⇨ INVASION!

[ringleaders]

Who: Everyone! But especially HARBINGERS!
When: S2:D16-22
Where: All over Wismuth!
What: As the Harbingers reveal themselves, those among the carnival that Creation has chosen will start to discover new powers within themselves. It's because they're magical girls, yo.
Warnings: Harbingers being assholes.

HARBINGERS OF VOID↴ On Day 16, the Harbingers begin revealing their new selves... in the form of wreaking havoc on the city! CY-Ren isn't looking for mass panic or serious structural damage - instead she wants constant annoyances and distractions, of the sort that will keep those that might be on her tail distracted from her true plans. However, when Creation is faced with the threat of twelve new Harbingers, it will have to fight in kind... ► HARBINGERS: Your job is to use your powers to create messes for other people to clean up! CY-Ren gives no specific instructions outside of a general framework... flex your powers! See what you can do. Don't destroy the city or anything, but give Creation a run for its money. She needs these civilians alive for her later plans. ► STAR GUARDIANS: Twelve members of the carnival have been chosen by Creation to fight in its name, even if they don't realize it yet. When confronted by the Harbinger's chaos, their Sparks will make themselves known in whatever form is appropriate to the character - and they will be asked if they are willing to use the power of their soul to fight the darkness. How this scene plays out can be flexible, but essentially they will find themselves faced with the question: are they willing to fight for the preservation of life? If they say yes, their Spark will emerge, and they will be able to trigger a magical girl transformation, as you do. ► CHARITY CONCERT: While everyone else is busy with the sudden rise of the Harbingers, CY-Ren's PR team is releasing a statement -- they will say that new information has revealed that there had been bomb threats made against the canceled concert, which are now being blamed for the damages. CY-Ren will make a personal statement, saying that in order to apologize for the failure of her previous performances, a new free to attend event is being planned for the near future - people who had tickets to the previous event and had to go home early get top priority!

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[fourthscribe]

The attacks on the mushi reduce and scatter their numbers, Dartrix's attack blowing the pack and slowing their approach while Scout's lightsaber slices through and leaves spatters of ink across the ground. The swarm buzzes around and around her, frustrated by the lack of essence, unable to detect where it is hidden. Meanwhile Keiko hisses and screams in rage, her claws scratching at Trakata's hide with blind desperation, but manages to keep from being pulled off entirely. Most of her long body is still coiled around him, adamantly refusing to let go.

Tanyuu scowls in fury, just as frustrated as her swarms. Why has Scout not fallen comatose? Nothing should be able to hold back sanekui when they have been bolstered by her might...! Her brush slashes through the air again, pouring strength into Keiko and transforming her in a more mighty and battle-ready form. Another few swipes of ink, and the ground beneath Scout suddenly starts to shift and crumble, destroying the previously steady footing.

But with all of this, the tokoyami has slipped her mind entirely, and the spell starts to unravel, releasing it's hold of the mushi's will. Slowly the numbness and shadow begin to recede, creeping back under the eyepatch once more.

[dontpokethat]

Seeing them at least avoid that first attack, with Feathers sweeping the mushi away and Scout slicing swathes through the mass, is at least pretty encouraging. Scout is holding her own, and with Tanyuu distracted Joker should be safe, at least for the moment--

And in that same moment, the slow return of sensation to his face, strange and prickling and there, jolts his attention back to his own condition. He can't let himself focus on that too much, though, he can't think about it-- his legs shake slightly where he stands, relief barely starting to rise through the dread settled in his gut. His eye stays locked on Scout, trying to track whatever Tanyuu might be doing - at least as much of it as is actually mushi-based, and not... some kind of Harbinger thing that he can't hope to anticipate.

[stillwinningthehardway]

As Keiko shifts and changes Tràkata moves both his paws to either side of his mouth, plants them against Tanyuu's scales, and his thick ruffed neck and powerful shoulders bunch and strain as he braces with his paws and pulls with his jaws, trying to take what little time he has before Keiko's in a state to stop him to just tear a great horrible chunk out of Tanyuu's tail.

Meanwhile Scout has one of her flashes of insight that gave her her name and gathers herself, leaping surprisingly high in the air and coming down on a mossy boulder, which her hoof-claws slip on for a moment before recovering. She swipes more of the sanekui back into ink, face set and angry; she knows if she could just get in close she could end this, and that Tanyuu's not just going to let her.

Well, if it's a distance-based slugging match, she's not helpless now, either. Scout shifts her weight, centered and solid with one foot leading, her tail curling a half-circle on the stone underfoot, staring at Tanyuu with her blade down. This traitor, this Harbinger who wants to use her powers to kill her own friends, to kill Scout's friends, it's different from before and still the same, but this time, now, Scout can do something about it.

The power of Creation wells deep in Scout, much more of a manic energy than the few times the Force has blessed her but still a great sense of life, and shines in her, glows out from her skin, from the magic substance that composes her dæmon, haloing outwards and pushing the frustrated swarm back, tossing the hems of her clothing and her extended hair as if they're blown by a wind. She swings her lightsaber up to point at Tanyuu.

"I'm going to stop you!" she calls, which is good enough for an attack name, apparently, because the light around her collects around her lightsaber and fires out in a burst that rocks Scout back despite her bracing.