart name with the world again."
ORN: "All THIS Group is really good for is annihilating bad people."
ORN: "? you would not travel further?"
Cassandra Lionheart: "No I would not."
ORN: "… Saving the world does nothing for the name???"
Cassandra Lionheart: "It does a little. Who know what my mother has done while insane."
Cassandra Lionheart looks down.
Eric Lionheart: "It would be ideally best to stay home as it were."
Cassandra Lionheart nods.
Cassandra Lionheart: "ORN, we are not equipped to go from world to world."
ORN: "… well, granted it was the OTHER moon that was best designed for this, however given its inhabitants favorite climate, the current interior of this one may be better suited to This World's inhabitants."
Hector: "They can go live wherever they want when we're done savin' the world."
Hector: "Hell, if they play nice, I'm sure they could live with the surface-viera. Not like they eat each other anymore."
ORN: "This Unit was refering to the Yeti and their prefered climate"
Cassandra Lionheart: "eww.."
Hector: "Oh."
UrbanCamoed: "Eat…"
The Bunnygirl nods. "Milf made our sisters on the surface into cannibals. And…worse."
The other Viera looks ill.
Hector: "But they're okay now! They like carrots!"
Bunnygirl: "This is why I didn't tell you."
UrbanCamoed: "R…right. Excuse me." She wanders off.
Pak: "c.c"
Hector: "They like carrots…and Pak."
Cassandra Lionheart sighs again.
Pak: "I'm nutricious."
ORN: "They were modified with extremely rapid breeding systems, allowing them to reproduce mass from only small infusions of males, thus allowing them an effective endless buffet of rape and meatstuffs."
Felicia: "…I doubt that."
Hector coughs. "Little bro, you shouldn't give these viera any ideas."
ORN: "However, beating Milf within an inch of her dissipation ensured a stop to their current diet. Their propensity to force themselves upon males was also lowered somewhat, due to no longer needing to do so for food"
The Bunnygirl sighs, taps one of her advisors on the shoulder, and points after. Said advisor scurries off, with quite a few who had heal-bombed the party earlier. Retching can be heard, interrupted by a barrage of healing magic.
Cassandra Lionheart: "We should not have said anything."
Hector: "Good thing they're gettin' the shock outta the way now instead of later."
ORN: "As usual, This Group changed a people with its fists."
Bunnygirl: "It's alright."
Cassandra Lionheart: "Okay, but still..The though of that even made me sick."
Pak: "Yeah, I try not to think about that."
ORN: "It WAS rather unique"
Sakha: "Hmmmm…. Hector, if you can hit their willpower I could have a very good solution for dealing with them…"
Pak: "Yeah, they're vulnerable to statuses."
Hector: "I'm mostly good with lowering their capability and not causin' actual ailments."
Hector: "I could try to weaken their magical defenses, if that'll work, too."
Felicia nods.
Felicia: "I think I know what Sakha has in mind."
[OOC] Hector: Like I said, wish I had Stock Break.
[OOC] Felicia: Oh god warrior drinks oh god yes
ORN: "systematic shutdown of their abilities?"
Felicia: "Something like that."
Sakha: "I'll make them all… croak." She smiles.
Hector: "Not so much a shutdown so much as it'd be shorting out their defenses for a bit."
Felicia: "Mmm. Not a bad idea…"
[OOC] Hector: Do Mental or Spirit Break reduce MEva?
[OOC] Felicia: Spirit Break
[OOC] Sakha: Spirit
[OOC] ORN: mental's MARM but spirit break yeah
[OOC] Felicia: by 50%. It's terrifying.
[OOC] Hector: So you want me to Spirit Break so Sakha can do something that works against MEva?
[OOC] Felicia: It's one of the few statuses that destroy Mages
[OOC] Felicia: seems to be the plan
[OOC] Sakha: 159% CoS vs 46 MEva instad of 92
[OOC] Hector: My Dex is 146. So let's hope I roll low.
[OOC] Sakha: If I get Spirit Up that becomes 211
[OOC] Hector: If you want to Agi Up me somebody, I can get my Dex up.
[OOC] ORN: we can probably just go take care of them now
[OOC] Ahiru: I can do that
[OOC] ORN: if you guys really want to wait till next week then I guess we can call in mer instead
[OOC] Cassandra Lionheart: Maybe next week is a good idea to fight.
Sakha: "Alright… hit 'em Hard and fast… I'll start with speeding everyone up then…"
[OOC] Pak: Well…
[OOC] Pak: …It'd be nice to have all our party members for this EPIC BATTLE
[OOC] Eric Lionheart: Indeed.
[OOC] Cassandra Lionheart: Yeah.
[OOC] Hector: Yeah.
[OOC] WC GM: Yeah, let's get up to the start then pause. So - we can do Mer today, then battle-intro, then logend?
Sakha: "Hector hits their Defenses… and I'll make the nasty ones croak."
[OOC] Eric Lionheart: Sounds good to me.
[OOC] Hector: brb, bathroom.
[OOC] Pak: Yes~
ORN: "This Unit will function as usual. Anyone wishing to avoid direct damage may hide behind."
ORN: "Ahiru, what of Mer?"
Ahiru: "What you wanna ask?"
Eric Lionheart: "Mer's the only one we haven't talked with yet."
Pak: "Might as well get it out of the way while they prepare."
Cassandra Lionheart looks down at the map the Bunnygirl gave her. "Yeah, I'll ust watch thier position also."
ORN: "Further data for the Bunnygirl… … What is your name again? … for purposes of translation. This could be useful to the world in the future."
Ahiru shrugs and calls Mer.
The Bunnygirl just smiles at ORN's question.
Pak curious too!
ORN: "The spirits must learn to communicate with others and obtain friendlies and allies as This Unit did, lest they become as Grav."
Pak leans into the Bunnygirl's arm. 100 seduction~
ORN sparkles brightly ((84 seduction))
A small mithra appears - an androgynous mix of Maria and Juan. Pak and Sakha feel their hearts skip a beat at the familiarity.
Bunnygirl: "Maybe I'll take a name, if we survive all this~."
Pak c/‘`/``/
Pak: "…Kay~"
Hector angrily wrinkles his forehead at Mer.
Cassandra Lionheart: "You will survive madam."
Sakha finds herself blushing.
Ahiru: "Hello Mer."
Mer: "Hi Mama! Can I help yew wit’ anything?"
Hector then looks at Sakha, and sighs, wondering if he's going to have to find a way to de-fixate Mer from her if it happens.
Mer smiles brightly, tail swishing eagerly.
Ahiru: "Could you… give me a glass of water?"
Mer: "A glass? I could fill one if you had one."
Ahiru looks around for one.
Sakha sighs and makes an ice-glass and hands it to Ahiru.
Ahiru smiles at Sakha and holds out the glass.
ORN: "… . Hector: what process is required for the designation of a non-project name?"
Hector: "Huh?"
Mer hops up on the glass's rim and…at first it looks like that's something that should be confined to the bathroom, but it's clear…no, wait, Mer didn't even remove clothes. The water's just being generated from a point about 1 centimeter in front of navel.
Hector: "I guess…you just think of a name?"
Mer hops off once the glass is full of the clearest water any of the party has ever seen.
Ahiru takes a drink.
Cassandra Lionheart looks at the water, and stares in awe.
It is, indeed, water. Tastes as pure as it looks.
Mer: "Did I do a good job Mama?"
Ahiru hands it to Cassie to share and returns to looking at Mer. "Yes you did, thank you. What's you're favorite thing to do Mer?"
Mer: "Help Mama, of course!"
Mer: "'At's the ONLY thin' to dew!"
Cassandra Lionheart takes a drink and smiles. "Wow…This is great." *passes the glass to Eric.*
[OOC] ORN: damn your puns!
[OOC] ORN: ;p
ORN: "…"
Hector lightens up a bit. At least Mer's not trying to seduce Sakha.
Ahiru: "Does Mer have any ideas on how you want to do that?"
[OOC] WC GM: Yeah yeah. Just don't tempt me to make a sound effect by killing Mer. :P
[OOC] Ahiru: Drink Mer Water: MP RESTORED!
Mer: "Uhhh…" Mer's head cocks. "…no?"
Eric Lionheart takes a sip. "It is great."
Mer: "Oh! Could 'elp Mama rig other water things."
Pak: "Rig?"
Ahiru: "Rig?"
Mer: "Yeah! Dere's stuff inna blood. I can ma-nip-u-latte 'em, make 'em do funny things~! Hehe!"
ORN: "This Unit cannot think of any. However, the Creator team's names are effectively freed now, given their discontinued lives. One of that list may prove appropriate."
Ahiru: "So you can control any form of water?"
Pak sip.
Pak blushes at that last line.
Pak: "Yeah, that's how Mer controlled both me and Sakha. By, er… invading our bloodstreams. ./‘`/``/."
Mer: "Ya-huh! Better control th’ closer to water it is." Mer whispers, just as ineffectively as the other spirits, "Milf really don' like it, sez Mer's steppin' on Milf's turf. But those livin' things that are mostly water…"
Mer shrugs.
ORN: "… You need to get along with the other spirits, and the lives you could potentially toy with."
ORN: "Simply having direct control over a primary element such as the liquids or minerals in an entity's body does not give free reign over disrupting their livelihood."
ORN: "Unless of course they are hostile. Then its most efficient and just."
Ahiru: "Maybe you shouldn't cross Milf. And I don't want you to play with liquid living things."
Mer pouts. "Awww…~."
Mer: "But it's so FUN! 'Specially teasin' Milf~! Hehe!"
Ahiru: "But…. I bet you could make something out of water that's LIKE those living things, right?"
Ahiru: "You all can do that, with your element."
Mer: "A 'course I can! But it's not as fun."
Cassandra Lionheart looks up from the map "No teasing Milf. You make become like the Viera back where we come from, okay?"
Ahiru: "Why do you say that?
Sakha seems to be getting annoyed.
Pak :<
ORN: "… This one remains potentially hostile"
Mer: "'Cause~! Mama wasn't here, so all I hads fer company were th' others, an' a lot o' water sacks."
Mer: "Then I got really big!"
Mer: "Like…bigger! An' bigger!"
Mer: "An' I saw so much o' the world, an' it was just BORING."
ORN: "Those were concious entities. You could have communicated with them instead."
Mer: "Bolt put things in me, but I didn't mind that 'cause he was just tryin' t' keep other things from getting out."
Mer: "I had Aer above me an' Gaia an' Pyr below, but they'd keep to themselves so much."
Mer: "An', an', big sis' an' bro' had gone off t' the sky an' left us all alone."
Mer: "An' Chilla was trapped, so we couldn't speak to her much. Though I did poke at her from unnerneath."
Mer: "Didn't say much."
Mer: "So…th' only one I had t' play with was Milf."
Ahiru: "You all talk like you're so lonely… those liquid living beings would interact with you too. They sailed on you in big wooden boats."
Pak: "…Yeah, she did that. c.c"
Felicia: "Bolt took care of many of them, though…"
Sakha: "But there were still the Mithra."
Mer: "Those? Yeah, I played wit' 'em 'cause I didn't have much else t' do."
Felicia: "The other ones, yes."
Mer: "Made some of 'em RARR and some of 'em EEP an' pretended I was their big prize."
Mer makes body motions to illustrate the "fierce" pirates and the "scared" islanders.
ORN: "… Realisation of alternate lives, but none of the consideration for them"
Ahiru: "Maybe we'll have to talk about ways for them to interact with you and it to be an equal exchange…"
Ahiru: "Like Festivals. I think people would like festivals."
Cassandra Lionheart nods "Festivals sound good."
Mer: "Wassa Fessival?"
Eric Lionheart: "I highly suspect there will be one once we return home safely."
Cassandra Lionheart: "It is a time of fun and merriment, to celebrate a significant event."
Ahiru: "It's a time devoted to play, to celebrate something. I think the people would like Festivals devoted to you and the others."
Mer: "Yay playtime~!"
Mer smiles brightly.
Mer: "'Ey, Mama? Issat like th' playing I did with that one?" Mer points at Sakha.
Sakha growls and throws a Freeze at the little Mer.
Pak D:
Mer is Frozen.
Pak: "Y-you played with me too you know. T_T"
Hector: "!!"
Ahiru tries to warm up Mer by hugging and snuggling.
Mer is easily thawed out.
Mer: "'Ey! No fair! Chilla's hidin'!"
Ahiru: "I don't think 'that one' liked that."
Cassandra Lionheart looks..
Mer: "Eh? 'Course not! I did it to pull that one away from that one." Mer points to Hector. "That one gets all wierd just by bein' near the one I played with."
Hector adjusts his hat. "Hey, keeping you off of Sakha was the best damn thing I ever did."
Mer points at Pak. "An' that one was mixed up in it too…" Mer frowns. "…somehow. Think."
ORN: "It also appears to lack knowledge of mating habits, despite its supposed contact with Milf"
Pak nod~
Sakha gets teary and stalks out in a huff.
Ahiru: "Maybe in the festival people that wouldn't mind playing like that could do something to show it."
Hector: "And now look what you did."
Pak: "Eep."
Cassandra Lionheart: "Sakha?" *looks at Hector* "Um, yeah..That was not cool."
Ahiru takes the melting glass liquid and writes 'Hello' "Can you read that Mer?"
Hector: "She'll be fine. No point in tryin' to follow her 'n give a speech."
ORN: "?"
Cassandra Lionheart: "Hector…" *looks at the map again*
Mer: "'Course I can."
Ahiru: "And you can tell when things are in water, right?"
Hector shrugs. "Actually, I should probably go see what Sakha's doin'. I'm suddenly a little worried, since she's around all those viera."
Hector goes in the direction Sakha did.
Mer: "Yep!"
Sakha is sobbing outside.
Hector: "…:O"
Hector goes up behind Sakha and just hugs her.
Sakha tenses a moment then relaxes a bit.
Ahiru: "Well, promise never to play with living things, but I'll see if I can find some willing to play with you… how do you play with them anyway?"
Mer: "Aww, but Mama~." Mer pouts again.
ORN: "The elder units may prove relatively immune to such 'playing' and could prove apt equals in such dealings with it."
Sakha: "Hector…" She turns in Hectors arms and gives him a kiss. On the lips.
Mer: "I jus' mess wit' their blood - make it flow differen'."
Hector is glad she's at least relaxed a bit. Man, if she's crying, she must've been messed-up BAD.
Hector 's go wide, but that's about all he does.
[OOC] ORN: that's rather deadly
Cassandra Lionheart looks at Mer "hmm..Sounds like a clean death."
Sakha hugs Hector back.
Cassandra Lionheart then snaps out of it.
[OOC] Sakha: I think Yoko's affected Sakha
[OOC] Hector: Ritona?
Mer: "But awright. I won't play wit' any of 'em 'less they wanna be played with."
[OOC] Sakha: Yoko Littner, GL
Cassandra Lionheart: "My mom is all ready dead anyways."
[OOC] Hector: Ah, that's how they romanized her name.
[OOC] Hector: 'cause it was "Ritona" in English letters in Japanese magazines.
[OOC] Hector: Way back before the GL dub was announced.
Mer not-so-quietly whispers, "I think 'ere's many 'ho wanned t' be played with. Like, that's all they'd do, is stuff so I'd play with 'em more."
Ahiru: "You liked those ones?"
Hector: "Feeling better, then?"
[OOC] Ahiru: Ahiru is going to make temples to the spirits where their worshippers will essentially be their playthings :3
[OOC] Ahiru: And that would be of people's own will
Sakha: "Mm."
Mer: "Well…kinda~. They did lemme play wit' 'em, after all."
Hector pats her on the head. "I'll do this as long as you want."
Ahiru: "I have a question… what do you do when I haven't called you?"
Mer: "'Course, I also got played wit' by those who dug paths for me to follow, so I could water their plants."
Ahiru: "Do the eight of you sit in a room together?"
Mer: "Sleep, silly~! I'm part o' you! You can use me directly without wakin' me up, jus' like you've been doin!"
Mer: "Eight?"
Mer looks around, nervous. Gulps. Leans over to Ahiru. "Mama…wants to get rid of one?"
Ahiru: "You, Bolt, Milf, Gaia, Pyr, Plu, Min, Chilla. Those eight."
[OOC] ORN: is this going to end up with babykilling?
[OOC] ORN: ;p
Mer: "…what about Aer?"
Ahiru: "Oh How could I forget… Mama isn't all that smart I guess."
Cassandra Lionheart: "Don't say that Ahiru. YOu are plenty smart."
Mer relaxes. "Oh! Mama just forgot. Phew - thought Mama wanted to…"
Ahiru: "Oh no… I like you all."
Mer: "Pwease, mama, don' get rid of any o' my brothers or sisters?"
Cassandra Lionheart: "Mer. She loves you all equally. She would not do that."
Mer gets puppy eyes on a pouting possibly-male child mithra frame, and looks directly at Ahiru.
Mer: "PWEEEASE?"
For some reason, the surrounding Viera are breaking out…insulin?
Ahiru: "I would not get rid of any of you, You're all important."
Mer: "Yay~! Thank you Mama~!" Mer hugs Ahiru.
Cassandra Lionheart looks at the Viera and shakes her head. "You all are just oozing from the sugar output huh?"
Ahiru: "Good night Mer." She gives a kiss.
Mer: "Nitenite." Mer hugs a bit more, then vanishes.
Eric Lionheart: "Hmm."
Cassandra Lionheart checks to see if the Viera need healing themselves this time.
Pak: "We gonna go now?"
Bunnygirl: "I was about to say - they're ready."
Cassandra Lionheart nods "I think we better."
ORN slams his fists together
ORN: "About time"
Bunnygirl: "If you will forgive the pun - we can let you get the drop on them."
Cassandra Lionheart: "I'm ready to roast those rabbits!"
The Bunnygirl taps a button. A trap door opens in the floor…next to the party.
[OOC] ORN: with some cranberries, a bit of stoneground mustard, chives, cream, garlic, a little jalepeno mincing…
[OOC] Ahiru: And everyone enters the hall to see da lububaadusu
Pak blinks.
Pak looks to the side.
Eric Lionheart: //'I suppose it's good we wasn't standing on that."
Cassandra Lionheart looks down //"And now..It looks like its time to kill!"
Pak: "…Was it supposed to be there?"
Bunnygirl: "You should retrieve your companions before you go, though."
Pak: "Kay."
Hector lets go of Sakha. "Alright, it's time to go."
Pak: "Sakha! Hector! It's go time!"
Pak calls out.
Bunnygirl: "…what, you thought I'd open one under you?" She smiiiles.
[OOC] Sakha: No one looks?
Somehow, the smile seems to imply a 'yes'.
Cassandra Lionheart looks up to see Sakha and Hector.
Sakha notices Cassie looking and pushes Hector away, stalking to the tunnel.
Pak peeks down into the hole.
[OOC] Sakha: tsuntsun
Pak: "Kay, let's go, I guess~"
ORN breaks open his launcher arm and jumps down into the tunnel
Pak jump~
Cassandra Lionheart looks at Sakha puzzled a bit by her actions..then again, its time to get serious.
Hector sighs again, adjusts his hat. "…saw that coming a mile away."
[OOC] Hector: Let's get dangerous!
Cassandra Lionheart: "Nah Hector. Its just time to kick some ass. You know she turns cold when its that time."
Felicia nods, and hops down in. "Let's get this over with."
The party falls…slower and slower…
[OOC] Cassandra Lionheart: down the rabbit hole
[OOC] Hector: I never said…anything. It's all in OOC! YOU CAN'T READ OOC! YOU ARE NOT PSYCHIC.
Hector holds onto his hat as he falls.
[OOC] Cassandra Lionheart: Erm…I know..It was to..crap..saw that coming a mile away..
Voices come from above. "What now?" "Grav's acting up again!" "The loyalists are headed up the tunnel!" "What?" "Well…looks like we played that trap just in time."
Indeed, the party soon comes to a halt, floating in mid-air - and from below, nine red-clad forms fall towards the party… //
EC Session 8.11