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((Prismo, please be careful, you cant say how an attack is going to affect the pixie so I will proceed as if the attack was open ended alright?))
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((Sorry about that; I wanted to make sure you knew what illusion controller power I was using - 'blind' for holding.))
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*the pixie burst into black smoke and then reappeared very quickly next to Harry*
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Prismo saw this out of the corner of his eye, and cursed. "Not gonna...mff...make it easy are you?" he said, still struggling to rescue the innocents, when...
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Another lovely nameless henchman throws a dagger at Prismo sloppily attempting to break his concentration and send the guests into the tangle of spines looking more and more deadly by the second.
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It may have been sloppily aimed, but since Prismo was so distracted with the pixie and levitating a bunch of socialites, it hit its mark. Prismo yelled in pain as the dagger hit his shoulder, and the socialites fell back into the thorns.
However, since the creator of the thorns was *temporarily* on Prismo's side due to the confusion spell, they shouldn't be affecting the socialites anymore. At least Prismo hoped thus, as everyone floated back down, and the magician waved his wand in a circle with his uninjured arm. "SPHERUM DEFLECTUS." he called out, and the same shimmering purple shield energy engulfed him and the socialites around him as he tried to help them escape.
OOC: Don't worry, he'll snap out of it soon.
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*the sirens tone goes smooth again and the door is blocked but the spine slices her shoulder and her song stops and she reels backwards in complete shock* YOU [censored]!!! *screams the Siren. Her song loses its charm as she screams in the direction of Flaming earth and Experiment. Bolts of razor sharp sound stream across the room towards the two of them as she clutches her shoulder and flies towards them at an alarming rate*
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"Oh ****..." Was all that Flaming could say before he was hit with a sonic blast, making him writhe in pain for a minute as the sound went through his mind, as though daggers were scraping the inside of his skull.
He staggered up only to see the Siren racing towards him and Experiment. "You'll pay for that...." He managed to say as a stream of fire erupted from his ventilator in her direction.
(Sorry for the no posting. I'm back now.)
"Um... yeah..." Jake said, the stone just bouncing off his forcefield. "You don't really get it, do you? You see, I've designed this thing to deflect all types of energy. Kinetic, electric, chemical, mechanical..." He began to list, counting them off on his fingers. "So you really can't touch me. Now I'll say again, give up and I'll hand you over alive." He said as his robots aimed at her and began to charge their lasers. He was for the most part ignoring the rest of the fight. He'd get to it when he got to it.
Another one of the seemingly helpless members of the audiance watched the huge fight that broke out with a smirk. She'd been planing on simply leveling the entire place, killing everyone inside along with the idiotic gang of Femme Fatals. Then she would have rummaged through the wreckage and gotten what she wated, returned to her employer, collected her pay, and spent a few weeks vacation in Greece.
'No Rest for the Wicked, it seems.' She thought.
Well then, time to move.
The main number of the attacking group seemed completely occupied with the attacking heroes and the unlucky villain who had just barged in. Save for one person.
The godess on the platform.
Quoting someone she had heard before, sometimes people just needed to die in nasty and painful ways. Right now, people was the godess.
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The godess was suddenly looking at a giant orb of green.
It wasn't there one moment, the next it was almost on top of her. It had appeared so fast, she had barely even had time to see where it had come from, all she could have discerned was that it had come from the general direction of the audiance.
No less then ten feet from impact with the godess was an orb of deadly radiation. It was volatile enough to eat straight through the floor, and the bedrock foundation beneath the building for a few meters before the radiation expired. If it hit, it was not going to be a picnic for the godess. If she could imagine being hit by an atom bomb, and being killed by super-accelerated cancerous growths all over her body, she might have had a small idea of what would happen to her if the orb of glowing radiance hit her.
(Was wondering when you'd get here Diov.)
Jake dared a glance at the giant glowing ball headed toward the Goddess and discerned at a glance that it was primarily, if not totally, radiation. <Geez, the supers just keep coming, don't they?> Upon not hearing a response from the Valkyrie, he shrugged and ordered hit bots to open fire on the unfortunate villainess.
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Soul Striker thrusted his arm forward sending a massive amount of electric energy straight towards the villainess, although it pained him a good deal to send electricity through his arms, it was the only way he could possibly harm the insane mistress.
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Hoping to press the advantage, Harry reached a free hand to his belt, grabbing a grapple line from one of the pouches. A flick of the wrist sent the line arching toward the girl, in hopes of snaring her.
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The goddess was suddenly looking at a giant orb of green.
It wasn't there one moment, the next it was almost on top of her.
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"MOTHER!!!!" *screamed the pixie as she vanished in a puff of smoke and to the goddess' side. in a flash a black portal appeared beneath their feet and the goddess dropped into the portal and the pixie tried to follow. half of the pixies body cleared the portal when the electricity and radiation hit. a few moments pass when it seems like the entire battle stood still and then a second portal opened at the opposite side of the room. Out tumbled a slightly bruised goddess followed by the limp and horribly injured body of the pixie.*
"You Harmed my darling...."*her voice is eerily calm and sedate*"my little baby, and you have brought her moments from death!"
*slowly her voice increases in intensity and her voice begins to echo in the minds of everyone in the ballroom. Another beautiful woman arrives on the scene picking up the pixie and heading toward a set of small doors on the opposite side of the room as if ordered by telepathy*
"YOU WILL ALL DIE THIS NIGHT!"
*The goddess becomes magnificent as she radiates a violet and crimson aura. She sends psionic bolts streaming towards Soul Striker and Diov ((? I think ?)) as she levitates towards the two of them*
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Upon not hearing a response from the Valkyrie, he shrugged and ordered hit bots to open fire on the unfortunate villainess
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*The lazers make contact with the valkyrie and it gets reflected on her skin just as the rocks did from the shield. The valkyrie breaks her gaze from her mistress and looks back at Jake* oh, I guess I forgot to mention, Nothing can hurt me
.Im invulnerable. And if you like shields so much, Lets roll that little hamster ball of yours into hell *The valkyrie smashes the ground around the shield, attempting to jarr the shield from its fixed position and roll it over. unless you have an anit-grav drive, Id be worried about the objects that could crush you inside your shield rather than outside!
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He staggered up only to see the Siren racing towards him and Experiment. "You'll pay for that...." He managed to say as a stream of fire erupted from his ventilator in her direction.
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*Her screams lengthen and a cone of massive (now visual) sonic vibration in sent in the direction of experiment dissipating the fire in the air and attempting to vibrate his molecules apart*
((wow......simply wow))
((the pixie is now out of commission as you all may know))
((Actually, my current character is female. What kind of name for a girl is DIOV?
I'll disclose her name when there is the proper build-up of DRAMA. 
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Of course, the godess couldn't see whoever had lobbed the radiation ball at her. The attacker was seated in the audiance, and it stood to reason whoever was the attacker was clever enough to quickly switch seats after attacking. The godess was blind as to who had assaulted her. She'd have to go and indivdually kill every last patron in the audiance to find the attacker.
Of course, said attacker was not going to wait for that to happen. Her next attack could come from anywhere.
"Hey," Harry exclaimed as the pixie disappeared and was soon after injured rather seriously. "Dang it, this is a 'No-Killing' area here people."
Being without any super powers, Harry had long ago learned to keep extra aware of his surroundings. And while he didn't know exactly where the super-lethal attack had come from, he WAS able to determine the general vacinity.
With his dance partner down for the count, Harry turned his attention to the civilians. Stowing the staff on his back, he switched to his katana, hacking away the thorny vines that where surrounding them and keeping a keen eye on everyone. The next time the mystery person attacked, he'd find them.
"Yeah... you still don't seem to get it..." Jake said nonchalantly. "I'm not rolling. If you had spent any time paying attention to me, you'd see that I'm walking perfectly normally. This shield doesn't roll. The shield's position is determined in accordance with a small device that I have right here." Jake said, lifting a necklace that he had tucked under his shirt ever so slightly into view, the shield moving accordingly. "This is the center point for the shield, and the shield will move according to its position." He tucked the necklace back under his shirt and smirked as the ripples in the ground again were dispersed and deflected by his shield. "So anyway, back to the matter at hand. You seem to be invunerable to my lasers, which, honestly, seem to be my only viable form of weaponry. Why don't we call a temporary truce an..." A loud crash could be heard as parts of the wall and ceiling were decimated, revealing dozens upon dozens of Arachnos Bane Spiders. "Oh good." Jake said seeming to forget the Valkyrie. "Looks like backup's arrived. Alright, well, it was fun." He said, turning back to the valkyrie. "But I believe I must help my comrades take down the leader of your little cult. See ya." Jake flipped a switch on his belt which brought his jetpack to life, allowing him to fly into the air to get a bird's eye view of the room. He pulled the microphone from his earpiece back to his mouth, shouting commands at the Bane Spiders, identifying the leader, and giving advice on the proper tactics.
Harry suddenly felt a kind of...pressure...around himself.
Like the air was vibrating. It felt kinda good at first...
Until it started to cut.
The air around Harry was being manipulated to vibrate at high speeds, to create the equalivelent of being shredded by a wall of razors. At the same time, an immense pain started to build up in his ears...
There was a very soft chuckle, made by a voice that seemed to imitate tinkling crystal. Due to the pressure and the noise generated by the sonic distortion trying to rip apart his body however, it was impossible to tell which direction it came from.
The purple above Flaming's head dissapated as the siren shouted it's next blast. He immediatly dove down and brought roots just high enough for a shield to his side of the attack. He knew what had happened and what he had done, all he didn't know was why he helped the heroes.
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A loud crash could be heard as parts of the wall and ceiling were decimated, revealing dozens upon dozens of Arachnos Bane Spiders. "Oh good." Jake said seeming to forget the Valkyrie. "Looks like backup's arrived. Alright, well, it was fun." He said, turning back to the valkyrie. "But I believe I must help my comrades take down the leader of your little cult. See ya." Jake flipped a switch on his belt which brought his jetpack to life, allowing him to fly into the air to get a bird's eye view of the room. He pulled the microphone from his earpiece back to his mouth, shouting commands at the Bane Spiders, identifying the leader, and giving advice on the proper tactics.
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"Ah ****..." he muttered to himself, he hoped that the Arachnos symbol on his armour would stop the Bane Spiders from attacking him, but at the same time he knew that if the Goddess was destroyed he couldn't get any money from this.
"Money or Arachnos, Money or Authority." He knew what his choice was, he only hoped she wasn't too pissed that she would attempt to kill him on sight.
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The air around Harry was being manipulated to vibrate at high speeds, to create the equalivelent of being shredded by a wall of razors. At the same time, an immense pain started to build up in his ears...
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"Doesn't anyone fight normal anymore," Harry growled to himself, his teeth clenched in pain. His body armor held for the most part, giving him the time he needed to grab a Zero-Energy bomb from his belt.
Activating the device, Harry threw it to the ground at his feet, the resulting flash of dead space dispelling whatever energy signature was assaulting him. He fell to one knee for a second to catch his breath before turning back to the crowd.
"Okay folks," he said, still a little short of breath. "Looks like we've got a snake among the sheep, if you don't mind me mixing my metaphors. Personally I can't afford this since it ups the chance of grevious bodily harm to myself, so I'd like you all to take a look at these."
Harry pulled a handful of familiar looking devices from his belt.
"Now, as I'm sure some of you know, these are official Paragon City arrest markers. When activated they transport one person directly to the Zig. I'm sure you civilians have no objection to this as it will get you out of danger, where as a meta-human... well, they might have a harder time talking their way outta there."
Harry started handing out the markers, keeping all his reflexes on high alert. He didn't have many Zero bombs left, so he'd have to be extra careful to avoid a second attack.
A civilian stepped forward to take one of the arrest markers from Harry.
That's when the mysterious attacker within the crowd decided to strike again, in probably the most unexpected of manners.
The civilian Harry had just handed the arrest marker to suddenly paled dramatically, and dropped the marker.
Then his suit started to shred, revealing his skin...
And bubbling forth like a plague from hell were boils, growths, lesions, every possible skin deformity you could imagine, the man had.
The source became apparent as a tendril of what looked like green gas slipped back into the crowd from around his neck. It was made almost entirely of radiation.
The man had been induced with super-accelerated cancerous growths. In complete shock, pain, and horrorm he stumbled forth, his hands reaching for Harry.
This was bad. It was possible that he still had traces of the deadly radiation dose on him, and if he made direct contact it would almost certainly be lethal. It even looked like the poor man was about to simply explode entirely, and nobody wanted that. It would be entirely too messy and it wouldn't be a picnic for Harry either.
Cries rang forth from the crowd as multiple tendrils of radiation slipped to and fro from all over, lightly tapping a person here or there, inducing them with more cancerous growths. Soon, Harry would be surrounded by a bio-hazard worthy of most biological warheads, and it wouldn't help that each person was a potential explosive danger. Literally.
"What is this; Night of the Living Dead?" Harry said, twisting around and sliding between the man's legs. "Okay, I was trying to be nice here, but you just gotta go and involve the civvies."
Throwing a grapple line toward the ceiling, the hero pulled himself away from the floor. A bird's eye view of the room gave him a chance to catch sight of the other tendrils creeping among the people. He didn't have time to single out the source properly, but armed another Zero bomb and sent it crashing into the floor as near to the tendrils point of origin as he could.
While the bomb wouldn't do any physical damage, it should distrupt the radiation and hopefully leave the person winded for a moment or two. He'd like to zero in on them right now, but there were more important matters to attend to.
Harry dropped back to the floor, dodging expertly between the inflicted, flailing guests. Arming one arrest marker after another, he threw them at the infected. Some might be too late to save, but the Zig would have the heavy duty equipment needed to cure most. Rikti tanks, mystics, etc.
With things quickly deteriorating, what with Arachnos forces showing up and all, Harry decided subtle was now officially out the window. Once again reaching into his belt, he flung two cannisters onto the floor. Tear gas began flooding a large area of the bottom floor. Sure, it would be no picnic for the remaining civvies and it certainly wouldn't bring down any of the demi-god types, but it might give him some breathing room.
((I'll probably hold off any more posts till some of the others get a chance.))
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"You Harmed my darling...."*her voice is eerily calm and sedate*"my little baby, and you have brought her moments from death!"
*slowly her voice increases in intensity and her voice begins to echo in the minds of everyone in the ballroom. Another beautiful woman arrives on the scene picking up the pixie and heading toward a set of small doors on the opposite side of the room as if ordered by telepathy*
"YOU WILL ALL DIE THIS NIGHT!"
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Prismo, still intent on getting the hostages out safely, ignored the threat - he'd heard worse in his time, and admittedly more creative ones as well. The stage magician turned towards the still trapped, but at least shielded, innocents. "Okay folks, take two..." he said, resummoning his group-flying ability, when...
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With his dance partner down for the count, Harry turned his attention to the civilians. Stowing the staff on his back, he switched to his katana, hacking away the thorny vines that where surrounding them and keeping a keen eye on everyone.
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The magician turned to the swordwielder, wand in hand, and almost seemed ready to utter another disabling spell, when he saw he was helping cut the civilians free. "Much obliged." he said, tipping his tophat to him. With the illusory army and this gentleman helping, the hostages would be free and able to follow Prismo outside.
Until...
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"Okay folks," he said, still a little short of breath. "Looks like we've got a snake among the sheep, if you don't mind me mixing my metaphors... Now, as I'm sure some of you know, these are official Paragon City arrest markers. When activated they transport one person directly to the Zig. I'm sure you civilians have no objection to this as it will get you out of danger, where as a meta-human... well, they might have a harder time talking their way outta there."
Harry started handing out the markers, keeping all his reflexes on high alert. He didn't have many Zero bombs left, so he'd have to be extra careful to avoid a second attack.
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Prismo hummed. "I don't think that's necess..."
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Cries rang forth from the crowd as multiple tendrils of radiation slipped to and fro from all over, lightly tapping a person here or there, inducing them with more cancerous growths. Soon, Harry would be surrounded by a bio-hazard worthy of most biological warheads, and it wouldn't help that each person was a potential explosive danger. Literally.
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Prismo sighed. "Okay, guess they ARE necessary." he said, and winced as he scoured the quickly destabilizing group - where are those tendrils coming from? What he needed was another pair of eyes...
He grabbed his wand and aimed over the group. "PHANTASMUS!" A very large humanoid-shape of energy formed, and seemed to look back obediently at Prismo. "FIND THE INFECTOR!" the magician yelled back.
One could almost see the energy creature nod, as it created a duplicate version of itself, and both began scanning the group, looking for the source of those radiation tendrils.
Prismo turned to the katana-wielding hero. "Can those arrest things put them into quarantine areas in the Zig?" he asked, deftly dodging another couple of thrown daggers as he hovered above everyone.
Jake looked down at the civvies and sighed at their exposure to the radiation. "Senseless chaos..." He said, directing the Bane Spiders to the Goddess as well as his bots. "Attack her in bursts. We don't want to underestimate her, and remember, Arachnos wants her alive, for the most part anyway."
"Oh no you don't!" Flaming shouted at Harry. He shot some flares at him in an attempt to delay him giving the civilians the police scanners but kept his distance."Look, if I'm going to get anything out of coming here, those pricks you're guarding need to die. I don't know about the rest of you, but I had radiation in mind when I designed this suit." He pointed at the tech armour around him and his ventilator. "Now I can't let you get those people out of here, so let's see what I got in this bag of tricks." A bit of a smile crept over his face, or at least it looked like he might be smiling. "I almost forgot about those seeds..."
Soul Striker leaped to avoid the bolts shot at him, and easily avoided the damage.Mere moments later, Soul Striker took note of the sudden swarm of Bane Spiders entering the building, "Damn it, where are those long bow reinforcements?!" he grumbled. "*sigh* The enemy of my enemy is my friend." He had need of a plan, AGAIN, people were being infected with radiation, what was this, a comic book? Though it appeared one hero seemed to know what he was doing.
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"Oh no you don't!" Flaming shouted at Harry. He shot some flares at him in an attempt to delay him giving the civilians the police scanners but kept his distance."Look, if I'm going to get anything out of coming here, those pricks you're guarding need to die. I don't know about the rest of you, but I had radiation in mind when I designed this suit." He pointed at the tech armour around him and his ventilator. "Now I can't let you get those people out of here, so let's see what I got in this bag of tricks." A bit of a smile crept over his face, or at least it looked like he might be smiling. "I almost forgot about those seeds..."
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Jake's bots charged their lasers, each one nearly bursting their firing rig with the immense collection of energy.
The Bane spiders charged their weapons respectively.
Jake watched from a safe distance, awaiting the outcome of the clash.
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But, he might need some help. "Look here, you aren't doing anything, let's see you try and hurt these civilians when I break your legs!" Soul Striker leaped, straight over Flaming's head, and landed right behind him. Soul Striker tried to sound non-chalant. "Either way, you need to deal with me first." Soul Striker performed a round house kick hoping to knock the villain from right beneath his feet.
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Flaming hit the ground with a loud crash, due partly to his gear. The kick had sent his head spining, he was dazed and a bit out of it. When he realized what had happened he turned his hands to the floor. Suddenly, a massive clump of roots overcame him, and by the time they parted there was a fairly large whole in the ground with Flaming no where to be found. Suddenly a multitude of vines burst from under Soul Striker's feet. Flaming burst from the side of the wall on a tree limb, only now with a black eye and some bruises. "Alright, now I'm pissed." He said, aiming his arm, already lit on fire.
Time seemed to freeze.
Because it had.
Any smart enough person would know that the Force of Drama has an overall power of 10,000 Krinwarks, and the Force of Time has an overall power of 19.62 sraxafraks, which when multipled times Drama equals PWNAGE. So, naturally, in any given situation when something dramatic is about to happen, time literally freezes temporarily.
It resumed.
Then the air shattered.
Civilians flew into the air, torn to shreds and flung aay in gory pieces.
The floor shook.
The walls quaked.
The ceiling rumbled.
A DREADFUL WAIL was emenating from the mysterious attacker. A sonic manipulative field so strong that it could shatter the atmosphere. It broke the sound barrier, impossibly enough, had enough force being it to evaporate water, and could travel through vacuum. (Which shouldn't be possible, because there is no air in vacuum.)
It did reveal the attacker, however.
A woman, standing roughly six feet, was in the center of the Dreadful Wail. She wore white cargo pants with black tribal runes emblazoned into them, a white trench-coat, sisister-looking leather underneath that, and strange looking chintonous gloves. She had long flowing white hair that went down past her waistline, and right now, was whipping about in a storm of silvery stands.
She was the Nocturne of Agony. Manipulator of sonic fields and air vibrations, eminator of radiation fields, and mercenary extrodinaire, and now she was singing what could be the last song anyone in the room would ever hear again.
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((Sound can evaporate water? 
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The white noise filters in Harry's ears saved him from ruptured ear drums. Bracing himself against the force of the attack, he looked toward it's source. Strange, you'd think he would have noticed someone in THAT outfit before. Shrugging that thought off, he re-drew the gold staff from his back.
"Impressive set of pipes," he said, mostly to himself since it was doubtful anyone could hear him over the wail of the woman. "But you sure ain't the fat lady, so..."
He banged the staff on the ground, causing a wave of electricity to travel over its length. The ornate ball on the end suddenly cracked open, unfolding and rearranging until it resolved itself into the tell-tale spinning gears of a Nemesis Staff.
Twirling the weapon once, Harry sent a blast of the deadly energy shooting straight toward the villain.
((Man, if things get any crazier I might have to use the Scroll of Ruin or the Ring of Pain I got sittin' in my inventory. 
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((What that's it? And Dreadful Wail is a tier nine nuke. Ah well, adapt adopt and improve.
And no, sound can't evaporate water, it just sounds more dramatic when I say that.
And technically just using sound filters wouldn't save Harry. Those are VIBRATIONS IN THE AIR, not just sound waves. But I don't mind much, just me being nit-picky. ))
The Nocturne of Agony flicked a hand, and the bolt was literally knocked aside and into the floor by a wall of vibrating air.
Then Harry felt an immense pressure building up around him again, and another distortion of air vibrations began to cut into him.
At the same time, tendrils of radiation seeped from the Nocturne's body, and they were making a rapid storm-like be-line for the heroes...
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*the staff makes contact and the girl trips and is currently attempting to catch herself all ninja like but she is a bit open*
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Hoping to press the advantage, Harry reached a free hand to his belt, grabbing a grapple line from one of the pouches. A flick of the wrist sent the line arching toward the girl, in hopes of snaring her.