GRIMM TIDINGS

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GRIMM TIDINGS

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On the morning of the 27th, the campus is put on high alert. Students and staff alike wake to announcements calling willing volunteers to report to the Anvil of Hadur to be geared appropriately or to have their equipment checked, or else warned to stay within the dorms or other secured buildings on campus to avoid being caught in the fighting.

Those who are sensitive to such things can feel an unsettling presence begin to enroach; monsters that feel little except malice and an urge for destruction, hungering for life.

The Grimm are almost here.


A. DIRECT COMBAT
Students and staff eager to get into the fray are assigned the task of splintering the Grimm forces into more manageable chunks as they approach the Academy and swarm onto its grounds, assisted by Daybreak’s on-campus forces and other allies brought in for the fight. The goal, if any, is twofold - first, to divide and conquer, forcing large groups of Grimm apart into wards where they can be more easily whittled down and neutralized, and second, to keep them as far from the classrooms and dormitories as possible.

B. TOWER DEFENSE
To aid in the defense of the Academy, those who are less able to greet the enemy directly have been granted temporary and supervised access to some of Daybreak’s ranged defense systems. They’re a mix of more traditional magic and advanced technology; runic sniper rifles and enchanted grenade launchers sit side by side with staves and wands made for the purpose of long-range casting and activation of wards.

For the more daring, the gargoyles that commonly sit docile on the Academy’s rooftops are being summoned to service as mobile cannon platforms - magically-reinforced stone creatures able to leap or fly high above the battlefield to target groups of Grimm with arcane cannon blasts and to engage targets in the air. They vary in size - some can only bear a single rider safely, while others can support entire groups. All prioritize the safety of their riders above their own structural integrity.

C. TITAN-KILLING
Among the mass of shadowy forces, one in particular stands out. Towering above the rest of the small army, the Leviathan will initially stand and watch the battle going on, ignoring any attacks - but once it catches sight of its four targets, it refuses to be diverted from its course. Able to move faster and more fluidly across large distances than its bulk would suggest, the Leviathan’s major advantage is in brute strength and size, and its fearsome ability to breathe torrents of electric fire.

However, it’s little more than an exceptionally oversized beast, in the end, and unlike a normal animal, it harbors very little in the way of survival instincts. Though it won’t sit and take any attempts to kill it, it has a tendency to ignore anything that’s not its mission, and therein lies a weakness that can be exploited.

D AFTERMATH
The army of Grimm has been successfully repelled or recalled, likely looking quite a bit worse for wear than when they first arrived. Now is the time for wound care, clean up, and a well-earned rest after such hard work.

E WILDCARD
For anything else, on or off the battlefield, that doesn’t fit in with any of the above prompts.

code bases by tricklet

Comments

[stavros]

I shall be right there.

[Said as Stavros starts assembling around her. Convenient.]

[fireindreams]

Wonderful. Wonderful! I will see you soon, my friend.

[And with that, Grimm teleports upwards in a puff of red smoke and a firework-bang.

When Kokoro reaches the top, Grimm is there. Busy attempting to set the larger creature on fire. He does not possess the firepower to take this beast down on his own, but he sure can slow it down as much as he can.]

[stavros]

[Kokoro rises up, a flexible purple beam extending from something in one hand. She's striking the Leviathan with that from one hand, laser shots from the other.]

Do you think it's weak to fire, then?

[fireindreams]

[Grimm meanwhile continues to blast those who come near with fire. It is effective on the other creatures but the Leviathan is another matter. His abilities are showy yet powerful, but against this behemoth...it's not quite enough.]

Fire is all I have to hand at the moment. [Perhaps he should hit up the library later.] But I believe with enough force we should be able to at least knock it down.

[stavros]

Allow me to assist. Hah!

[She hurls a round glass bottle of water with a metal cross cork. The holy water bursts into flame once the glass breaks on impact with the Leviathan.]

There should be enough of us to take it.

[fireindreams]

[As a vampire one would think that Grimm would be wary of holy water. But he simply laughs at the interesting way it is being used.]

That I have no doubt! We shall stand prevalent eventually.

[By sending these creatures back to where they came.]

I am quite curious where they came from, however.

[stavros]

Or who sent them. They can't have come here on their own.

[fireindreams]

Indeed.

[The creature roars and Grimm has to teleport out of the way of a claw swipe. Finding a safer position, he continues to blast it with more flames. Thankfully it comes from a source that will not tire him out!]

I have some words for that person if I ever do meet it.