tornheart | THE MANY EYES

THE MANY EYES

Who: Everyone
When: 2AM, July 7th
Where: Green Valley School
What: The Boss Rises

THE STRANGER

"And stay out!"

Amidst the fighting, an angry, thunderous voice echoes into the corridors. Those who have heard him before will realize it’s Luci again. As the group continues to fight, heat from their phones quickly makes itself known. Before long, something is violently expelled outwards from their screens, it transforms into a dark, pulsating energy that crackles like lightning before finding the nearest shadow rat to electrocute.

Soon, the lightning arcs between all of the remaining creatures. They quickly begin to move together, their forms melting into large, dark puddles, forming into a single mass.

You dare do this to me?! You're nothing but a worthless worm! You are nothing,
and your so-called lambs shall be dealt with! This world will continue to exist!

As it speaks, it reforms into a singular, large rat-like humanoid creature with a huamn head. A multitude of eyes begin to open all over its body, looking around at all of the gathered warriors, laughing. It's hideous (warning many eyes).

Such a pathetic lot! Gathered together without hope! This story shall end soon....

It's form completely solidified, a mess of rat-like hair covers its entire body anywhere there are no eyes. The skull that serves as a head laughs again.

Come then, children! I will tuck you back to sleep as you well deserve.
Naughty children must be punished!

"Ahh um...oops." The voice doesn't seem that sympathetic. "Didn't think it'd be that pissed off...well you guys know what you gotta do right? You have to win! I'm not sure how but..."

The situation seems rather dire....

But a vision rocks them briefly, of a blue room and a woman holding a clipboard, tapping it with her pen.

"It seems we meet again...or, perhaps, for the first time. Pardon us for the interruption, but we are most curious to see where this battle goes. You could say...your lives depend on it."

A man appears next to her, grinning, before taking a brief bow.

"Your skills so far are quite glorious, but your true strength has yet to awaken. Right now you work as individuals, but please think about what potential you might all have working together."

The vision fades and the danger comes back to you as the monster roars. You won't have much time to think of the words but...faced with death, the faster you figure it out, the better.

[OOC - We apologize for the lateness of this post due to RL issues. Good news! Combo spells are now unlocked.

When your character begins to attack the monster, please create a new thread in this log with what basic spell they are using.

Any reply with a similar attack spell (not of the same element necessarily) will increase its power by one. We will wait until either 6 replies to make a full spell, or a day has passed and count the attack towards the monster. Like all bosses, it is immune to a certain elements, but the description in the log should have given you a clue (of course if the navigators scan for it, they may find additional information. If you are a navigator, please title your post with what they do.)

There is an ending if it survives (bad) or if it gets killed (good). Good luck!]

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Bait, huh.

Well, they'd drawn out the true creature - from their screens, weirdly enough, which was fucking insane - and now Taro is standing in front of the weird creature. He spreads his furry arms wide, standing atop his Persona. He lets his voice project, and lets the psychic link carry it, too.

"Come on, you eyesore! You and your kind are ugly creatures that don't even deserve our time! Don't think that you can beat us! We're all together in this, and you are alone. So go on! Leave this place! We're never giving it up, so move!" And then he quickly casts Sukukaja on himself, just so he has a chance to run.

[While Taro makes questionable life choices, Chikusa is already using Scan as he tries to stay away from the creature's vision in order to find any other weaknesses. With how many eyes it has, that's probably a small chance, but you never know. More eyes doesn't mean better perception.]

[In the meantime, he'll try to stay near enough to Mukuro, even as he tries to take stock of what combatants are near him or not.]

[With all the eyes that thing has, it's hard to tell where its attention is focused, but regardless, it seems like this is the chance to strike. The goal was to lure out its true form and then end this as quickly as possible, so... here goes. He's not sure exactly what working together means, but he's been sticking with Ankh, at least since they had some kind of plan, so that's at least one more person who can use fire. Maybe others. He sends a message to everyone else who might be in range to attack.]

I'm going to hit it with fire. If you can do that, too, then do it!

[The more he can gather, the faster this thing will go down, or so he hopes. The more damage he can do to this creature, the better. The way it was talking, it's responsible for this whole mess of a fake life, so it deserves every bit of the anger Gladion has built up over the past month.

He waits a moment for the message to sink in before he casts the spell.]

Edited 2017-07-22 07:10 (UTC)

[Yui never wanted to have to fight. There's still part of her that's panicking and insisting this. But more than that, she doesn't want anyone to die.]

We need to stay alive. No one's going to die.

[Maybe if she keeps saying it, she'll start believing it. It's at least getting her to act.

She casts Boost on herself, then casts Psi on the creature.]

If there's anyone else with psy, maybe we can at least throw off its defenses!

((Break down the wall: Escaping the Hallway))
[No matter what anyone agreed on for how to win this fight, the first thing that needed to be done was to get out of this corridor and away from the lockers snapping and throwing people about. A spot on a hopefully outside wall is chosen and while those with the energy or weapons for it begin hammering at said wall in hopes of crumbling it. Others are set around and in front of said wall breakers in order to protect them from the rats still coming for them. Best hope that wall comes down quickly before the rats figure out what is going on and put more effort into stopping them.

Or at least get whatever little tricks you are planning to leave as a send off once that wall falls.]

((Pre Boss Appearance: Running of the Rats))

[Despite the amount of toe stepping and arguments over views regarding how this would all go down, necessity and just sheer need to survive had finally gotten something to solidify as a plan and while likely some would still do their own thing that likely would help overall in confusing the hoard into thinking they were disorganized and easy to overwhelm.

Whatever the case may be, several small groups peel off into the night the moment the a way out has appeared, as if attempting to flee this battle. At the core of these groups is at least one or two navigators and a few combatants. Enticing targets for some of the rat hoard as everyone begins to stream out of the narrow corridor and into the wider area of the school. Some of the more explosive minded of the group may also be helping to shove everyone out so it's just rats left trying to surge out of the hole and thus into a surprise.

If not detonating that last surprise or enticing rats to give chase perhaps you've been suddenly conscripted, or volunteered, into grabbing anything and everything of use in creating traps and barricades as set up in thinning out those rat numbers when the bait groups circle back around to one of the large sports complexes nearby.

Hopefully the bait group has enough stamina and the trap makers are quick in setting everything up to turn the tables on this mob.]

((An Appearing Boss: Springing a Trap and Luci's surprise))

[The bait groups have lead the bulk of the hoard into the one opening into the gym and the various traps have started to be sprung as the ones setting this ambush up spring in to action.

All this suddenly changing as Luci's voice rings out and suddenly what once was a large group of enemies becomes one large enemy now between the baiters and the trappers. Will you stay on your side of the battlefield or will you move and attempt to group up with someone outside of your original group?

Either way this is the real test now. Hopefully everyone has been conserving energy as this looks like it might be a new level of difficulty.]

((OOC: This is just a top level for people to help orient themselves in regards to where their characters are for this boss fight. If you want to use this toplevel to thread out any of these scenarios with people go for it. Or just use it as a reference for your toplevels/planning.))

Edited 2017-07-23 22:04 (UTC)

[Working together. Full potential.

Fusion spells.

The rules have changed, Jun knows that. The game is the same but the rules are different, and it's still foggy territory, but this he knows. One of the old rules was to figure out the combinations themselves...if that much is the same, then he has an idea. He doesn't know everything the group as a whole has access to. That's fine. He just needs to reach all of them.

The nearest navigator might get a bit of a mental nudge.]

Can you help me reach as many people as possible? This sounds incredibly similar to something I'm used to. We'll have to experiment with combinations - but numbers and order mattered before. They might matter now, too. Try anything you can think of, rather than just throwing everything you've got at once at it!

I'm using a wind spell - can someone follow it up with a single slashing kind of spell? Punching or another kind of physical attack may work, too, I don't know - I want to test something.

[Garu and Straight Slash had made Wind Slash EX. Garu and Sonic Punch had made Pegasus Strike. He has no clue if this will work, if this will look anything like what he's used to...but it's a starting point.]

[Telepathy is new. Communicating with many people at once ism't, but telepathy is. Sometimes things just don't get filtered out.]

What are my options...? Maybe weakening it? Sleep...it would probably just wake up. Poison might be useful but I don't know what kind I'm using. Brain-- yeah, maybe! And he said Marin Marin was useful, earlier!

[You know what, let's try this. Nagisa isn't a scrapper, not by a long shot, and maybe that's why Valac's specialty lies in disabling and debilitating. So rather than attack directly, he darts around, trying to get a clear angle, reduce his chance of missing as much as he physically can- and casts.

Earlier, it'd been said that Marin Karin would blow up the rats, so that's what he tries. Even if it doesn't do anything explosive, brainwashing sounds like something they could use. Maybe it'll be unable to counterattack.]

Edited 2017-07-27 17:25 (UTC)

[He's watched the various attacks go off, but it's hard to tell what's doing the most damage. From the chatter he's overhearing, it seems like everyone's still just trying things to see what works.]

We haven't tried starting with a physical attack yet, have we? I'm going to now, so join in if you can.

[And with that, he'll start this one off with a Bash.]

[With many spells cast on the boss as well a plan to bait it to a trap, he knows that one more would able to turn of this battle. Not only that, he can see that it is covered with many eyes, which he is still disturbed at their form. With that, he casts the Kouha spell, hopefully, it might be too bright for it to see.]

I'll try to blind it with my light spell. I don't know if it will be literally blinded by it, but I feel this is the only logical step for this.

[The trap has been sprung and the battles tide turns, but not certainly in their favor. This new boss is a mean and ugly motherfucker. But, try as he might, Guts cannot seem to make a dent in the massive creature with sword and spell alike and even then-

No. He cannot afford to run away now. The fight has already begun, to turn back down would be pathetic.

In the corner of his eye, he sees someone drop, momentarily overwhelmed by a spell or some other attack. Something in his chest lurches. On the battlefield, Guts usually only has eyes for his enemy but instead he reaches out his hand clentching with the willingness to protect. ]

Yo! Leave them alone!

[ OOC: Unbreakable Ties apparently has no limits, so if you decide your character was in any immediate vicinity to Guts, congrads! You're effectively invulnerable for as long as it takes for him to die.

[Makoto's gotten the message loud and clear. Nuclear, hm? He's not really sure why an element matters, but whatever.]

We have our orders. Let's carry them out.

[Marchiosas appears before him, and from his paws launches a glowing ball of energy towards the weird rat thing.]

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Sukukaja

Scan

Agi

Psi

Rat Herding and Trap Setting

Garu

Marin Karin

Bash

Kouha

UNBREAKABLE TIE

Frei