Nimda

Myriad Reality

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*Relaxes my shoulders after it becomes apparent that muffling the music does nothing besides mildly annoy the crowd*

@Inimical

*Kicks off of one of Lily's platforms and rockets downward toward you, gun in one hand and knife at the other, firing off a handful of shots along the way*

Myriad Reality

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Oh, I shoulda mentioned, that healing spell's going to fail if you don't have injuries to fix up. And shooting yourself in the arm doesn't count either, it's gotta be real.

@Session

You tell me that now?

Myriad Reality

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*Snaps my gaze from looking at the crowd to immediately staring at you, as though noticing the speakers, and fires a beam from my index finger trained with marksmanlike precision on your hand*

@Inimical

*Instinctively lings a ball bearing into the line of fire, which explodes into a chunk of stone that bursts into shards on impact with the laser*
Lesser Silence!
*The music from the speakers becomes slightly muffled and muted, but not enough to cause serious disruption to the audibility of the music*

Myriad Reality

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*Blitzes across the air to a floating position under you in a squatting stance, legs reared back before both slam into your gut and ejecting you from the arena space and into the air above*

@Unhinged

*Rockets backwards with a surprised and pained look on my face, and one of my guns dissolves in my hand while each of the speaker sets adopts the same discoloration*
I—BleAGCH!

Myriad Reality

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If you knew what the source of that was, you wouldn't be trying to get in.
*Slams my hands together and unleashes a long, continuous green beam that superheats the air around it onto your position, not breaching past the barrier even itself*

@Inimical

No time—Lily, autopilot!

Myriad Reality

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*The barrier suddenly, without warning, drops for the briefest moment before re-enabling itself, allowing you to fall a few inches down and lodge you into the barrier by your ankles*

@Unhinged

*The other circle turns an electric yellow as the first one fades, coating my arm in runic patterns*
Hit it hard, huh?
*Slings my body forward using the lever force of the barrier attached my ankles and slams my fist into its surface with renewed stamina, rumbling the surrounding region on contact*

Myriad Reality

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Kk-
*Is carried away by the impact of the projectile after resisting being pierced by it, flipping around and kicking off the air to cancel my momentum after a quick moment and ending up a ways in the air*

@Inimical

*Launches off the ground and bounces up on several circles of light that materialize on my feet as I ascend*
I could use a healing!
*Reaches into a pocket of shadow and withdraws two chrome marbles that I grasp between my fingers, each of which generates a rotating magic circle*

Myriad Reality

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*Casts you from your flimsy arm across the surface of the bubble on which we stand, near to an “edge” from which it would be easy to slip and fall the remaining way off*
I’m sure you’re a good guy, Joe, caught in a grey area for which you know not the context.
*Holds a single fist toward the sky as the crowd and the music grow silent as it pauses, with palpable anticipation hanging in the air*
But you defend a criminal now. We can’t let you win.

@Inimical

*Through gritted teeth, swings the gun at your torso, fully charged*
She paid, you didn't. End of story.
*Pulls the trigger, launching a new projectile empowered by the absorbed light from the first magic circle, and immediately accelerated to blinding speeds*

Myriad Reality

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You’re doing good, Gio!

@Session

*Through gritted teeth*
Shut up!

Myriad Reality

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*The knife impales my neck like butter, but I take my other hand grabs your arm and snaps your arm backward at the elbow while tearing your grip from its handle*

@Inimical

*Yelps loudly enough to hurt eardrums, and reactionarily arcs the gun in my other hand at your face*
You—
*A deep-black magic circle pierces through the center of the barrel, drawing light toward itself and coating the nearby region in shadow, while another two spawn just beyond the end of the gun*