StormLord

Spicy HG stood toward the back of the group while the merchant man walked by, no need to crowd him, but as Mitsu suggested going to the temple she stepped up again. "Well most of the Deities I've met have tried to kill me at least once. Though I guess they did sort of have a reason...and I did try to kill them right back...Yeah you guys should probably go ahead, I'm going to stand in the back try not to look like a problem worth smiting."

Satomi / Arminius Grapple: 18 vs 11, As Arminius pulls back and recoils from the heat Satomi reaches forward clamping her hands like dual branding irons around Arminius' face. Ess check 14 vs 25, Luck: 51, Random Blitz: 3, Despite the now blinding heat and searing pain Arminius reaches forward to removing the power causing this mess. He siphons off the strange energy and Satomi suddenly feels cold, her skin quickly stops glowing, and the fire fades away. She's still angry sure, but the...uncontrollable rage isn't there anymore. Ess save: 5 vs 5, 9 vs 19, Satomi feels slightly weaker than she did before the battle, possibly exhaustion, possibly something more, she isn't entirely sure yet. Arminius quickly finds the energy isn't exactly what he put in anymore, it's already leached and fused itself with Satomi and as such really doesn't like him. Soon enough it manages to break free from his control, a twisting pulsing mass of reddish energy not unlike liquid metal in appearance. It slowly contorts and changes form growing four limbs, a head, and a stone-y patchwork skin with pulsing veins of magma underneath. It's vaguely similar to Satomi in general body shape, albeit about two feet shorter. After coming to the realization of its creation it looked down at its hands before glancing up at Arminius and losing it. It let out a nearly human screech from its "mouth" and immediately charges Arminius. Status: Satomi: Badly Wounded, Grappling, Arminius: Badly Wounded, Burnt, Bleeding, Grappled. ???: Healthy, Angry, Charging Arminius,

Satomi/Arminius Status: Wounded / Healthy, Init: 10 / 8, Miss: 80(hit), Satomi squares up and Arminius lunges, with a lightning quick flash of blade Satomi leaves a bloody slice across Arminius' torso. Grapple: 5 vs 8, Footing: 7 vs 11 / 18 vs 3, Unluckily for her however it isn't enough to throw Arminius off course and he still collides with her. The loose rocks slide underneath her and they fall to the ground. A rush of strange energy passes through Arminius' hands and into Satomi's side creating a great deal of heat in the process burning and charring Satomi's side and armor. Luck: 9, Random Blitz: 85, Satomi immediately feels strangely bloated, gains a massive fever, and her skin starts to feel almost crusty. Within seconds Arminius can hardly hold on from the heat radiating off of her, her skin glows red, and has dark earthen growths in patches here and there. Satomi is now experiencing the sensation of her skin being turned to burning magma without the needed secondary power of total fire immunity. Status: Satomi: Wounded, Burning alive, Grappled. Arminius: Wounded, Bleeding badly, Grappling. Arminius discovers the following effects of Greater Meteorhead Essence on living targets:

Music: A cloud of gravel-lightning golems tears through the Southeast ending the last group of Mages. Several worker golems run forward and quickly collect Leo’s unconscious body, delivering him to the Nurse’s work station. Another rifle crack signals the head of one of the beasts exploding directly in front of Jun, spraying her with gore but saving her from getting and more cut up. Seeing that her current target is dead Jun takes the opportunity to lunge forward and slash at another beast and its rider, she leaves a deep gash for 22 damage and causes it to whimper in pain. Toshiro speeds forward and helps Jun double-team the Beastmaster, leaving a long frostbitten and burning cut for 36 damage along the creature’s midsection. The Arms Dealer finishes the job by administering 5 doses of 50. Cal lead supplements. The Horde in the Southwest lobs bombs up at the Plasma cannon decommissioning it for the day. The Hordes in the Southeast seem a bit disorganized with their allies dropping like flies left and right. The Horde in the East isn’t faring much better, and actually seem to be arguing over something. The Dryad runs over and starts pumping magic into the giant flaming purple sunflower on the crumbling wall. [18 vs 1] Giant thorned roots start snaking over and through the loose piles of crushed rock, filling most of the opening with dangerous and difficult to cross terrain. Kusuke stops the Golems transporting Leo, a jolt of time manipulation brings him back to the land of the waking. He chugs a potion and then materializes next to Jun and forces her to take one too. They gain 25 HP each. Lucille plays her healing kazoo and restores 10 HP to the Arms Dealer. The Strider fires a spear of ice at the remaining Horde, it explodes freezing several solid and causing all the others to run for the hills. The Demo lobs a couple bombs at the last group of Mages dealing 17 total damage. [3] The Ogre, distracted by Arminius, doesn’t seem to even see it coming, the terrible wrath of mechanical genius as Satomi lands a hit square in the side of its head. She deals 192 damage as the axe blade splits the Ogre’s skull and wedges deep into his collar bone, it slowly slumps over. Dead. The Guide fires an arrow at one of the Beastmasters for 8 damage. One of the Beastmasters looks around and surveys the wreckage of their army, now a small group and shambling and wounded soldiers. The Beastmaster pulls a small horn from their belt and blows it sending a low call across the battlefield that draws everyone’s attention. With that finished he and his last remaining fellow turn their beasts about and leap from the walls, running off into the hills. Several people bleed. The Smith, Mason, and Carpenter continue their endless work on the walls. The small group of remaining Mages call out something in gibberish to the nearby Horde before a glowing circle appears beneath them and they vanish from sight in a flash of purple flames. The Southeast Hordes turn to run while the Southwest Horde stands in disbelief staring at the spot where their superiors abandoned them. The Huntress fires a blast of ice after one of the running Beastmasters cursing them under her breath. Arminius is cut off halfway through his sentence as Satomi axes the Ogre a deadly question. Both Piglet and Az find enemies who aren’t fighting back both easier and more disappointing targets. (Az should actually have 8 stacks of Anorky due to multiple attacks on some rounds) It's done. As the last few goblins run into the distance and the dust settles. It's over, the siege has been beaten and they won't be back any time soon. What now? Final Status: Rewards: Loses:

Mr. Dark impatiently rapped his claws surprisingly loudly on the stone steps. "Someone falling from the sky without warning certainly isn't unheard of, though it does usually indicate some higher power pulling strings." He paused to think for a moment before growing a mischievous smile. "Well why don't you take her with you? You've got room in your vehicle, and that way she'll be your...additional asset."

Cell noted the effectiveness of the ice grenade and wished he'd sorted his bag a little more efficiently so he could pull out another. Instead he pulled out an odd sparkling orb he'd picked up in the Castle with one hand and held his sword, its edge now glowing bright orange, with the other. He dashed forward, drawing power from the orb and slashing at the massive scorpion, attempting to sever the claw holding the pitted mask. Cell uses Giant Killer on the Silver Scorpion and activates his Scintillating Orb to deal a total of 7d12+12 damage. Giant Killer deals an extra 50% damage against Elite and Boss enemies.

Cell hesitates as the horde of scorpions comes around the corner, as soon as Nuparu mentions they don't like cold he quickly sheathed his sword and reached back into his bag. He pulled out a small light blue grenade with a snowflake emblazoned on either side. He lobbed it forward, into the mass of scorpions and just close enough to catch the largest one. As it sailed over and just before it hit the ground it exploded into a show of icy vapor and liquid that fell on the scorpions freezing some solid. Cell uses Ice Grenade on the Silver Scorpion and Kofo-Jaga, this reduces their Init by 6 and causes them to act last this round.

"Yes! It worked!" Frigus shot a fist up in the air shouting. "Sounds great, but first we've got to get out of here" With that Frigus made an about face and started flying in the opposite direction. Frigus uses his Keyblade Glider to move himself and Harry to B5.

The light from Cell's crystal core shuddered slightly as he made the closest thing to a sneer he could manage, boy did he hate spiders. Stupid, creepy, multi-legged things. With one hand he drew a large sword with a dull purple blade and brighter, glowing purple edge. With the other hand a blueish bow stylized to look like half of a giant snowflake.

Cell continues to stand there for several second, mostly oblivious, looking over the disk and ignoring the mass chaos around him. Right as Makuta and Dackly are teleporting he looks up, suddenly realizing that something is going on. He moves to act, but too late, and so instead he reaches up and scratches the side of his head. He shrugged, gave a look of confusion, but mostly disappointment, like he'd been left out of something cool happening. He quietly clipped the disk to one of his belts and dropped the flashbang back into his bag, if he could frown he certainly would be.

Owen just stood there for a second after Cu was obliterated. His mind reeling from the experience of it all, what was that thing? Where did it come from? and why was it trying to kill him and the rest of these people....whoever they were. It was about that time that Immanuel flew over and picked up something off the ground where Cu had once been, then after absorbing it started flying towards him. Owen's brain finally kicked in and he looked up to see what was casting the massive shadow over them, it was the fortress. The entire fucking fortress was falling over them, what more did this day need? He started running, as fast as he could with a knife in his leg and covered in burns. Once he had enough speed he launched forward into a magnetic glide and at least kept pace with Immanuel. "Have you got anything for these burns? I'm not sure I'll be help much longer in this state" Alter to a 4 to evade the falling fortress and bum(and drink) a healing potion off Immanuel. [3] Ride the Lightning to fly.

Cell stands there trying his hardest not to react, just stand there, unfeeling, uncar- oh who is he kidding? He reaches down and looks to either side to see if anyone was watching him. He picks up the disk and examines it, flipping it over in his hands and getting the best feel for it he can in the dim light of his glowing head. A red claw holding a sphere, 184 etched on one edge, and an over all aerodynamic structure. Interesting...very very interesting....

As the eyes appear Cell staggers back, trying to stay within the light. He rummages around in his bag of grenades again and pulls out a small copper colored cylinder with a white band, he gets it ready, but doesn't actually activate it yet. Cell pulls a Flashbang out of his bag.

Music: In the Southwest spike plants trigger impaling the Mage groups for 12 and 20 damage. In the Southeast a flash of light engulfs one of the Hordes and the Mages dealing 9 and 17 damage. No traps trigger in the East. Amelie fires again [30 crit!] dealing 132 damage to one of the Beastmasters in the East and killing it instantly. Jun swings at a Beastmaster for 33 damage, the creature howls in pain, but little is done to actually stop it. Toshiro successfully makes his way to the East wall, things aren’t looking great judging by the monstrous cat-dog-things everywhere, but he doesn’t step on any spike balls so that’s nice. The Arms Dealer opens fire again, trying to chew through one of the Hordes, he deals 42 total damage rendering one group crow chow. As a free action he chugs a healing potion in preparation of the oncoming swarm. The Horde in the Southwest starts lobbing explosives over the walls, one explodes at Satomi’s feet flinging her into some rubble for exactly 9 damage, nearly knocking her unconscious. The second explosive sends bits of rubble and shrapnel into Kusuke dealing 15 damage. The dazed Hordes in the Southeast recover from their stun. The Hordes in the East fire arrows at Jun and the Arms Dealer for a total of 18 and 24 damage. Kusuke recalls Satomi and then goes to town on the Ogre dealing 21 and 19 damage. The Dryad heals herself for 16 HP. Lucille heads to the East. The Strider stomps all four remaining Beastmasters dealing 16 damage to each. The Demo throws a bomb high into the air and the madman actually manages to hit the two Strafers dealing 12 and 13 damage to them, nearly grounding them. Recovering from her most recent near-death experience Satomi enlists the aid of the idle worker golems and manages to rotate the AXE Trebuchet to face the current Ogre, she fires it [1] and it slams into the Ogre dealing only 64 damage. The Guide heads to the East to help out. The Blacksmith, Carpenter, and Mason work desperately to shore up the other wall and prevent it from coming down. They restore 42 HP to the Southwest wall. Two of the beasts pounce on Jun for 9 and 4 damage. Con saves: 22 vs 23, 22 vs 12, Jun starts bleeding some. The third beast pounces the Arms Dealer for 10, he’s rendered bleeding. The last beast starts climbing the walls. Leo stands in the glory of his destruction, that is at least until two balls of purple/black fire slam into him. He takes 9, 10, and 12 damage and is set ablaze. Piglet finds herself in a bit of an awkward position as a massive foot comes slamming down on the tank she’s in. The Siege Ogre deals 114 damage to the tank, thoroughly crushing the front end, it takes 12 retaliation damage. The Strafer attacks Satomi for 4 and 0 damage. The Tavern Keep hangs around to keep watch on the West wall. Rose blasts one of the Hordes in the East for 21 damage turning several goblins into popsicles. Leo fails to act due to being unconscious. Piglet runs over one of the local Mage groups. Twice. Dealing a total of 48 damage and scaring off any that aren’t paste. Arminius attempts of commune with the enemy. [22 vs 13] The Ogre grunts and responds in a low growling voice “You kill friend and family already, why would I care?” Az blasts lightning at the Hordes in the Southeast dealing 14 and 22 damage. Turrets: Init: Status:

"Ha! Something tells me he's wearing more than enough armor too ah...bounce a few rounds?" He reaches up and starts raking one claw through a small tuff of fur left at the tip of his chin, obviously contemplating something. "Now your chariot awaits! and you wouldn't want to be late would you? This way please." He hops down from the pew and wanders to one of the doors on the far right side of the room, where the rows of pews terminate and give way to a wider walking space. Beyond the door is a large hexagonal room with a proportionally large desk in the middle, on the opposite side of the room a revolving door accompanied by normal double doors on either side. Many people in many types of dress are buzzing through the room, asking questions at the desk, taking elevators, entering side rooms, etc. Most people seem to be wearing fairly standard business attire, some guards in armor are sprinkled about, at least two priest-looking fellows wander by, and a few look almost as strangely out of place as your own group. The cat, Mr. Dark as he was called, leads you all out the front door without more than one or two brief second glances from the surrounding people. Outside a long set of steps leads down to a busy street and tall buildings raise up in practically every direction, purple, grey, and off-white dominate the color schemes of various buildings and many of them hold a sort of futuristic architecture style with no shortage of neon lights or bizarre tech. Behind you some distance away a massive tower dwarfs the surrounding landscape, being three or four times the height of the average building and a good many stories taller than the next tallest. Directly in front of the party on the street is Atton's Half-track taking up nearly three whole partying spaces, flanked by two groups of at-easy guards and occupied by Atton's two nervous looking men. Punch: You're fall, and falling...and falling. Not much around here. Lot'a empty space, some bright light, not much. You think back you how you got here, seems like a while ago, but you're not really sure about time in this place. You were just going about your business when suddenly BOOM! a portal opened up and you got here, falling. Falling. But now something is changing, the white is turning to light blue, clouds are appearing, you can hear again! You can hear cars, the murmur of city life, all sorts of things. You turn over to look down, twisting your body mid"flight", but it's too late the only thing you see is the glimpse of dark armor before you come crashing into it. You come too a few seconds later where you landed, unharmed, and surrounded by strange people in a strange city. Everyone: You're all starting your walk down the stairs when you catch a hint of a blur at the edge of you vision, just at that second something large collides with Mira knocking her to the ground(though her armor seems to have prevented any injury). The object, or more specifically person that landed on Mira turns out to be a young woman sporting strange dress, three fox tails, and fox ears.

Cell digs in his bag again, this time pulling out a small glass vessel filled with a black liquid. He scrounges around for bit of cloth or a wick from another grenade to strip down before breaking the seal on the oil grenade and stuffing the makeshift wick inside. After giving it a few seconds to soak the wick he lights off the simple candle and hands it over to Edmond.

Freidhold grunted quietly as he lowered the child down on the now less crowded area. With a soft sigh he stood back and watched Alexandria and Mar deal with the group of thugs, probably for the best considering how his last encounter with similar types had gone... Around that time the little one decided to speak up and ask a question. "Why are those people dressed like the Angel? Not the singing angels, the walking talking one." Friedhold looked slightly confused, or at least surprised by the topic of the question. "I...do not know. Solomon, why-- Oh I see."

Cell followed along giving off a feint glow himself, not terribly bright nor reaching more than a couple feet, but better than total darkness at least. He listened closely for the answer to Hiroki's question, but otherwise didn't appear phased by the fact that they were wandering around in a series of monster infested underground caves.

Cell pauses his digging when the Nuparu mentions asking if they would be able to defend against "Rahi beasts". He looked up and gave the Matoran an assuring nod and thumbs up. Whatever these Rahi beasts were he doubted they could be much if any worse than one of those damned Slashers. Right around the time Gozer said to move he finally found what he was done with his inventory check and visibly ready to go himself.

Owen watched, stared for what felt like minutes as Cu's features slowly melted away in wave after wave of heat. In that fraction of a second he was floored by a mixture of disgust and awe before he tore himself back to reality. The heat from the plasma made him back off, but he just managed to get Cu where he wanted him and he figured backing off was exactly what he was expected to do. So he did the batshit insane thing instead. He called upon another wish, one to dull the burning as he stepped back in close. Close enough to cut Cu's kick short and swiftly follow up by planting Fragarach, and a fresh jolt of lightning, inbetween the man's ribs. Wishes to evade burning, or at least the pain of it. Alter to a 5 to attack with Fragarach, closing in to cut off Cu's kick. [5] Fury of the Storm activates.

As they left the alleyway Friedhold, with some effort, hefted the Little Sister up onto his shoulder. "Either you are getting remarkably heavy, or I am getting remarkably unfit." Some time later he started noticing "VR" as a common term among shop displays, he had some idea what it might mean based on context, but he wasn't entirely sure and figured he ought to ask sooner instead of later. "What is this 'Virtual Reality'? Some kind of pocket dimension or brainwashing?"

Spicy HG completely ignored the "Hotcakes" remark and simply nodded. "Pretty much. A portal or someone usually shows up and tells us to go somewhere and help someone." She paused for a moment, looking around suspiciously. "Though usually we would've been jumped or given some kind of prompt by the locals by now...Maybe this world is a bit different?" "That bell looks like the closest place of interest, maybe we'll figure out what our quest is there?" She gestured out towards the nearby bellshrine.

Histoire tries her best to ignore Iowa, but was still somewhat visible peeved by her. "CFW Judge is very large in stature being at least fifteen feet tall, practically a giant. He seems to be some kind of cyborg as the low half of his body was replaced with a large wheel mechanism. He wears heavy black and blue armor and uses a long double axe in combat." The cat looked up and answered Mira's question. "You can kill him if you like, but don't waste an opportunity to get information. Even if you do spare him I expect he'll self destruct over the shame of defeat again anyway." "Now since you already have a vehicle I'll simply have a small escort sent to guide you as soon as you're ready. If you'll excuse me though, I have several other matter to attend to and you may direct any further matters to Mr. Dark." With that, and assuming no one had anything pressing to keeping from leaving, Histoire politely floated out of the room through one of the side doors. Mr. Dark, the cat, yawned and slowly stretched out his front legs and paws as cats are want to do.

Friedhold stepped through the portal to a familiar alleyway with familiar rotting trash. "If you added old fish and seawater to this mix it would be very much like where I am from. Now let us get going, it is probably best not to linger on these streets unless we wish to get in a gunfight."

Cell shrugged sort of dismissively, it didn't seem like he cared which stone they went after first one way or another. Instead he was busy going through his bags looking for something.