Drifting Pollen

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@Doc Doctor

There would be little resistance as the Pater tore out its own tissues, causing far more damage to itself than a mere gunshot wound might have. Within the now forsaken flesh, two small devices activated, small claws sharper than any scalpel blade emerging from the projectiles and discarding their tough outer shells, the part that had actually taken the impact. Like bugs emerging from pupae, two minuscule metal spiders ripped themselves free of their confines. For now, however, they remained within a chunk of the Pater it had discarded, and their emergence would do it no harm.

As for Eleanor, she vanished without a sound.

At that moment, Eleanor no longer existed. There was no longer any sight to be switched with Eubeal's, thus granting him his eyes once again. The Pater might react to this, and pull another switch, but it would have less than a split second to do so.

After a few seconds, Eleanor would reappear, in the exact same spot she had disappeared, having traveled a very short way into the future. Unfortunately, this meant that the APC had left her behind, leaving her suspended in midair. Instead of falling, Eleanor let out an annoyed "Hmph," then flipped over so that her feet were facing the sky, and fell upwards, rising high above the terrible forest.

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@Thantos
Heeeey, did those girls magically dodge/phase through Gever's fusillade or did you just miss my post?

@Negatomsk

I was online when both posts came up, and IIRC they were within minutes of each other... so yeah, he probably missed it.

Either way, Starfall took care of the strange women for you.

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As the Magna Pater had been allowed to heal, its vitreous body would begin ejecting the bullets out from where they had entered.

@Doc Doctor

She'd leave her bullets where they were, latched onto the monster's inner tissues with tiny little claws.

@Drifting Pollen

Unless it was literally excreting its own guts, the monster was going to have a hard time getting rid of these little buggers. Minuscule limbs had already extended from the projectiles, which quietly dug their way deeper into its body, embedding themselves further within it. Though they were too small and their movement too slow to cause much immediate damage as they crawled about, but they were more than capable of fighting against the biological processes trying to force them out.

Eleanor, meanwhile, had just witnessed the strange sight of a pair of clothed, living women emerging from the mists as if they were on some casual morning stroll. Who were these strangers? She was sure it'd be quite interesting to meet them.

On the other hand, she was still on top of a moving vehicle traveling at high speeds, and she didn't really know how to stop it. "I don't know!" she yelled back, "but you two should come with us! Hop on, quickly!"

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There was a fizz, a spark, and then Eleanor's world went black.

"Not now..." she grumbled to herself, rapping briefly on the surface of her goggles as if frustrated. It had taken a good few moments for the effect to claim her sight, long enough for her to finish what she had started. Her eyes were no squishy constructions of mere flesh, and handled huge amounts of energy with every passing instant- but they could only hold out for so long before something critical blew up in there and did enough damage to shut both of them down. She could still feel the air rushing against her back as the APC continued on its merry way, but the stream of constant information she was used to had vanished entirely. There were also words, and a sudden soft something smacking against her. A... tuxedo?

"Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear." Her tone was suddenly worried. Those eyes had been priceless, precious, perfect products of years of toil by one of the greatest mechanists in the multiverse! Not in a million years would she be able to manually fix those! They were absolutely irreplaceable!

"Oh wait."

Click!

Eleanor flinched, looking out of her perfectly undamaged eyes at the strange scene before her. It seemed that within the last minute or so, the carriage had traveled over a mile, a massive dragon-thing had started chasing them, mists had covered the earth, and her two visible companions had hopped off the ride to go fight the monster. Oh, and Eleanor had somehow managed to get two slugs planted within the monster's breast, and adopted a pet tuxedo.

She pressed the same button on her pocketwatch once again, storing her current state for later reversion. That accomplished, she looked out at the scene of the battle, which was gradually growing more and more distant by the second. Should she offer help? On one hand, she did have two of her bullets now stuck inside the beast, and could wreak all sorts of havoc with those...

On the other hand, Satori and Eubeal were probably enough to handle it. Besides, she had not forgotten the powerful dark god within whose realm they were yet trespassing. While those lazy sods within the vehicle continued whatever mischief they were up to, someone had to protect the freaking carriage. She'd leave her bullets where they were, latched onto the monster's inner tissues with tiny little claws, dormant for now except for the incredibly subtle signals they pinged out to Eleanor, constantly announcing their location. If something were to dislodge them, they would initiate some more interesting functions. The monster, however, had other threats to worry about.

So, instead of trying to offer aid, Eleanor walked up the side of the carriage and made a quick hop onto the roof, before planting her buttocks comfortably down upon it, heedless of the rushing air. It wasn't exactly quiet, but things were a lot more peaceful with those two gone. Humming to herself, the girl dusted off the tuxedo and began neatly folding it, her eyes roving over the landscape as she did so. Who knew what these fell mists might yet hide?

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Holy shit you guys post fast!

I wasn't even done springing my trap yet :( Oh well, I'll just work with what I still can. Pretty epic stuff so far!

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Being stuck to the side of a mechanical caravan traveling at ridiculous speeds, Eleanor wasn't in a particularly good position to clap her hands with excitement. However, she certainly would have if she'd had the chance. Mists and monsters and magic, goodness this was an interesting trip! As it was, a small, innocent smile broke through her usual poker face.

Clever as the Magna Pater thought it was, she'd outsmarted it in this case. Did it really think someone willing to help hunt down a dark god couldn't even aim their gun properly? Eleanor's misses had been entirely intentional. She'd shot three bullets down in front of the Pater, and now, having made no effort to reduce its forward momentum or avert its course, it would be passing over them.

Another click on the pocketwatch. Rewind!

The monster could spring into the air very quickly, but it was unlikely that it could spring up quicker than the three bullets that now sprang out from the ground as if fired anew, streaking diagonally upwards along their original paths with even greater speed than they had first been unleashed. An incredibly fast attack from an unexpected angle, hitting what Eleanor hoped was a vulnerable underside (monsters had those, didn't they?) Admittedly their aim lacked the pinpoint accuracy of an actual shot from the weapon, but she had taken care in positioning her supposed misses, and the Pater wasn't exactly a minuscule target.

Assuming the monster's leap wasn't disrupted by the projectiles suddenly tearing into it from below, it would find that its subsequent plans were not so perfect as it had thought, either. It had made the mistake of activating its blindness spell in midair, thus making its action of scooping a rock up from the ground still visible to those with the right kind of vision- and Eleanor's family happened to make some of the sharpest eyes in existence. The monstrous devices that lurked behind those dark goggles of hers were watching carefully, and they weren't about to miss such an obvious ploy.

Dodging in midair was hard, dodging a bullet even more so. She could see it had a ploy, all she had to do was make sure her weapon remained steady- and as she had just demonstrated, Eleanor had a very good command of her weapon and its projectiles.

Click. Freeze!

The weapon would not fire, but neither would it budge as the rock harmlessly bounced off it. In fact, it would not budge at all, having momentarily been stopped in time, and would thus drag Eubeal backwards across the roof of the vehicle at high speed. But the effect was only temporary. Barely a moment after the threat was gone, the weapon would once again begin moving through time normally, returning to its ordinary state- and giving Eubeal, if he was quick enough, a chance to make that shot properly.

Satisfied for now, Eleanor turned her attention to the mists, watching for any sign of a greater threat.

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"Oh look, it's an army of zombies."

The seething sea of screaming specters rushed forth, grasping hands and gnashing teeth reaching out for flesh. Their numbers were great enough to actually pose a threat, if one wasn't careful- so Eleanor promptly vanished, fading away into thin air as if she'd never been there in the first place. A moment later, the ghouls washed over her previous location en masse, finding not a scrap of the meat they sought.

It took her a few seconds to show up again. When she did, she was standing on the side of the APC, jutting out at a right angle without any visible support. Crouching sideways just above the wheels, she turned to face the rear, both hands working to open one of her small pouches and draw forth a long, thin contraption that was far too large to have possibly fit.

With the ghoul army being set on fire and the two-headed giant under attack, Eleanor had decided that it would be best for her to focus on the creature pursuing them. She pointed her weapon (which looked suspiciously similar to a sniper rifle, albeit one the color of brass) at the beast, sticking her pocketwatch between her teeth and using both hands to aim.

Then she fired. One, twice, three times, loud bangs mixing in with the already horrendous cacophony. Three projectiles rushed through the air, too fast to see- and splattered into the mud, well in front of the Pater. At the last second, her aim had gone wild, and her shots had hit the ground at seemingly random points between the monster and the caravan.

"Gosh darn it!" She proclaimed loudly, tossing the weapon up toward the roof. Her sudden speech propelled the pocketwatch out from between her teeth, and she caught it deftly with one hand. "Someone else try!"

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is there a character sheet for me to make a character? Or should I come up with my own?

@Zorlock

Most people are using previously existing characters from wherever, so just pick someone capable of dishing out the pain and you're good to go!

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"Oh look, it's a zomb-"

Eleanor never got a chance to finish her sentence, as the approaching ghoul was quickly blown up and flung hundreds of feet in the air. She craned her head upwards, watching it fall. Messy, but technically effective, if one had that much energy to waste. Overkill aside, however, she suspected that any of the members of their party could easily handle such simple beasts, at least in small numbers. If they were going to thoroughly trounce any poor undead that happened to get in their way, they might as well leave the task to one who could do so flashily, and without exerting himself much.

She waved upwards. "Farewell, little corpse."

Humming quietly, she strode on ahead, maintaining a brisk pace beside the remaining horses. A brief glance was spared in the direction of the strange glow and the thrown pebble, which shook the ground as it landed, but she quickly turned her masked eyes back to the way forwards, watching for unexpected tree trunks she might accidentally run into. The thumb of her left hand gently pressed one of three tiny knobs on her pocketwatch, producing a small click.

"Dying isn't so bad." She wasn't looking at Eubeal, but her words came right after his statement concerning poison. "Worth doing at least once, if only for the sake of the experience. Besides, within a few hours that monster out there or the dark lord awaiting us will likely have killed you regardless, so you may as well try out a new flavor before the end, no?"

Black Mountain Tournament: Sigurd vs Gigue

So long as you're sure...

Honestly, I would have called this fight due to time-out long ago, but that would likely have made the finals be Melon vs. Doc Doctor, and given how their last match turned out I didn't think it'd be a good idea to quickly force them into another one.

Besides, you two seemed to be getting along well, and I found the fight quite interesting. No point in ending a good, clean fight to make one that would likely go haywire.

So... yeah. You guys finish this how you like. I'm still here to judge if need be, but from the looks of it you two hardly need such a thing :)