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lostcarnival2018-08-15 11:28 am
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2018-08-15 11:28 am
⇨ EDEN PT. 4 (FINALE)
Who: Everyone!
When: Day 89
Where: Eden
What: The Mirror is taken by the carnival, and several people from the carnival have been taken by Lilith. As Eden's Architects take sides, the battle for Eden's future is set to reach its conclusion.
Warnings: Violence.
When: Day 89
Where: Eden
What: The Mirror is taken by the carnival, and several people from the carnival have been taken by Lilith. As Eden's Architects take sides, the battle for Eden's future is set to reach its conclusion.
Warnings: Violence.
INFINITE↴ When the Silver Mirror is taken, the war truly begins. Lilith had seen fit to take her time, gloating over the enemies she perceived as being no challenge to her power - only to sense the moment that the Ringmaster claimed the Silver Mirror and took the skies in challenge. The Ringmaster has taken on her half beast form, black scaled, winged, and horned, and wielding the Silver Mirror as some kind of shield. Only moments ago, she used it to blast a whole clear through the cathedral. Lilith, realizing her mistake, has swept up the darkness created by Bezaliel and begun using it as a weapon against the Ringmaster. She has six silver wings that reflect light like mirrors, as well as strange, geometric horns. Ostensibly, part of the Silver Mirror's magic has been taken into herself, which means that even though the Ringmaster has the Mirror, Lilith still has control over it. She scatters the prisms containing her prisoners across Eden while she counters her foe, drawing on their strength to aid her. Two godlike beings clash in the sky above you. On the ground, a war begins. What do you do? ► FAE VS NEPHALEM: While all of this is going on, the Ringmaster and Lilith are essentially fighting over the Silver Mirror in the sky. It is all very cyclical and unending, and just as outrageous looking as it sounds. They both currently have some degree of hold over the Mirror right now, which means the advantage is wildly vacillating between the two of them. You probably don't want to directly interfere with this, but who knows? Maybe you'd got something really cunning up your sleeve. ► EDEN'S ARCHITECTS: In the aftermath of the Silver Mirror being taken, the Architects of Eden are being forced to choose sides. At first glance, it would appear that Saraqael (wolf), Samyaza (hare), Araqiel (stag), Penemue (raven), and Armaros (spider) have chosen to fight with the Furies of Eden in an attempt to cast Lilith out for good. Bezaliel (bear), Shamshel (tiger), Azazel (crocodile), Chazaqiel (eagle), and Baraqel (stingray) have, alternatively, chosen to defend Lilith, and are attempting to convince as many Honorables to follow in their path as possible. Gadreel (dolphin) and Kakabel (axolotl) seem to be uncomfortably remaining neutral for the moment and seeing how things play out. Not all Honorables or Scholars have followed the choice of their Architect. Many have been pulled one way or the other regardless of their kind, and are generally being accepted into the fight on their claimed side. You can NPC conflicts with random Honorables, but not the Architects. To interact with those guys, you need to do an investigation. ► PRISM BREAK: All of the carnival members that attended Samyaza's garden party (except Herbert) have been captured by Lilith after falling prey to a trap set by Bezaliel. Each of them has been trapped inside mirrored prisms that are now scattered around hard to access areas of Eden, defended by both Honorables supporting their maker and by mirror eyed dopplegangers. The infinite reflections of the characters inside the prisms are being fed on by Lilith, and she is tearing out as many of those reflections as necessary to do her bidding in the meantime. Each reflection is functionally a magical clone with no true will of its own, but will be able to fully mimic the emotions and powers of the characters they're taken from. They serve Lilith above all. Each reflection spawned from a prism take a fraction of their host's spiritual energy with them, meaning the more clones that are spawned, the weaker the real version will become. The more powerful a character is, the more energy each reflection takes to make - so if you have a character with lots of powers, they will probably have something like 1-4 dopplegangers spawned, while characters with few or no powers will be going completely quantity over quality and spawn potentially dozens of mirror clones. Clones shatter and vanish when destroyed, though the prisms will keep spawning new ones until the captive is set free. Captives, it's your job to NPC these clones. Captives will have no idea what's going on outside of their prism besides the abstract idea that these reflections are being harvested from them, and that's bad. The mirror clones will be attempting to protect the source prisms from disruption, as well as generally trying to destroy all enemies. NOTE: all captives will have returned to their natural forms by now (IE are no longer animals) and their clones will reflect this. Those missing "darkness shards" from their chest will also have had those returned. ► EDEN'S FURY: The Furies of Eden are striking back against Lilith at last, and it turns out a lot more of them have lingering rebellious ideas than previously though. Those that take up the cause of the Furies will be fighting on the carnival's side, so you are free to NPC some allied Honorables as well. You can also use the Investigations section to interact with named rebels, if you want, or to get an idea of what they are generally doing. Another potential avenue of investigation is trying to get the Serpent out here, as she'd be undoubtedly a powerful ally if cured of her curse. You might need it. Now that they know of the fae, the Honorables and Lilith-supporting Architects have no qualms using iron again you! They will be utilizing iron in all possible weaponry. ► NEW, CONFUSED, OR BOTH: Did you just get here? Did you fall behind and now you're terribly lost? Don't sweat it - let your character be as confused as you are. Take the opportunity to make top levels asking other characters what's going on in-game, or check out the original setting info post to catch up. The short version is this: the carnival wanted to steal a powerful artifact called the Silver Mirror from Lilith, which was stashed in her realm called Eden. They did just that, and now Lilith is back and she's pissed! |
Punch Time
Of course, he has no way of knowing that the iron of his launched pellet blasts won't properly affect her. They're launched at a light weight, lighter than anything, with the idea that the iron will totally burn and ruin this nasty heretic!
Sadly, that only works with Fae,
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Beau, though, just sorta. Stops. And looks down at the still-rolling pellets bouncing off her, then squints up at the hippo.
"What, uh... What were you expecting there, man?"
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He chokes, regaining his composure before hurriedly working to reload. "That's impossible..! We were assured that it was the true weakness!!"
Taking aim again, he fires- this time with a little more force. Not much though- he's more concerned with them moving quickly, so it still feels like being pelted by frozen peas.
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...And, insult to injury, Beau's grabbed one of the pellets out of middair.
"Yeah, that's more like it!" She grins at the sight of it, turning it over in her hand, then raises an eyebrow at the hippo. "This is... iron, isn't it? You thought I'm with those guys?"
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"What else could you be! You are no beast!"
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She glances at their surroundings at that shaking, and considers how much weight it must take this guy to do that. Maybe... maybe she better keep her distance. Beau ducks down to gather some of those pellets, testing their weight as she does to see if maybe she could fling them back at the hippo.
"But, come on, I'm the victim here! Some of you animals kidnapped me, you didn't even know what you grabbed?"
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...On the end of a pole, somehow.
The hippo takes aim with the pellet gun again. "No matter the excuse, you will all fall to Her command!"
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Holy shit, that's the kind of acrobatic skill she's still training on. And a hippo just did it. He's probably a hundred times wider than that pole, and balancing perfectly. Maybe he just seems like a joke, and she's actually hopelessly outclassed here.
Well, she's not going down without a fight. "Thanks, but, no thanks." Beau carefully takes aim and flings a single pellet with all her might.
hippo u can only alter the weight of what you stare at......
Actually it just sinks, like a stone. "You'll have to try better than that, if you're going to fight instead of surrendering! Whatever I see, I control!!"
That seems like an exaggeration, somehow. Regardless, there's a click. "A little more force should leave a mark!!"
It may be best to dodge the pellets this time.
can he make people bounce like they're on the moon :0
"Don't tell me you were holding out on me," Beau exclaims, skipping to the side and moving a little more erratically as she looks for something else to work with. "I can't handle a hippo toying with my heart, I don't think you're my type at all..."
Huh.
Okay, yeah. After his next volley - and she's dodging most of it, but some of it will probably hit - she's going to try rushing him and knocking at that pole. He got up there smoothly, but will he fall as smoothly?
y e s all the time
"And as for your heart, that would only be in your dreams!! We of Eden are far above such carnal matters, you know!! You're just a people anyway, far too small for me!!"
Of course, while he's shouting....she hits the pole.
The hippo, quite unceremoniously, lands with a thud on his back. "OOF!!! You..! How could you!! I was talking!"
i have to put it out there - that would mess with her
It would've been been stupid to stick by the pole, risking getting squashed by him after knocking him over. But the impact from running into the pole puslses in her shoulder where the bits of metal penetrated her. It's not like flames or acid, at least, it's more like the familiar pain of getting shot with an arrow... but it hurts.
"Don't care!" She gasps as she jumps onto a nearby fountain, and turns to keep an eye on him - and survey their surroundings. What can she use here? "Your speech was boring, you should... you should write a new one."
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Rises. "I don't write any speeches..!! It's all IMPROVISATION!" he grunts, clearly using a fair amount of effort to raise the water.
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"No wonder," she starts saying, a little cocky as she continues insulting his presentation. Then the rising water begins to splash, and she hears it. Whirling around, noticing the water, and dodging in time to avoid whatever he's doing with it.
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The water rises like a curtain, but in an instant it crashes down. The hippo, in that moment, charges- no iron, only mass, mouth wide with teeth that no doubt look a little more threatening once spotted through the spray.
she rolled a 1 on reflexes vs hippo charge
The water turns out to be nothing and the pounding approach of the hippo isn't quiet. Beau hears it in time to keep spinning to face him.
"Shi--" She reaches for the pole she'd borrowed from somewhere, but between the splashed water and the unfamiliar grip it slips from her hand and falls into the water of the fountain. All she's got to deflect his charge is her own dodging.
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Which is hardly the fault of a Talent and more the fault of the charging hippo about to launch Beau off and to the side using his head.
It's fortunate that, for all his bluster, actually killing the woman isn't hia first instinct with this method.
Though that landing will likely hurt.
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Not dead. There's a lot you can do when you're not dead.
Like finally finding something she can throw. It's not clear what these knives are doing here - were they someone's weapons in a fight? Was someone juggling knives and lost two? but she grabs one and throws it at the hippo's side, as the other hand pushes her back to her feet.
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He totally thought that did Beau in- he absolutely thought she was done with!! But instead he's managed to throw her near all those knives he had stashed, and now she's thrown one on top of that.
Fast enough that it clips him before he can weigh it down as well. "Y-You..!"
He chokes- far more insulted than he is injured. "You hit me!!"
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She spins the other knife around in her hand as she shifts around to make sure nothing's broken, then shrugs in a sharp abrupt motion.
"Yeah?! What'd you expect?!"
Because if he expected she'd just stand and take getting attacked, he's really not good at this fighting thing. See: she's checking that wounded area, seeing whether the knife pierced him and stayed there, or if it ricocheted. Either way, the moment they get close enough again, she's swinging around with a punch at it.