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thebastion2014-02-28 09:54 am
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Day 163, Closed | WE HUNT!
Who: Colin Starfury, everyone who responded to his rallying cry
What: Hunting a Gasfella for a fallen friend
When: Day 163, "Oh God" Early
Where: The Skyway
Format: Whatever the heck you want, we're all big kids here
Open: Closed to those who responded.
Warnings: Violence, oh boy is there gonna be violence. Also, this thing has killed one person already, so there's that.
He'd gathered his crew. He'd interviewed Rin. He'd examined Night's body, the wounds she'd suffered. He had all the evidence he'd be able to get here, and now it was time to head out. He'd grabbed his pistols and an ammo belt, wearing both openly. Also, he'd fashioned a bandolier some time ago to carry grenades, and today was the first time he was going to wear it out.
He wasted no time in getting everyone who said they wanted to come. He was mindful of the residents who didn't want anything to do with it, those who needed only to sleep and mourn. But for those who were going to hunt this thing down, Colin was there, waking them from their rest and rousing them to meet at the Skyway entrance.
There, he set out what was coming in what he hoped was easily understandable terms.
"Okay everyone," he announces. "Our first stop is where this all went down. We need to find more information so we can track down the creature. Rin tells me it was a BIG Gasfella, different coloration than the ones we normally see out there. She'd tried to talk to it, and it attacked them mercilessly. It didn't want them there."
His eyes narrowing, he continues. "So we're going there, we're going to find what it was guarding, and then we're going to find it. We are going to give it one chance to surrender, and if it does anything other than lay down its weapon and put its hands in the air, we are going to kill it so certainly that it will have to crawl into its afterlife."
He looks at Nanaki briefly, then he looks at Paarthurnax and Alucard. "Again I'm going to say... No eating this thing. It tore apart two full-power demons, I don't want anyone getting close enough for a hug, because that will open you up to all kinds of hurt," he explains. "We can inflict plenty of harm WITHOUT opening ourselves up to close range attacks."
What: Hunting a Gasfella for a fallen friend
When: Day 163, "Oh God" Early
Where: The Skyway
Format: Whatever the heck you want, we're all big kids here
Open: Closed to those who responded.
Warnings: Violence, oh boy is there gonna be violence. Also, this thing has killed one person already, so there's that.
He'd gathered his crew. He'd interviewed Rin. He'd examined Night's body, the wounds she'd suffered. He had all the evidence he'd be able to get here, and now it was time to head out. He'd grabbed his pistols and an ammo belt, wearing both openly. Also, he'd fashioned a bandolier some time ago to carry grenades, and today was the first time he was going to wear it out.
He wasted no time in getting everyone who said they wanted to come. He was mindful of the residents who didn't want anything to do with it, those who needed only to sleep and mourn. But for those who were going to hunt this thing down, Colin was there, waking them from their rest and rousing them to meet at the Skyway entrance.
There, he set out what was coming in what he hoped was easily understandable terms.
"Okay everyone," he announces. "Our first stop is where this all went down. We need to find more information so we can track down the creature. Rin tells me it was a BIG Gasfella, different coloration than the ones we normally see out there. She'd tried to talk to it, and it attacked them mercilessly. It didn't want them there."
His eyes narrowing, he continues. "So we're going there, we're going to find what it was guarding, and then we're going to find it. We are going to give it one chance to surrender, and if it does anything other than lay down its weapon and put its hands in the air, we are going to kill it so certainly that it will have to crawl into its afterlife."
He looks at Nanaki briefly, then he looks at Paarthurnax and Alucard. "Again I'm going to say... No eating this thing. It tore apart two full-power demons, I don't want anyone getting close enough for a hug, because that will open you up to all kinds of hurt," he explains. "We can inflict plenty of harm WITHOUT opening ourselves up to close range attacks."
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She thinks for a moment, then offers as she reaches his side, "I can make you invisible, if that would help." Unless Colin protests, Kitten will put a subtle and fairly complicated illusion spell over him, making him vanish from view.
The small dragon will also warn their companions of what she's doing, so that no one worries when they can't see him. Kitten can sense her own magic as easily as breathing. She won't lose track of Colin and can make sure that no one's attacks take them near him.
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Which isn't to say it's actually calm. In fact, there's still that air of hostility and aggression hanging about it like a heavy cloak. If its attempts at weaponry hadn't been thwarted time and time again, it's probably obvious to the group that the enormous creature would still be making a go at separating their various body parts from one another. As it is... While there's still its fists, it's obviously not comfortable without a mining tool in its hand. To Ippo's good fortune, it just hovers in place and gives him dirty looks although its hunched shoulders belays its uncertainty.
Its gaze goes from the Raimundo rescue effort to Ippo and back again a few times as it tries to gauge the situation, not immediately answering Kitten's questions or even commenting on the dubious offer of a truce considering the OBVIOUSLY untrustworthy individual. The hostility radiating from it only seems to get more noticeable when it glances to Alucard and Zuko.
Guess which one of you are on its shitlist. Guess.
So many people to keep track of means it does lose track of Colin for that one moment, but the second it realizes where the man is heading- Kitten and Alucard are going to get a terrifying scream.
LIARS! LIARS FULL OF FILTH AND RUIN! GET AWAY, GET AWAY, IT DOESN'T MATTER, I WILL KILL YOU It whirls around only to crumple a bit it seems, one hand going to its gut. The momentary pain doesn't distract it for long; no more ax means less weight. More things to do with its hands. It bends down, fingers digging into the earth before it suddenly launches itself forward back towards the rocks its so aggressively defending. This makes for a faster way of traveling than just floating along, especially with the Gasfella's immense upper body strength.
GET AWAY!
If Colin can manage to ignore the giant Gasfella bearing down on him in short time, then his scan might pick up that these are definitely the sort of rocks that belong deep underground instead of floating in the air. There's also something else deep within the large piece of former cave- seems like the sort of composition Shards usually have. Considering Windbags are like pinatas full of Shards, this is probably not surprising. The energy of the shards does seem to be blocking something else, however... Hard to tell this far away even for Colin's advanced tech.
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[Whelp, that definitely looked like a clear case of fission mailed; the sudden movement snapped Ippo out of his sadness and on pure instinct he was pushing himself back to slide next to his gauntlets, the weapons getting snatched back onto his arms in record time...he'd had plenty of time to practice before they left after all. Whatever headway they had made...it just seemed like the Gasfella was more interested about the rocks it was protecting rather than being any kind of civil...whelp, at least he could say he tried.
Now it was time to focus on keeping the rest of the people here alive, and considering it was bearing down on Colin, Ippo acted as fast as he could. With a slight weave of his body to get some centrifugal force going, he leaned on the balls of his feet and dashed forward; his momentum carrying his dash far quicker than he might normally move as he dashed off towards Colin and the Gasfella. He wasn't worried that Colin could hold things down until he got there, but with this new hesitation in his heart, he would have liked to know just what the stakes in this fight really were...]
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[Which he probably does, to be honest. Still, Paarthurnax calls to his rider.]
Strunjud.
[Just that- he has a feeling she knows how to handle herself just fine.]
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As it happens, Colin has plenty of tricks up his sleeves. Heck, at the moment, he's got a trick in his hand. He's been cooking a grenade for a couple of seconds, and now that the Gasfella is coming after him, he breaks into a full run.
"EVERYONE! COVER YOUR EYES!" he shouts as he runs, dropping the grenade so that anything following him will run right into it. "FLASH GRENADE OUT!"
For a second, nothing happens. Then the flashbang detonates, with a blinding flash of light and a crack of sound not unlike a thunderclap. Colin was expecting it, and the sound is still enough to make him cringe as he runs.
Anyone looking right at it, or too close to it, will not be enjoying their senses for the moment.
And as for Colin, well, he's just going to keep running for the rocks. If nothing else, they'll provide a little more cover to hamper the Gasfella's ease of attack. He's seen these readings before...
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She opens her eyes cautiously and improves her camouflage before taking off after Colin. He has a head start, and Kitten's legs aren't long. Keeping up with Colin was hard enough. Catching up is harder, and she's grateful for four legs to balance on.
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Once he's up, he wraps one arm around his side and another shoots up to cover his eyes when Colin cries out. A flash grenade? Where the heck did this guy get all his toys? Was he friends with Batman or did he come from some crazy GTA world?
Didn't matter. Even if he was hurt, he's not about to just sit this out. He looks up once the flash is over and waits for right now. This thing is going down. He just needs to find the opportunity to help take it out.]
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But these are quite clearly abnormal circumstances so it doesn't. After that split second, it still tries to propel itself forward in the same hands-to-the-earth manner it's been doing thus far. The result is something not unlike a drunk bull: slamming into rocks at full force and floating about unsteadily. It doesn't seem like it'll be attacking anyone soon at this state, especially since now it seems just focused on trying to make its way into the rocky clearing before Colin does.
Still, if anyone wants to test their luck and get close, they're more than welcome to.
With that momentarily taken care of, Colin might have some more time to notice other things. They're scattered throughout the way into the heart of this particular patch of skyway. The bloody feathers of a Pecker against one little wall, the brutally cracked faceplate of a Lunkhead over there... Bloody clothes of Caelondian style shoved to the side. It seems Night wasn't the first being to fall to the Gasfella.
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What the Gasfella is doing, however, is something she can interfere with.
"Give it space!" A twist of a breeze brings her voice to the Skyway, and another twist of winds has the weather witch altering the Gasfella's aim. If she can deflect arrows, or thrown pottery, she can make the Gasfella hit a great deal more rocks than it wants too. If it gets too close to Colin, she'll try spinning it around.
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This--this was brutal. No matter what justification the gasfella had...all this death and carnage was just too much; it was just killing things on a whim without even trying to understand the situation. With every new horrific thing, images of Night kept flashing through Ippo's mind...the happy times, the smiles, everything he had liked about her as the slideshow in his mind was punctuated by her bloody, lifeless face looking up at him...]
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He'd tried to be diplomatic, he'd tried to understand the Gasfella's side of the story, he'd even gone so far as to push all of his feelings to the side for this one purpose, but there was nothing left for him to understand; the low growling coming out of his mouth was a testament to that. In this moment, in this time here and now, Ippo Makunouchi was out for one thing and one thing only as he slowly advanced towards his target. Blood.]
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Zuko isn't really one to talk when it comes to letting her anger get the better of her in a fight, but she's at least come to realize that it's rarely done her any good to lose her head like that. Sometimes it can add power to attacks, but it can also make a person vulnerable. Ippo hasn't shown very good judgement on that front already.
"Hey!" Zuko shouts ahead to him. "You heard her, right? Keep up, but keep your distance." She can't see his face well enough to discern whether he's past listening to reason, but she can at least try to talk him down from doing anything else stupid until she catches up with him.
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He doesn't need his ears to know he needs to move though. His eyes are enough to tell him that their target is in a rather more vulnerable state than it was. They are also enough to tell him that Ippo is on the war path. It poses an interesting dilemma. Does he find a more suitable spot to cast from for the sake of keeping himself uninjured for the time being? Or does he risk injury for the sake of perhaps preventing others from taking too much damage.
Once he would prioritized his own safety. But now... Now he chooses to rush the Gasfella while it's still blinded to hopefully take it down quickly.]
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It doesn't grab Ippo, however. It ends up grabbing Alucard instead.
This fact doesn't seem to bother the Gasfella, not even aware of who was coming towards it in the first place. It moves with the action smoothly, twisting its large body. On the bright side, Alucard won't smell that grotesque smell brought from a bloody and burned Gasfella. On the down side, the Gasfella slams him face first into the stone floor with its enormous palm gripping the back of his head tightly. It doesn't stop there, either. Even with Tris' wind as a deterrent and encouraging more meetings with the wall, it seems just as determined to lunge itself forward with Alucard's face still pressed down against the floor. Everytime it blindly slams into a rock or wall, it makes sure that Alucard gets slammed as well.
If it gets hurt, it seems like it wants to make sure Alucard feels the same way.
[ooc: Godmodding done with permission by Alucard's player.]
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He didn't care about himself at this point; the Gasfella might as well have been a moving heavy bag with how he was attempting to wail on it. Drop the dhamphir, bad Gasfella, bad!]
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Damn it all.
"TRIS!" Colin shouts up to the weather mage. "Get them OUT OF THERE! Don't be gentle about it! Paar! If you can calm Ippo down somehow, DO IT!"
He's got several more grenades he can use, but none of them are safe with that many friendlies so close to the enemy. He has no other orders to give, he doesn't know the full capabilities of everyone he brought along. Alucard was going to need some blood after that beating. Ippo's attack was going to do some damage, but he could almost guarantee that the Gasfella was going to be able to survive it long enough to do some damage back.
"Sorry about the blast, Kitten," Colin adds, aside. "Didn't have time to give a detailed explanation. The blindness was the bigger risk to everyone."
He lifts his pistol, but rather than looking at the Gasfella, he surveys the area. So long as Ippo's going to town on the Gasfella, he can't take a shot. If he had a laser pistol, that would be another matter entirely, but even with his targeting, there's too much chance of hitting Ippo.
They're at the Gasfella's lair, that much is plainly apparent. But is there anything here that he can use to turn the situation around?
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"I said - Just because you're taller, " (and very possibly older) "does not mean you can ignore what I say!"
They could have handled this without Alucard getting smashed. Without everyone else ganging up on a very strong creature, when it was clear that Colin had ways to hurt it from a distance - when hurting it from a distance had been the plan.
Colin's directions just make it so she makes the decision quicker. While she would still be 'gentle' - getting them away from the Gasfella would be rather pointless if she tossed them over the edge of the Skyway in doing so - she... lets it be harder than she would have done so otherwise.
The winds she used to guide the Gasfella into rocks spins around it with a handmotion, tightening and becoming a minor twister. Not enough to scrape skin off - well, any rock fragments caught up would still not be fun, but it isn't the wind doing anything. She asks it to split a bit off to circle in another direction, before the edge of the skyway and any obvious rock formations.
Hopefully the gasfella lets go with all the spinning, and hopefully she managed to throw those standing around it into the slightly covered distance. She keeps her hold on Paar with a rather furious scowl, but her attention is all on her twister for now. This is where she needs to focus more.
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Considering that he's begun to leave a noticeable trail of blood though, it's rather understandable that the only thing resembling a coherent thought in his head at the moment is something along the lines of "Ow, my face."]
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Hopefully some of Tris' attention is also given to staying on Paarthurnax, because the dragon twists his body and begins to dive downwards. It's a good thing there are some pieces of cave walls still more or less intact. They hold Paarthurnax's weight as he lands down onto them. If Tris' wind hasn't pushed Ippo and Raimundo away yet, then Paarthurnax's swinging tail certainly will as he twists around on his new perch. Whether or not the Gasfella has let go of Alucard isn't a concern right now; Paarthuranx is confident the dhampir can survive this and recover well enough. They need time, and Paarthurnax can only bring it to them in one way:
"Iiz Slen Nus!"
The shout booms over the Skyway, and Paarthurnax's head snaps forward on the last word. Anyone that's still trying to get nearby will get a slight taste of bone-chilling cold, but it's nothing compared to what's being sent full force at the Gasfella. Enough to barrel into it and freeze it solid against a rock wall... But such an affect won't last long. They have thirty second only at best if it hits... With that in mind, Paarthurnax draws himself up as best he can on his precarious perch and without making Tris fall off.
"That is enough!" While not angry, his voice is still loud and commanding, the kind that makes people's ribs rattle. He should have gotten involved sooner, but there's no time to dwell on mistakes. "Go, now, and take Alucard. Do not question, do it." Whether the others interpret that as 'go with Colin' or 'go back to the Bastion', either will do for now.
And so help him if any of you make anymore motions towards this Gasfella. He WILL pick you up in his claws or, at least, act as a physical barrier.
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There is a bright side, however, and the first part of that is that it lets go of Alucard as Tris' wind sends it spinning. He might go skipping a bit face first, but he's still let go of. It's also hit full blast by Paarthurnax's Shout. The force of it makes it slam into a large rock, covered from head to tail in ice and frost which also is along the floor as well. There's a crackling sound in the air. Momentarily, it seems to be stopped.
Now that they've gotten further in, Colin can see more than just the remains of past victims. There's a little left of some rails, hinting that this area may once have been a mine. This is only further supported if he takes a few more steps in and can see a large mine cart set to the side that is positively full of mining gear. Pickaxes, shovels, those sort of things. Colin's scanner can pick up some of the same energy that shards release further in the rocky ground and walls- there's still some of them left buried. Even to those without such impressive technology in them, there's still plenty to see. Anyone not distracted by how much blood Alucard is leaking or having a crisis might notice tiny little holes everywhere. In rocks, in the ground, in walls... They're around the size of people's eyes, for comparison. There's also signs that something has been mining in the walls relatively recently.
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He stood up in short order looking even more enraged than before, but no sooner did he start moving forward again did the mighty tail of Paarthurnax send him flying back once more as the Gasfella was iced against the wall. This time, he smacked his head hard on the ground as he tumbled, and with that his entire world seemed to snap back before his eyes as if someone had pulled a sheet from over his head.
He could smell iron in the back of his nose and everything seemed disoriented...but a small shake of his head quickly set him right; now he could see Alucard lying bloody on the ground and that took a far higher priority than figuring out what he'd been doing for the last 10 minutes. Without a word, he scrambled over to his friend and place a hand on his shoulder as he tried to see if he was alive...well, still breathing at least as he ripped his shirt off and started to wrap it around the more major wounds on his friend's head.]
Alurcard...Alucard say something!
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She's surrounded by rock, and while Kitten isn't much use in combat right now, here is something she can do.
As soon as she notices the holes, Kitten is at the wall digging a claw into the nearest one. Her claws are strong enough to gouge into the stone. She whistles an experimental light spell against the rock, because seeing how the length of the wall responds to that is faster than close examination. Different rocks respond differently. Kitten didn't force it with a more complex spell. This is her simplest one, and it will hopefully point out any areas of particular interest.
She is still camouflaged, but even if Colin's sensors don't alert him, the sound of claw against stone should have told him just where Kitten is.
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