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daybreakacademy2019-07-01 08:48 pm
thewatchers) wrote in daybreakacademy2019-07-01 08:48 pm
Entry tags:
- *event,
- anastasia rose: original,
- desco: disgaea 4,
- héctor rivera: coco,
- jailbreak: original,
- james griffin: voltron,
- ky kiske: guilty gear,
- ruby rose: rwby,
- sherlock holmes: fate grand order,
- weiss schnee: rwby,
- ⨯akko kagari: little witch academia,
- ⨯asami sato: legend of korra,
- ⨯bowser: mario,
- ⨯mercy: overwatch
XELVAK THE FIRST HERALD OF NIGHT
XELVAK, THE FIRST HERALD OF NIGHT
Log Comm | Network Comm | OOC Comm | Navigation
The Herald’s coming was marked by the solar eclipse. Tensions rose noticeably in the sweltering heat as the moon slowly but surely moved to block the sun from sight. And at its apex, the world went dark. But light never returned. And in the center opened a multitude of eyes. The Herald had come.
Claxons blared in the control room as the call for attack was made. Off-shore, a barrage of missiles erupted from the waiting fleet - cruise missiles hurtling toward their target with grim, unerring accuracy. Explosions lit the darkened sky, one after another completely covering the lone figure in a blast of shrapnel and heat.
Those with eyes that see magic, however, saw differently. Undetected by the earthly computers, barriers of green energy arose around the lich, with each missile exploding harmlessly upon it. With nary a crack, the Herald tilted his head in faint amusement.
“Target is still standing!”
“Launch the second wave!”
The sound of engines blasted as aircraft scrambled from the airstrip and the waiting carrier. Streaking through the sky, their jets leaving faint trails of fire amidst the darkness, they flew in tight formation before breaking apart and encircling the target, launching a salvo of missiles from all directions before moving to reform and break away. On the ground, a battery of tanks poured forth from the base, launching heavy rounds at the lich while artillery sang a deadly song, the crackle of explosions obliterating all sound as they overtook the lich.
“Damn thing’s gonna waste a lot of ammunition,” one of the generals muttered. “But looks like you boys and girls can just go back to your school and leave the fighting to the big kids.”
Almost before he could finish his sentence, however, a voice echoed through the minds of every person assembled.
How quaint.
It was an overpowering sound that cut through even the sound of explosions. And in their wake, the lich was still untouched.
And then came the screaming.
Screams of horror, screams of agony, screams of death, before, finally, guttural screams of undeath. Rage. Bloodlust. To those with magical sight, the world seemed to come alive with a fetid green mist. All around them, tanks and planes began to stop, some crashing. But in another instant, those that remained moved again, firing on each other with reckless abandon. And over all of the comms, the sound of cackling, maddened laughter wrenched from a throat that was once human but now was not echoed throughout.
The generals grew pale, silent. Some sunk to their knees in horror. But, like points in the darkness, a few voices remained.
“This is Echo-5! All units seem hostile! Requesting extraction!”
“This is Bravo-7! It’s a madhouse down here! Disengaging!”
Daybreak’s presence did not necessarily change what was to come. But it did, to an extent, mitigate it. For in having brought their runecraft to the base, they caught the eye of several soldiers. Some curious, some thinking it couldn’t hurt, and some, perhaps, even true believers. Whatever the reason, they accepted Daybreak’s support. And for that reason, they seemed spared from the mists of undeath conjured forth by the lich. And as they fled, some, at least, whispered a faint prayer of thanks to the students and faculty who had given them the most precious gift of all - the gift of life, and of living.
As the generals conversed in horror, another voice cut through the screams.
“This is Jules Flammel, Flame Commander. Daybreak forces, deploy at once and complete your mission.”
The sound of jets blasted through the air as Runewings took flight. Aboard them, the forces of Daybreak, students, faculty, alumni, and affiliates, all with one mission - to stop the lich where he stood.
“Your radiance shall protect you. Go forth, brave Candles, and become the raging inferno to purify this land! Cut through his defenses and rend his body apart!”
Foolishness.
The Lich raised his arms. The shattered, twisted scrap and mangled corpses of the combined military forces began to shudder, and tremble, before rushing forward to meet the Runewings - a mass of twisted flesh, bone and metal like a wave of death crashing upon the shore. The Runewings broke apart as the wave spread to chase them.
“You are free to deploy!”
And with that, the bays opened and the forces of Daybreak emerged in freefall, descending upon the lich and his twisted wave with naught but their weapons, their powers, and, perhaps a featherfall necklace for those students that needed it. The battle against the first Herald had begun.
And, from within the Outland, a calm voice spoke to those assembled.
“It is time.”
The forces of Daybreak who had been held in reserve turned as one to face the castle. Their mission: destroy the lich’s phylactery so that he would rise no more.
[OOC: The groups are as follows:
Combat
Group 1:
Faculty - Bai Lin
Students - Serena, Vivi, Seiji, Akechi
Group 2:
Faculty - Ky Kiske
Students - Kokoro, Yuya, Gunvolt, Nana
Group 3:
Faculty - Valvatorez
Students - Desco, James, Gon, Anastasia Rose
Group 4:
Faculty - Bowser
Students - Ruby, Grimm, Kohaku, Akko, Weiss, Aiko
Extras - Snow
Infiltration
Group 1:
Faculty - Ziggy
Students - Sarona, Keith, Doreen, Sherlock
Group 2:
Faculty - Jailbreak
Students - Puella, Minako, Ren, Ekkehardt, Reira
Group 3:
Faculty - Nekane
Students - Adelaide, Lie Ren, Xanatos, Héctor, Imelda
Mission Control
Hieke, Christo, Wen-li Yang, Count D, Android 18
Any characters who did not sign up may tag freely into the Control Room, or, if desired, they may contact a faculty member leading a group and request to join. Please prioritize joining groups with less characters. No group may exceed 6 characters.
There will be open group mingle posts up where characters can discuss the events leading up to the mission or the immediate aftermath. We will post the full log threads for each group in 24 hours, at which time we will PM the Faculty members with details on their mission]
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"Ah, please do be careful. The mist you see before you is indeed a parasitic lifeform. I would advise you, as living creatures, to not enter it. Should you choose to do so, you should know common that material barriers are unlikely to have any protective effects. They can and will penetrate through such substances. Once they have infested a host, they will devour the host from the inside and use their connected to the neural pathways to re-animate it. So it is advised to protect yourself through magical or radiant means if you place value in your internal organs and autonomy.
I would also caution against assuming that this mist is unintelligent or incapable of its own strategy. These creatures are social insects, and they rely heavily on swarm intelligence--not unlike ant colonies. A queen resides at the center of their hierarchical organization. It is very likely that she has already symbiotically attached herself to your foe, and she will be telepathically guiding her swarm to protect herself--and therefore him. If you wish to nullify the mist, I would suggest removing the queen from her host--or blocking her from communicating with her colony."
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"We have a lightning barrier up, magic, so that's been working in our favor. Can you give up coordinates to the clearest path? I want to disable these parasites as soon as possible!" D would hear the sound of gunfire and large crackle of electricity, causing feedback as the zombies fired upon the group, and he counters with an orb of plasma.
"Sorry! You still there?"
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Like, his Phoenix basically emanating Radiance like magic (in increasing potency, it actually hurts a little to look at directly) is probably okay, but what about Odd Eyes?
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There's a brief pause, and then he gives them the path which to follow.
"There are more enemies there than I would like, but they appear to be of the slower moving variety. If you focus on clearing only the ones in front of you, you should be able to run past the others with minimal enemy reinforcements."
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...but it is still, ultimately, dropping a backyard jungle gym on them. It probably hurts.
Nana, for her part, stayed close to Ky's side, both katana raised. Her eyes drift to him. "I can only make a few of those."
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GV took a moment to listen to the information passed along by the control staff, particularly the direction that Christo provided. The biology lesson helped too, and the thought of somehow extracting the parasite queen from its host crossed his mind. ...Maybe Nana or Ky could get close enough to cut it out with their weapons?
For now though, that didn't matter. GV shifted course to follow the coordinates given by Christo.
"Professor, let's keep pressing hard! I can keep going for awhile, but I'm gonna run out of juice if we take too long! Gotta keep some reserves for Xelvak, too!"
Gunvolt casually aimed into a squad of more soldiers and sent a small flurry of darts their way, lightning cutting through the air to put a quick end to them.
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She nodded to GV and rose up into the air, dodging around Nana's set as it came crashing down. As undead started to chase after them, Kokoro threw bottles of holy water and the occasional throwing axe.
"Don't worry, I'll help cut the path! Hold on, I almost... there!"
She took a deep breath, positioned herself in front of a growing crowd of undead soldiers, and cleared her throat.
"Face my holy light! Lightning Sword!"
A searing cross-shaped beam cut forward into the crowd.
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"While magic will repel them, magic-based entities may not be entirely immune to their effects. I still recommend exercising caution with anything that has a semblance of life."
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Ky quickly ran the numbers and what his charges are saying - they need to go through fast. He closes his eyes for a moment.
"Well, you might end up being the ones to talk down Xelvak, I'm going to clear the path." The man spoke with a quiet firmness as his eyes fell upon a downed jet in their path. "Stand back! - Gustav, pull back on shielding me, I don't want to risk this electrocuting us!" As he turned to snap out the last command, his left eye starts to shift from blue to a deep red, glowing with with it's own light before he rushes forward, grunting as he lifts the massive machine off the ground, by inches, then feet until it's over his head, hurling it forward towards their path, crushing dozens of undead in it's wake, cleaving a path.
The impact however, caused the Lich to suddenly jerk his head in their direction as Ky quickly retreats back to Gustav's cover.
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He looks up, whistling loudly to get Hikari's attention and gestures to the specific direction Ky and Kokoro are currently clearing the way. Focus on the same, and they can get to the lich faster.
It takes a moment, but the phoenix dives down to engulf the same direction in holy light, like a burning spotlight on the undead--and claws for any it can get close to. Yuya's urge to be careful is a little lost in the feelings between them, but they seem to be doing fine.
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Nana watched the path that Ky cleared, and then bobbed her head once. She listened to Yuya's words -- a little smile crept across her face. "...Right. You, too, Yuya. Come on, everyone."
She saw Xelvak turn to look at them. She didn't hesitate to meet his eyes and glare back. She did not do a slow walk, the way she sometimes did -- taking your time before you gutted your enemy was a good way to frighten them -- and instead charged into the breach, both swords held up.
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Of course, once Ky flung the aircraft into the group in their way, GV extended his Flashfield back out to make sure he could get back safely.
"...That was awesome. Didn't even know you could do that, Professor."
He didn't let his awe distract him though, not with Nana and the others pushing forward. They had to hit hard and fast, so he kept pace.
"Looks like the big guy finally noticed us. Be careful, Nana!"
For now, he holds his fire, taking in a deep breath to center himself and make sure his focus on his powers was still solid. He balled his open, free hand into a fist, lightning crackling around it, seemingly entering his own body harmlessly. With his mind cleared and calmed, he raised his Dart Leader and trained his aim on Xelvak. His thumb flipped a setting on the side, a whirring sound as the weapon began to charge up, energy cascading into its barrel.
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"Impressive... Almost there! Have at!"
She threw a few more vials of holy water just to be sure.