StormLord

[Cure 4] Meow Wow regains 12 HP! [Hebby Fire 8] Hebby Repp spits out another fireball, dealing 6 damage. Status: Cards:

The cat looks up and sits more properly at Saejik's question. "I am not personally familiar with the details. But I believe it's something to do with a heavy bombardment and modification to the teleporter to allow it to sneak in before the hole seals." He bats the air again, causing a smaller holographic panel to appear where he types a few more things in before bating it away to fly over to Saejik. "If you would like your people to converse with our people something could be arranged." In the panel Saejik finds an autogenerated agreement for the trade of information and technology. Most of the fields are left blank for him to fill out.

[Slow 10] Meow Wow casts a spell entrapping Hebby Repp. Hebby Repp is slowed. [Burning Rubber 1] Hebby Repp's legs start spinning in comical little disks as it charges Meow Wow and leaves behind a trail of fire. Meow Wow takes 5 damage and more if they make a physical attack next round. Status: Cards:

[Hebby Fire 10] The Hebby Repp moves with incredible speed and spits out a fireball that deals 10 damage! [Defend 4] Despite Meow Wow's best effort they bring up their defenses a split second after the fireball hits. Status: Cards:

As Francis gets into the ring his Meow Wow gets into position, as does the Moogle's Hebby Repp. As they stand there Francis notices three shapes coming into existence in front of each of them, after a few seconds three cards drop into his hands. They look nice, various bright colors, generously gilded, fancy white bordered black text. They seem to each represent an action his Meow Wow could take. Horn Dive 1: The Meow Wow gouges at an enemy with its horn, trying to gore them. Deals 1d12+3 damage. Cure 4: The Meow Wow casts a healing spell. Restore 1d4+8 HP. Balloon 4: The Meow Wow summons up three balloons that home in on enemies and detonate. Launch three balloons for 1d6+4 damage each. Status: Notes:

The creature tolerates Francis' petting of it for a few seconds before bouncing aggressively forward to tackle him and lick his face. Once he pries the surprisingly light puffy creature off of him he finds the stairs unmarked, but a quick glance reveals them to lead to viewing seats a few feet above the ring. There are a few people sitting around, and he notices another of the small flying creatures hovering on the other side of the battlefield with a Hebby Repp tooling around beneath it.

Spicy HG stood waiting patiently, not having much to add of her own.

The creature shakes its head. "Kupo. Kupo."(Afraid not. You'll get your cards once you've met the Dreameater though.) With that it floats over to the oversized doors and tugs on one handle, pulling it open just enough for Francis to walk through. Walking down a short corridor he passes a small door and window that looks into a room full of playpins for various kinds of Dreameaters. As he watches a single Meow Wow bounces out of its pin, down the walkway, and out a small doggy-door in the door. It stands there next to Francis bouncing up and down excitedly. Further down the corridor there are archways to stairs on the left and right and an open portcullis leading to a small sandy pit.

As Francis flips through the booklet he reads over titles and descriptions of a few Dreameaters they've got in the coliseum at the moment. Meow Wow: A bright blue creature that is a cross between a cat, hamster, and unicorn. Hebby Repp: A yellow and blue serpant creature that has a pair of feet about midway down its body. Attacks by spitting fire or by curling into a ball and hurling itself at enemies. Toximander: A large purple, green, and pink salamander-like creature that spews poisonous puddles and clouds of poisonous gas. Necho Cat: A six legged cat covered in bells and music notes. It can walk on air and uses this ability to avoid enemies and bombard them with spells. Escarglow: A snail-like creature with a spiked shell. Cast a wide variety of defensive and gravity spells. Wheeflower: A small pink and green flower with a heart shaped pot over its roots. It floats around slinging water and ice spells. "Kupo kupo, kupo kupo kupo." (If they like you well enough, or they think you need help, they start following you around! We feed and take care of the ones here, and don't force them to fight if they don't feel like it, so they don't have much incentive to leave. Occasionally one just gets up and wanders off though.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ena can see from where she is the ladder likely leads down and around the backside of one of the buildings beside the clocktower. Heading down would just take them back to the courtyard.

The girl from the the fight with Judge, Uni, pipes up, seemingly to the cat's surprise. "The first time we fought CFW Magic we were expecting someone skilled with spells, but she's also incredibly strong and fast. She uhh...uses magic to pin her targets down and then hit them harder than any of the other Felons." The cat sits, flicking his tail and satisfied with not having to answer the question.

Ignia uses Strike Raid on the Genji Armor for 13 Arcane damage, if it made a melee attack in the round before she attacks she hits again for another 13 damage.

After a few more minutes of awkward silence pass the cat stops and looks up towards the door, after a second or two a pair of familiar figures appears walking toward the conference room. Falcom and Falcom walk into the room and the old of the two starts speaking. "Hey everybody, sorry we're late we took th...e...first teleport we could get." She turns to the cat and points at him. "How did they get here before us?" He replies by returning to grooming. "Whatever." The pair sits down and the cat looks up again to speak. "Well now that everyone is here...." He turns and bats at the air near the middle of the table, causing several holograms to appear and blow up to cover much of the table. "As I'm sure you know the group known as the Four Felons known to be dead for years was revived not too long ago. Three have appeared, each corrupted and alien in some way, it is assumed these corruptions are the source of their revival." He flicks again, shifting the hologram to a fourth figure none of you have seen yet, a woman with long magenta hair in twin-tails, some evidence of cybernetic enhancements, a pair of large metal wings floating behind her, and a halo of thorns. She's holding a scythe and wearing something that resembles armor if only it covered her indecent areas. "CFW Magic is the only Felon we have yet to get reports of, though we have seen a barrier appear around the Gameindusti Graveyard. Given the group's previous tactics we can only assume CFW Magic is projecting the barrier around whatever entity revived them." He paused again, flipping to a hologram of a large dome shaped field over a strange junkyard-like area. "We can break the barrier as we did before, but it would be best if everyone was prepared for a fight once its down." He takes a few steps over to a chunk tablet device. "You can use this to requisition anything you might need or want before the fight, there is a generous credit limit on it, but don't go trying to purchase the country's entire arsenal. Any other questions?"

"Kupo!" (If you're just here for fun you're welcome to use one of the Dream Eaters we have here at the coliseum.) The creature drifts down and pulls up a small booklet listing a number of odd and brightly colored creatures that all resemble animals.

[25, 13 vs 12] It takes effort, and some careful timing, and Ena nearly getting crushed inbetween two gears only to be pulled out of the line of fine by Leo. But both of you make it in one piece. Ena can feel herself better acquainted with her hardware in moving and jumping and gains +1 Dex. Leo finishes the ordeal with a better understanding of the relationship between machines and time, how time and timing affects machines, and how machine might effect the other. There is a small chest sitting at the balcony with the doorway leading outside the building to the service walkway. Should either Ena or Leo open it they would find a small bottle containing some kind of jelly and floating stars. Stepping out of the building to the service area Leo and Ena find themselves on the flat stone rooftop of the building next door with two ladders in sight. One that leads up to the top of the clocktower, and another that leads down to ground level. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Takumi opens to box revealing a small pair of silver and blue cufflinks that depict little teardrops. Holding them Takumi can feel the water flowing around him, through the pipes, up into the fountain, and down the drain and away. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Kupo!" (Ofcourse!) The creature shifts a little as it floats there in the air, and Francis can see it glancing down at the desk every now and then. "Kupo kupo. Kupo, kupokupo. Kupo kupo. Kupo kupo kupo. Kupo." (Flickrush is a battle game where two owners pit their favorite Dream Eaters against eachother. The owners are each dealt a hand of command cards based on the Dream Eater's special abilities, cards can be spent to use these abilities or to block an incoming attack. Each card has a random value determining which card beats out another in a contest. Successfully blocking an enemies attack will allow you to power up one of the cards in your hand. Sounds like fun doesn't it?)

Friedhold takes a few moments standing to one side of the door to try and determine if it is electrically run and what the default position is if it is. And if hitting it with a large jolt of electricity would overload and lock it closed. If it would he uses Electro Bolt to try and do so.

Sha'Tith gave a puzzled look at the odd actions of the undead creatures. He wasn't entirely familiar with what was going on, but he knew song and dance when he saw it. Dancing under the stars was after all a sacred tradition that had been made far more difficult by the looming presence of the Sky Fallers. Sha'Tith spends his turn tuning his Ukulele, after all its been a while since he played.

Ignia reals back as the second armor drops in and begins merging with the first. She looks one in horror as it equips itself the the remains of other Heartless. "THAT'S NEW." Ignia uses Cure on her lowest HP ally for 1d4+20 as half of her action. With the other half she uses Poison Edge on the Genji Armor Shield-Arm, poisoning them for 9 damage for three rounds.

Ignia grits her teeth at the sight, that was never good when they went and did things like reversing or twisting themselves up. "It reversed itself...that uhh....it'll probably be fine....just keep attacking it!" Ignia uses Strike Raid on both arms, hitting each once for 13 damage.

"Kupo." (Dream Eaters are magical creatures that eat Nightmares, they're quite adorable.) As soon as Francis mentioned the antenna the creature draws in, pulling the ball on the in down in a protective posture. "Kupo..." (I'll have to ask you not to sir. It's very sensitive, like whiskers or an eye.) The other creature give Francis a wave when he walks up. "Kuppooo." (I'm giving out tickets for playing and watching Flickrush matches. Would you like to play, watch, or know more sir?) This one seems entirely too enthusiastic about their job.

"Kupo!" (Hello! Welcome to the Flickrush Coliseum) The creature makes an odd noise, but somehow Francis immediately understands what it means by it. "Kupo kupo kupo!" (Thanks, but we train and battle Dream Eaters here. So they're perfectly safe.) It stops for a second and points over at its friend in the ticket booth. "Kuuuupo!" (If you'd like to participate talk to my friend over there, if you win any medals you can cash them in for prizes here!)

After obtaining some basic locational assistance from his new companions Francis follows his map to a T, passing through some confusing back streets, past an impressive fountain plaza, and through a bustling market area(minus the bustle and stores and people, really just a festival ghost-town). Francis discovers the 4th District Francis comes to a small yard out from of the coliseum itself, decorations are abundant even if participants are less so. To the left is a large wooden door with a yellow and orange sign reading "5th District: Botanical Garden" on it. He sees two "people" near the entrance to the coliseum, the creatures are small beige humanoids with tiny wings and a single antenna with a red ball on the end. One is standing in a ticket booth, the other is loitering near the entrance with a balloon.

Spicy HG shook her head. "I'll be fine. I've lived with it a long time." With that she turned and kept moving.

[57] As Francis flips through the job board disappointingly little catches his eye. It all just so boring. The only thing that did catch his eye was something about a coliseum in a place known as the "Forth" district. A small map is attached to it with a big red "X" marking one area. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [15 vs 8] Ena waits for the perfect timing and carefully steps out onto the gear, moving with it forward to meet the rotating gondola. She grabs hold and rides across to the opposite side. Now on the left side she could, if she wished, grab hold of the vertical gear and move up to one of the giant horizontal gears on the third level. [Roll stored for later] Leo forms the small pink orbs, letting them trail behind him in wait of he or Ena falling. [8 vs 8] Leo casually walks out onto the first gear only to realize he didn't wait for the gondola to return. A bit of frantic grasping and inelegant footwork transpires before finally grabbing the gondola and riding it over to where Ena was standing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [3 vs 6] [27] After a good fifteen minutes of aimlessly wandering in the general direction Leo and Ena had gone Satomi finds herself lost in this maze of a place. After all almost all the buildings look the same. She finds herself walking down a narrow winding alley, making not quite random directional choices each time she comes to an intersection. After what feels like an hour or more she steps up to a small four-way intersection. The path on her right leads towards a brightly lit part of the town, she can see glowing streamers and an animal shaped spot-light in the sky. The left is eerie, almost completely dark, with only a few small and dim lights dotting the path. The third middle path sharply turns and leads around some large building. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As Lucian steps into the item shop he's greeted by a middle aged man who looks like any normal retail worker that's been on shift for 12+ hours. That is to say soulless and completely done living. They seem to have a number of 'medical' potions available, as well as some bottles of good old fashioned mead. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Takumi reaches in and pulls the lever causing a loud *click*. For a few seconds nothing happens before the whole mural starts whirring and the front panel opens up. Inside is a small cavity with an equally small ornate water-tight box.

Ignia uses Cure on her lowest HP ally for 1d4+20 as half of her action. With the other half she uses Poison Edge on the Guard Armor Torso, poisoning them for 9 damage for three rounds.

Spicy HG stopped at the question, freezing mid step. An almost frightened frown slowly moved over her face as she looked towards the ground again. She mumbled something to herself. "Who am I? Really?" When she finally did speak her voice was strained, disappointed even. "I am known to my people as Blood Heart, Goddess-Queen of the Demented Isles, the people here know me as Spicy HG, you're welcome to call me that as well."