StormLord

The little SkyFaller's explanation was....interesting. A flying death machine, it sounded exactly like something that would come from SkyFallers. So he took a step back and watched and listened as the others discussed and argued over the little SkyFaller's death machine. Over this time some a new Skyfaller appeared, they created some sort of beast in response to one of the other's threats(He suddenly like them a little more), and seemed to be selling several small items. He walked over and inspected the items, the others had already taken interest in most of them, but there were still a couple left to look at. He pointed at the small greenish pearl. "What is this? What does it do?" He looked thoughtful for a moment(not easy when you're a giant lizard), then reached up with a razor she claw and made a small cut on his upper arm. After a couple seconds dozens of tiny green and white mushrooms popped out. He scraped up a few with his claw. "These are a powerful healing plant where I am from. They can survive almost anywhere, even in skin where they grow and help to heal wounds."

Round 2 Laver rushes over to Jade and quickly strums his Heartstrings to restore 23 HP. Laver bleeds for 5 damage. Liliya doubles back to the beasts,(13 Crit!) her unholy blade slicing, ripping, and tearing through her enemies like they were paper, after dealing 124 damage little more than dust remains of four of the beasts. Liliya continues to smolder, but it doesn’t bother her much. The last beast meanwhile was saved from Liliya’s massacre due to being busy attacking Hiroki and leaving large bleeding wounds. The first of the flying beasts swoops down at slashes at Jade for 8 damage. Sachi holds her stance and reinforces her guard, her regeneration heals what few scratches she’d gotten. Halley blasts the last beast and two of the dark monsters with distracting energy that seems to weaken them. This deals 4 damage to the beast, and 6 damage to each of the Lahmus. She bleeds for 5 pure damage. The second of the flying beasts swoops at Halley, dealing 18 damage as it’s long claws tear through her skin. One of the Officers shouts something in a foreign tongue and points at Sachi, several warriors turn their attention in her direction, he speaks again and magic washes over the skeletal warriors. Lexiel flies up then slams Doomfist-first into Officer A, dealing 8 damage and throwing him backward. Her aura causes some minor wounds to heal on Laver, Jade, and Liliya, restoring 6 HP each. The last flying monster slashes at Lexiel as she recovers from her dive, dealing 6 damage. One of the ground monsters approaches Liliya, it doesn’t seem to attack her though, instead it bites and claws at the air in front of and around her. The wicked jaws of the creature gnashed and snapped, but never came close enough to actually touch Liliya, once the ordeal was over she was left feeling weakened. The second of these monsters wandered over to the wall and started harassing the Asterlux defenders. The third monster turns it’s attention to Jade, stabbing him in the side for 11 damage. One of the groups of Archers turns toward Venus, Halley, and Solomon, knocking and firing arrows at all three, they deal 4 and 4 damage to Venus, 11 damage to Halley, and 11 damage to Solomon. The Archers gain two Bonds. After some shouting from one of the Officers the second group of Archers focuses fire, all turning to Hiroki before firing, all of the arrows either miss or bounce off Hiroki’s mech. This group of Archers gain five Bonds. Jade fires again at the Officer, this time dealing 22 damage as the bullet impacts their leg. Jade bleeds for 5 damage. Officer B responded by throwing a chunk of sharpened ice at Jade, it deals 12 damage, it slows him a bit but not to much. Venus follows Jade’s example and hits the same Officer with another bullet, dealing 27 damage, regaining 7 HP, and killing Officer B. The Skeletal warriors charged forward, viciously attacking Sachi, they managed to deal 3, 2, 4, 2, and 4 damage. Pitiful. Solomon follows Lexiel’s lead and attacks Officer A with another needlessly large fist. Only this time it’s made of books. He deals 66 damage to the Officer. Hiroki sends a burst of cannon fire at Officer A, thoroughly blowing him away. Hiroki bleeds for 5 damage. A single fireball and two barrages of arrows come flying off the Asterlux wall, the fireball lands on DT Archers A, dealing a total of 85 damage, the arrows impact with Lahmu B dealing 18 and 13 damage to it. Hoarse and rattling howls can be heard in the distance as several (5)DT Beasts join the battle. Init: Status:

Frigus: HP: 5/26 Ess:4, Con:3, Dex:10(6+4), Int:7, Res:3, Str:0, Syn:0. Cooldowns: Heave Edge: 4 turns. Effects: If an attack would reduce Frigus's HP to 0 or lower, it instead reduces it to 1 unless Frigus was at 1 HP when the attack landed or the attack would reduce Frigus to a negative HP that’s absolute value is greater than his MHP. Every 8 Actions taken by any combination of targets from any side, Frigus gains +2 Dex for the rest of the battle, up to a maximum of +12. Each attack reduces Init of struck enemies by 1. Stun immunity only kicks in after the second consecutive turn. Frigus's initial attack had been responded to with a torrent of fire which he mostly failed to avoid. luckily for him Harry was right there with medical supplies to get him back in the fight. After thanking the doctor Frigus got back to work, he lept into the air again, striking the last flying creature twice before hitting all three flying/once flying creatures with a massive cone of ice. He then continued attacking either the downed creatures or those with spiked tails. Frigus uses a Keyblade Attack on the last still flying "Fallen Zygote", this triggers Air Combo+ to deal 2d6+[Dex] cold damage twice. He then uses Blizzard(blast) targeting all three "Fallen Zygotes"and one "Ogre-Tail"(add another "Ogre-Tails" for each dead "Fallen Zygote"), this deals 2d6+[Int] cold damage to each target and reduces their Init by 2. Finally Frigus uses a Keyblade Attack on one of the remaining "Fallen Zygotes"(or an "Ogre-Tail" should they all be dead), this triggers Combo+ and deals 2d6+[Dex] cold damage twice to his target.

Frigus: HP: 24/24 Ess:4, Con:3, Dex:6, Int:7, Res:3, Str:0, Syn:0. Cooldowns: None! Effects: If an attack would reduce Frigus's HP to 0 or lower, it instead reduces it to 1 unless Frigus was at 1 HP when the attack landed or the attack would reduce Frigus to a negative HP that’s absolute value is greater than his MHP. Every 8 Actions taken by any combination of targets from any side, Frigus gains +2 Dex for the rest of the battle, up to a maximum of +12. Each attack reduces Init of struck enemies by 1. Stun immunity only kicks in after the second consecutive turn. Frigus held his Keyblade, FrostFell, at his side as he charged towards the battle. "Die!" He leaped into the air and struck one of the flying creatures three times, then with his fourth strike he sent it crashing into one of the two larger walking creatures. Frigus makes a Keyblade Attack against one of the Fallen Zygotes, this triggers Combo+ and Air Combo+ to add two additional Keyblade Attacks against the same target. This deals 2d6+[Dex] cold damage three times. Frigus then attacks a Fallen Zygote(the same one as before if it isn't dead) with Heave Edge dealing 4d6 damage and stunning it(because it's a flying creature) then also dealing 4d6 damage to one of the Chi-You. Loadout(7 total slots)

The lizardman huffed some. "Let me guess, another Skyfaller killing machine?" Sha'Tith spoke with more than a little spite obvious in his tone, even if Leo had just saved his life.

Sha'Tith continued what he'd started, pushing the Payload to the objective, or at least until the metal beast came to take over. Those who looked closely might notice many small green mushrooms sprouting out of Sha'Tith's various wounds, repairing the damage staggeringly quickly. "Do any of you know what that thing was?" Sha'Tith said gesturing towards where the bear had landed on Leo.

As the bus roared to life Frigus jolted up, having fallen asleep while writing notes. He looked around in confusion as the bus started forward into the flash of light, he stood as soon as the bus came to a stop and immediately walked outside. He took in the view with a blank stare, like someone who'd seen it a million times and knew every inch. Then he spotted the figures below, and pointed them out to anyone standing near who hadn't seen them. "Looks like they could use some help, and if not they'll at least be able to tell us where we are." Then with a flash of light he summoned his armor and weapon.

Round 1 Liliya catches the Officer in the side with her knife, dealing 12 damage. The Beasts split up and jump at the party from both sides, one attacks Liliya for 16 damage, another two attack Halley one for 12 damage while the other leaves a wound that gushes blood, the last two jump at Jade and Laver leaving bloody wounds. One of the flying monstrosities swoops down and rakes its limbs across Hiroki’s Mech, this has little effect beyond maybe cosmetic damage. Sachi jumps forward to protect her allies. The other flying monster attacks the creature of light, swiping at Lexiel for 8 damage. Halley sends a blast of paralyzing energy at one of the Officers, they seem much more friendly now. Halley takes 5 damage from “blood”loss. The first Officer sends a bolt of lightning at Hiroki, it clips Sachi as it flies past, once divided between two targets the current isn’t enough to do anything but jolt either of them. Lexiel summons a soldier who stands guard over Jade. The final flying creature swoops down at Jade just in time for Lexiel’s summon to step in the way, taking the blow and delivering a counterattack for 7 damage before they die. One of the ground creatures plants a long slender leg into Jade’s shoulder for 10 damage. The next walking monster stabs at Sachi only to have her knock its attack out of the way with relative ease. The third walking monster strikes at the book mage, dealing 11 damage as it catches Solomon in the arm. The first group of archers begins pelting the wall with arrows, this means little for the party but the soldiers on the wall aren’t happy. The second group of archers fire a rain of arrows in Jade and Laver’s direction, dealing 11 and 12 damage to Jade, and 10, 6, and 8 damage to Laver. Within the blink of an eye Jade pulls out his pistol, aims it at the Officer, and shoots, critting for 43 damage, leaving a large bullet wound in the man’s torso, he probably hit several important things. Jade bleeds for 5 damage. The(now wounded) second Officer send a small ball of fire at Liliya, dealing 2 damage to her and 0 damage to Sachi. Liliya catches on fire. Venus takes a shot at the first Officer, dealing 25 damage, the Bond on this Officer is consumed healing Venus for 2 HP. The skeletal warriors march forward, two strike at Venus and three at Sachi, they deal 4 and 6 damage to Venus, and 0, 0, 1, 1, and 4 damage to Sachi. Laver fiddles with his weapon, gaining a bonus to his next attack. Solomon messes with the future, improving Liliya’s capabilities for a time. Hiroki rains burning plasma down on the enemies, dealing 15 damage to each of the Lehmus, 16 to each of the Bel Lehmus, 6 to Officer A, 9 to Officer B, 11 to the DT Soldiers A, 11 to DT Archers A and B, and 14 to the DT Beasts A. This consumes three Bonds, one from each Officer and one from the DT Soldiers, healing Hiroki by 3. The forces of Asterlux return fire on DT Archers A, dealing 19 and 19 damage to them, one Archer crumbles. They also fire on Bel Lehmus A and B, dealing 21 and 22 damage. Init: Status:

Sha'Tith stood slowly, he definitely wasn't at 100%, but he could fight for a while at least. So he stepped over to cart and with a great heave pushed it forward, once he got it moving he started hurling fire and lightning at the last remaining soldier. Sha'Tith Pushes the Payload, Barbed Wire activates, dealing 1d4 pure damage to Junkrat and the last Talon soldier. Free action: Sha'Tith uses Flame Breath on the Talon Skirmisher dealing 2d6+3 damage, Ukulele activates dealing 8d4 electric damage to the Talon Skirmisher.

Frigus looked at the various different crystals he'd created, he grabbed two of the dull looking ones and the one he created with Calvera and Lucille's help and fused them into.....something. He glanced around somewhat confused at first before shrugging and collecting up the other materials he made. He thanked Calvera and Lucille for their help and made his way back to the other end of the bus just in time for random raw meat to start appearing in the crafting area. He sat down in a fairly quiet place, pulled out something star shaped, and mumbled something under his breath that made the thing glow for several seconds.

Spicy HG: 94/94 Stats: Con:8, Res:5, Dex:0, Int:0, Str:9, Syn:13, .EXE:9/32(1/4lvls). Active Cooldowns: Rush Technique: Last turn! Effects: Damage(dealt) cannot be reduced below 25%, Immune to fire damage, Takes double cold damage. "Fire and divine energy? I think I can manage that. Mitsurugi catch!" As she spoke she twirled her spear several times, generating a large ball of fire in the process, then tossed it in Mitsurugi's direction. The fire arced slowly and drifted towards Mitsurugi's weapon, shrouding it in brilliant red and gold flames. After listening to Magnum's instructions Spicy HG nodded, then started to dash towards Saber, the blade of her glaive already glowing with energy. "Be bound with the might of a Goddess!" and with that she struck, likely only grazing the madwoman, but it would be enough to impart the Skill-Seal curse infused into her blade. Spicy HG uses .EXE Flame Bind casting all four instances on Mitsurugi, adding [Syn]*4(52) fire damage to her next attack, this consumes one level of Spicy HG's .EXE gauge. Hustle Play action: Spicy HG uses Sealing Slash on Saber, this deals (2d10+9)*75% damage and disables Saber's non-basic actions for two turns.

Frigus glanced over to Proditor shrugged. "I've got about as much clue as you do, but at least they don't seem malevolent. Anyway, I just had an idea and need to grab some stuff." He gestured to the back of the bus where the crafting materials were being kept, and then turned and made his way there. After collecting up several seemingly random items(including three steel plates and some strange burning rocks he found) he made his way back up the bus some where others had been working on crafting things. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a notepad, different from the one he was writing on earlier, this one looked like some sort of directions, except they were written in a bizarre language that looked like a mix of diagrams and chicken scratch. Using the directions(somehow) he quickly worked through the stack of items he picked up, turning them all into various colors of small crescent shaped gems. Then with the help of Calvera and Lucille to combine a blast of ice magic, Calvera's fire, and some lightning from the tome into a glob of chaotic magic which he condensed into a small crescent shaped multicolored gem.

Frigus nods some. "Right, well unless you go around corrupting everything you touch we shouldn't have a problem. As for Synthesis Materials, I'm not even going to ask how you know about them, but I don't have any right now."

Frigus reached up to rub his eyes, then looked around to see if anyone else had noticed the....strange to arrival. "Can I um...help you with something? Need some explanations or something? We're kinda floating in the lanes-between right now, not much to see for a while."

"Not as many as there once were, though you'd be surp--" Frigus started to respond to Arminius again only to be cut off when a large purple and black 'Thing' appeared in the bus, only to disappear for a couple seconds and re-appear. "Did...did you just see that? Wait, there it is again. I should go see what it is." With that Frigus stood up and slid his note-pad into his pocket then started to make his way towards where Nhevi sat. What Nhevi would've seen is a tall man with short, spiked, pale silver/blue hair, wearing long pants and a stylized shirt, with off-white/blue plate armor from his left shoulder to a gauntlet on his left hand. "My name is Frigus, nice to meet you. You mentioned Dr. Ebon so I assume you're here to help us build defenses against the Trespassers?"

Frigus sighed and then with a far more irritable tone than before he replied. "Look, you know exactly what I mean. And yes I'm aware people have and will die in this conflict, but that doesn't mean they should be condemned to agony in the darkness. We don't need another tyrant running around ripping out people's souls and turning them into monsters."

Frigus listened to Arminius's first statment before replying with, "We aren't savages you know, and we aren't sheltered little children either." Afterwards Frigus listened to what Arminius had to say. "Monstorization" Frigus shook his head slowly, and then looked back up at Arminius, "That sounds disturbingly similar to how Heartless are created, though with slightly less homicidal intent." Firgus nodded as Arminius added the last comment. "Well, as long as you aren't hurting people I don't think there's anything I can hold against you other than semantics, which would be petty and a waste of time."

Frigus glanced up at Arminius's question, he looked back and forth between Arminius and his minion then gestured to a nearby seat. "Please, sit. This may take a moment." As Frigus said this he was already marking where he left off writing and closing his notepad. He looked up again. "I'm going to preface this with a fact that seem obvious to me. Wherever you're from souls don't matter much, or at least they aren't as fragile or critical as in other places. Next, I was not raised on a world like you or any of the others, from the time I could call my Keyblade I've lived in a world created as a training ground for Keyblade wielders, one that exists in almost perfect balance of light and dark. You see, there exists a realm of light, and a realm of darkness. The realm of light is fractured and split into countless worlds, while the realm of darkness is made up of countless destroyed and collided worlds and souls. They are one and the same. Worlds have souls just like you and I, and each one exists closer or farther to the light or darkness. Some worlds, like the one we just left, loom painfully close to the darkness. What I believe, is that your world simply exists so close to the light that the souls of its inhabitants mend themselves with little issue or corruption. Kusuke's world on the other hand(from his descriptions), must exist much closer to the darkness if minor soul damage would cause such irrevocable harm. The state of a person's soul is not dictated by their world, the actions of an individual can easily sway it one way or the other." He paused for just a moment to think. "Now, on the subject of fragmenting or tearing a piece off of someone's soul. It creates a hole, sometimes the hole fixes itself, sometimes it can't and you need the help of someone close to you to mend the void, and sometimes it's simply to broken to ever be repaired. As I'm sure you can imagine lacking a part of your soul can cause a number of ailments, a complete lack of ability to feel emotion, loss of memory, and coma are all far from unheard of. The far more common fate however is to simply become a Heartless, or something that resembles one. I know you don't know what a Heartless is, perhaps next time I get the chance I'll show you one." Frigus simply folded his hand together and waited for a response.

As the party lingered inside, making plans and preparing for the upcoming fights, darkness gathered around the castle. Where once all had been routed or killed, there were again enemy forces laying siege to the castle. When they passed through the gates the group found what they expected, a horde of mindless skeletal warriors, what they didn’t expect was three large and horrific beasts cresting the hill, each walking on four long twisted limbs and with faces seemingly made of teeth. Shadows past over the battlefield, announcing the presence of more dark beings, this time with two large wings, twisted limbs dangling below, and a similar visage of teeth. Theme: Init: Status:

Frigus peeled off his armor and lent Lucille and Harry a hand, using his magic on Lucille's circle when asked. It wasn't exactly complex or mentally draining. After finishing he pulled out his note-pad and pen, found a spot to sit in the bus, and started finishing his report(+1 Int). There wasn't that much left to fill out in it, just explanations of what happened mostly, plus any other world details he felt like adding. He was done within a couple minutes if sitting and focusing on the task so he looked up and around to see what everyone else was up to.

Frigus looks at Sindrgosa for a moment. "I uhh....see that. I don't want to tell you how to use your powers....but please be careful with them, you're throwing around some very potent abilities that might cause serious harm should something go wrong." If it hadn't been for Frigus's concealing armor Arminius would seen a mix of nervousness and disappointment on his face.

Once people started arriving again Frigus sat up, pulled himself together, and made his way over to the Bus. He jumped off his glider(which dissolved behind him) and stepped in. "So what did I miss?" He asked generally to the group that just came through the portal.

As before a large red spiral signifies the opening of another portal. After several seconds everyone piles through the portal with(almost literal) buckets of loot, some of them a bit bloodier than others, but everyone in decent shape. Once everyone was through the portal began to spiral closed, only to stop at a pinpoint, re-open, and for a man in green armor to learn through, drop a large gun on the floor, and give a quick salute before the portal closed again. When inspected one would find the words "BFG 2704" written on it.

The three men simply stand in awe watching the ordeal. By the time it's finished and Lucille grabs the apple Baratus is left slack-jawed, Daedolon stares forward with an unfeeling expression(to be fair he'd looked like that since you got here), and Parias was the first to speak. "I...I don't even know what to say. You've worked a miracle, I wish there was more we could give to repay you." He stopped and looked around some. "When this is over, if we manage to defeat Korax, we may be able to come visit your worlds and help with your plights." "While I will be eternally grateful for this, Daedolon is right, I should help you on your way before Korax sends more minions." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After the completion of any last minute requests(including Soma getting her Gravestone), the group gathers up their spoils and Parias walks over to the stone arch, says several incantations, and a red spiral portal opens up that leads back to the bus. The following items have been added to the communal inventory: 3 Mystic Urn fragments, 12 Burning Gravestone fragments, 2 Burning Gravestones, 1 DeathWyvern tooth, 3 DeathWyvern scales, 2 DeathWyvern bones, 1 Arcs of Death, 4 Crystal Vial: Restore 1d6+4 HP to one target when used, single use, 2 Quartz Flask: Restore 2d6+8 HP to one target when used, single use. This concludes Hexen: Welcome to Hell, I hope you had fun, see you next, seriously now go away.

Sha'Tith groans as he starts to pull himself up from the dust and debris, he hissed some when Leo approached but didn't put up a fight. He just kinda sat there propped up with an angry look on his face. After Leo finished his work Sha'Tith grunted slightly(acceptance?) and then spat a ball of fire at Junkrat. Sha'Tith uses "Flame Breath" on Junkrat(or one of the Talon soldiers if Junkrat cannot be targeted, or the Drop Bear if none of the others can be targeted) this deals 2d6+3 fire damage. "Barbed Wire" activates, this Non-sight-line based, Aura-of-death, deals 1d4 Pure damage to Junkrat and the two Talon soldiers.