Mission 178: The Distant Star of Hope

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Session Start (Daviddarsh:srwugamission178): Fri May 10 15:52:45 2013 -0700
Aero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-FQcyuz_ro
Aero: It's the dead of the night, the Chalice is currently parked in Gucun and for once it seems as if nothing is happening. What's everyone doing?
Wyverncakes: Josh is glued to a television watching an old horror movie
VJockey: [Cheng is enjoying a peaceful night's sleep that's what.]
Wyverncakes: It's set in and around a research lab in a frozen wasteland, with survivors having to deal with a terrible monstrosity that had been dug up from the ice.
Wyverncakes: At first Josh was going to just write it off as a cheap knockoff of his favorite movie, but then he found out the monster was sentient, airborn fungi that was only vulnerable to light.
cubey@aol.pl: Devon is not asleep. Somehow, despite being in Gucun she feels like her family needs a guardian, a black figure to watch over the night. And since Batman is unavailable - it has to be her.
Arach: Roads is…Elsewhere, in Jiang Jing city. He's sitting outside on the porch of a foreman. It's a calm ending to a day of volunteer construction labor with the Zweilicht.
Fri Freeman: Elena is a few steps behind Roads
Fri Freeman: behind a wall
Fri Freeman: watching
Fri Freeman: always
Aero: Well whatever you're doing it's quickly interrupted by the appearance of...Barzams? Lots and lots of Barzams. They begin firing at the buildings in the city and soon enough alarms start ringing. Both on the Chalice and in the city.
Wyverncakes: Josh: "What the-"
Wyverncakes: Wait, those were Federation mobile suits!
cubey@aol.pl: "Wake up!" Cheng will find Devon right in his face.
Aero: Thank you Captain Obvious.
cubey@aol.pl: "Something happened. I'm starting the machines." And that's enough for an explanation because she's gone off now.
Arach: "Son of a…Elena! Let's go!"
VJockey: [Cheng rolls out of his bed in a panic, throwing things on and snap a look at Devon.] "Who is attacking-" [and of course...]
VJockey: [In anycase... TO THE MECHA]
Fri Freeman: Elena: Oh no... Not the romantic night...
Fri Freeman: [To the mecha!]
Wyverncakes: Josh is already on his way to the Aile as well.
Wyverncakes: Either Scirroco's death changed nothing for the better in the Federation, or something was up.
Wyverncakes: And either way, he was going to at least see about saving lives until he could make heads or tails of things.
Fri Freeman: Elena: You know I was there though, Mr Roads...
Fri Freeman: Elena: I know you look after me...
cubey@aol.pl: "Mobilize the defensive forces. The State is under attack!" Devon instructs some outside defenders while sitting in her cockpit and starting up Nu Wa already. No time for a pilotting suit!
VJockey: [Cheng throws himself into the Fu Xi not a moment later, rapidly punching through the start up proceedures and linking up with various Stateside defenders.]
Aero: Sooner or later you all arrive and you see...well Barzams but they definitely weren't normal Barzams. Dozens of tentacles expanded out from them piercing the Gucun civilians belows. The scene is...quite honestly terrible as you witness these humans being dragged towards the machines and absorbed into them.
Arach: "Girl, now is really not the time."
VJockey: "......"
Aero: [Enemy List:20x Barzams?]
Wyverncakes: Josh: "... Well, I guess that rules out dickery on the Federation's part."
Aero: [Initiative: Roads, Elena, Cheng, Devon, Josh.]
VJockey: [There is a look on Cheng's face. And it is not pleasant.]
Aero: [Roads, Elena GO]
Fri Freeman: Elena: Tentacles! How rubbery.
Wyverncakes: Josh: "I wouldn't necessarily call them that."
Arach: *"…Here, of all places…" The Zweilicht draws its sword, and the blade is wrapped in light as Roads charges forward into the thick of it. He wastes no time laying into the "barzams", slicing away like it's an old samurai movie. "Someone up there's got a sense of humor…"+
Fri Freeman: Elena: I always want to know how a tentacle feels.
Fri Freeman: Elena: when sliced!
VJockey: "Roads. You know what these are?"
VJockey: [Cheng's tone is.... terse to say the least]
Fri Freeman: Elena: Oh, that was embarassing
Aero: [Roads] You slice right through two of the "Barzams". The halves of each machine quickly rebind together though and they both lunge at you with several large spikes that they have just formed. [React Roads]
Fri Freeman: Elena unsheathes her vibrating knives and starts to spin around a Barzam as if she's dancing, slicing it here and there+
Wyverncakes: #
Wyverncakes: Josh: "Roads, you can't just half-ass these things!"
Aero: [Redaction] AT LEAST THEY WOULD HAVE DONE THAT IF YOU WEREN'T THE HERO OF SUNLIGHT. They explode into a rather gorey mess inches from you a few seconds later.
Arach: "…Yep. Definitely Nicolai."
Aero: [Elena] Slicing and dicing usually works against regular Barzams. Not these ones though, they regenerate each cut quickly and respond by forming a massive set of teeth and chomping at you. [React!]
Aero: [Cheng, Devon, Josh go.]
Arach: #Elena
Aero: [Approved]
Wyverncakes: Josh winces as he sees that the ones that Elena went after are just reconstituting.
Wyverncakes: * "Alright then... can't half-ass these things." So the Aile's going to swing down its Impulse Cannons and open fire on one of the Barzams, aiming for complete annhilation if possible.+
cubey@aol.pl: *Nu Wa does not stop, it only raises its arms for better access as Devon unloads a large barrage across the enemy "Barzams" - first beams to cut them up and burn, and then a swarm of missiles to finish off the damaged ones.+
Arach: *Roads dives towards that one pestering Elena, and gives it a root canal. With swords.+
VJockey: *Cheng takes aim and unleashes a hailstorm at the enemy Barzams. At this point there's no such thing as overkill.+
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "Come! Do I have your attention yet, monsters of the darkness?"
Aero: [Josh] You completely blow it apart with the barrage of Impulse Cannon fire.....however when the splattered gore hits a building...it seeps into it. A few seconds later you can see splatters of blood begin to hit the windows from the inside.
Fri Freeman: Elena ducks and chop the attacking Barzam's legs using their momentum while Roads give them a root canal.
Fri Freeman: +
Fri Freeman: Elena: They regenerate! That means we can chop them forever and ever and ever!
Wyverncakes: Josh: "You make that sound like it's a good thing?"
Aero: [Roads and Elena] Well no matter what the attack was, with that sword the Barzam? evaporates completely when struck.
Fri Freeman: Elena: We works well together, Mr. Roads. I'm so happy.
VJockey: [Cheng of course... notices this seeping... and the results.] "Keep their remains away from the buildings!"
Fri Freeman: Elena: They reminds me of Senior Luger.
Fri Freeman: Elena: I wonder what's he doing now
Aero: [Cheng] LOTS OF DAKKA IS ACTUALLY A BAD IDEA HERE. They're actually regenerating through the overkill and returning fire...by shooting out a mass of teeth at you. [React]
Fri Freeman: Elena: Sorry, Mr. Roads, for thinking about another man, when we're so close like this.
Arach: "Not. The. Time!"
VJockey: *Cheng's going to back off quickly, damnit... are they even able to push them back at this rate?!+
cubey@aol.pl: # Cheng
Aero: [Devon] Actually your barrage does a lot better than your hubby's. At least 3 Barzams are annihilated thanks to the initial beam fire which did a lot to slow down their regeneration..
Aero: [Approved]
cubey@aol.pl: *Teeth? What kind of physical projectile is that? One that meets a powerful defensive unit standing on its path, that for sure! Nu Wa positions itself in front of Fu Xi, its shields crossed for extra-thick defense.+
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "Good. Something is weak to energy weapons, for a change."
VJockey: "...Which is problematic..." [Given Gucun's dependence on Ballistics...]
Aero: [Devon] To the shock of no one the teeth don't have that much penetration power when met against a defensive unit with a shield on top.
Aero: Good news though the Gucun forces have arrived on time!
Aero: The Barzams are met by an overwhelming amount of covering fire by the good old Gucun army.
Wyverncakes: Josh: "Alright, the cavalry!"
Arach: "Alright. They're most vulnerable to sunlight and heat…Flame or energy weapons will get you a long way, but I don't think any of us wants to use incendiaries in a city."
Fri Freeman: Elena: Oh, there goes my plan...
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "You'd be surprised... but we won't be doing that anyway."
Aero: At least that is until those Gucun forces are ripped apart by a gigantic bird like creature and a ton of VSRB fire.
VJockey: "No!"
Aero: Nicolai's forces has their own cavalry it seems.
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "Spread out, now!"
VJockey: [Are there any Gucun troops left?]
Arach: "That…Sophia!"
Aero: Completely wiped out, Sophia was waiting to ambush them....WITH THE 40 METER TALL BIRD CREATURE AND DEEP CROWS.
Wyverncakes: Josh: "Dammit!"
Arach: "What the hell are you doing!"
Aero: [Enemy List:13x Barzams?, 5x Deep Crows, Vigna Zirah (Sophia), King Caw,]
Aero: [Roads, Elena, Cheng go.]
Fri Freeman: Elena: Oh, it's Mr Roads' ex.
VJockey: [...Rage. That's pretty much what one can describe Cheng's current feeling as.]
VJockey: [Pure unadulteraed rage.]
VJockey: "Once was not enough for you was it...."
VJockey: "You plan on devastating the state again!"
VJockey: *Roads, you may wish to feel a bit worried. Because Cheng is now letting out an all out assault on Sophia! Unleashing missile barrages and large amounts of machinegun fire!&
cubey@aol.pl: "There are no disgraces to which you will not lower yourself." Devon, on the other hand, sounds icy cold. "I will strip your life away from you."
Aero: Sophia: "What we've always done Roads."
Aero: [Cheng] Unsurprisingly Sophia has little trouble backing away from your missiles and machinegun fire and picking them off with her beam rifle. The Vigna Zirah tanks a good portion of the bullets though, however the machine regenerates as if to mock you. [Continue]
Arach: "That-Stop it! I know you're a good person!"
Wyverncakes: Josh: "REALLY?"
VJockey: *To which Cheng replies with massive high impact slugs from the twin railcannons on the Fu Xi's back!+
Aero: Sohpia: "Your friends have a point Roads."
VJockey: "Roads."
Arach: "Shut up! If I can be a good person than so can she!"
VJockey: "No. She can't."
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "How many lives did she end just right now? Is that good for you?"
VJockey: "The only thing she will become is a corpse. She's murdered or is party to the murder of citizens of the State. Do not try to defend her actions!"
Arach: #Sophia
Aero: [APPROVED]
Fri Freeman: Elena: Oh what should I do
Fri Freeman: Elena: I want Mr. Roads to be happy.
Fri Freeman: Elena: Please let him talk things about with his ex first, guys.
Fri Freeman: +
Arach: *Right! Further argument is cutoff by a sonic boom, as the Zweilicht bamfs up into the path of those railgun shots…and, against all logic, swings its sword into the path of of the shells. There is hardly any thinking, any feeling. Roads sees the bullets, and acts.+
cubey@aol.pl: "What." Devon's eyes widen with surprise.
Aero: [Roads] Against everything logical Roads you just cleaved two hypervelocity railcannon slugs in half. The poor Deep Crows nearby never saw the slugs coming. Four of them almost completely evaporate when even half of the slugs touched them.
Aero: [Devon, Josh, ???? go]
Wyverncakes: Josh: "Of all the..."
Arach: The Zweilicht hangs in the air, before landing in the street. "Everyone deserves a chance at redemption. Everyone. Being human means having the capacity to change, to make yourself better…Sophia! It's time to start paying down your debt to mankind! Come on, you might not get another chance!"
Aero: This might be a dire situation but the Barzams are STILL EATING PEOPLE GUYS.
VJockey: [Dead silence. Roads. Cheng is shaking in his cockpit. Teeth grinding, hate boiling in his veins...]
Arach: "Let's kill these monsters and save the day!"
Wyverncakes: "Roads, it's one thing to have a chat like this in a place where civilians aren't around!"
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "You just made that task a lot more difficult, Roads."
Wyverncakes: "But this is just too goddamn stupid!"
VJockey: "Redemption......REDEMPTION!??! LOOK AROUND YOU ROADS!! LOOK!"
Aero: Sophia: "Roads..."
HyprKnux 1: There's a bit of a sparkle coming from the sky as something's approaching. Something blue. And it's screaming something on the way down...
VJockey: "MY PEOPLE ARE DYING! AGAIN!"
Wyverncakes: * Still, he knows time spent bickering with Roads can be spent at least thinning out the crowd, and thus the Aile hauls out its Cypher Guns before going to town on the Deep Crows, targeting two at a time.+
VJockey: "SHE'S ONE OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE! BOTH IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT!!!"
Aero: [There's one Deep Crow left Josh.]
HyprKnux 1: *"RIDERRRRRRRRRR KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!" There's a human-sized figure racing towards the King Caw, foot extended out, glowing with energy and ready to plow through it!+
Arach: "There are people here who need our help! People who need us! The time is now! I know you feel guilt-if you couldn't, you would have hit the civilians!" Yep, still totally ignoring Cheng.
cubey@aol.pl: *Nu Wa flies up, straight towards the Barzam crowd. The Heavenly Wall has been disconnected and left behind, so the Combat Frame is lighter now, its chainsaw knuckles spinning and ready to RIP AND TEAR the nearest mobile suit in half!&
Aero: [Fourze] While you don't fly through it the massive Rider Kick sends the 40m bird reeling back a very long way. Welcome back Gen.
HyprKnux 1: And landing on the ground, watching the humongous bird go flying, is Kamen Rider Fourze. Of course, (Link: http://images.wikia.com/kamenrider/images/1/1f/Cosmic.png ) He brought some new toys to play with. "Seems like I missed some of the fun... no worries!"
Wyverncakes: Josh: "'Fun' isn't the right word for this..."
Wyverncakes: "But any help's appreciated!"
Aero: [Roads] Sophia raises both of the VSBRs on the Vigna Zirah. and they're pointed at you. "You know you could be making a very big mistake here." She then fires....at the two Barzams that tried to sneak up behind Zweilicht.
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "Right! Kamen Rider Fourze is back! Let's settle this man to man!"
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "There aren't any men to face here. Just monsters."
Aero: [Devon] The ones that you're RIPPING AND TEARING were focused on trying to kill civilians. Massive amounts of blood and guts fly from the Barzams but they seem to be trying to enter more buildings. [Continue]
VJockey: "...."
Wyverncakes: # (Devon?)
Fri Freeman: Elena: I might've not thinking this up properly.
Aero: [She's not really being attacked.]
Fri Freeman: Elena: Mr. Roads might get back with his ex! Oh no!
cubey@aol.pl: *Nope. Devon clicks a single button - and Barzams closest to the buildings find themselves bombarded by Heavenly Wall sections set up on the ground. But only if civilians are not on line of fire. As for the rest...
Arach: "…Alright!" Someone's audibly smiling. "Come on captain, let's show them what the Black Valkyries are made of!"
cubey@aol.pl: *A shard of crystals flies out to pierce into one of their bodies. Then another one, and another. Then, a now-inert Combat Frame falls on the Barzams. In front of the buildings, Devon stands on foot, more Sophium shards in her hand, in a "come at me" pose.+
VJockey: "..."
Aero: [Josh] The shots from the Cypher rip through the wings of the remaining Deep Crow but it still slashes it's talons at you. [React]
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "You will not pass me."
HyprKnux 1: #Josh?
Aero: [Approved]
Aero: [Devon] Well if you insist. The mass of flesh just lunge at you once they find themselves unable to go at the other prey. [React]
Wyverncakes: * Well, there's the counterattack. And Josh's response? Switch the Cyphers BACK into blade mode and let the long blades lash out to cut the crows down as they come!
Wyverncakes: ^+
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "Oop, can't let that happen!" *Gen uses the strange rocket-like club in his hand to take off into the air, using it as a battering ram at the Deep Crow+
Aero: Sophia: "Yeah lets do it....(On a private channel to Cheng.) I'm sorry. I know that doesn't mean much and I know it's sudden but it's the only thing I can say right now."
Aero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUcUxALrHhY
Aero: [Roads, Sophia, Elena, Cheng go.]
cubey@aol.pl: *Devon wraps herself up in her red scarf - which starts to burn, emitting a large Sophium Cloud. Now all shining like a certain robot now stuck in Fighter's Valhalla, she counter-lunges - straight into the darkness, armed only with her own power and extreme heat!+
VJockey: [Cheng does not say a word here... rather there's a black, icy pit forming in the depths of his heart. This...]
VJockey: (Enemy list please?)
Aero: [Enemy List:11x Barzams?, 1x Deep Crows, King Caw,]
Wyverncakes: Josh frowns.
Fri Freeman: Elena: My feeling is so confused right now!
Wyverncakes: "I expect you to tell us everything you know when this is all said and done."
Aero: [Devon] HEAT HEAT HEAT HEAT. That's all the globs felt as the extreme heat burned them all alive.
Arach: *"Okay! Give me covering fire!" Roads turns down a street full of the barzams, his smile gaining a certain…wicked quality. There's a sonic boom, and the Zweilicht slices one with its sword. Another boom, a crater left on the ground where Roads was, and he's hit the next one. Roads goes faster, faster, dashing between as many enemies as he can, slicing left and right…!+
Aero: [Gen] You take off with the Deep Crow but it's STILL PECKING AT YOU. [React]
Aero: Sophia: "I will I can promise that."
cubey@aol.pl: Devon lands in a half-crouch, her armor smoking from intense heat.
VJockey: *Cheng's going to lay down a barrage on King Caw. His silence is... worrying to say the least+
Fri Freeman: And Elena take his confusion on the king caw by flying at it, stabbing at one point, and running through it to the end+
HyprKnux 1: *Gen: "Woah...!" *He's hitting the Launcher Switch, then another button on his chest, the phrase "Freeze" echoing out as the missiles launch. Ice Missiles ahoy! Here's hoping it's enough to push him away!+
Aero: *Sophia quickly follows above Roads laying down her own barrage of VSBR fire at every target Zweilicht touched during it's sonic move. Her sync with Roads was impeccable. When all was said and done the two end up on the other side of the army of Barzams. "You missed one Roads." +
Aero: [Gen] Looks like you put those Crows...ON ICE. It falls and shatters apart once it hits a hard surface.
Wyverncakes: Josh sees that shattered crow... and damn.
Arach: "Hah! So I did." Roads turns towards the Barzams, adopting the universally recognized stance of "bring it on". They raise their guns to attack him…and all explode violently, the entirety of their remains consumed. PERFECT VICTORY.
Wyverncakes: "You might want to focus on freezing the Barzams. Their remains can't kill people if they're all locked up in one place."
Aero: [Cheng] King Caw forms a large shield in front of itself in response. As the bullets hit the bird they are eaten away by the shield. The large naked woman like thing attached to it laughs at you and summons up a storm of razor sharp feathers that are directed towards you. [React]
Aero: [Enemy List: King Caw]
Aero: [ELENA] WHAT IT DIDN'T NOTICE WAS THAT YOU SOMEHOW SNUCK UP ON IT. Your blade tears into it's wing and now it's trying very hard to try to shake you off. [React]
Wyverncakes: # (Cheng)
Aero: [Approved]
Aero: Sophia: "Just one left."
Wyverncakes: * There's not much Josh can really do to stop that... but still! "Cheng!" And he's just gonna throw the Aile's shield over to Cheng's machine, give it a little more protection from this!+
VJockey: *Cheng's going to purge his armor and try to avoid what the Aile doesn't manage to block... he draws his knife in preparation...+
Fri Freeman: Elena: "I WANT MY BELOVED TO BE HAPPY!" Elena says as she keeps stabbing the crow furiously, again, again, again, and again
Fri Freeman: +
Aero: [Elena, Cheng, Josh] With a bit of help from Josh, Cheng you get away with minimal damage. King Caw is now descending towards the ground very quickly thanks to SOMEONE continuing to stab it's wing over and over. You might want to get out of the way. [REACT ALL 3 OF YOU.]
VJockey: *Get out of the way? Why would he want to do that? Instead he's going to charge forward to stab his now supercharged knife into the figure embeded in the massive Crow thaw was mocking his efforts mere moments ago!+
Fri Freeman: Elena simply flies away from it+
Wyverncakes: * Fast dodging? The Aile can do that no problem, juking to the side... and also timing an extra-strong burst of thrust so it can blast the King Caw as well!+
Aero: [Cheng] Well it didn't expect that. The supercharged knife tears right through the bird. It's not laughing at you anymore.
Aero: With King Caw defeated
Aero: The attack on the Jiang Jing City has been thwarted, and you have a new ally with it.
Aero: MISSION
Aero: COMPLETE
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "Is it over? Don't do anything suspicious." The last sentence was aimed at Sophia.
Arach: Roads is pretty much beaming. Not that anyone can see it, with the robots and all.
cubey@aol.pl: And no, it's obvious from the tone of her voice that she doesn't trust her. At all.
VJockey: [Well Roads. That smile is about to get wiped off your face in a few seconds.]
VJockey: [Cheng raises the Fu Xi's rifle and points it at the Vigna Zirah.]
Wyverncakes: Josh: "Easy."
Arach: "Hey, hey! Trigger discipline, man."
Wyverncakes: "I'm frustrated about plenty of this myself."
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "Did I miss something?"
Wyverncakes: "But let's at least hear her out before we open up discussions about killing her."
Wyverncakes: "And..." he turns his attention to Gen.
VJockey: [Cheng's voice was a study in barely restrained hate.] "I am not going to kill her."
Wyverncakes: "This is just Road's lady-friend."
VJockey: "I am going to have her Arrested"
VJockey: "along with Roads"
VJockey: "The both of them will stand trial for their crimes."
Aero: Sophia: "I was his Captain responsibility should be on me."
Arach: "…Nicolai's still out there…I mean…It feels like I have something I have to do, you know?"
Arach: "But…I'm not that opposed to it."
Aero: Sohpia: "If you have to punish someone punish..."
Aero: Sophia: "Punis...ergh....".
Aero: Everyone you hear the sound of..clapping?
Arach: "Eh? You feeling alright?"
Arach: "…?"
cubey@aol.pl: Wordlessly, Devon tenses into a combat position once again.
Aero: Sophia: "Ahh AHHHHHHHHHHH."
Aero: Nicolai: "Excellent job everyone!"
Aero: On top of one of the buildings stands Nicolai, with his back against the moon.
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "Wha...?"
Arach: "…Nicolai!"
Wyverncakes: Josh: "Let me guess."
Aero: Nicolai: "I see you were able to convince Sophia to help you. Excellent job Mr.Blackwell."
VJockey: *Enough of this. He has a feeling this could get worse in moments. So he does what he feels is best. He opens fire on the Vigna Zirah. Repeatedly+
Wyverncakes: His eyes are narrowed to nearly slits now.
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "H-Hey...!"
Wyverncakes: "Using her like a tool all the way to the end."
Aero: [Cheng] The shots blow into the Vigna Zirah. It flies into a building motionless.
Arach: "….What the hell did you do to her."
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "Why did you do that?! If she was a friend..."
VJockey: "She was a criminal. And that man's tool."
VJockey: "I refuse." [With that he's about to send another burst of rounds into the building the Vigna Zirah crashed into.] "for any more lives to be lost because of her."
Aero: Nicolai: "Nothing much, look for yourself you just killed her. All I needed her to do was to distract you all here...While I raided the Gucun supply of Nuclear Weapons."
Arach: "Cheng, hold up! We don't know what's going-What!"
Wyverncakes: Josh: "Dammit Cheng!"
Aero: Josh Nicolai seems to be looking down at the Aile as well.
VJockey: "... The Black Arsenal..."
VJockey: "...."
Wyverncakes: Josh: "Alright. What the hell is the 'Black Arsenal'?"
VJockey: "Gucun's Nuclear Arsenal. They were rendered inoperable after Jun Wei attempted to use them, so we locked them away."
Aero: Nicolai: "Oh right I forgot to mention I made a few new friends as well."
Aero: Josh you're suddenly ambushed by several large purple snake heads. [REACT]
VJockey: [But that wouldn't be much of a problem for unconventional means for the bombs to be used. Given what happened to the Barzams...]
Wyverncakes: Aaaaaand as he sees those snake heads, suddenly Josh starts to feel an overwhelming dread loom up inside of him. "SHIT!"
Aero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84lGS4sGg2w
Aero: Several other white snake like creatures emerge in the area.
Aero: http://srwog.velv.net/mecha_images/skull_plumes.png
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "Whu-oh..."
Wyverncakes: * The Aile's Cyphers lash out in response to the snake heads before Josh times an Impulse Cannon blast to hopefully get him out of the way in time!+
Arach: "…Nicolai, I'm going to kill you. Maybe not today. But I will."
Aero: [Enemy List: Violaceum, 10x Skull Plume, Nicolai]
Aero: Contagio: "Hehehehe did you miss us boy."
Wyverncakes: Josh: "Leave a freak to join up with the Ruina..."
Aero: [EVERYONE GO.]
Wyverncakes: "Or maybe... you're just desperate and he's the only one who showed up during your recruitment drive."
Wyverncakes: Gritting his teeth, the Aile gets its blades ready again. "So tell me, how've you been fairing with one less general?"
cubey@aol.pl: *You may have noticed that Devon was very silent for a while. Suddenly, Nu Wa raises, its main camera flashing ominously. It does not even bother with chainsaw knuckles, it just lurches forward and tries to smash Nicolai under its hands!&
Aero: Nicolai: "I think you have more important things to worry about right now."
HyprKnux 1: *Gen's going to fire up those Ice Missiles again, targeting those snake heads!+
Arach: *Roads zips over towards where the Vigna Zirah lies, and whips out his shotguns! He's gonna start shooting at one of the snakey…doohicky…things. Skull Plume!+
Arach: "Sophia! Sophia, are you alright?"
Wyverncakes: * "I'll do what I can to keep this one off your backs," he tells everyone else before targeting the Violaceum, letting loose some more dakka on it.+
Aero: [Josh] One of the heads blows off one of the Impulse Cannons. Thankfully you're able to get out of the way before anything else happened.
VJockey: *Cheng's going to give Devon some covering fire to pretty much deter anyone or anything to get in her way+
Aero: [Devon] Nicolai doesn't seem bothered by your approach in fact he's fixing his jacket as you come. Your hands catch nothing and Nicolai UPPERCUTS NU WA sending it flying upwards. [Continue]
Fri Freeman: Elena rises and launches a swarm of missiles toward the snakes+
cubey@aol.pl: *Shame it was a fakeout, Nicolai. Devon jumps out from behind you, falling down with a spinning kick. And as soon as it connects, she reverses it to send you down to the ground in a painful crash!+
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "Remote contol."
Aero: [Everyone else] Your massive swarm of Dakka prevent the snake heads from attacking further.Instead they dig into the ground. A few seconds later the Earth splits and lava erupts from the cracks. [Everyone REACT]
Wyverncakes: * HOVERBOARDS DON'T FAIL THE AILE NOW! TIME TO ABSCOND!+
HyprKnux 1: *Gen shall FLY! And fly HIGH+
Arach: *Right then! Time to grab the Vigna Zirah and abscond by grappling hook.+
VJockey: *See. This is why Gucun made Tesla Drive knockoffs. The Fu Xi quickly takes flight... and Cheng is silently raging inside his machine....+
Fri Freeman: Elena flies higher+
Aero: [Devon and Cheng] Nicolai responds by blocking your kick and grabbing onto that foot. "I could tell!" He tosses you down back towards the now scorched Earth.
Aero: [Everyone else] You all successfully escape, Jiang Jing City is completely...devestated. Roads good news...The Vigna Zirah is moving again and you can hear Sophia's voice. "...Roads."
Arach: "Sophia! Are you okay?"
cubey@aol.pl: "Oof." Devon grits her teeth, trying to regain breath after the painful impact. "Don't think it's over..."
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "Aw, man..."
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "Don't let this man get away! The rest are only a diversion!"
Aero: Sophia: "Oh I'm fine...being carried in your big strong arms is nice...I almost don't want to ruin it." She says that and yet there's suddenly a beam saber stabbed into you.
VJockey: [All the effort to rebuild Jiang Jing....wasted...]
Aero: Contagio: "Good good I can feel it...all this Despair."
Wyverncakes: Josh: "Yeah, and fuck you too, plantman."
Arach: "…!" Yeah, what.
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "I'll show you despair!"
Aero: Nicolai: "I find other Vampires are much more loyal, wouldn't you agree Sophia."
Aero: Sophia: "Yes Lord Nicolai."
Aero: [Roads, Elena, Cheng go]
Aero: [Enemy List: Violaceum, 7x Skull Plume, Nicolai, Vigna Zirah (Vampire Sophia)]
VJockey: *Yeah-no. Cheng's going to rush at Nicolai and attempt to murder him with the knife - or at the very least inconvenience him with the large amounts of electrical discharge it was letting loose+
Aero: [Cheng] You find yourself finally grappled by the Violaceum's tentacles. "Now now now I can't let you go and get yourself killed now can I." [React]
cubey@aol.pl: # Cheng
Wyverncakes: # Cheng
Aero: [Both of you can go
cubey@aol.pl: *Devon forms a gigantic blade of Sophium in her hands, a monumental effort. She spins, sending the sword down on the tentacles.+
VJockey: *Cheng's going to violently work the Fu Xi's controls, the Frame thrashing wildly as it hacked away at the tentacles binding it.+
Wyverncakes: Josh: "Devon, worry about getting Cheng out of trouble!"
cubey@aol.pl: "Who are you to order others around?! Begone, abomination!"
Arach: The Zweilicht backs up, holding the hole in its chest to try to keep some of the various fluids running around the mecha in. It's not super-effective. "That you would…To do this sort of thing…NICOLAI!" The Zweilicht shines with the light of the sun, and it speeds off towards the boss vampire. There's that sword of light again, burning bright with raw hatred...+
Aero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfGbyEzHlMo
Wyverncakes: * As for Josh? Well, he's gonna pour all of his frustration about everything that's happened into his own Cypher blades, letting their lenths grow even more pronounced before swinging out with them! Now practically whips, Josh has every intent to tear the machine limb from limb!+
Aero: [Roads] The Vigna Zirah moves just as quickly as the Zweilicht and she puts herself in the way of the sword of light. "Are you going to strike me with that Roads?" [Continue?]
Arach: *"!!" And Roads flinches. There's hesitation, and the attack is stopped.
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "Sophia is no longer a free human. The best you can do is bring her out of her misery!"
cubey@aol.pl: "Tch!"
Fri Freeman: Elena: You're not supposed to stab Mr. Roads!
VJockey: "Roads! Damn you! If he escapes because of you-!"
Fri Freeman: There's no hesitation from Elena though. She zooms beside Roads and stabs Sophia+
Aero: [Elena] She laughs and fires both of the VSBRs at point blank range. [React]
Arach: #Elena?
Aero: [Approved]
Fri Freeman: Elena: !!!
Arach: *No time to think! Roads shoves Elena out of the way, and throws up his own barrier to try to help.+
Fri Freeman: Elena doesn't have any shield or armor or anything, so she can only try to spin aside to dodge it.+
Aero: [What machine is Josh attacking?]
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "...this is nuts. What did I come back to?"
Wyverncakes: (Contagio's)
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "Good question..."
Aero: [Roads and Elena] Elena you safely sidestep out of the way, Roads those VSBR shots blow right through your barriers. Vampia (Tentative name) quickly moves up to the Zweilicht. "Come on Roads, we can be together again you just need to come with me." [React?]
Arach: *Backflip outta there and take cover behind a building. Roads is gonna get those shotguns ready again as well. "Sophia, come on, you've gotta be in there somewhere…I really don't want to do this..."
Aero: [Cheng, Josh, Devon] As each snake limb falls another forms. He was really enjoying the power boost the burning city was giving him right now. You're able to cut enough away to free Cheng but at this point you're not reducing the numbers at all.
VJockey: "Roads! Ignore her! Go after Nicolai!!!"
Arach: "Easier said than done!"
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "Cheng. listen carefully. There will be an opening in Nicolai's defenses - strike then!"
Aero: Sophia: "Oh you want to find the Sophia inside me? How lewd you're making me blush Roads."
Arach: "That-Shut up! You know what I mean!"
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "You know nothing about lewdness. Your words are hollow, you are just a puppet controlled by Nicolai."
Aero: Sophia: "QUIET HAG. I'm trying to have a nice conversation with my former subordinate here."
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "You are older than me." She sounds even colder than before.
Aero: Sophia: "I wasn't the one blasted by the aging bomb."
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "Is that so? I wouldn't be able to tell just from looking at you."
Aero: [Devon, Josh, Gen go.]
Wyverncakes: Josh, meanwhile, is still staring down Contagio. The machine's reconstituting faster than he would've liked... but...
Wyverncakes: (Question: are there still chunks of the ground opened up and exposing magma?)
cubey@aol.pl: "H... ha ha ha..." If any Ruina are feeding on despair right now, they may find slightly less of it in the air. Devon seems genuinely amused at the petty trash talk she just had.
Aero: [Yes]
cubey@aol.pl: *And then she just lunges at Nicolai mid-laugh, her whole body covered in flame once again! Moving at nigh-supersonic speeds and burning brightly, she aims to grab and wrestle with him.&
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "Don't worry, I'll make sure he doesn't get away!" *Gen summons a switch, the Clear Drill, and slaps into his weapon, the Barizun Sword. Switching it to Slash Mode, he uses the souped up weapon to race towards Nicolai, an energy drill forming around the blade+
Wyverncakes: * And, suicidal as it is, Josh is going to charge straight at the Violaceum, even deploying its hoverboard skates again! "Alright then... Contagio, we're ending this! I hope you've been enjoying all of that negative energy... because it's the last you're getting!" And he's going to slash down with his blades at the Ruina general!&
Aero: [Devon] AGAIN Sophia the Vigna Zirah gets in the way again. "Don't think that you're going to even get a finger on Lord Nicolai now." You slam into the machine doing some severe damage. The burning effect also prevented her regeneration from fixing her machine up instantly. [Continue]
tengusaur: # Devon
Aero: [APPROVED]
tengusaur: ???: "WAIT!"
tengusaur: You can see a small, shadowed figure standing atop the highest near vantage point, its arms closed.
tengusaur: *crossed
tengusaur: ???: "Butchering innocent people... Spreading your influence to corrupt noble minds..."
tengusaur: ???: "Those are deeds that I can not forgive, Nicolai!"
Aero: [Gen] As you approach Nicolai the remaining Skull Plumes jump onto you as you fly by grabbing onto your legs to weigh you down. The Barizun Sword cleaves through the building Nicolai was standing on. Blood just flows through it and over you. [React to the Skull Plumes hanging onto you.]
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "Gyah... ugh! Sick!" *Legs are caught, but his arms are still free! He quickly swaps out Clear Drill for Fire and treats the Skull Plumes to a fire whip-like slash!+
Aero: Nicolai: "Oh and who are you?"
tengusaur: ???: "You don't deserve to- no."
Aero: [Josh] "JUST TRY BOY." Violaceum roars and spits out a ton of acid in response. [React then Continue]
tengusaur: * Lily: "Lily Rain EVE Theta, Angel Force!" She aims her gigantic arm cannon at Vigna Zorah and fires a huge blue beam from the side, trying to push the MS away or at least force it to dodge, to make room for Devon to attack Nicolai! +
Wyverncakes: And seeing all that acid come at him...?
Wyverncakes: "Now or never...!"
Wyverncakes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKMN1GlREOk
Wyverncakes: Josh's mind was abuzz with focus as suddenly the hoverboards launched off of the Aile's feet towards Contagio, arching around to avoid that nasty acid...
Wyverncakes: * "Be as strong as you want, Contagio, it doesn't matter!" The Sympathia System made his visualizations become reality, the Aile's energy whips beginning to move freeform, enabling them to stab into the Violaceum while a burst from the Impulse Cannons would get him out of the acid... and after THAT the Hover Boards would strike, to knock the Ruina smack into the lava!+
Wyverncakes: Josh: "You just dope yourself up on energy, Contagio! It's still the same song and dance, same with the Ruina in general!"
Aero: [Josh] Your mad Burst Rave does the trick. The energy whips in the Violaceum down as the hoverboard smacks into it's face sending him into the magma below. Contagio has died in Magma.
Aero: Contagio: "You baaasst-"
Wyverncakes: Josh just snorts.
Aero: [Devon???]
cubey@aol.pl: (Waiting for Lily's action to be resolved)
Wyverncakes: Josh: "One less to worry about."
Aero: [I was gonna resolve them together...since it was making an opening for you.]
cubey@aol.pl: (In that case)
cubey@aol.pl: *With Sophia out of the way, Devon leaps towards Nicolai. Forget any sort of offense other than being ON FIRE - she just wants to grab and latch on to him. "Hello." She stares him straight in the eye before clicking something - a small switch, hidden in her hand. All four sections of the Heavenly Wall immediately respond with full scale bombardment, firing everything they have - at Devon's current position. All she does now is twist herself in the grapple so as many projectiles hit Nicolai as possible, and not her.+
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "Do you think you can handle this? I think I can. No - I am POSITIVE."
tengusaur: Lily: "Sorry I'm late."
Wyverncakes: Josh: "Better late than never though, Lily."
Wyverncakes: "Hell, the now we can actually focus on the party."
Aero: [Gen] Giant flame sword is pretty good at killing biological enemies apparently. The few Skull Plumes remaining are all cleaved apart.
Aero: [Devon and Lily] The Vigna Zirah steps out of the way, of the beam she actually doesn't seem that worried. Devon that would have been a marvelous attack...if Nicolai didn't just teleport away. "Oh that was too close. Well with my friend out of commission I guess this party will have to end."
Aero: Nicolai snaps his finger and a large castle suddenly appears behind him.
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "What."
Aero: Nicolai: "Now then...time to collect."
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "...where did that come from?"
VJockey: "..What is that.."
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "Don't you dare. Hiding behind your henchmen, is that the best you can afford?"
Wyverncakes: Josh: "Considering everything else he's done?"
tengusaur: Lily: "Whatever you're trying to achieve, we will stop you."
Aero: All of the blood and gore, every bit of remaining flesh from the Barzams begin to flow into the Castle. "You're too late."
VJockey: "This.... THIS was your goal?!"
Arach: "…Running away already."
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "I hafta agree with him..."
Aero: Nicolai: "This and your nuclear weapons off course."
Arach: "What the hell are you even planning!"
Aero: The Vigna Zirah flies next to Nicolai and he laughs. "Wouldn't you like to know."
Aero: The Castle finishes feasting on the Gucun people and now looks fully powered up.
Arach: Roads preps his rifle. "Whatever."
Aero: Nicolai: "I can give you a demonstration at least, save you the trouble of cleaning up this feeding ground."
Aero: A spite on the Castle begins to glow very brightly. A massive energy reading is coming from it. [EVERYONE REACT]
Wyverncakes: Josh: "Crap! Time to run!"
Wyverncakes: * Which is exactly what he's going to do!+
HyprKnux 1: *Still flying, Gen's going to fly away, too. He's not that stupid to stand around!+
Arach: *Bipod, set. There's only a little bit of that sunlight magic left, but it's all Roads needs. He'll squeeze a shot off at the spire and try to zip away at the very last second.+
VJockey: *Cheng's going to evade, his grip on his controls turning his hands pale. This wasn't over. Not by a longshot.+
cubey@aol.pl: "Damn. I still have the power...!" Devon forces the scarf to solidify, forming a barrier of solid Sophium in front of herself as she leaps away, out of harm's way.+
tengusaur: Lily: "A weapon of this magnitude, powered by blood? How is that possible!" She zooms away at full thrusters, and she can be really fast if she wants to be, but not before firing some laser shots from extra Psiguns at the spire. +
Aero: [Everyone] You all get away unharmed considering he wasn't aiming at you guys. The attempts to stop the spire from firing are foolish though. The massive beam fires out without any issue, wiping out Jiang Jing City from the map.
Aero: With that last act The Castle vanishes without a trace.
tengusaur: Lily: "I was too late after all..."
Arach: "…"
VJockey: ".............."
HyprKnux 1: Gen: "Aw, man..."
Wyverncakes: Josh just glares at everything... looking plenty angry.
VJockey: [One. Loud and enraged scream rings out over the comms.]
Aero: You've done nothing to prevent Nicolai from achieving his goals. Sophia is now a vampire and Jiang Jing City is no longer a part of Gucun.
Aero: MISSION FAILED
cubey@aol.pl: Devon just... punches the ground in frustration.
cubey@aol.pl: Silently. Which somehow makes it worse.
Arach: "…There was going to be a new school here…"
cubey@aol.pl: Devon: "... Not the time."