Apocalypse The Fiend Engine

AURUM: At the heart of the moon - filling the fragile shell, soaring golden pylons securing it to the interior of the lunar surface - a tremendous fiend engine, crystal and brass converging on a single point at its heart.
AURUM: The Storm-White's being pulled in, agonisingly slowly, held in a huge riveted brass claw.
Eidolon crosses his arms, himself cross. "(Getting fiend all over her hull.)"
AURUM: …at this point, you've taken a nap and woken up, and you're closer to the Heart of the engine - can smell the Mist in the air, like the metallic tang of blood.
Ezekiel: "Isn't… isn't it a fiend anyway…?"
Flip: "Just means you have to wash her later."
Eidolon: "She's not, actually! Purely holy lumber."
Ezekiel: "Uh. Well if you say so."
Ezekiel: "So hey sure is blood out there huh guys."
Eidolon: "Well, adjustments can have been made…"
Eidolon: "Hm? Oh, yes, very blood."
Eidolon: "But that's Mist for you."
Flip: "Smells like home."
Flip: "Nah, not relaly. We always cleaned up really well after Festvallun."
Ezekiel: "Ya'll come from weird places."
Clarafina: "Don't you, too?" She's pressed up against a window, leaning forward, one leg curled up in the air.
Ezekiel: "Nope!"
Nine sneezes
Nine: "I hate this smell"
AURUM: Birds flit by and past- vultures made of rusty iron, filigree rose-gold hummingbirds, jewel-eyed, gear-powered.
Ezekiel: "I come from the alpha world upon which all other worlds are built and modified."
Solberg: "Oh hey, me too."
Flip: "Sounds boring."
Ezekiel: "Oh I guess I should get ready to welcome and embrace my newfound coporate overlords when I get back home if you're the future then, huhh?"
Nine: "There's a lot of future ahead of you"
Solberg: "Corporate?"
Nine: "Hopefully there will be for me as well"
Solberg: "Governmental."
Ezekiel: "I duno man you never elaborate."
AURUM: One of them - the hummingbirds - lands on Clarafina's hand.
Ezekiel: "It all works out to basically the same dyspotia either way, doesn't it?"
Nine looks at the fiend-birds
AURUM: Looks up at her, blinks with blood-red ruby eyes. Music-box chirps.
Clarafina reaches out, tenderly stroking behind its wing, and dismantles it.
Nine: "Hrm…"
Nine: "So cruel, Clara"
AURUM: The gears are /flagrantly/ disobeying the law of conservation of momentum, inside…
Flip: "Think of the potential. Living in the shadows, taking the fight to the evil corporations/governments…"
AURUM: Just spinning and spinning and spinning, even after it's taken apart.
Eidolon floats further forward on the deck, leaning onto the railing.
Clarafina fits them back together.
Eidolon: "You think their organs continue to work, even separated from the body?"
Solberg: "Hold on. We're the good guys."
AURUM: It flaps its wings, chirp-chirps, flits away, undying.
Flip: "Mmm, thats what all the despots say."
Clarafina extends her hand to set it loose.
Nine: "Some other force powers them"
Nine: "Not within it, I imagine"
Nine: "So I figure yes, they would"
AURUM: This entire machine, Nine - you feel like the wheels would just keep spinning, no matter what happened.
Solberg: "So if I got Laplace, you got Maxwell."
AURUM: Everything within the Engine, powered by some tremendous, invisible force- a presence.
Flip: "Fiends are weird. I miss Devils."
Nine closes his eyes for a moment, thinking… He opens them up again
Nine: "Yes"
AURUM: Near the heart of the machine, there's a gout of Mist that flares up, ignites, disperses. Overload.
Nine: "Something moves the enterity of this engine"
Nine: "Can I even call this an engine?"
Clarafina: "You may."
Eidolon: "It's no moon."
Flip: "Like Fiends more attactive, less concepty cousins."
Eidolon: "More?"
Flip: "Mm. I went on a date with one."
Eidolon: "Have I lashed my ship to the inferior beings…?"
Flip: "You makes your call and you takes your chances."
Nine: "An engine converts the energy of a source into another. This… This feels more like an axle, simply transitting said force" he looks at the corona of Mist
Eidolon traces the distant workings of some distant gears and pistons with his eyes.
Nine: "Is the source of this power down there?"
Nine: "Probably"
Clarafina: "An axel auger!" She says, as if it were a joke.
AURUM: The claw gently sets the ship down in a dock near a platform attached to the Heart - a perfectly smooth golden sphere so immense that, standing right in front of it, it's hard to tell it's a sphere and not just a giant wall.
Ezekiel: "That was. Basically the slowest tractor beam ever, jesus."
AURUM: It's studded with glass pipes, with crystals, with exhaust vents for Mist overloads.
Eidolon floats forward one yalm at a time, taking in the gargantuan construction.
Nine: "It probably haven't been used in forever. Or wanted to give us time" he walks closer to the sphere, putting a hand over it
Clarafina steps out onto the platform. She extends a hand and a frisson runs through her dress - the collar and skirt exploding with white feathers, the black color of it transmuting brilliant red.
Flip: "Nice."
Solberg: "What'd it take to pull us in here, two weeks?"
AURUM: The surface of the sphere crenellates and ripples, as you approach it, flowing like water over an underlying, fractally-complex maze, bright silver underneath the liquid gold.
Ezekiel: "Something like that."
Nine blinks, staring at it "Silver? Is that- Hrm"
Eidolon exhales, and raises a hand- gently, he focuses his magic, and the nearby Mist, and draws in the air.
Flip: "Well. I'm not much for machines, so. Have at."
AURUM: Someone's singing, somewhere else.
Nine: "Of course they are"
Nine looks at the sphere, it seems to react to presence. He puts his hand through it, does it lets it through, is it hard, does it parts way?
Ezekiel: "All you need is love, Flip."
AURUM: Endless possibilities. Miracles and mastery. The impossible. Every dream, every hope, passing through your fingers like a swift-flowing river. It's hard -not- to notice that floaty, radiant power, once you've touched the sphere.
AURUM: The liquid gold climbs up your fingers a little.
AURUM: The silver's solid.
Nine pulls out his hand, to watch how the liquid behaves.
AURUM: There's a -sound-, and you're all thrown into the air, or into the wall of the sphere, or each other-
Nine instead goes flying. Promising
Ezekiel‘ goes sailing into the air. "BOUNCE HOUSEEEEEEE."
Flip: "Ack!"
AURUM: A creaking, a shattering, the whine of tortured metal, of gears jamming, of intricate mechanisms being torn apart, of air escaping into vacuum.
Eidolon: "Nine, your fiend engine privilges are revoked-!!"
Clarafina corrects: "Moon jump."
AURUM: A sudden dimming, then the light’s sucked away completely, and there's another tremor, one that shakes the entire Engine, and the Heart rings like a bell, loud enough to cause physical pain, to bring you to your knees in the sudden darkness.
Ezekiel: "I've never been on the moon before though. And there's a ceiling!"
Ezekiel‘ drops back down with a groan.
Solberg: "That’s better."
Nine cringes, he falls to his knees- Still he has the presence of mind to put a hand on his coat- A light source, he's got to have one.
Eidolon twists into a crouch, hands jammed on his ears and head! "
Flip was enjoying that singing. Now the world is pain.
AURUM: Slowly, flickering light returns, twilit and grey. An enormous lance, the size of the moon itself, pierced through the lunar surface, an obsidian shaft ending in a vicious tangle of tree thorns half-buried in the Heart.
Ezekiel: "That's… better? You're into some weird shit, zoidberg."
AURUM: Maybe not a spear, but a crossbow bolt?
Nine growls "I knew you were going to show up"
AURUM: Grey vines are covering the Heart, roots growing to drink up the liquid gold.
Flip: "That's not from my tree."
Clarafina rolls her fingers and strides towards the shaft.
Nine goes over to the Heart, this is going to be dumb. He pulls out an empty cylinder and drives it into the golden liquid, storing some inside
Eidolon grumbles as he recovers, wiping at his eyes.
Solberg: "Being anchored as opposed to being in the chaotic freefall we were just in."
AURUM: A circle of blue fire sparks into life, trapping you on the platform.
Ezekiel: "I guess."
Nine comes to a sudden halt, backpedalling clumsily and falling backwards
Flip looks up, head still ringing. "Uh… huh."
Eidolon: "Damned burning circles."
Nine: "This is going to be stupid"
AURUM: The power's draining, is going every-which-way, and on some deep, subconscious level, you can feel a fundamental truth about reality shift, the unveiling of a true name, after layers of misdirection - the [Apocalypse] has begun.
Ezekiel: "I keep opening my mouth to say something and it keeps not coming out, that's so weird."
AURUM: Choking roots grow through the flames; venomous flowers bloom.
Flip staggers to his feet, using his sword as a crutch. "" Well you managed it that time. "
Ezekiel: "Yeah because I stopped trying to form a sentence with the words notorious monster in it so it finally came out."
Flip chuckles.
Ezekiel: "Anyway what's going on are we fighting exdeath or whatever that stupid tree in suikoden 4 was called or?"
AURUM: There's a growing sense of dread.
Nine: "I have an inkling"
Nine: "That we're going to face someone we've already met before"
Flip: "Heh. Ink-ling."
Eidolon: "Hmph! Won't be the first time I've been front-row for the end of everything!"
Ezekiel: "I'm gunna be honest."
Eidolon stomps his feet together, a white dwarf fusing at the place where his heels meet.
Ezekiel: "I can't really get excited about fighting trees."
Solberg adjusts their hat.
Flip hums, o/There is fighting in the forest, there is trouble in the trees…/o
AURUM: There's singing, again -
AURUM: Different, strange -
Flip sings counterpoint.
AURUM: Something comes into view - a suggestion of a serpent's coils, of six shimmering opalescent wings, of a bright moonlight halo, of purple venom dripping off of fangs - flanked by an obsidian snake, an obsidian scorpion, and two monolithic fiends, moss-grown, vine-covered, carved with ancient secrets.
[OOC] AURUM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoRFOtdaHOA
Ezekiel: "Oh thank god It's not just a tree."
Nine blinks, looks at the great serpent
AURUM: A voice, sorrowful, kind. "It will end here. It will all end here."
Ezekiel: "And I guessss this is better than a choir chanting in latin."
Eidolon flings one arm forward and one back, the galaxy across his wingspan. The lifeblood of space pulses.
Nine: "A snake lady with venom coming out of her mouth"
Nine: "Are you the one AURUM told me about?"
AURUM: "You bear the Apocalypse into the heart of the world, and I will break you open, and the sacred fire will consume it all."
Nine grins "It's definitely taken far too long to finally meet you"
AURUM: "You have done well, my children."
Solberg: "So, the Big Crunch."
Solberg: "Had to be one of the two."
Nine: "If it's really you, I have message from him"
Nine: "He says… It's not your fault"
Ezekiel: "It's always the jRPG Final Boss's fault though."
AURUM: "I have spent an eternity reading the worlds he's written to me out of guilt and shame. I need no more. Are you willing vessels, or must I break you?"
Flip pulls a piping hot mythwrap out of thin air and takes a bite. "I think you're gonna have to try."
Nine: "You needn't feel guilt"
Flip: "I only lay down for pretty girls."
Nine: "He never told me what happened, but you seem to have suffered"
Ezekiel: "Willing vessels for what, just, you know, out of intellectual curiosity?"
Eidolon: "Fighting extraplanar deities is what I do on my days off from privateering!"
Eidolon flicks his palm up and his fingers in, twice.
AURUM: "Ahahah. 'twas not my guilt but his that drove him to the construction of the Apocrypha." Pause: "You contain holy fire. I will split you in half and destroy this universe."
Clarafina tilts her head. "I don't think you understand."
Ezekiel: "So… get fucked and die or fight and die…?"
Ezekiel: "Who's one is this anyway, is this yours Nine?"
Nine: "Then, if he feels guilt for what has happened"
Ezekiel: "All your stuff is dumb."
Nine: "Why hate?"
AURUM: "This… is my story. It's always been my story."
Flip: "Yeah… If you want it," he finishes his mythwrap and draws The Revellers, swaying to music only he can hear. "Come get it."
Nine closes his eyes "Are you sure?"
Nine: "Are you certain this story is yours?"
Nine: "Have you earned this story? Have you made it your story?"
Ezekiel‘ looks up. Looong pause. Errupts into laughter.
Nine opens his eyes "Either way"
Nine: "I’ve already seen one world die"
Nine: "I won't see another"
Nine: "Much less an universe"
Nine: "I hope you can forgive me, but i'd rather create"
Clarafina draws her axe and nods to Nine. "Well then."
Clarafina: "I think it's time for an intervention!"
Solberg: "I could write paragraphs on how I feel on the subject. I'm a slow burn, and can't quite interject with the speed or vehemence of my more vocal - if less emotionally granular - companions."
Solberg: "But I think engaging in combat will get the same gist across."
Ezekiel: "I HAVE OPINIONS ON THIS ENCOUNTER."
Nine: "And they're all dumb, Ezekiel"
Nine: "We already know that"
Ezekiel: "Yes."
Solberg gestures at Ezekiel and Nine. Exhibits A and B.
Ezekiel: "That is the sum of my opinions on this matter."
Flip: "You two can make out after we kill the boss, OK? OK."
Ezekiel: "Okay."
Ezekiel: "Solberg has to watch and enjoy it though."
Nine: "Hrm… I think it wouldn't be perfectly constructive to kill her"
Nine: "But we can figure that out after we've got her under control"
Ezekiel: "It's a jRPG super boss, what else are you going to do with it."
AURUM: She glances between all of you, slithers out from the shadows, hands gleaming, nails envenomed.
AURUM: "Very well, then."
Nine: "Nobody says zero health is a death. Haven't you played any recent ones?"
AURUM: Battle order: Flip [F]:0 Solberg [B]:0 Clarafina [F]:2 Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother [B]:2 Shadow Serpent [F]:2 Eidolon [B]:4 Kudzu Cenotaph A [F]:4 Nine [B]:5 Kudzu Cenotaph B [F]:6 Shadow Scorpion [B]:6 Ezekiel [F]:7
AURUM: Status for Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother : [<span style="color: #008000;">====================</span>]
AURUM: Status for Kudzu Cenotaph A : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Iron Wall(U)
AURUM: Status for Kudzu Cenotaph B : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Iron Wall(U)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Scorpion : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Hidden(U) Chargebreaker(U)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Serpent : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>]
AURUM: Flip!
Nine: "My lady Mary, tell me, do you have a companion"
Nine: "Another of your magnitude, who wears a mask?"
Nine: "I imagine you're not a big fan of him"
Ezekiel: "God how would you even know NIne, HOW WOULD YOU KNOW. you're from a ruined, desolate world! Stay in character!"
Nine: "Doesn't looks like it but"
Flip shrugs and darts toward the shadow serpent, blade flicking in a rippling cut that should be implssible for a sword that size… [Stoking Fires, 60D]
Nine: "I was actually kind of a nerd before it happened"
Flip rolled 1d100 and got 41 ( Total: 41 ) for 85/5
AURUM: She looks down at Nine, the corners of her mouth twisting from a smile into something else. "His is the guilt which constructed the Apocrypha."
Ezekiel: "I one hundrend precent believe you were a nerd."
Flip rolled 1d12+150 and got 7 ( Total: 157.0 )
Nine furrows his eyebrows
Nine: "(What?)"
Solberg: "Didn't we meet?"
AURUM: Hits for -30% damage - the Kudzu Cenotaphs are emitting a defense field! [109]!
Flip slashes and slips away, dancing. [Shift: Water]
Nine: "(Are they not aware of…)"
Nine looks at Mary "The two of you"
Nine: "What happened?"
Solberg hits themself with a [Solid Pulse 50D]. Just preparing in advance.
AURUM: Solberg!
Solberg went!
AURUM: Clarafina!
Clarafina strides forward, pushes her way past the cenotaphs, and makes the first incision into the Dark Cloud. [Luck Bane - 50D]
Clarafina rolled 1d100 and got 48 ( Total: 48 ) for 80/10
AURUM: Hits!
Clarafina rolled 1d10*0.8+120*0.8 and got 9 ( Total: 103.2 )
Clarafina: Something shifts. Luck Bane[50](4) - she's taking 50 damage per spent LP!
[OOC] AURUM: -30% more damage because of the Cenotaphs
AURUM: Dealing [64] and inflicting Luckbane!
AURUM: Maryam begins chanting, weaving something out of silk and moonlight between her fingertips. [CT 10]
AURUM: The Serpent darts forward, and grabs Nine and Solberg and pulls them both into the front row! [Storm's Brewing] It rattles its tail! [Crash - next Technique is T:Row]
AURUM: Violet venom trickles out of the Serpent's mouth.
AURUM: Eidolon!
Eidolon dims slightly [Backfeed] and draws stars towards his fingertips. [CT 15]
AURUM: Cenotaph A glows red! [Speed Up] It then slams down on Nine! [Hammer Blow]
AURUM rolled 1d100 and got 67 ( Total: 67 ) for 20/60
AURUM: It misses!
AURUM: The Cenotaph weeps a garnet tear.
AURUM: Battle order: Nine [B]:0 Kudzu Cenotaph B [F]:1 Shadow Scorpion [B]:1 Ezekiel [F]:2 Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother [B]:7 Eidolon [B]:14 Shadow Serpent [F]:17 Kudzu Cenotaph A [F]:29 Solberg [B]:45 Clarafina [F]:47 Flip [F]:55
AURUM: Status for Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother : [<span style="color: #008000;">====================</span>] Luck Bane [50](4)
AURUM: Status for Kudzu Cenotaph A : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Iron Wall(U) Speed Up(1) Venom I(U)
AURUM: Status for Kudzu Cenotaph B : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Iron Wall(U)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Scorpion : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Hidden(U) Chargebreaker(U)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Serpent : [<span style="color: #008000;">========= </span>] +30% Damage(2) Venom I(U)
AURUM: Nine!
Ezekiel: "Hahah red crystals tears."
Ezekiel: "This is so dumb."
Nine steps into the back row again [Change Row, 20D]
Clarafina: "Suspend your disbelief a little."
Nine: "So it is, Ezekiel"
Clarafina: "For now, in this moment, you are here."
Clarafina: "This is how things are."
Nine: "For once I agree with you"
Ezekiel: "FOR NOW."
Clarafina: "Your heart is beating. The air is cold. For now!"
Solberg: "I was -just- about to say 'oh good the peanut gallery's quieted down.'"
Ezekiel: "That's what you get for thinking, Zoidberg!"
AURUM: Cenotaph B glows red [Speed Up] and then slams down on Ezekiel! [Hammer Blow]
AURUM rolled 1d100 and got 45 ( Total: 45 ) for 20/60
AURUM rolled d8+81 and got 4 ( Total: 85 ) for Ezekiel is delayed +20!
Ezekiel: "Hey Clara -"
Ezekiel: "I'm not here, in this moment!" Ezekiel makes one of these faces: as he gets throw back in time, but not in place.
Ezekiel: :D faces, even.
Clarafina: "That's a little better."
AURUM: The Shadow Scorpion leaps into the front row and reaches out its stinger-ey tail - and it streeeetches, warping like a surrealist painting - and it gets Eidolon! [Panic Strike]
AURUM rolled 1d100 and got 98 ( Total: 98 ) for 90
[OOC] AURUM: fhrueghieryughieurgh
Eidolon phases out of the way.
AURUM: Maryamarchis reaches out her hands, and a web of moonlight, dewdropped with venom, falls over Clarafina and Flip. [Physical Fear (4) - take +40% incoming physical damage]
AURUM: Eidolon!
[OOC] Eidolon: shadow serpent is in the front row right now correct
[OOC] AURUM: Yes
[OOC] AURUM: er scorpion, serpent has been
Eidolon whirls his arms about in a circle, and the accumulated stars arc from his hands onto the Shadow Serpent and Maryamarchis! [Pair Strike, 35D]
Eidolon rolled 1d6+100 and got 2 ( Total: 102 ) for magical gate damage, They're both marked!
AURUM: Hits at -30% for [71]!
Ezekiel: "So is there a reason we're not hitting the tanks by the by, or?"
AURUM: The Shadow Scorpion scampers back into the back row! [Fall Back]
Eidolon: "I'm setting up hits on everyone."
Nine: "I'm just slow"
Ezekiel: "You AoE anyway."
AURUM: The Shadow Serpent rises into the air and slams down on the entire front row! [Leave Open]
Clarafina: "…I think Flip's the only one without an excuse!"
AURUM rolled 4d100 and got 23, 61, 70, 71 ( Total: 225 ) for clara, ezekiel, flip, solberg 80 CoS
Solberg sidesteps in time. [-1 Luck]
AURUM rolled d12+162 and got 5 ( Total: 167 )
Flip also dances out of the way. [-2 luck]
Clarafina is struck for [203]!
AURUM: Dealing [167] physical damage to Ezekiel and [233] to Clarafina, and they're both [Left Open (3) - reduce result checks of all actions striking the target by 20!]
AURUM: Nine!
Nine takes a deep breath as a red glow emanates from within his coat "All systems, red alert" [Red Alert, 30D]
[OOC] Nine: HP: 500/500, [TMP: 80] MP: 550/550, LP: 8/8, SoS: 125 - Red Alert [+50%] (N)
AURUM: Ezekiel!
Ezekiel‘ starts digging around in his pckets for some stuff. [CT20]
AURUM: Cenotaph A slams Ezekiel! [Hammer Blow]
AURUM rolled 1d100 and got 35 ( Total: 35 ) for 20/60
Solberg intercepts this one, though! [G.A.]
AURUM rolled d8+81 and got 4 ( Total: 85 ) for +20 delay to Solberg
AURUM: Cenotaph B slams Ezekiel! [Hammer Blow]
AURUM rolled 1d100 and got 63 ( Total: 63 ) for 20/60
AURUM: But misses!
Ezekiel: "I’m So Popular!"
Eidolon: "For once, I'm not jealous."
AURUM: Maryam begins weaving a web! [CT 10]
AURUM: Battle order: Ezekiel [F]:0 Clarafina [F]:5 Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother [B]:5 Eidolon [B]:7 Nine [B]:8 Shadow Scorpion [F]:9 Flip [F]:13 Kudzu Cenotaph A [F]:17 Kudzu Cenotaph B [F]:19 Solberg [B]:23 Shadow Serpent [F]:35
AURUM: Status for Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother : [<span style="color: #008000;">====================</span>] Luck Bane [50](3)
AURUM: Status for Kudzu Cenotaph A : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Iron Wall(U) Venom II(U)
AURUM: Status for Kudzu Cenotaph B : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Iron Wall(U) Venom II(U)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Scorpion : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Hidden(U) Chargebreaker(U) Venom I(U) Critical +30(1)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Serpent : [<span style="color: #008000;">======== </span>] +30% Damage(1) Venom II(U)
AURUM: Ezekiel!
Ezekiel‘ pulls out three little cookies, tosses one to Clarafina, one to Flip, eats one himself. [40D] [Restore Field]
AURUM: Munchies!
Ezekiel: Regenerate 90HP (5). Breaks on damage, but let me know when it breaks.
Flip: "Ooh!"
AURUM: Clarafina!
Flip munch munch munch.
Clarafina twirls forward and lays her axe into the side of Cenotaph A! Red ribbons spiral out - [Arm Bind - 50D]
Clarafina rolled 1d100 and got 33 ( Total: 33 ) for 85/10
AURUM: Hits!
Ezekiel: A billboard also appears out of thin air and props itself up on the surface of … something. [PARTY TIME IN: 2]
Clarafina rolled 1d10*0.7+120*0.7 and got 4 ( Total: 86.8 )
Clarafina: Striking for 86 physical damage! Arm Bind punishes non-basic techs [90](4)!
AURUM: Hits for [86] and Arm Bind!
AURUM: Maryam casts a venom-dewed web of [Folly] over Solberg and Eidolon - Deal -30% magical damage and -30% potency with Life and Recovery effects (4)!
AURUM: Oh by the way let me know when any of your negative statuses tick off~ <3
Clarafina steps into the way of Eidolon’s.
[OOC] Clarafina: G.A!
AURUM: How gallant! How noble!
AURUM: Battle order: Eidolon [B]:0 Nine [B]:1 Shadow Scorpion [F]:2 Flip [F]:6 Kudzu Cenotaph A [F]:10 Kudzu Cenotaph B [F]:12 Solberg [B]:16 Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother [B]:28 Shadow Serpent [F]:28 Ezekiel [F]:33 Clarafina [F]:48
AURUM: Status for Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother : [<span style="color: #008000;">====================</span>] Luck Bane [50](2)
AURUM: Status for Kudzu Cenotaph A : [<span style="color: #008000;">========= </span>] Iron Wall(U) Arm Bind [90](4) Venom II(U)
AURUM: Status for Kudzu Cenotaph B : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Iron Wall(U) Venom II(U)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Scorpion : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Hidden(U) Chargebreaker(U) Venom I(U) Critical +30(1)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Serpent : [<span style="color: #008000;">======== </span>] +30% Damage(1) Venom II(U)
AURUM: Eidolon!
Eidolon: "It's appreciated. I'll step up the pace." He's gathering stars once more, but at a faster pace. [CT15->5] [2 Luck]
Nine sighs, pulls out a spherical device as well as a bottle. He drops a brilliant red fluid from the bottle into the device, stores away the bottle again and screws in the cap of the device. He pulls out a wire from his left sleeve and connects it to the device [
AURUM: Nine!
Nine sighs, pulls out a spherical device as well as a bottle. He drops a brilliant red fluid from the bottle into the device, stores away the bottle again and screws in the cap of the device. He pulls out a wire from his left sleeve and connects it to the device [Demolisher, CT20]
AURUM: Eidolon post your status plz
[OOC] Eidolon: HP: 500/600, [TMP: 180] MP: 600/600, LP: 6/8, SoS: 150
AURUM: Bah
AURUM: The Scorpion leaps into the front row and jabs Eidolon LITERALLY EVERYWHERE with its stinger tail! [Assassinate]
AURUM rolled 1d100 and got 7 ( Total: 7 ) for 90
AURUM: Why god do I not have crit
AURUM: WAIT I DO HAVE CRIT
AURUM: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
[OOC] Eidolon: oh yeah? how much crit
AURUM rolled d10+198,230% and got 10 ( Total: 478.4 ) for Crit, +30% from Chargebreaker
Eidolon pushes that out of crit range. [-1 LP]
[OOC] AURUM: I have 30 Crit
[OOC] AURUM: b/c Fall Back
[OOC] Eidolon: -3 LP] then
[OOC] Eidolon: and I'm also back row
[OOC] AURUM: so you'll need to spend- yeaaah now we're talking. B) …I could have sworn this was ranged but I guess I'm high. anyways,
AURUM rolled d10+198,110% and got 10 ( Total: 228.8 )
AURUM: Just deals [228] damage I guess :(
AURUM: Eidolon!
Eidolon changes track, and barrages the Kudzu Cenotaph A with an eye laser! [Oracle Energy, 35D]
AURUM: !
Eidolon rolled 1d8+120 and got 7 ( Total: 127 ) for Marked!
AURUM: Hits for [88]!
AURUM: The Scorpion hops back into the back row! [Fall Back]
[Swerve Casting]
AURUM: Flip!
Flip side-steps and slices into Cenotaph A. "Sorry, I have A Thing about dragons. Long story." [Break on the Rocks, 50D, Shift: Earth]
Flip rolled 1d100 and got 100 ( Total: 100 ) for 85/5
Flip -2 Luck again!
AURUM: Break on the Rocks does not break the rocks. However, it does hit!
AURUM: At -30%!
Flip rolled 1d12+150,70% and got 1 ( Total: 105.69999999999999 ) for and +10% potency to my next action each time an enemy doesn't damage me.
AURUM: Hits for [105]!
AURUM: Cenotaph A turns red [Speed Up] and then hits Solberg [Hammer Blow]!
AURUM rolled 1d100 and got 87 ( Total: 87 ) for 20/60
AURUM: And misses! Also, Arm Bind procs for [90]!
Clarafina pulls her hand back, and the ribbons snap taut! [Learn Your Lesson]!
Clarafina: The ribbons leave ribbon-scars - It's taking +20% damage (1)!
[OOC] AURUM: Does Arm Bind vanish?
[OOC] Clarafina: Yup!
AURUM: Cenotaph B turns red [Speed Up] and then hits Solberg! [Hammer Blow]
AURUM rolled 1d100 and got 34 ( Total: 34 ) for 20/60
AURUM rolled d8+81 and got 3 ( Total: 84 ) for delayed +20
AURUM: Deals [84] and delay!
[OOC] Solberg: HP: 515/600, MP: 700/700, LP: 5/6, SoS: 150 - Solid Pulse (+50) (5),Lazy Damage (84) (1),Folly (4)
AURUM: Battle order: Nine [B]:0 Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother [B]:7 Shadow Serpent [F]:7 Ezekiel [F]:12 Solberg [B]:15 Eidolon [B]:19 Kudzu Cenotaph A [F]:19 Kudzu Cenotaph B [F]:21 Clarafina [F]:27 Shadow Scorpion [B]:31 Flip [F]:35
AURUM: Status for Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother : [<span style="color: #008000;">====================</span>] Luck Bane [50](2)
AURUM: Status for Kudzu Cenotaph A : [<span style="color: #008000;">======= </span>] Iron Wall(U) Speed Up(1) Venom III(U) +20% Damage(1)
AURUM: Status for Kudzu Cenotaph B : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Iron Wall(U) Speed Up(1) Venom III(U)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Scorpion : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Hidden(U) Chargebreaker(U) Venom II(U)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Serpent : [<span style="color: #008000;">======== </span>] +30% Damage(1) Venom II(U)
AURUM: Nine!
Nine disconnects the sphere from the wire, tosses it upwards as a red zone appears under the enemy front row "Clear the target area" and the device hits the ground once- And suddenly a curtain of fire erupts from it with massive explosive force, leaving flames billowing still [Demolisher, 40D]
AURUM: Kaboom!
Nine rolled 1d10+150,120 and got 6 ( Total: 187.2 ) for 40 DoT(4)
[OOC] Nine: HP: 500/500, [TMP: 15] MP: 550/550, LP: 8/8, SoS: 125
[OOC] AURUM: is that factoring the -30% in?
[OOC] AURUM: Julian!
[OOC] Nine: Yes
[OOC] Nine: Normally it deals +50% damage, not now
AURUM: Dealing [187] to both Cenotaphs and the Serpent!
AURUM: A giant crack splits Cenotaph A down the middle, right through the crudely carved face. [Iron Wall Broken]
Clarafina: …And another [31] to Cenotaph A from [Learn your Lesson]!
Clarafina: (which is the +20% damage boost that didn't get factored in, not some other magic damage source)
AURUM: Maryam sways from side to side.
AURUM: The Serpent darts forward and bites at Flip! [Victory Strike]
AURUM rolled 1d100 and got 25 ( Total: 25 ) for 80
AURUM rolled d12+135,140% and got 8 ( Total: 200.2 ) for the next monster to hit Flip inflicts +30% damage and recovers 1 MP and 1 LP!
AURUM: Dealing [200]!
AURUM: Shit wait
AURUM: Deals [243] actually, and then its +30% damage wears off.
[OOC] Flip: HEY ICE YOUR THINGER JUST BROKE
AURUM: It rattles its tail. [Crush]
AURUM: It also takes [40] from detonation!
AURUM: Ezekiel!
AURUM: Ezekiel's smokin' a bowl.
AURUM: Solberg!
[OOC] Ezekiel: +50 HP to Flip And Cleanse a Status When Ur Shit Broke
Flip cleanses the shit out of that fucking +40% damage
Ezekiel‘ moves in and [Cover]s the rest as he slams his knife into the defender taking bonus damage! [40D]
Ezekiel` rolled d100 and got 31 ( Total: 31 )
AURUM: Hits vs. Cenotaph B!
AURUM: Or no
AURUM: vs. Cenotaph A
Ezekiel` rolled d8+72,120% and got 1 ( Total: 87.6 ) for Next person to hit this things recovers 100 HP
Solberg hits Flip with a [Rapid Pulse] [Heal +35 (50 * .7) now, then get +(120 * 0.7)/tick regen (2)]
Ezekiel: The counter on the billboard ticks doooown: [PARTY TIME IN: 1]
[OOC] Solberg: 50D
[OOC] Solberg: So 84 regen/tick
AURUM: Cenotaph A is still protected by Cenotaph B so that does 90% all things considered, for [65]
AURUM: Eidolon!
Eidolon snaps his fingers, and in a flash, a Magic Circle appears around Kudzu Cenotaph B and jolts the enemy! [CT10->0 with 2 LP] [Magic Circle, 35D]
Eidolon rolled 1d8+100 and got 4 ( Total: 104 ) for Marked! Eidolon gains an Enchantment!
AURUM: Hits for [104]!
AURUM: Cenotaph A [Attack]s Flip!
AURUM rolled 1d100 and got 96 ( Total: 96 ) for 80
AURUM: But misses!
AURUM: Cenotaph B [Attack]s Flip!
AURUM rolled 1d100 and got 22 ( Total: 22 ) for 80
AURUM rolled d8+81,130% and got 3 ( Total: 109.2 ) for +30% from Victory Strike and regains 1 MP and 1 LP
AURUM: Dealing [109]!
AURUM: Battle order: Clarafina [F]:0 Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother [B]:0 Shadow Scorpion [B]:4 Flip [F]:8 Nine [B]:13 Kudzu Cenotaph A [F]:22 Kudzu Cenotaph B [F]:24 Ezekiel [F]:25 Eidolon [B]:27 Solberg [B]:38 Shadow Serpent [F]:45
AURUM: Status for Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother : [<span style="color: #008000;">====================</span>] Luck Bane [50](1)
AURUM: Status for Kudzu Cenotaph A : [<span style="color: #ff8000;">==== </span>] Detonated [40](3) Venom IV(U) HP Pinata [100] Next(U)
AURUM: Status for Kudzu Cenotaph B : [<span style="color: #008000;">======= </span>] Iron Wall(U) Venom IV(U) Detonated [40](3)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Scorpion : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Hidden(U) Chargebreaker(U) Venom II(U)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Serpent : [<span style="color: #008000;">====== </span>] Crush(1) Venom III(U) Detonated [40](3)
AURUM: Clarafina!
Clarafina delivers a slash to Cenotaph B, now! [Arm Bind - 50D]! Ribbons wrap around it.
Clarafina rolled 1d100 and got 63 ( Total: 63 ) for 80/10
AURUM: Hits!
Clarafina rolled 1d10+120 and got 5 ( Total: 125.0 ) for Arm Bind[90](4)!
AURUM: Hits for [125] and Arm Bind!
Clarafina cashes in for 100 HP, right?
Clarafina: Oh No of Course Not
AURUM: Maryam unhinges her jaw, like a snake, but it drops all the way to the floor, and there’s a howling blackness inside. [CT 10]
AURUM: The Scorpion lunges into the front row and [Assassinate]s Solberg!
AURUM rolled 1d100 and got 17 ( Total: 17 ) for 90
AURUM: Crit Range 1-30
AURUM rolled d10+198,200% and got 9 ( Total: 414.0 ) for Remove all enhancements and conditions on Solberg and tell me how many you had
A flash of light in front of the Scorpion- It's actually Nine in there instead [Sacrifice Guard - G.A.] [-2 LP to not crit]
[OOC] Nine: I have no conditions on me
AURUM: Deals [207] instead! No enhancements either?
AURUM: Phooey.
[OOC] Nine: HP: 293/500, [TMP: 15] MP: 550/550, LP: 8/8, SoS: 125 - Chain Reaction [+20%/+10] (U)
Solberg: "Appreciated."
AURUM: Flip!
Flip lashes out at Cenotaph B! [Moth Dance, 60D. Shift: Wind]
Nine: "Isn't often I do that"
Flip rolled 1d100 and got 2 ( Total: 2 ) for 85/5
AURUM: Crits!
[OOC] Flip: Is it still -30%?
AURUM: Nope, Cenotaph B is taking full damage.
[OOC] Eidolon: it's not because A's iron wall is broken
Flip rolled 1d12+180,230% and got 9 ( Total: 434.7 )
AURUM: Everything else is still protected by Cenotaph B… uh… not for much longer. ; ;
AURUM: Hits for [434] and cleaves it almost in two; it cracks loudly. [Iron Wall Broken]
Flip: "Now then, where was I…"
AURUM: Maryam slithers over towards Cenotaph B…
AURUM: She lovingly brushes some moss away from an inscription on the statue, too ancient and crumbled to read.
AURUM: Eroded, overgrown with moss and vines - half-crumbled wings barely discernible. She consumes the memorial. [Devour]
Eidolon frowns.
Ezekiel: "De…licious…?"
Flip: "Crunchy, at least."
AURUM: She then darts towards Nine quickly, wraps him up in her coils, carries him back to the other side of the battlefield, helpless and wriggling. [Imprison - Nine cannot be targeted by allies and takes [252] damage on his actions, but inflicts +30% damage to Maryam. If Maryam takes 330 damage from sources other than Nine, the imprisonment breaks!]
Ezekiel‘ salutes Nine.
Ezekiel: "It was nice knowing you, bro!"
AURUM: Battle order: Nine [B]:0 Kudzu Cenotaph A [F]:9 Ezekiel [F]:12 Eidolon [B]:14 Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother [B]:17 Solberg [B]:25 Shadow Serpent [F]:32 Clarafina [F]:37 Shadow Scorpion [F]:41 Flip [F]:55
AURUM: Status for Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother : [<span style="color: #008000;">====================</span>] -40% DT +40% DMG(3)
AURUM: Status for Kudzu Cenotaph A : [<span style="color: #ff8000;">==== </span>] Detonated [40](3) Venom IV(U) HP Pinata [100] Next(U)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Scorpion : [<span style="color: #008000;">==========</span>] Hidden(U) Chargebreaker(U) Venom III(U)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Serpent : [<span style="color: #008000;">====== </span>] Crush(1) Venom III(U) Detonated [40](3)
AURUM: Nine!
Nine: "Ugh… This is going to hurt a lot"
Nine looks at Mary’s eyes, since he's up there anyway "You never answered my question, however"
Nine looks at her as red light glows from his coat "What happened, to cause you to have this desire to end the world" [Red Alert, 30D]
[OOC] Nine: HP:<span style="color: #ff0000;"> 41</span>/500, [TMP: 15] MP: 550/550, LP: 6/8, SoS: 125 - Chain Reaction [+20%/+10] (U)
[OOC] AURUM: i'll let you do-over
Nine instead wriggles a lot! Because he's charging up [Demolisher, CT20]
AURUM: "…The Shining One and I were created to love each other, to spin worlds between each others fingertips, to bring life to the void."
[OOC] Nine: HP: 293/500, [TMP: 15] MP: 550/550, LP: 6/8, SoS: 125 - Chain Reaction [+20%/+10] (U)
Ezekiel: "THE SHINING ONE!"
Ezekiel: "Fuck what game was that."
AURUM: Cenotaph A [Attack]s… Solberg!
AURUM rolled 1d100 and got 93 ( Total: 93 ) for 80
AURUM: And misses!
Ezekiel: "Right! Desu dos/"
Nine: "So… Is this an act of jealosy?"
AURUM: Ezekiel!
AURUM: "…we had a son. We were happy."
Nine closes his eyes, he leans back- He isn't comfortable in the coil grip, but it's as if he was resting his body against her coils "Did… Something happen to him?"
AURUM: "It was a trap."
Ezekiel‘ dashes forward and slams his knife into the Dark Cloud (lol). [Pin Down] [50D]
AURUM: "Our worlds."
Ezekiel` rolled d100 and got 79 ( Total: 79 )
AURUM: "Our very existence."
Ezekiel` rolled d8+81,150% and got 7 ( Total: 132.0 ) for pow strike.
AURUM: "He forgave our creator. Bent to his will. Accepted his poisoned words."
Ezekiel` rolls back, leaving the dagger in the fiend. It glows bright yellow. [Next Ally To Target Her Has Their CT Reduced by 10]
AURUM: "…I did not."
Ezekiel: The counter on the billboard ticks doooown: [PARTY TIME IN: 0]
ATTACK ASSIST ARE NOW DOING +40% WOOO
AURUM: "And so I will destroy everything the two of them created, and set us free."
Nine: "That trap"
Nine: "Did it hurt you?"
AURUM: Hits for [132]!
Nine: "Were you bound by it?"
AURUM: "I have been bound by it for my entire existence!"
Nine: "So"
Nine: "To the very end"
Nine: "You will tie your binds tighter?"
AURUM: Maryam takes -40% DT from the Devour stacks, so that actually hits for [79]!
Nine: "You would play your part in a farce to the end?"
AURUM: 251 damage to break imprisonment!
[OOC] Ezekiel: 89 actually
Nine: "Hasn’t this been such an interesting adventure?" he sounds angry
AURUM: Eidolon!
Nine: "Are you really going to play this part…"
Nine: "Wouldn't you rather take your fate by it's reigns"
Clarafina: "Nine."
Nine: "And just create the future you wish?"
Clarafina: "It isn't a doctor's place to get angry at one's patients."
Nine: "That's why"
Clarafina: "One simply intervenes."
Nine: "I'm an engineer"
AURUM: "I will smash fate along with everything else! I was built for a purpose, AND I DEFY IT!"
Nine: "Not a doctor"
Nine: "And what purpose was that, Mary?"
AURUM: Eidolon!
Eidolon: "My god you're a gabby bunch."
Ezekiel: "I for one blame Solberg."
Clarafina: "Got to do somethiiiing while I'm waiting for my turn!"
Eidolon: "If you're going to go through all that, at least do it on your turn, like this-"
Nine: "And do you defy it because you dislike being bound by it"
Eidolon floats up, and then teleports- it's a small amount behind himself, done simply for theatrics. Red lines shoot up from the marks on Maryamarchis, Cenotaph A, and the Shadow Serpent!
Nine: "Or do you defy it because you consider it wrong?"
Eidolon: "Pontificate while you bring the pain!"
The lines summon the meteors, large and looming, drawn from the deep dark.
AURUM: "All along I was never anything more than a cog in this machine, and I will smash the machine and bring it down around me!" Meteors fall, and Maryam looks up at them, gratefully, hungrily.
I don't crash ships into people! [Meteor Swarm (Bermuda Liner), 35D] [CT 20->0 from 2 LP and Pin Down since it's targeting Maryamarchis]
Nine sighs "You're hurting, aren't you?"
Nine: "Of course you are"
Ezekiel: "But despite all your rage, you're still just a rat in the cage." Ezekiel nods sagely to the jrpg boss.
AURUM: Hits at -40%!
AURUM: On Maryam, full damage on others.
Nine: "And isn't this aggression such a great way to make it go away?"
Nine: "To think just on what to do next"
Eidolon rolled 1d12+210,130 and got 4 ( Total: 278.2 ) for 10% on my final luck, 20% from magic circle
Nine: "To believe that, for some reason, destroying what caused you pain will make it disappear?"
Eidolon rolled 1d12+210,90 and got 8 ( Total: 196.20000000000002 ) for mary mary quite contrary
Nine: "What a beautiful illusion"
Ezekiel: "Nine!"
Ezekiel: "Back up a couple of seconds."
Eidolon: "No, gods no, don't do that-"
Nine: "Hrm?"
Eidolon: "You saw how much he talked in those few seconds."
Ezekiel: "You forgot to throw your arms out wide and to the side while making your cape billow,"
Ezekiel: "as you said that."
Ezekiel: "It's a VERY IMPORTANT part of getting to use that line."
Ezekiel‘ makes rotation motions with his hands; back it up and do it again.
Nine: "As you can see she has me on a very tight grip"
Nine: "Not quite possible"
AURUM: Hits the remaining Cenotaph and shatters it; deals [196] to Maryam. 45 damage to break Imprisonment!
Clarafina steps forward and delivers a slash to Mary! [S.A!]
Clarafina rolled 1d100 and got 87 ( Total: 87 ) for 80/10
[OOC] Clarafina: -1 LP!
AURUM: Eidolon gets 100 HP from the HP pinata!
Clarafina rolled 1d10+120 and got 6 ( Total: 126.0 ) for Zeke Bonuses vs. Devour Stacks == It’s a Wash
AURUM: Hits! The coils loosen and Nine is free!
Clarafina: Oh Actually Throw Another 12 Damage On There, Thanks
AURUM: Maryam beats her wings, slowly, moonlight gathering. [CT 15]
Ezekiel: In flashing lights across the billboard face: <span style="color: #ffff00;">!!!+50% To Attack Assists!!!</span>
Nine raises his right hand and puts it on her shoulder "Well. I make no promises. But just hang in there, alright? We have to stop you, to give you time" he walks back to his position in the back row
AURUM: Battle order: Nine [B]:0 Solberg [B]:5 Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother [B]:12 Shadow Serpent [F]:12 Clarafina [F]:17 Shadow Scorpion [F]:21 Eidolon [B]:29 Kudzu Cenotaph A [F]:29 Flip [F]:35 Ezekiel [F]:42
AURUM: Status for Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother : [<span style="color: #008000;">================== </span>] -40% DT +40% DMG(3)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Scorpion : [<span style="color: #008000;">====== </span>] Hidden(U) Chargebreaker(U) Venom III(U)
AURUM: Status for Shadow Serpent : [<span style="color: #ff8000;">=== </span>] Crush(1) Venom III(U) Detonated [40](3)
AURUM: Nine!
Nine turns around suddenly with a spin, sending a spherical object flying towards the enemy front row- It strikes the ground once, and explodes in a shower of gleaming particles and sparks [Demolisher, 40D]
Nine rolled 1d100 and got 81 ( Total: 81 ) for -40 CoS(1) to front row
Also rolled 1d10+150,120 and got 5 [Total: 186.0]
[OOC] Sugarlips: Grand Total: 267.0
[OOC] Nine: Why did I roll a d100, that was needless, it's 100 CoS
AURUM: The Serpent's in SOS!
[OOC] Nine: HP: 293/500, MP: 490/550, LP: 6/8, SoS: 125 - Chain Reaction [+40%/+20] (U)
AURUM: Solberg!
Flip leaps in behind the explosions, aiming at the serpent. [A Sudden Spark]
Flip rolled 1d100 and got 10 ( Total: 10 ) for 85/5
AURUM: Hits!
Flip rolled 1d12+150,150% and got 12 ( Total: 243.0 )
Flip Shift: Water
AURUM: He slices the serpent's head clean off.
Ezekiel: In flashing lights across the billboard face: <span style="color: #ffff00;">!!!+60% To Attack Assists!!!</span>
Flip: "Alright. Now."
Solberg briefly charges a black orb, sending it careening into the Scorpion. [Reverse Vacuum, 10->5 CT -1 LP]
AURUM: Scorpion takes +30% damage from all sources!
AURUM: Solberg, now!
Solberg rolled d12*1.3+144*1.3 and got 2 ( Total: 189.8 )
AURUM: The Scorpion's in SOS!
AURUM: Delay?
Solberg: Dissipates the Pulse on Solberg and heals the group for [+112]. [50D]
Ezekiel‘ rushes in for the kill???? [SA]
Ezekiel` rolled d100 and got 31 ( Total: 31 )
AURUM: Hits!
[OOC] Solberg: HP: 593/600, MP: 545/700, LP: 4/6, SoS: 150 - Solid Pulse (+50) (3),Folly (2)
Ezekiel` rolled d8+91,240% and got 6 ( Total: 232.79999999999998 ) for 50 knife 60 BOOOOST 30 stranded lurker
AURUM: When did Ezekiel get swole?
AURUM: There’s like,
AURUM: little bits of scorpion raining down and shit D:
Ezekiel: "Wooooo."
[OOC] Nine: HP: 405/500, MP: 490/550, LP: 6/8, SoS: 125 - Chain Reaction [+40%/+20] (U)
Flip: "Nice one."
Nine: "Nice finisher"
Ezekiel: In flashing lights across the billboard face: <span style="color: #ffff00;">!!!+70% To Attack Assists!!!</span>
AURUM: "Yes…!"
Ezekiel: "Live the dream, pirate man."
AURUM: "You've brought so much power here."
AURUM: "Destruction trailing behind you in the aether."
Clarafina: "Brought…?"
Clarafina: "The power was inside you all along."
Nine: "Now the dead jester's words make sense"
Eidolon: "It's been building. Of course I can thank all of you."
Ezekiel: "lol."
AURUM: "Wandering through the Apocrypha, entangling yourself with all the stories."
Nine: "To gather EXP… Of course"
AURUM: "And now, you're finally here."
AURUM: "You've done so well, my children." She smiles.
Nine closes his eyes
Nine: "You forget"
Nine: "We've tangled ourselves with your own story here"
Ezekiel: "So we're all imagining all these lines as if we were 70 year old butlers with our faces half concealed via shadows and with a monocle gleaming from the only source of unidentified light, right."
AURUM: She reaches out a hand, gently, and casts a web of [Catalysis] over Clarafina!
Nine chuckles
AURUM rolled d12+216 and got 11 ( Total: 227 )
Nine: "You're so angry at your creator"
Nine: "When it seems you've appealed to the same tricks"
AURUM: Deals [227] magical damage, and inflicts a condition: Whenever you target others with an action, choose a target; they take [216] from the boss, and you pass the condition to them.
Nine: "Ah, it's fine… You just need some time"
[OOC] Ezekiel: +50 HP and Cleanse a Condition, Clarafina!
[OOC] Clarafina: I'll Cleanse That Condition I Just Got, Thank You!
Ezekiel‘ hip thrusts around in circles.
AURUM: Battle order: Clarafina [F]:0 Eidolon [B]:12 Flip [F]:18 Nine [B]:23 Ezekiel [F]:25 Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother [B]:30 Solberg [B]:43
AURUM: Status for Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother : [<span style="color: #008000;">================== </span>] -40% DT +40% DMG(2)
AURUM: Clarafina!
Clarafina reaches out a hand, gently.
Clarafina: "So this is what you desire…?"
Clarafina: "[As You Wish]" . 50D.
Clarafina rolled 1d100 and got 39 ( Total: 39 ) for 80/10
[OOC] Clarafina: -3 LP
AURUM: Crit!
Clarafina grabs Mary by her collar-bone and pushes her forward, driving her into the circle of searing flame that separates the two of them - and the battlefield - from the engine.
Clarafina rolled 1d10*1.6+120*1.6 and got 5 ( Total: 200.0 )
Clarafina: Mary’s bleeding badly! [100](3)!
Solberg follows up, striking an orb to slam into Maryamarchis. [Spell Assist - Bank Shot]
AURUM: She screams- or sings- it's hard to tell. [Devour Stacks Invert]
[OOC] Solberg: So +40% instead of -40%?
AURUM: Correct.
Flip hums the counter-point again.
Solberg rolled d12*2.1+144*2.1 and got 5 ( Total: 312.90000000000003 ) for +40%, +70% I think?
AURUM: Something like… "Forever watchful, she yearns for destruction" ? Or was that another song. [312]
Clarafina drags Mary back a step as the orb slams into her, smiling, cradling her chin.
AURUM: Battle order: Eidolon [B]:0 Flip [F]:6 Nine [B]:11 Ezekiel [F]:13 Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother [B]:18 Solberg [B]:31 Clarafina [F]:38
AURUM: Status for Maryamarchis, the Dark Cloud, the Mourning Mother : [<span style="color: #008000;">================ </span>] Bleed [100](3) -40% DMG +40% DT(U)
AURUM: Eidolon!
Eidolon begins to weave open a hole in timespace. [CT10]
Clarafina: Red ribbons arc out from her, entangling into the battlefield.
Clarafina: Quenching flames. Lashing themselves to golden rails.
Ezekiel: "Hime you're gettin' weird."
AURUM: Flip!
Nine takes a deep breath
Nine: "If you'
AURUM: It seems like she's watching. Flickers of your first glimpses of her - a psychic in the Underground, a witch in a forest, a lady on a train for most of you.
Nine: "Can allow me to land the last hit on her"
Nine: "I'd appreciate"
Clarafina: "Oh?"
Ezekiel: "No way thematically inappropriate kills own."
Flip steps forward and pivots, a rising slash into a pirouette that spins him away again. [Drawing Steel and Breath, 60D. Shift: Fire]
Clarafina: "I wasn't thinking there was going to be a last hit."
Flip rolled 1d100 and got 93 ( Total: 93 ) for 85/5
Nine: "Just allow me this, I ask in advance"
Flip -1 luck
AURUM: Hits!
Nine: "… I can grant her wish"
Flip rolled 1d12+150 and got 3 ( Total: 153 )
Nine: "In a manner that will make us all happy"
Clarafina: "Then,"
Clarafina: "I entrust it to you!"
Ezekiel: "Can you show her a whole new world,"
Clarafina: "But if I'm not happy, just so you know,"
AURUM: Hits for [214]!
Clarafina: "I'll pout."
Eidolon: "Hah!"
AURUM: Eidolon!
Ezekiel: "A world that's shining, shimmering with splendor, Nine?"
Eidolon: "Do as you wish- though I'm not losing this massive modifier."
Nine: "A whole new world"
Clarafina: "How marvelous!" To both Eidolon, and Nine.
Eidolon ejects the flotsam of space from the newly created hole! [Void Junk, 35D]
Nine: "Where there's no shining, and the splendor is what you make of it"
Eidolon rolled 1d8+150,140 and got 5 ( Total: 217.0 ) for Marked!
Nine: "A world where she will not be just another cog in the machine"
Nine: "Where her fate would be her own to make"
AURUM: Hits for [217]!
AURUM: Nine!
Nine chuckles "Where she would perhaps learn that even the tiniest cog is as important as the machine as a whole"
Ezekiel: "I see, I see!"
Nine pulls out a cylindric device, powering yellow liquid into it [Blast Charge, CT15]
AURUM: Ezekiel!
Ezekiel: "Do doo de doooooooooo."
[OOC] Ezekiel: After Me] [47D
Ezekiel‘ rolled d100 and got 20 ( Total: 20 )
[OOC] Ezekiel: Hey Look It’s -2LP
Ezekiel‘ rolled d8+81,240% and got 1 ( Total: 196.79999999999998 ) for Next hit does +30%
AURUM: Hits for [196]!
Eidolon ’s galaxy swirls, and the stars light up one by one by the thousands, and gather in his chest-
Solberg: "At some point I kind of just want to sit down and talk with a few of you. When we get a break."
There's a massive uproar in energy as pure universe pours out and streaks across the Dark Cloud! [SA - Galaxy Flare]
Solberg: "Things go by so fast. I suck at multitasking. We're constantly moving."
Flip: "I'm sure that'll be interesting."
Eidolon rolled 1d8+180,240 and got 3 ( Total: 439.2 )
Ezekiel: "God that sounds like it uh."
Ezekiel: "Would make freedom fighting hard…?"
Solberg: "Very hard to resist the temptation to get mired in your inane ramblings and still stay productive."
Ezekiel: "Fuck The Man, But Like, In A Second I'm Eating A Burger."
Nine: "I'd love to sit and talk"
AURUM: Deals [439], and some of the stars catch in her body, and get stuck there.
Nine: "Beware I can do it for hours on end, though"
Eidolon: "I'm always game for downtime."
AURUM: She takes [100] from Bleed.
AURUM: …Nine? What's your plan?
AURUM: Little golden motes of light are dancing around your body.
AURUM: Like fireflies.
Nine closes his eyes… "Thanks" he mutters. He catches a firefly, puts it in the device as well. He connects the wire, feeds it the energy of his support systems. He throws the explosive device at Mary's coils "Let me free you" . It explodes in a radiant cloud of glittering particles and lightning [Blast Charge, 35D]
Nine rolled 1d12+240,180 and got 9 ( Total: 448.2 ) for -40 CoS(1)
Nine starts heading towards Mary… If this works, if it does works…
AURUM: There's a brilliant, golden flash of light -
AURUM: White feathers, drifting through the air, and auroral shimmers.
Nine reaches his hand towards the light, into the mist of the detonation. He closes his hand around something. [Mist Condenser]
AURUM: The smell of the earth after a good rain. The smell of flowers.
Ezekiel‘ glances to the left, glances to the right. Ezekiel’s face breaks out into a large grin, and his eyes begins to sparkle blue. He somehow manages to keep from laughing and he slips back to Nine's side and cups his hands around the other man's ear and whispers into it. A horrible fact. A truth than man was not ment to know. Eldritch knowledge seeps from Ezekiel's lips and into Nine's
Ezekiel‘ thoughts. You’ll never be able to unlearn the number of licks it takes to get to the toosie roll center of a toosie roll pop. It's in your thoughts. Forever.
Nine brings his hand close to his heart. He pulls out a canister, drops whatever was in his hand on the canister and it seals with a hiss. He chuckles, and stores the canister in his jacket.
Nine: "I'll make good use out of that Ezekiel"
Nine: "As for Mary… I'll take her out of here"
AURUM: Something - some immense presence - is not /destroyed/, does not cause the entirety of the Apocrypha to crumble and melt in its absence…
Ezekiel: "No doubt someone will."
AURUM: It's displaced, reified, there's a little clattering sound like a peal of bells, and then the canister's sealed.
AURUM: The burning circle fades away, sputters out. Light returns, dimmer than before.
AURUM: There's an enormous gash in the surface of the Heart, and golden Mist is pouring out in a flood.
Nine walks over to the Heart, looks through the gash "You… You were the one who created Mary, aren't you?"
AURUM: Letters form, in the mist.
Clarafina: "Everyone, be ready."
AURUM: <秩序大闇ヘン : Disaster [The Storm-Dark Sea]>
Clarafina: "I'm going to attempt the Batista Procedure."
Ezekiel: "I have no idea what it means but okay."
Eidolon casually relaxes his hands behind his head.
Eidolon also grins, slightly.
Clarafina levels her axe. "What else?"
Eidolon: "If anyone could do it on beat,"
Clarafina: "Heart surgery!"
Eidolon: "It'd be you."
Ezekiel: "I don't know man, you get. weird. Sometimes."
Clarafina flashes a grin at Eidolon.
Nine: "Is this an invitatoin to go in, though?"
Ezekiel: "Works for me."
Ezekiel‘ dives into the crack!
AURUM: The Mist seems like it’s holding its breath.
Nine holds tighter to his coat. And follows Ezekiel
Solberg shrugs off the weight of words that they'd never say anyway. "Always moving forward."
Solberg steps through.
Clarafina smiles at Flip.
Clarafina: "I'll seal it once everyone is inside."
Solberg: "You're coming through, too, right?"
Nine chuckles to himself, and he has a headphone, just the left one. He apparently has been carrying this with him for a while given how damaged it seems "This… Maybe it's time I pick this habit back up"
Flip waits until the others have headed through, and stops in the doorway. A small breath, testing the Mist. "Hmmmm. This will do just perfectly." And he heads in.
AURUM: It's hard to see inside- the Mist is churning, rushing wildly.
Eidolon takes a customary step and leaps, easily gliding towards the tear.
Clarafina: "Goodness. I wouldn't miss this for the end of the world!"
Ezekiel: "What, listening to music?"
Nine: "Yes"
AURUM: But the path opens.
Nine: "Or well"
Nine: "Music I think has meaning"
Nine: "Rather than just any noise"
Ezekiel: "Something something pulse of the world something."
Clarafina steps from ribbon curl to ribbon curl, striding towards the wound, waiting until she's the last remaining. And then, she falls through, the ribbons closing up behind her, suturing the wound with brilliant red. She hurtles down towards the core, her traces tangling with everything she passes by, working their way into every nook and cranny, weaving a tight, scarlet net.
Ezekiel‘ starts humming something as he pulls out a joint and lights it. Might as well, mist is covering everything anyway.
Clarafina: "Come on, now!"
Clarafina: "You’ll fall behind!"
AURUM: Are you using a skill for that?
Clarafina: There's no need!
AURUM: Well, I suppose you're right. The Fiend Engine -is- Undying, after all.
Flip looks at the seal. Realizes there will be no more Mist leaking away. Smiles widely, almost feral. "I owe you one, Clarafina. I'll explain why another time. Maybe."
AURUM: The breach closes, behind you.
Ezekiel: Activating it still doesn't do anything tho
AURUM: An impossibly blue sky, with a little green, grassy path spiralling down towards the sun.
AURUM: The sun's trapped there, at the end of the little spiral.
AURUM: Or maybe it's resting?
Clarafina sky-dives downwards, the wind rippling through her bright-red dress, snowy feathers falling upwards. She circles the path as she falls past it, wrapping it in red like a may-pole.
AURUM: Just this impossible little nautilus-shell island, floating in an endless, cloudless expanse.
AURUM: Belenus' voice- which some of you recognise- echoes from the sky. "Welcome to the end of the world, friends. Glad you could make it."
AURUM: -
Clarafina lands on the underside of the path. The other end of the red ribbon is tied around her ring-finger.
Nine looks at the blue sky. He haven't seen one in a while. He looks at the path, and starts heading down it
Ezekiel: "You're right, fuck walking down this." Tosses his joint to Eidolon, before curling up into a ball, making sonic revving noises, then rolls the rest of the way down.
Flip: "That boy has real potential."
Eidolon catches the joint and laughs, taking a puff before continuing to glide down the path.
Flip sets his feet on the edge of the path and slides down it like a rail.
Clarafina: "Nine!" She calls out.
Clarafina: "You're as slow as a bucket of bolts!"
Clarafina: "No, that's wrong."
Clarafina: "Apocope."
Clarafina: "The end's omitted!"

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