Armed Forces

Myriad Reality

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*Hunches forward with my arms dangling*
Night is flashing and falls on top of...
*Charges toward you and swings the scythe at your neck*

@Fractured

*Leisurely dodges back, reading the attack well before its execution, and fires at your arm holding the scythe with superhuman precision and speed, unloading several dozen rounds in an instant*

Myriad Reality

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*The black blood splatters outward into a disk that blocks the knife*

@Fractured

*Resheathes it and waits*

Myriad Reality

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*My head snaps toward you and I punch you in the chest*

@Fractured

*Parries, points the gun and fires into your elbow, then draws a knife and stabs it into the wound*

Myriad Reality

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Their behavior appears to follow more complex patterns than raw, animalistic reactions. I'll note that in the log.

@Etcetera

As long as it doesn't stop working.

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*The blood forms into a solid scythe in my hands that I swing into your chest*

@Fractured

*Bursts forward tot dodge the blade and ducks under the handle*

Myriad Reality

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*Pillars of black blood intercept the bullets and another shoots into your shoulder*

@Fractured

*It once again impacts without penetration and hurls me into a wall*
All of a sudden, it’s not afraid to take some hits. I hope it’s not adapting.

Myriad Reality

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*It flattens and surrounds the barrier*

@Fractured

...
*The barrier explodes outward from my person for a brief moment to give me space, and I dash forward, firing rounds at your knees*

Myriad Reality

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*Grabs onto the lasso, and a pillar of black blood fills the wound before shooting into you*

@Fractured

*The thin barrier around me prevents any impalement and instead sends me flying with it*

Myriad Reality

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*It blows a large crater into my shoulder on impact, and I lurch toward you with my other hand*
End—!

@Fractured

*A translucent strand of energy appears around my arm and whips toward you like a lasso, wrapping around the arm and yanking it to the floor*

Myriad Reality

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*It disperses as I straighten my stance and charge at you*

@Fractured

*Pulls another sidearm from concealment, which features a large, revolver-esque cylinder etched with various colored markings around it, and fires it at the floor between us. The space between us is annihilated in a flash, closing the gap between instantly, allowing me to fire my other gun into your arm near the shoulder point-blank and sidestep the charge*

Myriad Reality

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*Black blood emerges from my wounds and latches onto your hands*

@Fractured

*The blood grips a millimeters-thick aura of solid energy without touching me directly. I bring both hands together and hold the pistol with both, and angle the gun such that it fires into the blood grabbing at my left arm*