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Re: Calling in Sick
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Fri Nov 30, 2018 5:40 pm
by Natalie Denisov
That was the moment Natalie had been waiting for. "I'm on Void," she says into the radio. With that, she tries to tackle Void back down the hallway into the level below, trying to get Void's attention and put as much distance between her and everyone else as she could.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Fri Nov 30, 2018 7:12 pm
by Sean Hall
Sean's mind whirls for a moment as he tries to think of a spell that won''t cook everybody in the room. He makes a complicated gesture and then points at Manikin. Energy coalesces on his fingertip before lashing out at the automaton. Moisture along the spells path froze turning the room from a thunderstorm into more of a snow... er ice globe (room).
Re: Calling in Sick
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Fri Nov 30, 2018 7:21 pm
by Null
Will charged through the ice, heading for the operating table Reach had ducked behind. He flung himself through the air, all razors and knives.
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Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:50 am
by Toshiro Narumi
Bruce shook off a brief daze and shot back with his mighty electrified shark-fist.
"I hope you have shock absorbers ya wannabe robot!"
Re: Calling in Sick
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Sat Dec 01, 2018 2:14 am
by Reach
At the same time as Will makes a break for Reach he throws himself out of cover after... something. Will crashes into the operating table which is torn from the floor and slams into the ground where Reach was a moment before. As a layer of frost settles on everything Will can spot Reach scrambling after the oval sphere he'd been holding that has rolled across the room.
Somewhere in the chaos that the room has becomes Archaea is crawling along the wall trying to get away.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Sat Dec 01, 2018 2:14 am
by Manikin
Manikin is reeling his arm back in when Sean casts his spell and after a moment enough frost seems to get into the workings that it stops the wire from retracting his arm, leaving him with it dangling from two or three feet of wire. He tries to whip it around into Tosh's path, but it's not fast enough to stop the giant shark from punching him. He does, however, release what keeps his head in place, so when Bruce punches it his head goes flying backwards to absorb some of the impact. Meanwhile his other hand slides open between two fingers and a foot long metal spike shoots out that he rams into Bruce's side.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Sat Dec 01, 2018 2:14 am
by The Void
The last thing Void expects from people that have seen her in action is actively moving towards her, so she's caught off-guard when Natalie goes right for the tackle. It's because of that that she's actually pulled along as the two fall down through the hole in the floor and into the basement. Void lands with a loud crash, Natalie's weight on top of her, leaving a perfect imprint of her silhouette in the floor. She's not even dazed and with one arm pushes Natalie off of herself with enough force to send the heavy robot encased in a mech-suit flying off and crashing through an adjacent wall.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Sat Dec 01, 2018 2:53 am
by Null
Reach wrote:At the same time as Will makes a break for Reach he throws himself out of cover after... something. Will crashes into the operating table which is torn from the floor and slams into the ground where Reach was a moment before. As a layer of frost settles on everything Will can spot Reach scrambling after the oval sphere he'd been holding that has rolled across the room.
Somewhere in the chaos that the room has becomes Archaea is crawling along the wall trying to get away.
Will had no idea what was in the oval sphere. It probably was nothing good, though.
So he shot out one foot to try to kick the sphere as hard as he could, trying to stretch it our faster than Reach could crawl.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Sat Dec 01, 2018 3:59 am
by Natalie Denisov
The Void wrote:The last thing Void expects from people that have seen her in action is actively moving towards her, so she's caught off-guard when Natalie goes right for the tackle. It's because of that that she's actually pulled along as the two fall down through the hole in the floor and into the basement. Void lands with a loud crash, Natalie's weight on top of her, leaving a perfect imprint of her silhouette in the floor. She's not even dazed and with one arm pushes Natalie off of herself with enough force to send the heavy robot encased in a mech-suit flying off and crashing through an adjacent wall.
Natalie pulls herself to her feet, querying the new weapon for theoretical effective range as she grabs a chunk of the broken wall and hurls it at Void.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Sat Dec 01, 2018 3:28 pm
by Toshiro Narumi
Manikin wrote:Manikin is reeling his arm back in when Sean casts his spell and after a moment enough frost seems to get into the workings that it stops the wire from retracting his arm, leaving him with it dangling from two or three feet of wire. He tries to whip it around into Tosh's path, but it's not fast enough to stop the giant shark from punching him. He does, however, release what keeps his head in place, so when Bruce punches it his head goes flying backwards to absorb some of the impact. Meanwhile his other hand slides open between two fingers and a foot long metal spike shoots out that he rams into Bruce's side.
Bruce roared in pain and grabbed the hand. Instead of pulling the spike free, he attempted to crush the hand enough to prevent the blade from retracting.
"Big... mistake..." he growled, electrifying himself and sending current up the spike.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Mon Dec 03, 2018 4:43 pm
by Sean Hall
Manikin wrote:Manikin is reeling his arm back in when Sean casts his spell and after a moment enough frost seems to get into the workings that it stops the wire from retracting his arm, leaving him with it dangling from two or three feet of wire. He tries to whip it around into Tosh's path, but it's not fast enough to stop the giant shark from punching him. He does, however, release what keeps his head in place, so when Bruce punches it his head goes flying backwards to absorb some of the impact. Meanwhile his other hand slides open between two fingers and a foot long metal spike shoots out that he rams into Bruce's side.
Sean looks around the room for a new target since Tosh and Manikin are now trading blows in close. Seeing Reach not too close to Will Sean reaches for a vial of iron dust that he pours out and begins chanting a new spell. Several small circles of energy forms on the ceiling above Reach. Chains of red energy form and fly downwards towards Reach trying to tie themselves around limbs and bind Reach to keep him from doing whatever he was scrambling to do.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:57 pm
by Reach
Sean's spell forces Reach to throw himself to the side to avoid the chains suddenly slamming down from above him, which allows Will's leg to kick the strange egg, bouncing it into the wall and sending it skidding across the floor erratically. Reach, from behind a curtain of magical chains, flicks out one of the knives from his belt, slicing off Will's leg and leaving a gouge in the floor that catches Sean at the tail end, leaving a (relatively) shallow cut across his shoulder and arm, blood welling up after a couple seconds.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:57 pm
by Manikin
Bruce grabs Manikin's arm. The material is resilient, with at least a little bit of give, but after a moment Bruce can feel it giving away as it cracks under the pressure. It's the crack more than the spike that gives the electricity a path to discharge through and from there it seems to travel along the connecting wire to the rest of Manikin. He twitches for a moment and then seems to fall apart into his various segments, collapsing in a loose heap on the floor.
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Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:58 pm
by The Void
Checking the weapon's maximum distance only brings up a theoretical calculation showing a potential fall-off for the graviton beam at a distance of several kilometers. Meanwhile the broken chunk of concrete flies right at Void's head and shatters into a cloud of dust and debris while having roughly zero effect on the woman. In response she hurls herself forward and slams into Natalie with enough force to max up any compensators and sensors immediately. The concrete wall she's slammed through a moment later registers as almost insignificant in comparison. The two keep going until Natalie is rammed into a metal wall of some sort and Void jumps backwards off of her while she remains partially embedded into what appears to be the morgue's wall of dead-people-drawers.
Then she leaps straight up and punches through the ceiling.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Mon Dec 03, 2018 6:15 pm
by Natalie Denisov
Natalie jerks herself out of the walls, alarms screaming through the suits operating system about the stresses its just undergone. At least, she thinks, a robotic body gives you the luxury of not feeling pain. She looks at the hole and fires up some of the supports, trying to leap to follow Void, though nowhere near as gracefully.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Mon Dec 03, 2018 6:22 pm
by Sean Hall
Reach wrote:Sean's spell forces Reach to throw himself to the side to avoid the chains suddenly slamming down from above him, which allows Will's leg to kick the strange egg, bouncing it into the wall and sending it skidding across the floor erratically. Reach, from behind a curtain of magical chains, flicks out one of the knives from his belt, slicing off Will's leg and leaving a gouge in the floor that catches Sean at the tail end, leaving a (relatively) shallow cut across his shoulder and arm, blood welling up after a couple seconds.
Sean winces and the curtain of chains collapses as his focus is disrupted. Sean places a hand on his cut shoulder.
"At least blood is a useful component," Sean mutters through gritted teeth before flicking out his cut arm in Reach's direction and growling out a spell. The blood droplets expand and lengthen in the air into several spears that launch themselves towards Reach.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:10 pm
by Null
Reach wrote:Sean's spell forces Reach to throw himself to the side to avoid the chains suddenly slamming down from above him, which allows Will's leg to kick the strange egg, bouncing it into the wall and sending it skidding across the floor erratically. Reach, from behind a curtain of magical chains, flicks out one of the knives from his belt, slicing off Will's leg and leaving a gouge in the floor that catches Sean at the tail end, leaving a (relatively) shallow cut across his shoulder and arm, blood welling up after a couple seconds.
Will let out a string of expletives, as his leg slowly reformed.
Pausing a moment, he grinned, and then suddenly shifted, imperceptably.
"Hey, Switchblade. C'mere and give me a hug," he said, lunging himself at Reach.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:08 am
by Toshiro Narumi
Manikin wrote:Bruce grabs Manikin's arm. The material is resilient, with at least a little bit of give, but after a moment Bruce can feel it giving away as it cracks under the pressure. It's the crack more than the spike that gives the electricity a path to discharge through and from there it seems to travel along the connecting wire to the rest of Manikin. He twitches for a moment and then seems to fall apart into his various segments, collapsing in a loose heap on the floor.
Bruce pulled out the spike, blood trickling out of the wound but slowing quickly.
"Not to bite a guy when he's down, but this arm, like, probably isn't all yours anyway."He picked up the next segment and attempted to sever the wire with his teeth. He didn't want get stabbed again.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Tue Dec 04, 2018 5:47 pm
by Reach
While Will is regrowing his leg Reach pushes himself off the wall and slides across the floor towards the white sphere. In doing so he disregards Sean entirely and two of the spears slam into him, one grazing his cheek and the other impaling his leg and nailing it to the floor. He barks out a pained laugh as he watches Will throw himself at him and brings up one of his knives. "Clever..." he's forced to admit as he flicks the blade at Will, slicing him open from hip to shoulder, spilling out and igniting the explosive Will has filled himself with.
The resulting explosion quickly fills the entire room with enough force to blow out the walls and make the floor sag noticeably.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Tue Dec 04, 2018 5:48 pm
by The Void
Meanwhile Natalie is leaping up after Void and after a couple jumps through the holes left behind by the other woman reaches the roof. She can feel the whole hospital shudder slightly as it's rocked by an explosion somewhere down below, but more pressing is the fact that she can spot Void way up in the air, having reached the apex of her jump and plummeting back down towards her.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Tue Dec 04, 2018 5:53 pm
by Natalie Denisov
No time to think about it. No time to check flight plans or air traffic. Just a mental prayer that nothing but Void is in the way as she snaps her arm up, leveling the graviton gun at Void and fires.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Tue Dec 04, 2018 6:16 pm
by Sean Hall
Reach wrote:While Will is regrowing his leg Reach pushes himself off the wall and slides across the floor towards the white sphere. In doing so he disregards Sean entirely and two of the spears slam into him, one grazing his cheek and the other impaling his leg and nailing it to the floor. He barks out a pained laugh as he watches Will throw himself at him and brings up one of his knives. "Clever..." he's forced to admit as he flicks the blade at Will, slicing him open from hip to shoulder, spilling out and igniting the explosive Will has filled himself with.
The resulting explosion quickly fills the entire room with enough force to blow out the walls and make the floor sag noticeably.
Sean wasn't built of clay or kaiju, but he was lucky perhaps that he'd stayed closer to the doorway and he was simply tossed back through it by the force of the explosion bouncing off the door frame on his way out. The world was spinning and ringing as he lifted himself to a knee coughing. He could feel something had broken though he wasn't sure what.
"Well, I'm not bloody well dead," Sean said before coughing some more. He channeled energy into one of his rings forming defensive shield in front of him that he could hide behind until the dust and ringing settled.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Tue Dec 04, 2018 7:45 pm
by Null
Will crumpled to the floor, as both the slicing and explosion briefly knocked him senseless. Hopefully, Reach had taken the worst of the blow, however.
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Tue Dec 04, 2018 7:58 pm
by Toshiro Narumi
Tosh was mercifully prevented from having his alter ego systematically dismantling his opponent by the blast wave that threw the big lug against the wall. Bruce collapsed to his knees in a daze, leaving behind a huge cracked dent in the wall.
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Tue Dec 04, 2018 8:40 pm
by Narrator
The gun spins up, segments on the arm of Natalie's armor opening and venting excess heat as her targeting sensors lock in on the rapidly approaching Void. There's a noticeable blowback pushing her down when the gun fires, emitting a condensed gravitational beam that sucks in enough air to cause a gust of wind around Natalie. With nothing to push herself off of there's little Void can do to dodge and the shot hits her straight on. The beam passes around her and she continues to plummet down towards Natalie but bit by bit her descend slows until she comes to a complete stop mere inches from the barrel of the gun, suspended in the beam still firing into the sky, distorting the clouds into a swirling vortex where it passes through them.
Void's grin doesn't seem diminished in any way as she reaches out, one fingertip leaving a tiny gauge in the muzzle before something gives and she's flung upwards along the blast, disappearing into the sky at tremendous speed and this time it doesn't seem like she's coming back down any time soon.
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Down below the dust slowly settles. One wall slowly topples over into the adjoining room. Another has chunks of white metal embedded in it and it takes a moment to visually parse that it's the separated pieces of Manikin, their configuration all jumbled up but individually intact. He seems fairly stuck however.
Reach is lieing against the wall on the other side of the room in pretty rough shape, propping himself up but bleeding from various spots.
Nearby the operating table that got torn free and blown across the room is lieing against the wall at an angle, cowered beneath it a shaking Archaea is clutching the white sphere Reach had been trying to grab. It's cracked and a familiar grey goop - or clay - is leaking out of it.
The floor groans loudly with the sound of concrete and rebar bending and sags about an inch, threatening to collapse at the slightest provocation.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Tue Dec 04, 2018 8:54 pm
by Natalie Denisov
Natalie drops to one knee, the suit's system blinking at her in angry red that every battery in the right arm is somehow at less than 0% charge and not responding to power reroutes. A brief thought and the errors are muted, though no less insistent even in their silence. A quick once-over of the system seems to indicate that the rest of the suit is functional, if battered and starting to run low on power. She struggles to her feet and moves back over to the hole in the roof, using her power to key her radio. "This is Intercept. Void handled... I hope. Everyone okay down there?"
A quick message fires off to Ashlie:
- Code: Select all
"Graviton field test successful. I think. Dumping you the diagnostics now, just in case the suit dies."
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Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:16 pm
by Sean Hall
Sean disengaged the shield spell seeing that neither Manikin nor Reach didn't fit to fight at the moment. He touched his ribs and winced as he discovered that was what was one of the things that was broken.
"Think the building is about to come down, but downright chuffed to be alive," Sean said over the radio before beginning to draw a spell circle using the blood running down his arm. He was tired and bleeding, but wasn't ready to die in a pile of debris. "Might be able to get us to safety."
Re: Calling in Sick
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Wed Dec 05, 2018 12:24 pm
by Null
"Nnn.. Gotta make sure it's clear, first," Will grunted, pulling himself to his feet.
"And also: ow."
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Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:42 pm
by Toshiro Narumi
"At least you don't have bones," Bruce groaned as he got up.
He looked over at Archaea. "Someone else help her, I'd break the floor."
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Thu Dec 06, 2018 7:10 pm
by Null
"Let's drag these two in before they regain conciousness. They've got a nice cell for the next couple hundred years waiting for them," Will said, hefting Reach up on his shoulders.
He turned to Archaea. "You good to walk?"
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Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:55 pm
by Archaea
Archaea looks up at Will with unfocused eyes, very clearly not really having heard him just from sheer shell-shock.
"What? Is it..." she spots the unconscious Reach and embedded-in-the-wall Manikin. "It's over?"
And that's when the grey goop leaking from the crack in the sphere she's holding slobs down and hits Archaea's finger.
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Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:18 pm
by Narrator
The goop that, given the chance would identify itself as one Will Stanton, immediately begins to grow explosively. Pseudopods shoot out of it like a giant amoeba, punching into the walls and radiating out along it, small tendrils at it's end turning into grasping fingers. Archaea let's out a startled scream before she disappears from sight inside the growing bulk of organic mass. The already strained floor finally gives in under the added weight and the giant chunk of Will-goop falls into the basement. By now it's big enough that it doesn't really disappear from view though, it just turns into a column sticking out from below as a constantly shifting mass. Giant eyes open only to fuse and disappear when they 'blink', flailing tentacles briefly turn into arms with way, way too many fingers that move in strange rippling waves as they're dragged along the wall before merging back into the tentacle arm.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:22 pm
by Null
"...Shit.
Shit. Shit shit shit SHIT.
Alright, we need to leave, and we need to leave NOW," Will said, quasi panicking, as he tried to grab anything to stop from falling into the hole himself.
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Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:28 pm
by Sean Hall
Sean finished the spell circle just as the floor collapsed.
"Bollocks," Sean exclaimed as the floor gave way in the room he'd been thrown out of. "The teleporation spell is ready, but we can't just leave... whatever this is here though can we?"
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Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:32 pm
by Natalie Denisov
Natalie adjusts her stance as the floor collapse rumbles through the building. She frowns and a jack pierces the back of her neck. A question appears on the heads-up display and she answers it with a thought. The suit beginning to siphon some of the power from her body to shore up its reserves. "Guys, what's going on?"
Re: Calling in Sick
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Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:42 pm
by Null
Sean Hall wrote:Sean finished the spell circle just as the floor collapsed.
"Bollocks," Sean exclaimed as the floor gave way in the room he'd been thrown out of. "The teleporation spell is ready, but we can't just leave... whatever this is here though can we?"
"We can and we will. We'll come back in the Blackbird and destroy this whole area. We've got to get OUT and get out NOW," Will said, using his arms like suction cups to pull himself from the cratered floor towards the door.
Natalie Denisov wrote: Natalie adjusts her stance as the floor collapse rumbles through the building. She frowns and a jack pierces the back of her neck. A question appears on the heads-up display and she answers it with a thought. The suit beginning to siphon some of the power from her body to shore up its reserves. "Guys, what's going on?"
"Trouble, and lots of it. Get out!"
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Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:50 pm
by Toshiro Narumi
"We can't bomb a hospital! We have to stop this now!" Bruce declared, hanging by the edge with one arm.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:53 pm
by Natalie Denisov
A few steps and Natalie leaps back down through the hole in the roof, following the holes that Void had left a floor at a time. "The Blackbird isn't armed anyway," she says into the radio, trying to get a good angle through to see what's going on since no one's being specific.
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Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:59 pm
by Narrator
Natalie is soon met with the still growing mass, although it seems to have slowed down. Or maybe it's growing into the basement areas.
Re: Calling in Sick
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Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:09 pm
by Sean Hall
The circle was already written and will hold for the moment, so Sean casts a spell on Tosh. A spell that should make the kaiju him feel a bit lighter almost like he could float away.
"Shouldn't we just call in the cavalry?"