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aw fuck not this asshole again ([personal profile] trollophoroi) wrote in [community profile] altimit2023-11-18 01:43 am

Σ Turbulent Distrusting Ice Wall

Who: Fidchell the Prophet and two fateful parties.
What: A prophecy foretold.
When: 11/21, Night
Where: The city formerly known as Lumina Cloth.
Warnings: Mentions of suicidal ideation, violence.



[ Something appears to be afoot in the night-shrouded city of lights, Lumina Cloth. Ever since the fall of Innis and Magus, it has begun to grow colder, and colder, and colder. NPCs begin to glitch in and out of existence as the days crawl along until one day, they are no more, and it begins to snow.

Throughout this entire ordeal, a strange yet familiar figure dressed gaudily in blue and feathery robes can be witnessed watching from a distance.

Everything ices over, the lights flickering out one by one, plunging the entire city into darkness... until... until?

Only after the city has been buried in snow and covered in ice do the lights all snap back on and those who enter the Root Town will discover a horrific sight: Telophoroi Tower has risen high over the frozen landscape at the center of the city, overtaking the rest of the buildings. It is far larger and much more dangerous-looking than before, with more metal, more spikes, and an ominous mist clinging to it from all angles.

There is only one person who could possibly be waiting here.

Approaching the tower will plunge the players into the mist.

Nearly all will find themselves turned around but a few, those lucky few, will find themselves entering the dark, empty halls of the guild @ home once known as Telophoroi. Steps echo, emptiness reigns, no sign of even Cultist Grunty anymore. Those stairs are new, though, and they wind up and up and up towards the very tip-top of the tower.

Do you dare to climb them...?
]
legendofthelion: (☀︎ 059)

Core use 1/4

[personal profile] legendofthelion 2023-11-20 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Because I don't trust my rolls.

Dehya uses Data Drain Type A: All to give everyone a defense boost.]
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[personal profile] secondthoughts 2023-11-20 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ Looks like Fai, FlameMane, and Swallow didn't move out of the orange circle in time!! Please don't stand there. Press V to dodge.

People get hurt, and Hector snaps into action. Is he relieved he doesn't have to focus on Fandaniel? Maybe. That Fidchell keeps missing his attacks on him makes him think—

Anyway. Before any of them can move out of his heals, he jumps in near all of them for Nature's Gift, the soft grasses and ferns and flowers that burst from the ground beneath them replenishing their HP. ]
Edited 2023-11-20 01:24 (UTC)
threatmewted: ([Fight] Do what you do)

[personal profile] threatmewted 2023-11-20 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Do you ever shut up?!

[Rushing in and swapping to Tribal Grappler to pursue him - going to try to leap up and hit him with a Shell Shock - You deal a single, darkness based hit that knocks your foe down (11) to hopefully knock him back onto the floor.]
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[personal profile] threatmewted 2023-11-20 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[Once she's healed, she's taking off to try to knock this bird down a peg.]
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[personal profile] trashtier 2023-11-20 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Levi's over here missing again (7), nothing to see...

At least he's dodging mechanics???]
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[personal profile] fluorite 2023-11-20 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ah... this is the second time he's been hit by an AOE and it stings more than the first. He'll need to heal pretty soon if he doesn't want his HP getting into the danger zone, but right now he focuses on another attack. Fai works in another spell, a PhaRue Zot (19), causing a storm of water around Fidchell. ]
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[personal profile] legendofthelion 2023-11-20 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Dehya groans, mostly in frustration at herself.] Thanks.
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[personal profile] fluorite 2023-11-20 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ The soft grass and flowers underneath his feet are a welcome sight, even if it brings back memories of Yael almost dying. But that was then and this is now.

Yael is safe, somewhere in the mist in Lumina Cloth. Hopefully.

Fai's HP ticks back up and he gives Hector a sheepish look. ]


Ahaha... thank you~
legendofthelion: (☀︎ 059)

[personal profile] legendofthelion 2023-11-20 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Hold back a little, will you? [This is the real reason she keeps missing.]
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[personal profile] dapples 2023-11-20 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ omg another hit 😊😊😊 after dodging successfully, Brambles sends another Fairy Dance spell fired directly at Fidchell. (17) ]
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[personal profile] sicklysweet 2023-11-20 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Stunlocking will not continue, because Owen's spell fizzles out (2...). He probably deserves this, but considering he doesn't get hit - and he wouldn't even have taken damage from the attack with his armor nullifying all darkness damage - he can still be an asshole.]

Your terrible will isn't very impressive. Fandaniel would have been able to hit more people.
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[personal profile] gluttoning 2023-11-20 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Uh whoa help where is he what year is it--

He's groggy when he pushes back up, starting awake a little more when the demon's spell makes the hairs on the back if his neck stand up and little more. But he wipes at his mouth with the back of his wrist, wincing slightly at the blow he'd taken from Levi.]


Is it even your will anymore? Wasn't Lily's what you cared about most?

[Time for Vak Tornado (11), which whips up a contained storm of an attack, all giving fire damage.]
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[personal profile] trashtier 2023-11-20 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh good, he's up.]

S-Sorry, Barrett...
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[personal profile] gluttoning 2023-11-20 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Mn. Don't worry about it. I needed the sleep anyway. [Said dryly, but he smiles despite the battered look it takes during combat.]

Focus on him. Together, right?
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[personal profile] trashtier 2023-11-20 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[It's more than enough to ease his worries.

Smiling back, he nods and readies his weapon for the next onslaught.]


Together.
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[personal profile] sicklysweet 2023-11-20 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
[HUH? WHAT? MY WHAT?

Well, even if he should probably not think anything of it, something about Fidchell calling him that startles Owen, the dancer needing a moment to buffer which leaves him vulnerable, taking a significant hit from the clown that looks just like Hector.

Ow. He absolutely deserves it, but he's a delicate man! He doesn't have a lot of HP! What he does have, though, is And Then There Were None (16!) which will drop the clone to 1% HP.

He's still very ??????? over Fidchell. Hello? Police? There's been a crime?????? Damn Hien for being a boss so he can't file a report with him.]
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[personal profile] fluorite 2023-11-20 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ Watching people he knows and cares for tumble out of the pods is unsettling, and he frowns as he watches those he knows for a fact are now deceased crawl out. What kind of spell is this? How can they take on all of them at once? What—

Ow??? He takes a lot more damage than he expects to, hissing in pain as he turns around to look his attacker in the eye only to see...

Ah. Yael. It's a surprise to hear him saying such things when they had a conversation about the opposite not that long ago. That makes it easy to push past any of the upset he would normally feel, as every single word leaving the clone's mouth goes against what Fai knows to be true of Yael. ]


What happened to accepting whatever truth we discovered?

[ Maybe he shouldn't smile when the clone of his own boyfriend (fitted with a prosthetic leg and everything for combat—it's impressive how accurate these clones are) is coming at him with all his might, but... hm. Maybe they should spar for real one day. Could be fun. ]

I suppose it doesn't matter. You're not my Sheza anyway.

[ And with that, he casts PhaRue Zot (20) at Yael's clone, enveloping him in a storm of water. ]
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🤡🤡🤡

[personal profile] secondthoughts 2023-11-20 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ circus music blaring in the distance...

Hector's taken aback briefly by the change in scenery (he doesn't really think much of Fidchell calling Owen my love). He sees the flash of green shields over Fidchell and instinctively reaches with his Zelkova bracelet to Data Drain him, but the tendrils find nothing to latch onto. Huh...

But his attention is quickly drawn back as the clones crawl out of their pods, and he looks on in horror at the familiar faces. No, they're just faces. They're not the real thing. None of these people would ever speak like that. They're too willing to fight, too— ]


Ow! Hey!

[ A powerful slice at his back draws him out of his thoughts, and he whirls around to face Clowen (Clone Owen) (not to be confused with Clowen (Clown Owen)). After a brief look of offense on his face, he decides Owen wouldn't actually do that, so he takes his staff and gives him a good thwack (11). ]
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[personal profile] threatmewted 2023-11-20 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely a circus, not an aquarium.

[With an annoyed look, she swipes at the clones around her and... fails to hit anything (3).]
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[personal profile] legendofthelion 2023-11-20 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[His what.

Well. Nevermind. Freakish clones of the beta testers swarm, acting off and puppet-like enough that they're too uncanny for Dehya to mistake as the real thing.

She attacks nearby clones with Raika (11) striking multiple clones with thunder damage.]
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[personal profile] gluttoning 2023-11-20 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Disgusting noises echo, a crowd disperses, and as Misteaks's attention turns elsewhere, he receives the firm, biting hit of a broadsword against the side of one of his legs. The blow burns deep, Misteaks grunting in pain as he moves to get his polearm swung out in front of him...

...and then pausing when Mithrun is the one in front of him.

For a split second, his expression widens, his shoulders drop.]


Morgan?

[It's enough hesitation to get him another painfully aggressive swing that he just barely dodges, but he holds his stance, a voice so familiar saying in tones so flat and absolute that this was where they belonged. This was paradise.

And yet, it clashes so hard against the imagery in his mind; of the difficult talks they'd had while keeping one another close; of Morgan struggling to dig out a trench by hand in the muddled ripples that was his identity, his wants, his desires and needs and budding feelings, but still prying fingers and making goals for himself because of what he'd come to believe mattered to him.

Never, ever, had it been Fragment. Barrett knows, better than anything, that Morgan would rather see Cubia torn back into nothing but bits of data to be lost again.]


No. Even when you were thinking for him, this wasn't what you wanted. And I'm not going to believe he's taking you away like this. You're stronger than that.

You're not Morgan.

[And with a firmness in his jaw, he lands Heavenly Rage (19) to send the Edge Punisher flying.]
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[personal profile] trashtier 2023-11-20 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[While some of his allies are ambushed by clones, Levi has the benefit of seeing his opponent coming straight toward him.

However, that doesn't help him, because who he sees is...someone he shouldn't be seeing at all. Someone he never thought he'd see again.]


K...Kara...?

[He's frozen to the spot, trapped in a storm of emotion. Surprise, fear...relief? She's living and breathing, her wounds gone, so very real...and yet...

And yet her fist crashes into his chest with ferocious intensity, knocking the wind out of him and sending him crumpling to the ground in a heap. Before he can even process what's happened, she's on top of him, pinning him to the ground.

Sorry, Levi, but I had to stop you. I know this isn't going the way we planned, but we've got another chance to be together now if you let Cubia's paradise come to fruition! So don't do this, okay?

Levi just looks up at her with horrified confusion. This can't be right. Kara wouldn't want Cubia to win. But...but what can he do? He can't attack her back, even if this isn't his Kara!

His hand, still holding his weapon, trembles but doesn't budge. He can't bring himself to attack (10).]
secondthoughts: (☀ これは何度目の夜だろうな)

[personal profile] secondthoughts 2023-11-20 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Thumbs up! Don't get hit, dotter! Please don't let him lose another kid this week! ]

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