Event: Day 278 [open]

[bastionpc]

Who: Vee, Zee, and you
Open: Open
When: Day 278
Where: The Skyway, in the Pyth Orchard
What: GIMMICK BOSS BATTLE
Format: action
Warnings: Both NPC and PC death is possible, based on choices made during the event

[At about midday on Day 278, the taller of the two teenage Ura comes running in to the Bastion from the Skyway. Anyone who has talked to this pair of boys will know how odd this is, because they are usually inseparable.

He's out of breath, but he will call out as he runs towards the monument.]

Help! Help, it's Zee, he's- He's in trouble!

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[twinked_witch]

[As Otoha started to approach Colin, the door burst open suddenly, and a figure that was vaguely familiar stepped in.

"Vaguely" was the word, because while the red hair and green dress clearly suggested Megaera D'Ashland... Most of the rest of the woman's body didn't. Megaera didn't have horns, after all. Nor red glowing eyes, a long devil-like tail, or cloven hooves in place of her usual booted legs. As monstrous as the form was, it was also beautiful in a strange, unearthly fashion.

Megaera had shifted to her true form as she ran towards the sound of the blast she'd heard a minute ago. There was something wrong, and she had to stop it. Even her panicked fear of revealing her true form had been overruled by the rage and desire to stop what was happening...

And then, she saw Otoha. Or rather, she saw something that resembled him, but was busy defecating, throwing up and coming at two people she more properly recognized with a katana. She didn't even manage to think, before her reflexes took control, adding targeted magic to the first words she spoke...]

Put the sword away. These people are no threat.

[To Colin and Nathaniel, it was nothing more than a now obviously familiar voice being extremely authoritative. To Otoha, it would attempt to slam against his mind, to tell him, on some level, that her words were true and should be followed.

Of course, it also might just turn him towards her if he resisted...]

[bakegarasu]

[Otoha just turns and trudges toward her, katana raised. Another demon in league with Eko. Fine. He doesn't want to kill someone else since this is already getting to be a hassle, but if someone else is trying to get between them, they'll die too.]

You don't... understand...

[He needs to kill this monster. Even if he looks human, he's not. He has to fight. A life without fighting is... nothing, really. Nothing for him, at least. He runs forward, doing what he can to avoid his own mess, and swings his katana at her. His accuracy is suffering, but it's not like she's a tiny target.]

[freedom_engineer]

[Well, while Otoha's distracted and disoriented, Colin's just going to turn his head and try to drag Nathan away from him.]

[There's no words to be said right now. Even opening his mouth is a bad possibility. He's been through the drills for exposure to this gas, it's not pleasant...]

[bastionpc]

[Dragging is a good idea, Nathaniel is too much of a mess to run away on his own.

That still leaves the radio and the core to be dealt with, though.

By the way the radio seems to be slowly self-tuning itself to a specific channel, but it will take a bit of time for it to get to what it is looking for. Anyone with a keen eye will notice the dials moving though.]

[notfell]

[ There had been an itch under his scales (even when he didn't have them at the moment, but that's just how these things worked) that something was wrong. It was very similar to those itches that said "someone knew", despite the fact he had flown in and helped people the day before, and so he was heading toward the exit to the Skyway.

Except there was yelling. He had to make sure they didn't have any of those projectile things that had killed Dart.

Okay that's a weird mess going on over there and-

Is that moving on its own? Moon has no idea what it is, but things moving on their own are either actually sentient, being moved by someone invisible, or magic. And magic users are the worst, always kicking him out of places he liked.

If anyone's looking at Moon, his groundling form blurs like mist as he jumps, and there's a bit of a displaced air foomf as he shifts, wings snapping out to carry him over the people.

He lands with an angry hiss and rattling spines, and as many of his claws as possible in that thing that's got the moving parts. His tail lashes along the ground next to him, just in case there was an invisible person. ]

[twinked_witch]

[As Otoha moved towards Megaera, she reached out slightly, her hand visibly harder than anything he - or anyone else in the Bastion - had seen out of her before, more like a claw or something.

As he moved to swing, she quickly raised the hand to block, figuring her naturally tough skin would be enough to deflect the shot... Only to find out that it very much wasn't. While the sword didn't go through her hand, it embedded in it painfully, a blood too dark red to be human spraying out as she shrieked in pain - her voice, at least, was still clearly her own.]

You're... Mistaken... Please, just...

[bastionpc]

[Moon landing on the radio is enough to break it into pieces. Seconds later, the waves of madness stop all together, leaving the Bastion as calm as it had been before the radio had been turned on.

Well. Relatively. There's still a bunch of people vomiting and Meg just got stabbed pretty badly, and people running on pure adrenaline might not initially realize that the madness-inducing waves are gone.]

[bakegarasu]

[The madness stops, and so does Otoha. His adrenaline levels had jumped, but they still weren't the worst they'd ever been. Not like against Eko.]

[His eyes widen and he pulls the sword back, sheathing it immediately. He looks around and stares, before spewing some more vomit on the ground. His stomach feels strange and he knows he's soiled himself, but he can't bring himself to care. He lets out a breath, and digs into his coat, walking over to Meg and pulling out a roll of bandages.]

... Here...

[twinked_witch]

[As the madness suddenly stopped, Megaera froze, blinking once... Then glancing down at her forward leg. Her leg which was very obviously revealing her true form.]

I... No... Why did I...

[No reaction to Otoha whatsoever. She's freaking out again - but now for an entirely different reason, it seems.]

I'm...

[bakegarasu]

[... He just sighs and moves forward, reaching out to grab her hand if she doesn't move away.]

Just calm down, okay? Get to the hospital. You'll be fine.

[Is it about the looking strange? It might be that. He has no idea how to deal with that. He's not very good at reassuring people.]

[notfell]

[ Moon's hissing stopped abruptly as the idea that he was about to be chased out by an angry mob with their weird magic device fades. He stands there with his spines flared and wings half spread for a moment more, before shaking himself out and settling his spines with an uneasy rattle, stepping away from the man who had soiled himself because wow do not want to smell that. ]

... Anyone know what I just broke?

[ Because he definitely broke something. And it was a good thing, he thinks.

Sorry Megaera, he has no cares for what you look like. After all, he's a shifter, does it matter if she is one? Horns and weird legs wouldn't be the weirdest groundling he's ever seen. ]

[freedom_engineer]

[You might wanna get clear, Moon. The Neurotoxin is a gas. The worst of it's gone, but you may get sick from lingering effects... It doesn't disperse immediately.]

[Meanwhile, Colin's just going to drop to the ground, moving away from Nathan so he can retch on the ground in peace.]

Sabotage... had to be a trap...

[Don't mind him, he's just sweating, soiled, and violently ill.]

Check Nathan for wounds.

[He's got a couple of shallow cuts himself. For someone who just took some slices from a hitman with a sword, he's in pretty good shape.]

[twinked_witch]

[Megaera steps back a few times...]

I didn't... Why did I...

[Aaaand she's going to run away. The neurotoxin might not do much to her, but the combination of the stench, the pain from the cut, and of realizing she just revealed her true form has her a little too wigged out to think of much else.]

[notfell]

[ .... Gas?


... Come to think of it, wow does he start feeling gross. Is this why all the groundlings are throwing up and-

Moon is going to backtrack toward the edge of the Bastion now, still shifted, as the adrenaline wears off and yeah. Trying to not do more than retch. It's not working very well. ]

[bakegarasu]

[... He just tucks the bandages back into his coat. ... He's going to need a new coat. He wanders over to Colin and hands him the bandages.]

... Here.

[At least Colin can wrap his wounds up enough until they get to the hospital. He kneels to check Nathan, doing his best to move him gently and not get anything on him. He's not sure how much pressure will cause pain so he tries to keep it light.]

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[scary_music]

[After a brief encounter with Megaera, Ibuki arrives on the scene and... slows to a stop, conveniently away from any lingering effects of a certain gas grenade-]

W-whoa... what happened here...?

It smells like... it smells like...

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[scary_music]

IT SMELLS LIKE A BUNCH OF YOU SPONTANEOUSLY POWDERED YOUR NOSES!!!!!!

[bastionpc]

[THIS IS THE GROSSEST THING EVER

LIKE NO SERIOUSLY

Nathaniel is going to be yelling at people later. When he's not, you know. Busy throwing up.

Also he is unhurt, besides the effects of that grenade Colin detonated.]

[freedom_engineer]

[Fortunately, the grenade is designed to sicken, not to harm. The worst any of them will be feeling from the grenade is the exhaustion of being heavily and violently ill.]

[ALSO fortunately, not one of them will have to worry about saying that they intended on things to turn out this way. Yay for thought-altering effects of weird crystals.]

[Which Colin is going to be very irritated about, make no mistake.]

[But in the meantime, he's just going to groan and point at Ibuki.]

Stupidity, insanity, and sabotage happened... you should get out of here, Ibuki. This is not going to be pleasant for quite some time... Get Yukio or Ghaleon out here...

[Nevermind the fact that he's taken several slices to the back, and there's both tattered cloth and a fair amount of blood to show it.]

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[scary_music]

Um, um, okay, but, but...

Where are they? Ibuki has no clue-

Oh, yeah, Ibuki will scream reaaaaaaaaaally loud! They'll hear that! Get ready! Ibuki's screaming for medics!

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[scary_music]

[She turns away so that at least Colin and the rest of the sickened and/or injured won't have the shout directed right at them-]

YUKIO-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!! GHALEON-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!

MEEEEDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCC!!!!!!

[bastionpc]

[By the way, that strange-looking Core is still right there, lying on the ground.

Anyone going to do anything about it?]

[four_quarts]

[Fortunately for Ibuki, the power packed in her vocal cords is enough for the sound to reach Ghaleon. Within minutes, he arrives on the scene with a small med kit, expecting... well, whatever he'd expected, it wasn't this.

For a moment Ghaleon is speechless, his face running through a series of expressions with accompanying gestures ranging from "What did you people do?" to "How did you even manage this so quickly?" to "There's bodily fluids everywhere," until finally settling at "You know what, don't tell me, I don't want to know right now."]

Okay then. Who is bleeding and who is merely ill?

[freedom_engineer]

Flesh wounds for me...

Exhaustion and dehydration for me, Nathan, and a few others. Some of them ran off.

[Colin is barely containing his anger and his frustration. Mostly because if he opens his mouth too much, something else is going to come out of it...]

And there should be a core around here somewhere... It needs to be locked up and secured. It's the cause of this...

[bakegarasu]

... I'm fine.

[Otoha just takes a few steps back. He'd be more hurt if he had any real sense of shame, but as it is he's just going to go wash up. He does feel vaguely bad, but Colin's the one who threw the grenade.]

[... Granted he was probably going to get hurt a lot worse if he didn't, but.]