PlagueOfUndeath

"Just another three minutes," Ryuji announced, looking at his watch, "And it'll be Krakenpop time."


Meanwhile, El Guapo Grande finally stumbled upon a Kraken of his very own...

(OOC: Death metal? It's more like a hymn)
Kara tossed Dr. McMahon out the window. He landed on a car below.
He'd have a difficult time explaining this to his superiors.
Then Kara turned to face Aimee. Mina had stopped singing by this time as Kara began to look more and more feral.

"There's nothing my ice can't effect eventually. All water molecules can slow down and freeze, if it's blocking it somehow, it just takes more time," Ryuji said.

(OOC: Keep in mind pretty much everything EXCEPT the kraken is frozen solid at this point. Hydra have a pretty high water content in their body, making them Hydrasicles)

"Y'know if you guys can hold out for another seven minutes or so, I can focus everything I have into that thing and make it impossible for it to regenerate. Or move. Or breathe. In fact we could probably chop it up and sell it at a frozen delicacy if you'd like. Krakenpops are all the rage in...well I'm sure someone'd buy them," Ryuji said, his mind floating off into a tangent.

Reishi grinned at Yin and Ran. They both seemed so stuffy and formal, but there was most definately an unsurpassed inner strength within both of them.
That was a chief difference between Mountain and Tempest students. Mountain students usually fell behind the curve at first, possessing unbelievable potential but little experience and/or skill. Tempest students were the opposite. Many, like Reishi herself when she first entered the Temples ten years ago, possessed well trained, powerful techniques, but lacked the discipline needed to know when, and more importantly, why to use their techniques. It seemed kind of grim to her, but Reishi noticed a distinct similarity between the goat-boy and herself, as well as this boy Yin and her friend Ran. They even had a similar age difference!
Suddenly Reishi remembered something. The Masters of the Tempest and Mountain schools tended to not mention this particular fact, but one of the most exciting parts of attending either school was participating in the intermural sports program. Of course, they weren't exciting in the same way normal sports were. After all, a martial artist approaches a ball in a different way than a professional athlete.
"So, do any of ya enjoy sports other than martial arts?" she asked.

(OOC: Since Soviet is leaving the game, I'm going to deal with his characters all at once.)
While everyone else was attempting vision blocking tricks and burping contests, the Grandmaster had made his way over to and severely dealt with Reikoff's gladiators in such a way that they would be unable to fight for a good long while.
(OOC: Vague, I know, but convenient)

"Please, please," Ran said sweetly, "Call me Ran, Master Xiao basically means 'Little Master' you know. Besides, I'm not much older than you, I don't deserve to be called master."
Yeah right... Reishi thought to herself.

"He's here," Mina said, hearing heavy booted feet amonst the tumult of activity outside.
"Who's he-" Kara was cut off by the door being kicked off its hinges.
Wielding both his swords and a look of cold fury, Father Christopher McMahon finally stood before his target.
"Mina Leslios, you have been deemed a heretic by the Catholic church, and a witch. Do you have anything to say in your defense?" Father McMahon recited.
Silence.
"I did not think so," he said, adjusting his glasses, "Very well, it's time for you to be judged."
Mina closed her eyes...and began to sing. Instinctively, Father McMahon threw his arms up to cover his ears.
"Foul demon! Siren! Temptress! Your song will have no effect on a man of god!" Father McMahon yelled as much to 'inform' Mina as to drown out her song. When he finished spewing insults, he began reciting the Lord's Prayer repeatedly.
All this time, everyone outside fell silent, entranced by her song, sedated. What they heard was merely a muffled version however, and with Father McMahon, the only person who heard her song completely...
...was Kara.
Kara was not experiencing the serenity of those outside, instead she felt her whole body grow intensely hot.
The pain spread throughout her body, and began to focus on her back and bones. She reached back to feel her back or cover it, only to feel her fingers grow hotter. Even her eyes and, oddly enough, her teeth began to feel extreme pain.
Then, it happened.
At the height of her pain, her finger were altered slightly, her nails becoming more like talons, but still vaguely human. From her back, excrutiating pain erupted as a pair of white, feathered wings exploded from her back, filling the room. Several of her teeth elongated and became sharper, and the pain in her eyes subsided completely. Most of all, she felt stronger, lighter.
There wasn't a real name for what she was. Angel? No, she was too beast-like. Devil? No, she wasn't evil.
What stood before Father McMahon was something different, something...better.
Kara easily hefted Father McMahon, pulling him out of his stupor to look directly at her.

When the dust settled, the Grandmaster stood where he had been standing, and dropped a large number of bullets onto the ground.
"The gun is clumsy, weak. It depends more on the strength of the technology than the skill of the wielder. Surely there is more to you than that?" he roared.

"Firing beams from your eyes isn't exactly a condoned martial arts technique," Reishi said, appearing on the water's edge with the elegantly dressed Xiao Ran in tow.
She sat down cross-legged at the water's edge, smiling at Kagura's mimicry of her own push-up technique.
"Ah, almost forgot, this is Xiao Ran," Reishi said, indicating the girl next to her, "She's young, but she's a master at using poison and the best gardener you'll ever meet."
"Please, Reishi," Ran giggled, "I prefer 'botanist'. And it is a pleasure to meet you all! Especially you Kagura!"
Oddly, Ran indicated Yuri, not Kagura.
"Uh, that's not Kagura," Reishi said.
"Oh, forgive me, it must be her then?" this time she indicated Megumi.
"Try again..." Reishi said.
"Oh my..." Ran said, finally realizing who Kagura was, "She's very cute! But I expected your student to be...more well endowed..."
"She's got it where it counts!" Reishi said proudly.
Kagura flushed, embarrassed at being essentially told she was flat chested, and almost fell backward.

(OOC: The priest is a catalyst btw...don't expect him to stick around much longer.)

The tear gas was a minor inconvenience. It actually worked in the complete opposite way the S.W.A.T. team intended.
"My my my, you'll surely be reprimanded for using such tactics in a hospital," he said, throwing his voice as he made his way for the staircase to the second floor.
There weren't any gurneys on the staircases, of course, so his way was unimpeded. Just to be sure, he closed the door behind him and jammed it shut.
He climbed the stairs to the second floor. His information had been...convenient. A nurse had been spotted at the 'scene of the crime' the day before, and his superiors merely put two and two together and looked for any suspicious patients that were on her schedule. Add to that they had traced the IP address when she had accessed the insurance company's website.
His target was almost in his sights, as he kicked open the second floor door and set his eyes upon room 2-14...

Gabriel was the first to feel the raw power of the Grandmaster. The ground beneath him shook, and the air seemed to ripple as the Grandmaster's fist connected with Gabriel.

"Then FIGHT me!" the Grandmaster yelled, "ANY and ALL may fight The Grandmaster!"

(OOC: No limiter. This guy embodies the power of the arena, so he is immensely powerful. No limit on number of fighters either.)

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"Yay! We won!" Ian shouted in triumph with Marcus. "And I didn't even get beat up that bad."

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No sooner did Ian finish his statement than the Grandmaster appear, knocking both victors across the arena grounds.
"It's time to test you pathetic children!" he exclaimed to everyone, "Do any of you have the guts to defeat me, the Grandmaster?!"


"I was afraid of this," Annette sighed, "Chihaya, get Sousuke and Reishi on standby."

"I...unique..." Kagura said, switching arms.

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((I love that quote.

But yeah I was just blowing off steam. I've got a plan but I know Devious well enough to know that it won't work.

*hides under tablecloth*

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(OOC: Meanwhile aboard the Interstellar Spaceship Hokeyname, a funny man in a beret and a large handlebar mustache sits in the captain's chair surrounded on all sides by his catgirl army.
"Captain, we've detected the Tablecloth-nyo, shall we fire-nyo?"
"YES! WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE!")

Kagura stared at Yin intently for a while, then climbed up on a stone and imitated him, except she began pushing herself up and down, as if doing push-ups.

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((That seems kind of backwards....I thought the limiters were in place *because* of Reishi.))

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(OOC: Not the only reason, but if we keep going Reishi's fights would have a bit of an...interesting method of deciding a victor)

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((I thought all attacks are toned down by the dampeners to just below letal levels. If not then you have to balance out defenses along with offensive. Like if one of my characters took on Reishi but their attacks are weakened along with a combination of Reishi's impossibly fast regeneration. That's pretty much a "You can't win" situation which doesn't seem very fair.))

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(OOC: Why do you think I've only had Reishi fight in a limiter-less battle?)

(OOC: Well, Ryuji doesn't actually have any spikes left on him, in fact he probably won't be able to freeze anything else for the next 10 minutes or so. And ROFL too )

Ryuji cocked an eyebrow at Nena.
"Kids will be kids I guess," he sighed, "Still better than kidsicles..."

Meanwhile the glorious El Guapo Grande was hopelessly lost. He had already delivered extreme justice to seven Skulls, fourteen Hellions, twelve Lost, thirteen Vahzilok, and two hundred thirty-nine clockworks since he entered the sewers. It did seem odd, however, how they had all been running TOWARD him, usually they ran AWAY from him!

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((Well, a shotgun blast to the face doesn't seem all that deadly to Schizo, so I'm running out of gung-ho military weapons...))

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(OOC: Shotgun blasts to the face in this RP have significantly less effect)

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"Damn it!" the Grenadier swore, turning a hateful gaze towards the holy man on the floor, "Alright, you want diplomacy, I'll give you diplomacy!"

He put a finger to his comm. and promptly requested the Chief call in the one known as Mr. D.

This was another advantage to Tharomar E. running just about everything in Rockwell...


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(OOC: McMahon is still standing.)
"I see," McMahon said, replacing his I.D. into his coat, "Then I have no choice but to 'defend' myself, as you surely intend me harm."
Once again a large number of cross-shaped daggers flew from McMahon's arms towards the throats of the S.W.A.T. team.

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((HE = High Explosive.))

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(OOC: So throwing one at someone...wouldn't you consider that...uh...deadly force?)

"Hmph," Ryuji said, noticing the astonishing number around and in front of him.
With a bit of focus, all the spines protruding from him launched in every direction, hitting some hydra and freezing them solid, and some hitting the walls and floor.
"If you're standing in goo I recomend you stand on something hard. Things are about to get REALLY cold in here," Ryuji announced to his teammates.
That was when Ryuji used his Frozen Tundra technique. All at once, any form of liquid his spikes or his body was touching froze solid. Instinctively Ryuji zipped up his heavy jacket and put on his hood and goggles. It was like someone had thrown a dozen canisters of liquid nitrogen into the room. Of course, Ryuji made every effort to not freeze his teammates, so the frozen area only extended for about a 12 yard radius.

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((Wow... I take off for a weekend and for a day at work and BOOM! 100 posts! I can't keep up with that pace so unless you all slow down, I may have to do what I have done to every other thread that blows up and leave. I am sorry but I can't post as much as you guys do.))

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(OOC: Summary: The Tharomar building is on fire, and the hospital is being attacked by at least one homicidal priest)