Artifact

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Nimda>

*Just before the impact, it is caught by blue voxels, wedged in place just beyond the surface of my armor*
I’m losing patience for this already. Want it back? Take it.
*Reaches behind me and grabs it. Then, in one swift motion, I hurl it forward as though throwing a dagger, sending a huge krakoom sound rippling across the plains from the speed and force*

@Valiance

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*It hits one of the many pieces in my wings, cracking it—the remaining slabs rearrange themselves into a disk around my core, which trains a red beam directly onto you*

@Nimda

*Swoops in to grab one of the broken chunks and throws it into the path of the beam, briefly reflecting it into the nearby forest, which its heat quickly reduces to a sea of fire*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*One of the many fragments of my wings fly out at you like a blunted sword*

@Nimda

*Beelines toward the closing door under the haze of the smoke*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Nimda>

*Under the curtain of the smoke, makes a direct beeline toward the gate*

@Valiance

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*Rears back and shoots a thick sanguine laser of holy energy at you*

@Nimda

*Leaps directly into the path of the beam, lurching at it with a black claw*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*Waves my wings, scattering the wind and bombarding both of you with a torrent of gusts*

@Nimda

*Lands hard and digs my legs into the dirt*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Magnanimity>

*The gems detonate in sequence, evaporating the whole of the entry plane with explosions that rock the ground below us*

@Nimda

*Rips around the explosion radius and barrels toward the gate*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

"Every second counts."
*Enters the fray as well, quickly navigating on a path different to Chickpea's*

@Valiance

*A pair of leathery wings spring from my back with a sickening slurping sound, and I race forward in a sharp curve on the opposite side of your path*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

I'll keep its attention for both of you as long as I can. I have no real physical form to hurt, and every second counts once we move in!

@Magnanimity

Works for me. Let's do it.
*Aligns myself with the gate and gets ready*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

Can I do you one better?

@Magnanimity

Make it quick, pixie dust.

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

A laser strikes the ground in front of me that extends horizontally to the forest’s edge—the edge of light creeps forward, pausing intermittently*

@Nimda

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

Almost, and kinda. It has to divide its attention amongst all intruders.

@Valiance

*Juts my head toward the entity*
Convenient timing. I'll get in range and distract it so you can get through the gate. Then you get its attention from behind while I catch up.

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

One big, powerful guard is still one guard, if you get what I mean.

@Valiance

Are you suggesting some kind of distraction?