@BlueSky44@Nallore@Trainerblue192@Achronum@PatientBean@Forsythe@Blizz@Kirah@Natsu
??? - Tue. November 23rd, 2038 - Margaret Carter Institute
@BlueSky44@Kirah: Usagi thrashed and screamed as her metal parts constricted inwards, circuits misaligning and wires sparking, as Zari crushed the cat-robot alive(?). She was crumpled up like a soda can, as if someone had thrown Usagi to the ground and stomped on her, flattening her out in some places, and creating bulging dents in others. The light behind her synthetic eyes flickered, briefly turning a vibrant red, before fading away entirely with a husky "finally..."
Andy and Zari were alone now in the basement of the school's gym - just a few floors below where the Framework room was. However, Zari was still disoriented - and rather than being energizing like Andy's draining of Ardere, Zari would be feeling even more loopy and lightheaded after using her abilities on Usagi.
@Patientbean@Trainerblue192@Natsu: "Do I look like I'd aggravate the ghost?" Gideon asked pointedly, before splitting off slightly from the rest of the group - while they checked out the master and twin bedrooms, she instead went into the kitchen. She opened up cupboards and cabinets at random, letting them slam shut. There wasn't anything particularly exciting inside of them - boxes of Mac and Cheese, and some cans that were just labeled gruel. "Hey ghostie, if you're real, give me an autograph, huh?" Gideon said, laying the book out on the counter.
She stared at it, expectantly, and held up the camera. "Guess you're a coward then."
Meanwhile, in the twin bedroom, while Dorian & co didn't detect any freezing temperatures, there was a music box sitting on the dresser. It was shiny and opulent, and seemed somewhat out of place - it didn't quite match with the rest of the decor.
April Flynn & Percy Novikov
Location: the Framework - BG3 | Tears of the Kingdom
Skills: Hydrokinesis | Omnilingualism
Fit: Mipha | Gith Rogue
Zelda hit Dark Link over the head repeatedly with a hammer, sending him sprawling down to the ground. He gritted his teeth, and then spat out blood on the ground. "Cute," he grumbled. "You're good. But not good enough. He sprung up to his feet, and threw his grappling hook, aiming to tangle it around Zelda's legs - only for April to sent out a quick burst of water, a wave so sharp that it managed to slice through the cord, severing it.
Vicky was going on and on about something - but April didn't process it, not really. She heard it, knew that Vicky was saying things, but the words just seemed to go through one ear and out the other. April was trembling, the water she had just used to sever the grappling hook's cord freezing rapidly, creating an icy terrain between Dark Link and Zelda. "Pick on s-s-someone your own size!"
Dark Link cocked an eyebrow, before obliging April - and loosing a shock arrow.
It was so fast, she couldn't react - the arrow hit her in the midsection, piercing her with pain as it created a nasty gash, and then sent electricity coursing through her aquatic body. She screamed in intense pain, feeling herself dying - feeling her body convulse as she lost control, one of her hearts fading away, leaving her panting, out of breathe, stunned.
She had just one life left.
And Dark Link was still coming for their heads.
Leah defeated her cultist readily, launching her axe with all of her body weight into his skull, and driving it down, down, down until she could go no further - until the man had been split in half almost all the way down to his ass, the two pieces of him trembling like a leaf before falling to the ground anticlimatically. The person inside of the mindflayer pod continued to bang, demanding to be freed - a voice that was becoming more and more familiar to Leah, as if...
... as if it belonged to a certain friend of theirs who had left the school...
... As if it belonged to Chi Mai.
Percy's eye twitched - the left one, to be precise - as Danni started gushing about the attempt at a nickname. He had not been trying to do anything of the sort. He found nicknames useful for aliases, for concealing information or origins, but ultimately they didn't interest him too much. They all already had aliases that they used as a part of their coursework, and his was Odysseus - both because he found the Greek hero to be a role model, but also because it then afforded an additional alias. Nobody. Odysseus' alias.
That was all to say... Percy wasn't going to just give Danni a nickname.
He hadn't even given one to Dorian, and from what he understood of social norms, that one would have to be a priority. "I am not giving you a nickname, Daniel," Percy stressed, as Danni grabbed a handful of cultist and set the cultist aflame, his hands burning.
There were three cultists left - the one who had attacked Percy, the one who had attacked Diana, and the one who had attacked Mads. Percy's turn was before his cultist, and he attacked again with his dagger, sinking it in beneath the cultist's ribcage and killing them. That left two.
Diana's cultist swung again, but missed. Mads' cultist sent another fireball slamming into her, leaving her critically low on health - again. She hadn't died yet though.